Topic: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season - page 506. (Read 92716 times)

As the squad has been underperforming as of late, it is natural that Liverpool supporters are feeling dissatisfied and disillusioned. Without a question, losing many important players has been a major setback, and it's obvious that the squad will need to try something new if they want to break out of their present rut.

It is possible that Klopp's vast playing experience and familiarity with the team's strengths may prove to be instrumental in reviving the team's winning ways. Liverpool still has a shot at winning the Premier League if they give him time and backing; he has a solid track record.

Liverpool's form this season has been so bad I can’t believe this is the same team that went head to head with Manchester City until the last game of the season for the league title. Mane was a great asset to the team and I think his departure was premature, but they have had enough time to adjust and replace Mane. Liverpool are yet to find a solution to their problems and looking for who and what to blame, the club wasn’t built around Mane so his absence is not the reason for the poor form, also I want to say sacking Klopp would be a mistake because finding a good coach these days is difficult.

I don't see any great reason for Manchester City to put her coach in a dark. if you lie to the manager of your company about the operational difficulties of faults of your company the manager will not give his best or will not be on the same page with the company. If Manchester City is giving punishment only in EPL Guardiola may decide to stay because he will try his best to push the team to top four but  if it is extended to Champions League Guardiola may decide to leave Manchester City

Klopp has been frustrated by how many teams have pushed him to the breaking point and turned him into a laughing stock after selling Mane, who was a part of their greatest achievement, and despite the new players they have brought in, there hasn't been any improvement in their play. However, I anticipate that they will ask Firmino and Van Dijk to return for Champions League games, unless they want Salah and Gakpo to suffer their losses at the hands of Real Madrid.


If Liverpool doesn't hire a new manager, Klopp will obviously make a wholesale switch on players like Firmino and those who are always injured. He has three years more left at the club on his contract, which is more than enough time to improve the club.

It is indeed very regrettable what the management of the Manchester City club has done to all parties involved, moreover Pep Guardiola is the first person who will criticize leaving Manchester City if they are proven guilty of this scandal. We know Pep Guardiola is a strict and disciplined person on the pitch and he doesn't hesitate to speak out what he thinks is not right and it looks like this problem will make him leave Manchester City soon.

It doesn't even need to wait for UEFA to ban city to make pep leaves from city. If premier league will be giving a serious sanction and that will be enough for pep to leave from manchester city. I think that manchester city has been making pep guardiola feel disappointed with the management of club. The management of the club has been lying to him. The performance of city in UCL will be greatly affected by this scandal. You can read this to know more.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11718131/Pep-Guardiola-odds-leave-Man-City-start-season-financial-charges.html

Liverpool have very poor performance in Premier League that is worse than what I can think of. They not only have draw, lose points but also have terrible loses. They still have good players but maybe this season is not a good one for all of them and in general Liverpool can not have good combinations of those players. Therefore, they are more sensitive to lose points to any opponent, not only to big and strong opponents.

In football and in matches between big clubs, we can not say anything definitely will happen and bookmakers are so scam with bet data they have so that they can easily flip all to take money from most of gamblers.

By the way, now, despite the fact that the bookmakers give equal chances to both Real and Liverpool, I'm sure they evaluate Real as a clear favorite. I noticed that bookmakers very rarely change their quotes much even if the team falls into a period of bad luck or loses its best scorer, etc. In a pair of Real Madrid - Liverpool, initially Liverpool was a big favorite, but now the quotes are equal. This suggests that the bookmakers realized that they were wrong, but they cannot "turn around" their opinion, but the changes that have taken place are the maximum for their business.

I agree with you, at most it can be argued that Manchester City is being too aggressive while disregarding the rules, but it should be obvious that most clubs are doing more or less the same or they will be unable to compete with them at all, so it is not on the best interest of the biggest clubs around the world that such a big deal is made about those accusations as they know they could be next if this were to happen.

The news about the Manchester city being looked into for financial breaches since 2029/2020 till date is something else. Not mere sanctions but an expulsion from the major leagues they play in now would be the justice meted.
After 9years I thought the issue of the financial breach was cleared, only for it to hunt them now. The issue is serious as the other big teams are in support for law and sanctions becoming effective.

If someone wants to figure out problems at Liverpool then surely he needs to check all things related to this club as there is no doubt Mane having good impact on Liverpool performance in last few years, and he was key player for them with few injuries are also having big impact as Firmino and van Dijk both are also not available which is also having negative impact on their performance.

Right now, Klopp is doing his best for changing fortune, but things are not working in his favour but good thing happening Liverpool management is giving him good time which is positive as he still capable of changing things in team's favour even this season is going to be nightmare for them, but hopefully they will have positive change at the end.

