Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Mind numbing to play it short then end up lumping it into the box anyway but from a fat worse angle.

Fair result, can't complain.

Poor game, poor performance (bar the restart), poor prospects going forward for the remainder........not a great start for the weekend.

Hopefully West Ham can cheer me up.

That was torture to watch. Nunez the only forward that brought anything. Salah forgotten to play football and I'm not seen anything from gakpo yet (early days though)

Anyone with any idea of what has happened to him? I've seen some mention that he's carrying an injury but he's been like this all season, and has had plenty of time to recover during world cup break if that was the issue. Utterly baffling how much he has regressed between this season and last.

Bajcetic done himself no harm with keeping his place with that performance.

First half deserved to lose, second half probably deserved the draw. If we brought Nunez on at the half I think we'd have overran them.

His newborn is a few weeks old, his woeful form is months old

The tactics are baffling by klopp. Can safely say top 4 is gone at this stage.

Gakpo needs to be a false 9. He's pointless in this formation on the wing without pace.

Nunez is our biggest threat.

Keita should not have come off before Elliott.

Nothing particularly new. Just waiting for the CL to be honest.

Salah can't play this wide, we have to stop this nonsense and get him within the width of the 18 yard box.

It may have worked in the past, when Firmino left space in the middle to run into, and when Mane could do the same on the left so defenders couldn't double up anywhere, but with the players we have right now it doesn't work. The only way we can do it right now is if Firmino/Jota is in the middle and Diaz or *maybe* Nunez is on the left.

Salah's always been more of an "inside forward," this season we need him to be a striker and he's more winger than ever.

Gakpo's relative lack of speed doesn't concern me too much, Jota's not the quickest either but he's clever enough to offset that, hopefully the same from Gakpo. We saw one very brief glimpse of it with his spin and shot in the box today but it's been slim for him so far. His numbers with PSV speak for themself though so I trust he can adjust himself to the league.

I wouldn't worry about Gakpo at all. He's come into a completely dysfunctional team. He'll be fine.

Why that new lad tried to control that ball behind instead of hitting it first time is mind-boggling.

Champions League can't come soon enough for me.

Not our level, but always good to remember we're not getting relegated #Everton.

Poor enough alright... not as bad as some previous ones though. Definitely better than the Brighton game. All just a bit disjointed and disconnected going forward, which makes a certain amount of sense with Mo playing so wide, and a new lad thrown in, along with a million injuries. The Gomez Konate partnership looked a bit unsteady too... though would expect Matip back in for Gomez for the next game. Bajcetic was a clear upgrade on Fab at least though.

Really, it was two teams with a rake of missing players fielding fairly cobbled together 11's, and that's what it looked like.

I understand people cutting Gakpo some slack because the whole team is poor right now, but honestly it’s quite difficult to identify what his strengths as a footballer are. He’s not particularly quick, not an overly creative passer, his first touch is bang average and from the evidence we’ve seen so far of him in a Liverpool shirt, he’s a poor striker of the ball with very little composure.

I’m fully behind him like any other Liverpool player and I’d be as happy as anyone to see him become a big player for us. I just haven’t seen a thing so far to suggest that it’s possible, and that’s not so much to do with the team around him not functioning.

In his defence, I was impressed by him when PSV played Arsenal earlier in the season, but he was on the left wing in that match so if he’s being played out of position by Klopp, that’s not going to make him look like a world beater.

I used his decent stats to show stays mean **** all if u read it

He's so so slow lately

It's his off the ball inaction that worries me as much as anything. Poor movement from what I've seen on TV, very passive both in and out of possession.

The boy has skillz, he's only after playing few games, needs time, but he has it all.

If Pep had our squad he'd play this, and win the league with 100 plus goals

________Alisson__________

Trent_Konate_VVD_Robertson

____Fabhino____Firmino___

Salah_____Jota_______Diaz__

________Nunez________

Pep Lijnders a big fan apparently.

#bringbackbuvac

Which is the complete opposite to how I feel watching him. Underwhelmed and underawed.