Funny really.
Since we released Clyne on a loan it’s been a disaster, we’ve only increased our lead by one point.
We were 7 points ahead when we loaned Clyne, so have reduced our lead by two points.
The Lovren/Matip thing is a totally reasonable gripe, and you are not the only person who airs it. In hindsight we would have probably been better off this year by keeping Klavan and moving on Matip, and that move would have probably given Klavan an expectation of enough games to satisfy him. It probably didnt need hindsight to figure that out either given Matip's history of frailty. However, in saying all that it is important to realise that Matip is actually the one of our CB corps who is most likely to be available for the Bayern game, so again, this obvious looking solution wouldnt necessarily solve the immediate issue we're facing.
The frustration with you and your posting is that you connect it to totally unrelated issues like the loss of Clyne. It's like a wife using me not picking my jeans up off the bedroom floor to have a go at me for something I said 3 weeks ago.
The issues are wholly connected.
Last summer we had 9 defenders at one point - Clyne, TAA, Lovren, VVD, Gomez, Matip, Klavan, Moreno, Robertson.
Personally I felt we lacked quality in that bunch, and I was worried about so many of them being injury prone. I advocated selling two centre backs and buying De Ligt, but thought that at least we had bodies who could always form a decent defence until VVD's guidance.
When we sold Klavan, our decision and coincidentally after we failed to move on more desirable players to exit, it felt like a way of trimming wages and getting a few quid. I felt that a player who'd done ok was worth keeping for the season we finally hoped to win the title.
Then we loaned Clyne, a player who not only would surely be better at right back than a midfielder, and/or if we end up with a midfielder at centre back, but a player who could probably do a good job at right sided centre back alongside VVD if required.
So we went from 9 defenders to 7.
Now we always seem to have two or three defensive injuries, so there's a big difference between 9 and 7 in terms of who you can then field as a specialist defensive unit.
Moving midfielders isn't the answer when your whole beefed up midfield squad was to offset the issues last season when fatigue and injuries affected us there.
Sorry, but loaning Clyne was, like Klavan, a questionable move.
I know Klopp doesn't bullshit, I know he cares about players as humans more than most managers.
Can you explain how can you predict an injury crisis? Gomez fractured a bone in a tackle, that could happen at any time to any player...
Because Gomez, Matip and Lovren always spend large chunks of any season injured.
If he hadn't broken his leg he'd probably have gotten injured due to something else. He missed the end of last season just from jumping up and down in an England match.
Besides there's a phrase, accident prone and bone resilience varies person to person. Who is to say that Gomez suffered a break that another player wouldn't. His slow bone healing certainly suggests that.
Everyone on here is entitled to their own level of satisfaction with how LFC is being run.
My view remains that the club has made mistakes, whether in judgement or due to financial reasons, and has left us with a squad that could yet be undermined because of it.
I really hope we win the league, it's not in my interests for us not to, I wouldn't get pleasure from saying I told you so.
But personally I think injuries will do for us, and I think we'll bottle it in the end.
But if we don't win the league this season we never will and that for me will, quite rightly, start to make those players who bought into this project, have justifiable concerns.
Frankly, if any of Alisson, VVD, Salah, Bobby or Mane decided they'd have a better chance of consistently winning things elsewhere I'd agree with them and wish them well.
