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Some seem to think that weakening = strengthening, a rather absurd strategy, but apparently aren't aware of the inherent risks involved in that strategy. We came within a point of winning the league, we led by seven at one stage, and we've just won the CLfinal, why would we need to sell the player/s that brought us to that level? The logical thing to do in our present position is to add additional strength and backup, not start pulling down what we've already painfully built.

It’s bonkers ain’t it. When we did it with Coutinho, you can argue we needed to to build the team. Now we’ve done that we don’t need to sell just add quality to the quality we have. It seems some just think that our two time golden boot winner is over rated and can easily be replaced.

We signed VvD about a week before we sold Coutinho, we had tried to buy VvD the previous summer, so I do not know if we 'had' to sell Coutinho to buy VvD, or if we would have signed him anyway if we didn't sell Coutinho. Similar situation with Alisson, we nearly bought Fekir a few weeks before for £50 million, does that mean we don't buy Alisson if we had already bought Fekir? only FSG know I guess, but you don't just wake up and say, I know who we will buy today, we do months of research and speak to the player/agents etc, so we must have been after these players.

I agree we need to strengthen the team, not sell our best players like Salah, I do not see the need for some people to get rid of Salah, we can argue if he is the best out there or not, but the facts are he is the top scorer in the PL in the last 2 seasons, by an amazing margin last season. He has had extra focus from opponents this season after last years performances and he still got 20+ goals, he also creates allot of space/chances, panics the opposition, that's why the likes of Mane have also improved, on the back of the work Salah does (mane deserves all his plaudits also and has improved himself).

We have built an excellent team, now we need an excellent squad to beat City to the PL, with our success and income from TV/Sponsorship/Prize Money/Merchandise etc we should have enough to add quality to the squad without selling our best players.

I trust Klopp to decide what is best for the team, Klopp and the team have an excellent record on buying players, but no one can keep getting it right!

We need LB cover, the youngster not thought to be ready - he will go on loan..
RB specialist - as TAA will be used as RB and moved C Mid at times (his natural position/fave), as we do not appear to have a youngster ready to cover/challenge..

AMC - Cout replacement, Fekhir still being talked about... And others

Replacement for Salah?? - If he does go to his favoured Marid/Barca or Juve..

R Sessingnon as LB/LW cover anyone??

Trust in Klopp his recruitment is excellent...

Sessingnon would be good, but I can't see him wanting to come in and be a reserve in effect, he will want to play, he will also cost big money, probably £40+ million.

Problem is we can buy a top quality forward and say we will rotate with Salah/Mane/Firmino, but Robertson has been key to our attacking play, so he will not really be rotated for PL & CL, who comes in will cover for injuries and be there for domestic cups I guess, so that's not very appealing for a quality LB.

Agreed Sess may not want to play as cover, but he knows we give the kids a chance now.. Maybe he believes he is better than Robbo?? or could be in a season or two..

He could play LW regularly as sub etc.. I think he would get games in a 60 game season etc..

Watford RB for me, Bissako or whatever the dudes name is, is he as good going forward tho? Not seen too much of him, looks great def tho...

there are also some of us who think selling certain players weakening at all.i personally don't agree that Salah is the world beater that you all think he is.i am not blind to his glaring weaknesses.Salah has benefited from playing for this team as much s the other way around.

I agree that he has his flaws. Not many players don’t have them. Is he the best out there? I wouldn’t say do but you can’t argue with his goals. He fits our system and IS one of if not our best player and to sell when we don’t need to us just counter productive to where we want to be. We don’t need to sell to buy so why would we?

It's not a question of who is or isn't our best player, it's about keeping top quality that fits our style of play and almost if not always contributes significantly to our performances. Salah does that, and when he doesn't score he contributes majorly to our performances. It's arguable that we d have won the league last season had w e a stronger squad, covering those key areas where we were forced to select weaker players playing out of position, etc. We ave the money, so the obvious thing to do is hold on to our quality players and reinforce those areas where we're weak, and areas where we nee d more depth.