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Originally Posted by Baron
I actually think that 90 point season stuff & knocking the stuffing out of them mentally is quite accurate. The only issue is the Scousers don’t actually appear to be the good guys in that scenario, Pep’s game (with infinite resources) does break minds, & the reality of running 11km less in a game is no mere stats shite. They used to do it & relentlessly. It’s not sustainable, it was also improbable. This is the downturn & Klopp will have had his fill, a year off beckons and you truly wonder whether Liverpool have what it takes to rebuild afterwards as it was very much in his image. Sounds a big familiar, albeit a far shorter course. I hope the @#%&!s slide into obscurity again for a decade with a team of aging stars on huge money and duds in each window.
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I still think it’s a bit early to write their obituary, but it’s hard to see how they’ll be any better again than they’ve been the last five years.
I said it at the end of last season: they’re in danger of being remembered as nearly men. the narrative is that city and Liverpool are the two stand out teams. Little between them, but they keep ending up on the wrong side of title battles, the wrong side of CL finals. Their performance levels were great, but history remembers the winners. That’s it. Nobody gives a shit that you got record points total for a 2nd placed team. It’s a footnote.
They played every conceivable game last season as they went for everything. They ended up with the same as the Arsenal side of 1993. It must have killed tjem and I do think there is some truth to the idea that they just don’t have it in them to go again. They’ve been as relentless as they can be for five years and they have one title to show for it.
Massive job on his hands now for Klopp and you’ve got to wonder if he can be arsed with it all. City are further away and others are starting to overtake them too.
If we finish above them, that’ll be 2 of the last 3 seasons