Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

He really is a man child.

Lukaku- Kane swap imminent

Oh Konate was brilliant again

To be fair, Liverpool have been really unlucky with the whole COVID stuff, especially compared to other clubs.

Liverpool have had back-to-back weeks of 2 separate COVID outbreaks. Nearly all of the people involved are key first team players, and the manager. None of this training ground stuff. Other clubs have got postponements for less, but that December 20th change seems to now mean that the 14 player rule is actually being enforced. The timing of Liverpool's 2 different outbreaks over the course of 2-3 weeks, and both occuring after the rule change, is just damn annoying. But it is what it is.

As a result, we missed VVD, Fabinho & Thiago against Spurs, along with Hendo through illness, and forced into playing Morton in midfield and tbf he got a bit exposed with the yellow card and got taken out of the game really. Not up to the speed of a high intensity top level PL game yet. Then today, we missed Alisson, Matip & Bobby. The midfield was a bit exposed again - Milner started fine but he tired and his older legs weren't able to keep up. Gave away a tired, lazy free kick which resulted in the opening goal. Fabinho did not look at the races - maybe a lasting affect from COVID? Midfield was poor today, overall. Bobby would have helped midfield a lot today if he was able to play. Jota doesn't do the link up play at all compared to him. Second half especially, it's like Liverpool weren't able to keep the ball. For all his strengths, Ox is not exactly a 'ball keeper' either. And he had to play out of position, as a central attacker, as there are none available.

Some tired legs and, more worryingly, minds out there after the last few weeks. It's like they know that City have the march on and they can't come back to compete or something. Maybe I'm just being negative after the disappointment of drawing while 2-0 up.

The Arsenal game should be intresting we could go full strength with the next game home to Rochdale

Two of Liverpool toughest 3 games remaining where Spurs & Chelsea away and they got hit by Covid d for both, Its jut not going to be our year

2 attackers & 2 midfeilders in the summer and we go again

Does anyone know what kind of an injury Origi has or how long he is out for?

Clarkson's loan at Blackburn is over as he is returning to the club I guess Elliott was a hard act to follow espically with the form Blackburn are now in it would be hard to break into there team.

And even then you may not win it.

We were basically as perfect as any team has ever been for two calendar years, and still only won it once.

Mo isn't signing is he

Man U and Chelsea two teams that can afford to in recent years have shown throwing hundreds of millions in tranfers and wages won't be enough to compete with and beat City.

It will be 5 seasons since Chelsea won it at the end of this one and 9 since Man U won it.

Liverpool just cannot mix with that kind of financial power.

FSG are not even in the top 10 richest owners in the Premier League and now when you now there will be two oil rich nations competing in the coming seasons for bragging rights it will be a long time before any other team regularly joins the preimer league winners table.

Liverpool, Chelsea and Man U might break into it every now and then in the coming years however over the next decade plus it will be The UAE & The Saudi's competeing against each other for Middle East bragging rights.

Then when it comes to Europe those Middle East Countries will eventually get there **** together and The UAE, The Saudi's and Qatar will compete every season for the top throphy.

Anyone not owned by a UAE conglomerate or Russian oil tycoon just cant compete in the future, its just not financially viable.

Yeah, it's not impossible.

It's very difficult, but can be done. Liverpool were near perfect in the years 2018-2020 but just came up against a side that were almost perfect too. Thankfully one compete season fell into those years. A bit of luck with injuries etc and that extends a few months later than that, and it could have been 2 titles who knows.

I dont buy this we are literally a good attacker and a good CM short,

We COULD have afforded that over the last two seasons we chose not to, No ones askong for 100s of millions,

Maybe Salah is getting what he wants wage wise but not ambition wise., Could u blame Salah if he leaves club has show no ambition in the last few years makes it worse because it wouldnt take much to get us right up there

They bought Konate to address a problem position from last season and plan for the future. Midfield was already crowded and they hoped Elliot would feature. Not much could have been done up front unless selling Bobby or Sadio.

I'd have liked a Bowen or Bellingham but the space wasn't there unless selling another mid and no one was interested. For me, Thiago has been a huge problem since joining, taking a slot of a young gun and rarely making the impact we need for games on end.

Not implying that we would have spent the money, but wasn't a major issue that we were at the limit of non-homegrown players in the squad and no offers came in for anyone?

I mean Klopp couldn't have done more to try to sell Origi, bless him

We couldn't/wouldn't just release unwanted players, and we couldn't add any players into the squad without offloading. Covid obviously impacted that but I think we also made a rod for our own back by overcelebrating the great deals Michael Edwards did on the likes of Ibe, Solanke, Brewster, I think that scared other teams off from trying to buy from us

I'm sorry but saying the midfield is crowded is crazy.. the dogs on the street knew ahead of the season that Keita, Thiago and ox would miss games due to injury and milner another year old. Plus AFCON coming.. Even with Elliot, another mf should have been bought... too light imo