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Start naming if you think so.

Or, he turned us and real down to see off his project at leverkusen properly. At any rate I think the only thing pettiness gets us is disqualifying candidates who were good enough to have better options at one point. There's no Klopp like manager out there except Klopp. We might as well be looking for a Messi like player. But not the actual Messi because he's already made us the best in the world once and we should never go back.

Which were not in evidence last season. Nor feyenoord. I just think "this should have been predicable" is not a stick you can beat Hughes with here. And I love beating on Hughes. What wasn't predictable was Slot winning the league in his first season. If anything he's far exceeded expectations. Even if he should have been sacked weeks ago.

I don't think so. He still won the bloody league.

He's not playing badly on purpose. It's OK to sympathise with players playing badly.

I kinda feel for him. Besides the difficulty of knowing you're s*** every week, he's also seeing a move to Real Madrid going up in smoke because of it and at this rate probably also an extension evaporating. Next season could very well be a fair step down the ladder for him.

Should have been subbed to protect our lead.

We know without doubt he's lost one player.

"O'Neil is thought to have been difficult to both identify and convince for such a job, but thanks to Hughes deep connections, in the game as a whole and with the man himself, he was able to spot a hidden gem and convince him to sign where others might well have failed."

It's really fortunate that the best available option just happens to be someone the smartest men in the room have worked with before.

The coach needs time to turn things around.

A few weeks ago I realized I'd much rather have Klavan than Konate and started wondering how far this could extend. Now we're so far it's easier to ask which former Liverpool center backs I wouldn't start ahead of him. Come back, Lovren, Babb, Kvarme, Pellegrini. All is forgiven. Gomez and Endo should both be easy picks ahead of him at this point yet he's automatic starter.

Ah, but he was grand for the first six months. Which is what we need. As was Kenny. Still a terrible idea mind. But the requirements for a caretaker are very different to a long-term manager.

Whereas at Liverpool we have a dom. Explains why Isak has been struggling really. Sorry Arne.

We didn't have a Jacob Murphy then either. Stop this Hodgsoning at once Arne.

We're not offering him a nine year contract.

It's been 19 months. He's not clinically depressed. But whether he's recharged or not is not really the point. That's a matter of likelihood which we simply don't know. Just like we don't know if he wants to come back even if he is charged for a top manager job. But none of those uncertainties are reasons for why he shouldn't be top of the shortlist.

It absolutely is. There is no other candidate where "he's worked a job for 9 years with peak performance and has had 20 months to recharge his batteries" would be a negative. If anything, it'd strengthen the qualifications of the candidate greatly. But because it's Klopp and Liverpool, a narrative gets spun where he's a pensioner (but maybe Ancelotti is available?) and/or must still be exhausted / can't hack it anymore / we can't do that to him.

First passage, again is all narrative because we have history. For any other club none of that are factors anywhere near significant enough to make him anything less than the standout candidate. We are already managed by the new one who's supposed to be on the curve of the changing game. Second passage. It's only a failure of imagination if you are desperate to avoid a certain candidate. You can't just conjure good candidates from imagination if there aren't any available.

Not around is he? He was a standout candidate back then. There are no standout candidates right now.

That's just narrative rather than the actual situation. At literally any other club, landing Klopp would be an absolutely massive achievement. Yet here we are saying "bit desperate innit?" because we already know what it's like to be the best team on the planet under him. Whilst rummaging through poundland hoping to spot an item of real quality instead. If we were spoiled for choice this could look different. But we're literally looking leagues below in order to avoid hooking up with our best ever ex, just due to the possibility that it might muddle a sweet memory. If we want to throw the word desperate around, I think this hews closer.

He's a lame duck. We're just waiting for someone in power to realise that.

How can he still be unfit? It's december.

These players had loads of bottle under Klopp. Yes, part of that is managerial imprint, but so is the utter absence of it now.

Trained out in favour of meticulous possession.