Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

theoneeyedman

FAI cup final going to penalties, be interesting to see how Jaros does in goal for Pat's

Talisman

Vitezslav Jaros has won the FAI Cup. My wife is raging because her Book Club friends are Bohs fans! Happy Days! 🤣

ebbsy

Should be a routine victory on Wednesday, Rafa is doing a fantastic job for us.

Agent Coulson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118235850#Comment_118235850

Now confirmed by the manager that Sturridge had cramp and didn’t feel up to playing as he isn’t used to 4 hour flights.

yourdeadwright

Hearing Gerrard wants Gomez on loan.

I'm 50/50 on this, be great to get him games but then after last year you'd fear we will need him, especially if we are still in the Carling Cup, FA Cup, Champions league & Prem ,

January & February are normally a hard slogs & people pick up muscle injuries so i reckon we will pass on it and keep him ,

Fitz*

We saw what happened with 3 CBs last season. Not going back to that again.

yourdeadwright

What the general thought on Konate ,

Seems very raw to me but looks like he has a very high ceiling , concentration needs to be worked on but i guess that will come with games,

jones

The league heating up nicely it has turned into the three horse race as predicted. 1 point between first and second and second and third. I still feel we've left some points behind us though and with the AFCON coming up but look hard to argue with were we are at for now

yourdeadwright

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118238756#Comment_118238756

It crazy how much could ride on us having Mane & Mo available for the Chelsea game ,

Surely we can work something out and private yet them over after ,

yourdeadwright

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118234333#Comment_118234333

No obviously not but those numpties both have a obvious blind spot for a cultured ball playing CM,

atilladehun

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118238649#Comment_118238649

Does he think he's too good for Nat?!

Not moving Gomez on yet. He's young, had a few injuries and plenty of experience. He does need some games but not week in week out just yet. Let his body recover.

jones

Be madness to let Gomez go in January would be basically undoing signing Konate

TitianGerm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118238649#Comment_118238649

What is with your mad notions about loaning out our first team players?

yourdeadwright

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118238999#Comment_118238999

It's not my notion its been all over twitter , As i said id keep him

Only loan i wanted to see was if we had of got a Gini replacement id have let Jones or Ox go on loan just to play games,

dogbert27

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118238093#Comment_118238093

Not used to 4 hour flights yet frequently flew to the US when playing for us. 🙄

Ferm001

With African countries falling like flys to the red lists, bound to be major concerns if Afcon will go ahead at all now.

yourdeadwright

What the crack with the derby ,

Is Amazon the only place you can watch it ? Any way of paying a once off just for the game ,

Marty Bird

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118240399#Comment_118240399

All games are on Premier Sports for ROI

BorneTobyWilde

Chelsea are playing first for next 5 games, no chance to play twice before they play once, no chance to open a gap and put pressure on, it's all Chelsea playing first.

Agent Coulson

Chelsea also have to go off to Abu Dhabi  for ten days after the AFCON to play in the club world cup.

Talisman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118240917#Comment_118240917

Chelsea will have to rediscover how to play down the left without Chilwell. Alonso looked out of place by comparison which leaves James as the only wing back for teams to really worry about. I don't think their left side will click automajically.

Riesen_Meal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118238967#Comment_118238967

Sounds a bit too far away for Nat from Liam Gallagher's daughter.... 😋

BorneTobyWilde

We've run out of assets to sell. Out of Stock

Karius , but he's free to a good home

BorneTobyWilde

Neco Williams is close to being the one to step in for Trent if he's injured, can't sell him. Looking to Milner for that role is not fair on Neco, the one chance he gets, given to Milner.

Nat we could sell, but it would not raise a lot

Gomez we must keep, Matip too fragile

We really are out of stock, no one to raise 50m with.

Agent Coulson

Salah came 7th in this years Ballon d'Or.

Lewandowski robbed of it again this season.

ShamoBuc

Ballon d'Or is a complete joke. Barely worth taking about at this stage.

BorneTobyWilde

Messi, that's funny. He hasn't won a league title in years, yet he wins Ballon d'Or

BorneTobyWilde

.

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118242823#Comment_118242823

In fairness, he still had a really good season in a rubbish Barca team, and most importantly he won the Copa America. Won the Copa del Rey as well.

Even though we're all a bit bored of him winning it, I think him, Lewandowski, and Benzema were the 3 best last year, and all finished in the top 4, so I don't think it's too far off. I'd have had Lewandowski ahead of Messi, but I totally see how winning an international tournament pips it for Messi.

Electric Nitwit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118242857#Comment_118242857

I've never understood how winning/not winning tournaments is so readily used as a measure of an individual player's ability. If that was the case you'd place Jorginho high on the list...

...wait, what?!

