Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

I'd say that the rumours about the GKs is probably true and that's the reason why the League Cup game was postponed.

Alisson could be out of isolation by the weekend and may be able to play, which would put the club into the position of having a fit GK and they'll be told to play the game with the fit players & u18s. The rest of the isolation players would hopefully be back for the league games and league cup game too by the time they come around.

Edit: going by the Atheltic article today, the rules for League Cup and FA Cup are different. For the League Cup, if you have 14 players available that are registered in your league squad, you have to play. For the FA Cup, you just need 14 players available at the club. So the u18s count here.

You really haven't missed much tbh. Apart from the fact that Toby was accidentally granted developer credentials and they had to rebuild the site from the ground up a week later.

Some talk today of Philips being the subject of a bid from a PL club for £7m, West Ham being one of the clubs mentioned.

I know many laughed at the idea of Jarrod Bowen during the summer, myself included, but he has impressed this season so far.

I wonder if the club will try to leverage the 2 against each other, sort of like the Hoever and Jota deals? £7m for Philips seems cheap, and £15m seems a bit more reasonable. Likewise £40m for Bowen deems decent but £50m seems expensive. But balancing those deals against each other, at either the low or high prices effectively make the net spend the same amount (33m v 35m). It's just about optics then for who wants to say they came out the better side of the deal.

The biggest issue is wages he's on 250 grand a week,

Villa offered Grealish 150 grand to stay , So even if they offered that to Phil he's be a100 grand down a week ,

We have been arguing here that we need a out and out striker for a long time and here he is. That the end of Bobby ?

Luis Diaz is a winger/wide forward - more competition for Mane.

Obligatory YouTube highlights clip ...

Isn't Diaz a bit slow for what we look for in a wide/inside forward

I think Phil will definitely have to take a wage drop wherever he goes, or he could just sign for Newcastle and probably stay on the wages he is already is at?

Quicker it's done the better, sick of us getting linked to him with no foundation at all...

Matip apparently has a 90% dribble success rate according to Reddit!

So his logic is that if we’re going to sign him, it’ll only be in the next few days and not in the summer because Mane is going to the AFCON and we need him for cover.

A £60m player to cover for Mane, for a maximum of five games. Three of those against Shrewsbury, Brentford and Palace. The other two against Arsenal in the League Cup, which Mane has barely played in.

And it typically takes a player signed from abroad a couple of months training under Klopp before he’s ready to start for Liverpool.

We can file this video firmly in the “Twitter Bullsh*t” category. Not to say the transfer won’t happen in the summer, though.

Don't know if Diaz would be a direct replacement for Mane, he mainly plays through the centre for Porto and has no where near the pace of Mane or Salah! 60m for him is a bit much too as that would put you in the market for Raphinha who I think is twice the player Diaz is. So I don't think there is much to this story, 60m for a player who is going to sit on a bench and is already a few marks down on what's in front of him doesn't really sound like Liverpool over the past few windows!

Yeah, all sounds dodgy. The money is waaaay more than we're likely to spend for a player of his record... that amount would likely get you Gonçalves, who looks better and more suited to us, and is a year younger. (I dont think we'd spend that much on Gonçalves either though.)

Salah, Mane and Firmino all have 12 months left on their contract at the end of this season and we know not all are going to be renewed.

Plausible scenario:

• Salah signs extension
• Firmino stays out his contract and gets a Wijnaldum-like transfer next summer because we won't want to pay him the wages he'll want to extend and we won't recoup enough money in the summer to make it worth selling - like the Sturridge or Lovren situation - so we might as well keep him for another 12 months and let him go on a free
• Mane gets sold this summer. Rationale being that he'll be 31 when his contract expires next year, we won't want to pay him crazy wages at that age after giving Salah the massive bump he'll need to sign. However unlike Firmino you could see a good chunk of money being spent on him this summer, potentially a £50m or so as there will be teams that will bid if he's available.

So in that scenario we would get in, say, Diaz and Dembele this year in place of Mane and Origi, keep Mo for next 5/6 years alongside them, and still have Firmino for another whole season and reassess renewing him at that point.

I'm not saying this is likely, but keeping Mane as well as Salah doesn't seem easy to me and any succession planning, even if not these players mentioned coming in, will have to happen this year

I see Bobby ending his career with us

I see Salah leaving this summer & Mane next ,

We will 100% not sign Dembele ,Naby ,Thaigo ,Matip ,Gomez all injury prone we don't need Dembele to join them,

The price seems more than what we'd normally pay to be honest.

Diaz was linked with United and Chelsea about two years ago I think and the general consensus was he's a very good player with a huge ceiling.

I do think Danjuma will get another look. The club won’t be put off by him making a move this summer, if they’re as interested as has been reported, they’ll go back for him and Villarreal will make a quick and substantial profit. It’s not like he made a move to a top club that he’ll struggle to leave, with all due respect to Villarreal, but they’re as much of a stepping stone as we were under Rodgers. Most clubs are, to be fair, aside from the elite few that can only be seen as destination clubs, and while we’re in that bracket at the minute, it won’t be forever.

I have to say, the thought of Divock leaving genuinely upsets me a little bit. He’s been a Liverpool player since 2014 and has only played 167 competitive games for us yet he’s scored plenty of the most important goals in the club’s recent history, and astonishingly he’s the second longest serving player at the club (when you consider he was signed in 2014, spending the following season away on loan).

It looks like he actually will be leaving this month and not only can we not afford to be selling players without replacing them, but Divock is one I’ll be gutted to see sold.

I do like how Stevie handles the press mind you... 😂

I’ve been saying it for years. He was looking like a top class striker on the making until that assault. I get the impression he was rushed back for the Europa League final too, which certainly didn’t help if that was the case. I know some will say “trust the experts” and “they’re professionals, they know what they’re doing”, but 30 days is just not enough to fully recover from an ankle ligament injury, and Origi’s case looked particularly bad.

I feel that part gets glossed over at times, it’s a risk that the coaching and/or medical team didn’t get away with IMO.

,would ye's haven Countino back?

In a 6 month loan as back up to Mane yes, Only problem is he probably isn't match fit for us,

Long term no we need someone younger,