As Jurgen Klopp's farewell tour draws to a close, Liverpool managers Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes will be busy trying to avoid the post-legacy slump experienced by Manchester United. It's going to happen.
Despite a highly commendable effort in the Premier League title race, Klopp's last dance almost ended with a stumble against Evertonand Arne slot or not Or the poor guys, faced with the impossible task of following a beloved director, will be tasked with continuing the rebuild that their predecessors started but have yet to finish.
We did something solid with them by selecting five first-team regulars to consider selling or scrapping this summer.These aren't common choices, so we've also chosen them for balance. 5 players Liverpool will build around.
curtis jones
He had a great run at the end of last season and carried that form into this season, keeping summer signing Ryan Gravenbirch out of the team with his performances and joining Jurgen alongside Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai.・He solidified his position as Klopp's best midfield player. Jones appeared to be reciprocating the huge amount of faith his manager had shown in him.
However, his form has declined significantly in recent weeks and this time Football365 looks to bring in the best of Curtis Jones I haven't received any reward yet. He went crazy after an hour in Wednesday's heavy defeat against Everton, contributing little apart from a minor foul and giving the opposition a chance to use their biggest weapon, leading some to question his true value to Liverpool. Provided additional ammunition.
All the combined parts of a good footballer are there – he can press well, he can score goals, he can dribble and win the ball in tight spaces – but they are rarely combined; A title-challenging team that even makes you question whether he's good enough to be a mainstay in the league. He's only 23, but this is his fourth full season in Liverpool's first team, and one has to hope that at some point the instability of youth gives way to stability at the top level.
andrew robertson
Under Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp's rules of heavy metal football, players at the club have one year added to their age for every two years of service. So after seven years at Anfield, Andrew Robertson is actually 33-and-a-half years old. All that rushing up and down the touchline seemed to catch up with him.
Robertson was injured in 13 of Liverpool's 15-game unbeaten run midway through the season, during which time Joe Gomez, who played at left-back, conceded more goals per 90 minutes on the pitch than the Scotland international. No other Liverpool player scored as many goals (1.24 goals conceded) and contributed just one goal and two assists, his worst performance of the season for Liverpool.
mohamed salah
Virgil van Dijk's thoughts after the Everton defeat also apply to Salah and his manager's Liverpool career. “We can't let the season end like this,” the Reds captain said.
Klopp and Salah owe each other a huge debt of gratitude. Had Salah not arrived from Roma in 2017, Liverpool would not have had half the success they had under the German manager. Salah, who at the time was considered something of a gamble given his lack of influence at Chelsea, went on to become a legend for Liverpool and the Premier League. Only Ian Rush (339) and Roger Hunt (262) have scored more than his 210 goals for the club, and he is the only player in Liverpool's top 100 all-time goalscorers to have scored more than his 210 goals. Only Luis Suarez (0.62 goals) has scored more goals per game. This is a higher ratio than Salah (0.61). he was a phenomenon.
He has also been excellent for the majority of this season and will end his seventh consecutive season as the leading scorer unless he significantly increases the size of Barndoor and Banjo to help Darwin Nunez in the remaining games. It will be. He cannot be replaced, but the time has come for him to step down.
Liverpool will be compensated handsomely for losing a player with one year left on his contract, allowing Salah to spend his days in Saudi Arabia, as he had hoped last summer.
Ibrahima Konate
Last season we all wondered who Liverpool would sign as Konate's new centre-back partner. The Frenchman's position has been secured as Van Dijk watches his gradual decline.Incredibly, we are now faced with the possibility of Van Dijk – after the season He is Liverpool's most improved player. – Outlived a centre-back who was eight years his junior. Konate was not having a good time.
Konate, brought on on Wednesday to deal with Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Everton's physicality in general, was sparsely used leading up to the game due to the rise of Jarrell Quansah and was unable to do much of anything.
Liverpool will be hoping that Van Dijk does not leave Klopp this summer, but given that he only has one year left on his contract, that is very possible. In doing so, not only will they have to sign at least two new centre-backs, but they will also have to play with both newbies, one of whom will play with the inexperienced Quansah. Or, perhaps worst of all, one of them will have to play Konate.
We are very concerned about the dynamics of Konate, the senior defender in the partnership. He looks like he needs to lead more than he leads, and the absence of Van Dijk may even confirm suspicions that that's not really all there is to it.
Alison
We know this is an unpopular choice among Liverpool fans, but many of them probably still believe Alisson is the best goalkeeper in the Premier League. Guys, he really isn't. He may not even be Liverpool's best goalkeeper anymore.
according to our estimate He is 13th in the top flight (or better yet, the excellent FBRef), with Caoich Kelleher 10th. And for anyone questioning the use of a metric that essentially evaluates goalkeepers based on a combination of luck and shot-stopping ability, Alisson finished in the top flight last season, winning four out of five Premier League games. If they knew they were in the top five, they might accept it. Last season at Anfield. Emiliano Martinez is currently leading the team and is clearly the best goalkeeper this season.
Previously a godsend as the last line of defense behind Liverpool's high line, he now often looks hesitant and lacking in confidence, making mistakes like the one against Arsenal this season. It seemed like he didn't care before.