Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Van Dijk's been on top form most the season now, looks right back near his best.

No, the suspensions due to multiple yellow cards is for Premier League games only. Cup competitions have their own separate metric.

PL suspensions for red cards can be served in the league cup but PL suspensions for acculturated yellow cards cannot be served in the league cup iirc.

Was the Brentford game not moved to Sunday?

It'll be great when Spurs revert back to the Spurs we know.

If you read my entire comment, you will see that I made the same point that you’re making about Leicester winning the league with a much lower number of points than would usually be achieved by the champions. Although it was slightly higher than the 11 points you mention - 70 points higher, in fact.

And I don’t understand why so are so upset by the notion that Spurs might win the league. As I said in my post, they probably won’t. But you’d be a brave man to put your house on the line by giving higher than market odds against them on one of the betting exchanges. If you’re that certain, why not go ahead and make some easy money?

Good for them, they should enjoy it after a few truly miserable seasons - 6 decent months under Conte aside. Very hard to see beyond a top 4 challenge in reality, given the lower quality of most of the teams they've faced, and that they'll be losing a few key players for international tournaments - it's just difficult to make any sort of a credible case that they actually have a chance of keeping up this form against better teams over the full 38 games. But that shouldn't be something to knock the feel good factor - getting into the top four would be a big success of a season for them, and they do look well capable of that.

Any word on Luis D's dad yet? I can't imagine what he and his family are going through. Whatever about our hopes on the pitch, I really hope there's a happy outcome for Luis.

I believe they've taken his dad over the boarder to Venezuela. Hopefully Diaz has some sort of kidnapping insurance and can pay the ransom so he can get his father back safely.

Yeah, vitriol is a strong word. I'd say it's more like general dismissiveness.

tbh I think it's better for Liverpool to fly under the radar, and for Spurs expectations to be beefed up. Could well turn out like last year, when Arsenal got boosted up to the high heavens, and then called failures afterwards, despite having what was in reality a brilliant season. The football media are insane, and are only really interested in the most short term of perspectives, to the detriment of any actual objectivity.

I don't mind spurs being top right now, they're there because of the game they played against Liverpool, that bit is bullship. That is as much as i can tolerate anyone other than Liverpool being top.

I'd be more upset if city, utd, Newcastle, Chelsea or arsenal were top.

After all the talk of SA trying to get the best players to raise their profile for a World Cup bid, they're now the only country bidding for 2034

That may well mean no more crazy offers in for Mo, which would be nice

It will mean there will be more crazy offers unless they go down the PSG route with Newcastle and go all in with Newcastle to raise the profile more

I was hoping they might think the main work is done is that respect, but I do see your point

Either way, I don't see Mo going, I'd just rather the noise went away

Are there any details of the contracts for the newest arrivals? Are they old school bonus requirements to meet full salary offer ? I remember when Salah got his contract without any bonus requirements, it appeared to destabilise the squad in my opinion. I feared we would end up with a bunch of mercenaries on the next round of renewals. On current form, Salah is worth every cent.

No I see him seeing out his contract and moving on. The club wouldn't throw big money at a 33 year old then either. Who knows though you have to wait and see where we are at in 2025.

Thiago will be wanted in SA would he not? Big money for being injured, couldn't fault that.

I think he is an asset to have, when fit, but he is nowhere near justifying the wages now. I wonder would he accept the lower wages for one last big season?

The SA money has added an extra dimension now to players at the latter stage of their career. They can get one big pay deal to cover 2 years of reduced wages at a top league.

The big thing, for Liverpool, is that this year Thiago's injury is being masked by the form of MacAllister, Gravenberch, Szobozlai & to a lesser degree Jones. He is not needed as desperately as previous years.

He's taking up a valuable overseas slot in the squad. If he isn't contributing he needs to be dumped. It's not the same as trying to keep a homegrown role model like Jimmy Milner who put in a shift on and off the pitch. I'd cut him in the morning if it meant getting a quality young overseas player for any of the back 4 or holding mid positions.

Would you cut Adrian to keep Thiago?

I don't think he will get a game but there is quietly a shortage of wingers to play in this game.

We don't really want Jota, Nunez or Salah starting 3 games in a week, especially when one is the League Cup.

Ben Doak's fitness is unknown.

It's possible that Jones or Elliott might have to play as wingers. Maybe Scanlon at LW? He seems pacey.

Think Ben Doak trained with the squad yesterday but can't see him starting tomorrow

The very best Spurs can hope for is top 4, but I don't see that happening anyway.

Just waiting for them to wake up and remember who they really are.

He can win us one more league and go off into the sunset as probably our greatest player.

I hope to see Thiago play for us again, he's an absolute joy to watch, but I don't think we should keep him beyond this season.