Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Think I read he's a mendes client too and he wants him in Europe. Doesn't the brazilian window close soon, would need to be completed fast.

Considering Mbappe is available, why on earth is Real not picking him up, he's clearly not coming to Liverpool, or anyone else

Joyce and Pearce also reporting we have made enquiries about him

Yeah his club don't want him to leave mid season so if a deal is done I reckon it will be January when he arrives

I don't understand the Lavia penny pinching I'm afraid.

It's clear Klopp wants him. We got £52m for two ageing midfielders on big wages. Lavia and a £20m signing in there on lower wages is the least we should be expecting.

It's too close to the season's start now.

I see the FA has outlined stricter punishments for misbehavior on and off the pitch from players and managers. This also includes chanting on previous disasters from fans. About time and probably about 5-10 years too late in that regard. Not like we are angels in this regards but the amount of teams using Hillsborough as banter during our matches is an all too common occurrence because nothing was ever done.

"Players and managers have been warned they face tougher punishments for poor behaviour at games.

The new penalties are part of a charter introduced by football's authorities for the 2023-24 campaign.

Managers and coaches will also have to adhere to new rules covering the technical area.

The new measures state players "must not confront, invade the personal space of, or make physical contact with the match officials".

They add that "two or more players surrounding a match official in a confrontational manner will result in a yellow card and be reported to the Football Association".

The new 'participant charter' has been launched by the Football Association, Premier League, English Football League, Women's Super League, Women's Championship, National League System (Steps 1-4) and referees' governing body PGMOL.

It was also developed in partnership with the League Managers Association and Professional Footballers' Association.

The new measures also address the issue of fan behaviour and, in particular, tragedy chanting, which involves singing about stadium disasters or fatal accidents involving players or supporters.

"Our collective approach is to reset this behaviour on the pitch and from the sidelines, whilst giving our referees the respect and protection that they deserve," said FA chief executive Mark Bullingham.

"We are also determined to address the rise in unacceptable behaviour from the stands."

New technical area protocols

The FA issued more than 20 fines to Premier League clubs last season for surrounding match officials or mass confrontations, totalling more than £1m.

The protocols for next season include a team's manager having to attend a pre-match briefing while "players and team officials not listed on the team sheet must not enter the technical area".

In addition, no occupants from the technical area can "enter the pitch to confront any match official at half-time or full-time"."

It's a bonus 24 million that Bayern will put towards Karry Hane

Inflation outpaced depreciation.

Happened to second hand cars too.

Technically, he hadn't played in the Championship yet! 🤓

We did also buy Gini & Robbo after being relegated, Shaqiri too. Gini wasn't cheap at the time either, but he had a lot more experience.

Prices these days gone mad. Can really see why Liverpool rushed to get McAllister done at 35m so early now.

So is this Andre chap an alternative to Lavia, or are we interested in both?

Gvardiol isn't happening, Andre is an alternative to lavia I imagine,start negotiating with but makes their position stronger, the way it's been leaked makes me think lavia is the primary target, save seven or eight million,it might make up for the add ons the club are missing out on due to mane changing club.

Liverpool making clear to Southampton that they are exploring other options I reckon.

Nobody else coming in to bid more for him, and City can get him back next year. I think we might end up meeting in the middle at £45m.

Could we not have wrapped this up week's ago when it was originally rumoured?

Seems all the stalling and evaluations could cost us Lavia and Andre in this window...

How do you know they have not actively been trying to get the deal wrapped up since then? Just because some reporter tweets about it yesterday, does not necessarily mean that negotiation only begun yesterday. 

Making a verbal offer of £40M + £5M in add-ons to Southampton (July 27th) and then following it up with an official offer that's £41M including add-ons 6 days later (August 1st) is a ridiculous negotiation tactic.

Andre's name has been circulated since the offer for Fabinho became public. Fulham's offer was rejected the week before and the Fluminese club president stated at the time that it would take an offer of £35M without add-ons for them to accept the player leaving before December. Dropping his name through a mouth piece such as Melissa Reddy with the additional tidbit that an offer isn't going to be made until after Fluminese play their Copa Libertadores game next Tuesday (August 8th) is comical.

Southampton are not desperate to sell any of their players and there is no evidence to suggest that Liverpool are capable of strong arming them into accepting a lower offer for Lavia.

Maybe we should be grateful that the club are at least submitting official offers for players this summer, it's an improvement from the nonsense that went on last year although this strategy appears to be leading to the same outcome. Unfortunately Arthur Melo isn't available to bail us out this year as he has moved to Fiorentina on loan. 😥

Could well have been, but normally we don't dilly dally with a lot of transfers, we knew Hendo and Fab were going ages, did we need to wait til that money hit the accounts as such?

I'm just getting anxious now with the season so close, we are literally paper thin at the midfield at the moment

I think that she certainly seems to be used by the club for disinformation. She name dropped the same group of replacement targets (Sofyan Amrabat, Ryan Gravenberch, Kalvin Phillips and Romeo Lavia) as Joyce, the moment that the offer for Fabinho was announced as having been accepted. At the time that certainly appeared to be coordinated on the part of the club.

Of the four names on their list, the first three were obviously non-runners. Amrabat had said no in January because he felt Liverpool were only using him as a negotiation tactic. Gravenberch made clear that he was staying at Bayern at the beginning of July. Phillips had already publicly stated that he wasn't leaving Man City and the stories about a move to Liverpool were nonsense.

Three weeks later we can confirm that Lavia is the only player that was named which the club had a continued interest in. Liverpool appear to be arsing around with the offer for the player they clearly want and now Reddy has offered Andre as a supposed cheaper alternative. Coincidentally it has been in the public domain for a month that Fluminese would be willing to let the player go for £35M.

Gakpo, nice!

He's probably the fastest footballer on the planet to be fair...but yes, it's not often Salah is caught.

That right side of the defence still needs fixed

Trent needs to either move out of RB and get a dedicated RB and him in MF, or actually defend

The only thing is the money you donated to charity is probably going into the pocket of the CEO of that charity but that's a debate for another thread