Dont get me wrong I dont have much faith in FSG. All their briefings have stated how they will buy top players if they get CL football so they have added a caveat in there.
But last season Klopp made the decisions on who to bring in. All the informed journalists said he didnt want to compromise. I bet he wont make that mistake again. Come the summer, when he doesnt get his first choice players, he will most certainly compromise rather than wait a year to try to get players like Brandt that will most likely say no anyway.
Injuries haven't been kind.
But Spurs, Arsenal and United have suffered injuries to key players; to a lesser extent, Man City too. Only Chelsea have had a season with little injury disruption.
The glaring difference is squad depth.
And there you have a clear choice about why; either Klopp's hands were tied and he's covering for FSG's reluctance to spend in January.
Or it's down to him.
If it's down to him, then you have no option but to call it; he fucked up. It was either complacency or a major misjudgement.
The fact that an LFC top four finish is now on a knife edge is, given our early exit from the domestic cups, plus our lack of European involvement, unforgivable in my view.
Not that C.L qualification is the be all and end all. It's rather because the alternative is Europa League - which essentially deprives a team of any realistic chance of the Premiership title, because of the schedule, and the fact that the top transfer targets and their agents will make C.L qualification a key requirement to open negotiations.
Remember that virtually no players are now under the radar. All the top clubs are chasing the same targets.
