Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

His first goal for Liverpool and he’d be doing very well to ever score a better one.

Was the best player on the pitch from the moment he came on.

Wow, what a cracker that was. Delighted for him, what a perfect return.

Goal nice finish

Millie very slow to react in midfield but lovely run and pass and then followed up with an excellent finish.

Been a good game overall. Would have been nice to get a clean sheet.

need to focus a bit now

Oh no :(

Great goal from Cardiff to be fair....

Thank fook it looks like an impact injury

Defender can so take weight off his knee when he felt it under him, choose not to

Firmino will never score a goal again will he

Treble still on!

Minamino's goals to minutes make him a 1 in 2 goalscorer.

11 goals in 2038 minutes played since he joined the club including today.

Not bad from the 5th/6th choice back up.

One angle of Eliiotts goal showed how much rain was falling during the game.

I think Elliot’s natural ability and the type of position he takes up suits a Klopp team more than Jones.

I am struggling to see what type of player Jones is, is he a Henderson?

Of course he was. We were playing a Championship level side and Taki is an upper championship level player!

He's a slower, less defensively aware Wijnaldum, who has the very odd screamer in him.

To me he seems like the type of player that would have been indulged under Roy Evans or Gerard Houllier but the team is a a couple of levels beyond that now.

Jones broke through to the first team squad two years ago but he doesn't seem to have matured at all. He got a run of games in midfield last season but he was a passenger in the big games particularly against Man City and Chelsea and he lost his place in the line up shortly afterwards. It seems harsh to judge a 20 year old for his performances against the teams that played in the Champions League Final but that is the level he's playing at. Harvey Elliott replaced him in the lineup at the start of the season and Jones wasn't missed. Injuries to Elliott, Thiago and Milner are to thank for the opportunities that he got in the team earlier in the season and against Man City and Brentford he exhibited the same weaknesses in his game.

Today Elliott came into the game and demonstrated why he is ahead of Jones. Jones is a liability where we need the midfield to be switched on, everything Elliott did had purpose - pressing, passing, movement. In contrast there was the Curtis Jones show where he jogged about, chose poor passing options and tried to work himself into positions to have a crack at goal to replicate his effort against Everton two years ago.

Jones is a talented individual but he plays as an individual and there's no place for that in our midfield - maybe a loan move where he plays regularly would allow him to develop as required but I can't see him getting sufficient opportunities at Liverpool without him showing more maturity.

Look back through this thread for match days where Taki featured. Utterly useless, missing sitters and making up the numbers is about the height of it. He scores the odd goal and suddenly people forget the buckets of game time where he couldn't get a kick. He tries hard but just isn't that good. He wouldn't feature for City so why do we tolerate him?

Minamino has more goals than Sancho & Grealish combined and only one behind Lukaku this season that's not bad going for a player you wouldn't tolerate at the club.