Liverpool's stuttering start & how Klopp can transition them into title challengers

The Athletic FC Podcast

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman is joined by Senior Football Writer Oli Kay and Liverpool Reporter Andy Jones to analyse Liverpool's start to the new season. Whilst the European recovery continued at Anfield on Tuesday night, seeing off Rangers 2-0, the Reds remain 11 points off the pace in the Premier League ahead of Sunday's visit to league leaders Arsenal. We explore the on-pitch issues that have led to Jurgen Klopp's side struggling to build momentum this season as well as explore the off-pitch transition within the recruitment team. Having replaced Michael Edwards as Sporting Director in the summer, Julian Ward oversaw Mohamed Salah's contract extension, the sale of Sadio Mane to Bayern Munich as well as the potentially club-record arrival of Darwin Nunez, but have the Reds done enough in the transfer market to keep pace with Man City? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:03.0	So Liverpool beat Rangers 2-0 in the Champions League on Tuesday,
0:07.0	yet Yergen and Coptside is still 11 points off the pace in the Premier League.
0:11.0	On Sunday they go to Arsenal, so from challenging on
0:14.1	four fronts are they now in an early scrap for the top four? Joining me to
0:19.6	examine Liverpool starts to the new season, senior football writer Ollie Kay, as well as our
0:23.8	Liverpool reporter Andy Jones.
0:25.9	I'm Mark Chapman, this is the Athletic Football Podcast. I think they were a little bit complacent in some ways about a squad that was growing old together and was always going to need a bit of rejuvenation.
0:42.0	We have to kind of reinvent ours.
0:44.0	Most fans are sort of resigned to the fact that it's very unlikely
0:48.0	there be mounted a title challenge.
0:50.0	I would say Salas seems to be a victim of lack of cohesion elsewhere in the team.
0:54.7	So we're recording this obviously the morning after Liverpool of Beaton Rangers.
1:02.6	I wonder Andy, just from a Liverpool fan's point of view,
1:07.2	to start with, whether the most crucial thing
1:09.2	about them beating Rangers last night
1:10.7	was the fact that they scored first.
1:12.6	I think it was important definitely because of how the months of times they've been behind in games
1:19.3	and it did sort of settle everyone in the ground basically.
1:22.2	Just to get ahead and sort of being not be
1:24.6	playing from behind which has been the big problem because there's only so many times you can play behind
1:29.2	and play from behind and get I'm honest to get yourself back in front you could see the
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