They sold one of the best attacking midfielders in the world and replaced him with yet another midfielder who doesn’t score and a utility RB who can’t even make the team yet, but spent the summer telling anyone who would listen that they’d had the best window. Keita and Fabinho will both now be under the spotlight due to Milner’s injury and it will be time for them to perform. It’s of no surprise whatsoever though that they lost any semblance of control in the City game once Milner hobbled off. Keita looked like one of those players in a celebrity charity match running round loads but not doing anything useful. You can get away with that in the German league but not here.
Klopp gets a lot of praise for moving this Liverpool side forward but under Rodgers at their peak he had a line up of Gerrard Henderson Coutinho Sterling Suarez Sturridge. No one can objectively say that even with the eye watering amounts spent that Klopp has improved on that in an attacking sense. His attacking buys have been poor given the money he’s had. 6 transfer windows and his only successful attacking buys have been Mane and Salah. Any other top manager gets the boot for that sort of hit rate. Even Rodgers managed to bring in Coutinho Sturridge and Firmino in less time than that. The midfield recruitment of Wijnaldum Keita Fabinho Grujic is looking patchy too when you consider he has been reliant on Milner Henderson Lallana Can Coutinho for most of his time there (all Rodgers buys)
