Jürgen Klopp

[fabinho]

It must be tough though. All but Man City seem to put ten men behind the ball and wait.

The problem with that is a lot of these teams end up with the better chances of the match as well. Whilst I think this is causing us a problem, teams wil also be sitting back against an in form Utd and City. I'm sure that all these smaller clubs don't go gung ho against the other clubs then all pile into their penalty area for us?

There's a problem, teams may be defensive against us, but this isn't unique to us. City are dealing with it, so are Utd so the problem is with our personnel or with Klopps tactics. Does he have a plan B? Is the balance of the squad poor, do we have a far weaker squad than we thought?

We're in freefall now, but we've been **** for ages. Top of a very different league campaign until recently, but whilst other sides have got it together recently, we've become worse. Even with a full squad we were battered by Villa. Something is massively wrong.

[BobTheCharmer]

Other teams defend deep against city and utd. Difference is they will shoot from outside the area and with accuracy. Pogba for example and Fernandes even Rashford. City are going to miss de Byrne, it's looking like the perfect storm for utd at the moment.

[Shaggy]

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[danperkins]

Clearly fsg dont care about winning the league this season because that's going to be the cost. After all he's done for the club, a ****ing CB isn't too much of an ask.

[kingfunk]

It’s obvious there is a difference in views between Klopp and FSG. Both parties need to navigate this carefully because it will only end one way. From the amount of cash fsg stand to make (eventually) and with both our first team CBs out with long term injuries, Klopp is not asking for much really. Will be interesting to see how this develops.

[labourRed]

That's a change of tune from saying the club was well run from just a few weeks ago. I agree with Dan this could end up getting messy, especially if fourth isn't achieved at the end of the year. And by messy, I mean for FSG if they double down on silliness.

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

I get the frustration. But where do people think the money is coming from? We have already had to push most of the money for Thaigo and Jota back, we can't do that forever.

[Fredo]

Nothing article but sensationalist headline by Maddock here. Klopp would never want to be seen as having a pop as it’s the situation and completely understandable during those times.

I watched the interview and it’s nowhere what he Maddock’s slant on it.

[Fredo]

Clearly fsg dont care about winning the league this season because that's going to be the cost. After all he's done for the club, a ****ing CB isn't too much of an ask.

Ridiculous.

[spud_gun]

Nothing article but sensationalist headline by Maddock here. Klopp would never want to be seen as having a pop as it’s the situation and completely understandable during those times.

I watched the interview and it’s nowhere what he Maddock’s slant on it.

He wouldn't have wrote the headline.

He's a journalist not a sub editor / editor

[Fredo]

Jürgen Klopp

He wouldn't have wrote the headline.



He's a journalist not a sub editor / editor

The general gist of that article is wrong.

[Rafa Justice]

Clearly fsg dont care about winning the league this season because that's going to be the cost. After all he's done for the club, a ****ing CB isn't too much of an ask.

Their asset will be less valuable with no CL football. See how they like that.

[Mark79]

Of course he wants a CB, but from his presser it doesn't seem like he's blaming FSG at all for not being able to get one under the circumstances.

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[Fredo]

Jürgen Klopp

Yep

[Fredo]

Better article here.

Jürgen Klopp has declared he will not cry like a five-year-old if Liverpool fail to sign the centre-back he would ideally want in the last 10 days of the transfer window.

Klopp, who has paired the midfielders Fabinho and Jordan Henderson in the middle of his defence recently, has conceded he would prefer to get reinforcements to cover for the injured Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez and in the frequent absences of Joël Matip.

But the financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic have limited Liverpool’s spending power and Klopp is adamant he will neither throw a childish tantrum nor use it as an excuse for their recent slide.
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“I am not a five-year-old kid any more and if I don’t get what I want I start crying,” he said. “Most of the time in my life I didn’t get what I want, to be honest, so we are all pretty much used to that. I am responsible for a big part of this football club but there are people who are responsible for the whole thing and I cannot make their decision. I know they are with us and I know they want to support us and they do.

“What we have to do is improve the football in the decisive areas with this squad. That’s my job, and not sitting here and being disappointed or frustrated with some decisions. I am not. Of course, we know what we would do in an ideal world but the world is not ideal and not only for us. So we have to deal with the situation.”

Liverpool are on their longest Premier League drought in 21 years after failing to find the net in 438 minutes, but Klopp refused to attribute the lack of goals to the makeshift look of his side as he said that their troubled January has not altered their plans for the remainder of the window. He still has not replaced Dejan Lovren, who joined Zenit St Petersburg in July.

“Now we talk about a centre-half. Yes, it would help: 100%. Would we score more goals with a centre half? I am not sure. Would it give us a little bit more stability in specific moments? Yes, probably. But we don’t go and say: ‘If we don’t get this or that, then we cannot perform.’ It would sound like an excuse, and the last thing we are looking for is that.”

He denied complacency had been a factor in Liverpool’s decline: “It is not that in the moment we win the league and I put my feet on the desk and think that’s it and smoke a cigar and think: ‘Well done, from now on everything will work without any doing of mine.’”