What an odd thing to say, talk about excuses and not calling it as it is. Rojo improved because he got a run of games in his main position. Your logic makes no sense, LVG had a defensive system and Smalling looked great. He had an awful season under Jose. He simply made terrible errors that led to goals, nothing about a system. A player like Bailly walks in to nearly any team, why? Because he's overall a brilliant player. Lovren played for Southampton, that's his level. Players can step up and go further like Mane and Lallana, both had good seasons(especially Mane). Then there are limited players like your back 5. Still hoping Mignolet might be the answer, when everyone can see he isn't.
Sure let's keep it recent while we are picking random names. Henderson is apparently better than Pogba, according to you lot. Then there is the Origi v Martial debate. What a debate eh...I could go over the last 25 years and give delusional comments by Pool fans. You said we always think our players are better, I don't think so. The difference is we can admit it when they aren't. I remember many Liverpool fans admitting Ronaldo was only world class when he went to Real.
If you listen to some of the Liverpool ABU pundits, people would think we have had a disaster of a season. Souness, Redknapp ect..they never give us credit! The media in general are biased as feck. Klopp and Pep could do no wrong last season. We underperformed in the league but still won 2 trophies. Jose was bashed and ridiculed the entire way. Liverpool got to the same finals the previous year, lost both and Klopp gets a huge contract extension and praise by everyone. United never get the credit they deserve but that's ok, we understand how it works.
I'm just saying add-ons should be stated as add-ons and not be included in the price, since none of you liked it either when the media did that with Martial.