The penny dropped so loudly for Jurgen Klopp it could probably have been heard all the way back on Merseyside from the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.
And the Liverpool supporters who had had already filtered away into the Naples night long before the final whistle was blown on a wretched humiliation would have been nodding vigorously in agreement with how the Reds boss reacted publicly as he began to sift through the wreckage of the previous 90 minutes.
"We have to kind of reinvent ourselves, because the basic things were not there," said Klopp. "It’s not that we have to invent a new kind of football. A few things are really clear we have to change and the reason it’s now like this is getting a bit more clear as well. But I need time for saying the right things, because at the moment it’s not 100% clear.”
This was 12 months ago, September 7 2022. Just 102 days after being unfortunate to lose the Champions League final to Real Madrid, Liverpool opened their next European campaign with a 4-1 thumping at Napoli.
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As Klopp conceded post-match, the answers were not immediate. Nor could they be, so deep-rooted were the issues that had sent Liverpool wildly off course having come so close to claiming an unprecedented quadruple a few months earlier.
Some, such as the winter World Cup that restricted vital preparation time during pre-season, was out of the Reds' control. So too, to a certain extent, the injury problems that hampered Klopp's options, particularly during the opening half of the campaign. Most, though, could very much be
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