It looks to me that both the Sakho and Sturridge issues have been created by the management, but I don't know if it's by FSG or Klopp or both, but it's clearly been driven from the management level rather than the players. As far as I can see the players want to play but they're being messed around to a quite unusual extent by the management, for some reason or other and the timing of this is just ridiculous.
I actually agree with you Herc and it remains to be seen if this hard line stance with high value players can work in this league. It's all very well doing this in Germany where Klopp has built squads from nobodies but the feeling I get from a far is that his man management skills may need a change (or at least be toned down with these modern day babies) of direction or we are going to have a Chelsea under Mourhino on our hands pretty quick.
I still don't get the Sturridge line at all. This is a genuine question to those who live football 24/7- How many CF's at the top rung are expected to track back, do the defensive work of a DMF and then be in the right place to break away and score as a striker?
I'm struggling to think of many. Do Higuain, Tevez or Aguero do it?
