31 Jan 2018 22:31:20
I'm probably going to get shot down here, but does it always feel like we're one good player away? The season we came second to United, if we had a half decent sub striker - Torres injured and we ngog. The season we came second to city, our bench was normally aspas, Moses and Allen- one quality signing would have at least been an option. Now we are not going to win the league, nor are we one sighing away from the perfect squad, I just can't help feel we will miss the creativity from midfield coutinho gave us.

1.) 31 Jan 2018
31 Jan 2018 22:57:04
What frustrates me is when we sign a player that has gone on to do well for the club i. e score goals and one leaves in the same window. The Torres/ Suarez partnership springs to mind.
We don’t know how VVD will turn out but if he does the business then it will frustrate me that coutinho didn’t stay with Keita and potentially Lemar in the summer too. Throw Allison in to the mix as well and that would have been one of the strongest Liverpool sides we’ve seen in recent years.
All if ands and buts of course but it’s nice to dream. perhaps we will get a more creative midfielder that can control the tempo and we will be more balanced than I’d we had coutinho next season. food for thought.

2.) 31 Jan 2018
31 Jan 2018 23:19:08
Man play football manager like me and make your dreams a reality :D.

3.) 01 Feb 2018
01 Feb 2018 00:32:49
nah that probably about right. But the difference this time is we have far more depth compared to previous times. coutinho goes and we're not as at a loss from his production.

4.) 01 Feb 2018
01 Feb 2018 06:55:44
It's frustrating when we're forever rebuilding. Come the start of next season one or more of our front three will likely want out again. So we'll get Keita and maybe Lemar (or similar) joining and losing Firmino, Salah or Mane.

The new players take a season or two to bed in, show their worth and move on. And the vicious cycle continues. It will just be nice to have at least one full season of stability with top players in most positions.

It's understandable that players want to move on, but the dream is stability to properly challenge for the league and trophies.

5.) 01 Feb 2018
01 Feb 2018 09:05:18
What are we rebuilding? Coutinho is no, was not and was never going to be the center piece of our attack. This 're-building' concept is over, we're not re-anything. We're just building.

Unlike in the past where in one team there were 4 or 5 players the system relied on and any one of them leaving meant starting to rebuild the entire squad, we now have an actual, functioning team. The only player we would absolutely need to directly replace if they left is Firmino, our attack won't work without someone with that level of energy focusing on creating space. Everything else is just building - Coutinho has gone, tactics carry on just how they did before.