Liverpool's recent success has been put down to Jurgen Klopp's tactics and work with his players, as well as some excellent signings, but one Everton fan thinks it's down to the Reds 'doping.'
Since moving to Liverpool in 2015, Klopp has turned the side from occasional top four contenders into European champions and the most likely side to stop Manchester City's domestic dominance.
One Everton fan has revealed his theory that it's not Klopp but doping that has turned the fortunes around.
Writing on an Everton fan forum, 'Zuma' wrote, "The steds thing is something I've thought for a while, wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if a doping scandal comes out about them in a few years."
The fan gave Luis Suarez, Sadio Mane, Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk as proof that something dodgy is going on at Anfield, adding, "Suarez - playing in Holland until his mid 20s, starts off as pretty good for them but nothing special, then suddenly turns into arguably the best player in the world for a season.
"Mane, good for Southampton but just as likely to get sent off as he is to score, inconsistent and raw. Now he's a world beater.
"Mo Salah, struggled at Chelsea, very good for Roma but not to the point where he was destroying teams on his own, goes to them and becomes unplayable.
"VVD - good for Celtic, good for Southampton, but to be playing at that level to his mid 20s means he can't have been seen as anything special or he'd have been spotted earlier. Goes to them and becomes one of the best defenders in Europe."
The Toffees fan finally ends on mentioning the amount of running last season's Premier League runners up get through without too many injuries.
In fairness to Zuma he was replying to other fans of the blue half of Merseyside who had similar thoughts so he clearly isn't alone with his theory.
Auguerooooooo
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Good theory. But tell me one thing. When Luiz Suarez went on medical in Barcelona, did they just took a doped player and said - " Okay, wow he's doped, he'll score for us"?????
Brwa Ismael
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For me the no-injury question is quite valid! Salah, Mane, Firminho, VVD has played the most minutes last seasons, but no injuries! That is not the case for most of other teams!! 🤔
suscorz
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don't be Jealous
Raoeistyz
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When people envy your success that should make you to strive for more. When last season we started to suffer from injuries and we started to draw in a lot of games, people said we cannot do anything better. But when we won the champions league everyone kept quiet and now started to compare the epl and the champions league which one is prestigious. When salah and other players got injured and other players stepped up did they watch those matches. We must criticise constructively and provide evidence for the comments we make. Is he saying that if Everton players start to play well and do better does that mean they are using other means to make them play better.
Natanya_Barrett
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But salah got injured once in the world cup and has worked his way back to fitness I don't see these arguments as valid because some track stars use to do drugs to perform well and they flopped after a short period of time I haven't seen salah, mane, nor van dijk flopped plus they have to stay healthy I've seen men smoke and play football right after and nearly die so doing drugs and playing football isn't so logical for me. This theory is almost like saying every player is "doped/drugged" when they start performing well bet they wouldn't say that about hazard, sterling, aguaro or even the other big stars like messi etc