I’m pretty on the fence with Klopp’s decision here. If I’m honest I’d rather he just played a team similar to yesterday and we’d likely be in the 5th round, one of my best ever memories in life was being in the ground when Gerrard hit that screamed against West Ham so I’ll always love the FA Cup.
That said, I can understand the logic and I’m not going to bother going into the discussion as it’s been done to death since yesterday.
What I would say is I hope the players have been consulted before this decision was made. It’s easy to make an argument for the players being happy with this choice, for the obvious reason that they get a week off when they otherwise wouldn’t, however you can envisage a situation where the kind of driven professionals that we have in our side are itching to win a treble and will see this as an opportunity taken away from them. You’d therefore hope, and to be honest I’d expect this has happened, that real clear and consistent dialogue has been undertaken with the players as you don’t want a situation where a lot of players are pissed off with the manager, or thinking he’s making a point to the detriment of the club as it’s easy to see how that kind of situation escalates and that usually takes it’s toll on the pitch.
