19 May 2016 10:43:58
I try to avoid posting immediately after a big loss, emotions are flying all over the place, people are angry, you find yourself looking for someone to blame. Sleeping on it helps to rationalise what happened and what happened is that we lost a game, that's it, it was our 14th loss of a 63 game season. The squad of players we have this morning are the same squad of players as we had at 19:45 last night and at 19:45 last night we were pretty happy with them. We knew some could do with replacing but in general we knew we had the nucleus of a great squad and those players are still here this morning.

Don't forget this is the team that swatted Utd and Villareal aside and came back to beat Dortmund 4:3. It's the team that did the double over City, scored 6 at Saints, 3 at Chelsea 6 at Villa and humiliated Everton 4:0.

We have excellent players. Remember Can, he's only 22 and played 49 games for us this season, next season he's going to be better. We have Hendo who's only been on the pitch for a 1/ 3 of this season, we took 28 points from his 15 League starts, if we had managed that over the season we would have finished third. We have Couts who's just 23, isn't it incredible that we have a player so young who scores 12 goals from midfield, just think how good he'll be when he peaks. What about Firmino, in his first season at the club, a year where he missed pre-season, he scored or assisted 22 goals, think how good he can be next year now he's settled. We have Origi, a player who looks to be on the verge of becoming something special. Then there's Studge, a guy who's come back from a devastating injury and carried on scoring like he's never been away. He's scored 13 goals this season from 19 starts, even better he scoring at a faster rate than Kane or Vardy. Next season not only will he be fit but he'll be coming back into form, I get dizzy thinking about the awesome things he's going to do.

We put all our eggs into one basket this year and we just fell short but next season's going to be something special. I'm gutted we're not in Europe but the silver lining is that less games means less stress on the squad. With a full pre-season, better rest and more time on the training pitch we're going to be blowing teams away. Even if we don't sign a single player this summer I'm confident we'll make the top four. If we fix a couple of our problem positions and maybe sign another match winner then I won't be shocked if we challenge for the title.

You had last night to mope and be angry, get over it, move on, because Klopp and the players are already looking ahead to next year and next year's going to be amazing.

1.) 19 May 2016
19 May 2016 11:30:43
Misc there's great optimism in your post however you overlook some stark facts that are not so positive. We cannot keep clean sheets. The players who are lacking all play in key positions, goalkeeper, centre back, centre midfield, full backs.

We have some good players but we lack 2-3 world class players who are leaders. If we had the calibre of DeGea, Alderweireld, Kante, Bellerin, Fuchs, Debruyne then I'd share your optimism about the others. We have Mignolet, Clyne, Moreno, Lovren, Lallana and Milner. With Allen, Skrtel, Benteke as back up?

If you analyse the Dortmund, Villarreal games you will see we played the same way and made the same mistakes in those games but got away with it over two legs. We battered Man Utd but again our inability to score enough in relation to chances created meant the 2nd leg was difficult when it should have been all over.

The manager will be cut some slack as he has got a poor squad to two finals. Unless he addresses the weaknessess with transfers then we will not challenge at all. If Mignolet stays in goal, Milner as first choice plus Moreno and Clyne then we have real problems.

Sahko has made a centre back a priority as Lovren without a leader goes missing. Last night as soon as he got booked for that stupid foul when the ball was already out, he was terrified to tackle and crumbled mentally.

The young players, Coutinho, Firminio, Can bottled it and there was no one on the pitch to help them.

Watch in the summer how poor Clyne is for England against quality players.

We need a whole new spine and then the promising kids can express themselves. Klopps job is enormous, top 4 is not going to be easy even with less games. You forget the year we blew it without European distraction we had one Luis Suarez, he is unique so we need 4 big players to replace what his ability gave to the whole team.

I hope Klopp gets it right, Ranieri has shown it can be done without paying hundreds of millions, just sign players with character and determination then sprinkle a few gems in for good measure.

Biggest summer in our history in my opinion, c'mon Jugern sign the right players and get us back where we belong.

2.) 19 May 2016
19 May 2016 11:05:19
Well said. Was angry last night but tbf but even with refs decisions we can't deny the better team won. No problem with the teams overall quality but the mentality is fragile. Need some more winners in the team. Kolo should stay, Hendo was missed massivley, and if we don't buy a DM I think Lucas should be the first name on the team sheet.

No way him and hendo would have let us capitulate like that. Sorry, last little moan! 2 finals with a squad that Klopp hasn't signed a single player in is a good sign. Decent window and a preseason and onwards to next season!

3.) 19 May 2016
19 May 2016 11:09:50
We surrendered the league cup final to city and we thought Klopp would learn. We sacrificed the league for EL and we thought Klopp would learn. We lost to Sevilla who did their job well. They don't have A class players like us. From 7th to 8th doesn't appeal to outside world.
We were pressed and dominated by Sevilla in the second half, our midfield were cut 9 times in the match and Klopp learned nothing, Did nothing.

You have to give a massive shout to the man (Ed02) below giving a perfect Summary, we are still after players who RUN a lot.

At times Klopp just leave the game to Crowd to turn it on their own.

I can't sit at my work place, If you couldn't beat a Sevilla we wouldn't beat any Barcelona or Real.

4.) 19 May 2016
19 May 2016 11:38:26
I agree that we have good players but a really unbalanced team imo. Have some very strong links and some very weak links, but are strong links don't really work together.

Our best XI for me do not work, too many players either don't suit the role they play or don't seem to have a defined role I can think of.

besides the obvious (lb, gk, and CB - have two great Cbs but injuries etc) think a midfielder is vital this summer. Think Lucas could do it but if manager disagrees need a player who reads the game and is better at controlling possession, alonso has shown through out his career how vital this is (2 CL, la liga title, German title, World Cup, 2 euros etc) .

Also think the can, Milner and hendo is a problem. All really good players but want to play midfield, which even with Lucas wouldn't work. Would like to see a DM (Lucas or new player) can or hendo with coutinho as our midfield. Is balanced and think couts would be more consistent deeper as benefits his game better.