Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Especially considering we're going to lose two strikers in January for the African Cup

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took me ages to find this thread⚽️

ahhh wtf is goin on

A midfielder is essential imo. Gini played nearly every game last season because he was the only one who's fitness is 100% reliable.

Obviously another decent quality attacker would add a lot, but with Salah, Mane, Bobby, Jota, Taku and Elliot, we can live without another attacker if it's the difference between us getting a midfielder or not.

It's gonna come down to who we can sell and for what. Deals very late in the window wouldn't surprise me.

Ironically, I actually unintentionally did the same.

Think it’s largely a repeat of last years preseason in the same place. Makes sense to keep travel to a minimum given that it’s a huge entourage to bring around, and we are still in the middle of a pandemic with skyrocketing case numbers. Not to mention all the various travel bans and quarantines in place.

I’d say Klopp’s happy out not to be doing any big globetrotting ticket selling promotional nonsense, instead just spending lots of time on the training field.

Not sure what's going on here tbh... 🤣

FUBAR

finding this is harder than qualifying for the champions league

Trying to find the soccer group and everything on the new Boards.

Where you reading that?

I seriously doubt that is the case tbh, sounds like absolute paper tosh...

Just reading it now, great start to my summer holidays, I'm going back to bed to cry... 😭

They need to clear out a few on the non homegrown squad players this summer.

Ali, Adrian, VVD, Robbo, Konate, Matip, Tsimikas, Thiago, Fab, Naby, Jota, Mane, Salah, Bobby that's 14 of the 17 allowed.

Minamino, Shaq, Origi, Grujic are the others that bring the number to 18 and the ones most likely to be sold.

I'm kind of surprised Adrian was given a one deal since he is taking up a spot that might be better suited to getting an outfield player, They could surely have signed a journeyman English keeper as 3rd choice if needed.

David Ornstein's written a piece in the Athletic saying that there's some suggestion Henderson might move on.

I don't have a subscription but he mentions it on his twitter here.

His current deal runs to 2023, and he's suggesting there's a possibility that he'd be sold next year, or leave on a free the year after.

Contract talks have supposedly been started, but the club's prioritising the likes of Ali and Salah.

I definitely think Henderson should not only retire at Liverpool, but ideally join the backroom staff once he does. He seems like such a huge presence in the squad, even when he's not playing. I'd say the same about Milner. It surely has an impact on the young lads seeing Jimmy Milner obliterate the tests at the start of pre-season every year at the age of 35.

We're going to see a pretty big turnover of players, especially in the front 6 positions, over the next 3 years, and probably lose Klopp as well. Some stability in leadership positions in the squad seems like a good idea in that context.

Poch and PSG interested this summer in Hendo according to that article.

Straight swap for Mbappe?

I wouldn't want to see Hendo go myself sign him up to a lifetime contract.

I'm starting to think it's coming from his agent's side, pushing for a new contract. Well maybe more hoping so anyways.

The whole thing is a nightmare to even get to this stage of paper / twitter talk,m

He is not just our captain , he is our leader, i just don't see the thinking behind this. he is literally the glue that keeps the squad and them together , We could sell him & bring in a better player & still be worse off for it,

You can literally see what his presence does to our team, We just don't get them relentless aggressive displays form the team without him

Surely Jurgen has earned the ability to make 1 or 2 calls overriding the board & for him not to be insisting his captains future is put in place must be a worry for Jordan ,

The Athletic article is full of speculative nonsense like "The market" has been alerted to the "fact" that Henderson could be available because something something Wijnaldum, yet #FSGOut is trending on Twitter and if you disagree with the people peddling it, you get told you're not a real Liverpool fan.

And when he signs an extension, they'll all think it was down to them demanding Henry's head a on a plate, and not something that was going to happen anyway.

Would the fact that we're even beginning talks 2 years from the end of his current deal not suggest the club want to retain him? No?

That whole Athletic article reads like they sat down with Hendo's agent and then wrote it trying to not make it look like they talked to his agent.

It would not surprise me if PSG did ring Hendo's agent and say hey fancy a move to Paris and £350k a week and this is his agents way of getting Hendo, Salah & Thiago money especially as the captain that brought he League title back to Anfield after 30 years.

Which he should rightly be on.

There's a difference between a player like Salah getting to 30-odd and Henderson.

Since 14-15, where he made 54 appearances, Hendo has made 26, 27, 41, 44, 40, 28 appearances in all competitions.

He'll presumably be looking for 150k+, he'll probably want a contract to 2025.

Any decision to keep him until he's 35+ won't be just made on the basis of his on-pitch contributions, and as far as sports science goes, I would imagine the club is quite aware that he's not the most reliable player in the squad fitness-wise, although obviously not on the level of Keita, Sturridge, or what have you.

If they want to sell an over 30 player to trim the wages, by all means take Thiago, but for the love of God, keep Jordan!