Milan's condition is quite difficult with their current weak defense.
Tottenham is clearly one of the favorites in their current condition and I think they are the ones who will qualify for the next phase in this round.
Milan will host the first leg, but with their current condition, even though they are playing at home, I am personally quite skeptical of them, especially if they still can't improve their performance in midfield and defense.

Nobody expected this drastic depreciation from Liverpool team this season,they did very well last season and now they are messing the all thing up. I don't think that Liverpool will be able to play Real Madrid confidently in that match because Liverpool is so weak that smaller clubs do win them in their local league. Real Madrid might not be consistent recently, but I know that Ancelotti will work properly on his boys,since they are still a strong club.

In last five games day by day they are going down from bad to worse with their defense is surely completely not working, and they are conceding great number of goals which is the biggest concern for the Pioli 14 goals in five games is surely the worst situation for the AC Milan against Tottenham which is doing better at English Premier League and their attack is also much better than AC Milan which will create problems for them as well but here which strategy will work for the Milan to handle against Tottenham it's a biggest question right now and have no replies from management or players they are mentally down and their performance is also on lowest level look like they are going to be had changes if they want better results otherwise this is going to be worst end for them after having title in last season.

There is no doubt about this Sadio Mané departure is having the biggest negative impact on them, and they are paying for this all because in last season they were doing amazing job and have enough depth in their team which is currently at lowest level and their new signings are also not working as they were expected specially Nunez which was bought as Sadio Mané replacement no near his quality and performance with big waste of money as well because if they keep Sadio Mané and increase his salary surely this will be better and with this having better results in both leagues were also possible.

But now as they have done this mistake and paying for this all I have feeling Klopp still deserve chance for giving his best with this team because he has long time here, and he understands better chemistry of the conditions and players he can handle this all but if they have done mistake like Chelsea then surely this can go like them as well of big mess up and nothing positive.

I suppose by now nobody really understands what is going on anymore. There should be a much more universally applicable rule. National associations have their rules, then there is UEFA and then there is also FIFA and some other international court involved and so on and so forth. What did they find now that they couldn't prove last time when they turned the judgment over? It is permanently this back and forth with all these threats and no action being taken. I was shocked when I saw how rigorously Juventus Turin was treated by the Serie A committee. They have really taken hard action. Within a blink of an eye they took away any chance for the championship and also made it close to impossible for Juventus Turin to qualify for the international competitions.

There is so much prestige in the Champions League and so many strong actors and a strong lobby that I highly doubt that Manchester City will be disqualified. Think about it, all those other clubs that are frequently crossing the lines financially won't be interested in Manchester City being turned into a precedent. If that happens once, they all have to fear the same or similar judgment. I think that there is a strong lobby trying to bend the facts in favor of Manchester City.

Even though I do of course like strong soccer teams like Manchester City, I also think that sport should remain at least to a certain degree about passion and quality and not about money and financial shenanigans only.

If Manchester City gets banned I think this year is the last chance for Guardiola to win it!

Manchester City was already acquitted in this regard.  If the current issue is independent of this, there is a possibility that they will be banned from European cups again.  If they are banned from European cups for 2 years, Pep can leave the team.  I think he has very strong opinions about it.

I can consider it a very wise decision because without success I don't think a trainer is worth keeping for a longer period of time. Klopp has worked for Liverpool since 2015, he spent several seasons helping Liverpool win several titles including the Premier League title. Klopp has succeeded in making Liverpool consistent and competing for the title with Manchester City and other teams, but this season Liverpool's performance has been very different, raising big questions.

I don't really know where he went wrong, after all he has got some new players but his performance is not to be expected. There are 18 match left in the season to improve his team's form and if it does fail to make the top 4 then I think it's good to expect him out of Liverpool at the end of the season.

Indeed, there has been much speculation about Liverpool's performance dropping since being abandoned by Sadio Mane who went to Bayern Munich in the 2022/2023 summer transfer market. But that shouldn't be a concrete reason for Liverpool about their performance this season.

Maybe they are just too fixated on the same pattern of play and don't want to try new things because as we know every team in every different season there will definitely be a team that starts to show good performance and it looks like Liverpool is too weak to be able to develop so far and if Kloop fails especially to bring Liverpool to the next round of the UCL, surely his fate will be on the brink of being sacked by Liverpool.

Until the likes of injured Virgil van Dijk whose replacement Gomez at the Liverpool defense hasn't live up to expectations returns to the team and strength their defense else the team will continue to concede goals likewise the return of the injured trio Diogo Jota, Firmino and Luis Diaz will strengthen their attack because the newly signed Gakpo and Nunez had not been very consistent in scoring in goals, in fact Gakpo has been the shadow of former self after signing him from PSV Eindhoven, some of those players return date is fixed at mid February however will they be fit to play UCL matches? time will tell.