Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

We’ll just leave him there for half a season, then buy him for €40m in the summer! 😥🙄

You see the thing is. Brighton will let players like him play and develop under the radar and it's almost like a no risk stragety. Liverpool buy and play someone like that and you have fans righting them off after 10 minutes every game and complain that we are not spending the money to keep up.

Arsenal fail with their attempt to sign Caicedo...so they turn to Chelsea and sign Jorginho for £12m.

Jorginho is absolutely no world beater but he's a midfielder who knows how to pass a ball, control the tempo, and who has faced only 2 games out injured for Chelsea since joining them.

There is so much business we could be doing right now...

We'll make a last minute effort to take Kante off of them to supplement our over 30 and rapidly declining contingent.

Konate has done his hamstring.

What the f*ck do we do in training ,

Then again didn't Konate have injury issues at Red bull

He'll be 32 & injury prone he'll fit right in to our midfield ,

There's no chance in hell we sign him ,

This might be the most frustrating deadline day ever, it's not even noon and half our rivals have bought someone while we've just gotten another player injured.

it's not that they're consciously writing off the season.

it is consistent with how these owners do business. it's embarrassing. it's treacherous. it's fúcking appalling negligence.

they struck gold with Klopp. now he needs help, and they won't put their hands in their pockets to actually help.

make no mistake about it, we aren't the same as Utd, for instance. they could fail for a decade, ploughing over £1bn into their squad and managers until they get it right (even under apparently terrible owners). we can't and won't. we'll fall away.

Only took the guts of 34 years

I don't think the response of some fans is realistic argument nor is it a factor in the club's recruitment policy.

Sofyan Amrabat, Nicolo Barella, Jude Bellingham, Moises Caicedo, Enzo Fernandez, Gavi, Pedri, and Aurelien Tchouameni have been the flavour of the month/big name midfield players that the club have made approaches for in the past few years. Most of them are in the same age bracket.

Personally I think that the club has focused on those players because Klopp has wanted to work with them. None of them strike me as the alternative option in the event that Klopp's preferred choice can't be signed.

2016: Klopp tried to persuade Gotze and Draxler to join Liverpool. Recruitment team brought in Wijnaldum and Mane.

2017: Klopp tried to persuade Brandt to join Liverpool. Recruitment team brought in Salah.

2018: Klopp tried to persuade Goretzka to join Liverpool. Recruitment team brought in Fabinho.

Since then it has pretty much been the case of the club signing the player Klopp that wants or him making do with the existing squad.

Yep....feels like we've regressed about 10 years in the space of 6 months.

After coming so close to winning everything last year it is absolutely mind blowing how flaccid and insipid we've become.

It now seems that Klopp managed to capture lightening in a bottle and work miracles for years but now the party is over.

We had no margin for failure in the transfer market and for a while every single transfer was an immediate hit...this season, when we needed it the most perhaps, we've apparently got two (relative) duds in Nunez and Gakpo.

The likes of Chelsea, City, Utd and now Newcastle have greater wiggle room....they can afford to stockpile and hoard talent like Grealish and pay over the odds for the likes of Gordon, Mudryk etc. and then dodge FFP by flogging squad players for exorbitant fees (Conor Gallagher worth 45m?!? Wtaf)

Liverpool never had that option and once our transfer accuracy dipped we were always going to be in trouble.

FSG and Klopp would seem to be responsible for the lack of action...the portion of blame is hard to determine right now imho.

I don't think it's fair to call Nunez and Gakpo relative duds. It should be keep in mind that Firmino, Mane and Salah came together over a few seasons. Firmino had the 2015/16 to settle into the Premier League before Mane joined the club. Mane had had two seasons in the Premier League with Southampton. They were settled in before Salah joined and the fact that he had previous experience of the Premier League also helped him. There were teething problems with Salah and Mane but they learned to keep out of each others way. The combination of pace and guile made them devastating as a trio because our opponents hadn't faced that type of forward line before. They were also backed up by an energetic midfield that could win the ball back quickly.

It will take time for Nunez and Gakpo to integrate with Salah and they don't have a midfield anything near the level of 2018-2022 to help them.

I guess I meant relative in relation moreso to Diaz and Jota rather than Mane & co.

Anyway, with those two being injured and Salah's form being poor as well (for him), the focus and expectation on Nunez and Gakpo is even sharper.

We are saving the money that his wages would cost so we can narrowly miss out on singing Bellingham this summer so we can say look we tried,

The one good thing I've seen from Gakpo a few times so far:

On the rare occasion he receives the ball, controls it well and turns to face the opposing defence he's made some good plays. Just against Brighton he played Salah in behind on one turn and on another he bombed forward 30 yards before being dragged down on the edge of the box.

He has to figure himself out enough to get the ball in those positions far more often but based on what he can do from there I understand the idea of playing him with Salah/Nunez/Diaz running behind the lines.

Whatever about money spent, that's a different argument. But since the CL final win in 2019, Liverpool have bought 8 senior players. 1 player per window. A few reserve keepers on free transfer, loans & kids to supplement this. Not good enough to rebuild a squad.

11 players from that squad in 2019 that are still in the squad are 28 or older. Thiago being signed increases it to 12.

Haaland's gettin' a lot more than that!

Very hard to see how the maths work out alright... we'd be needing the player to go for a major case of heart over head, almost to the point of insanity.

Forget haaland, Sancho is getting 350k at united, this guy is far more hyped than him. United and City would gladly give him that. Even if we were flying I still couldn't see the numbers working. He looks a class act but I'd rather see 150m spent on 3 players.