Takumi Minamino

[Red74 913]

He must be gutted he scored and had a good game against Palace the other week.

 

Lad hasn’t had a look in since and our attacking plays dropped off a cliff

[dockers_strike 2,090]

Think it must be really hard for players like Taki to get going and make an impact in a team. They frequently or should that be infrequently get to play in depleted sides, often in one of the cups or a couple of minutes at best substitute appearance.

 

 

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Signings like him and Shaqiri look good when they're just squad options and you don't actually have to use them. Big bargains until your top class forwards are out of form and all of a sudden you're arguing that someone with 1 Premier League goal and someone who misses half of games through injury would fix the issues.

 

I like him in theory and if we sold him to Southampton or Leeds I think he'd be quite good there, but I'm not sure what he's doing here, specifically.

[Scott_M 5,172]

Very surprised we didn’t put him on yesterday instead of Origi.
 

We’d have been better sticking Phillips upfront instead of Origi. 

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As a veteran of the Evans, Houllier and Rafa era of mid/high seven figure 'punt' signings of next Zidanes and what not and of the countless pub and forum conversations of trying to decide whether they would come good and tying to figure out why a good performance wasn't followed up with more good performances, and how maybe it was a positioning thing. 

 

I've learned the hard way to embrace the occam's razor approach to these situations as in, I think he might just be shite.

[Mark M 1,520]

Think it’s getting overstated how he played against palace he took the goal he scored well and did alright other than that.

seems very light weight to me in saying that I’d start him ahead of Bobby as Bobby is just stinking the place out at the moment. 

[Barrington Womble 8,895]

1 hour ago, Mark M said:

Think it’s getting overstated how he played against palace he took the goal he scored well and did alright other than that.

seems very light weight to me in saying that I’d start him ahead of Bobby as Bobby is just stinking the place out at the moment. 

Here's the thing though, he played a good part in a 0-7 win, scored and he's barely had a sniff since. We're struggling for goals and klopp doesn't want to turn to him. There must be a reason for that, but I don't see how these fringe players fit in if they can't even get a go when we're playing badly. He's clearly struggled a bit since getting here, but if he can't contribute, let's just get him sold and get in someone who can. We seem to have a lot of players who offer is little to nothing. 

[joe_fishfish 401]

Klopp has been incredibly loyal to his starting players throughout his entire time here. Even when he first joined and most of them were fucking shite.

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1 hour ago, joe_fishfish said:

Klopp has been incredibly loyal to his starting players throughout his entire time here. Even when he first joined and most of them were fucking shite.

Thing is the results & performance have mostly gone in a positive direction, so it's easier to do. I would guess this is our worst run of form since he's been here, certainly since his 1st summer. If you're a fringe player you have to wonder when you'll get your real chance if you've done as he has, which is play, score in a big win and then not get a sniff in a really bad run. I'm not saying he should be in the team either, I am just trying to put myself in the position of the player. 

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On 18/01/2021 at 17:35, Mark M said:

Think it’s getting overstated how he played against palace he took the goal he scored well and did alright other than that.

seems very light weight to me in saying that I’d start him ahead of Bobby as Bobby is just stinking the place out at the moment. 

The two games he's been involved in (Palace and Villa) Liverpool have scored 11 goals. Maybe that's coincidence but he scored the opener against Palace and assisted a goal against Villa. Nothing overstated about that.

 

Whether that would have continued if he had been selected to play against the dross that we drew against, we'll never know as he wasn't selected. All we know is the players who were selected against those teams have scored 1 goal against the dross.

 

What is the worst that can happen if the players are selected? They don't win? We're not winning anyway. All the players need to own up to what is going on but give them all a chance rather than keep playing the same players/formation when it's obvious it isn't working right now.