Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Ugh. Don't like the way this is going before Sunday. Klopp clearly being sent out to deflect/delay questions about transfers. Konate injured again. Salah rumours. Tough trip to St James. This'll be a fun place next week if we lose.

You are absolutely 100% entitled to post what you want.

However, if you read over the last few pages you'll see you are doing most of the whinging.

And? I couldn't give a ****.

But no, actually obviously you're correct. It's been a fantastic transfer window and the squad is in a perfect position to challenge for the title and win at least two of the other cups. Anyone who doesn't think it's been an amazing window is obviously clueless. 👍

Easy operating a multi billion pound company is it

I'm going to wait until the window is over before I allow hysteria to take over.

In my opinion Newcastle have the best midfield three in the league now since Gundogan left City. Guimarães, Tonali and Joelinton are all excellent.

Gomez is as good as those available?

My god.

I like Gomez as RB, but I’d honestly start Nat Philips over him at CB.

Absolutely correct. Fully expect Newcastle to have one of the best home records in the league, wouldn’t be a massive surprise if they are unbeaten at home this season and they will win most. Still won’t stop hysteria on here if they beat us. But hopefully we will get the result, I think we match up quite well against them, but not the end of the world if we don’t. Either way, I’m very confident we’ll beat them at Anfield when the time comes.

He was the player that Dalglish wanted and the new owners made it happen, in their view Chelsea were funding the transfer. At the time Damien Comolli was talking to Ajax about Suarez, there were also talks with Anderlecht for Romelu Lukaku. Anderlecht were willing to sell Lukaku for €20-25M, but Dalglish preferred Carroll because he saw him as the Alan Shearer of his day. In the summer of 2011, Liverpool also passed on the opportunity to sign both Stefan Defour and Axel Witzel from Standard Liege for €16M and instead got Charlie Adam (£8M, Blackpool) and Jordan Henderson (£20M, Sunderland) because Dalglish believed the team needed a British core. Stuart Downing was signed for £22M which was mind blowing, the alternatives that Comolli was looking at were available for a fraction of the price, Dries Mertens and Eden Hazard. There was also a young Kevin De Bruyne on Comolli's shopping list. However, Comolli deferred to Dalglish in the decisions on what players to sign and ultimately that cost both of them their jobs in 2012.

In an alternative universe Liverpool followed the money ball philosophy and signed the future stars of the Belgium national team in 2011.

Or even just a proper DOF on a long term contract with a proper long term vision.

Using Klopp in the role, and/or his friend is a complete waste of time. It's ruined the recruitment this summer.

MacAllister bad Szoboszlai were brilliant signings. The following 5 or 6 weeks have been nothing short of a disaster where senior players have left and not been replaced, gaps in the first team have not been filled and gaps in the squad have not been filled. Dress it up however you. Want, but unless an adequate DM & CB are signed in the next week, it's a disaster of a recruitment window.

We haven't even signed the usual cheap 18 year old squad filler that happens every window.

The same argument could be made for Edwards, I think. Didn't he have Enzo and Guimares on the radar but he was overlooked?

Klopp is an amazing manager, and we're lucky to have him, but transfers aren't his forte

It's been a failure - to now - because we haven't addressed specific weaknesses in the squad. In fact, letting Fab and Henderson go has weakened us further in an already weak area. The fact that according to noises coming from the club that Endo alone is how we're going to mitigate against losing Fab and Hendo is criminal.

I think it'll become very clear pretty quickly once the transfer window shuts exactly how short we are in terms of our squad. It's been a dispiriting window to say the least even allowing for two seemingly quality acquisitions early on.

I spoke about it earlier but I'd take a dour 1-1 draw! Sbozo and McAllister have played a grand total of 2 games together and they're going to be anchored by a man making his first premier league start, going up against arguably the best midfield in the League currently. Not having Konate is a disaster too going up against Isak...take a draw and run from this one!

A draw would be a great result on Sunday. Gone are the days were we expect to win nearly every game we play. Now draws away to rivals.like Newcastle, Chelsea, Brighton, United, Spurs etc habw to be considered results.

Like last year, there's always the change a Newcastle player gets seats off early on in the game and we can then expect a win but I won't be banking on it.

That would be the game where Nick Pope was sent off after around 20 minutes and Liverpool were 2-0 up. Newcastle as a team are a stronger prospect now with Botman, Guimaraes, Tonali and Isak bedding in giving them an incredible spine to their team. On our side we have lost the experience of Henderson, Milner, Fabinho and Firmino.

Yeah I've no problem with outgoings, its the fact DM was required be Fabinho going and with one week to go a DM is still required. Disaster and completely inept from the board.

A cb was always needed and I'm nearly sure Gvardiol was sounding out Liverpool at one stage? They obviously had the money for the right player(caicedo) so why didnt they bid for him? He'd have the cb sorted for a decade

And we've gained MacAllister, Szoboszlai and Diaz is back 😁

I'm not saying we're going to go out and win comfortably or anything, it will be a difficult game, but I just don't wouldn't be a fan of the 'we're gonna lose' type posts.

Best 11 we can field is definitely stronger this season but depth is severely lacking. Should have kept 1 of Henderson or Fabinho. But money talks. Happy enough with our team as long as the injury hoodoo takes a season off.

What?

You would have gotten rid of Henderson and Fabinho after nearly landing a quad?

No I am saying they needed to be replaced for this season and are no loss,now the fact Fabinho hasn't been adequately replaced yet is down to the incompetence of the owners and Klopp.

Whether we are better than last season is debatable. But even if we are, it's only by a very small margin. The big problem is nearly every team around has very likely improved by a much bigger margin. Newcastle, Arsenal, Chelsea, Brighton all look very good and better than last year. Spurs have started the season very well too. United look lost, thank god. City are city.

28 goals, key goals, trophy winning goals, CL knockout tie goals, fa cup semi final goals, key goals in the title run in at City.