Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Rumours of Allison being out for 5 weeks or certainly for the festive period anyway. Only rumours so far but I find injury rumours at Liverpool usually turn out to be true in the end. Hopefully this one isn't. Bad time for an injury as Liverpool play every weekend and midweek now until mid January.

Could be an extended spell with Kelleher in goal. He's done very well in the past but I don't think he's been particularly great this season when he's gotten a chance. His shot stopping especially is well short of Allison's level. Even though he's probably better with his feet.

If that's the case, then I feel that is the straw that could break the slight outsider title challenge back. What a f**king disaster, this's such a crucial period coming up and we need to take near maximum points in the PL. IMO that is just not possible without Allision, he's our most important player after Salah!

I don’t think any defender this year is going to have great days against Doku. Fantastic ability. Trent I thought was decent enough most of the game.

We were lucky enough to get the draw in terms of just thinking about real chances on goal and only for Allison’s save vs Foden in the corner, we would have been in trouble.

Someone posted yesterday the City bench and its value. It’s insane what they can just park on a bench and we are all to believe it’s not financial doping.

Don't know if any follows TIFO on youtube, I find them very good. Anyway, here's their take on how we're going about things this season, for anyone that's interested.

https://youtu.be/6Es7yISajrc?si=wUHe-eq1ixJS_qGW

Thought Salah was very poor on Saturday.

Goes to show he's human after all.

The all round quality everywhere in those decisive positions was well below the norm, guessing because of the time, and the international break and travel. Salah, Haaland (even with his goal) and Nunez were below themselves, Jota and Alvarez were nigh on anonymous, and even Diaz was poor enough in his cameo too.

I think Peps change of formation/approach is the shift in dynamic. Possession is now less important that superpower players.

Have they? They are at 62% possession average for the season according to FBref website and they were at 64% last year. I would think the difference between the 2 years at the moment is in the 3 matches so far they have played the other 4 teams that like to keep the ball (us, Arsenal, Chelsea and Brighton). According to the same site they were at 64% last year. (https://fbref.com/en/comps/9/possession/Premier-League-Stats)

Pep is still Pep, he sets up his teams to not get countered against as that is what kills him in the big matches. Think Inter in the Semi of the CL and think of all those matches against Mourinho in La Liga. He sets up his teams not to concede but that means they aren't great on the counter themselves. This is not to say they do not score on the counter, they just don't play as much as we and other teams do.

What has had to change is he has a striker that is lethal when he gets a chance, but he does not do as much as his other strikers used to do off the ball. So there has had to be a change in style somewhat to compensate for this, but they are still a conservative defensive team that uses possession as a way to stop teams from going at them. He has all the tools to win, and he does win with what he has. But he is also the only manager out there that can buy duds and plant them on the bench and not get hammered for it, think Philips.

My exact thoughts Fitz re Allison,usually with Liverpool and injuries,no news is bad news

No,probably more bad news......

Hopeful Ali is ok, didnt rush off the pitch at full time.

I was gonna say this as a reply to you yesterday when you said it but I thought at the time it was just nitpicking but now that you've said it again I'll say it, and it is a bit nitpicky and I'll bet I'll be in the minority thinking this but personally the way the squad is now I would prefer to be missing Salah for the festive period than Allison and for me it's not even that close a decision.

For me the drop off in quality in such an important position is much bigger from Allison to any other keeper we have than it is from Salah to whomever will cover him while he is out. As you said Allison has made at least one world class save every game this season so far and very often it has been at pivotal points in the game. Think about his save against Mbuemo at 0-0 against Brentford, his save against Foden at 1-0 on Saturday and there are tons of examples of saves that he makes that would simply be goals against us with any of our other keepers in. The importance of these saves cannot be understated imo and I would hypothesize that they have garnered us more points this season than anything else any other player has done for us. I know it's impossible to know the answer to this but that's my guess.

I know goals win games but Salah's goals (or anyone else's for that matter) would be far less meaningful had we been conceding at the rate we would have been with either of the other two in goals. And that's not a slight on the other two, we just happen to have the best keeper on the planet right now so the drop off would be huge to any realistic no.2 candidate we could have. Salah's understudies on the other hand are all full internationals with bags of experience in many leagues etc.

Is it home to Fulham and then Sheffield Utd next in the league, could be worse fixtures if it's not too serious FOR Allison.

I hope I'm wrong, but from what I've seen Kellegher is a poor replacement, he's a good ball player but is poor at the goal tending part of the job. There is a massive drop off.

Allison is a brilliant keeper, possibly the best in the game, so anyone is going to be a drop in quality, but he does tend to pick up the odd injury, and we should have decent cover.

And Palace after that then

Rumours are that Allisons injury isn't as bad as first feared. Hopefully Klopp clarifies today.

Sounds like Ali is out for at least two weeks and Jota for a bit longer.

Alisson out is a worry. Jota hasn’t been great the last few weeks so a rest will be good for him.

Yes just reading the full quote now and a chance he might be back for the Palace game but they might not rush him back either,All in all not the worst outcome and it could of been worse

Are you serious? Jota, poor?

Jesus man....

Salah is always top scorer so maybe we should just count 2nd top as the top scorer!

Well, if he's not as good as Salah, then fvck him, let him rot 🙄😂

He's been good this season, scoring important goals.

Back to back POTM despite being below his usual standards. He really is in a league of his own

Salah and Tsimksas play.