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It's amazing cause we played that EXACT style with Poch earlier in the season with Kane and Son yet we were completely toothless! But people seem to be forgetting that.
The squad is very disjointed at the moment, especially more so without Kane and Son.
Now, imagine Klopp coming into Liverpool, his best attacker (Firmino) gets ruled out and then his best striker (Mane) gets ruled out. Do people seriously think Klopp would keep playing high up the pitch?? Would he trust Origi and Shaqiri to be great stand ins? Well he tried that before and Liverpool just leaked goals. He'd play to the teams strengths with VVD and Alisson and their midfield by dropping deeper and try catch teams on the counter - which is kinda what they do now.
The point is without the tools, Klopp struggled. Until he'd really worked on the balance Liverpool were a bit of a ying-yang team. It took him 3 YEARS!! Opposition fans were still laughing at him and Liverpool until last season.
We have similar issues and until Jose can work with them all, they will exist.
It's very true. They were very much still a 'banter' team till after that CL final loss when they bought a couple more pieces for the jigsaw.
Klopp was backed though in exactly where he identified the need. Big time.