Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Haven't seen much of Gakpo but wasn't hugely impressed with him at the WC. Then again, the Dutch weren't that good anyway.

I'll be happier if we get Amrabat in also.

It didn't take long for one player to arrive after VVD said this.

Maybe a few more are on the way.

Jones has given an update on his original tweet and is now saying the max fee will be €50m.

He looks raw and player from the dutch league is always a toss up. Still it's welcome given the injuries to the left side and if it means I don't have to watch oxlade chamberlain again I'm for it.

Surely though if we are spending money on an attacker in January, a midfielder is been lined up too.

Jota is best through the middle imo, we also toyed around a lot with a 442 before all the injuries so we could see that again.

If a cross came into the box, I still see Jota as our most clinical striker. If it's one touch required.

Absolutely but as ppl have said with the other two out still, we only have three proper options for three positions if you don't count Carvalho or Ox.

That being said, if this is our only signing I'd now be surprised.

Nice to get the win, scoring a few goals en route. The period of 20 mins after half time we're very worrying and number of chances Villa had throughout is a concern. Allison is a beast though. Liverpool created a good number of chances themselves which is encouraging. Overall, just nice to win and get back on track after the break.

I'm not convinced by Gakpo, I was hoping Man United were going to sign him. Hopefully I'm proven wrong.

Football fans often think there is a magic wand, "sign Bellingham" or in the past "sign Messi", "sign Maldini" etc and it just gets magically done.

Perhaps Gakpo was signed because he could have been signed. It was realistic, club willing to sell and player willing to come. You need both of these for a transfer to happen. Also similar to Diaz there might have been strong interest from another club and Liverpool had to act now or never.

In the same way I think some fans are getting ahead of themselves thinking that it must mean a midfielder is coming in. There is absolutely no guarantee of this. Obviously I hope the right midfielder does come in during this window.

But as we have seen before with VVD, maybe the deal for the player(s) we want is simply not feasible at this time. We could easily be soldiering along with this squad plus Gakpo until the summer.

The same thing happened when we got Davies/Ozan Kabak(remember him?) in Jan and waited for Konate which was the correct long term move. But of course plenty of fans wanted their magic wand that January as well.

It's a max fee of €50m and they are actually covering LW now that Jota and Diaz are out until March. If they didn't sign Gakpo and someone else picks up an injury it means we'd have Carvahlo and Ox starting in the front three.

Gakpo is a smart signing (especially given the fee) and the way I see it ending up is Diaz/Gakpo for LW, Nunez/Jota/Bobby CF and Salah for RW. I also think Klopp is going to give a chance to Doak and Gordon to be Salahs understudy long term but with Diaz/Jota/Ox slotting in in the short term.

All our left sided guys are like that though aren't they? Diaz, Jota, Nunez, and Gakpo are all naturally right footed footballers playing on the left, just as Salah is a naturally left footed footballer playing on the right.

They're all guys who score by coming inside onto their strong foot.

If there are going to go 442 at times it would make sense to have a right footed player on the right for crossing instead of Salah.

One thing with the signing is it give options and more pace and pace is always good.

tbh any of them doing that job feels like a waste... they're all goal scorers who have the high values they have for what they can do in and around the box. Relegating someone like Gakpo to a wide right position to whip in crosses would feel quite a shame. If we were doing that sort of thing, I'd much rather be using lads like Ramsay or Trent or even Ox for it - our fullbacks on both sides are all basically old fashioned wingers anyway, so if we wanted to go for old fashioned wingers crossing in balls, they're all the most suited.

I hope none of that is the plan though, if we were going 4-4-2 I'd much rather a diamond, with Mo and Nunez up front together, and maybe Gakpo behind in the hole. We've a lot of options now anyway alright - let's just hope we can also soon build a midfield capable of controlling a game well enough to give them the platform they'd need.

yeah, totally agree with all that, im very happy we got him, was just less than sure about using our forwards as orthodox touchline wingers.

Yeah, that can be an option for sure, I just wouldn't have Gakpo doing it, I'd have someone whose game is built on crossing from wide positions doing it instead (which we also have plenty of)

Yeah, I mean, they're all decent footballers, any of them could do it to some extent, but it just feels like a way of forcing lads into the team. In reality i'd say the best options for chalk-on-the-boots wingers who can deliver a great cross are Robertson, Tsimikas, Ramsay, and Trent. They're the ones whose games are based around delivering quality ball from wide positions. The other lads are all high profile players because of what they do closer to goal.

yeah? that's good so. can't say i've ever seen him on the right, he's been central or left cutting inside every time i've watched him. doesn't seem he's played there at club level this year so far anyway.

It's pretty easy to see a vacant spot for Gakpo on the left side of the attack at the moment. Diaz is close to a write off for this season. Even if he gets back in March he won't have played in almost 6 months so it's going to take him time to get back up to speed. We've been cobbling together a left sided attacker using Carvalho or Ox but it's not their position really. Both are square pegs in round holes out there.

Next season will be interesting as you'll have Diaz and Gakpo who play in the same areas and even Darwin likes to peel off to the left hand side of the attack. Not sure how they will all fit together. I think the hope is that we can sneak into the top 4 for this season and cross that bridge when we come to it.

He has contacts in the footballing world, but he either positioned himself or has been put in this position where it seems like he is the pre-eminent transfer source when the truth is he likely piggybacks off a lot of others to get his information. In this instance he was just rehashing the news other had reported before him. A lot of people would have been caught out by this transfer, and seeing as Romano did not report our interest seriously just shows he was not as informed as he would have liked to be on this one. Whether that makes him a spoofer most of the time, would be for individuals to decide.

Cant go too far wrong at 37m, i know nothing about the lad, our record in the transfer market is remarkable over the Klopp era and i trust his judgement.

Anytime a player comes in and fails they usually struggle to adapt to the pace and intensity to the league, Darwin has exactly the opposite problem. We know the lad can finish he scored 34 last season. The reaction to his sub was telling last night the away section chanted his name. He gives everything and helps the team, that is always valued and appreciated. I'm just so excited about this player once he starts finishing chances he'll be unstoppable. Kick the ball long and put him in a foot race with a defender he's the only winner.

We're a great squad, with no team.

No one can tell me our strongest side, or formation