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well it still pretty much a brenda's team then if you wanna do that especially the "top performers"

So you think we have progressed then ?

Matip could be good along side a better CB I think. Whether he gets that CB next to him before it is too late and he has gone past the point of no return remains to be seen.

The defence on the whole though is poor and it shouldn't surprise anyone really. Look at the players we have added to it. I know our fanbase more than most likes to big up the players and as soon as someone joins us they instantly become twice the player, but look at objectively. Simon Mignolet, Dejan Lovren, Ragnar Klavan, Alberto Moreno, Andy Robertson. Are these really defenders you expect to win a league title with? Really?

We have a high standard of forward player with Coutinho, Firmino, Mane and Salah. The difference in level between those and our defenders is huge. And that should be no surprise either when you look at the money we spend on our forward line compared to our defence. We spent £40m on Oxlade Chamberlain with a year left on his deal to come be a forward player squad man but yet constantly try sign bargains to patch a defence together. Now there is nothing wrong with finding a bargain when it is of a proven good player - like we should have done with Kolasinac in the summer and did do with Matip the year before - but that isnt the type of bargain we look for. Instead we try get Klavan or Robertson type bargains. Nothing against either of those players by the way, I don't blame either of them for what they have produced or what they will produce really because that is who they were before we signed them. The fault lies at the feet of the recruitment team, whoever that be.

Matip could be good along side a better CB I think. Whether he gets that CB next to him before it is too late and he has gone past the point of no return remains to be seen.

The defence on the whole though is poor and it shouldn't surprise anyone really. Look at the players we have added to it. I know our fanbase more than most likes to big up the players and as soon as someone joins us they instantly become twice the player, but look at objectively. Simon Mignolet, Dejan Lovren, Ragnar Klavan, Alberto Moreno, Andy Robertson. Are these really defenders you expect to win a league title with? Really?

We have a high standard of forward player with Coutinho, Firmino, Mane and Salah. The difference in level between those and our defenders is huge. And that should be no surprise either when you look at the money we spend on our forward line compared to our defence. We spent £40m on Oxlade Chamberlain with a year left on his deal to come be a forward player squad man but yet constantly try sign bargains to patch a defence together. Now there is nothing wrong with finding a bargain when it is of a proven good player - like we should have done with Kolasinac in the summer and did do with Matip the year before - but that isnt the type of bargain we look for. Instead we try get Klavan or Robertson type bargains. Nothing against either of those players by the way, I don't blame either of them for what they have produced or what they will produce really because that is who they were before we signed them. The fault lies at the feet of the recruitment team, whoever that be.

Good thread this.