He deserves credit for bringing trophy success to Liverpool including a League title by some margin but all clubs have there ups and downs that is always going to be nature of football , all things come to an end and nothing stays the same as City supporters know only too well.
How you handle adversity is the true mark of a manager as all of them do , he took a midtable team to a premiership but his history shows he drives his teams into the dirt in doing so and players are human beings not machines.
So far he is not handling the situation well but all sides have their strengths and weaknesses and his tinkering with the back four and mid field bought on him it must be said through injury shows the squad is what we always knew it was and that was heavily relied upon by a injury free back four.
the form and influence in games of the LB and RB that have excelled in the two previous seasons has diminished significantly.
Players like Milner , Chamberlain and Co are well past their prime and should be shipped off in the summer.
One of their summer singings is on loan to Southampton and struggling.
No Virgil , No Mane , No Salah no Liverpool and even with Salah and Mane they are not competitive with the squad they have anymore.
It's funny now though,because the emphasis was never on about the defence,for the last 3 years it's always been what if one or more of the front 3 they had were out for a spell through injury,how would they cope.
Klopp had realised that one of their front three was faltering and decided to bring in Jota,who unfortunately hit the ground running,and if it was not for an injury would still be keeping Firmino out now.
The defence had had a bit of success in the last few years,but only because others (including City's) were conceding more than normally,so all of a sudden,Arnold,Robertson,Van Dick,and whoever they decided to partner with him with were looked at as world beaters,did ship 7 versus Villa like,but still they were portrayed as the best in the world.
I don't believe that Arnold has ever been any good at defending,Gomez is pretty average,Matip is below average,Robertson has been ok,and Van Dick's hype with the award he got goes before him,we shall see how he is when he comes back.
So now they have taken a punt on guys from Schalke and Preston to plug the gaps,well we shall see how well that goes.
A new rebuild is needed soon there,then if the yanks get the cheque book out it might be game on,but if they don't (like they didn't really in Jan when desperate) then the only way is down