Klopp will be in the black again. Incredible achievement by him.
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Signing a central defender for big money isnât a sign of improvement. A lot of Liverpoolâs defensive problems are systemic anyway and that with the coaching team.
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And youâre ignoring the difference in that one of those incidents is a fact, Suarez was sold by Liverpool to Barcelona.
The other one is all conjecture, Coutinho is a Liverpool player and the club has rejected advances from Barcelona and a transfer request to keep him at the club.
Not considering how the matches transpired.
You would have taken a draw before both matches. Under a Mourinho for example you probably would have got two 1-1 or 0-0 draws. Whatâs the difference?
Do you think Coutinho will be at Liverpool next September?
I donât know.
Lets wait and see so if the Liverpool board have really changed as at this point they have acted in a similar manner at the first summer of interest in their player
Klopp is in his third season at Liverpool now and they havenât sold any important player as of yet.
Coutinho is the first important player theyâve had that has been wanted by another club and theyâve acted the exact same as they did the first year Suarez was wanted by another club
They sold Suarez and Sterling under Rodgers after seasons where they were Liverpoolâs best player.
Under Klopp they have yet to cash in on a top player. You seem to be attempting to parallel incidents which have taken place to those which have not taken place.
Liverpool are an attacking team so will always be open at the back. There are a lot of individual fuck ups leading to goals rather than the whole defence collapsing. Against Arsenal it was Mignolet and Gomez, other times itâs Moreno (Sevilla) and Lovren (Spurs). Even with Van Dijk things wonât improve too much until Mignolet is replaced by a competent keeper.
Do you agree that the way Liverpool dealt with Suarez when Arsenal met his release clause is similar to how they dealt with Coutinho wanting to leave last summer?
No.
Being a good manager is about making your team better than the sum of your parts. A bad manager relies too much on one player, like Rodgers did with Suarez.
Whatâs the difference between how they dealt with Suarez the first season he wanted to leave and Coutinho the first season he wanted to leave so?
The Liverpool board are in a better financial position now to be able to give Klopp more support than they were with Rodgers.
But it doesnât change the reality that ff Barcelona come in for a player, particularly a player from South America, that player will want to join Barcelona.
Liverpool have a window now until the end of this season, with the addition of Van Dijk, where there is the possibility to do great things with this team. With the league gone, that means a serious assault on the European Cup and cementing a top four place, maybe the FA Cup as well although thatâs less important.
But with Coutinho leaving in the summer there could be similar problems after that to what happened after Suarez left, although hopefully not on the same scale as the squad is definitely set up better to cope with the loss of the star player than it was then. The problem is that players like Coutinho donât grow on trees and they generally take time to develop. If youâre not in that elite coterie of super-franchises, you can easily piss 100 million away on dross.
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Being a good manager is about winning.
Klopp has no silverware and a same win % as Rodgers at Liverpool without having to lose any of his best players and unwavering support form the Liverpool board.
You crave instant success and want them sacked if they donât deliver.
Two simple questions, keep your answers brief.
If you were in charge at Liverpool, assuming you would immediately sack Klopp, who would you replace him with?
How long would you give them to deliver the league?
Brendanâs biggest problem was that he isnât a ânameâ manager, through no fault of his own.
As a typical knowledgeable Liverpool supporter, I supported Brendan 100% right up until his departure from the club.
Just because Brendan was sacked without having a chance to turn things around doesnât mean the next manager shouldnât get 100% support from the board and supporters, especially at a time when thereâs a chance to do something really good with this team, as there undoubtedly is.