One overriding reason.
Father time caught up on the midfield, whilst the rest of the EPL invested in early/mid 20’s players with pace and power.
FSG/Ward had 4 weeks to act after Craven Cottage and did the sum total of nothing.
Arrogance, nonchalance, tunnel visions for metrics, or dumbly with eyes only for 2023/24 a year ahead.
I don’t believe it’s arrogance or anything of the sort, Klopp just isn’t that kind of person and wouldn’t accept it from anyone else.
While we know we needed a midfielder or two, when they didn’t get their main target and for whatever reason didn’t go after others they would have thought based on previous experience of the players they have that we’d have coped.
No one could have predicted quite such a spectacular fall off from everyone all at once. I can’t think of anything comparable from a top level team (although there probably is if you look hard enough).
To those saying we were flagging or starting to look done at the end of the last season, I think at the time that was easily explainable given the number of games we had played and the lack of time between each one. I’m sure it was expected that even after a shorter than usual off season that the players would recover as they have before. And we’ve also started slowly before because of the intensity of pre season so again they probably thought we would pick up after a bit, so they probably didn’t feel the need to react after Fulham
There’s clearly something not right on the pitch and probably off it with all the changes after a period of stability from the back room team and the owners looking to either sell or gain further investment. While the owners may have known what they were intending to do in the summer we don’t know that.
I think it would be fair to say we should have adapted things like tactics and even our transfer policy more than we have, but the fact we haven’t shouldnt have led to a fall off of such proportions.
I get people are pissed off, frustrated at things that seem obvious but haven’t been addressed, I just think it’s a perfect storm and the best thing we can do as supporters is pull together to support each other and Jurgen and the team. Regardless of the dreadful performances we’ve seen particularly of late, I’m trying hard not to lash out at the players or my fellow supporters as it doesn’t actually make anything better. Some of the stuff being said about players and now even Jurgen is hard for me to accept based on what these lads have delivered for us. That doesn’t mean we should be complacent and it’s clear now in a way it wasn’t in the summer that many may be done.
I don’t even know what I’m trying to say anymore, I guess I’d like us to largely accept the position we’re in, and give them the chance to fix as much as possible this summer. If that didn’t happen then I think it’ll be much harder to accept as that’s what the evidence points to needing to happen in much bigger way than before.
Let’s try and get behind the team as much as possible and help in any ways we can even if it’s only a minor influence on them. That’s what I’ve always believed supporting Liverpool was about, not just about the good times of which we’ve had plenty but sticking together through the bad times too. That’s what made us special in my eyes, and it feels like we’re losing that.
We sing YNWA and that’s what Jurgen, the staff and players need from us, to know we are there. And we accept their errors this season and give them the chance to put them right. It’s how we react and support during these periods that really show what we as supporters are about. The good times are easy, and they will return, despite it feeling a long way off right now.
End of rant
