Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Could have been double figures against some other teams judging by some of the highlights I saw. That said, they very nearly snatched a draw late on on more than one occasion so maybe he had a point.

The dude was off his feet with studs showing, he was always gonna walk. As we learned with Jones intention or no.

Except he didn’t get sent off for it, and the half time commentary reckoned it was a good call as “the player didn’t mean it”

I’m assuming you are talking about Udoige’s first half tackle when he really should have seen a straight red?

Yep, it was disgraceful that he didn’t see a straight red for that!

The game really is being ruined by incompetent refs and misuse/ abuse of VAR.

Find the xG data and xGc (expected goals conceded) really interesting as an indicator of what level of chances the team is generating and conceding. The xG for the Luton game was over 3 for Liverpool, and less than 1 for them, which gives a sense of how wasteful we were and how they took their chances.

There was a stat on twitter recently about Man city saying that they are rarely beaten on xG, even when they have lost (including against us) they still outscore teams on xG so teams need to be super clinical against them.

I know the above sounds super obvious but last year in the games Liverpool drew/lost we weren't creating as many chances and giving up more, so the positives I would take is that this season when we have dropped points the underlying performance was better than last year.

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AFAIK it doesn't factor in who is taking the shot because it's essentially a barometer used to measure a player/team's performance against.

It's basically just the average conversion rate for each type of chance.

Watching the game yesterday I'm still more embarrassed about drawing 1-1 with Chelsea than with Luton.

Seems odd. With respect to Fulham, if we were still interested I'd expect ours to be a better offer. And surely our interest can't have disappeared since the summer

It's possible that Fluminense might have asked for a fee that Liverpool deem too expensive, so they walked away. That worked for Mount in the summer tbf. That article mentions €30m-€35m.

I do hope that Liverpool do have an alternative lined up though if they are not pursuing him anymore.

Fulham probably have a deal for Paulinha agreed with Bayern so have a big budget for a replacement.

But he is not a natural no 6 at the moment so he doesn't solve our problems immediately IF he were to come in January. If we did get him in January and after he just finishing the season in South America I reckon we wouldn't see much of him for the rest of the season

Yeah, you could troll the hell out of them and not risk getting banned from the football forum.

We might not be going for Andre according to David Lynch.

While Andre has the potential to be a great player and probably a long term replacement for Thiago if he were to sign,I think a specialist no 6 is much more important in the short term

that man created Twin Peaks, i wouldn't pay any attention to him

Funny thing with rumours and links such as Andre is that once we've been linked for such a long time and then it looks as if we're not actually moving for that player, we think that's a bad thing. I'm fairly certain that if this guy was the answer to our number 6 woes, they'd go out and get him - see bids for Caicedo - but the likelihood is that he's probably not up to it at our level or Klopp doesn't think he'd fit exactly into our style of play.

He seems to ask something very specific from his DMs - Fabinho and now Endo were/are very slowly embedded into the team. If we don't want him, I think that points to the player not being right for us. That said, I do hope we address the number 6 position in January - I wouldn't be too confident - as it's affecting our play and the play of players asked to take that position.

Jones and Gravenberch not spotted in training today

Spurs scored two, we scored 2. The whole world knows it, it was admitted to by all concerned. So I personally will not look at that game as a loss, regardless of the fact Spurs were awarded 3pts for a draw, and we were awarded 0 points for a draw. It's in the history books as a loss, I get it, but it never felt like a loss, to the players or manager. I mean OJ was found innocent, but we all know the reality.

And The grief some posters got for having a laugh about Andy Nunez 🙄🙄

This is so stupid.

I don't think I ever really got any of his movies but I always enjoyed his plot twists and unexpected endings. Let's hope there's no weird midgets or Laura Dern involved.