Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

I think Milner coming off on 65 mins tells us all we need to know about Trent not being fit for Sunday. They need Milner rested for it.

Porto really don't want to draw us in the CL.

Looking towards Sunday and I presume it will be the same team bar maybe Bobby in for Jota?

Lovely concept, i wish they saved three from last night for city.

Moreno about 2 inches away from scoring an own goal there a few mins ago.

Might not necessarily be a bad thing tbh, the longer Ole is at the wheel the better

Yeah, I'm wondering is it wrong to want them to get a result so Ole stays longer.

At the moment the only manager that is free that I would worry that United would go for is Conte. Hoping Spurs or Barca are looking for a manager before United.

Although I could see United skip over Conte and try to get Zidane!!

Didn't Conte turn Spurs down already?

True unless United throw stupid money at him.

Zidane will probably be Juventus, PSG or French national team for next move.

Good stuff, Ole needs to pick up enough points that they don't sack him.

If they get Conte in i would be worried, mad they did'nt go after him or Allegri last year.

This was a big miss

PSG leads the Ligue 1 already by 9 points, and they have only played 8 matches. Let's give the manager a full season before making pronouncements on how rubbish he is.

As for Conte, I would be interested to see what he does with the attacking talent in the team. They are very lopsided though, very good attack but midfield is average and we will have to see with that defense. If you make the team more defensively solid, you take away from the attack. That is Solskjaer's problem at the moment. He knows Fred and McTominay is the best midfield, but it takes away from the attack as it means someone will lose out. Last night they had all the big hitters on the field, with Rashford injured. But when he is back one, someone will sit on the bench and it is going to be hard to justify that if the team loses.

Some tasty matches for the next 5 for United - Everton (H), Leicester (A), Liverpool (H), Tottenham (A) and City (H). We will see how they perform in those matches, that will give us a better idea where they are this year.

Getting a bit worried with no news of the Salah contract ,

The fella is in outrageously good form & i reckon can play deep into his 30's ,

It's almost like the arrival of a certain Portuguese chap to the Prem has lit a fire under Mo again , not that he wasn't brilliant last season but he seems to be pushing on again ,

Also it seems like Mane is back close to top form i wonder was the pressure to keep up with Mo getting to him a bit, making him snatch at chances & be extra hard on himself,

I think accepting that Mo's goal scoring is unmatchable mite just allow Mane up to play with more freedom again or i could be talking absolute SH*T

Yeah, but the criticism was he wasn't any good because they didn't win the league last year and now winning the league isn't an indication either.

I don't have an opinion either way. He did well with a Spurs team that didn't have the funds thrown at it like other teams. So he does have something about him.

Yeah, totally agree… like, I think he’ll do fine there and all, but it’s a job that doesn’t use his biggest strengths of being able to build a high energy high pressing creative team. Without being able to bring in players that suit that ethos it’s impossible to do. It’s just a mismatch in ideal styles. He could well still succeed at PSG, but I don’t think failing there necessarily means all that much in terms of the jobs that would actually suit him. Think he’ll still be able to go into a team willing to buy into his work ethic, or a team with a tight budget and work wonders.

On the road for most of October

Should he not be out working on the training ground getting ready for Sunday and not out sorting the foundations for the new stands.

Fecking FSG the cheapskates won't even pay builders and have our manager double jobbing. Next they'll have TAA out driving the diggers, Robbo mixing cement, CBs erecting steel and Hendo on health and safety.

FSG out.

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Missing Alisson and Fabinho for Watford if they go to Brazil as they are playing the day before, with Liverpool then playing at 12:30pm

It's such a disgrace that they were allowed play an extra Copa over the summer rather than catching up on their world cup qualifiers while now just expecting the clubs that the players play for and the players themselves to suffer the consequences.

I'm 95% sure it was an extra Copa, to celebrate the centenary of Conmebol or something like that. At least that's what Tim Vickery has been saying for months now on 5 Live's World Football Phone In.

Edit: a quick google search tells me Conmebol was founded 105 years ago, not 100 so maybe it was something else but either way it Tim Vickery who was saying they should have caught up on their world cup fixtures over the summer instead of playing the Copa.

Yeah but after everything that happened some of the countries involved wanted to scrap it as there wasnt enough time in the calendar, not to mention safety concerns. I think it was the Brazilian players played it under protest.

Yeah, was 100% an extra one. They were shifting the calendar by a year from odd to even years and decided to shove an extra one in - despite there already having been Copa's in 2015, 2016 (centinario), and 2019. So the plan was to play yet another extra one in 2020, and then go back to a 4 year cycle with the next in 2024. It was nuts to have scheduled that 2020 one in the first place, and even more ridiculous to persist with it after/amidst Covid. Just a tournament no-one wanted, even before the massive backlog of fixtures piled up.

There ya go. This is what I meant to say! 😊

Absolute madness for them to plan it in the first place and then go ahead with it after everything that has happened in the past 18 months. And then for them to have the gall to ask FIFA to block the premier league players from being able to play after they didnt turn up for international duty a few weeks ago was shocking, even moreso when you factor in that some of those players lost parent's recently and didn't even return home for that.

An absolute cock up on their part on "reading the room" so to speak. I honestly dont know how they can expect players to miss 3 or 4 matches for their clubs due to mandatory quarantine upon returning to England after playing matches that could already have been played over the summer after THEY made the decision not to do that.

Silly season is fantastic this time of year