Swansea (A) Monday Eve Build-up

[BobTheCharmer]

Klopp sits still first half and his team reflect his persona. Then has the cheek to bitch at the officials for a bit of time wasting. Plays gomez when he's **** at doing anything with the ball. Takes an age to change anything. Takes ox off who was the one non static midfieler.

Sorry for those that think we are close to being special. We have too many of these performances in a season. Unbeaten for ages but drawn loads. Other teams seem to know how to win when it matters. We are very similar to arsenal in mentality. Depressing. Same old ****.

As for the miss at the end, ****ing hell unreal.

[Irishnev]

I couldn't give a flying **** about Coutinho, it's the idea that we can coast to the end of the season without a replacement when we're fighting for 4th and still in the CL. Not only does it show questionable ambition, it makes no sense from a business perspective. Risking no CL next season because 'value is not the best in January' is so short sighted and could well cost us massively in the medium/long term.

That’s the point I was trying to make but in my rage I didn’t articulate myself well, we couldn’t be that short sighted not to get in another player because when one of the front three is off form or better still WHEN they get injured we have nobody to make a difference.

Ings and Lallana are not good nearly good enough.

[Shaggy]

No chance imo Klopp or the club will - as they'd no doubt see it - have a knee-jerk reaction to a defeat and go and spunk £80m on someone like Lemar. No chance.

Monday night and the whole week ruined already ffs.

[Norbs]

.....and predictably, it kicks off.....

Yep. An off day, horrible away trip against a team desperate for survival etc. Trouble is is that the worst this should've been is 0-0

[Chris]

That was shocking, lazy ****s.

Even the ****ing Bordeaux manager said one of his stars wont go this month unless they sign a replacement, ****ing Bordeaux, Wenger has said the same re Sanchez and yet there we are selling our best and saying an injury prone lad being back covers it. Disgusted with the lack of ambition this month, we had (or still have) a legit chance at great things and knowingly weakened ourselves, it's the most bizarre thing we've done in decades. I wonder if anyone here wants to win. We seem to be content with being "fine" and "we'll cope". Hopefully I look like a **** saying this in 8 days after we've signed a brilliant attacking player but I doubt it.

[Red_Polo]

I couldn't give a flying **** about Coutinho, it's the idea that we can coast to the end of the season without a replacement when we're fighting for 4th and still in the CL. Not only does it show questionable ambition, it makes no sense from a business perspective. Risking no CL next season because 'value is not the best in January' is so short sighted and could well cost us massively in the medium/long term.

That situation existed before we sold Coutinho though. It was entirely predictable. The decision to sell him this window is what has made the already difficult situation with him inevitably leaving, far harder than it would have been in the summer. If we had a replacement ready, different story. We seem to have let him go without a proper plan, and that's what's shoddy rather than not being prepared to throw money around scrambling about for something after the fact.

[McDermotX]

Klopp sits still first half and his team reflect his persona. Then has the cheek to bitch at the officials for a bit of time wasting. Plays gomez when he's **** at doing anything with the ball. Takes an age to change anything. Takes ox off who was the one non static midfieler.

Sorry for those that think we are close to being special. We have too many of these performances in a season. Unbeaten for ages but drawn loads. Other teams seem to know how to win when it matters. We are very similar to arsenal in mentality. Depressing. Same old ****.

As for the miss at the end, ****ing hell unreal.

[BobTheCharmer]

**** me. I feel shell-shocked. ****ing disgraceful performance.

Why the shock. It's not like we don't have history.

[Irishnev]

No chance imo Klopp or the club will - as they'd no doubt see it - have a knee-jerk reaction to a defeat and go and spunk £80m on someone like Lemar. No chance.

Monday night and the whole week ruined already ffs.

So predictable, so many times have we seen this. Everything we have been good at recently went to ****. Christ even our set pieces reverted back to absolute ****e.

[Lecter]

I couldn't give a flying **** about Coutinho, it's the idea that we can coast to the end of the season without a replacement when we're fighting for 4th and still in the CL. Not only does it show questionable ambition, it makes no sense from a business perspective. Risking no CL next season because 'value is not the best in January' is so short sighted and could well cost us massively in the medium/long term. And it's not the first time we have been here making the very same stupid calculation.

Need more creativity on midfield. Still too one paced for me through midfield

[Red_Polo]

Even the ****ing Bordeaux manager said one of his stars wont go this month unless they sign a replacement, ****ing Bordeaux, Wenger has said the same re Sanchez and yet there we are selling our best and saying an injury prone lad being back covers it.

[Roboklopp]

I couldn't give a flying **** about Coutinho, it's the idea that we can coast to the end of the season without a replacement when we're fighting for 4th and still in the CL. Not only does it show questionable ambition, it makes no sense from a business perspective. Risking no CL next season because 'value is not the best in January' is so short sighted and could well cost us massively in the medium/long term. And it's not the first time we have been here making the very same stupid calculation.

Yep. Furious.

[kev776]

Grand stuff - when plan A doesn't work, we bring on Danny Ings.

[Exiled_red]

I know people won't like to hear it but we really did miss Coutinho today, midfield tonight was awful, did nothing but pass the ball sideways, no one was even trying to play through balls or balls over the top. I know it was difficult as Swansea had a lot of defenders and were playing deep, but there were opportunities but no-one looks capable of doing that, honestly for much of the game they might as well not have been there, defenders were playing high up the pitch and it was as if the midfield didn't know what they should be doing.

Also I can't believe that we didn't make changes earlier, it was clear 5 mins into 2nd half that nothing had changed from first half I don't see the point in giving it 15-20mins in the second before making the changes.

[Buzzo]

Need more creativity on midfield. Still too one paced for me through midfield

Swansea over ran us in midfield today. When we play with three up front, against an aggressive performance like that, particularly away we can have issues.

Nice analogy from Carvahal as to how to play against us.