Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

I'm seriously losing faith in Diaz, he's been poor for a while now

he’s gone from a huge attacking threat to basically a poor man’s Nunez . He’s has time to get it back but we can’t wait forever for him to.

And its the same lads who would throw a wobbler if Slot went full strength and a key player got injured.

Slot did the right thing.

However as long as the FA keep using the cup in the hope that lower league teams will get a huge payday out of it, nowt will change.

@ 8-10, I was going to bed and remembered the game in hand Wednesday and knew someone would pick up on it 😂

Yeah, on paper that team should have been enough and the game was decided on Elliott for some insane reason jumping with arms up to block a garryowen in the box. I think if it played out 0-0 we would have gone through on penalties.

As to nobody remembering, there's still some of us that remember Djimi against Burnley even though we won the CL that year! 🙈😂

Suh a shame some remember Djimi for that error and not his performance in the CL final.

cause I was jumping around with rugby match as well I missed the handball incident yesterday . Just saw it back on lfc tv go ,god I didn’t realise how mad it looked !! Anyway am now on to our noisy neighbours !

Watch it drinking in a pub was an incredible match on a **** pitch

Poor keegan nearly fainted after colymore scored

His performance is even more remarkable after he was told to get changed at half time as he was being replaced, then Finnan could not continue so they told him to get ready again as he was going back out.

I am not denying he looked ungainly, but that was his only own goal in his career. Carragher scored 2 against United in one match, but people do not seem to remember that. Funny how some players are remember for some things. Did anyone see Djimi's only goal of his career? For as bad as that own goal was, this was on the other end of the scale.

Gakpo took his play on left, huge factor.

To say Djimi played well in the 2005 CL final would be a gross exaggeration! Would have been off at HT but for injury to Finnan, and did ok in the remainder. Might have got as high as 6/10 overall, which was about his upper limit.

Feels like he's lost form since he was moved into that central attacking role. Rarely played well there and in the meantime Gakpo has taken his spot on the left.

If we can get a decent offer I wouldn't mind letting Diaz go in the summer, maybe give Doak another chance or push Danns more.

Spot on, we have 5 league matches in 2 weeks; by Feb 26th we will know how good a chance we have in the league, if we maintain the current gap we are in an incredible position

because we are doing so well elsewhere it’s fine…it’s not the end of the world.

Missing out on more FA Cup games is excellent for our season. Missing a game against City is all the better.

Rw. Diaz, he might be just going through a big dip in form. It happens.

Szoboszlai looked like he was on the decline earlier on in the season. Not now, he's one of the best players currently and he's flying.

Diaz could spark again this season. Talk of selling him is silly and premature imo.

If this has been posted before, my apologies, but I read on RAWK that the last time Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs & Chelsea were all gone before the 5th round of the FA Cup, was 1984. Liverpool won the league, European Cup & League Cup that season. Omen?

I have to be honest Villa game being rescheduled in this 2 weeks mix really threw me. 5 games In 2 weeks just doesn’t seem feasible to come out unscathed without injuries and dropped points.

Think we could have managed Everton and Wolves with full strength teams and with a week to recover take on City & Newcastle. Throwing Villa away into mix absolutely messes with our recovery that week and a real headache now with rotation and potentially overloading key players who on can’t afford to drop if we want to win those games . Arsenal aren’t dropping points to Leicester or West Ham so really wonder where we’ll be by time Newcastle come to anfield and Arsenal play Forest .

Beating Everton and Wolves is critical now as we’ll need that 9 point buffer. Hope I’m wrong but I just can’t see us winning all of those 5 games if such difficulty.

A good point on City game timing for sure but there’s rhythm and then there’s overload. As I said I was okay with 4 games but this Villa game feels like it’s just made a tough run really punishing on the players . Injuries for some reason feel inevitable with 5 games . rotation and tiredness could well play a part in dropping points as well . Again I hope I’m wrong

I’m not concerned about the chasing pack other than Arsenal who will be well rested. The fixture vs Forest would be game that jumps out but it’s annoying even then Forest have only 3 days between Newcastle away and the crucial game at Arsenal and might rotate . Arsenal have a day extra off on top a light schedule anyway . Anyway it’s just crucial to beat Everton mid week or there will a lot more pressure on those remaining very tough 4 games .

Agreed. That's why any talk of the league already being wrapped up is so premature. It's not even close. You can quote me on this if you like but we will 100% drop points during that run of 5 games in 15 days, it's about how many we drop if you ask me and we will most likely pick up a few injuries so again the question is how many and to whom and how that affects the squad for the rest of the league.

6 points clear with a game in hand could easily become 2 points or 0 points clear with a game in hand in the space of a few days with how the games are scheduled and if that happens we will be under enormous pressure to not "bottle" it as we "had it won" in Feb or whatever. If that happens every game will become an uphill struggle.

I sort of agree, one trophy a season is difficult, never mind three whichever they are. But I suppose it is because the League Cup was only founded in 1960 while the FA Cup was founded in 1871 and there are more than 600 teams participating in it. There are 6 rounds from August to October before the competition starts in November and then the PL teams enter the competition in the 3rd round.

I don't really care if we win three trophies if it isn't seen as good as United's treble. People will always find something to minimise our achievements. I do the same so if we do go on to win a treble we can enjoy the 3 trophies on the parade while other fans quibble whether 1999 was better or not.

This conspiracy theory about FA Cup draws is getting old.

Look at the ties for the next round, none of them are in anyway sexy. If there was a scenario where they fixed a draw they would be absolutely making at least 1 big pairing per round and City would have gotten us or United

They use different people for every draw. Think through how improbable fixing would be keeping everyone involve quiet forever....and for no major benefit.

The fun thing is City got Real in the CL and I'm looking forward to watching that one

The next round of the FA Cup? Zero interest even as a neutral in 100% of those ties. Awful draw