Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Calvin Ramsay has gone on loan to Bolton

Owen Beck has gone back to Dundee

Ian Graham, the ex Liverpool director of research and big factor behind Liverpool's recent successes, is now a shareholder of Bolton.

It's something worth keeping an eye on, and possible future link ups.

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Hopefully Ramsay will get a run of games for Bolton, he has been very unlucky with injuries and has played less than 300 minutes of competitive football since joining Liverpool. He is more than capable of being a standout player at League One level and the pressure of playing for a team that expect to win promotion would be a great experience for him. He'll need to be prepared to fight for a place in the line-up because Bolton are already well stocked in the full back positions. Owen Beck was a mouse when he went on loan to Bolton last season and failed to grasp the opportunity, Ramsay shouldn't make the same mistake.

I'm glad Beck has returned to Dundee, keeping him at Liverpool would have been a shame if he was only going to see bench time. He was impressive in the Scottish league for the earlier part of the season and he should be invigorated for the second half of the season after his holiday in Liverpool. At least he'll be able to claim that he played for Klopp's Liverpool having gotten a handful of minutes against Bournemouth last week.

Coote on VAR for Arsenal this weekend. I wonder will he miss any handballs this time?

I wouldn't be an advocate for 'evening it up' but will he even it up and give Liverpool a soft decision to make up for it?

There's been a few referees/VARs this season who have made one big decision one week, received a lot of criticism in the aftermath and then have given a different decision for the same incident a couple weeks later. Almost like they have realised their mistake and have changed their mindset on the outcome of the decision.

Although knowing Coote, he'll give Arsenal a handball penalty this time!

Big fan of Squires but felt a bit let down by his guardian cartoon today on Klopp

It's just a bit one note "remember these times Klopp got angry???"

Thiago trained!

But needs time...

One of the papers, can't remember which one, had a story over the weekend saying Klopp going could open the door to Edwards returning but it was a pure fluff piece, even said that he'd repeatedly said he didn't want to return to football. Wouldn't surprise me if Romano is basically regurgitating that, as much as he does get legit info sometimes, he's not immune to baseless fluff himself

But did Liverpool approach him. Romano is a known spoofer. My best belief is that is a load of rubbish and he made it up for the clicks

Where is Edwards now?

I'm depressed enough with all the rejection wrt the vacant national team job, if we aren't an attractive proposition now when will we ever be!

United V Liverpool Under 18s on at the moment ( respective team channels )

Almost 30 minutes gone... Kone-Doherty ( the lad you got from Derry) with your goal.

Thought I'd mention it in case anyone is bored!

Edwards was at Liverpool for 11 years lads, that's long enough for anyone in 1 place, not sure why FSG think they could get him back. Of course Edwards rejecting will be a stick to beat FSG with

Why get depressed, enough people have turned Liverpool down and it has been to the clubs benefit, leave em off.

Some strange..Tony Hart sh1t going on here..

You just know the Saudi's will offer Klopp 100m a season to go there. You just know he'll say no 🤣

“I know something else from inside, and it has more merit than being there.''

What does that mean.

Yes,not a bad cv at all

You peaked my interest. How does that role work ? What do you research and find ? Particularly since that was in it's infancy in football 10 years ago. NFL had it many moons ago.

The QPR one? It was performance and recruitment analysis for the academy team.

As you said, it was quite early at the time, which suited me as I didn't have any real predictive analysis experience at the time and luckily it wasn't a real requirement of the role. They were looking at more reactive type stuff, specifically Qlikview which I was experienced with at the time, when many were still using Excel, which I assume helped me stand out. When they caught up with the data analysis stuff, Chelsea went big with Qlikview too around the time Lampard was there as manager originally.

So they would have been tracking and trending lots of training data, but also some in game stuff too like passes, carries etc. Pretty basic stats metrics given the time and the level it was at too. It would be much more advanced now. They really just wanted to get their platform created, which I would have been solid at, with view to expand it once the predictive modelling analysis camd on board, which would really help them in the academy and how they viewed the kids coming through and whether they were progressing physically with their sprint speeds, recovery runs and things like that as they grew and what their capabilities would be. It was still very much a 'eye test' time with academies and how they operated but they wanted to get into the data world to help make decisions too.

I ended up going down a different path in the end but always wondered what could have been!