Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Not really though. That's eight players not including Bacjetic. Only Thiago would be classed as injury prone amongst them so you'd expect availablity would be much better than last season.

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Lavia still has a great deal to improve before he'll be considered a £150M player.

At present he suits a team that doesn't dominate possession. He's great at intercepting, ball winning tackles followed by an over the top balls into space for the forwards to attack. However, he lacks the composure and refinement required for playing in a team that dominates possession. Watch him when he tries to cross a ball, there will be audible groans from the crowd when 9 times out of 10 he cannons the ball off of the nearest opposition player.

People need to temper their expectations of him, despite the price tag he's still only 19 years of age and learning the game.

Any of ye seen much of Bradley,is there any chance of him starting

I'd doubt it any time soon... he did well on loan, but it's a very big jump up from League One. Decent option for the cups, but I don't see him starting too many PL games just yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/15a8sp2/jordan_henderson_in_alettifaq_training_hes_signed/?ref=share&ref_source=link - What a whimper he left with

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvKzxm5ostb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Goodbye video.

It's awful.

Hope the Saudi money is great, cause he doesn't have a career as a public speaker anytime soon......

Is it just Gomez left from the before klopp dark days?

L'Equipe is reporting that Mbappe has refused to move to Saudi Arabia.

Opens up the door for Real Madrid to swoop in now, knowing that PSG are open to selling.

Wonder will Henderson bother to learn Arabic. Guess he's just there to collect his salary and have a kick about.

FFS. He's shat the bed majorly with this decision, no doubt, but there's no need for some of the rest of that in your post.

Good riddance? Ran his legs to the ground for 12 years for us. Gutted he's leaving like he is and hate where he's going but FFS, no need for the venom.

That's your opinion, mine differs.

As I say, a guy signs a contract he should honour if, especially when he's representing the club from a responsible position, in this case club captain.

Regardless of where he's going, his manner of leaving (the move being played out, leaked and the clubs hand being forced in a public manner) speaks volumes. His legacy is badly tainted, as I said recently the likes of Cputiho and Mascerano were vilified for forcing their moves, and their behavior wasn't as bad as Hendersons.

Guy has low standards behind all the bluster. Was still committed to play with the club for 2 years remember.

He was 12 years at Liverpool. I think he has earned the right to make his own decision regarding his future. Too many people (Twitter primarily) wanting to be offended by his decision.

Offense?

Hmmm, think you've jumped the shark a bit thete. I deliberately left out the morals.

Our club captain leaving a relatively successful Liverpool team to go halfway around the world to a relatively nothing league out of the blue is what I based that post on.

It's a bit of a shock to the system even without the morals imo.

If he stayed we’d bemoan that he’s past his prime next season and contributes sweet FA apart from a voice in the dressing room. It’s best for all parties

He's contracted, simple as. Of course, there is little or no loyalty in pro sport, but as the club captain he's a representative of the club, he's held to high standards, or should be. If moving, there are ways to get the move, and having blow by blow accounts of everything and twisting the clubs arm to force the move isn't the correct way to do it. It's poor form, and the club that built his reputation is left with 12 and 1 weeks to get a replacement.

The mental gymnastics around Henderson, his move and where he's going and why is something to behold. He was a good player and a good servant to the club, but the manner of his leaving leaves a very sour taste.

I don’t agree with Henderson going to Saudi but to rant on about loyalty and contracts is a bit much.

Does the same apply to Liverpool and other clubs when they try to offload players before their contract is up?

Hendo was already wealthy. This feels like greed.

Set them up for life? He's got tens of millions already - the whole family and generations beyond are set for life regardless as long as they don't do anything stupid with the money. That's the sort of wealth that continuously grows rather than shrinks if you've a half decent money manager (or even just using the general off-the-shelf bank investment plans with conservative low-risk 5-7% yield). The "we'd leave for double our salary" thing doesn't really work - I daresay if we had his wealth, we wouldn't have a salary at all because we'd be absolutely minted and able to pursue whatever interests we wanted (be-it work or hobby) without needing to ever earn another penny. And that's even before talking about the causes that he's turned his back on, and moving to a place that legally and officially considers his two young daughters and wife to be second class citizens.

When every single aspect of this move is very negative except for the money, and you're already extremely rich, it speaks to the thought process and mentality behind it.

Well that's that. I said don't comment until it's confirmed and more than just a rumour.

Best of luck to him, part of an incredible journey for the club from nothing to the absolute top. Past his prime, and exited before falling from sporting grace.

Going to Saudi Arabia at his age, and after the causes he put his name to though is very disappointing. Shows that it's all just PR and that even the best seeming footballers are just mercenaries.

Judge him as a footballer if you want. But for me you can't go back on your word if you make it public.

Henderson is now the best-paid English player in the world, and will take home £36.4m every year. He's not a huge loss playing wise, it's more of an identity loss, top English clubs, needs top English players, we're getting low on those, Trent is only one now, a top player on the field.

This is it.

It's not a man going from 50k to 100k, it's going from tens of millions to closer to 100m.

If someone in his position can't stick to his morals then what chance do the rest of us have?

Anyway, that aside, it's just **** weird seeing a player like him leave us before we were done with him to go where he is going.