Since Liverpool’s masterstroke appointment of Jürgen Klopp, people seem to have overlooked the problems that the German boss has inherited, not to mention the injury crisis that has already plagued his squad since his highly anticipated arrival.

Klopp is many things, however what he isn’t is a world-class central midfielder or a rock solid defender. The new boss is just a man in the dugout; he truly is the ‘normal one’.

This is why Brendan Rogers’ dismissal was so unfair in the first place, because when Liverpool were top of the Premier League, with Luis Suarez at the helm, it was the players not the manager who were credited with the success. It has since been said that Suarez made the Northern Irishman look like a good manager.

This is a sound argument but, with that being said, why then, when Liverpool fell down the league due to bad performances, was the manager blamed rather than the players?

Perhaps it was because these players were his players, scouted and bought by the infamous Liverpool transfer committee. This so-called committee wasn’t invented by Liverpool football club, in fact every team in the Premier League has a team of scouts who meet and discuss potential transfer acquisitions, the mistake Liverpool made was to call their team of scouts the ‘transfer committee’, thus making them any easy target for journalists and critics.

But let’s get back to Klopp and the problems he is faced with. Danny Ings and Joe Gomez, the two most promising signings of the summer, are both out for the season with serious knee injuries. And just to add insult to an already severe injury crisis, the ever-fragile Daniel Sturridge picked up a fresh knock prior to Klopp’s first game in charge.

We haven’t even mentioned the injuries sustained by Christian Benteke and Roberto Firmino, who cost the Anfield club a combined sum of £60million in the summer. The Liverpool squad is very much on its knees.

What then, is Klopp expected to do at Liverpool over the coming weeks? With a daunting set of fixtures to come, how is the German going to implement his tactics and pick up victories at the same time? A quick fix is unrealistic, and Klopp’s gegenpressing is only going to worsen Liverpool’s injury crisis.

Have Liverpool hired an upgrade on Rodgers? Time will tell, although there were areas at the football club that needed strengthening far more than the managerial position. At their best Liverpool played some scintillating football under Rodgers, they played the Liverpool way.

Now a new manager has come in to show Liverpool a new way to play football and it may well work, but it’s going to be a long time until the Reds take our breath away, as they did during that one special under Rodgers.

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