Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Unfortunately there isn't magic beans, and the owners are trying to run the club as self sufficient.

Overall, a hell of a job they've done too tbh.

But there must be a balancing act with squad improvement. Arsenal have tried that since they left Highbury even though their owners are wealthy.

Same, thankfully I don’t think Utd will overcome their problems to the extent that they will go on a long run. But I do think Arsenal are a maturing team and Spurs will improve under Conte, so a loss of form and a few bad results will give us concern.

I heard the Arsenal argument before. It's been debunked under Klopp. In fact I can't believe people still reel it off. Tbf, you're the first I've seen mention it in years.

What way do you suggest raising extra funds that the club haven't thought of?

Again, Liverpool are not a poor club. No one is suggesting we spend on the level of MC/MU, we don’t need to. There are enough quality players there to mean a few additions will do.

How has it been debunked under Klopp? When he came in he/FSG/Edwards identified where improvement was needed and addressed it by signing a top class Keeper/CB/defensive midfielder/striker. None of those were cheap, though Salah looks like a bargain. Are we now saying they couldn’t identify the problems that were obvious from the start of the season and/or no longer willing to spend to augment the squad and keep challenging City?

That is for the money men 6. As a fan, I want a competitive team. Sorry, I’m a bit frustrated this evening after watching that match, there are many players I would like to have if money was no object like City, but I still think that they must have identified good players a tier down from premium level which would be better than what we have. Part of me knows that money will always be an issue and we cannot compete with City/PSG on that front, and certainly do not want to go down the debt road of MU/Barca/RM. Maybe there is a grand plan for the summer, but I am concerned now that unless Salah sees progress in a team which no longer seems capable of challenging City, he will be off. That would be disastrous.

Don’t kid yourself 6, it’s January 2nd and few give us any hope of winning the league, that is not competitive, unless you think qualifying for the CL next year is the limit of our ambition. Run in CL will depend on avoiding MC/BM in my opinion.

Again, you are looking backwards. Unless the squad was improved last summer, we were handicapped from the start of the season against a team that won the league.

How is it throwing the toys out of the pram to be disappointed with the way this season has gone so far? We have lost leads in a good few games we could have and should have won. Our midfield is not functioning for reasons easily predicted.

I don’t get it, you think we should be glad that the team WERE so good, and shouldn’t complain. The toys are out of the pram because our best player hasn’t signed his contract, and the team is in decline and the owners didn’t address that. What do you expect? Happiness.

You want a team strengthed with no funds. You're not realistic. Tell me how you expect to to sign players when revenue was decimated last season? That seems to be the core of your gripe, but what's your solution?

We were hit with Covid before a run of Spurs, Leicester and Chelsea away. That'll cripple most teams. A draw away to Spurs and Chelsea are not bad results. Leicester was bad for sure.

Before that we were purring in the league.

Why do you think it is up to me, or any other fan for that matter to provide a solution? FSG pay financial advisors and Edward’s team to provide solutions to your question. I don’t know how much they could raise from investors, sponsors, loans etc, I don’t know what players they could have signed who were entering the last year of their contracts last summer or for less in January. They have experts for this.

There are a lot more matches than the ones you list that I base my opinion on, MC, Chelsea, Brentford, West Ham, Brighton, Wolves etc. We were not purring in the league, we had a few great displays but in a lot of games I got the sense that the other team were going to score against us.

Exactly.

We can't just spend what isn't there. I'd expect money to be available in the summer.

Konate hadn’t played that much this season, Gomes has hardly kicked a ball, Matip has stayed relatively injury free and our midfield is not doing well. A new midfielder to replace the one ultra reliable midfielder has proved to be as important as a new CB was. If we go back to the posts at the start of the season, I’d say there are a lot who hoped we would not find out how much we missed Gini.

Just as an example, and I’m not saying he is the ideal choice, but Frank Kessie has missed 4 games in the last 4 seasons due to injury, and one of those was due to the flu. He was ACs second highest scorer last year behind Ibra, he was entering the last year of his contract and is on £70k per week. Maybe we will buy someone better in the summer, but he kinda sounds and looks like a Klopp player even though he played only ok against us in the CL. Konate looked woeful at times last year, but we now know he is a hell of a player under Klopp.