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What am I gonna see? An overweight Leo with a second chin? That's not a joke, by the way. He really is overweight and was bad that season. He was already on a diet in 2014.

If https://www.capology.com is to be believed his salary has risen from 7 million euros gross to 10 million euros gross. But this information is grayed out, so it is not 100% accurate.

Well obviously the contract is set up so that he can leave this summer and next season. They only kept him because of Inigo's injury. Flick doesn't need a bad passer. I think they gave him a 3million pay rise so he doesn't push for a transfer now, but he will leave in the summer because Flick...

I'd rather see his offensive numbers go down 20-25% but run more without the ball. We'd make up for that 25%. For example, your pressing would be better, which means you would catch the opponent more often on the transitions from attack to defense - and attacks after interceptions in the other...

Well it's no secret that Leo ran more in the national team than in Barcelona, because Argentine fans harshly criticized the national team for failures, while Barcelona fans always exalted him and turned a blind eye to his lazy game without the ball. They criticized him so much that he cried...

Maybe I should revisit the Liverpool vs Barcelona match, in which Klopp humiliated Messi's team by building his attacking potential around Leo's (and Suarez's) awful play without the ball?

Lol, I'm not asking him to press like Raphinha or even like Lewandowski, but hell you can just run up to an opponent who's two fucking meters away and just block the passing line. Can you at least do that?

What nonsense are you talking about? When you have minus 2 people in defense and when these two people do not in any way prevent the central defenders and the defender from moving the ball freely, this is always a very big problem. There are public words, and there are deeds. So, in the match...

Guys, today we have a lesson on tactical analysis of a football match. Tell me, why is Henderson free between the lines?

Games? I gave you an example of a game where Messi's team was humiliated. Why do I need Klopp saying that Leo can be undefended when he built his positional attacks around Leo's (and Suarez's) terrible play without the ball when preparing for Messi's match against Barcelona. Listen and enjoy.

Let's revisit that tactical parsing of Klopp's assistant again. I love it so much. Especially at 18:21.

What the hell are you talking about? It wasn't just Liverpool's pressing that was the problem, it was the fact that neither Suarez nor Messi gave on the DH. And the assistant talks directly about how they took advantage of that. Clear your ears and listen again. He's saying - when you don't put...

I think we've won a lot more titles, and we wouldn't be 6 years without a Champions League title if Leo had changed his approach to working without the ball. Certainly from 2012 to 2021 we would have won many more Champions League titles than one.

Listen to what Klopp was thinking as he prepared to humiliate Messi's Barcelona at Anfield. Just don't cry. There was a 555 million euro contract and that's an absolute fact.

You may hear - football used to be romantic, but now it's boring, it feels like robots are playing on the field. Sorry guys, footballjust got a lot more professional. footballplayers are much more athletic, they are much more responsible for their nutrition, regimen, there are new technologies...

That said, it's important to realize that Leo wasn't a pressing machine in 2012 when Pep was in the team either. But it wasn't as critical then. But it became more and more critical thereafter. Soccer started to change a lot. Most teams used to just make very long passes forward to get out from...

Yea, sorry. I wanted to say - CL.

I swear not. We can already see how our pressing is weaker with Lewandowski than without him. That said, I've already said that this 36 year old Lewandowski presses and works more without the ball than Leo at 28. Now imagine what would happen with Leo? Man City had less than 37% percent...

@vegitot What a stupid person you are if you don't distinguish between political correctness and real opinion. Klopp was saying that Messi might not press, and behind the scenes before the return leg against Barcelona, he and his assistant built the team's entire strategy in positional...

Wrong about what? What a load of crap you're talking about. You're already in a puddle. Time has put everything in its proper place. We remember Barcelona's "success" in the LC since the 2015-2016 season. And Messi and his friend Suarez are fully responsible for that as Van Gaal explicitly...