Don't be silly. Yeah we are having a very bad season with everything going wrong. This is the same team that reached four final's last season winning two off them. You are going way over the top calling us "finished" in everything as if we are fighting relegation. There is no harm losing this way to Real Madrid the best team in the world and 14 times UCL champs.
The problem is very simple with Liverpool. We did not spend much at the end of the season or last month when our rival's did hundred's of million's closing the gap on us if not getting ahead. Give JK £400 million net in the summer then you will see we'll be back.
I will say that Salah is nothing without Sadio Mane. The Senegalese never got the praise that he deserved when he was with us. To keep Salah happy and give him a bumper contract it seems that JK decided to sell Mane which was a terrible decision. In Football there are always high's and low's for every club not only us.
Klopp spent heavily in 2018-19 and Liverpool won the league and the UCL within 2 years. Yes it is true that he hasn’t had the financial backing that City, Chelsea and United have had, but he has enough resources to not be 19 points of the league leaders after 22 games.
That is all on Klopp, and his supporters cannot hide behind the lack of funds excuse all the time. Moreover, let’s not pretend that he hasn’t squandered money in the market.
He spent £90m on two average midfielders like Keita (£52m) and Chamberlain (£38m), he spent a club-record £85m on Nunez who has the potential to be a top striker but he is clearly struggling to adapt right now and he was not the right player to fill the massive hole that Mane left.
Similarly, Gakpo hasn’t hit the ground running either. Klopp’s major signings of the past (Salah, Van Dijk, Alisson etc.) had instant impact but he has not been able to replicate that recently.
Liverpool’s position in the table would have looked a lot different had Nunez hit the ground running like Haaland and Jesus.
Klopp finished 7th in his last season at Dortmund and then left. Something similar could happen here. He seems completely out of ideas and excuses and he just looks tired and depressed.
With regards to Mane, Klopp didn’t sell him. Mane demanded to leave because he was growing tired of the lack of respect. On the pitch, he was on par with Salah in terms of performances but he was not given the same star status.
He was also criminally underpaid and earning less than several bench players. It was the club’s fault for taking him for-granted for so long.
Liverpool is back to its default setting of the last 30 years. Last few years was an anomaly. When Klopp leaves don’t expect things to turn around any time soon.
All big clubs go through cycles, Liverpool will probably have to wait for another 10 years to be competitive. Same goes for Chelsea irrespective of how much they are spending.
Now it is Arsenal and Manchester United’s time at the top for the next few years and after several lean years. Even City’s golden era is coming to an end with their stars getting older and Pep reaching the end of his tenure.
Liverpool fans should accept the reality and patiently wait for their next cycle. They haven’t been the same since City stole the league from under their nose on the final day and then Madrid taught them a lesson in the UCL final after the fans and players like Salah ran their mouths and talked about revenge.
Of course, the departure of Mane made things worse because his replacement have failed to reproduce what he did for years.
Instead of complaining about money, Liverpool should identify Klopp’s replacement and look to rebuild the squad over the next few years like Klopp himself did from 2015 to 2018 and Arteta has done for Arsenal over the last two years.
Klopp can do another repair job himself but I don’t think he has the energy left. Both him and Liverpool need a fresh start.
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