01 Jun 2025 09:36:59
Liverpool’s injury problems have improved massively under Arne Slot, with games missed due to injury dropping by 64.3% compared to last season. A big reason behind that is Ruben Peeters, the new lead physical performance coach.
This guy deserves a shout out Ruben Peters take a bow ???.
01 Jun 2025 09:53:00
It's also because the players aren't sprinting back all game to fill defensive holes created by Ljinders' shenanigans.
01 Jun 2025 10:41:13
City are welcome to him.
01 Jun 2025 11:03:48
Pretty sure we had the lead fitness guy who was ex arsenal, for a number of years at the club while klopp was manager.
A long history of fitness issues with players while he was at arsenal then brought the issue to Liverpool players, hopefully he has been moved on with slots new set up.
01 Jun 2025 11:26:18
It makes you think why our forwards didn't get more injuries when sprinting onto the passes from TAA as he roamed into midfield.
01 Jun 2025 11:37:17
I think it was the way we pressed all over the pitch as well.
Only Trent really abandoned his defensive position and Konate was to cover that. We also played with a DM so I think the jury’s still out on Pep being the sum of all evil.
01 Jun 2025 11:46:28
Did you read about the crop failure in the USA? Apparently Lijnders had been there on holiday a few years ago. Can the man not do anything right?
Explain to me how, when a match starts, how Lijnders manages to create defensive holes?
01 Jun 2025 12:17:31
I don't think the jury is out at all JK, our performances began to drop off at the same time as when Pep began to give more tactical input. Our peak was between 2018 and 2020 when Klopp devised most of the tactics, it was simpler but more effective. Pep overcomplicated things.
01 Jun 2025 12:20:12
Everyone's off Richard Hughes's back, so we'll pile into Lijnders again. Was Klopp our manager? I appear to have had a memory lapse.
01 Jun 2025 12:33:32
Nick but that’s just an opinion mate. Up until the wheels fell off last March we were challenging for League, CL, Fa and league cup.
No one really know how much influence Linders had apart from Klopp and he doesn’t seem to be the kind of guy that gets dictated too.
I’m not saying Linders is great but I don’t think everything that didn’t go our way is down to him either.
01 Jun 2025 13:15:05
Exactly Rome. I never got the hate for Lijnders as even if it was his tactics being implemented that didn’t work, Klopp was the manager so it was him that was allowing it to happen.
01 Jun 2025 12:58:52
There was clearly a medical team issue at the club through 2022. There were some articles that hinted a few things about it, one of which was the adoption of some unproven injury prediction software which was influencing some of the team selections.
Post-2020, there was a clear attempt to build minutes in legs of as many players in the squad as possible. Almost all of Klopp's subs would be premeditated and rotations could be predicted. This has its upsides, in that you can rotate more than 3/ 4 players at a time without losing too much rhythm. But the downsides are that you might not get to the baseline rhythm you want at any point in the season.
Is there a right way and a wrong way? Who knows. All we know is that Slot's medical team have had an excellent first season and long may it continue.
We should note that regardless of who was to blame, we carried way too many injury prone players in the squad between 2020 and 2024 - Keita, Ox, Gomez, Ibou, Matip, Alisson, Thiago, Hendo and Jota is a significant chunk of your squad.
01 Jun 2025 13:19:02
Slot has the players doing yoga prior to every training session, it's been beneficial to prevent injuries.
01 Jun 2025 13:34:30
WDV even I don't think you're that obtuse. Your desperation to be snide and clever is overriding your thinking skills.
01 Jun 2025 13:40:43
Jk of course its just an opinion mate, I don't need to qualify opinions on an opinion forum as opinions, I'm sure people can work it out.
Why did the team fall off? Why all the injuries? Why did Alisson always have to bail us out?
Why did Buvac and Klopp fall out? Why did keep on turning over his assistant managers? Why did Rafa's Liverpool gradually fall off after Pako left?
We all know that Pep substantially designed our tactical blueprint after 2020. Ed001 used to confirm this all the time. Klopp was gradually more hands off after 2020 and put his faith in the wrong person. He tried to evolve us with Pep's ideas and it didn't work out the way it should've. Managers can make mistakes like this
How any of this has to do with American crops or Richard Hughes is up to you to explain.
01 Jun 2025 14:06:54
Why did Fergie*.
01 Jun 2025 14:20:17
Klopp did have the final say, I'm just harsh on Ljinders because his ego was bigger than the moon and he had more input than most assistant managers would. Ljinders obviously isn't the only reason why we had injuries but the constant runs back when we lost the ball didn't help and were a consequence of our tactical shape. It's probably also true that the medical team wasn't pulling its weight either.
01 Jun 2025 14:59:37
Nick I enjoyed your opening opinions speil.
We’ll have to agree to disagree on this one mate.
I do agree though that Linders does seem to have an inflated ego but I’ll stand by my thinking that he isn’t the devil incarnate.
Hes very much of the past and it’s good to see that injury records are better but we still lost Jota, Gomez, Alison, Bradley and Konate again this season to their usual injuries despite Linders being long gone.
01 Jun 2025 15:26:33
Letstalkabout6baby, Robin Peeters deserves his flowers, for sure. lso, the club revamped it's medical departmen tlast summer with some personnel movements in-house. Hats off to the club and the moves they made which played a HUGE role in us winning the title in a stroll.
01 Jun 2025 16:40:07
Nick1994, I don't know that Lijnders substantially designed our tactical blueprint after 2020. It might be your opinion and Ed001's opinion but I don't know enough to agree with you.
Klopp might have given Lijnders more responsibility but I look at how good City were, losing 3 centre halves for more than half a season and the midfield losing its legs as bigger reasons.
I do know that Klopp, along with Lijnders, then rebuilt the midfield that finished third and then comfortably won the League again.
During those two seasons I also saw TAA inverting and us being defensively exposed, quite often.