Originally Posted by
vin
How are we in pole position for Bellingham? We were in pole position for Touchemani and look what happened. If BVB get a bid of 100m and we are there with 75m - guess what?
Ramsay will be great? I hope so, but he's very young and never played in the English league. He may need three seasons to settle.
As for Melo. He's an injury prone player, who seems to have gone off the boil at his current club, coming into a team that has a very intense style of play. It's a risk.
We fucked up with signings for midfield this window. Let's not try and paper over that. There were some great players available for reasonable fees that would have been more than a stop-gap. Our stock is high despite our slow start. We should have moved. The reasons as to why we didn't go beyond "Klopp has a plan."
His own press conferences have highlighted that.
Heartily agree with all this.
I absolutely hate the fact that to fix our midfield problems with the current injury crisis we decide to go out and get a loan deal for a player who's a crock waiting to happen based on his fitness record.
And we all know how these loan deals tend to work out.
Anyone remember Kabak?
And I absolutely hate.......HATE.....this, method or routine of this club of identifying a player they like, and we apparently get good news that they want to come here, but rather than bring him in, we decide we'll wait until the next window to bring him in, like they're apparently doing with Bellingham,....which is just an invitation for another club like a Real or a PSG to swoop in in the window before that with more money than Dortmund can sneeze at, and to end up squeezing us out of what seemed like a locked on deal.
Or the alternate route where they do buy the player and then loan him back to their club for a season (Origi, Keita),...leading to an unsettled season for the player in question and an even longer bedding in period when they do get here.
Why do we always try to do things the hardest and most convoluted ways possible?
We all know where the problem in this squad lies.
So fix it.
NOW!
Not 12 months from now or even 6 months when we're already out of the title race and are barely clinging onto a fight for 4th place.
It's no surprise that City and the Arse are at the top of the league given their transfer window activities - fixing the holes in their respective squads that needed fixing quick, like and getting the squads working together without delays.
Anyone in our transfer committee who didn't see that our midfield was a problem........at the end of LAST season....before we even got into the transfer window,......shouldn't be cashing a paycheck from this club.
And if Tchouameni was really our top target only for us to get scooped by Real, and we just happened not to have a plan 'B' for not getting him.....then....again, the person for that fuck-up shouldn't be at their job.
How do we know the same's not going to happen with their Bellingham pursuit?
'I got told there's an English phrase, 'You don't win trophies with kids'. I didn't know that' ... - Jurgen Klopp
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