Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Whatever works. All manager have different ways of doing things.

If they deliver silverware I don't actually care how the deals with the players day to day. These are guys making big money so they'll be fine.

Regarding Chiesa. He was a risk I guess, a small one considering the transfer money paid. He has been disappointing bar a few moments.

Yeah that sounds like a nonsensical answer. As you say, it's putting yourself in a stupid position completely unnecessarily. Sure, you want your lads who haven't played to do a heavier training workload, but they could still have the session with the 'starters', and then have extra sessions themselves. Even if it's not quite as physically effective it would be far more tactically effective. Whatever about his merits, I think it's very hard to argue that he would've offered less off the bench than a clearly physically struggling Gakpo.

It sort of sounds like he himself is saying that it doesn't work though… like, if you're putting yourself in a situation where parts of your squad that could be very useful are having their potentially valuable impacts limited by your own methods, then that's not really 'working'.

Maybe he just feels its an acceptable loss, that the extra bit of time the first teamers get working together outweighs the benefits of deeper squad members being able to fit right in when called upon. But in practice I think we can probably all agree that an unfit Gakpo who knows the system wasn't much use, and made the team worse rather than affecting positive change.

Anyway, with the CL gone now, maybe the extra bit of time will let some of these lads get a bit more involved and put in a position where they can contribute.

Kane was stupid enough. He signed a 6 year deal in 2018 at 24. They wouldn't it him go to city in 2021. He would have won plenty of trophies.

If I was Trent I'd want all the cards. High salary on a 3 year deal.

This contract merry go round that's going on a Liverpool currently is going to become the norm at most clubs. Unless you're a financially doped club, no top quality player are going to be signing long term deals. It will be 3 year deals with options and the likes, the free market is just worth too much to them these days.

100% That's fair to the contracted player (they aren't indentured slaves) but it's also an opportunity for clubs who correctly play the game to recruit players from other clubs without having to them savage transfer fees.

Transfer fees are an antiquated concept. I get that compensating smaller clubs who have spent years developing a young player is completely justified (otherwise why should they do it) but apart from that why should an employer be able to prevent an employee moving to work for a competing employer in the same market (league) unless the new employer pays the old employer a major transfer fee?

In what other walk of life so such arrangements exist? Can you imagine a plumbing business who have a star plumber as an employee being able to prevent that employee going to work for a competitor unless the competitor agrees to pay the exisiting employer a huge transfer fee? 🤔

How can you say Chiesa been disappointing when we've hardly seen him all season.

I think any time he did play he did ok

Would love him. He also has a mate in McAllister

is the world ready for Nunez managed by Simeone

Alvarez won't come back to England. You can be sure there is some backdoor deal done off the books as part of his last transfer that he won't play against City or play in the EPL (Maybe when city get relegated he might come back 🤔😁)

Alison

They would not have wanted to have seen him play for Liverpool.

It might be 90% down to lack of confidence, but Nunez by practically all metrics is a very poor player of late… pretty much his entire time with Liverpool.

Kelleher

Derry girl to be Liverpool's official mascot for cup final

Not sure how we beat Newcastle. It feels like tomorrow is their day , and they've waited a long time for it.

No right back, everyone looking tired, playing badly now for a few games in a row. Gakpo came on against PSG and walked slowly around, how that was allowed to be I'll never know, clearly he wasn't fit.

Bringing Gakpo on in the PSG game was a madness. He got injured in the game against Everton which was on February 12th, after which he hadn't properly trained with the team and received pain killing injections in order to make the bench for his cameo appearances against Man City and Newcastle.

Mac Allister only played 90 minutes against PSG on Tuesday, Szoboszlai and Diaz played the first half of extra time. They should be well recovered by now so there should be no excuses for a below par performance.

Exactly- Kelleher is leaving in a few weeks. Thank you and good luck.

no excuses not to get it done

tomorrow.

We have been repeatedly linked with Guehi since the club made an offer for him in 2022. I think his contract runs until 2026 so Crystal Palace may see it as a final opportunity to cash in. I wouldn't read too much into any speculation, he developed through the Chelsea academy system and didn't get a real opportunity with the first team and has said in interviews that it has been an ambition of his to return to the club and establish himself there.

The Alvarez speculation has come from his agent saying that there were talks with Richard Hughes last summer to talk about signing for Liverpool and that Mac Allister had also been sweet talking Alvarez before the move to Atletico happened.

The speculation about transfers will ramp up now as there will be little else for the media to talk about regarding Liverpool once the league title is wrapped up.

Gordon is a very good footballer but wouldn't fancy him at Liverpool.

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Cup final day, let’s do it!

Konate will play the full 90 and then be pulled out of international call up to recover

McConnell would be the backup at RB, wouldn't he? Played there against Plymouth. I presume he'll be on the bench but he'll only come on if something's gone wrong or it's going very right

Endo will go to CB if Ibou has an issue during the game you'd think. Newcastle with issues of their own given Gordon and Hall are out. Should be a good game with two attacking teams anyway.