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118242875#Comment_118242875

I agree that it probably shouldn't be weighted so heavily towards players who won big things - but it is, and we know it is. In reality, if you took 10 people and asked them to write up the criteria of how to judge a 'player of the year' they'd probably all come up with different proposals of what matters most. We pretty much know where we stand with the Ballon d'Or, and what attributes are pretty consistently valued highest, for better or worse. So with that in mind I understand how they arrived at their results, and they make sense within the criteria they've held for a long time now.

Short of winning the Champions League with PSG, or the world cup in a years time, it's likely this is Messi's last one anyway.

atilladehun

It really is just the lovely girls competition and always had been.

Who do we all agree it's the best? Him! Great, he really is the best. Woo.

Football is silly at the best of times. This is beyond silly. Sport has so many natural competitions in it and then they make one up too.

yourdeadwright

What you lads think about the starting 11 tomorrow ,

I reckon we might see Matip Instead of Konate , Milner in place of Thiago & Origi in place of Mo ( Mo has never started this round of fixtures for us )

Tough game away to Wolves Saturday shame its not Sunday for the extra days rest,

Potential Underachiever

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118244369#Comment_118244369

I'd be amazed if Salah isn't starting, probably will be Matip starting I'd agree there, not sure about Milner for Thiago.

rob316

Everton effectively ended our season by taking out Virgil and Thiago last season, worried about possibly more injuries tomorrow night. They love to kick us off the park

yourdeadwright

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118244667#Comment_118244667

One reason i think Milner might be in the starting 11 ,

Talisman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118242875#Comment_118242875

The Ballon D'Or is a load of nonsense, it was cancelled in 2020 basically because the lads couldn't have a soiree due to restrictions. After signing for PSG in the summer, Messi was always going to receive that award this year. In reality, he hasn't been the best player in Europe for some time.

Personally I think Lewandowski would have been a more deserving 'winner' for the past three years.

Talisman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118244369#Comment_118244369

Everton aren't in great shape and I'd like to see most of our first team sit the game out to prevent unnecessary injuries in the event that we take them apart and they begin to vent their frustrations by kicking lumps out of our players. For this reason I'd go with most of the team from the Porto game with Milner in for Thiago and Origi replacing Salah.

Alisson, Williams, Matip, Konate, Tsimikas, Morton, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Mane, Origi, Minamino

Ikozma

Lads just a wuick question for those in same boat as myself, im going to villa game on 11th,the place im staying wants me to get a pcr test 24 hrs before i arrive, thats fine but do i need another one for coming back to Ireland on sunday, id be getting the pcr either thur or the fri which is day i leave for liverpool, will that pcr test cover me for coming home too or will i need to get another one in Liverpool? Its a right pain in the ass tbh and only for the fact ive flights tickets and accommodation payed i wouldnt be arsed going now

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118244799#Comment_118244799

You need either;

• Digital COVID cert
• Proof of vaccination OR proof you've recovered from COVID within last 180 days.
• PCR test no more than 72 hours before you arrive back in Ireland.

Fitz*

Salah usually does get a rest around this time of the year. I remember a Stoke Game, Burnley, Palace, and Everton games where he was rested. He came off early in the last CL game and I would think he won't start the Milan or Leicester league cup games midweek so they will be 2 more tests.

Thiago came off around 60ish against Southampton too. I'd say that might be his rest. Play this game as his quick passing will be a needed asset against Everton who will look to frustrate. Maybe he doesn't start against Wolves then.

Also, Everton played Sunday, Liverpool played Saturday. So that might come into consideration.

FSG have bought the Pittsburgh Penguins. That's quite a coup.

rob316

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118244799#Comment_118244799

You can get an antigen test coming back into Ireland but can't be a self administered test.

Ask over on the travel thread in the Covid forum

TitianGerm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118244893#Comment_118244893

Oh so they've money to buy an ice skating team but will not buy players for us. Typical FSG penny pinching. FSG out.

😂

Ahorseofaman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118244977#Comment_118244977

Ahorseofaman

òops sorry,premature attachments.

theoneeyedman

Tomorrow is dangerous.

Everton on a bad run, 2 points in 7 games, players booed off the pitch against Brentford, local Derby..... They'll be fired up and that's dangerous for the Liverpool players, unless Rafa is able to control his players our players could be in the firing line. He'll have them organised and structured, but the easiest thing for them to get the fans back inside is to 'get stuck in', need strong refereeing early on to nip any BS in the bud, not like last year.

BorneTobyWilde

So FSG Pa pa pa picked up the Penguins. Who knew there was money is ice skating after a useless phuck . And the players are on 10m a year, USA is so weird. How do they make money to pay players, when the arena is just an ice rink with a few people in it.

BorneTobyWilde

Coutinho won the Copa America in 2019, and the Champions Leauge 19/20, and the Bundesliga 19/20, the DFB- Pokal Cup 19/20, La Liga 2019, Copa Del Rey 20 .

. And no one said '' here's a Ballon D'Or ''

Giving it to Messi for a TEAM winning Copa American is silly.

yourdeadwright

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118244782#Comment_118244782

Ah come on we need a win , we haven't beat them away in a while ,