Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Good man Moises Caicedo, against 10 men and gives away a peno to make it 3:1 down. Lovely. Can savour this moment a little bit.

He’s made me change my mind about Endo. I’m willing to give him another half an hour to prove himself now.

Tuned in at about 72mins gone and watched Caicedo. First, his positioning was terrible then got turned by a West Ham player (not sure who). He had to give away a free kick to stop the counter attack.

A few mins later, he gave the ball away at the edge of the box in which Fornals should have scored.

Then last few mins, he gave away a penalty to lose the game.

Absolutely dreadful debut. Made some huge blunders but his all around play was terrible too. Perhaps it was just nerves.

Bit early for that but I can't say I didn't smile a little.

All in all a good weekend for Liverpool with the results for United, Chelsea, Newcastle. Arsenal drawing tomorrow would be the icing on the cake 😄

I honestly don't think man city results affect us,or arsenals, they are going to be first and second,so a great weekend of results for us in the race for third.

Quiet few days for the transfer rumours..

I watched the Newcastle game. They just need a striker. Other than that, that is a good team. They don't find themselves panicking even when they constantly play out of the back and City played a very high press line. We will struggle against them.

Newcastle the first real acid test.

I was terrified going into that game last season but we won thanks to super goalkeeping and a Pope brainfart.

The run Newcastle went on afterwards was something though.

If we had the bodies I'd say we should low block them.

In the city game he was lost. In fairness, the supply to him was choked. But Newcastle had plenty of chances going forward, particularly down the right wing, but there was nobody in the centre ready to pounce.

They have the money but haven't broke the bank on a striker. Not sure if Eddie Howe is trying to keep the comradrie intact for now by not going for a Johnny big balls player.

Either way, we are going to struggle against them. The defence was tight and the midfield covered the lines really well allowing no space. They break very fast all the way from the back line. Very direct at times which we absolutely struggle to defend against particularly with the hybrid right back role.

It’s not like Trent is completely neutered by having to play at right back though, the amount of assists and pass-to-assists he’s created from the deep right position is still exceptional.

This video is probably the best argument to put an end to this doomed experiment:

It’s easy to forget that what made Trent so effective in our trophy winning seasons, is that he offered another threat from a deeper position that teams generally don’t come up against very often.

There’s no need to fix what isn’t broken.

Don’t get me wrong, TAA was the best player in his position (RB) for the last number of seasons until he started drifting into midfield. Maybe iIts a testament to the others who covered him so well that it wasn’t noticed, but this hybrid role that he’s been asked to play just doesn’t work, and it’s costing goals!

I’ve said previously that he can play defence or midfield, but he can’t play both. It’s a glaring weakness in the team and is so easily exploited by many teams.

That midfield thing worked and was needed when we had zero creativity in midfield. Mac and Szobo change all that and kind of already provide the positives that Trent brings. Trent recently looks more like he’s just getting in their way and funnelling all our passing talent into too small an area. Better for him to stay wide where there’s space and an additional angle he can pass from.

I think it is easy to forget we had the problems of Trent and defending before he moved to his pivot role. It's not like we were tearing it up at the start of last season and there was a reason we moved to the pivot role. Teams had worked us out and it made it easy to plan and play against us.

I do wonder if going back to what we did before and making it easy for the other teams is the solution?

People can use yesterday’s game to make themselves feel better about Caicedo; but it sure didn’t make me feel better about our performance against Chelsea.

I’m not surprised at that, considering Bajcetic was on the bench at the weekend. Once he gets match fit I would imagine him and Endo sharing the DM responsibilities up until January.

struggle? they will beat us easily

Slight concern over Diaz, wouldn’t be surprised if he’s rested next weekend. Took a knock towards the end and they want to make sure the knee is 100% to reduce the risk of a recurrence of the injury that had him out for so long.

Firstly I am okay with Trent at RB knowing he has defensive frailties. I take his offensive output over the ability to defend any day. Look at how United are viewed when they lose a game and Wan-Bissaka's offensive deficiencies are highlighted. But I think we forget we still struggled with Trent and our best midfielders in the middle. That is where Madrid targeted us and other teams did it as well. This was before last season as well.

I don't know if the answer is to have him roaming the sideline again, as I said I think that made us predictable to plan against. We will have to see how the season goes, but like all other seasons it will only be judged on results. I hope we will have a good season if we are lucky with injuries this season.

That's disappointing but we did bid 110m for one so obviously we don't see the right one available now. Definitely need another CM though so I'd welcome Gravenberch

The ban being extended for the appeal failing just screams of an abuse of power. A properly progressive reffing system would have a sit down with the clubs every week to talk through games.

I really hope we get Gravenberch over the line soon. United have been heavily linked, and the way things are going at Chelsea and with de Bruyne out at City I can see other clubs being interested seeing as Bayern are open to a move.

Is he any good? And isn't there questions about his attitude?