Sorry but you can't deny that. Chelsea have lost a mere 83 first team players' match days compared to 215 for Liverpool (135 for United, 225 for Arsenal with Sunderland and Hull at the top with over 280 each). How much difference would that have made to Liverpool (or Arsenal or Sunderland or Hull's) season is a matter of conjecture, however having had Mane, Henderson, Lallana, Coutinho or Henderson available for many more match days surely wouldn't have meant less points. Of course that doesn't suit your rhetoric that he's deluded. Chelsea are currently sit 20th in the list of injuries in the PL, with just the one player injured.
You must admit that the comments are stacking up now.
Yeah I don't like those comments one bit - but obviously I was referring to the 'injury' lists. Chelsea have been incredibly lucky for the past few seasons as far as injuries go - compare their record vs. that of Liverpool, Arsenal and United. There is none.
Liverpool fans love a good excuse.
Have you? Two bad choices.. Pool fans would be even more of what ails them.. Arsenal fans would be well the same as they have been last decade... So..
It depends on who the players are. I think Liverpool have high number because Gomez and Ings are out of the season and both are not first choice players.
Or it's the wrong kind of sooohhnshiiiiine.
Yes, because losing all our central defenders is irrelevant, losing Mata and Pogba meant nothing, Mkhitaryan starting his season so late because of injury and the amount of recovery time he needed was unimportant.
Also there's too many games (despite not playing in Europe. Maybe he was referring to German league being 34 games), then he brushed off the league cup after they were dumped out by Liverpool B saying that Cup should be stopped even though he played a full team, tried to win and dipped into his bag of excuses to cover up the loss.
No chance in hell, they won't attract anyone better, and besides he has already secured that weird messiah type following that only Liverpool managers can get.
In most cases injuries are down to a lot more than luck, so it feels like an empty excuse. Injuries (and tiredness) are undoubtedly a significant factor in Liverpool falling off a cliff in 2nd half of the season but the idea that Klopp has no influence over that is a bit silly.
Would still be a big blow to them after a season that promised so well untill january though.
They can't attract a bigger name, besides all the top managers are currently in a job.
Fair point. They should just focus on trying to win some domestic cups.
Poor mrs Flopp
Exactly.
I don't think he's quite the thundercnut you make him out to be but he's definitely not as genuine as Liverpool fans would have you believe. The celebrations and antics on the touchline always seem forced while Conte in comparison actually looks like he's genuinely living every moment with the team and gets emotional without putting on an act.
Are you serious? He's the best manager we can have and we wouldn't attract anyone close to him.
Rafa?
Don't be silly.
Owen?
I discussed it some posts above
I would wager that if you analysed that though, the days stat means very little. Every team gets injuries and it's about managing the squad - Conte's job has been easy because of minimum games to prep for. It's no surprise then that the team with the most games (Man Utd) has so many match day related injures (Zlatan, Shaw, Young etc) because if you play more games you logically have a slightly higher chance of injury but is LPool's not proof of Klopp's playing style/training being right on the edge?
