re: OFFICIAL LFC 16/17 Season Long Thread - Piss off, Gunners!!

sucks for him.. good for us!

Can he be ready for Monday?

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Poor guy missed his penalty though.

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"missed"

Jesus, can we please turns this shite around?!! Remember s month ago?

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And thus the title shall change again...

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"Suicide hotline"

I have loved Lucas since watching Being Liverpool but he does not have the speed anymore to keep up

Well, Mane's coming back, we have no other competitions...no more excuses that we can possibly have. We'll never have to play twice in a week the rest of the season unless its the EPL schedule to do so or an opponent has an FA Cup conflict. That means balls to the wall 120 km pressure.

I expect Klopp to be ruthless this summer and get rid of a lot of deadweight. How I see it (not necessarily how Klopp will see it and not a predictions, just my thoughts)

Gone because they aren't good enough/don't fit what Klopp wants to do - Moreno, Mignolet, Lucas, Ings, Lovren, Markovic and Flanagan.

Gone the summer after this one because they aren't good enough , but close that Klopp will keep them another year since he can't overhaul 20 players in one summer - Studge, Karius, Origi, Can and Stewart.

Other thoughts -

I watched Origi try to pass the ball with a reaching outside of his right foot straight out of bounds when it would have been an easy left footed pass. He has time to grow, but simple things shouldn't be that difficult and I don't think he'll cut it here long term.

I'm close to done with Karius. He's not big enough to stay on the line and close off the angles and his positioning is poor. The first goal yesterday should have been an easy grab/punch for a keeper. The second one was a poorly timed slide. They should have had another one had Lucas not gone to cover the goal line and Karius would have been beaten at the near post. Long story short - he has limitations, and even his strenghts he has shown he's not good enough at. He "guesses" where the ball will go sometimes - not as bad as Brad Jones vs. United a few years ago, but bad enough.

Studge doesn't have pace anymore and is pretty much usless unless he's served up on a platter or everyone else works even harder to make up for his deficiencies. I don't buy the lazy argument of his game, but he's just not aggressive enough off the ball.

Its down to this - Mane is coming back. We'll be close to our starting XI for the rest of the year. We have some favorable matchups at anfield. If we don't get top 4 - Klopp and his new fitness guys need to take a long look in the mirror. THis is Klopp's second year without a winter break and the fitness guys first - they may need to change some things.

You're right, we need to be 100% laser focused on top 4 and the league... I've given up hope on a title push, but hey stranger things have happened, and like I said to start the season I'll be thrilled with top 4

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I don't know anyone who wants him out, but yeah I knew this to be true... Patience is the name of the game

Wasn't factoring in the contract issue - so I would likely agree on Can unless something changes.

Speaking of contracts - I'm not sure Gomez deserves a 5 year contract unless his contract is about to run out as well.

I have seen nothing from him that shows he's ready. He needs time to get back fully from injury, but I also think he's pretty far from being ready to start on a weekly basis in the EPL.

Yeah.. lock Gomez down. I'm sure he isn't on huge wages..