Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Agree with your post. I think the Premier League has allowed it to go too far though. They allowed Abu Dhabi to come in after Abramovich and they did nothing to stop the Newcastle takeover. They are happy because people pay a lot of money to see the Premier League.

There is only one other club that can compete against City and Chelsea financially at the moment and that is United. I think we can get there, but it will take time. We have a huge wage bill because we have a very good team. So at the moment we are being constrained on a few fronts, we are not yet as mighty as United in making money, but at the same time we are spending a lot of the money we do get.

But I prefer it this way, I wouldn't like it to have unlimited funds to buy any player. Maybe when I was younger, but thank goodness DIC didn't take over the club. Then we would have been knee deep in defending human rights records in the UAE and I would rather be in our situation now that having to debase myself in defending someone that has no respect for anyone else because they happened to be the child of someone that got lucky themselves when they were born.

I also get to moan about these things and at least that makes me a little happy. Imagine being a City fan and not winning a trophy, you have no excuses then other than you are crap.

There was some talk of a vomitting bug. I wonder if the Brazilians had a Christmas party?

I thought city had played all their hardest away games. Us, Chelsea etc

Allison missing for Chelsea would be a huge blow.

Chelsea will have Mendy for the game against us, but will have to play City with Kepa, just seems everything is breaking their way right now.

City are also getting Arsenal with no Arteta and looks like a couple of his coaches will be missing as well. They are even getting luck with Covid affected fixtures. Not that they need it.

He's out for himself that fella. He said the same stuff in the summer when he was trying to get back to Chelsea. To be fair I think if they could get Haaland they happily move him on and he probably knows that.

Not to mention being gifted a 2 point bonus over us from the officials at our 2-2 draw with Spurs.

The Kane should have been red card was in the 20th minute. Pretty much all Spurs' chances apart from his own goal came after that. Unlikely they have them with 10.

Missing chances are part of the game you get them and you take them or not. What shouldn't be part of the game is inept referees failing to award clear penalties and clear red cards. That had far more of an effect on the outcome of the game than spurs creating and then missing chances. Every team does that.

Surely there is some good ageing striker we could get in on loan for the next 6months to help us in January,

Similar to when United picked up Cavani ,

I'll only ever see that game as two dropped for Liverpool, since we got ourselves in front and then handed them a cheap equaliser, even discounting the ref mistakes.

We've dropped points many times in my life because of missed chances, we've also won games in which the opposition has missed some too. That's football.

The performance of the ref shouldn't be part of the game. At least not now when they have help.

Unfortunately refs are still part of the equation from time to time due to ineptness and that's the issue being raised. All anyone asks is you get a game correctly officiated and if you don't win its down to you and you alone.

Spurs not winning is on them, us not winning is mainly on us but partially on the ref.

We all know we need a CF and have done for about 3 years now ,Jota been great at covering the position but that means Mane has no cover & no competition for his spot, We need a CF, Klopp has not bought a single CF in his time here so maybe he doesn't want one,

it was also clear as day we needed another CM in the summer & i think that has cost us, Westham & Leicester defeats Ox started, Brighton & Brentford draws Jones started ,Spurs draw Morton,

So in Westham, Leicester,Brighton ,Brentford & Spurs we dropped points because we had at one of Thiago Or Fab missing ( along with others)

We are not strong enough in midfield , Naby, Miner ,OX, Jones, are not good enough

Alisson , Firmino ,Thiago & Robertson , Origi, Takki, Adrian , so far missing for the Chelsea game ,

It's not all bad, Adrian is back in training!! Woo!

I have no idea how AWB earned this reputation as a very good 'one on one' defender. He has recovery pace, that's about it?

Alisson missing a game isn’t the disaster it once was, as long as Kelleher is fit. While he may not be on the same level at any part of the game, he’s the next best Liverpool keeper I’ve seen with the ball at his feet, which is a hugely important part of the position for us. He isn’t a bad shot stopper either tbf, but nobody in the world can match Alisson in that department, bar maybe Oblak and Donnarumma, maybe Navas too at a push.

Thiago seems to be a very slow healer so seemingly minor injuries seem to drag on for weeks and weeks with him. Wouldn't be surprised if we don't see him for a while which is not ideal with the lads gone to AFCON.

Double booked for a baptism.

I believe Adrian is another of the 3, If its the keeper Union & Kelleher gets it the game will be off, Can't play with no keeper's

I'd rather whack Taffarel in goal than Adrian.

I admire Klopp's determination to get the games played but you have to admit it is probably to our detriment. We played Spurs without VVD, Fabinho and Hendo and dropped 2 points I believe we would have gotten with them. Now we may play Chelsea without Allison and God knows who else.

Sure there is the argument that those fixtures will be difficult to play later in the season or whatever but sure whats the point in playing them now if we cant win them anyway? I'd much rather have an extra fixture against spurs in the bank right now than the 1 point we got from the game.

Anyway, happy new year reds. Hopefully 2022 brings some new shiny things to stick in the trophy cabinet.