Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Shite game, 3 points, we move on.

Now to just match Arsenal and City’s results for the next 32 games and avoid defeat in the four matches against them.

Almost sounds simple on paper.

Ha ha🤣

That last 2 and a half minutes was the most frustrating of the season so far for me. All we had to do was keep the ball for 2.5 minutes and we win the game. Instead we gave the ball away 5 or 6 times in that last 2.5 minutes. So stupid from us tbf.

Salah was poor today but he has had at least one performance than that for us this season. Can't remember which game I'm thinking of tbh, probably against Notts Forest.

Horrible game, that was a slog, got there in the end.

Given how bad Wolves were when we pressed higher, and how dangerous they could be when we invited them on, Jones was the right call at the time… swapping our AMC for a DM would mean sitting deeper, which is where we struggled most today.

I don't think it's that he doesn't rate Endo, so much as he likes his midfielders to be more front footed - think he's just not much of a one for dedicated DMs full stop. Endo will play plenty though, played very well during the week.

Feel like we got away with one today,Wolves pretty good for 30 min,considering the illness ,we were sh1te at the same time,Mo brutal again 3/6 this season where he should be subbed off at 60/70 mins,shades of the NF performance from the 1st minute

Yeah definitely one of those games you’ll quickly forget, however winning away from home and not playing well is always welcome and a necessity for teams looking to challenge for honours.

In terms of raw numbers we are both best attack and defending team in the league so far, very early days and relatively poor opposition played but it’s as good a start you could have hoped for for Slot coming in post Klopp. This team can play very well, consistency is obviously an issue so far but that will come all going well.

Some areas of concern, midfielder light no doubt and left back looks like it could become an issue too, but all in all, we are in good shape.

I think we will have a better idea how far away we are from being contenders for major honours at the end of November.

Fixtures in October and November are on paper, much more difficult that anything we have played so far.

The best football we've played has been in our toughest fixture on paper, Utd away.

Hopefully we can produce similar performances in our upcoming fixtures after the international break, because we were shite today.

We'll need to.

Some really tough matches coming up against teams a lot better than Wolves, who were awful.

..Love the vibe in this squad

Top of the league is nice after 6 games and all that. But we have had a nicer run of games - 5 of the 6 games we've played have been bottom half clubs and the only game we've lost was to Forest who are 9th. Even the LC win was against a bottom half team.

So there is some degree of realism needed. We don't really know what the team is like yet. We have a much tougher run of games after the next international break with Chelsea, Leipzig & Arsenal coming back to back to back and then a double header against Brighton. Finished off with Leverkusen & Villa.

We'll know a lot more after that run of fixtures.

Maybe it's because Slot is still an unknown, because he's only 7 games into his tenure, but he is keeping his cards close to his chest and keeping quiet. I like that he is doing that tbf, as Klopp was such a big personality to succeed. If we were in the position we are in now under Klopp, we would all be talking about a title run and emotions would be very higher and energetic and bouncing, because it's what Klopp would have wanted. And we knew from experience what he and his teams were capable of.

Even yesterday was a slog and an important win, given some of the other results, but no real fuss made of it. Just a standard win on paper. Maybe the more we can do that, the better.

Perhaps, but isn't it better than having the hardest 6 and struggling?

New coach and style of play is going to take time. This season will be a bit of a roller coaster here and there but that is to be expected imo.

Van Dijk has been flawless all season and it's going under the radar because this is just standard from him.

He's been ultra consistent

God he needs a lot more than 10 games! He would need at least a full season, and a couple of transfer windows. Even the great Pep was given that....I don't think any manager of any level can be judged after 10 games.

Yes, we would have too....it would be circus stuff if we were talking about a managerial hunt after 10 games, regardless of results. Considering he hasn't signed a single player of his liking yet.

October Games

I think the Forrest loss was a bit of a blessing in disguise, the press would be full of title contenders, unbeaten run, best start as a manger talk had we won that. Just waiting for it to collapse, we're staying under the radar a bit thanks to that.

Even going top this weekend didn't generate as much press as how City need to find a Rodri replacement

That Chelsea Leipzig Arsenal week!

Strap in!

Just one home game in League in whole of Oct

Ouch,

Nov must have lots of home games

You can only beat what's put in front of you, I know United are bad but the team rose to the occasion so I'm hopeful they will in tougher fixtures. 3 times we played that United side last season and failed to beat them, that was massively disappointing.

I think there probably was a level of failure at which we might have been looking to change before Christmas - but it would've had to be ultimate feel-bad stuff. The players would have had to look visibly miserable, and there would have had to be absolutely no sign of progress or game plan, or else seeing a game plan that lacked any ambition at all. Thinking Hodgson here. But beyond that, yeah, any sort of decent cohesive and improving trend would deserve at least the full season.

We've already passed that threshold by now anyway - we can see the plan, we can see the atmosphere in the squad is great, the chap himself is quietly endearing and saying the right things. So all good.

It's interesting reading the range of opinion on our opposition - that we haven't played anyone decent yet, and also that we'll struggle against the defensive sides. But most of what we've played are the organised sides who play defensively. Like, that's Bournemouth and Brentford to a tee. Utd aren't what they were, but they'll still finish top 8 probably, and we comfortably beat them. Also comfortably beat a quite decent Milan side away. Tbh I think our team is one that'll do quite well with the space left by better teams.

We lost to Forrest. We played poorly on the same day that they played well. Sure that happens, that's football. But at the same time you'd expect Jota to put his 5-yard chance away 9 times out of 10. I don't think we can extrapolate too much from that result, beyond the Premier League being a league where you might get punished if you don't take your chances. But I'd take the big positive that in all 7 other games we've played, we've scored at least 2 goals.

So, y'know, as far as transition seasons go we're flyin'. Things are good, let's enjoy it. We'll probably have a lot more good days than bad.