Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

We're been mocked for narrowly missing out on a quadruple. I'm sure the majority here remember the dark days. Incredibly proud of Klopp and the boys. We'll go again. YNWA

All you need to reply to this post with is a big LOL would rather win 2 cups further cementing number 1 team in England trophy wish along with finishing 2nd in the league and be a man of the match goal keeping performance away winning the Champions League. Than finishing 6th 35 points off top spot. I know what team had the better season.

It sucks today for sure but, in fairness, were I in their position, I'd be doing the exact same thing. Just have to suck it up unfortunately.

The relief from rivals is palpable.

As you'd expect.

It's human.

Bask in others' failings so you can distract yourself from your own.

A tale as old as time.

Bottom line for me.

Obviously disappointing. Played fine. Ran into a couple of absolute elite performances.

It can happen.

A thoroughly enjoyable season overall. There'll be more trophies in the next four years.

A sad last week to a magnificent season as a whole.

Now onwards and upwards and oh yeah back to playing the kids in the domestic cups please now that we have won them.

There is a lot of confirmation bias in the critisism of Trent for the goal. He was flagged as a weakness all week, and pundits are looking to back that up when analysing the goal.

He could have done better, and hadn't a great game, but the whole left side of our defence was wide open, you could have landed a plane there, Robbo nowhere to be seen, and Valverde? all the time in the world to pick his pass.

The whole defence was at fault for the goal.

Anyway, doesn't feel a lot better this morning, feel sorry for the guys after a great season to fall short at the very end. It's easy to second guess, I thought Bobby did well when he came on, and I thought during the week he almost ought to start or at least played a bigger part then the last 10 minutes, but that's with hindsight. I'm kinda fearing teams are copping on a bit to Diaz and he was pretty ineffective in the main.

Be interesting in the next few weeks to see how the squad changes. I'd expect a few comings and goings.

Yep and hopefully Paris never gets an opportunity to host another major European football event again

Leaving aside last nights performance, he's been a thoroughly disappointing signing. With one year left on his contract I'd be inclined to sell him and recoup some of that large transfer fee.

I just need to figure out where Trents leg is that everyone keeps talking about, as I don't see it.

That's it then Mane is leaving

Dam. I thought his comment about "giving best answer you want to hear" indicated that he would probably stay. Obviously lost in translation. Big loss. Probably hasn't come as a surprise for those behind scenes and hopefully we have some decent replacement lined up.

€30m-€40m is what we will get for him by all accounts.

A good wage and a few league titles with Munich is not a bad way to go after Liverpool.

The 100k a week from Liverpool finally caught up with us, shocking wage for one of the top 5 players in the Premier League

I'd be disappointed with the transfer fee mentioned above.

Jota's goals have dried up and Diaz/Bobby's end product is no where near as good so leaves us with a big problem.

Jota now needs to move back into the middle now and be the center forward with Mane gone.

Jota was the one effected most by the arrive of Diaz as Mane moved into the middle while Diaz took over on the left and Jota was dropped to the sub role

But you see a fraud like Grealish on 300k, and City pay massive bonuses on top also for winning titles, games, ect. So the players on 300k, still get the bonuses you speak of

Keita was on a hiding to nothing last night. If he was going to influence the game then he should have started or been introduced at half time. Bringing him on late in the game, 1-0 down against players who fall over if they feel a breath of air was playing into Real Madrid's hands. Our play was pedestrian paced by our standards and that suited Madrid, the lapse of concentration at the end of the first half was a warning that we got away with.

The front three didn't look sharp, their reaction times were off slightly and that was significant. It was a long season and the team have been amazing but there had been too many minutes on the pitch for most of those bodies to deliver a performance that their season deserved.

It wasn't a coincidence that Konate had a monster performance relative to the players around him, he had played around 64% of the minutes they had this season.

• Robertson : 47 games; 4003 minutes
• Van Dijk : 51 games; 4620 minutes
• Konate : 29 games; 2487 minutes
• Alexander-Arnold : 47 games; 4234 minutes
• Henderson : 57 games; 3876 minutes
• Thiago : 39 games; 2386 minutes
• Fabinho : 48 games; 3693 minutes
• Diaz : 54 games; 3963 minutes
• Mane : 51 games; 3938 minutes
• Salah : 51 games; 4014 minutes

The Mentality Monsters are not machines and the drop off in minutes played between the recognised first eleven and the rest of the squad is staggering.

• Matip : 43 games; 3705 minutes
• Jota : 55 games; 3572 minutes
• Keita : 40 games; 2086 minutes
• Firmino : 35 games; 1804 minutes
• Tsimikas : 26 games; 1712 minutes
• Jones : 27 games; 1530 minutes
• Oxlade-Chamerlain : 29 games; 1526 minutes
• Milner : 39 games; 1371 minutes
• Gomez : 21 games; 1036 minutes
• Minamino : 24 games; 1008 minutes
• Elliott : 13 games; 675 minutes

Jones, Milner, Keita and Oxlade-Chamberlain could be replaced by two players considering Henderson and Thiago played almost the same number of combined minutes as those four.

At Bayern? Unlikely. Deserves a big contract undoubtedly.