QUOTE(Cloud0890 @ Apr 4 2017, 12:32 AM)
Decent by the standards set by Moreno. His performances really wasn't all that amazing, just acceptable for a natural right footed centre back slotted at left back. Let's not forget after the horror show of Moreno's first season, all we asked for was someone to not fuck up at the back and Gomez was that.
We do have games where we could judge him and those are cup games of this season. Frankly speaking, not great as you can tell from our not so amazing cup runs. Whether or not those subpar performances were impacted by his lengthy injury does not matter. He needs time to get up to pace, maybe he will go back to being the wonderkid he was or maybe he will never be the same again, only time will tell which is why for the foreseeable future he will not be in anyway better than Klavan. If he does turn good eventually it will be at least 2-3 years down the line by which time it is time to let Klavan go anyway.
And not sure what confidence you have in Klopp's ability to make him better. Sure Klopp is a very good coach with a very good reputation of developing young players but most of those involve players in midfield or attacking positions or attacking aspects of the game. Klopp is not known for his ability to coach a defense, ask any Dortmund fan and they can tell you that much.
If we do sign another CB this summer, Klavan will be pushed down the pecking order as our 4th choice CB. For a player of his ability as a 4th choice really isn't that bad, pretty good in fact. Just look at some of our top 6 rivals, some of them can't even sort out their 1st and 2nd choices.
Gomez just came back from injury and only had a few games in the league cup until we were knocked out. Never feature again since then.
Klopp was having defensive troubles during his first season in Dortmund but second season he made some tweaks in his formation and developed players like Subotic, Hummels who went on to become really good defenders. I wouldn't mind having Gomez as a backup honestly, if we sign a top CB, having Lovren and Gomez as backup would be pretty decent.
Don't mind having Klavan as 4th choice, just don't think the player would want that, he's not getting any younger haha.