I doubt anything we do is based upon a player(s)'s feelings or reduced inhibition. Maybe an odd event here or there, but this feels co-ordinated, by Klopp. We know he's been looking for more spark from midfield and he's clearly encouraging it, designing it even, with the introduction of more creative, goal-scoring, midfielders. This may even be behind the lack of real ambition to hold onto Gini.
Whether they have worked out or not we are introducing more attacking midfielders from our previous base of Hendo, Gini and Fabs, which became our de facto 1st choice midfield after Coutinho departed and Lallana was unable to fill the slot. That is possibly also behind the departures of Can and Grujic too.
We've tried with Ox, Shaq and Keita, one could also argue Wilson and Minamino too. However the current onus on the likes of Elliott and Thiago backed up by Jones and a resurgent Keita, looks like Klopp may have found the solution, additionally with the encouragement of Matip and VvD to get forward into midfield, enabling the whole team to move towards goal whereas previously it had become a little stodgy with hundreds of passes between our CBs, Hendo and Gini, in our own half.
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