No, Klopp was never perfect kev. I have never said that. He had his issues like any manager.
As for running players into the ground, which imo he absolutely did do, we all saw it - What choice did he have..? Before we mention Gini's contract... Hendo and Fabinho get another 2 or 3 seasons here if we were not sticking with 2 or 3 sick notes rather than cut our losses and deliver genuine rotation for them. Same with the CB's Virgil went into the title defence season with us - already not too stacked at the back - a senior CB down! Rather than adding security and protecting Virgil who had played EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE GAME across 2 seasons of 97 and 99 points including a CL run and win to the final.... We took away. We sold Lovren - baked the cash and ludicrously relied on the fitness of Joel Matip and Gomez...? WTF??? Something Klopp all but called out as a bonkers. Something I said at the time was NUTS... A title defence with 1.5 reliable CB's. I count Joel and Joe as a halpf... Matip injury record was well documented - he was many seasons a 1 game in 3 player. then you had Gomez.. beyond Injury prone..
And Klopp ALWAYS says he didn't "need" to spend. He isn't saying I don't want to spend. he was saying that beyond spending a manager had to work with what he has. This is what he did. He defended the club from the very real scrutiny that it was massively outperforming its outlay. That IMO is ultimately what took it's tool on Jurgen.
As for the rest.. Oh dear Kev... Oh dear ...


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