Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

I don't get this logic at all. I see no reason to want City to win this title from our perspective. Take today's minute's silence as one small example - impeccably observed by a classy fanbase. Compare and contrast with a significant majority last weekend who did the annual 'victims' chant. They do this - and worse - every single year and make the same mealy mouthed attempt to 'apologise' for it. Hateful.

And that's before you bring all the state-funded success into it. They are a horrible club with **** fans and short memories. Best of luck to the Gooners. It'll be pretty remarkable if they do win it.

100% @mosstin

I'll find our decline more annoying if Arsenal win, because I believe we should have been capable of competing with them, but as a football fan I'd be much happier seeing them win than City

The media response to the Robertson incident is really terrible imo, ranging from "it was nothing, he just shrugged him" to "he hit him and Robertson deserved it" like I know it's said all the time but imagine that was Harry Kane.

I can’t understand this logic??

You want city who have cheated and spent billions to win it over a club who are trying to do it properly.

Why???

I'd forgotten about that one. Either way, it's a very small sample size to draw conclusions. I don't really understand how we get so few penalties given the amount of possession that we have in the oppositions box and our general fast paced style. You'd statistically expect more.

I'd echo this. I don't have any issues with Arsenal. And my Dad's a Spurs fan.

To be honest, if it's not us, I don't care who wins. Once it's not Man Utd.

Well in fairness I said it years ago that such posts should be banned but no one listened to me.....

Stood down while investigation is ongoing.

So frustrating that game yesterday bit of cop on and attention in the first half and we'd have won comfortably. The defending for the goals was shocking, errors all over, unmarked players, school boy stuff.

We were brilliant after we got one back, keeper pulled out a few world class saves.

On that evidence yesterday I don't see arsenal winning the league, nothing special at all, you go 2 up at anfield you have to kill the game.

Surely this means next time Salah is manhandled without a whistle he gets to elbow his defender

Well, yeah tbh?

It's the most senior strikers who have offered the most in Salah and Bobby tbf.

He wants to leave same as Mane last summer

Salah missing the target from the penalty spot is the most annoying thing. For a pro to miss the target from that distance twice in a row is so rare. Strange he hasn't it in him to slot them away like a Balotelli, where its a case of waiting for the keeper to commit , the rolling it in at 0.002 mph, or if keeper doesn't commit to one side, putting it past him either side at a pace it's impossible to react to, just never go down the middle, it's why he tends to score.

Salah is trying to beat the keeper, when in fact the keeper takes up so little of the goal. Mental gymnastics

Yeah but your not comparing like with like. As someone mentioned above it would be better comparing season 1 firmino to season 1 Nunez/Gakpo. We need to trust in the youth. Bobby was an amazing player for us but he's past his prime now and one of the major issues i've had with klopp this season was his seeming ignorance of when players are no longer at their peak and how to play when this occurs. I was actually glad there wasn't talk of extending bobby's contract even though i know he'd do a job for us. Hopefully he can go out on some kind of high - well not high but you know what i mean.

He's been the second best of our six strikers this season.

He's gone and all but it's really silly to say he wouldn't play a big role in the squad as he's always done.

If Nunez was to repeat his performance this season next season then I hope you'd be applying the same done and dusted criteria.

You been drinking since September? In what world was this team at it's peak this season?

Nunez and Gakpo have joined a team that is massively struggling to control much of anything at all, which is a total reversal to our previous recent teams. It's a team where the performances in all the key build-up areas have absolutely undeniably plummeted. On paper 7 or 8 months ago one could've said this team is better than lots of previous teams - but in reality it's very clearly not. It's broken and dysfunctional. As a squad, it's pretty salvageable with the right 3 or 4 additions, but since those positions are all right in the heart of everything they have a lot of pressure riding on them. It really can't be stressed enough how quickly that current midfield has gone from top class and high intensity to one of the absolute worst and most lethargic in the league.

So I would say it's overall fairest to say Bobby and Nunez/Gakpo each joined Liverpool teams at slightly different stages of hefty rebuild processes. The build around Bobby really elevated his game. We can only hope the same will be true of the players added around the two new lads. (NGog was also gone 4 years before Bobby arrived...it was Sturridge, Ings, Origi and Benteke there at that stage.)

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Was at the game, great game and serious respect to the Arsenal fans throughout. Respected the minutes silence and sang in support of their own team and no songs about poverty or tragedies - well done and well done to Arteta and his team of coaches on the respect shown also. Want them to win the league any day of the week when it’s a choice of them and City. Good luck to them.

Arsenal have shown that the gap between mediocrity and superiority is a thin one when the right decisions are made. They were where we are not very long ago and vice versa.

If they're to take Salah from the penalties then it has to go to Nunez. He was Benfica's penalty taker and it would be seen as a serious vote of no confidence if Klopp were to give them to another player, who was never been a regular penalty taker over his supposed main striker who has taken them at every club in his career to date.