klopp demands so much physically from his players that for me they have burnt out, along with his tactics failing to gain the same success as earlier on in the campaign. We need a bigger squad with capable replacements so he can rotate more without the massive drop off in quality, that is gonna take several transfer windows and a massive amount of luck.
I doubt the owners want to spend what is required to fast track that or pay first team wages out for squad players. FSG will be buying in lower fee/wages gambles instead of bringing in more mane levels of quality to fill out the squad along with one relatively be big buy every summer.
We need to build a squad when prices have never been higher, the game is not stacked in our favour at all.
Patience.
Sadly, if we continue down that route, we'll routinely lose our star players and be looking for the "next star". At the moment it's Coutinho. If we don't make the CL this season, or next at worse, he'll probably leave. We'll get loadsamoney, try and sign some replacements who may or may not succeed, and on we go.
At some point, we either get very lucky with speculative buys and get enough players in place at the right time to make the breakthrough, or we have to pay the money to buy several top class players at a time to get a core of the team that will take us forward. Otherwise, we're just hoping for a manager to perform miracles, or to get lucky with mid-range buys, and, almost all of the time, that isn't enough in this league, particularly when selling clubs know that English clubs are loaded and demand high prices even for merely decent players.
I'm patient as a supporter. I've waited most of my adult life to see us win the league again. But patience isn't always a virtue in terms of how the club goes forward. Sometimes you need to grasp the nettle and get it done. And that has rarely seemed characteristic of the club's thinking. We're hoping. We're building. Oh, there goes our best player. But hey, we signed another young star. Now he's our best player. Oh, he's going too.
FSG aren't the devil incarnate. But they are far too cautious. Or, they simply don't care that much in the end. Liverpool doesn't excite them, and certainly not enough to really push the club forward by taking some chances and spending some money without reference to market value (a fairly meaningless term, actually). I'd like to think this summer will be the one where that all changes, but I've been hoping that for a few years now...
