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What is going on with Liverpool? You will have to go a long way to find someone who has more respect for Jurgen Klopp than me, but I’m really puzzled by what I’m seeing from his team.
Had they maintained last season’s momentum and consistency, to be in and around the title race, we would have been talking about them as one of the Premier League’s greatest ever sides.
The levels they had shown were off the scale, which makes what is happening now so baffling. Liverpool are stuck between systems — they kept switching between 4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1 at Manchester City — and that ferocious press of theirs is now non-existent because one man will charge on his own and there is no cohesion.
All season I have thought, ‘Liverpool will turn up today’, but I can’t say that now. Your senses tell you when you turn up to watch them that you will see a quality side, but then the game starts and you can’t quite work out what is going on.
Klopp has been too loyal to some of the men who have been with him throughout and a little too slow in refreshing.
Liverpool were poor on Saturday as they were beaten 4-1 by Manchester City
Brendan Rodgers gave Leicester City one of the greatest days in their history in 2021 when he won the FA Cup. He took them to the brink of Champions League qualification twice — they were talked about as dark horses for the title in the winter of 2019 — and made them European regulars.
He was sacked on Sunday after defeat at Crystal Palace and, inevitably, there were plenty of people who couldn’t wait to criticise Rodgers and
