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The job is to assemble a team to compete at the very top end of the game and win trophies.
His reputation is to have players who believe in him and commit all their energy in a high tempo playing style that wins games.
Both those things will be compromised when you start playing 2 to 3 games every week.
He wouldn't be doing his job as a manager if he didn't flag things that were going to have a negative impact on his staff
and affect his success in the job he's doing and his reputation.
The fact that football players are paid way more than regular jobs and Liverpool players are paid at the higher end of football players is a completely separate topic.
They're paid to do a certain thing and that thing not being as tiring as a Nurse's job yet way more highly paid is, however unfair it may be, irrelevant to the matter at hand.
I would prefer that footballers were playing at the best of their abilities as often as possible and also that the bigger clubs didn't wind up acquiring a huge amount of the best players which they rotate - I'd prefer to see them more evenly distributed rather than players like Mahrez - who would walk into a number of teams - sitting on the bench half the time.
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Thread: Poor, poor Liverpool FC
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27-01-2020 07:43 PM #61
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27-01-2020 07:43 PM #62This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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27-01-2020 07:45 PM #63This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
People saying "But they do big pre-season friendly tours" miss the point - that's after a long-ish summer break and builds match fitness into the team. This is already after they've competed in the Club World Championship, that European Super Cup thing, half of the EPL whilst only dropping two points and the League Cup up to that point. Rest is an important part of being an elite athlete and if he sees fit to rest his key players to allow them to compete for the rest of the season at the highest level, then that's his job.
If that's not the best thing for Shrewsbury then that's a shame, and there's also an argument as to why he's not going to be in the dugout, but those are other issues.
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27-01-2020 07:46 PM #64This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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If pre season was about fitness they wouldn’t do so much travelling.
Even winter training camps are being organised with sponsors in mind these days. The top clubs have an insatiable demand for money and need saving from themselves to be honest.
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27-01-2020 08:37 PM #71
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27-01-2020 08:42 PM #72
Really don’t understand the fuss
every club has the right to play as strong or as weak a team as they want in my opinion.
if Liverpool get knocked out as a result so be it, good for Shrewsbury. If they still win even with a reserve/youth team, good for Liverpool.
not Klopps fault the FA Cup is dying on its arse. He wants the league and the champions league. Understandably so.
(That said if we get past Dundee Utd and JR is thinking of playing a weaker team in the next round he can f*** right off!)
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27-01-2020 09:31 PM #75
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Their fringe team yesterday still included Champions League winners, Brazilian internationals and someone who has played a World Cup final. The team they put out in the replay is going to be nothing like that. It’ll be the type that was 4-0 down to Aston Villa at half time when they played.
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27-01-2020 09:52 PM #77
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27-01-2020 09:54 PM #78This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
What chance have their youth team got?
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28-01-2020 09:46 AM #83
A slight detour but I was watching a Peter Crouch thing yesterday, where he went through the shirts he wore during his career.
He was gushing about how much it meant for him to win the FA cup with Liverpool, that it was the main competition when he was a wee boy and the Champions League didn’t exist.
We’re probably now losing the last of a generation of players for whom the FA cup was something special rather than the irrelevance / distraction it has become.
It is so sad to see one of the world’s greatest cup competitions be reduced to this thanks to the total disrespect from England’s biggest clubs.
Aye, but money.
I have almost totally lost interest in English football (well, the premier league anyway) as it is a soulless corporate mess, where some play 38 games to strive to finish 4th and mix with Europe’s elite and the rest just gamble furiously on hanging onto the coat tails of the big clubs.
It’s a 5hite spectacle when you wake up and see it for what it is.
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28-01-2020 02:12 PM #85This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Thought you were a Hibs supporter.
The elite clubs are squeezing all the money out of the game and killing clubs like ours, but if even our own fans are cheering them on then the game is up.
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28-01-2020 02:26 PM #86
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Never really been in to English football but always watched the FA cup final growing up. It was an absolute sporting must alongside the Scottish cup final. Now I can't remember the last FA Cup final I watched. Think I went off it when Man United pulled out to play a silly competition in South America
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04-02-2020 08:59 PM #88
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Worked well for Liverpool in the end
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04-02-2020 09:01 PM #89
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Chelsea will slap them by 3 or 4 goals if they play that team.
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04-02-2020 09:32 PM #90This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
At least Liverpool fielded a team.
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