Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Gini used to get a lot of stick, "what does he do" and all that sh!te but by god watching Hendo play as a 6 this season you really get to appreciate how much Gini brought to the team. Always willing to sacrifice his own game for the greater good, tactical and positional discipline above all else. Hendo does the opposite. And I've always loved him but he really needs to stop charging ahead of the ball when he's supposed to be the deepest fella of our 3. He's been caught too many times this season and doesn't have the legs to fix it when he is.

Losing the ball in midfield is only a problem when Trent is up top mingling with Nunez and Salah. We could so be a side with a solid back 4, one defensive midfielder, and 5 attackers, forget the whole Trent and Robertson thing, we should be looking for the two attacking midfielders to provide, not the full backs.. which again, is what City do. We need to be adaptable, to have more than one string to our bow.

Two points dropped by City.

Pretty much guarantees we won’t beat Brentford and take advantage of it.

I don’t think we’re competing with them this season anyway unless something really crazy happens.

Yep, it an absolute now that we lose

I've seen our fixtures for January and to be honest everyone of them scares me 😂 given how we're playing. We're somehow picking up wins, hopefully that keeps happening.

We need more goals, from midfield, bur mostly our forwards, hopefully Gakpo gets 10 before end of season, and assists 5 plus, but we need Darwin and Salah to up their game, although Salah has 16 already this season.

Ah but we have the exact same one that were minutes away from the Quad

Paul Joyce has said that we more than likely won't be spending any more money in the January transfer window. If that's the case it's a f*cking disaster. I can't understand the logic.

I don't understand a comment like this. We are not City or Newcastle, we don't have unlimited money or can magic sponsors from nowhere to boost revenue streams. I don't know how much money we have to spend, but to suggest after spending 114m euro net the past 4 windows that it's a disaster if you don't spend more seems a little misguided.

I think that may be based on a statement by Klopp in relation to signing Gapko.

According to media reports, Brighton have rejected Liverpool's offer of around £60M for Caicedo, they don't want to sell the player in this transfer window for less than £70-75M. The Benfica president said that the club had rejected an offer from Liverpool for Enzo Fernandez and if the player is to leave in this transfer window the €120M clause in their contract will have to be activated. Based upon those valuations Liverpool will not be signing either of the players. Dortmund are not willing to let Bellingham leave before the end of the season.

There is rarely good value to be found in the winter transfer window as clubs aren't willing to lose their best players. For example, last season Brighton valued Yves Bissouma at £40-50M, yet were willing to sell him for £25M in the summer transfer window.

January games with the possible FA Cup fourth round game after the Chelsea game

Not playing well, but have quietly won 4 league games in a row. Have gained 5 points over Man City, Spurs, 2 over Newcastle and a lot over Chelsea in that time at least.

Win against Brentford now tomorrow and things look a whole lot better as at least 2 from Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal & Newcastle will drop points.

Happy new year folks

Aye, while it is not at the top of the spending charts in terms of net spending, it's not at the bottom either. We are where we are with our net/gross transfer spend. The point I was trying to make, we have just spent 50m euro on a player and the expectation that we should spend more otherwise it would be a disaster is difficult to comprehend, when you consider where we are financially and otherwise as a club.

We are not one of the lowest net spend teams, we are somewhere in the middle. Added to net spend you have to consider wages as well and we are one of the bigger spenders in the world when it comes to wages. The players we are looking to attract will be looking for high wages as well. Some of the clubs mentioned that has a higher spend the past few seasons will start paying higher wages which will put a strain on their spend for the future seasons. It doesn't stand still, unless you are City or Newcastle.

Let's just remember that while Haaland only cost City 60m euro or something and that will be a stick to beat Nunez with as he was £84m - if he hits all targets - the reported wage of Haaland at almost £850k per week is what we will pay or 3 top players. I really shouldn't have replied as it is a complex issue to discuss and I don't understand half of our finances, but to boil it down to net spend, gross spend or wages only is too simple. That is before you look at spend around the club in terms of infrastructure and growth in revenue. Then you have to add whether we can sign a player from outside England in our squad at the moment as well.

So to repeat, to just blindly state it would be a disaster if we don't buy more players without looking at the whole picture is misguided. I get the poster was maybe being a bit glib with using disaster, yet his sentiment is that we need to add more players now when it is so complicated on who is available at the price we can afford (spend and wages) while complying with rules of the competitions we play in (17 players not trained in England allowed).

Tough run we have coming up.

Brentford way actually the thin end of the wedge.