Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Rodgers is an excellent coach, done a great job with Leicester, kept them really competitive, well able to beat any side in the league on their day. Probably should of gotten top 4 one season but it ain't easy.

He's at the stage now where he needs to go to a bigger club, Leicester are stagnating and so is he but the likes of arsenal and spurs are almost backward steps now.

It was great to see Kelleher keep a clean sheet yesterday and the save from Sarr was impressive.

One thing I was surprised with yesterday was the energy in the team. Early kick off after an international break is a bit of a recipe for disaster.

I'm pleased that both Trent & Robbo got a decent rest too coming off on 60. It's very rare that they come off in the league games, let alone both at the same time, and early(ish) in the game. The form of Tsimikas seems to have given Robbo a real kick in the ass too, which is no bad thing. Healthy competition.

I would assume that Fabinho will come in on Tuesday. But not sure for who. Keita has played a bit lately so maybe him. But then does Milner have 2 games in him so close together? Ox was brilliant against Atletico a coupe seasons ago so maybe he gets the start?

Just watched the Brentford Chelsea game don't know how they didn't score Chelsea look so solid at the back.

The fact we conceded three against them is a little worrying but we're playing well, Salah is on fire and mane while not back to his 2019 best is a dam sight better than he's been for the last 18 months. Watford were terrible so it's hard to take too much from the match united game should tell us a lot more.

YNWA

Keita should be fine to play mid week, he only had a bit part in the squad since the Burnley game which was in August. Against Atletico the midfield will need energy from the likes of him, Jones isn't as defensively aware as he needs to be for the role.

It's not so much the amount of minutes overall in the last few weeks, it's the amount of minutes so close together for him coming off of the international break. I'd worry for his hamstrings.

This happened last week also. Nothing to moan about team wise so users here resort to sniping at each other. Rodgers is a long time ago, forget him and move on.

As I said he was too young for manager position at Liverpool but I'd say he's after learned from the many mistakes he made.

Thankfully we moved onto a more experienced manager and hopefully he'll be here for as long as possible.

He came through the international break unscathed which was a positive. At Dortmund he was rarely injured, most of his absences from the lineup were due to suspensions. If his period of niggly injuries has passed then he should be available to play for almost every game much like the player that had been expected to arrive at the club when he signed.

I think it has been forgotten that he used to cover almost every blade of grass in every game for Dortmund. People have marveled at the way Robertson covers the whole of the left side of the pitch, Keita used to do the same thing in the centre of the pitch. The man was a complete 'Energiser Bunny' that didn't let the opposition settle and was incredible at recovering possession quickly. Bayern's tactic against him was to try to get him booked early and then wind him up in an effort to get him sent off.

My reply said nothing about anyone being a weasel...

And it was an awwwwwful lot more than just using the media. He was self-destructive within the basic workings of the club. He refused to work with a director of football, and the compromise was the establishment of a transfer committee. He then actively mismanaged (or just didn't play) recommendations of the committee while favouring his own buys. The likes of Aspas, Luis Alberto, Nuri Sahin, and Bobby were totally mismanaged (or just ignored) at times we could've really used them. (and before any Aspas corner memes pop up - we could reaaally have used him the next season with no Sturridge or Suarez, while he simply continued his career of banging in goals). Every transfer was turned into an internal tug-of-war, with the club itself being the chief loser.

The echo did an article a while back about how silly it all got;

But as I said, he's since obviously realised the error of his own ways, and now happily works with a director of football at Leicester, and has indeed recently said that a director of football is absolutely critical at a modern club. So it would seem he's perhaps on the same page with regards how he handled things at Liverpool.

Yeah, I think he's done really well with Leicester. It's to be expected that a club with less depth are more likely to falter in the final games as the weight of the season takes its toll in comparison to bigger clubs. They were robbed of Maddison and Barnes, along with more than half their defence, with a Jamie Vardy who looked dead on his feet from having to play so much. Iheanacho single handedly papered over the cracks for the last 10 or 15 games last season... but Chelsea were always there, with this massive immense squad, creeping steadily up behind. Honestly, I think it was a huge achievement for Leicester to have stayed in the running for top 4 as long as they did over the past 2 years, rather than a failure to not hang on.

I'd just like to point out that Balotelli was used as a lone target man in the game immediately after Sturridge got injured, a role he was completely unsuited for. Lallana started on the left wing and Sterling was benched. Late in the game, Sterling replaced Lallana and Lambert replaced Balotelli. It made no sense at the time because Lallana was better at crossing than Sterling. He also had experience of playing off of Lambert while at Southampton. Sterling was better suited to partnering with Balotelli because of the combination of pace and movement. That sort of reinventing the playbook carry on from the manager was just a taster of what lay ahead.

I think the humour thread was scrapped because it was dominated by two or three posters that turned it into a Liverpool/United snipefest with anything they could find regardless of whether or not it was humorous. Should have just permanently forum banned the fuckwits in mention, but I guess this is why we can't have nice things.

Look harder.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118029386#Comment_118029386

Because it's James P. Milner - the P is very important, it's the pocket he keeps Lionel Messi's essence in. There's a reason why Messi is a shadow of the player he was before he faced James Milner, he thought he was cursing Milner when he called him a donkey but the truth is Milner stole his essence.

If Salah had played the pass I have no doubt we would have witnessed the greatest goal that Messi never scored, instead Salah took the shot as a tribute to the greatest goal that he himself ever scored only two weeks previously.

It's still around:

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058147341/the-humour-thread-chat-24-hour-ban-see-op-for-thread-rules-updated-04-02-21#latest

Poxy copy and paste didn't do it's job. The lads have already linked it anyway.

If I have one criticism it's that Salah only managed to put one defender on their arse to score, in 2018 I think he managed three. Standards must be maintained. 🤣

Mane and Salah are benefitting from have the summer off and getting in their first real R&R since they joined the club.

From the various angles in the tweet above, Milner isn't asking for a pass, he knows Mo is going to score. His body shape and movement are not of a man expecting the ball, they're of someone thinking 'holy ****, he's going to do it again'

I wonder will the Man U fans try and get the game called off again next weekend to try and get the Glazers out or will they want it to go ahead and hope Liverpool run riot so Ole will get the sack.