re: tOfficial Liverpool 2017/2018 Thread: “Upgrades Incoming Edition: A Great Season!”

Let me guess... one position starts with a "C" and ends with a "B"?



(And I 100% agree. Plus, my god, we definitely need reinforcement in MF in addition to Keita. And Allison would be a beautiful thing (even though I am admiring Karius' work right now).)

frick Jose and frick that shite house team.

That was awful to watch.

Subbing in Felliani? Good lord I thought they finally sold that grimey POS.

TAA positional sense needs a lot of work. Not worried about the result, we just didn’t play well. It’s hard to play football when the other team is so compact.

I should add, I'd take Lemar too... could fill the Coutinho role as at the most advanced on the MF 3 or as a backup winger...

We need a legit striker more than anything.

Firminio is great, but having him as our sole option to lead the line is kind of ridiculous.

He should be playing off someone, not leading the line by himself.

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We need a legit striker more than anything.

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We had legit "strikers" in Sturridge and Benteke and they both flop around like fishes out of water in Klopp's system.

I never understand this kind of comment.

Or are you saying we need to move on from Klopp and go back to a "traditional" striker and system?

You say he should be playing off someone. Considering our goal scoring record on the year, I'd say he's doing fine as our first option. Now I don't think anyone will disagree that we could use someone else to bring on more threatening than Ings or Solanke, but suggesting he shouldn't be our starting number 9 to me is overreacting

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Dude no.

We're in two major competitions and we have one proven striker option.

One.

How is that over reacting?

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OK, if by "striker" you mean "a backup to Firmino that can play his position better than the backups we've got now", then I'm with you.

All I'm saying is that when I hear the word "striker", I think of guys like Sturridge and Benteke and Harry Kane... and those frickers can't play Firmino's position. They don't have the strength, energy, or skill to play a 90 minute match doing all the things that Firmino does and is required to do.

Bobby to me isn't a "striker". He's a forward that wears a striker's number. He's a forward that at any particular point in the game is primarily central, but can be found anywhere on the front-line. That brilliant smile shines equally for a goal of his own or for an assist. He does a list of things strikers can't and/or don't want to do.

And, again, a traditional "striker" doesn't fit into Klopp's philosophy or how he likes to play football. We've been down that road and saw it on the pitch and it was ugly and ineffective.

I just mean someone who can effectively spell him or any of the other front three.

Realize we’ve been scoring etc but if fimrinio takes a knock, does anyone realize how fricked we are?