2022/23 Season

[Doc_Piptorious]

Was so dejected I didn't feel like reading or posting after the game. But I have now accepted where we are and what's ahead. As long as we don't get relegated, I'm fine, don't care where we land.

Ahead is a total rebuild, on the plus side is we should have a season with no European football at all, so we can focus on the league and we don't need a very big squad. We don't need more attackers really so we can focus on defence and midfield. There were times against Wolves which was OK and we can build on.

Bajcetic is hugely promising and a real bright spot. If it were up to me I'd give Doak, Carvalho and Ramsay more minutes, in effect starting to prepare for the next rebuild. I'd prefer not to give Bobby a contract but maybe Klopp wants him as sort of a mentor for the pressing game.

We are square one now, I think we need to embrace that and act like that, stop any thoughts of salvaging the season and start preparing a total rebuild.

Yes we need a rebuild, a rethink and a reset, but don't see us as being back at square one.

Square one is the team looking to find a way to the top table. We are a team that was there but have now slipped down to raiding the bins oputside some **** McD's at night.

However we have a manager, players (the ones that stay long term), plenty of back team people and so on who know what it takes to build from square one and get to the top so they know what sort of fight is ahead of them, then know how hard they are going to have to graft, they know the setbacks and knocks they are going to have to overcome.

Plus, and this is just a personal view that I subscribe to in life, it is easier in a lot of ways to be the chaser, to be the one aiming for something, than the one at the top trying to stay still in that number one slot. The chaser can slip, the chaser can stumble but the target is still ahead of you to go after. The chaser fights that bit hard, has to really.

Am going to stay on the optimistic side of the fence with regards to Klopp being the man for that rebuild/reset.

His bad season at Dortmund, the first half of that season was worse than the first half of this season and he managed to finish that season in a strong manner (Yes yes he then left but he also did not have years left on his contract as he does with us, and he strikes me as a do the job I am contracted to do kind of man). We had that horror run of games a few seasons back during which we looked utterly clueless as a team, and we came back strong under him.

This is another horror run (by the standards Klopp and the tream have set for themselves) and am to give the man the benefit of the doubt that he is going to rally again, given he has form for doing so, and getting us back into the chasing pack next season with maybe the off chance of something unlikely in th CL.

Just remembered he had downs that he came back from with Mainz also.

[Exiled_red]

I think its pretty obvious. Klopp has a very hard time letting go of his favourites.

Only reason people like Ox, Firmino, Milner etc are still here. They should've all been moved on by now (or put on big wage reductions)

I think Klopp does have his favourites, and kept on to some of them too long a previous example is Lallana. But I think that a big part of the problem is that a significant number of those players are HG and we aren't filling our homegrown quota at the moment anyway, so I think that people like Ox or giving Milner an extra year is basically a free hit you either keep them and have them as an option that might play now and then or you let them go and have no-one in that squad position. It's part of the reason why someone like Jones will likely be in the squad for the next few years

[The_weatherman]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CoVTB9Gowsg/

[Kenneth]

It’s a link to a members only page. What’s it about ?

[The_weatherman]

[ame]https://twitter.com/SkySportsPL/status/1622913071613153280[/ame]

It's this.

[Buzzo]

I can see it.

We are bottom of the League for the 4 games in 2023.

[The_weatherman]

At least there is room for improvement.

[red g]

Shows us bottom of the premier league 2023 only table with 1 point this year.

[Kenneth]

Thanks to all our ‘grammers. Cheered me up no end.

[The_weatherman]

Thanks to all our ‘grammers. Cheered me up no end.

[The_weatherman]

However, also saw this

[ame]https://twitter.com/OptaAnalyst/status/1622566452711620611[/ame]

I'll take it!

[Doc_Piptorious]

However, also saw this

https://twitter.com/OptaAnalyst/status/1622566452711620611

I'll take it!

Interesting that they see us as most likely finishing in 6th and Brentford in 9th.

Love how they frame it as Everton's chances improving yet it still has them going down as the most likely option.

[The_weatherman]

Yeah, can't see Everton going down tbh, also can't see us finishing that high

[Buzzo]

The curse of Peps whistle blower book getting more attention.

[ame]https://twitter.com/irishlivreds/status/1622942920771833856[/ame]

[Mark79]

I’ve not read it. But surely it doesn’t reveal anything that the opposition wouldn’t know from analysing our play?