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

I just brought that up cause I've seen a lot of people look at it as if we have absolutely no spending power. Maybe we can't spend what United, City, and Chelsea do, but if you look at a lot of charts from the past few years, we're not far behind them.

So I guess my point is that we haven't really been short on funds in the past, present, and immediate future with Klopp here. Of course if we had more funds available we could hire Mourinho and spend £300m in the next window so who knows.

I think a lot of actual Liverpudlians would not like the move for the disconnect that would happen with the club and the city/fans. No way Chinese businessmen would do what FSG did last year with all the uproar in ticket prices. So I wouldn't want a full takeover, but having an additional investor never hurts I guess, even though I wouldn't expect it to change much.

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step back from the ledge

we need to cut ties with all these lies that our defense has been living in.... i do not want to see that again.... i wish i would understand...

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so, seriously.... did NO ONE get the joke??

need a little bit of levity, considering we shite the proverbial bed, yet again to a team we should have no problems with....

Never go full Third Eye Blind, bro. Never.

Yes, the defense has been very poor. And I think the importance of Emre Can cannot be overstated. As far as I'm concerned he cannot be replaced with Henderson.

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i have loved wij. if any of yall remember he was my TD avatar probably 4 or 5 years ago when he was a youngster with psv. but he has no real place in this squad as far as im concerned. he is a natural attacker, which in this lineup means hes really our 4th or 5th best attacking player. so what then? he isnt bad, he just makes no impact, negative or positive. i think tactically we have a lot more fluidity and spine with a can/henderson 2 instead of wij there. when we bought him i was hoping it was for depth and not to play him in a 2 - he just isnt disciplined enough for it despite his pressing and pace he brings to the table.

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am I missing something? We've played with a midfield 3 almost exclusively? Hendo at the base with Lallana and Wij as the runners? Though they can switch around a bit if Hendo moves forward?

Though I do agree, Wij has shown nothing to me yet that he is great in a 2, and is, in fact, struggling with a 3. The assist against Arsenal was his highlight, but he's had a lot of minutes with very little to show for it other than that.

I think a huge problem is that NONE of our midfielders that have started/played the majority of minutes the first two weeks can tackle worth a damn.

formations mean nothing these days, theres so much fluidity in the game. what is certain is lallana, firmino, mane, sturridge, coutinho, wij are all attacking players. right now klopp is trying to play them as a front 5 with henderson - i think we can agree that doesnt work. henderson/wij have been the "holding 2". henderson the more dedicated, in a role he is not good at, and wij as the more B2B player, a role he is not good at.

henderson/can is our best "holding 2" pairing - i think this is without a doubt true. wij imo is best used instead of a firmino/lallana/coutinho, not with all 3. we are left vulnerable with no spine in the team. this is evidence in almost every goal we have given up so far.

one thing rodgers did all the fricking time and is something i never thought klopp would do is leave a player exposed. henderson is glaringly exposed. he is playing a position he is simply not good at. hes a b2b midfielder, not a CDM/DLP/whatever you want to label what he has played so far this season.

I desperately need the ability to downvote posts more than once.

Maybe not smoke to that specific fire, but we had better be making SOME sort of smoke signals. Our back line depth is flat-lining.

I think we just have to relax for a bit and take comfort in the knowledge that if either Sadio or Emre were able to play against Burnley we probably win that match.

We've got a League Cup match here shortly. Win that, and we should have some confidence going to the Lane this weekend.