Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Great win by Bayern Leverkusen tonight, 3-2 ding dong battle with Bayern winning it late, great game to watch.

A lot of passion from Alonso

He's the man

Updated February fixtures

Southampton then in the FA Cup

Cool

That win was very important for Arsenal, but the way they celebrated it seemed like they were all of a sudden in pole position with only a few matches left. Realistically nothing changed for Arsenal, if we or City win all our matches they do not win the league, even if they win every match (other than the City one in Arsenal's case) 10-0.

I think there are a couple of reasons why the Arsenal celebrations rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. This is not the first time they have celebrated a important, but not critical, win like its a cup winner or league winner. Secondly, Arteta is just irritating. He does not stay in the technical area at all and his celebration for their 3rd way a little over the top. An early February league win is important, but if they lose or draw their next match they achieved nothing. That is why you are happy with the win, but don't go over the top this early still in a title race.

I just don't get the issue with the celebrations at all. Let them belt away, no? City will likely win the league so they'll look retrospectively foolish anyway as they have before. But it was a significant win for them against a direct rival. Pretty certain we'd have headed off down the tunnel after a few waves to the crowd but I don't object to their right to celebrate as they wish.

Black country derby WBA V Wolves was moved to 11.45am to manage crowd trouble, some bars in and around that area opened at 5am.......

Yeah, like, I definitely feel a stab or irritation when it happens - because they're joyful in our defeat and i'm cranky - but for it to be a conversation for more than 2 minutes, let alone 2 or 3 days, is nuts.

It's an intentional thing though - I don't think Carra, for instance, would have gone on about it the way he did if his role wasn't so specifically to stir up fan bantz. They've all got half an eye on a potential 'reaction' at all times I think. It's exhausting.

Origi scored for Forest, his first goal in over a year

Kinda to be expected after that long out… players after long absences always pick up niggles as they get back playing competitively. No big deal as long as that’s all it is, so fingers crossed.

He was only back training a week,pure stupidity bringing him on. What did they expect? Should of been no where near the squad

Utd fan here,asking a question from a fantasy football perspective.

Is Conor Bradley likely to be back in at RB for the weekend and upcoming games or will he be given longer off for personal reasons do ye reckon?

Wouldn’t bet on him playing too consistently for the next wee while with Trent back. He’ll get on from the bench, but I’d say only occasional starts over the next few weeks.

No one was offering €40m for him. You're living in fantasy land if you think that was achievable.

20m euro cost, 2 trophies, a CL final and 1 point off city

His wages would have been high though obviously

Dissent or cynical fouls. Interesting...

Surely it'll just lead to a team time wasting for 10mins though

Dissent? Every time a ref blows the whistle a card will come out. It'll be a basketball match by half time.

No need for a sin bin, need to set a fouls per card rule, should be allowed 5 general fouls for a yellow, and 3 more for another.

Would have liked to have had social media when the back pass rule was changed. I suspect a lot of the same replies to new possible rules would have been said at that time.

I have no problem with cynical fouls getting 10 minutes. We are guilty of it as well but just getting a yellow for stopping a break is not really enough. If there is a possible 4-2 break coming up and you take out a player, why is only a yellow fine? Maybe it should be a red but then we get into a discussion of grey when different, but similar, situations are not treated the same.

So a sin bin to stop cynical play, why is this a bad thing? The dissent thing is just rubbish though as we have seen instances where it is not even a stern look from the referee and others where a yellow flies out from the referee.

Klopp leaving probably means any chance of Matip getting a short extension to rehab his injury and get up and running means he’s probably done too. Shame about the two of em ending their career were like this.

Kieta for me. Fella was a machine for Red Bull and he cost €50m.

Yeah, obviously Keita was a massive disappointment too. Maybe because I don't watch much Bundesliga, I personally didn't have such high expectations for him, so the reality wasn't so disappointing

His performance in the game against Everton, until Richarlison tried to break his leg was absolutely top drawer.

He was also incredible when he came back from injury for the second half of the 21/22 season. Think we won something like 16 from 18 games when he came back in after Christmas. He was immense on the run to the ECL final that year too. 

Keita and Aquaman were easily our worst signings in recent history (ignoring the Hodgson era) but we had some clangers in the 90s too.

Thiago was just a bad signing, it didn't work out but, like Ballotelli, was worth a punt for the price.