Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Massive. City won didn't they?

Not to take away from villa and they are on brilliant run of form,but there is a big difference between their home form and away

I wonder which City team we are seeing here, will it be like 20-21 where they had 29 points after 16 matches but then went on a crazy run to easily win the league? Or is it 19-20 City where they had 32 points after 16 matches but the relentless pressure they faced of having to win every match meant they dropped points. At the moment I would think it is more like 19-20, if only for the fact that one injury apparently disrupts the team and that is why they are not as imperious as they should be (not allowing other key players to leave and not replacing them....just that one injury).

Then again it could be 20-21 where if that one player comes back they go on a 15 match unbeaten run and blow away all challengers. If it is the latter, the hope we have is that there was little pressure on them in that year as we started crumbling with our injuries to our CB's and there was little challenge from any of the other teams. At the moment it seems like there are 3 other teams pushing City this year. Sure Aston Villa may fall away, but maybe they don't and add another teams to look at.

In any case, we have put ourselves in a good position for a good season. You cannot win the league in the first half, but you can lose it and not challenge. It is up to us to improve ourselves as well as we haven't been as good as we can be. First we focus on ourselves and our performances, then we can see what the other teams are up to.

It'll be interesting to see who plays down the right. All the other forwards are generally left or centre. Will one move across? Or will Elliott get gametime there? Doak?

This season is a bit mad, lets be honest, ourselves, City and Arsenal have been pretty rubbish for most of it so far, but the likely winner will come from us non the less. I don't think this year is going to be like any other, I just can't see any team winning 13/14 games on the bounce as everyone is so far from that level as it is...

A 6 or 7 game winning streak in the new year could be enough for someone to start leaving a gap. We're well capable of that, but we need to start finding form, fast! We're simply not going to get away with these come from behind results, 18 points from such positions after 16 games is madness. If we had this from any other year we could be finding ourselves outside the top 6 such is the fine margins in wins like those.

For whatever reason now, in the last 4 weeks so many players levels have dropped dramatically. We were purring nicely throughout September and October, getting better each week as the new players were getting more and more used to playing together, so I was expecting us to be all guns blazing coming into the Christmas. We have gone so flat and are now struggling to create any kind of decent chance, we only seem to be able to create now when we are chasing and can throw caution to the wind, which is obviously not sustainable football. We went from a good home win against Brentford, then we were absolutely dogs**t against City the following week and we have not recovered.

This sounds very low from a fan who's team is top of the league, but I do feel we need a drastic change in performances levels and soon. Put is this way, this is probably the lowest UTD are coming to Anfield in years and we have turned them over 5-0 and 7-0 in those years. But the way we are playing, this game could go anyway. I'd bite your hand off for a 2-0 right now, but with a decent performances to back it up!

Did i read somewhere we are losing Endo for some Asian cup or something at some stage? Not ideal either, spurs also losing Son for what it's worth, apparently.

We just have to keep a buffer to city till they get KDB back, but they really do look human after all this season even in games where they've had Rodri playing. I think Arsenal's achilles heel is they're lack of a big goal scorer this year, Jesus although in and out with injuries has only two league goals.

I know this is obvious, but it needs to be said as often as possible.

Alisson is the most important player in our team. he made two saves on Saturday - in a game where we played appallingly - that many keepers, and certainly our no.2, would never have made. the guy is a freak, and make no mistake, we drop points without him on Saturday.

i've been a Salah disciple ever since his first season, and have always preached that he is our best and most important player. that now ends. it's Ali. he may not be the 'greatest' keeper in the history of the Prem, due to the team not winning enough, but I'd have no problem calling him the best I've ever seen. I'd be happy to concede Schmeichel if you argued it, and I won't fight you about it at all, but there is literally nobody else.

I know what you are saying but 18 goal involvements this season in 16 prem games is just unreal.

I haven't been overly impressed with his general play either tbh

Hoping that a nice week long break for most this week as its a dead rubber on Thursday with a huge week starting Sunday should be perfect timing to come back into form.

Team has been rubbish since the international break but somehow still picking up points and top of the league.

I'm not saying anything as a detriment to Salah. He's still ridiculous.

But Alisson is simply more important.

To have 3 players in our team with not just legitimate, but almost irrefutable claims to being the best in the world in those 2 plus VVD, is a very nice place to be.

This.

I'm with you, I think Ali is comfortably our most important player, but it's great that it's even a debate

What if a goal had been scored or a player been sent off in the period between the penalty incident and the actual penalty being given in the Crystal Palace / Liverpool match.

I'll keep harping on about it because it's still the only loss we've suffered all season:

Yet another challenge far worse than what got Jones banned for 3 games, only a yellow card again. I'm sure if the ref was sent to look at a still image on the monitor there'd be a red card, but that trick is only used when they want to use it.

It’s a strange season, if City were in peak form a few points ahead of everyone I’d say we’d be feeling pretty good about ourselves considering where we were last year.

But with City looking more human this season it feels like we’ve stumbled into an opportunity we weren’t expecting and have to contend with hope among everything else!

Get past the AFCON in the mix with few injuries, maybe even a signing in January and I might start to believe. Top 4 was the goal at the start of the season so I’m happy we’re well on course for that - throw in a Europa win in Dublin and I’d be ecstatic.

I'm mostly just worried about the clean sheets away from home. Think Sheffield United last week is the only one we've had all season? And bar Chelsea first game of the season we've gone 1-0 down in all the other away games. That's crazy form. We can't always rely on coming back for draws and wins, we need to stop conceding in those games and get out ahead of them to have any sort of consistency.

There was one in the Luton game yesterday that when slowed down looked alot worse. They then showed it in real time and it wasn't as bad. Didn't even give a yellow. They didn't do that with Jones at all and it made it look far worse than it was.

The test event went fine tonight, apparently, so there'll be an extra 7,000 in the new Upper Anfield Road stand this weekend 🙂

Klopp throwing shade tonight in his talk at Anfield.

That's why we love him, he doesn't sugar coat says what he feels.

You wonder why Klopp gets frustrated with reporters so often

It's because everything he says gets spun in the most cynical way possible.

Didn't think it was that bad either.

Lavia and Caicedo episodes were strange. Their preference for Chelsea, their fees etc.

I am sure Caicedo will come good but Lavia was always a punt.

I read it more as positives about our own buys.