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You say that and yet, our league finishes aren't too different from Liverpool under Klopp in the same period at all: Liverpool - 8th, 4th, 4th, 2nd, 1st Chelsea - 10th, 1st, 5th, 3rd, 4th Each won the league only once and Liverpool would have won 2 had it not been for the crazy City side in 2018/19. Liverpool of course also reached 2 Champions League finals and won one of them under Klopp. Don't think the squad building Klopp started years ago was bad. Had the right idea and built the right squad. His problem is not refreshing the squad in the last year or so. Then again, I suppose not everyone is Fergie.

The point is, it's not as if Mount, Pulisic or CHO have been clinical when they have gotten their own chances. They have had their fair share of misses as well. It's just that they get less chances to score - or miss - than Werner. Even if I did not include the Atletico Madrid game, it still doesn't change the point that I was making. But if you want to include the Atletico game, then I would include the Barnsley game as well. You can say Werner was poor against Atletico but so was Pulisic against Barnsley. Forget the team playing badly that night, Pulisic did himself no favors whatsoever in that game. The point with listing those games is that Werner made an impact in 4 of those 9 league games, 3 of them in consecutive games. When you have someone contributing goals, it's hard to drop that player, even if the performances aren't always consistent. Combine that with Pulisic suddenly missing 1 game through family issue and 1 through calf issue, he was always gonna end up in a disadvantage spot, which Tuchel alluded to in his presser today funnily enough. Why does it have to involve changing the system? Tuchel has constantly rotated the front 3 and found ways to fit the players, even if they aren't comfortable in a back 3 system but he hasn't included Pulisic much at all. Why? SEE WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SAID WE WOULD JUST GO BE GOING CIRCLES RIGHT FROM THE START!?

Not transfer news but...

As much as Werner's finishing has left a lot to be desired, there's nothing to suggest that Mount, CHO and Pulisic are better finishers themselves at the moment. Otherwise, one wouldn't be on only 5 goals, another wouldn't be on only 2 goals and the other wouldn't be on only 1 goal right now. Not saying Werner has been consistent but let's just break down the league games under Tuchel for a second: Wolves - Werner didn't play (Pulisic could have started but Tuchel went with Ziyech and Havertz behind Giroud instead) Burnley - Werner started but did nothing of note (Pulisic came on at HT and played with Werner upfront) Spurs - Werner won the penalty that led to the winning goal (Pulisic came on in the second half and again, played with Werner upfront) Sheffield United - Werner assisted the first goal and then won the penalty for the winner (Pulisic missed the game due to family reason) Newcastle - Werner created the first goal and then scored the second Southampton - Werner started but nothing of note (Pulisic missed the game due to a calf issue) Man United - Werner started on the bench (Pulisic again could have started but he was also on the bench) Liverpool - Werner started and was played to exploit Liverpool's high line; would have had a goal as well for the silly VAR/handball rule (Pulisic came on in the second half but played with Werner upfront again) Everton - Werner started (on the right) but did nothing of note Out of 9 games there, Werner didn't start in 2 games, started but did nothing of note in 3 games and made an impact in the other 4 games. Even if the general performance hasn't been great, it's kinda hard for a manager to drop someone who's at least making something happen in the final third, especially when we're still finding our fluency in the attacking third. Plus, Pulisic missing a game here and there for other reasons has probably not helped his cause either. Not interested in going into another lengthy debate here but just pointing it out. Werner would be under pressure to get things right next season, regardless of whether we sign a new striker or not. He needs to be converting more and missing less chances in front of goal. Isn't this why I have precisely been saying what I said? There's nothing stopping Tuchel from tailoring our game plan to fit Pulisic in, be it on the left or right, from the start and especially when he already knew him at Dortmund but he hasn't done that. The decision to not play Pulisic of late has more to do with whatever Tuchel thinks of him as opposed to just Werner completely blocking Pulisic's path. To quote you "That is what we're here to discuss". 🤪 Let's not forget that we did see Pulisic come on for Ziyech in the second half and he played with Werner and Mount. The plan of using Ziyech to feed passes to Werner sounds logical but funnily enough, it only happened on 3 occasions in that Liverpool match. That's the same amount of passes as Kante made to Werner, less than Rudiger to Werner (4), and Mount to Werner as well as Chilwell to Werner (each on 6).

Chris Wilder will apparently be gone from Sheffield United today...just before we play them in the cup next weekend.

Tuchel on Abraham's ankle problem, which may explain why he hasn't played much... I'm a bit concerned because the pain from the tackle against Newcastle is still there. It's been a long time since he's been 100% free and comfortable in training. Even if he finishes in training, I can see he isn't 100% free. I have complete trust in our medical department and they will take care of him. Tammy had to leave the pitch during the warm-up yesterday and he will get all the time he needs. It's important he feels zero pain and then we can think about his comeback. He also had a similar issue last season.

Tuchel on Havertz today... The position between a nine and ten is pretty much his best position. He has the freedom to drop, to switch positions. I feel very confident with him in high positions, I don't want to have him behind the ball. He needs to be high up the pitch and he feels comfortable behind opponents, between the lines, and in little pockets.

Silva suffered a setback in his hamstring injury recovery. Abraham still got the ankle problem he suffered at Southampton. Not at 100%. Everyone else available.

The Europa League God - Unai Emery.

James deactivated his Instagram account and the club social mentioned a fanpage instead. lol https://www.instagram.com/p/CMSNZr-qGCa/

Just noticed that Coman only has 2 years left on his Bayern contract. Another one of those classic ploy of using other clubs to get a better contract..?

I know these are just rumors and they may be BS but assuming they're not, what's up with us wanting players who has a problematic injury record? Sule, Gimenez, Coman etc. And if we want to sell the attacking players, we should be trimming down the numbers a little and not adding more to it or keeping the same amount of players.

Not saying you're necessarily wrong but it's easy to sit here and tell others to ignore abuse when you're not the one getting it and especially when he's been getting a lot of racist abuse on IG, which is totally uncalled for to put it kindly. There's always gonna be fucked up people out there but one of the main issues here is these social media companies are doing fuck all to protect their platform, to make it as safe or clean as possible for people to use it.

Putting an inexperienced player in defence is far riskier than playing one in attacking positions. All for bedding Ampadu, Guehi etc in but think we need a ready made defender, assuming we are going for one in the summer.

Regarding RB Leipzig, it's kinda crazy that their top scorer in the Bundesliga is only on 6 goals and they're 2nd in the table, just 2 points behind Bayern WHILE our top scorers in the league are also on only 6 goals but are 4th and 18th points behind Man City.

IT'S WERNER'S FAULT!!

If the price is only 5 million, am sure there are takers somewhere out there. The wages would then be the issue and that's down to the player on whether he wants just to keep wandering around or go to somewhere and settle down for good.

Was there any interested buyer back then? Part of the reason why we aren't able to sell these deadwoods is because Marina puts a high price on them.

But not if he decides enough is enough? If we go down that loan route again, then it's probably likely that we'll extend his contract, which would just stretch this out even further and it's unnecessary. Marina just needs to admit defeat and take whatever fee we can get for him!

Regardless, he needs to be sold this summer especially when his contract expires next year!

Are you like suggesting he is actually good enough to play for us?