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Nothing wrong with a free agent, but had they identified Adrian a while ago, why didn’t they act then? Adrian could easily have signed for another club before we came in for him. That not a tad risky just days before the new season?
Regards a Salah replacement, given how long it can take for Klopp to settle in players, do you not think it wiser to bed them in sooner rather than later?
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Whilst there is certainly something to be said for Klopp’s “less is more” approach and being patient in waiting for the right player to be identified (which obviously helps to create a very cohesive team), it’s still vital that the squad becomes robust enough to deal with any injuries and/or departures. And that’s still a concern with our transfer strategy.
Take the no.2 goalkeeper situation – this is still a very important position at the club – as Liverpool have seen recently. Rather than be proactive and really sort it out, the club got caught out when Mignolet decided to leave a week before the season and the club were then scrambling to find a new no.2 just days before the new season – and had to bring in a free agent. There was something very amateurish about that that I don’t think you’d have seen at the likes of Chelsea or City. My worry, and it is only a worry at the moment, is that Klopp is getting too powerful at the club with regards to transfers in a way that other managers aren’t. Klopp will leave one day. It’s vital he doesn’t take the success with him.
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I think at Arsenal, Wenger became far too powerful a figure at the club with regards to transfers – it seems there was no internal pressure on him. He called all the shots and it’s arguably what ultimately cost him his job. Now with him gone, I think the recruitment team can finally start to exert their own pressure. In an ideal world, the relationship between the manager and the recruitment team has to be a two way street, with neither party becoming too powerful. At City, even having Guardiola, arguably the best manager in the world, you still sense they very much have an independent transfer team constantly looking for players and somewhat pressuring Guardiola to look at them. That certainly seems to be the case at Chelsea which is why they cope so well with changes in management. At Liverpool, I think whilst the relationship between Klopp and the recruitment team looks a good one, they just have to be very careful that Klopp doesn’t become too powerful (as tempting as that might be).
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My post seems to have disappeared: reposting for information:
Can understand that Steveo with regards to new players freshening things up, though we’ll see how quickly Emery can instil that mentality into the team. He obviously did it at Sevilla, though how much of that was down to him and what he already had at the club I’m not sure. I’d still like to see more players coming through at all the academies. If there’s one image that stood out for me with Arsenal over recent decades, it was Jack Wilshere looking like the only one who cared in many games, raising his arms in frustration and trying to get players fired up. Arsenal just need more of that for me. As for Liverpool, we’ll see. For Klopp, it’s very much a case if less is more which to be fair is what he’s built a lot of his success on, though one does worry if he’s been a touch naive this summer. Time will tell. Obviously if Ox and Keita stay fit and deliver, those are effectively two new signings, though given their injury records, that’s a potential worry.
As for the game this week, if we keep up with this high line to play the offside trap it’s going to be a case of watching behind the curtains for me – VAR may well be adopted a few times. I do wonder if Klopp will adapt a bit more given Arsenal’s strengths. At the moment I’d probably say draw given where both teams are at.
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Can understand that Steveo with regards to new players freshening things up, though we’ll see how quickly Emery can instil that mentality into the team. He obviously did it at Sevilla, though how much of that was down to him and what he already had at the club I’m not sure. I’d still like to see more players coming through at all the academies. If there’s one image that stood out for me with Arsenal over recent decades, it was Jack Wilshere looking like the only one who cared in many games, raising his arms in frustration and trying to get players fired up. Arsenal just need more of that for me. As for Liverpool, we’ll see. For Klopp, it’s very much a case if less is more which to be fair is what he’s built a lot of his success on, though one does worry if he’s been a touch naive this summer. Time will tell. Obviously if Ox and Keita stay fit and deliver, those are effectively two new signings, though given their injury records, that’s a potential worry.
As for the game this week, if we keep up with this high line to play the offside trap it’s going to be a case of watching behind the curtains for me – VAR may well be adopted a few times. I do wonder if Klopp will adapt a bit more given Arsenal’s strengths. At the moment I’d probably say draw given where both teams are at.
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You probably saw on our TT site Steveo that a question was posed – if we had lost the CL final, would we have bought more players this summer? I think undoubtedly the win put us on a different footing in our approach and it’s hard to have seen us not spending more had we lost the final. And indeed you see from the article above the loss for Arsenal in the final very much woke them up and somewhat forced them to act, so you have two opposite situations and the subsequent differences in the approaches for Arsenal and Liverpool. We’ll see how they pan out.
Only thing I’d say for Arsenal – as good as some of their business looks, I’ve just had a quick look at your squad profile and how long they’ve generally been at the club. Bar Özil (who may leave soon), Bellerin and Monreal most of the squad have only been at Arsenal for about 2 years. Whereas at Liverpool it’s that bit more because Klopp has been building it up and binding it together now for 4 years. And that would be my only concern this season for you, you’ve just got to play the waiting game now – hold on to some of these players and get them really bedded in at the club. The best teams tend to be the most cohesive ones, hence your poor form away from home last season when you needed more senior long standing members to take charge, and you didn’t really have many. Your having a honeymoon period now, but your away form this season will certainly be one key area to watch for as the season develops.
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Sean, as far as I understand, arms are not considered when judging offsides. My point more concerning to what degree of measurement we go down to when judging it before it becomes somewhat farcical.
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Had VAR overruled that, I think I’d have turned the game off. After the new handball rule, this “getting the offside millimetre ruler out” is also getting somewhat farcical. They’ve got to start giving a bit more leeway – we’re not playing the game at the atomic level!
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Was chatting to a Bolton fan recently, and though it might not be a primary factor in all this, he said one of the mistakes they made when they built the new stadium some decades ago was that it was located far too far out of the city centre, which obviously adds difficulties to some fans attending as well as simply not being able to draw people in who might already be in the city centre.
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It’s as though bureaucrats, who have never kicked a ball in their lives, are now setting the rules. Are players in the box now supposed to wrap their arms behind their bodies, whilst also maintaining their balance?
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It’s a shame Spurs couldn’t strengthen further up top over the summer, it would have taken them up a notch in that they’d now be able to capitalise on these equalisers as opposed to somewhat playing the game out.
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Surprised he doesn’t start more often Banjo, Moura just gives Spurs something a bit different in attack, an area where Spurs for me have always lacked a bit of personality and flair.
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All depends how much Pep decides to adapt his team vs Spurs. The reason why Poch got a result vs Pep last season was because Pep over compensated in the game at Spurs because he was worried about the threat of Spurs in the cauldron of their new stadium. If Pep does have a flaw, I think he does over think/worry at times rather than play his normal game.
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Again, Liverpool showed they can dig deep when they need to, even when not on top. Nevertheless we need to start upping it soon.
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Klopp looks more fired up than the CL final win
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I think Klopp planned to rest some players tonight, was going to play Keita, but because of his injury, has had to makeshift it in midfield.
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