There’s been a weird animus against him for a while though.
Maybe something to do with him being local and not in the same class as his predecessors like Fowler, Gerrard and Trent?
He’s become the poster boy for nobhead fans who need someone to blame for a bad result.
I try not to read social media but sometimes it can’t be avoided, the sheer levels of grief he gets for simply being on the field is nuts. It feels like they tend to think he gets away with being shite because he’s local. It doesn’t seem to occur to them that he isn’t shite and he isn’t doing things wrong when they micro analyse his every move. There were similar things said about Gini, Henderson and Keita when they were here.
Fans could do well to grasp what Klopp wants from his midfielders and realise just how taxing and difficult it is. It’s not a glamorous role in a Klopp side.