On the other hand, Liverpool’s signing haven’t been of the same shiny, starry level of some of the other big clubs.
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With Klopp enforcing a high pressure game, not to mention the speed of strikers such as Divock Origi, Arsenal’s young centre back’s Calum Chambers and Rob Holding will have to be on their mettle.
“Our finishing last year was of a worse quality than the year before and we had the same players”. Holding only arrived in North London last month on a £3 million transfer from Bolton, making this coming Sunday his likely Premier League debut.
“We knew about it because a lot of teams chose this way against us so it we could have defended better”.
While Liverpool did show glimpses of the ‘heavy metal’ football, Jurgen Klopp always speaks about last season, it didn’t come up too many times.
“I have a few options at the back that you have seen in pre-season”, Wenger added.
He has backed the likes of Giroud, Sanchez and Theo Walcott to produce the goods. As is his wont, Wenger gave an extended break to players with busy summers, but their Euro 2016 semi-finalists included Olivier Giroud, Mesut Ozil, Aaron Ramsey and Laurent Koscielny.
One game they would play brilliantly against some of the big sides, but would lose out against some of the “weaker” sides. The Reds’ biggest signing, Sadio Mane, has been in scintillating form this preseason, and Premier League fans are well aware of how dynamic he can be when in form.
Nothing is off limits in the clever mind of a Reds boss who is determined to bring success back to Liverpool in his first full season in charge of the club he loves dearly.
Sturridge trained fully yesterday, now recovered from a hip injury but Klopp will tread warily with his brittle striker. Decent money. It’s better that we have money and maybe we’ll get a little bit more before August 31. This is what makes Arsenal’s makeshift defence look particularly fragile for Sunday.
Arsenal have been dumped out in the last 16 of the Champions League for the past five successive seasons. Even with a deep squad, replacing that amount of talent is extremely hard to accomplish. “You need to find a way for you which could work because nobody knows”. However, speaking before his side’s opening game at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday, Klopp was eager to switch the focus to the players on the pitch. They play at a high tempo, pressing the ball incessantly and utilizing fluid and pacy movement between the front three or four attacking players.
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As hard as it is to believe, we’ve only finished in the top four once since the end of the 2009 season, meaning most fans would nearly certainly be hugely happy with a place in Europe’s elite competition.
