Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Liverpool's under 18's lost 4-3 to City today.

They seem to be building a front 3 of goalscores though with one of them being Irish.

Koumas age 16 with 7 goals 2 assists in 6 games

Doak age 16 with 3 goals 3 assists in 6 games

Kone-Doherty age 16 with 3 goals in 6 games.

Arthur is playing with the u21s this evening. Will help with the match fitness I guess, as he won't be going on international duty. Carvalho also starting.

2 of Jermiane Pennant's nephews are playing for Leicester in the same game.

Arthur & Carvalho played the whole game in a 0-1 win over Leicester.

When you've had issues defending headed goals from set-pieces for well over a year, it's only right that he takes the blame.

Everton and Leicester have 0 wins

Newcastle have 1

Liverpool have conceded 6 goals, same as City. Liverpool have scored more than Arsenal, and conceded less than Arsenal, they're flying at the top, not so much us.

Liverpool are a striker away from competing, and at the moment it's looking like Nunez is a mistake. We bought him because Klopp liked him, how he got in behind our defense, but every man and his dog can get behind us, it's hardly a bar to judge someone on😄

Not to mention awarding new contracts to Vardy and Evans, both in obvious decline.

Thiago does not suffer from arthritic knees or has an alcohol addiction. I wonder how McGrath managed to be continually employed when having these problems and not be registered disabled.

I am going to assume you mean they sold Maguire, Fofana and Chilwell to get to the 200m pounds. That is only one side of the story Toby because they did sell those players, but at the same time they have a net spend since the Maguire transfer. Yes its a small one, but that is mainly because of this year. So in the previous years when they sold a player for lots of money they spent more to get other players in. They have been making losses consistently for the past 3 years so had to make up the money somewhere. Their owners are in Duty Free in Thailand, a company hit by Covid in a country that has been closed for most of the time. Money is tight, welcome to the real world.

Their turnover to wages is also not healthy so their inability to qualify for the CL when he had them in the position falls on him and only him. The owners gave him the tools to succeed, he did not take it two years in a row. Now he has to work with the consequences. As others have said, the owners are not responsible for them being terrible at set pieces, and this is not a new thing.

Virgil van Dijk wears Paul McGrath pyjamas.

I honestly reckon people forget just how good McGrath was, easily the best CB Ireland ever had which isn't saying much but the lad oozed class. Very nice fella and a humble man too.

I think you'll find the Elliot bashing is just coming from one poster. He just repeats himself so much it feels like it's a few posters.

Good, well in that case no one is bashing Elliot. I myself have stated that Elliot is too lightweight currently for our midfield and how we try to play, I said it weeks ago before the stats came out that he was the most dribbled past player in the league apparantly cos I could see it with my own eyes. I wouldn't have called it bashing myself, rather taking an objective look at our issues. He may well develop into that player but He is obviously not strong enough defensively yet and this is causing us problems down our already vulnerable right hand side.

McGrath is a legend, one of the greats, especially in an Irish context.

However, his career happened 25/30 years ago. The game has changed immensely in the meantime, its a completely different game.

A player with McGrath's training regime let alone his lifestyle would not last in today's game.

Yeah but in todays games with deep squads and five subs he wouldnt be run into the ground like he was back in the 90s. Youd roll him out for the big games and he would do the business.

The Liverpool women’s team beat the reigning WSL champions Chelsea in the opening game of the season winning 2-1.

When all else fails, back to Southampton!

I don't bash him i simple call it how he is, Promising full of protentional but no where near the level people make out he currently is , & he should not & is not immune to criticism ,

That actually not accurate ,

He was only injured in training once since he arrived at Liverpool, although one other injury was in a warm up ,

Corna missed 4 games

Everton game broken leg missed 17games

Calf injury v Palace missed 10 games

Corna missed 3 games

Hip injury in training missed 7 games

Thigh Problem v Cup final warm up missed 3 games

Hamstring v Fulham missed 6 games .

All the Brazilian's

Would fit right in at the baptism pool parties.

He just signed a new contract in the last few days that ties him down till 2027 though, so either that was done as a way to make sure Flamengo get decent money on his sale, or maybe more likely that his Liverpool comments were just to prompt an improved offer from Flamengo that he has since taken.

We are being linked today with Shakhtar Donetsk's left winger Mykhaylo Mudryk.

Looks like there might be a bit of post World Cup January transfers going to happen.

One man can have an incredible effect on a whole team, ie Suarez , but it's true in a negative way also, ie Nunez