The dissection of Liverpool’s poor form has sparked a plethora of bizarre excuses and explanations online, with the strangest so far coming from a joking tweet from rapper KSI.
That may well have been overshadowed by a much more serious comment on the social media platform from ex-Red Didi Hamann, who suggested that Pep Lijnders’ book had played a role in a collapse in performance levels.
Alarm bells should have been ringing for @LFC fans when the current assistant manager wrote a book while still working for the club. How he was allowed to do it, I’m not quite sure
— Didi Hamann (@DietmarHamann) September 8, 2022
We can understand the temptation to point the finger at ‘Intensity: Inside Liverpool FC’, the story about the Reds’ footballing identity under Jurgen Klopp.
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The notion that opposition managers have been dumping on the job, which has supposedly spilled all of Liverpool’s secrets, is utter nonsense, to put it lightly.
If it’s not obvious to everyone how we usually approach a game, it never will be: the high line, aggressive pressing in the final third and traveling full-backs are key parts of our game that are widely known by clubs at home and abroad.
We have not been ‘deciphered’: we have categorically lost our way, our determination, our identity.
The return of the key men may very well help to mask the glaring cracks, but we must find a way to rediscover that individual spark. Our intensity.
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