The player Klopp misses more than Sadio Mané and who would have Liverpool in the title race

Liverpool's 2022-2023 season looked set to have multiple problems in attack after Sadio Mané's departure to Bayern Munich was consummated, but in reality all doubt was dispelled as the weeks went on and saw that at a certain point in the campaign both Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Darwin Nunez could sustain the Reds' attack in any competition, emerging during that course the biggest headache for Jurgen Klopp which has been the midfield.

While many thought that the departure of the Senegalese attacking gem would significantly deplete the Reds' attack, the reality is that even the German manager himself did not expect the biggest loss to be that of Dutch midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum, who will leave Anfield in the 2020-2021 season for PSG and then move to Serie A with A.S. Roma.

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Wijnaldum's departure during the 2021-2022 campaign did little to dampen a powerful Liverpool campaign that looked almost unstoppable in all competitions, with the Merseyside institution and Klopp himself failing to foresee that his team needed a vast squad to fill the gaps that their rivals were filling with spectacular signings, The Reds lagged behind in that sense and have been disadvantaged in all these months where Fabinho and Thiago Alcántara have tried to maintain the balance in an area where Georginio was performing spectacularly.

Perhaps the player from the Netherlands was not an element of spectacular characteristics that made him shine as a midfielder of the elite, but his constant performances of acceptable form with Liverpool made him an indispensable player that complemented only the great work that players like Mohamed Salah or Sadio Mané himself were doing, collapsing all that great work when Wijnaldum was not supported after criticism every time he made a mistake, being that one of the reasons why he decided to move away from Anfield and seek new directions in Europe.

Klopp misses Wijnaldum

According to journalist Chris Bascombe, although today Klopp's head probably has no space or time to regret his past decisions, surely having let go of a midfielder of great qualities has been a blunder which he did not think would end up affecting him later, being on the scale of greater impact the departure of the Dutchman than the Senegalese, seeking to correct that problem the Reds with the arrival of a Jude Bellingham that in economic issues is more difficult to pay than Wijnaldum.