Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Nunez is like a giant Vardy, His movement & pace are amazing ,,

Everyone has a set amount of playable mins defined,based on general fitness, nothing is risked unnecessarily.. long term strategy for every season,long term injuries screw us..

Jones..not up to it,same with ox,same with nabby,all need replacing

Milner looks like a man reborn, been immense in the last 2 games.

Still don't really understand how to access this thread consistently (and it's been years at this point) but I've missed getting mad about things that don't matter.

Anyway Nunez is the dumbest, most gifted player we've had in a long time, I love him. The brain of Alberto Moreno in the body of Fernando Torres.

3 games in 6 days. Injury hit squad. Important thing now is just to pick up wins however we can before the World Cup. Unlikely to get 3 great performances in 6 days. Just get the wins and move on and hopefully we'll be up and around the CL spots by the time of the WC break. And then hopefully get some players back.

One thing that impresses me about Nunez is that he is always involved. Doesn't go missing. He creates chaos and has an eye for goal. Seems like he is not shy of working hard either.

Last night he had 3 shots on target in the first half alone, and hit the bar too. And obviously scored. Overall, he had 6 shots in less than an hour. He only played 18 mins against Man City, but still had enough time for 2 shots, and really should have had an assist too. He caused mayhem to City, but without the end product.

The fact he is so involved, and in the key areas leads me to suggest that he will do well once he settles properly. But being so involved is certainly encouraging to me.

...well now we HAVE to play him

https://twitter.com/Zonal_Marking/status/1583044778002124802?s=20&t=yytgYROk7zK30TQhpjizXA

Only problem is who plays RM? Defending in a 442 like we have been I'm not sure anyone else can give the required pace, quick feet, and defensive effort that Salah has in that position. It wouldn't be as big a concern if we still had Diaz providing all that on the left, but with Diaz injured and Salah playing central I can't see us having any threat from wide.

Trent at RM makes the most sense to me but I think we're all a little to quick to suggest "play Trent somewhere else and all our problems will go away" solutions 😁

Klopp spoke about it last night and looked excited by it but he did say we would need a formation o make it work ,

I honestly don't think it will happen untill one of Diaz & Jota are back, We need at least one of our winger to have pace & at the moment Mo is the only one we have,

Id imagine once most of the lads are back fit we will see Nunez as the 9 with Mo roaming,

Ox is a great call if only he was match fit ,

I think we will see the 4231 figure a good bit over the course of the season as well once Jota & Diaz return in the New Year.

This whole World Cup in the middle of the season is a pain however it is also a bit of a blessing as it gives both those player time to recover and actually not miss that many games

It will also be interesting to see will they sign a player in January to give the squad a boost like Diaz did last season. If they do that may indicate where the long term formation might be heading.

Mo is probably the most suited to that RW role of the available players - but I think we lose a lot more by not having him in more dangerous positions than we gain from him being on the right.

I'd rather a slightly more makeshift RW like Elliott, or Trent, or even Milner, over sacrificing Mo's freedom to cause trouble. I don't even think Elliott is that much of a step down out there though, was excellent there against City, and has tonnes of successful playing time there with Blackburn.

Its very possible

Id also say being a 6 he had two players with legs either side of him so was never exposed , I a 2 man midfield he has more space around him,

Didn't Naby play basically as wide right in our 5-0 trashing of United at there place last season, He was brilliant in that game so also an option if he can keep fit ,

Something that's really excited me this season is seeing how well Elliott and Carvalho can receive the ball on the turn, it's so nice have players in midfield whose first touch can be progressive and contribute to a move rather than just slowing us down.

Carvalho's partnership with Mitrovic last season in the Championship could be a look at whats to come in the next few years with how he could partner with Nunez.

That partnership actully reminded me a lot of Naby & Werner at Red Bull Germany and kind of what we hoped we would get from Naby when he was signed.

I could actually see Naby go back to Red Bull and rekindle that partnership with Werner.

FSG looking to expand Anfield even more once the Anfield Road stand is finished.

In the article itself it doesn't actually say expansion, it just says they might look at further ancillary development inside Anfield.

So I would guess that is more pointing towards improved facilities, and improved stadium match-day experience stuff, rather than necessarily boosting the numbers further.

I believe there are plans to implement more railed seats (sort of safe standing) in the long term - this won't add any capacity though, as railed seats/safe standing use the same space per person as regular seating.

Wonder what sort of options there are to make the incline steeper alright... if there's any club that's going to be erring on the side of caution on that sort of stuff it's Liverpool though.

Gerrard's days are numbered...

That's crazy- never known him to be a speedster. He looked relatively slow in his first few games. This guys could grow to be something special.

The position he's been in this season on the right is one he's never been in before.

He was always a right wing forward, who sometimes would pick it up out by the touchline, but very often picked it up only just wide of the box. This season - prior to the match against Rangers - he was playing in an orthadox right winger position, deeper, and wider, than he'd ever been before. And where he'd previously always had loads of license to move around, for the bulk of this season he seemed to have been told to stay wide, like a winger instead of a forward. (There's some suggestion from things Klopp said that this is Mo himself choosing to stay further wide, rather than being told to, but who knows..)

With those goals you're talking about, his starting position - while wide - was often a lot narrower, and closer to the box... when he's trying to do the same thing from closer to the halfway line and touchline, he's got far too great a distance to cover before he even gets to the danger area, and so has far more players in his way because they have time to organise. He's tried that run plenty this year, and it's just never coming off, because it's simply way harder than where he'd been doing it from before.

When people say they want him more central, it doesn't necessarily mean dead centre forward, but rather simply more central than that ultra-wide position he's been in. 5 meters higher up the pitch, and 5 meters further inside from the touchline makes all the difference. If he went back to the RWF position he's played most of the past 5 years in, i'd be happy out.

A championship job is problem the right next step. This thing of jumping right into a premier league job just cause he's Steven Gerrard is a bit mad. There should be progression... now, given how fantastically well he did with Rangers, I get the urge from Villa to fast track him, but really he could do with a good level Championship team out of the limelight, like Rooney did.