24 Oct 2022 13:34:35
It was plain to see the midfield needed surgery in the summer. Too many injury prone midfielders, too many midfielders over 30, too many midfielders that weren’t really good enough and absolutely no cover for Fabinho (sorry, but Henderson and Milner are not good enough in the defensive midfield role) .

Ox, Keita, Jones should all have been moved on as between them they’re not good enough to start and offer nothing as rotation/ cover. The idea that only Tchouameni or Bellingham would do is a ridiculous notion, there were multiple very good centre midfielders who were in our alleged price range who would have been a huge improvement on what we have (sangare, nunes as just two examples) .

As it is, we wasted a loan on Arthur who is injury prone and simply not up to the physical rigours of the premier league as he’s too slow, too weak and not clever enough. Genuinely can’t see us moving in the January transfer window until it’s too late and us making another huge mistake on the last minute. As we’ve been here before.

1.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 13:55:33
Interesting how much you have garnered about Arthur’s ability to adapt, given he has played no Premier League matches.

2.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 13:57:08
The fact is FSG fooled us over with the “Right player” nonsense only for them to sign a sick note on the last day of the window. Some are still falling for their crap, it’s baffling.
The club need massive investment and the money isn’t there.
People actually believe, Klopp passed on Bruno Guiemares, Matheus Nunes and countless of other fantastic midfielders in search for the “Right midfielder” ????.

{Ed002's Note - FSG don't pick or sign the players. Why do you make this nonsense up?}

3.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 14:03:46
ED02, I have posted your exact comments many times BUT I guess maybe if you did it, it would help. Im not holding my breathe, tho.

4.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 14:18:19
I mean the board whoever is in charge of decision making. The search for the right midfielder goes on.

{Ed002's Note - I guess you don't understand the process.}

5.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 14:57:33
Who should we have signed then?

6.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 15:11:40
John Henry bad, Jurgen Klopp good. The lack of nuance is frightening.

7.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 15:16:16
I think we just found Harry's new account!

8.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 15:22:16
Honestly, some of these posts are awful. We don’t have to go back too many years to see that we were mid-table dross for much of the PL era. A few bad games and it’s all about how crap the manager and the players are. Some growing up to do around here and a reality check for some.

Maybe take a look at the table which shows which club is the most successful in English football and then reflect on when we actually managed to get back to the top of that table and who was running the show at that point.

9.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 15:28:05
FSG have their issues but i think Klopp takes responsibility for the summer gone. Klopp did an interview with the anfield wrap 11th of July he said

“We need a new midfielder? Please tell me why? we can talk about Jude Bellingham and how good he is, fantastic player no doubt about that but you tell me now which kind of midfielder we lack”.

10.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 15:40:58
A question to the Ed's,
is it possible that J Klopp extended his contract to try to influence those players, who seemed to be wavering, to sign their own extensions.
I personally think Klopp might be burnt out and near his "walk away" point and going for all four cups was his hurrah.
Then again I could just be an idiot. (Just to get that in there before ED002)

{Ed002's Note - No, you are overthinking.}

11.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 15:50:16
We love a conspiracy don't we?

The committee (which includes Klopp) mucked it up in the summer, despite what was a good start to the window.

I just hope they have a plan to remedy it starting in January.

12.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 16:52:51
Another new username Victor, how many do you have now? Are you using this one and 6Times simultaneously?

13.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 16:55:48
Klopp's comments in Aug-22;

"Let me say it like this; from time to time I would be ready to risk a bit more, but, how I said, I don't decide that. Its fine"

Seems to me he wanted to spend big but was stopped.

Maybe he is regretting signing his contract.

14.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 17:05:44
Not sure bringing in a midfielder would have helped all that much when the main issues this season have been:
Injuries and lots of them and to key players all over the pitch.
Loss of fitness and form to key players such as VVD, Trent, Fabinho and Salah.
Our fancy new striker nutting someone and getting himself banned, delaying his integration into the team.
I don’t think we can blame Klopp all that much either, his policy of trying to only bring in the right players rather than right now players has brought us the success it has done in recent years, he didn’t have the benefit of hindsight in that so many players where going to get injured or suffer a catastrophic loss of form and ended up panicking last minute when the injuries started to bite. A new midfielder would have been nice but I don’t think essential at the start of the window.

15.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 17:55:40
Who should we have signed then?

We want a holding midfielder. A box to box midfielder. We want goals from midfield. We want durability.
We want some that is prepared to sit on the bench. We want someone that doesn't want daft money and that doesn't want to go to Madrid. We want someone that we swap for Ox and Keita.
Any ideas? ?.

16.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 18:35:32
Rigsby. Rice + caicedo.

17.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 18:45:05
So now we turn on John Henry
do we all meet at our ground and break into the club and wreck the place and scream FSG out.
Are we going to become like that lot down east lancs road we have won every trophy we could win in 5 years what is up with you lot rebuild of ground an elite manager and coaches some top players and you want to kick off on John Henry and his partners?

18.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 19:24:34
Rice will be down to one year in the summer. He'll go for 50m or so. Love to get him. Prob Chelsea bound unfortunately. Bellingham isn't coming here. We need to accept that. His salah-ry will be more than Salah's. He'll want 500 a week and he'll get it. We can bring in 4-5 players for that.

19.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 20:25:58
Sounds nourishing, Digger.
I don't know how realistic they are though, mate.

20.) 24 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 22:18:27
They do have nice ring to them alright Rigsby! In fairness I don't see why we shouldn't be capable of getting 2, both young, have played in prem and prob transfer fees not completely crazy. With rice contract running down his price bound to be dropping as well. Anyway hopefully we get a result against ajax and that will leave us qualified. konate, nunez and thiago all should be available.

21.) 25 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 00:06:21
I absolutely stand by my view on Arthur, Anonymous. He’s played as a sub against Napoli and looked poor, played against Rochdale in the Johnstone’s Paint (go and search it out if you want, it doesn’t make good viewing) and was bullied by all and sundry that evening, as he is too slow and too lightweight, then as is standard, he got injured. Hardly inspiring of confidence. The best thing would be to send him back to Juve as he’s no use here.

22.) 25 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 10:37:40
Jurgen Klopp is great BUT the guys who hired him are incompetent and tight-fisted. If FSG is holding Klopp back so much then why does he keep extending his contract with them? Why did he literally go to them the last time and ask for an extension? Why hasn't he walked in SEVEN years if they are that tight-fisted and useless as many say on here? I won't hold my breathe for any answers, tho.

Also, Do these people know that were it not the club's Analytics team that convinced JW Henry of Klopp's potential in spite of his last difficult season at Dortmund, he wouldn't even have been hired as the LFC manager cos Henry was sceltical of Klopp's ability to do the job based on his last Dortmund season?

Like Anonymous Woolback said, The lack of nuance is frightening.