Business Cat wrote: » Who fcuking cares what Liverpool spend? They are addressing what needs to be addressed. Klopp is of course an absolute hypocrite. He is chock full of sound bites that LFC fans have lapped up and that can be used when it suits to cluck about "doing things the right way" and other such drivel. Same as Jose is a hypocrite. Same as Conte, Wenger, Pep and every feckin one of them. Can we leave the discussion at that or move it to the transfer thread.
Mitch Connor wrote: » Yep. 100% agreed. The only issue I really have is the Liverpool fans refusing to acknowledge that and instead recontextualising what he said and moving the goalposts.
BenK wrote: » Couldn't really care less what Klopp said and if he's a hypocrite- Liverpool are addressing weaknesses in their squad/team and that's all any of their fans should be concerned about. What's he meant to do- not spend the money needed because of that thing he said one time!? Hopefully United are doing the same behind the scenes as I'd be amazed if a couple more players at least weren't brought in. No point in having a meltdown yet though as we really don't know what moves might be in the pipeline.
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Mitch Connor wrote: » When you spend most of last seaosn with a first choice defence of Young - Smalling - Jones - Valencia then yeah, your recruitment has somewhat failed. All four of those players need to be replaced. We need a new left back - none signed. We need a better CB pairing. Maybe Lindelof and Bailey will come good - can't trust it. We should, imo, be signing 1 experienced leader - let Lindelof/Baily and (imo) Jones battle for first choice partner, other two are the backups. We need a new right back - Dalot might be that, you'd think the hope is he will be awesome there, in time. Maybe he hits the ground running but right now it looks like Valencia is first choice. I've not said we need to sign 11 players every summer. I'm saying we should be addressing weaknesses every summer. 1 backup (for the moment) right back and a central midfielder doesn't come close enough to that. Jose trusting Young and Valencia is part of the problem, not the solution. Saying he trusts them doesn't magically make our full back positions fine. It means they are going to continue to be the same issue they were last season.
brinty wrote: » hmmmm who was it that was mad about him and wanted to get him in at United? Isn't he a free transfer from sporting?
Lord TSC wrote: » He'd fit the role we supposedly look at with regards a back up striker. 29, 61 goals in 61 league games, would be coming from Sporting so either free or cheap, depending on what's happening there. Big target man and probably willing to be a bench player. Sporting are suing clubs that sign their players for free, and most seem to just be negotiating lower fees for them.
brinty wrote: hmmmm who was it that was mad about him and wanted to get him in at United? Isn't he a free transfer from sporting?
Mitch Connor wrote: » Yep. 100% agreed.The only issue I really have is the Liverpool fans refusing to acknowledge that and instead recontextualising what he said and moving the goalposts.
jayo26 wrote: » First press conference today at 5 anyway. As usual I don't expect to find out anything just it will be the usual generic stuff.
Lord TSC wrote: » I'd expect a dig or two at the transfer work not done if Jose is genuinely annoyed. Be interesting to gauge his reaction.
Giggsy11 wrote: » Problem is what you see as weakness is not seen in the same way by Jose. He convinced Young and Fellaini to stay, he trusts Valencia as his first choice RB. Also we have second best defensive record and always in top 2-3 since Van Gaal time, our CBs are not that bad. Smalling is very good defensively but poor on the ball, then we have Bailly who missed most of last season because of injury, Lindelof had 1 year to adapt . We have to trust players, can't keep on binning them after every year. One of the reason why we are in this position is lack of trust and continuity. All the players left by SAF was replaced by Van Gaal, all the players signed by Van Gaal are replaced by Jose, now once Jose goes, all his signings will be again replaced. This is not the way to go. We have obvious weakness, most important than any is right winger, how many players have we targeted to address that? None. We need a better LB, but Jose loves Young. We have so many left wingers and Jose targeted one more LW last season. Obviously we need couple of players, one for RW and other for LB, but rest all are good to decent, or have young players who can pitch in like Dalot.
Lord TSC wrote: » Don't believe we'd want either tbh. Lewandowski would need an utter change in formations, as would Thiago. You'd need to switch to a mid diamond to facilitate both. Lewandowski - Lukaku Pogba Thiago - Fred Matic Which would mean a new LB as well.
titan18 wrote: » Think he'd be an excellent backup to Lukaku. Would love if we got him, especially on a free
bangkok wrote: » https://m.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup-2018/watch-messi-or-no-messi-we-fight-footage-emerges-of-rousing-paul-pogba-speeches-ahead-of-world-cup-games-37131124.html Give that man the captains armband!!
