Our JohnnyTheNic wonders whether Jurgen Klopp can be arsed to drag Liverpool back up the mountain...
When you have been in charge of a superb, title-winning team full of great players, it must be hard to admit to yourself that many of those same players are no longer quite as good as they were and the ones you have brought in are not quite up to your highest standards.
There’s no point in pretending they will consistently recover their old standard. It won’t happen. Klopp’s great achievement was to get everyone to peak at the same time and in doing so Liverpool won the two biggest titles available to win. But when you’ve peaked,As we know, in these hysterical times, you’re either brilliant or you’re rubbish, but Liverpool are neither. It’s not that everyone is playing badly, nor that they are unable to play great football at times.
Has he got the ruthless streak needed to cut out the failing spine and replace it with something younger and better?Hanging on in the hope that things will improve must always be the temptation, but the one thing to be learned from all those Lord Ferg years of permanent revolution atis to be ruthless in chucking out those who are on a downward curve before they become a burden. Even then, fans protested that the Scot was dumping excellent players – and he often was, but for the greater good.
The tricky thing is to let go of players who are still really good, but not quite good enough most of the time. You are wide open for criticism if your replacements are inferior, so recruitment has to be almost flawless.. When you see Nunez stumbling over his own feet in the penalty box, you cannot help but think if it was Mane, it would’ve been a goal.
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