Birdy with more bollocks and OTT takes
Firmino doesn't start anything crucial for at least a year now. Started Atleti in groups, Benfica home when they've secured semis in first tie and the United game when they were shambles. Benched or injured otherwise.
Milner is done but dont need to get rid when is on lower salary and you'll otherwise have no backup. All teams have his type of player and is useful to have
Injuries can't always predict, they've done fine to keep up last season and have like 4 midfielders out right now at the same time. RM 20/21 situation when had no RB for like 3 weeks and had to play Fede there
Klopp doesnt sell when doesn't need to and prefers working with young to get them up to speed.
Might need to reassess and get another vet in considering midfielders are mostly old
Wolfe with another response triggered just by my emoticon. LOL
Dude, pipe down a bit. You can agree with me from time to time, it's not a stain in your forum CV
- Firmino was first benched last season when they had Jota and Diaz, who were BY FAR better options and only blind could not see that.
Klopp would have 0 excuse to not play them over Bobby. But before that, until the end of 20/21, Bobby started and now in 22/23, he starts again, despite his legs being gone, and his numbers having decline since 2019 to say the least
- Milner is useful maybe for the locker room and to fill in minor games. You simply don't start Milner at md against UTD at the age of 38 or so. Unacceptable
- They get a lot of injuries every year. Even last season, when you say they did fine, they were praying Thiago and Salah could play the CL final, and gave them painkillers at the end to do so.
And the dropoff from Thiago to Keita or Milner, and from Salah to Elliot or Bobby is HUGE, especially for CL final.
That's why they have no depth
Klopp masks his sentimentalism with common sense takes that 'a transfer doesn't solve an injury problem', which is true, but not the case for Liverpool.
When you have for instance 3 players that play the minutes of 1, you should count them in your squad as 1 and not 3.
And then there is a massive dropoff in the quality of the sub compared to the starter, that means the depth is suffering.