Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Well I'd agree about the balance of the team when he played his hybrid role. I would advocate getting another RB to play while Moving Trent to midfield as opposed to continuing with this hybrid role. I'd imagine stronger teams would destroy us with Trent playing the hybrid role. I just think keeping him at RB means we lose so much of what he is capable of. All those lovely little dink forward passes into the box to onrushing forwards was such a weapon and one that we never really seen any of our actual midfielders even try let alone pull off, not even Thiago.

When he is RB he may well get further forward but the final ball is always a cross whereas he has the ability and courage to do so much more. Courage to try things is a very under rated attribute imo and Trent has too much of it if anything.

Agreed.

Ox apparently close to signing with Villa is the news this evening, along with Yoiri Teillemens.

Good luck to the Ox, I hope he keeps healthy, but very risky deal for them.

It will be interesting to see how Oxlade-Chamberlain gets on at Villa. Will he have a role in the team or is he likely to be an experienced player that fills a homegrown player requirement? It's hard to see how he could be considered for a place in their lineup but Ashley Young is gone and Oxlade-Chamberlain might be open to adopting as backup for that role.

I have trouble believing that such a move is happening with a view to him playing regularly. Their squad is stacked with players that would be expected to play before him in midfield: Luiz, McGinn, Ramsey, Kamara, Dendonker & Tielemans. Bailey, Buendia, Traore and even Coutinho offer more in the wide positions.

Perhaps Villa are going to repeat our trick and ship Coutinho off to Saudi Arabia for a pot of money. 🤣

The major difference was that Klopp's Liverpool at the time created chaos for the opponents to deal with. The front three of Mane, Firmino and Salah were the ultimate platform for Coutinho. The highlight reels will show Coutinho conjuring things out of virtually nothing but a lot of his opportunities were created by the movement of the front players. Barcelona thought they were signing a trickster which he never was, Klopp's system created the space for him to deliver but even then he didn't do it consistently and there was some debate about what he delivered in the big games.

Unlucky with injuries, when he was fit we almost won the quad, he played 40 games last season

Bradley should also go on loan to the Championship for the season. He needs to mature a bit before he'll be ready for the Premier League.

More likely that Southampton are hoping for a pay day transfer offer. In the past 3/4 days he has been linked with potential moves to Brighton, Newcastle, Tottenham, West Ham and Wolves. If he does move it'll be later in the transfer window when the club are more likely to be willing to listen to reasonable offers, £25-30M should be the limit.

Surely he’d be a Honda Civic? He’s great on corners.

His freekicks alone are worth 30 mil.

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Still waiting on Virgil taking a free kick for us, remember seeing a compilation of a few he knocked in during his Celtic days.

I'm just glad we're past the days of Salah attempting free kicks, not sure he ever got close

There's a blackout on some of the subs, they're protesting something, I haven't been paying that much attention

Very little chance of it, even if we had the money he apparently has very little interest in moving to a club away from London. He will be some singing for Arsenal if he ends up there!

Love Rice but can't see FSG paying that sort of fee.

I follow a guy on Twitter who claims insider knowledge of Arsenal and is quoting a fee of £92m, dunno if he's full of it or not but I guess we will see

It's a reddit wide protest over the pricing for third party access (essentially apps other than the main Reddit one). Ads dominate the main app but third party's had them blocked and now they will close due to pricing.

Same reason we didnt go for Bellingham in the end, we need numbers in midfield.

I don’t think it’s an issue at all tbh. Klopp is the draw, and anything else is secondary. There’s no way we’d have landed Fabinho, Alisson and VVD under Rodgers even if we had Champions League football every season.

Look back at the one season we did qualify under Rodgers. Our biggest signings were Lallana, Lovren and Balotelli that summer, after losing the best striker in the world to Barcelona and being snubbed by Alexis Sanchez to replace him.

As Klopp said himself, the type of player that wouldn’t join us purely because we aren’t in the UCL are players we wouldn’t be interested in to begin with.

Top 5 qualify for CL from next season.

If Arsenal get Caicedo and Rice across the line it would be a very difficult task for us to get ahead of them next season, unless we have the summer transfer window of a life time!

You can only field 11 players, so if they get those 2, it means others miss out. They're good, but not that good.

100m for Rice is way to much.