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u talk high level mate. but tell u what . something is not right with the squad 
Steven Gerrard: Heartbeat of LFC.
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The American point is valid. I don't think Americans truly understand football and what it means to communities.
They don't understand the passion and history of the sport and fail to understand that making money, announcing big sponsorship deals really does not butter up the fans.
I work for an American company, and I can tell you from experience that they are only interested in increasing profits and market share in each quarter. Vast resources are committed to ensure that happens - continuous improvement, statistics and green belt training.
I can also tell you that consumers come down very low on the list.
It is all the mighty profit.
Now I understand how the FSG ownership model works.
Lowering wage bills, replacing high earners with low to average earners, increasing profit by increasing ticket prices and consumption of food/drinks inside the ground.
Increasing capacity including boxes all increases profits
Ensuring net spend is below zero.
All increases PROFIT.
now that teams get more Prem money than is on offer in the CL it also reduces the need to be a CL team.
To be in the CL you need a bigger squad which in turn requires greater overall wage bill.
The balancing point to ensure maximum profit is to therefore consistently finish between 7th and 10th.
And that is the strategy I suspect FSG are working towards. it's the strategy we all know they're working towards, and we've known it all along and furthermore some of us have stated it on here on more than one occasion. If by chance or good management of the team we win a trophy or get into the CL they regard that as a bonus, though being in the CL rock's their boat slightly as they're then expected to invest in CL quality players and that's not in their game plan. They prefer to sit just outside the PL places.
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Don't know about high level only an opinion, it would be high level if it's right.
I'm just trying to say I think we should see 2 more signings before the window shuts, even if it's unlikely, klopp knows some of the key things the team needs to improve on, passing, strength on the ball.
we may be trying to use wijnaldum as a box2b midfielder, but while lallana is performing well he is hogging the number 10 space, so wijnaldum is being used as more of a holding midfielder, this is impacting on firmino's performance. we need to change the composition of our midfield.
henderson may be averaging 3.7 tackles per game after the first 2 matches, and has done decently, but he is not able to stamp his authority on the midfield.
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Accrington turn the mighty Burnley over. ...and my point is? 
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Burnley did make 10 changes to the squad for this one .
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I'm hoping this is a wake up call for the team and Klopp, sometimes an early defeat can setup a season, so fingers crossed !!!
The problem with all the possession is that teams just get behind the ball and we didn't have the creativity to break it down, we have had this problem for years, Coutinho just didn't look on it with allot of his through balls overrun and his shooting all over, it was a windy day so maybe that made it difficult. Pace is also a way of getting past defences and stretching them, but without Mane we didn't have that, which is also a big worry as we cannot be so dependant on Mane that If he's out/off form we have no pace attacking, the only other player we had with pace attacking from midfield was Ibe and he's gone now, so that reduces our options.
The other thing was that our final balls were woeful, Milner kept trying to cross, but was cutting on his right foot and was hopeless, it's one of them games when someone like Benteke may have helped, lob the ball into him on a windy day and let the attackers run onto him for the lay off, but he's gone now, but we could have tried that earlier with Origi.
The game also showed that Milner is not a LB, he's emergency cover at best.
I agree 100%. Particularly about Milner. Klopp's "Full Throttle" football is reliant on movement, stamina and courage. The side is quite timid and lacking in courage and that is largely due to a lack of bollocking leadership (a spine) on the park.
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Burnley did make 10 changes to the squad for this one . Didn't realise that.
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