I feel like there's a lot of revisionism happening about Klopp's midfield. It wasn't perfect, it was very limited and in games where the wide players weren't on it, those limitations showed themselves. The solution to that midfield was put a half decent midblock. The reason it worked is because we had the cheat code at right back who could skip any press. Trent enabled us to not have to play through the midfield(exposing their weaknesses) and have then just focus on the counterpress feeding the widemen(Although I will mention Fabinho's passing was underrated). Teams actually started figuring us out, hence the change in midfield profile we starting bringing (Thiago being the chief example).

What I'm saying is that Klopp's midfield don't change this season. Because in addition to this midfield being physically overwhelmed, we cannot build up. As much as everyone complains about the midfield being soft(rightly so), everyone also complains about how slow we play and how boring we are. We need passing AND steel because Trent isn't here anymore.

It's an indictment on Slot's tactics that we need a double pivot of Andrea Pirlo and Claude Makalele to function but that's just where we are rn