Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Ndidi & Soumare fully rested. So basically that will be the base of their midfield the next day. Choudhury could play and he is a wrecking machine. A liability with injuring players. He has history with Salah and I think it was Newcastle & Everton players he previous injured too. Or was it Harvey Barnes? A player in blue iirc.

Castagne rested but then played 45 so he could start the next day.

To be fair Vardy was injured the last night so can't say anything about him staying on the bendh. They'll be hoping that he is fit to start the next game.

I don't know the story with Barnes. Not in the last few squads now.

When they were able to spend more on a defender in 02-03 in a league winning squad than Liverpool in the whole transfer window. Or how they spent more on a midfielder the year before and almost as much on an attacker in 01-02 just after they had won 3 titles in a row from 99 to 01.

Or are you trying to say they didn't have a spending advantage over other teams in that era?

Just catching up on some of Pep Lijnders interviews over the last week he is defiantly implying he want's the managers job after Klopp finishes.

So they would have been disposing of £50m players or a £60m players in order to buy £100m + players. Nice when you have that option.

How many others clubs can do that, in the world?

Also, the rumours for Sterling & Silva were to go to foreign clubs. But buying Grealish & Kane were directly from other PL clubs, thus decreasing the quality of the other PL clubs.

Sterling was out of favour and expected to move?! Would massively disagree with both assertions - He played 52 games the season before he was sold, very close to every game he was available for, so I've no idea how that equates to 'out of favour'. He was one of the absolute key players in the squad, and the club offered him an absolutely massive new contract, trebling his wages to try to keep him. To get his move he had to do an unsanctioned interview behind the clubs back to try to force their hand. In the end he wanted out badly enough, and was willing to make enough of a scene (like refusing to go on the preseason tour, and reportedly faking illness), and kept rejecting contracts, so the club had to bite.

aahhh gotcha, i understand what you meant now!

I went on a 'reputable' Irish travel company to Anfield. It was a present and cost a fortune. The tickets were from a season ticket holder/ tout , who met me outside Anfield and gave me his number if i had trouble. I just had to give his name if I was asked for my name for any reason.

St Stephen's day was boring with no Liverpool game to watch

3 more positive tests,2 staff members and a unidentified younger player

It's not very democratic when you need 14 clubs out of 20 to agree to change, 11-09 is democratic in all fairness.

I need to look it up to confirm but k don't feel like Klopp makes tha many subs and when he does they are incredibly late on.

Even in games we are comfortably cruising in he seems reluctant.

So, a bit like with Pep yesterday, I am not 100% sure how five subs would help when neither manager is making the most of three.

He has used the full 5 subs whenever he has been given the opportunity to though. Certainly in every CL game.

To play devils advocate here, maybe the managers are not using the full 3 subs in the league, as instead they rotate more in the starting line.

A player can play 90 mins in Game 1 and 15 mins in Game 2 (105 total) instead of giving the player 60 mins in Game 1 & 60 mins in Game 2 (120 total)

I think there was some talk last season that the reason why Klopp left it until later in the game to use all of his subs until later in the game was because of the number of injuries that were occurring. He didn't want a situation where 3 subs were made but then another player got injured and he was then forced to play with 10.

It's madness to think that all 5 subs would be made by the 80th minute. It's actually stupid. No manager will do that. Unless they are chasing a game and desperate to get something. Liverpool won 6 out of 6 CL group stage games and never in that situation. Of course the final sub will be held back until late. It's being smart in case there is an injury and you need to make a change.

4 subs out of 30 subs made in the CL were in injury time. 2 of those 4 injury time subs were during a dead rubber, to give 2 kids some CL experience in an already heavily rotated side. The other 2 injury time subs were against 10 men Atletico.

Milan

63

71 71

84 84

Porto

66

67 67 (one who scored 2 goals)

73

88

Atletico

46

63 63 (one won the winning penalty)

85

92

Atletico

46

60

78 78

94

Porto (dead rubber with decent amount of rotation)

63 63

72 72 (one assisted a goal)

82

Milan (dead rubber with lots of rotation)

65 65

80

93 93

Its clear that in the CL games, Klopp had made 3 or 4 subs by the time the 73 minute had come. Plenty time to for a player to change it up. 4 goals directly coming from these subs.

Liverpool's last 4 league games have been been level or Liverpool had a one goal lead on 86 mins. One of those, Liverpool were playing with 10 men. The games were in the balance.

There is some thinking behind keeping one remaining sub until later in the game. It helps you react to tactical changes from the opposition's manager and also any scoreline change. Making subs earlier takes away the ability to react to some of these.