I love that about managers who can make players better than they are somewhere else. It shows that they're doing something right.
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Begrudgingly you have to say that Klopp is arguably the very best at this, he's the don of polishing turds.
Annoyingly it just feels like he can make anyone seamlessly fit into his system, the fecker.
25 goals in 52 games for Liverpool now I think. Tremendous signing. He's quite balanced as well in terms of how he scores his goals. An even mix of right foot, left foot and headed goals.
Firmino isn't starting ahead of him if they're both fit with Salah and Mane.
Firmino isn't starting ahead of him if they're both fit with Salah and Mane.
He’s done it on a few players to be fair, pity we missed out on him when we had a chance.
He’s pretty good off either side, but not mane or salah good. Through the middle however he’s playing like an exceptional no9. He offers something far different to Bobby. His link up play is bang average but his movement and finishing in the area and aerial ability is up there with the leagues best.
His transfer needs investigating. Liverpool were skint and wolves suddenly agree to sell him for 2.5 million up front then 6 million a year for the length of his contract.
Dodgy as feck that was.
Dodgy as feck that was.
Don't cry. Dry your eyes.
His form goes to show what good coaching does as he’s normally totally pants when playing for Portugal.
None of the portuguese stars (Diaz, Cancelo,Jota,Bruno and Felix) have done anything relevant with the Portugal t-shirt yet, i think Bernando is the only one who was up to the expectations.
While paying half his wages. I was surprised as well, also because Wolves took that money and signed a nobody from the Portugal League called Fabio Silva who haven't even played a senior game by then.
Yeah that’s true. I think F. Santos is just a terrible coach all-in-all and can barely extract 50% of his team’s potential. Even Bernardo is generally not that good for them tbh.
Yes, he is very underwhelming as coach, even in the Euro he won, Portugal only dominated Wales, then struggled against Croatia and Poland, and should have lost to France, he got very lucky with that shot on post by Gignac in the last minute of regular time. After the Euro it was even worse.
I don't know how he is lasting so much time with Portugal NT after so many poor performances, maybe now that they might not qualify for WC he finally gets fired.
Diogo Jota has created a goal every 88 minutes he's on the pitch for Portugal (8 goals and 4 assists in 1055 minutes). Isn't that decent productivity?
The most impressive thing about Jota is how good he's at FIFA, he could legit be a top 10 eplayer if he was full time.
30 goals in 60 games for Liverpool. 17 goals (12 in the league) this year so far and 7 ahead of Mane who has 10 all season.
He has been amazing for you. A complete upgrade on Firmino for me.
Robertson was again, unbelievable. Him and Diaz linked up like that have been playing together for years.
If Dora the explorer was a striker, I would play her ahead of Jota everytime.
And he's usually not a 90 minute man. Really good signing he's been. If he was more composed in front of goal... I shudder to think how good he could be.
Wouldn't be surprised to see a front 3 of Salah - Jota - Diaz be their best attack by the end of the season
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I will wait until they win titles again to start calling Jota one of the bests.
For me their front 3 that got in to two CL finals in a row was better balanced.
For me their front 3 that got in to two CL finals in a row was better balanced.
He's been a brilliant signing for liverpool.
Yeah, I reckon Salah will sign a bumper deal and they'll shift Mane and Firmino out. Jota is weird, he seems to miss as many easy chances as he scores. If he can increase how clinical he is then that's scary.
Annoyingly shrewd signing. Feck Liverpool.
Mane would be the one to go. Firmino just seems like he’s going to be here till he’s completely finished.
He massively benefits from their setup to be fair. His second goal yesterday for instance he's in acres of space because there's several Liverpool players making moves. We so rarely create opportunities like that for our strikers.
Got to give it to Liverpool they sign the right players rather than the most hyped and it pays off.
Got to give it to Liverpool they sign the right players rather than the most hyped and it pays off.
Jota was so streaky when played for Wolves. He'd have three or four really good games then seven or eight average ones and sometimes he'd be benched. When he signed for Liverpool I wasn't really bothered, didn't think he was anything special but they identified a potential for far more consistent performance that was proven absolutely correct.
Same with Mane. He'd have five or six games in a row where he looked absolutely brilliant for Southampton, then do very little for the next six. They got that one spot on as well.
They absolutely nailed both those signings. Which is really annoying.
Same with Mane. He'd have five or six games in a row where he looked absolutely brilliant for Southampton, then do very little for the next six. They got that one spot on as well.
They absolutely nailed both those signings. Which is really annoying.
I hope not. Having him, Diaz and Salah for the two wide forward spots would be great.
I do wish we had more of an insight into the analytics of signings. Obviously we can't as it gives away how clubs scout / analyse players but it would be fascinating as like you say, Liverpool have absolutely nailed multiple signings.
They've hit a real sweet spot in the market for these signings.
Obviously you know more than me but it feels like your club/owners would like to be 'sustainable' in the sense that they don't mind selling a player if it brings in big bank/to benefit the overall squad. Of sizeable assets - Mane, Salah, TAA, VVD, Allison - Mane feels like the one you'd pick to go ahead of the others.
You’re right, but I can still be hopeful. But let’s see. Maybe the added competition will see him find his old form.
But the annoying thing is from a United perspective is something like this is fairly easy to implement. Find a system, stick to it and identify the players who can play like that, and with sports science constantly evolving, you can weed out the sicknotes by looking at injury records and movement charts to see if they can handle constantly running around for 90 minutes etc.
The Utd approach the past few years involves lines like these being thrown around internally:
- “Hey guys, who’s good for this basic position? First name that comes to your heads only please”
- ”Who’s marketable out there? We could do with another revenue stream for merchandising“
- ”I don’t care if he doesn’t fit the current system. Find a way!”
Definitely.
Still a very good attack and Diaz looked class last night too, his link up play with Robertson was extraordinary considering he is not there 2 weeks.
Considering his size and tenure his ability to be the fox in the box is so good, quick nimble feet and great upper body strength to make himself a nice targetman.
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Hate to see players miss the WC because of injuries.
Feels like there's a lot of injuries in the lead up to this world cup, I wonder what could be causing that? 
Lot of crammed up games so Qatar can have their winter World cup, what could possibly go wrong.