Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Think we are light in the canteen 😂

Not surprising tbh. He needs a good loan to get him playing again.

Great result at Fulham. Still top of the league with a game in hand on most. Exciting times. Jurgen Klopp football genius.

Tbf, we have CC and FA cup games he could get some minutes in.

Happy fcuking new year.........

We lose Endo, we gain a MacAllister.

Hopefully Elliott steps up for Salah on the right, Jota back too. Good timing these returns

Delighted to be in the position we are but don't see us being able to maintain it.

Salah and Endo will be big losses and the return of KDB will make City formidable once again.

I can see us dropping points along the way that we woudn't expect to be dropping. The PL is so bloody competitive that if teams show up (on the day) anything can happen.

Brilliant to be where we are though.

On paper - and with the injuries Newcastle have - we should be winning tomorrow night. An early goal and it could be floodgates. Fingers crossed.

Not sure if you are just playing down where we find ourselves, but City's problem this year is not where KDB excels. They are still top scorers in the league so far this year so they have not, seemingly, missed him to create chances. He will not shore them up defensively where they are worse this year than before. Or maybe it is just other teams have upped their own performance going forward and this is putting them under more pressure.

I am still amazed that we have, if you follow some on here, been absolute dog crap and we are top at the moment. And this is not like 2020-21 where the creaks were showing due to the injuries we have. Our spine is settled so far this year so you do not expect such a drop we experienced then. Let's remind ourselves we went, from matchday 15 to matchday 28 we won only 3, drew 3 and lost 8 in that stretch. That was 12 points in 14 matches. So far from matchday 15 we have won 11 points in 5 matches. Our dropped points has been against United, I know they are not great but a derby is always tough and Arsenal.

All of this does not mean much really, but hopefully we will continue to surprise many on here and outperform how some think we are supposed to be performing.

I wonder would Leicester be interested in him? Dewsbury-Hall is probably the best player in the championship right now and plays in that advanced midfielder position but Carvalho can play in wider areas too. Liverpool had an interest in KDH previously but nothing materialized.

Leicester are playing at a good level and should win the championship, so it would be a good team to join.

Maybe Liverpool could ask for James Justin in return on loan, who can play at both RB & LB and even played as a CB as part of a back 3 iirc. Would solve some short term problems for ourselves at the same time.

Always felt him losing the AFCON final affected him a bit that year

Also,didn't nearly every game he played in the knockouts go to extra time and penalties so he played a lot of extra minutes as well?

We'll need more points in the second half that we got in the first half of the season, a similar return would put us around low/mid 80's points wise, it'll take more than that to win the league, it will probably be high 80's.

We always seem to up our performances after the new year so i hope that remains true this year as well, we are probably 2nd favourites now, if we are within 3 points at the end of March then we have a chance.

Don't know anything about the asian cup but i would imagine that Japan are the favourites and are likely to go deep in the competition, and Endo must be a starter for them so he'll clock up minutes, Mac will fill in grand at No.6 but i was excited to see him play as an No.8, that will have to wait. Salah although still scoring his general play this year has been well below what we've come to expect, maybe the AFCON will give him a reset and he'll come back stronger. I'd say Sobo will play in Salah's position and Elliott as the No.8 for the few games.

You think 4 days is enough before a major tournament

Mo loves his country, wouldn't mess with that

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In the league

He's available for the league game today though. You'd think he'd have been rested for the cup games anyway.

Only city and Newcastle done have players off to it

The club's know this when signing African and Asian players. Teams meet up about 2 weeks in advance of all International tournaments.

It's a bit sh1t for us at the moment but it is what it is.

All those continental tournaments should be at the same time, say for example in September or in March. Close down the club scene once every 4 years, and play them all.

The AFCON every 2 years is a bollix IMHO, devalues the tournament as well as everything else IMHO.

The AFCON only generates a small amount of revenue via broadcast rights, sponsorship etc. Stick it up against the COPA and the Euros as you're suggesting and that already small revenue gets cut to even less. But that revenue is just about all that is keeping African football afloat. Whatever amount filters down to grassroots level to maintain pitches, provide kits, fund regional teams etc would be gone.

So yes, forcing it into such a competitive window and reducing it to once every 4 years would indeed eliminate your worries about the release of African players, but unfortunately largely by reducing the amount of future poor African players who get to make it in European leagues.

The Internet is such a ball ache these days

Have you never heard of preparation for a tournament. Do you think when the WC or Euros happen that they teams only come together on the day of their first match??

You suspect it may be for the rest of the season that Beck is brought back. It makes no sense to sign another left back and we would not be able to sign one that will be happy to sit behind Robertson and possibly Tsimikas as well. You will need to get someone from within to fill the role on the bench until the senior players are available again.

Rumours that Callum Wilson & Tripper missing for Newcastle