Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

I believe, although with no proof, his contract change away from performance to straight up £400k/week can't have helped team cohesion and hopefully we won't see anymore of those type of contracts which put a large dent in the wage bill also.

The club has a terrible tendency to hang on to people past their prime for some sort of solidarity reasons. And fans appear to demand it on the basis of the players previous loyalty. They were paid for their loyalty, no need to keep paying. Salah appears to have left the building anyway so we should try cash in and replace.

Considering we made a bid of 111m for Caicedo, I'd say we're not short of money, and we should be offloading these, get a proper striker, a proper no6,

Nunez 60m

Kelleher 15m

Thiago 0

Matip 0

Rhys Williams 5

Jota 30

Maybe Nunez can be given a shot under new manager, Pep bought Haaland, played him up top, and accepted he was going to be playing with ten men, so moved Stones into midfield from rightback to make up the loss of Sleepy Haaland who does nothing but score, while Nunez does everything but score, maybe Slot will just stick Nunez top and center and see if he can take chances that way, Nunez misses a lot, but no one misses more than Haaland, Haaland is well clear at the top of the ''big chances missed'' table, but he gets so many chances while standing up there, that he gets 20 plus easily

I would have been a big Nunez chanter of "he will show his ability, more time" all season but his latest form is beyond stinking. I've given up on him. He gets an unbelievable amount of supply and wastes so much. Even his positioning is now poor. The big strong lanky guy has been figured out by defenders and he ain't coming good. Diaz for all his effort is not much better. He runs into blind alleys constantly. Strangely we would probably make more selling him than Nunez.

_________Alisson_______

Bradley_Konate_VVD_Robertson

___MacAllister__EdsonAlvarez__

Salah____Trent____Diaz___

________Nunez____________

How Slot lines up

On a seperate - but connected - note, looking at CF, from next season i'd much rather see Mo centre forward, or at least in that 10 position off a forward like Gakpo. He's getting too lost miles out wide, and not getting involved in the areas of the pitch he can now do the most damage. He's still quick, but I'm not sure he can sustain that speed, so is better off where short bursts can put him clear or buy him space for a shot.

I can't help but think of the one chunk of time he played consistently as a central striker for us, back in 18/19. Played a run of 13 games there in the middle of the season (with Shaqiri right), and in those 13 games scored 13 goals with 6 more assists.

This was covered by the Athletic a while back. I think they scaled for 2018 to 2023 and Liverpool had outspent Arsenal by nearly 600m in wages across those 5/6 years, according to the figures that they had. I'm not saying Arsenal haven't spent, but there's more metrics involved than players in/out when looking at things like nett spend.

Fingers crossed 😋😂

Ah Toby you're outdoing yourself there with those valuations

In a world where Arsenal paid Sheffield United £30M for Aaron Ramsdale, Everton paid Sunderland £25M for Jordan Pickford and Burnley paid £19M for James Trafford, how is Caoimhin Kelleher only worth £15M?

Shouldn't entertain anything less than 30m for Kelleher.

Mo no go...

We could definitely do with him coming out and saying that the weekend strop was high emotions and it's water under the bridge, that him and Klopp are solid. Ideally with an apology, but even without it would be good

What else can they say? Oh we expect to flog Mo on the cheap, submit your lowball offers now.

Nah, claim he's staying and not available for any price and see if an air of unobtainability inflates the price. If they get a big enough offer, I expect he'll be gone.

Big article in the guardian about Salah's ego.

I didn't love his comments on Saturday but I think that's a bit revisionist. I don't think you could accuse him of being egotistical during his time year.

The opposite if anything

From a purely footballing pov, I wouldn't want to risk Mo's contributions unless it's guaranteed we could spend the money well.

That has not really been the case with Diaz (less so), Gakpo and Nunez.

Id much rather ship out 1 or 2 of those.

Id love for Mo to come out and all it water under the bridge purely from a relationship with Klopp pov.

Dont want the wheels to come off completely during the next few games.

Roll on July 1st, it'll be a new crew behind the scenes and Klopp won't be around insisting that the club keeps his band of men together.

Edwards and Hughes will have no emotional attachment to the older members of the squad. FSG made no secret of the fact that their model was to move players on before they got too old and I expect the club to return to that immediately.

Arne Slot may well be looking forward to working with Salah, but if Salah and the agent aren't interested in a realistic extension I would expect him to be shipped out.

Defended Nunez all season, but he isn't good enough, he has 2 seasons. Last season was so bad for the whole team I excused his performances and just overall settling in to a new league. Brief purple patches this season but his finishing is just too eratic and rushed, he has missed some ridiculous chances.

We are due a few sh1t years as Liverpool fans.. Brace yourselves it's going to be tough I reckon.

Who knows, the club and squad is in fairly good health, there is no reason to expect anything less than Top 4 next season. Excited to see what changes the new coaching team will make, how we will setup, can they improve the fitness of some of our more injury prone players. Its been 9 years under Klopp, the 3rd longest managerial reign in the premier league. Interesting times ahead for sure.

We suffered the Hodgson days, when the club nearly went bankrupt, we are a million miles from that.

Salah and Klopp traveled this Liverpool journey together, both are feeling the stress of losing that connection. Salah was Jones age when he joined, still a raw talent, they owe each other a lot.

He's a generational talent with the ball at his feet. Some of the balls his played over the top the since he's come back have been sensational and I don't think there's many players in the league, or world, who can do the same. He's awful defensively though, no one will argue otherwise. But I think the chances of replacing his attacking ability is just too difficult to consider getting rid. He's also 25 so jus coming into his prime.

We need a new DM, which will be a big help, and if we were sticking to a 433 I'd much prefer to replace Sob with a more defensive minded CM to allow Trent more freedom to go forward.

something a different. The PL clubs voted on a proposed new spending model. Villa and both Manches Clubs voted against and Chelsea didn’t bother. All others including Liverpool voted in favour.

It suggests spending to be based multiples of tv revenue from the club in lowest position (20th). All outgoings including agent fees are included in the proposed cap.

I am not sure understand why Villa were against it but given the outlook FSG have on finances, I can see why Liverpool voted for it. Expected City to vote against.

Is the PL recognising the financial anomaly that City and Chelsea are and are trying to fix it in a gentlemanly way ?