Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

I completely missed the Grosse incident, what happened (out for dinner and no sound on tv).

Very poor goals conceded today bad as they were looked like might nick the 3 points,on we go to the Derby 12.30 kick-off

Draw was a fair result in the end, we were poor enough in stretches but still had enough chances to win the game.

Referee was again rubbish, find it very difficult to believe that wasn’t preventing a goalscoring opportunity and should have been a red, which would have been an entirely different game.

It felt like one of those situations where the referee/VAR thought that they’d be being overly harsh to Brighton by applying the rules correctly. Unfortunately referees rarely just apply the rules regardless so we get immense inconsistency.

2 points a game is the target to get top four, rebuilding the midfield at once is a big task and I wouldn't be expecting a title challenge. We'll have games where just don't work but so far this season there's been plenty of promising signs.

No not biting but almost

Another international break so I guess a short summation to date is due. 11 games played in all comps, 8 wins 2 draws and a loss. If you were offered that in August you'd take it, draws away to Chelsea & Brighton are far from disastrous and the spurs result doesn't need any explaining on that.

Plenty positives, some negatives but lots to build on more importantly.

Should be off now but no.

100% has to be a complete overhaul of the rules regarding Var

Refs getting it totally wrong again in the Arsenal v City game. Michael Oliver was involved last week and again today. It's an absolute shambles and that's by no means a overreaction.

That was a poor result, and more worryingly a poor performance, the worst 90 minutes of the season?

Opening quarter was shocking, passive, ponderous and pedestrian, illustrated by the passing for the opening goal.

We did improve either side of the break, got couple of breaks and found ourselves ahead, and should have killed it with Gravenberch chance. That miss seemed to knock the stuffing out of us a bit, and we were lucky enough in the end to get the point, certainly didn't deserve 3.

At what point does Kostas get the start? Robbo is becoming error prone, whether it's age or a lack of focus I don't know, but his place should not be guarenteed, and if the other guy is on better form he should play. Alexis struggled at times, don't know if Brighton targeted him or what but he seemed to be caught up in possession a few times.

Arsenal v City was a terrible game. Arse win with a late deflection.

Pity about the last two games but 3 points off the top isn't too bad given the fixtures we've had. On paper we have a lot of very winnable games coming up now until we play City in late November.

Don't know why people are already writing off our title chances, we're 3 points off top having already played 5 of the top 7 sides (not including ourselves)

Poor performance today for sure, but it's not been indicative of the season.

Man City have

Brighton H

Man u A

Bournemouth H

Chelsea A

Liverpool A

Brighton are a strange side, being well beaten twice already this season but then easily beating two of the top 4 from last season. They are quality so getting only a point is not bad. City losing twice in a row in the league and now coming into a tough stretch will be interesting to watch. I have to wonder whether Pep is thinking about Haaland and his off the ball work. He is a scoring machine, but if they lose a few more will he start overthinking it and whether he fits their team with their possession based play and having so few touches?

We are only 3 points off the top, still to play Arsenal and and having been screwed once by the ineptitude of the referees and being on the wrong side of a few decisions already this early. I hope the saying...it evens out over the season...is true as we will be due some later on when we will need it.

I think the rotating midfield is nice for options but we might need a consistent 3 to get used to playing together.

No and he has been played out of position

I was giving out about him earlier but it isn't his fault. He's doing fine there but smart teams will go after him, like today. The first goal was VVDs fault, that was a f*cking suicide pass.

The lad is a number 8 often even been played as a 10 and now is playing as a 6 due to recruitment issues. Id argue he's actually better than I expected...that goal today was on VVD, you simply can't undercook a pass to your midfielder when you know he's getting pounced on. McAllister was a sitting duck on that one...

Hit the crossbar at 2-1 and should have been playing against 10 men if you want to look at it another way.

Even suggesting he's a flop is ridiculous, he isn't even playing in his best position. Hopefully Klopp will get Endo up to speed in the next couple of months, or sign a quality DM in January. He's a quality player, no doubt about that.