Well because again uncomfortably for some, the manager quite clearly doesn’t think that it is a really quite unsuitable group of players in midfield. It always seems to come down to ‘I don’t rate this midfield….must be FSG neglecting it’. Look all over the pitch. In attack, in defence, in goal, wide, full back, centre forward. It could be that the club is knowingly neglecting midfield to save money, or it could be that the manager you know….still quite likes it. He loves Henderson and he loves Milner. Straight away that’s two players who we all think are declining that he’s constantly stuck with. He’s then got Fab and Thiago who are seen as stonewallers in the starting line up. You’ve got Naby who has incredible numbers, great results with him in the team. Harvey he obviously loves too. So immediately that’s six in there who I doubt he’s thinking are really unsuitable. He’s maybe just not as ruthless as people think.
Lobo I’m very happy saying that Klopp is totally wrong about that if that is indeed what he thinks. Fortunately neither of us know what he is thinking so I’m not forced into the admittedly uncomfortable position of disagreeing with Klopp, when he’s him and I’m a faceless nobody on an Internet forum. But I’ll happily disagree with this hypothetical Klopp. Because this hypothetical Klopp has got a blind spot when it comes to his midfield players and has lost sight of what he wants from his midfield.
As a group they’re not suitable, because...
Henderson isn’t able to play as a high and wide RCM for us.
Fabinho isnt able to play as an isolated 6 but we seem to be asking him too.
Milner is unsuitable to be the legs of our midfield at 36.
Thiago can only play about 1600-1900 minutes a season and we’re unbelievably reliant on him.
Keita isnt very robust and can’t cover enough ground.
Elliot is great but we’re asking him to play as a very advanced RCM when the other 2 players aren’t able to provide us the stability and cover we need when we do that.
As a group they’re slow, weak and injury prone and it genuinely wouldn’t be that hard to upgrade it. If you take out Thiago, for you only get half a season from him anyway, it’s definitely not that hard.