'Recruitment team and management need to go' - fan views on standards

Nigel: Salah's comments always suggest something deeper is at play but, it's easy to read too much into them. My instinct is the manager isn't a strong enough personality, and there aren't enough leaders in the team. Standards do appear to have dropped.

Yusuf: We used to get the best out of players such as Mane and Salah because they'd always push to do better. Henderson and Klopp would always support that. We had a genuine desire to achieve, and that competitive culture came from Klopp and his philosophy of always wanting to play fast-paced, electric football. That lack of desire and the perceived need to slow things down also comes from the lack of drive in the team. We now play football expectantly rather than proactively which is really saddening - the desire of the team has gone as the manager now wants to play slower and more controlled football. What happened to full-throttle football and wanting to make the fans come back every game? It has regressed to the opposite now - and it comes from the lack of drive, and this is not Liverpool by any stretch.

Lorraine: Something that won't cost any money, change the skipper. VVD has no drive or passion, too cold - pass the captaincy to Dominik.

Ian: There's no fight in the team, they've got lazy and sloppy. There are so many passes going astray in every game, so many mistakes in defence, so many chances missed and we've got the worst midfield we've had in years. We need a massive clearance throughout the club, not just the players, the recruitment team and management need to go too before we end up mid-table nobodies.

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