Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

13m? Surely it's more than that.

We got the guts of a 100 when we won it I think

Qualifying for the group stage is a guaranteed €15M for each club.

€600M is split between the 32 group stage clubs ranked based upon their UEFA coefficient. This chunk of prize money is split into 528 shares. The bottom ranked club gets 1 share (€1.136M), the number of shares is incremental with the #1 ranked team receiving 32 shares (€36.364M).

A group stage draw earns €930k, a win is worth €2.8M.

Qualifying for the last 16 earns €9.6M.

Quater-finalists earn €10.6M.

Semi-finalists earn €12.5M.

Runners up earn €15.5M.

Winners earn €20M.

In addition to the performance based prize money, there is €300M which is paid out based upon the tv broadcasts. €150M is split based upon the size of the tv audience for each country represented. The other €150M is split based upon the percentage of games each club played in the competition.

Looks like we are working our way through the five stages of grief folks

1. Denial - We'll definitely get CL
2. Anger - Why didn't we invest in midfield?
3. Grief - It's such a pity this great team is going to fall away like this
4. Bargaining - If Spurs and Newcastle, keep dropping points, we can still get CL!
5. Acceptance - The Europa League would be a great opportunity to bring through young players

You forgot the most important of all:

6: No 1230 kick offs on Saturdays on EL gameweeks with lacklustre displays to ruin our weekends

Looks like Spurs are just as useless as us.

They're just making it easier for Newcastle. Even if we somehow remember how to play every week and not just when the mood takes us at Anfield, it makes little odds how bad Spurs are.

Basically the same ppg at this stage (right at the moment, their ppg is 0.13 better than ours)... win the two games in hand, and they're just 1 point ahead. Really just comes down to who can put a couple of decent little runs together over the final 12 games. The teams going for top 4 are all pretty inconsistent, and capable of dropping points to anyone. Newcastle probably in pole position really, but they're a major mystery box of a team at this stage too.

Well one of them is effectively Fulham at home, and our home form is a damn sight better than our away

Once we get past these next 2 tricky away games, the rest of our away fixtures are a lot handier. As you say, home form is grand - 3rd in the league. Really need to start picking up more away points.

The run in for 4th is a slow bicycle race that all fans seem to forget by March each year, when they think you need to be good to finish 4th rather than the least absolute dogshite

This sounds about right 😬

Them going top was thanks to Xabi Alonso too. Leverkusen beat Bayern, looks like he's doing a great job there.

They were seventeenth when he took over, up to 8th now. Since he took over they're the fourth best team in the Bundesliga

I know these things never line up, but if had a good few years there, and took over from Klopp when the time comes, I'd be like a kid at Christmas. Love Xabi

I'm sure you're not alone in having a soft spot for Dortmund, I'd say most Liverpool fans do!

Ya I started following them after their 97 Champions League final. We signed Riedle then that summer after he got the 2 goals in the final and I was very excited by that....unfortunately it didn't quite work out for poor ole Karl Heinze.

I've actually been lucky enough to be in the Yellow Wall on 2 occasions. Most famously for their 4-1 win over Madrid in the CL quarters finals in 2013. I'd a mate that moved over for work a few years ago and used to get tickets through work.

Rumour has it that Klopp wants the club to extend Milner's contract for another year. I guess that would mean we only have to replace 3 homegrown players in the summer transfer window.

Kelleher*, Matip, Phillips*, Keita, Oxlade-Chamberlain*, Firmino

By the looks of things, Dortmund are going to price Bellingham out of a move this summer. He's not a €150M player and his value to English clubs will decrease after next season because he will no longer be able to be registered as a homegrown player.

This Milner thing is bonkers. I have no doubt he's great around squad and drives standards etc but he should be offered a coaching gig at Liverpool and not extending his contract again - he's 38 in January. Without bringing up that old chestnut again but is Klopp just too loyal to these players he's gone to war with? Surely we have scope to sign some young home-grown players to replace the three leaving.

As for the Bellingham thing - quelle surprise. It might not be the worst thing in the world if we're going to actually put our money where our mouth is and spend 250m and sign some decent players to rebuild this clearly lacking squad. We could get a couple of players for the money needed to get Bellingham...but i'll still be p*ssed if he goes elsewhere. The club really is in a bad state at the moment.

This summer is HUGE.

This ‘news’ about Bellingham is ludicrous.  It’s not news to think that we were going to have to stump up a ridiculous fee for him.  We know this.  

The facts are that Arsenal will get Caicedo, City will likely get Bellingham, Chelsea have just bought Enzo Fernandes and United got Casemiro last summer.  Us fans are being conditioned to expect less, and I’m frankly sick to the back teeth of it.

The Coutinho money and subsequent spending on Virgil and Alisson is the only real relief we’ve had from this absolute nonsense.

I have zero problem with Milner staying another year.

It's up to the club to make sure we have enough bodies to ensure he is only playing the odd game or coming on in the final minutes etc.

What I've heard is that the extension will involve a coaching role, it will help with the homegrown quota then in turn. We are facing the possibility of losing 4 players from our homegrown quote this summer, Kellegher, Oz, Phillips and Milner. It will costs very little to keep Milner on board and then the transfer committee can actually focus on bringing in midfielder replacements without having to focus on the homegrown aspect of it too.

Ooh that's an interesting detail actually. He would probably be better off in the long term to tie up his English homegrown status before shipping off to a Real or Barca meaning it would be best for him to move to an English club this time. Still obviously won't be us.

He is the new Mbappe of this thread. Mbappe signing for us was a running gag in this thread for years, unfortunately alot of people took it seriously. Bellingham signing for us is the new running gag in this thread imo. There is almost a 0% chance we sign him I reckon. I'd give us about a 1% chance of signing him and if he does we will have Klopp to thank for it as he would be the only reason Jude would choose us over city or someone else with unlimited finances.