Moo

Oh has that all started again? Nice. Too much coming out of the club, why was the news on Slot so prominent yesterday and via the favoured journalists? That only happens if someone at the club makes it happen. Such a distraction on a crucial derby day, absolute pricks. Not convinced it's done with good intentions either but maybe that's just me.

KDB works really fucking hard and is always switched on to what's going on around him. Can you say the same about Trent?

I'd be selling him this summer, but got a feeling he's going on a free the one after. He doesn't look like he's interested in doing the dirty work and whether he plays in midfield or right back there's dirty work involved (or there should be) and that's under any manager.

I can absolutely handle him leaving, always could and not just because he now looks more than ready to go. I can absolutely handle that the chances are we now slip back into mediocrity, and probably for a very long time. It was always on the cards post-Klopp. What I am struggling with (especially last night but feel a bit better this morning) is the fact we've not been able to celebrate a title win with Klopp. It's gutting it really is as he so deserved it and so did we. I'm sure this feeling will pass and thankfully the celebrations in 2019 are quite something to remember.

Have we though? We might just about be alright at CB even though Van Dijk and Konate have left a lot to be desired recently. Quansah great potential . The full backs are questionable, can Robertson get back anywhere near his best? And Trent absolutely won't. Bradley has great potential. The rest, squad players Midfield, our Achilles heel for years, only Mac Allister has shown to be good enough. Szoboslai unproven. The rest, squad players. Up front only Diaz has warranted his starting place this season. Nunez is Nunez, Jota is always injured, and Mo hasn't been near his best for two years. There's question marks all over the pitch.

That's one of the dangers, as well as having cheap bastard owners. We're a bit fucked I think but I'm fully prepared for it.

I disagree on the strength of the squad Klopp is leaving us (and actually said so here before things went to shit - "luckily" for me, less disappointment to feel). But I just want to highlight your post, the tone of it and the general points you make - especially tonight. It's been an absolute rollercoaster this ride with Klopp but the highs were easily worth any of the lows including the current one.

He needs replacing as our "main" striker. I know people will say we don't really have a main striker but if you pay £65m+ and give him the number 9, then he's your main striker. If we can get back anything like what we paid for him (say £45-50m) then I'd sell him. But I can't see that happening so I'd keep him rather than sell for peanuts. We can't rely on him in the big or small moments and he's let us and himself down recently, but he can still be a really useful player if he's willing to accept a reduced place in the squad.

Personally I can only see that possibly working in a 4-4-2, a similar role to what Beckham played for the Mancs. Beckham was a bloody hard worker from the halfway line forward but he couldn't defend for shit - but I'm not convinced Trent is willing to work hard enough for us even in just one half of the pitch. And no-one plays 4-4-2 any more anyway, maybe our new manager will find a clever way to bring it back into fashion.

Yeah of course, my mistake. I still don't think it's a particular factor as the problems we have now are mostly the same problems we've had since day 1 of the season. I will concede that our ability to react to adversity has seemingly disappeared recently but I think there's more than one reason for that.

I'd include Trent in that too. He's not interested in the dirty work which you have to do whether in CM or FB, otherwise you're a luxury player. A new manager won't fix that, a new challenge at a whole new might.

Yeah we'd have done better if the manager would have walked out, at short notice, with 4 months of the season to play. I hated the timing, disagreed with it but I don't know the machinations, but things are very unlikely to have turned out any better with an even more shocking development. Likely the opposite.

Repay the supporters and finish the season in the top 4 to give the next manager a boost and the club, that's given them so much, a fighting chance.

It's time for Klopp to go because he needs to, he's knackered. But anyone thinking another manager will have us in a better position is deluding themselves. We'll be back to wondering if we might qualify for the CL every few years at best.

Of course it is, Klopp has said as much himself, he's exhausted with it all. An energised Klopp would still be the best manager in the world and our best hope. But that's not him any more.