He's played 177 out of 630 possible league minutes which is 28%. I don't know how you can say things haven't been smooth on the season and then say it's because we're integrating a player that hasn't played more than a third of it. Obviously you're welcome to your opinion but it's not one I would agree with.
Well 270 of those were forced due to his stupidity, but I don't mind a bit of passion and nastiness if you channel it the right way. It isn't just integrating him like-for-like with someone else. He hasn't started every game when available either, which indicates he's not fully up to speed and/or Klopp trusts players he's worked with more. Not bedding in a player perfectly doesn't mean every aspect is on the pitch; our training and tactics will have to adapt, what we do in certain situations will have to change, we haven't just got rid of a Nunez-like player and are doing the things we always did. We look a shadow of ourselves this season on the whole and we've also signed a player for a vital position who is very different to what we usually have. There is a correlation there to a degree. That is not his fault, it just happens sometimes and it is amplified when most of the team are not performing as well.
And didi, your point about our other strikers not testing their goalkeeper doesn't match up when you are talking about Salah, whose done it for us for 5 years now, and Diaz, who is still relatively new and maybe isn't an out-and-out goalscorer like other players (but did actually get a real assist in the game, not an expected one). Jota is on a bad run but his minutes to goal ratio for us is really good in the main. So a lot of our players have got credit in the bank in that regard, it isn't quite comparing apples with oranges but it isn't the same completely.
