Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Also I learned today Jota real name is Diogo Silva,

He even had Silva on his jersey at Wolves,His middle name Jose & with Jota being the pronunciation for J in Portuguese,

J (Jota) was his nickname growing up so thats why he put it on his jersey as he thought Silva was to common to stand out

Thiago bas been insanely good this season. I’d actually argue he is in a small group of our key playeras now: Allison, VVD, Trent, Fabiniho, Thiago. All the others are rotatable (yes, even Salah) but these players offer something unique.

Chelsea goal....only watching the last few mins but they seem well on top

Very harsh on Kyrgiakos - The Greek was a really solid signing as 4th choice CB, and did better than expected. Became more of a cult hero for being a big no-nonsense fella who looked like a madman, often being thrown up front late on, and scoring a few big goals.

A replay of the 2012 FA Cup final hopefully with a different result.

We could certainly do without that final going 120 minutes and pens at that stage of the season.

Inside Wembely

Love that Mane still uses wired earphones non of this hi-teck wireless ones :)

These really are great days to be a Liverpool fan. What a fantastic team. There are little bits here and there we can pick at, but they really are a brilliant group of players that should be enjoyed.

Again I see the situation with us and United getting reversed here. Souness was looking backwards trying to get hardmen like when he played. We paid big money for Dicks and he wasn't good enough. United went off and signed little known Denis Irwin who was first choice for about 10 years.

Now, United were looking backwards with Ole, "lets get back to what worked before" and they overpaid 50mil for Wan Bissaka, who from the United thread fans say is not good enough.

While roughly the same time Liverpool go and spend 8mill on little known Andy Robertson, were laughed at, and who hopefully will be a 10 year legend as well.

Then there was Ruddock, Babb, Scales and plenty of others who could be like Maguire while United seem to hit home runs again with Bruce, Pallister, Stam, Rio, Vidic etc and now we are hitting home runs with Matip, VVD and Konate.

That's total hyperbole. He wasn't brilliant, but he had plenty of grand games. Go back and look at the thread here at the time sure, the general consensus was that Karius was deservedly number 1 going into the end of the 17/18 season. Like, him being picked to start the CL final just wasn't a controversial choice. It turned into a total train wreck, but that doesn't change his many perfectly adequate performances before that.

I don't even think it was a mistake to buy him as a young cheap prospect - the mistake was him being bought to replace Mignolet, when he should have been bought as backup to another new high quality keeper.

Yup, neither good enough to start, both good enough to be backup. But for someone to say he literally didn't have a single decent performance is mad. Had plenty of em. He's a bog-standard average keeper with an occasional clanger in him, not the anti-christ.

I'm not sure the comparison with treatment of other keepers after mistakes and Karius is fair though - he cost the club a champions league. That's a million times harder to get over than anything Adrian has done - and a backup making a mistake is always easier to take than your main guy, because you're sort of prepared for it (like Adrian's terrible Atleti performance). I think everyone involved pretty much knew there was no coming back from that final with the fans. Like, he'd have been a grand backup instead of ever even buying Adrian, but the stigma attached to that final match was just too much to get over, and it was so big as to never ever be forgotten. It was better for everyone involved - very much including himself - for him to be far away from Liverpool.

Red flag...2 soft goals lol, you remember one was a penalty right?

Anyway hope you are enjoying the season. As one of the more negative posters on here thankfully your season predictions haven't come to pass.

Probably going to head over for the last game of the season, I know there's no chance of a ticket but do you reckon they'd put on a big screen or something if the title race is still on? Or should I just find a comfortable stool early and settle in?

I am not going to say Karius was the answer for our problems. But I think you are being very harsh with your assessment of him. In the home leg the 2 goals he gave away as mentioned was a penalty and the other Lovren let the ball drop over his head which allowed Dzeko in on goal. Not Karius fault.

The second leg their first goal the ball deflected off Miner from an attempted clearance in the box. Again not his fault. The second goal he could have done better as he parried the initial shot into the path of Dzeko. The 3rd goal was a good shot from outside the box that hit the post and went in, not saveable. The 4th goal was another penalty. So out of the 6 we conceded you can look to him for one of them to do better.

We know what happened in the final, he got hit in the head before it all went wrong. So he may not have been the answer to our long term plans for a keeper, but he was not a liability that we had to get rid of before that match. I wonder if we had won the match if we would have gone with a world record fee to sign Alisson? It doesn't really matter, we didn't win and we did sign Alisson so it worked out for us long term.

We get a lot of rose tinted glasses looking back at Mignolet IMO. I mean his last few years it was like having smoke in goal, for a fella classed as a great shot stopper, pretty much every shot on target ended up as a goal and that was backed up by stats at the time. Shot stopping is the bare minimum you expect from any keeper and he was always rooted to his line too which prevented us playing how we wanted. Karius was a step up from that and began to allow us to play higher up the pitch too, but neither we're good enough as Ali proved once he came in. I'm just so grateful we finally sorted what was a problem position for us for years with a bonafide world class fella.

I'd agree with the point made about Karius since then though, he looks like a body builder these days and sitting around claiming his paycheck without trying to save his career is not a good look.

How could you possibly know that?

What we do know is that Salah at the moment is playing very similarly to the Salah of previous seasons when he had very little rest. He started this season fresh, and it showed in his performances. He has played so many minutes in 2022. The evidence suggests his minutes need to be managed.

Where did I say I know that?

As u said Chelsea started well amd have a massive squad, they loomed so good defensively, Getting there two wimg backs injured when they did was a hige problem for them

Plus Lakaku turned out awful

To be fair only one place off in aperdiction isn't that bad

Ah stop now , I remember you looking for a serious review of training methods and the medical expertise within the club around that time. You are always knee jerk in your posts far from the balanced view you claim to have, actually reminds me of another 2 posters on here that spam nonsense on here consistently. TBF your not in their league, thankfully I can't see their posts anymore 😁

Villarreal play tomorrow and then don't play again till the semi final

Where as Liverpool have to play historically there two biggest rivals between now and the first leg of the semi final.

Listening to a couple of pods they are also saying Villarreal will also more than likely rest there entire team for there game against Alaves inbetween the semi final games.