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I think its clear he had money to spend. We wouldn't have targetted Pulisic, Zielinski, Chilwell and Dahoud last summer if we didn't have the money to get them. It was clear we wanted Wijnaldum and Mane at the time too.

If he gets to the summer with CL football obtained, I suspect he's probably ensured the club has far more money to spend this year if they can manage to get his targets. Get the right player, not just third-choice, seems to be his mantra. He'll live or die by it in the future, but right now, I think there is still belief he knows what he is doing.

Wasting money on 2nd or 3rd choice players because of no CL footy or Liverpool not being in Hackney is partly to blame for why we're always struggling to compete .

Not too sure about that. Waiting 'till the 70th minute before bringing on Lallana or Sturridge was totally bizarre. And this in a home game which he himself described as a must win, which it obviously wasn't.

That did puzzle me too but I always like to start with the strongest team available.

Oh of course, we should have picked two players who have had recent injuries and just kept our fingers crossed they could make it to the end. Maybe they were both advised to play for no more than 25 minutes? Why would he risk that? By starting one of them, you're forcing your hand with a substitution before a ball has even been kicked too.

I think the majority of Liverpool fans are behind Klopp but are just frustrated at how the second half of this season has panned out. A minority, it seems, have decided he's not for them. That is all.

Unless someone tells us that they had specfic medical advice about how long to play players, how are we to know? We can only assume that if someone is on the bench they are fit to play. Not saying that Klopp should tell us before the game but surely after the game he can explain his thinking.

Just because the majority may hold a certain view it doesn't mean it is right. There are serious doubts about Klopp. Great guy it seems with a wonderful personality. But:

- gameplan. is his preferred style sustainable over a season with a limited squad?

- are his training methods appropriate? others have questioned them and blamed them for our injuries which they say were predictable.

- does he have a plan B? I've not seen hime make any decisive changes to change the course of matches as far as i can remember.

- defence. has been shocking.

- transfer policy. why we kept Lucas and Moreno I don't know. Why didn't we keep Lazar when he was snet back and we needed variety in our game. Why have we not brought any genuine worl class players in 3 tranfer windows under Klopp, except Mane perhaps.

Lallana played 80 mins a week ago so I think he could have started for at least 60 mins and if Sturridge cannot start a game now, well he will never be able to.

Both wanted to play - which was obvious as they came on! A totally different type of energy started to show in the whole (pale) team!

Klopp gambled with Lallana a week earlier when Phil got injured - why didn't he do the same yesterday when it mattered the most ? Wasn't it the right time to gamble now?

One thing i have to say is that the best managers adapt to their playing squad strengths and change their tactics. Rafa won the CL when we had Traore,smicer,biscan and a whole bunch of buffoons. Mourinho has done this throughout his career. Enforcing your style has to be gradual, you can't just expect to play barcelona style football with fraking lucas and wijnaldum and ask them to be a xavi. The first thing most managers do is to shore up the defence and that is something that klopp absolutely has to work out next season.

I want to give Klopp the benefit of the doubt, he's an excellent manager who's been given a really shitty hand. Sure he's made some terrible mistakes over the past two seasons, namely with the transfer window and tactical decisions, however, with the squad we have he's managed to challenge for the top-4.

I have to say, I am disappointed with this season, but we gave Rodgers 3 years and Klopp deserves the same chance. Besides, this is his first full season at the club and I am hoping he rectifies whatever is wrong with our team. He has to reinforce the team and he has to make adaptable tactical decisions for us to succeed. He's a really good manager and I have faith in him, who else would you take other than Klopp right now?