Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2019/2020

Osmosis Jones · 04-08-2019 09:06PM

Seen City have just purchased their third £50m+ fullback in the past 2 years, madness.

giveitholly · 04-08-2019 09:07PM

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Seen City have just purchased their third £50m+ fullback in the past 2 years, madness.

Who is that?

Osmosis Jones · 04-08-2019 09:09PM

giveitholly wrote: »

Who is that?

Cancelo from Juventus, and well it's technically around €30m along with Danilo, another fullback they bought only two years ago for £26.5m

bennyineire · 04-08-2019 09:09PM

Not sure if mentioned here already but then Pool v Norwhich game will be screened on Sky One this Friday. They done the same last year for the opening game.
Looking forward to it, Friday night lights in Anfield after a good test today.

Hopefully we hit the ground running early, we will need too, to have any chance this year again

Potential Underachiever · 04-08-2019 09:14PM

OwaynOTT wrote: »

The year before last, when he scored an incredible amount, he generally took 3-4 shots before he scored in the earlier part of the season.
I'm hopeful he will score more theirs year than last. He looked very sharp and up for the game today. Bodes well.
You seem a little unhappy with some of the team today by the way.

How so?

martyos121 · 04-08-2019 09:23PM

bennyineire wrote: »

Not sure if mentioned here already but then Pool v Norwhich game will be screened on Sky One this Friday. They done the same last year for the opening game.
Looking forward to it, Friday night lights in Anfield after a good test today.

Hopefully we hit the ground running early, we will need too, to have any chance this year again

What’s our record in evening kickoffs on Sky One like? I don’t care if it’s 0-0-0, these things matter!

Osmosis Jones · 04-08-2019 09:32PM

It was deft touches all around today

Osmosis Jones · 04-08-2019 09:33PM

Mignolet's off, we're signing a backup GK.

https://twitter.com/_pauljoyce/status/1158112888894177283?s=20

Simon Mignolet set to join Club Brugge. Due to undergo medical tomorrow. Liverpool will look to sign a new No2.

martyos121 · 04-08-2019 09:37PM

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Mignolet's off, we're signing a backup GK.

https://twitter.com/_pauljoyce/status/1158112888894177283?s=20

Adrian is still without a club. He’s a step down from Mignolet but I don’t think he’d be the worst option on a free transfer.

Most clubs would gouge us even for a third string keeper at this stage in the window. This should’ve been sorted weeks ago, but it’s not a major issue if there’s any money there to be spent at all.

Iused2likebusts · 04-08-2019 09:37PM

It's just great that after all these years we don't have to put up with the likes of mignolet or karius in goal.

Agent Coulson · 04-08-2019 09:39PM

How much are we getting for him?

Edit I just saw £6m for him.

Butland would be a decent shout I'd say he would jump at a chance to get out of Stoke

redzerdrog · 04-08-2019 09:40PM

Good for him and by all accounts he played a big role behind the scenes last year

However he was bloody awful for us I think he was the worst 1st choice keeper I remember for us so I am glad to never have to go through that pain any more

MD1990 · 04-08-2019 09:49PM

What a step down for Mignolet.

Shows you bad a keeper he has been. Very good character though.

Turtyturd · 04-08-2019 09:52PM

He was decent in the 13/14 season for the most part but quickly declined.

Not good enough to be number one but comfortably the best number two in the league.

gimli2112 · 04-08-2019 09:56PM

always remember the game away against arsenal a few years ago 2 up and cruising and he let a nothing shot past him and it all fell apart

ERG89 · 04-08-2019 09:58PM

Turtyturd wrote: »

He was decent in the 13/14 season for the most part but quickly declined

Made a total mess of a Negredo shot that season at the Ethihad, I think my dog would have had the strength to stop it. Pretty much that game I wanted him replaced since.
Pretty bad fee for him. Literally 10 times less than Allisson in every possible sense.

Agent Coulson · 04-08-2019 10:00PM

Ye we can get £12.5m for Ward but only £6m for Mignolet seems like we are letting him go on the cheap.

Irishmale0399 · 04-08-2019 10:06PM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Ye we can get £12.5m for Ward but only £6m for Mignolet seems like we are letting him go on the cheap.

I assume its a thank you from the club....let him go home on the cheap. Just read that it is €6-7 million up front rising to €9.

Agent Coulson · 04-08-2019 10:38PM

Back to Southampton it seems for McCarthy.

FSG should have just bought them as a feeder club it would have been cheaper.

ben.schlomo · 04-08-2019 10:39PM

Wouldn't touch Butland, an overhyped mistake machine.

