19 Feb 2018 18:17:12
Plenty of talk about summer changes to our back 5, but what are people's expectations for potential changes at the other end in our front 3 positions.

There's no doubting that if Mane, Salah, or Firmino were injured then we would be short of quality up top, we'd certainly miss Salah and Firmino!

We've seen with the MSN at Barcelona and BBC at Madrid that its very difficult to get quality players to play as backup to the starting trio. Neither of those teams had a real quality alternative on the bench.

Are we really going to be able to attract players like Lemar, Pulisic, Fekir etc if they're not going to be in that front 3 every week? We do rotate a lot but these types of players will want to be key players for every game.

I like a lot of our youth options like Woodburn and Solanke but I'm sure we need some seasoned quality. Are we going to be able to sign a worldclass player without guaranteeing 1st team football?

1.) 19 Feb 2018
19 Feb 2018 18:49:39
George, I thought we already moved on from Lemar, Pulisic is a non starter and not sure Fekir is even a target. Apart from all that, If Klopp wants a very good player, I'm pretty sure he knows what he is doing and how he will use them. The fact of the matter is that NOBODY plays all the games under Klopp as that has been made abundantly clear this season. I would not worry too much about all that, IMO. Our guy knows what he's doing.

2.) 19 Feb 2018
19 Feb 2018 20:49:57
I still think its a good question that deserves to be considered. In the past how did UTD attract game changing players to come and sit on their bench and give strong strength in depth? Consistently win trophies and pay them lots of money!

3.) 19 Feb 2018
19 Feb 2018 21:51:03
The players I gave were just an example.

Just saying that I imagine it will be difficult for us to bring in someone with 'game changing quality' to play 2nd fiddle. Even if they play 20-25 games a season, it'll be tricky to bring in star players who don't play in the 'big games'.

It's a problem every top club will struggle with I guess but just saying.

I don't mind giving youth a chance but not sure if thatll happen.

4.) 20 Feb 2018
20 Feb 2018 00:59:26
Yes, We need one or two wide players that could play anywhere across the front three. As long as Klopp is at Liverpool there is no place for an out and out striker in his team ( we don’t play with one ) . That will raise serious question marks on the future of Ings and Solanke.
I would expect Klopp to bring one or two wide men. Bailey from Leverkusen is my pick. He is excellent. The other one could be Malcom / Fekir
The current front 3 won’t last 60 games and we need at least 2 equally good players above. Coutinho played as a wide forward and scored 7 goals last season. A number that has not been replaced by any CM.

5.) 20 Feb 2018
20 Feb 2018 01:04:09
I think we sign Kroos in the summer. Honest to God.

6.) 20 Feb 2018
20 Feb 2018 03:43:11
I still think we’ll go back for Lemar. He’s capable of playing attacking mid or on the wing, so perfect starter in place of Lallana or an impact sub depending on what we need.

7.) 20 Feb 2018
20 Feb 2018 08:59:41
Your options are to either accept a loss of quality when big players go out (like Spurs, or us at the moment), bring up the best young players you can, give them whatever game time you can and hope they'll be ready to take their chance (like Soton) or pay so much money that you can essentially maintain a squad of infinite size because they are all paid so much they don't even care when they play (like City) . For us, the money option isn't viable so if we want to change our bench options, we need to sacrifice the 4th and 5th goals in some games (or at least risk them) and start getting players like Woodburn and Wilson on the field instead.