Let me rephrase - all this talk about being to compete with the biggest clubs and go for the best players is nonsense.
Not doubting that FSG have done good things for this club but there will always be a limit to our success unfortunately. As I say, it may not all be down to FSG - I think Klopp and Pep need to take responsibility for our current predicament.
oh absolutely. We cannot compete with oil doper money but won't also compete with the other top 4. We pay a lot of wages across a lot of players but spread it around a lot.
You are right there is a hard ceiling above which we are not going to go but you are also right that the coaching staff do seem to lack the ruthlessness that they initially applied to get rid of shako, benteke, balotelli etc.
I don't know if we made do with milner or genuinely wanted to keep kieta or ox. I just don't know but they did shovel cash at henderson as you said and have sports science telling them about fabinho and thiago.
the teams tactics are down to klopp. the players who get new contracts are down to klopp (has to be) where i draw my distinction is where a player is not sold like phillips or ox and we cannot just have them out the door and get in the player needed. That IMO is a constraint they may be working under.
We have loads and loads of players but the balance has gone and that shows in the gaps we are leaving everywhere. regaining the balance is down to klopp with what he has now. But they need to be ruthless now. Keita ox and milner are gone. Fabinho looks shot to me and thiago could never run. henderson legs are gone.
This means a midfield transplant is required when we should have got one in last summer but didn't due to the lots of warm bodies as i pointed out at the time.
