In transfer threads we focus on where the team is weakest with respect to who/what type of player we should buy. Sissoko is a valid topic of any conversation involving that evolution. In terms of the team, his (Sissoko) role is probably the very weakest and easiest to upgrade. So forgive me if I say, fuck off telling me who I can and can't talk about, I'll talk about Sissoko all I like in the transfer thread.
Once again, you make a complete Donald of yourself when you actually attempt to discuss football or football stats and /or Sissoko's shitness. You claim Keita is shit because in 67 appearances he's scored 7 and assisted 4, but he's actually only made 47 PL appearances and only 29 starts. In 83 starts and 122 total for us Sissoko (also playing mostly as a box to box midfielder and even a fair few games as an AM) has managed 2 goals and 7 assists. So if Keita's is a terrible return, what's Sissoko's?
I happen to rate Klopp extremely highly, all I've done is try to rationalise why Keita might not have been a constant starter at one of Europe's top 3 best performing clubs, and backed that up, including with Klopp's own explanation, and why that doesn't automatically make Keita shit (as you seem to suggest).
In a midfield 2, that Mourinho plays every week come hell or high water, I'd have Keita ahead of Sissoko (who's stating there lately), Winks, Lo Celso and Ndombele, maybe even PEH, but at least with PEH because as much as I like in varying degrees three of those players, none of them are better suited to playing the multi faceted double role as I think Keita would be. In my ideal CM3 system it would get complicated, but Keita could play in any of the remits in a CM3 IMO meaning he'd get loads of starts and all 4 (PEH, Lo Celso, Ndombele, Keita) would just constantly rotate with rest/competitions/injuries in my hypothetical scenario. And in that scenario he'd be a fucking huge upgrade on Sissoko and a pretty big one on Winks.
Pure drivel designed solely to support your anti Sissoko rambling, this is not about Sissoko.
A transfer committee, and indeed a transfer forum thread, focuses on what would improve our team. There is zero evidence at all that Keita would do that ....
Even a bias fool like you must understand that Sissoko is not part of our future midfield three, he's 31 and well on his way out ... so let's just put away the Sissoko bile and look forward.
We have a likely midfield three of PEH, LoCelso and Ndombele the obvious concern is the lack of fitness and the ability of LoCelso and Ndombele to cover behind attacking fullbacks, a job Sissoko currently does better .... however that will / should change as they both get fitter.
But this is the transfer thread so let's look forward not backwards - if we were to buy Kieta where would he play? Well he's a pretty average defender so no way could he replace PEH, likewise IMO he's a major step down on LoCelso and Ndombele when it comes to pure ability, and let's not forget he's a short-arse who is useless in the air.
So looking at next season he would at best be a bench player who when called upon very rarely scores or creates a goal ... so in reality no better or more effective than Dele, Lamela, Lucas.
Why would we want that? You talk about a '
multi-faceted' role but don't explain what the hell that is, he's another Ozil, Ramsey, Dele, Pogba type player loads of tippy-tappy but neither a great defender nor a great goal scorer.
There is a reason Klopp doesn't fancy him, so why should we?
He's not an upgrade so we wouldn't start him - if we were to buy a midfield player we either need a dedicated defensive midfield player to play alongside PEH when we need to be more defensive, or we need an attacking midfield player who will score 10/15 goals a season ... Keita is neither.
We do not need a box-to-box player who is neither a defender, a creator or a goal scoring player ... that role is currently redundant, it's why Kieta is a bench-warmer at Liverpool, and why he would add nothing to our starting line up.
You seem to have this ridiculous stance where players are either world-class or useless - Kieta is neither, he's a long way from world class and he's a lot better than useless, maybe a mid-table team can find a space but not a team with greater ambitions. He's simply not good enough.
FYI - Why do you keep calling Liverpool one of Europe's top 3? UEFA ranks them 10th, they like us were knocked out of the CL in the last sixteen last year, so what do you know that they don't?
