[Makaveli]

Didnt see it but that’s how you win a PL game. 97th-minute grab of the 3 points. Congrats.

As for tomorrow, what a horrible time to be playing Sheffield Utd away.
We’ll want to score early. All the players that were sick of the last manager will be up giving it 110% and the fans will respond to it and the next thing, you get a shock result.

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All is indeed well with me man, I am loving the season so far, and I hope the same for you and the others. This is my favourite kind of season under Klopp, where you can see the pieces falling into place. We know what we’re going to get with Klopp and Pep at this stage, as we’ve been spoiled before and although there are definitely some results that we’re going to have to grind our way through for a while, I’m hopeful that we’ll hit gear 5 at some stage in this campaign. Will it be too little too late, or will we not quite get there? I dunno but I’m going to try and enjoy the evolution.

I’m not all optimism, as you can probably tell. I think I’m still coming to accept that there’s more work to be done. So much is perfect right now. Alisson, Van Dijk, The new midfielders are brilliant and their attitude is so good also. Up top is not perfect but we’ve so many options that we can weather a storm up there. Trent seems to really be working out in the roaming role and although teams are definitely getting at us down that side, I think less so than last season. Less so, with so much more benefits going forward, as a result of Klopp further utilizing Trent’s capabilities.

I’m not one to be calling for Trent to be played as an out-and-out midfielder, as I think we lose an awful lot of the bonuses that we’re getting. I mean, we’re essentially playing with 11.5 men every game and we have to keep it that way, even if it’s 11.5 men with a slightly weakened defence.
Klopp will take it and so will I, gladly. Besides, Konate (when fit) is amazing at playing the covering role for Trent.

If we are only a little weaker on the right side in defence, in order to be a lot stronger in midfield when in attack, I’ll take that, especially since we seem to be adapting our capabilities in both situations. With the change in tactics and personnel, only really coming this season (mostly), it’s fair to suggest that we’ll only get more efficient.
So ya, I’m not going to claim that we’ll win the PL but I definitely see us challenging for it and locking in a CL place. After that. we’ll have to wait and see how we go and also we can’t forget the other good projects out there ATM of course.

The PL really is in good health ATM, despite maybe the controversy around the people implementing VAR but that’s a conversation for another day.

I guess that’s my thoughts on the new phase all up to speed anyway.

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Cheers lads, it’s good to be back.
Ya, Nil, it’s shocking how fast the midfield seems to have settled. I say “seems” because there’s still more to do there, or at least it appears that way in some games. They are already better than the last midfield, in their final season for us though.

As for Darwin, I have probably been his biggest cheerleader, with my argument for him being that he’ll get himself into more dangerous positions than most other top strikers, so the missed chances should even themselves out but he’s been quite poor in the last few games, at least.
I’m not giving up on him but I can’t see Klopp, sticking with this forever. So, hopefully he’ll get it together and start banging them in.
I didn’t appreciate his play-acting either the last day. I think he dived at least 2 times and then another time he pretended to get clattered in the face when (I think) nothing at all happened.
I’d much prefer to see him fighting tooth and nail to help the team and to leave the unsporting nonsense back in Uruguay.

It’s a shame because I was delighted that Klopp started giving Nunez the majority of the minutes and had been calling for exactly this. I was expecting Nunez to use this time to settle in a bit better but he seems to be becoming a worse player.

I’m nowhere near giving up on him (in case that isn’t clear). Great to see Salah still bossing the PL! It’ll be an incredibly sad day when he does decide to leave.

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Hey guys, I guess I’m back. Hope you’ve all been well. I took some time away from forums after I basically forced TT to ban me 😛 Things have been so interesting for Liverpool though since.

As some of you may remember, I predicted last season that Liverpool would walk the PL. I was so wrong. I had my reasons but ultimately we saw how worn out our midfield was. I guess the one thing I got right was saying that when we did get the midfield sorted, we’d see the other departments coming back to life. My particular thought on this was Van Dijk, as I still thought he had time left in his career to get back to his best but I was still kinda shocked to see him coming back so strongly and so quickly.

I love the recruitment that we’ve done. The new midfield is out of this world good. Is it perfect? No, it isnt and it needs time to click fully into place, with a potential eye on 1 more transfer perhaps (although it seems LFC disagrees, as Adre is going to Fulham).

It’s the DM role that you have to wonder about. Did we actually sign Mac Allister to play him there? I don’t think that was the plan but when we couldn’t get Abdre, we shifted our thoughts back to Gravenberch and decided to try to make it work and look, it mostly does.

We do still let the opposition get at us a bit too easily and we’ll need to soty that out if we’re to win the PL this season.
I had of course tipped us to win it this season also and again, I have my reasons… but I’m gonna step back from that (even though we’re doing so very well) and take a more modest approach. We’re so improved this season and I know for a fact that Klopp can work the bugs out of a side like this and between himself and Pep L, they’ll do it. Whether it’s enough now this season is another storry but it’s another excellent Liverpool transition to marvel in.

Trent is loving life ATM, although we’re missing the hell out of Robertson and Allison. It was such a relief to see us win yesterday. When we went 3-2 down, I actually turned off the match but i sat there loading a game and said to myself “id hate to see the score later showing us coming back”, so I went back to it and it was about a minute later that Endo scored. Phew!

I found out then that my brother traveled over to watch it. Wow. He almost paid a fortune to watch Fulham beat us but instead he gets to see bangers and a famous anfield comeback :p lucky or what.

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