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Julio Enciso and Josh King are two mid-table #10's that are MASSIVELY outshining Florian Wirtz right now. And don't get me started on Morgan Gibbs-White who's been producing the goods for half a decade now. I like Sturridge, but Wirtz is literally playing in the left half space, so his point that he is not being used correctly is nonsense. The amount of excuses people conjure up for this guy are insane. It's Foden all over again. We can all see his talent but his influence is only notable when his team are massively dominant. This was the case for many years at Manchester City under Pep Guardiola but Foden always played second fiddle to De Bruyne and now to Cherki. He was used wide or as a false #9 or as a back-up #10 because he is a luxury player who is amazing when his team pins the opposition back and he spends his team in and around the box in central areas, but this doesn't happen at Liverpool. Heck, it barely happens at ANY Premier League team with how competitive the league is. Liverpool should cut ties with Wirtz as long as Iraola is there because the only environment that makes sense for him is against packed defences when his team exert control for him. Think Joao Felix, Phil Foden. Luxury players. Sell him to Bayern, watch him destroy the Bundesliga in an environment where his team has 70% possession every game, and watch Liverpool fans question why they couldn't get the best out of him. Liverpool need transitional players for a transitional style. Wirtz should, in theory, be that, but his inability to play maturely prevents him from maximising his skillset. The guy plays at one speed and I have no doubt he's incredible in training in rondo's and in 5-a-sides because of that (like Neville and Carragher said yesterday and like I have said throughout all of last season), but it's an 11-a-side game, and I doubt he's going to mature any time soon. He killed the balance in Slot's team and he is killing the balance in Iraola's team now too. I hope he matures and adapts but I don't see it. We are a season and a half in and he's only regressing at this point. Maybe some time out of the team will do him good, but Liverpool's squad is small so that luxury won't be reliably afforded. Otherwise, maybe Klopp can knock some tactical intelligence into him. He made Wijnaldum one of the most tactically intelligent players in the world, so who knows, I guess.

99, 97, 92 points tallies. Going toe-to-toe with a sell-to-buy policy against a sovereign state who broke all the rules and did what they wanted when they wanted to. Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool are the greatest modern day PL team. And he is the greatest modern day PL manager.