08 Feb 2016 10:06:06
Hey ed02, I have a question for you, if you don't mind. The word "transition" has been flaunted around here quite often during BR's reign. I slowly started to appreciate your point - Rodgers' transitions happened way too often, involving a huge cost and a huge player turnover.
Now, you are often warning fans around here that if half the team is replaced once more during the summer (or the whole team, if you listen to some people), this would only lead to another period of instability.
I actually think that there is very good potential in this squad. I like most if not all of the players individually, and for me the problems stem mainly from some sort of misbalance in the entirety of the team, as well as some players either still developing (gods, Moreno, such potential, level your head lad), or not fitting with the Klopp style.
So, getting to the point - what is your prognosis? How will Klopp act in the summer? Will we have to brace for another "transition", or will he manage to avoid it, developing the existing potential with only a few additions?
Cheers!
{Ed002's Note - I expect that there will be a fair number of changes but the critical thing is to decide early what to do with the sheer mass of players the club has. What will happen with the likes of Markovic and Balotelli? Teixeira clearly has no future - will he move on? How will Grujic be used? Then you have the situation with the owners and the Spirit of Shankly effectively threatening the club now (the reality being they want the owners gone of course - and I guess only their Liverpudlian gang members invited to games).
08 Feb 2016 10:30:59
Ed02, Mate y don't you do a podcast on this? I mean your opinion on the whole saga? I would strongly recommend you mate.
{Ed002's Note - It would be an interesting thing to Harry but I will keep my podcast plans as they are.}
08 Feb 2016 10:54:58
I ll wait to hear from you mate. Add the Ticket pricing and ABUSE towards owners in the list.
08 Feb 2016 11:13:31
Don't usually agree with ed002 but it is spot on about Spirit of Shankly holding the club to ransom. They did the same - or tried to - when one of their number was banned for abusing a disabled fan and they're doing the same now. It is about pushing out the American owners and their desire for influence.
08 Feb 2016 11:35:35
I still think £77 for a ticket is ridiculous though.
{Ed001's Note - because it is ridiculous. You have to have more money than sense to not think that way.}
08 Feb 2016 12:03:10
When businesses show no consideration for people then we the people have the right and obligation to pool our voices and take collective action so as to alter the situation. This method has worked successfully in the past and is one of the reasons we have Juergen Klopp as our manager.
Labeling people making an effort to the benefit of all of the club's supporters as gang members does not discredit them nor their efforts, it simply indicates that businesses and business minded people would rather have automaton customers rather than having to cater to (free thinking) people. FSG should be as patient as the supporters, who have been investing their hard earned money into the club for much longer, for their return. The club will be successful in the long term and we need owners who are in it for as long and who share in our love for the club and the game.
Lastly, we should not be scared into submission as the club has no shackles from which FSG can pick it up and walk away with it. Liverpool was built and is sustained by the love of supporters for the sport and the city, not as an investment option for money men. Real power as always is in the hands of we the people and there it shall remain unless we surrender it.
08 Feb 2016 12:23:35
I think this topic of conversation is getting a bit tiresome now. We are all interested in supporting our team, turning on each other doesn't help. SoS have done a lot of good in trying to help travelling fans and the local residence around Anfield. It's not just a group of militant Liverpudlians flexing their muscles, they have groups in London Norway Ireland Sweden. I am not a member, but I am not against them voicing there opinion. I am a season ticket holder in the main stand and I stayed in my seat. Nobody who walked out on 77minutes abused me for not following them.
08 Feb 2016 12:46:01
Purely because there American, I'm xenophobic don't you know. Keep it coming with the propaganda toward SOS, it's embarrassing really, when all else fails look to demonise a section of society so everyone takes there eyes of the real villains who operate in the shadows, it's as old as the pyramids, luckily some of us aren't so stupid.
08 Feb 2016 13:05:39
Ed02, Could we have seperate page for Waro, Very much like Macca rumors?
{Ed002's Note - No.}