They have no striker. You can be the hottest sweet talking mofo on the planet. If you have no penis you can´t put it in the hole. And if you have no goalie or central defense you end up taking it in the a**. That´s Liverpool right now.
well put. Benteke is decent with the ball at his feet but nowhere close to Lukaku. Lukaku is also a lot faster. Benteke is a monster in the air though. I think I'm a Klopp team, you have to run the channels. He's simply not that kind of player IMO. I just can't see him performing well in that team.
0,38 goals per game overall in league games in England and Belgium. Had one season above 0.5 goals per game. It´s not like he adds much besides his goal scoring. Klopp tried to play high or low balls into him that he can hold up. He can´t control them. He tried to play crosses into him. He moves wrong or not at all in the box. Maybe he´ll get there eventually, but right now I wouldn´t play him either.
And I know I´m right, cause STeve Nicol disagrees with me.
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Aye, that's not a bad rate tbf, in a team that has scored about 3 goals since he's left.
His style couldn't be more different from Lukaku's. Lukaku's first touch and hold up play used to be terrible (massively improved this season though) while that's exactly one of Benteke's biggest assets. Lukaku needs space behind the defence to exploit, Benteke needs crosses (cliché but true). Lukaku can make things happen on his own right now and Benteke just can't no matter how hard he tries. I'd swap them in a heartbeat.
That's what I thought as well untill Sanchez decided to join Arsenal instead of us. Apparently, one good season doesn't change much, plus a lot of players probably knew we'd struggle to make top four again once Suarez left us.
They finished 13th the season before he took over. He brought them up to 6th in his first season and they already fought for 3rd place and qualification for the CL in his 2nd season. A bit of a collapse towards the end and Bremen's late run meant they finished 'only' 5th. Obviously the title win in his 3rd season was a surprise, because everyone expected van Gaal to push on with Bayern. But they were a team on the up and certainly one of the favourites for a top 3 finish after Bremen lost Özil.
Agree with all of that, but I think we would've pursued Klopp before the season started if it was a possibility. He clearly didn't want to start working immediately after his Dortmund tenure, I'm happy we kept Rodgers for a few more months because if we did sack him after last season, we would've ended up with an average manager again.
No doubt about that. The Bundesliga was struggling to have a single true top team, let alone 3 or 4 back in 2008 when Klopp took over. It was the perfect timing really with the league in heavy transition because of all the young German talents coming through the new academy system and establishing themselves as key players in all the teams and Klopp being the first of the new generation of German managers after the German FA made significant changes to the training system for coaches (a very underrated part in the success of German football in the last few years by the way).
I'm not so sure about that. Sometimes strikers will score more in a worse team because they're the main man so everything is here's towards getting them chances. Look at Bony at City. Playing in a much better team but useless anytime he does play.