Osmosis Jones · 04-08-2019 10:42PM

Well Mig, you really did save the best for ehhhh first? He literally peaked in his debut for us and it was all downhill from there:

Like a lot of these really aren't normal mistakes, they're genuinely bizarre

He seemed desperate to concede against Bordeaux in the Europa League, first with this mad header and then eventually conceding from an indirect free kick because he held onto the ball for 22 seconds (that's not the whole clip by the way, the gif can only be 15 seconds long so there's an extra 7 seconds of Mignolet just standing around with the ball to be seen

)

Completely losing his whereabouts and letting the ball roll out of play:

Conceding a free kick because he's looking elsewhere organising the defence:

This isn't all of them, it's not even close to all really, he's honestly fascinating to look at in retrospect.

Turtyturd · 04-08-2019 11:06PM

There were links to Fraser Foster the other day. Didn’t realise he was (a) as old as he is and (b) had fallen down the pecking order at Southampton so much.

BorneTobyWilde · 04-08-2019 11:20PM

It was
Rocky One today
We got that crap kicked out of us early on, but gradually got into it , we were far the strongest team come the end, but we still lost. We all know who was the best team out there today. Bell saved them today

Riesen_Meal · 04-08-2019 11:46PM

https://www.clubbrugge.be/nl/nieuws/princiepsakkoord-simon-mignolet-naar-club-brugge

Confirmed on their website, fair well Migs, a pro til the end when not playing and seemingly a nice character around the dressing room....

cj maxx · 05-08-2019 12:05AM

Fieldog wrote: »

https://www.clubbrugge.be/nl/nieuws/princiepsakkoord-simon-mignolet-naar-club-brugge

Confirmed on their website, fair well Migs, a pro til the end when not playing and seemingly a nice character around the dressing room....

In that link he's called a red devil

Osmosis Jones · 05-08-2019 12:16AM

cjmc wrote: »

In that link he's called a red devil

Belgian national team nickname too

~Rebel~ · 05-08-2019 12:40AM

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

It's just great that after all these years we don't have to put up with the likes of mignolet or karius in goal.

As first choice yeah, but I was perfectly happy with Mig as backup. Not easy to get a decent quality number 2, given that anyone that's actually properly good will go somewhere to be first choice. Especially so in our case, where Alisson will only be replaced in goal if he happens to get injured - rare enough for keepers.

About the best options are someone very young (generally not a good option in keepers, as they really need tonnes of experience to be good), or someone that was once top level but is now at the end of their career. Hopefully we find someone good, and at the same time not looking for massive wages, in the latter camp.
<edit> maybe someone like Subašić... just about fits the profile. 34, but still decent quality, and definitely winding down his career.. into the last year of his contract at Monaco, so could be gotten cheap.

Happy for Mig though, and good on the club for letting him go cheap to a club back home. I'm sure that fee allows them to give him decent wages he'd otherwise be tough to justify in that league.

cj maxx · 05-08-2019 12:54AM

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Belgian national team nickname too

I thought they cocked up the nicknames

Blanco100 · 05-08-2019 12:59AM

why the hell are we letting him go 5 days before season starts. No other fit keeper on the books, why could this "thank you" have been organised in early July?

Always a whiff off the club like they are desperate to make money from sales like this at 11th hour.

We'd rather bank 5-6million and walk the tightrope our 1st choice keeper stays fit.

Worse case scenario Alisson and Robertson were to get injured, we would be ill prepared to cope.

Its a very strange "think positive" approach but its clearly the yanks watching their bottom line aswell

~Rebel~ · 05-08-2019 01:08AM

Blanco100 wrote: »

why the hell are we letting him go 5 days before season starts. No other fit keeper on the books, why could this "thank you" have been organised in early July?

Always a whiff off the club like they are desperate to make money from sales like this at 11th hour.

We'd rather bank 5-6million and walk the tightrope our 1st choice keeper stays fit.

Worse case scenario Alisson and Robertson were to get injured, we would be ill prepared to cope.

Its a very strange "think positive" approach but its clearly the yanks watching their bottom line aswell

If they were looking to cash in they'd have sold him to an English club. He's still more than good enough for any of the teams in the bottom half, and those are the circumstances he does much better under anyway, in a team that's on the back foot facing more shots and keeping him engaged.
Really wouldn't go blaming 'the yanks' on this, especially when its that little money.

And for all we know, this has been the plan since the end of the season, and they've been sniffing around for a replacement since then. These things don't happen in a vacuum where everyone at the club is suddenly only now switching into 'find a keeper' mode. If anything, its more likely that they've let him go this late in the window because they've just identified someone they think can replace him. We'll see I guess.

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