Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Star of a very good and progressive PL team, scoring 10 goals and providing 2 assists, vital part of a World Cup winning squad, available most games and tonnes of PL experience = underwhelming signing.

Hard to know what would whelm some people. Mbappe, Bellingham, Pedri other players that would cost £100m+?

Mane

Salah

Firmino

Gini

Fabinho

Matip

Robertson

Henderson

Nearly a team of underwhelming signings. I love an underwhelming signing.

Even the word marquee gives me the ick.

It's Facebook. Neo-nazis, racists, and general scum have free reign to post whatever they like. A fake quote from a footballer would barely make a ripple in the grand scheme of things there.

Doherty is being released by Atletico. May be worth a shout as RB cover.

I'd say this will be divisive on here next season!

For me I wanna go back to what I know works, TAA playing "RB" getting 15 assists a season and midfielders covering him.

I'd like to see a 4-2-3-1 formation with the following players in some cup games next season.

TAA, Konate, VVD, Robbo

Fabhino, Henderson/Thiago (Thuram if he signs)

Elliot, Mac Allister, Jones

Nunez

Could be mad with through balls for Nunez to run onto and then Elliot and Jones working around the corner of the box with TAA and Robbo overlapping while Fabhino and Henderson/Thiago/Thuram sit in front of VVD and Konate.

After his spell at Liverpool, I’d say he was lucky to get any top tier club. He was a bigger sick note than Sturridge, and possibly one the most underwhelming signings we’ve made, given what was expected of him.

People forget too Keita was bought a season before he arrived, Klopp had to have him before his release clause was active. Total flop

People definitely forget that Klopp wanted him for 17/18 helkter skelter Liverpool and not the 19/22 control Liverpool which he joined. The team he was meant to play with evolved before he was able to play with them.

He didn't have the injury problems before he moved to England but obviously the physical side to the Premier League affected him a lot and his body broke down due to demands placed on him. Maybe he would have been fine in the other version, we'll never know.

I'm willing to die on the hill of being him a good player when fit, but overall I have to say he was a flop because of the number of games missed especially the season just gone when he really had to step up but never did after a promising finish to last season.

Agree.

That Palace performance is up there with the worst I've ever seen from any Liverpool player. And it that wasn't down to ability, it was attitude. I think Klopp decided there and then that he was not getting a new contract, if it was not decided before that. Maybe it was a reaction to not getting a new deal. Either way, it stunk.

But didn't he get 7 or 8 assists in something like 10 games in his new hybrid role?? I've never been one shouting for TAA to move permanently to midfield but having seen what he can do there I say leave him there. He will be our KDB there, he has every kind of pass in his arsenal not just whipping in crosses from the right. KDB does plenty of whipping in crosses for city in his current position but he, like Trent, can also do so much more and I'm beginning to think that alot of Trent's talent and ability is wasted at RB.

There seems to be too much navel gazing when it comes to looking back at Naby Keita's time at Liverpool. It was a disappointment that he was not available for more matches, but he was injury prone before we bought him. So it was not the Premier League that broke him, we took a chance on a player for his quality.

You also need to think about the fact that the 2 seasons where we were dog crap is also the 2 seasons where he played 8 and 10 matches. The others we pushed City to the title or won it. Now some may say correlation isn't causation which is true, but the assertion that he was only good for us when we won the title after the lockdown seems misguided as well. When we lost to Watford 3-0, he wasn't playing. So you cannot blame him for that unless you want to blame his absence as the reason. Then when football returned we lost 2 matches and you know who was in the starting line-up those matches? Not Keita. When we drew against Burnley at home to lose the 100% record that season, he again did not start.

He was very good when he got a run in the team but this was too rare and this was the biggest disappointment with Keita. But to call him a flop is a little over the top.

Looking at his stats for the two Red Bull teams and comparing them to us, big drop off in numbers, he was more injury prone with Liverpool.

He was a flop, cost too much for not enough output on the pitch.

Keita missed a combined 12 games in 4 seasons for Salzburg & Leipzig. That's not injury prone.

That ramped up to 11, 20, 28, 8 & 38 in each of his seasons for Liverpool. That is injury prone.

I don't think it's excuses.

When he played, I saw the value, I saw the player we could have had of he could stay fit.

It doesn't change the fact he was a poor signing and last season the perception of poor attitude crept in to boot.

This.

Bloke didn't try hard enough when he was on the pitch, no matter how long it had been since his last injury. Try and think of a game where Keita played well without disappearing for half of it. I'd say there was 5, tops, and at least 3 of those were in 21/22.

It'll still be 433.

Midfield revamped, but I can't see a 4231. It's just not Klopp.

Seen some German journo linking us with Pavard off Bayern, him at RB and Trent into midfield?