Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Brighton aren't going to beat each of Newcastle, Man City & Arsenal.

Reverse jinx? 😉

I wouldn't count Brighton out. The scheduling of the games is favourable to them because if they beat Arsenal then Man City can secure the league title at home to Chelsea. Guardiola is then likely to rotate the squad in their final two games. Brighton beat Arsenal at the Emirates in the EFL Cup and dominated them in the reverse league fixture although they lost the game.

Utd are nowhere near as good as their league position would suggest all season, they've won a lot of games they should'nt have and had plenty of luck along the way.

We've been shite all year aside from 3 or 4 games, the fact we still have an outside chance is amazing.

Really we're looking at rebuilding this team over the next 2/3 years, even if we sort out a new midfield this summer we still have to look at CB, LB, RW next summer due to age, this season have proved you need to have a replacement in place before age catches up to the first choice player, the signs were there with Fabinho and Henderson towards the end of last season.

I think we might get 3rd.

I can feel it in my waters.

You obviously wrote off Drogba too and many more like him that wrote of players in their first seasons. Not every player develops at the same pace. He is struggling yes, but he will come good. Feel free to bookmark this post and rub it in my face if I'm wrong.

And to think he is still widely regarded as a diver by many many football fans....the moronic section of them but they still exist.

Rice is growing on me

The pressure is'nt that great on us, this team(mostly) has won everything there is to win in the game over the last 5 years, league, european cup you name it.

Three wins in league games to finish in the top 4 is no huge pressure for them. It's different for utd, newcastle, and brighton, none of them have won anything of note lately and utd are'nt even champions league regulars anymore.

If we can't beat Liecester or Southampton we don't deserve it, you could argue we don't deserve it as things stand. I think it will be Villa we'll lose to.

Whatever about the OP banging on about it incessantly, I admire your faith and am not sure what underpins it.

For me at least, from what he did last season I have a reasonable amount of faith that there's a lot more to come from him. We've simply just seen him put away a lot more of his chances in the past, and be quite a deadly goalscorer.

Sometimes players come as high scorers from poorer leagues and struggle to get those same sorts of chances in a harder league - he demonstrably doesn't have that problem. His running and positioning is great, and he does a lot of the right stuff to get on the end of - or create - big opportunities, so it really is just about rediscovering the finishing touch that we've seen be so good ourselves before. All that coupled with it being his first season for us in a new league with a new language, and it being an absolute ****-show of a year, and I think he'll give more as time goes on. Not saying he'll ever justify the fee, but I think he'll be (and for me already is) a player we're happy to have in the squad getting regular time. A lot of my favourite bits of this season have been Darwin-centric, just such an entertaining fella to watch, putting it all in. (Loving Gakpo too incidentally, think he was a brilliant buy)

It's all the chances he is having. He is doing alot of the right things, making good runs and getting into good positions etc. He just needs his finishing to click and he will be a real asset. We have all seen it so many times before where a player like him comes in from a different country and struggles in his first season only to thrive in his second and so on. It just happens so often I don't see anything to suggest it won't be the case with Darwin.

The one thing that I've liked about Nunez from day one is is belief in himself. With the exception of the last day (when I think his confidence looked a bit shot) he plays with the belief that it will come good. The head isn't down, he continues to work hard etc.

Teams are terrified of him and he is getting goal chances, plenty of them. He just has to start taking them.

Next year he'll be better settled - as will the team hopefully with a couple new mf's - and his English will have improved. He's got a pretty good buddy in Diaz and the match-going fans are 100% behind him. I'm sure the coaching side of it will focus on his decision making/composure/finishing.

He's still quite young.

To write him off now is nonsensical. 14 goals/4 assists in 40 appearances and he's being written off.

*I'd be having a chat with Rice as well.

Call me simple but I have no idea what any of this means

That's the game for me, if we beat Leicester we will win the remainder and get forth. However I cant see it happening, a plucky 1-0 relegation survivor result is what I see for Leicester. UTD won't win 3 out of their remaining 4, I think they are playing worse than what we were at in January/Feb!

Leicester have 6 points from their last available 36, we should be able to beat them

I saw a stat on Reddit that we have a 27% chance of making the top 4. After the absolute **** show of a season to be in with slightly more than a 1 in 4 shot of making the champions league is insane and really says more about the quality of the other teams than us. But still i'll take those odds given the season we've had any day.

There's a chance although most likely end up 5th. Lets just hope the club learns from this season and is a bit more forward planning in relation to the squad and aging out.

Yep, he's really won me over. Definition of a Rolls-Royce player, can do a bit of everything. Watching him last night what impressed me the most was how comfortable he looked in possession, he was the furthest man forward dribbling through defenders in the box at times.

That Leicester game last Christmas still haunts me.

When I read it, I thought it was a puff piece by Ornstein as it doesn't really add anything to the picture. My interpretation of what was written is that Mac Allister is free to talk to clubs under certain conditions but Brighton are not obligated to accept any offers, i.e. both parties have to be in agreement as opposed to a situation where the agent says "Here's an offer of £70M, my client is out of here". This gives Brighton an element of control because they can get their replacement lined up before they commit to the deal.

All of the chatter about Mac Allister to Liverpool has originated with journalists in Argentina, his father Carlos always seems happy to keep them informed. The reliable sources in England have said that there has been contact between the club and representatives of the player but there has been no approach to Brighton.

The Brighton chairman, Tony Bloom, was quoted 3 days ago as saying that it will take an offer in excess of £70M for them to let Mac Allister go. Yesterday, there was a story in the UK media which had Liverpool being prepared to pay £57.6M to complete the deal. That's a significant difference in valuations of the player.

This bodes well for the future. We might need to prioritize signing a proper right back in the summer.

My biggest disappointment with Nunez this season has been his physicality, he plays like he doesn't know how big he is, he needs to become far more of a bully. Even if he's not seeing the ball much he should be making himself a handful for defenders.

Leicester play tonight, ideally they win, as it eases their burden, a win for Leicester tonight, and a loss for Everton and Forest tonight is perfect, Everton away to Brighton, ideally a draw to hit Brighton chance of CL football would be better

We need Brighton to have to beat Newcastle, so ideally they win tonight to keep their European hopes alive.