Originally Posted by
jr81
Has anyone read the article about the players being on an off cycle of overdosing on caffeine? Or something along those lines. It's a technique used in the cycling world and it has been claimed that we have been doing it for the last 3 years but are now on the off cycle. Hence the dip in performance levels.
I read the article over the weekend. There is no proof to any of it (from what I can see in the article) but it was an interesting theory. The author claims it is used by a few different clubs.
Im no expert on this stuff and don't know much about the author so take with a pinch of salt but it was a theory I hadn't come across before.
Straws.
Grasping.
It's not rocket science.
We had a team that went on a crazy three year run starting from the first Champion's League final we lost and culminating in the title win last year, and not bothering to rebuild or refresh in the transfer windows in between, like,....(*sigh*)....Red nose used to do with his Manc teams.....and eventually it caught up with us as injuries, stale tactics, inflexibility of the Manager with his philosophy, complacency and carelessness with players (not taking care of their health and going for internationals when they were barely ready to play consistently for the club), a laughably thin bench (in contrast to a very strong starting eleven) and yes, also bad luck and terrible officiating calls combined in a perfect storm of calamity to lead to where we are today.
There were failures on multiple levels in the club hierarchy from ownership to the manager and training officials, who learned quick how to win a title(s) but didn't do the follow-up lessons on how to sustain success, and it's a hard lesson that everyone will have to learn.
A summer clear-out will be necessary with some infusion of fresh blood.
Fans should be prepared for a rough start at the beginning of next season as the new team gets their legs under them, but hopefully the return of fans to Anfield, and ironically, the lack of European Football will be a massive boon in helping towards this.
Take a lesson from Chelsea when they won the title and then dropped to 12th the following season and then after a serious rebuild and having nothing but the league to concentrate on, came back and won it back the season after that,
'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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