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Liverpool FC Premier League Champions 24/25 - Talk /Gossip/Rumours

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭Ottoman_1000


    It was a crazy game, we should have been 5 or 6 clear with comfort. But that was our biggest issue last season, we kept keeping teams in games by not taking chances, and then coughing up chances at the other end, it was bound to catch up on us, as we weren't solid enough at the back to see out those slim leads if we had one.

    The UTD FA cup game is another sore one, should have easily been 3 up and we contrived to lose it!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 341 ✭✭Dano650


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭Ottoman_1000


    We butcher 2 situations where we had a 4 on 2 and then a 5 on 2 when we were 2-1 up. Salah also hit the post from a 1on1 after half time which should have put the game to bed.

    We kept so many teams in games last seasons by missing sitters and butchering the most basis of chances, Diaz was at a fault quite a lot. where we should have been way more comfortable and inevitable we threw games away as an obvious consequence on more than one occasions



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,572 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Just reading the phrases "4 on 2" and "5 on 2" gives me PTSD



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 341 ✭✭Dano650


    Stats don't lie. McTominay had a great chance to put United 2 up when he fired a shot straight at Kelleher. Rashford missed 2 chances. One he definitely should have scored. Two of Liverpools goals were deflections.. Game could have finished 6 all



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,648 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    It's wild how much time there is between the two legs of the EFL Cup semi final… a month, and 7 other matches, between the first and second legs is mad like…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,407 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    It's worked out amazingly well for us.

    Spurs have never been this low since I've been a fan.

    It's at the stage in think we could rest 2 or 3 and I'd still expect us to get past them. Obviously that could fail but it certainly seems like a more measured risk than it was a month ago.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 542 ✭✭✭CONSI


    No way Slot rests players for it, in the end of the day its a semi final, chance to get to a final and maybe a trophy in his first season.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,209 ✭✭✭jones


    Spurs are a basket case at the moment but they'll be giving everything for the cup now as they basically have nothing else. I wouldn't be too complacent about how up for it they'll be. Spurs have made a living of beating City in these kind of circumstances when form would suggest they'll get hammered and they consistently got results again City in their pomp.

    I wouldn't be resting anyone for the game (not that i think Slott will anyway he seems like Klopp in that the first 11 basically starts every game when fit - not something i agree with but he's doing alright so far :-) )



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    It's 100k prize money for winning the competition,,2.1 million for winning a match in the champions League,,I know it's nice to have silver ware ,I just hope we don't get any injuries that will catch up with us,we need to concentrate on the league and champions League.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,821 ✭✭✭✭Osmosis Jones


    Don't mean this as an attack on yourself but we're lost as fans if we're talking about prize money over trophies.

    It's not just "nice to have silverware" it's the entire goal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭mormank


    And the entire point of trying to earn more money would be for what exactly?? To try win trophies? 🤔



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,407 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    Id say you right.

    Two weeks ago I was definitely against any wholesale changes. and still am, but Spurs have gotten even worse now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,821 ✭✭✭✭Osmosis Jones


    If Spurs are as easy to beat as we may be assuming then we can start strong and bench players once the game is put to bed.

    I'd rather do that than go in resting players to a game we're 1-0 down in.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,874 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    It is being played on the 1st available midweek since the 1st legs that's the crazy thing

    ******



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭McFly85


    I wouldn’t turn my nose up at any trophy but we’re in a position where we have to prioritise competitions, which should be the league and CL obviously. I would be fine with a second string team/players coming back from injury playing in the league and FA cups.

    Managing minutes in legs will be incredibly important down the stretch, I’d hate to see us fall over trying to chase everything.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭mightyreds


    I don't see an issue with a full squad against spurs we have a week and a half to rest the first 11 after that before Everton.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,482 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    Given that we're only 2 games away from potential silverware in the league Cup, there's no sense in throwing that. The merits of the FA cup are probably debatable though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭AdrianG08


    The likes of Kelleher, Stephenson (having an excellent loan spell in the SPL, Tsimikas, Morton, Endo, Diaz and Nunez (along with the likes of Phillips and Williams being frees) should earn us a decent wedge when it comes to sales in the summer.

    I'd expect the likes of Doak and Bajcetic would also attract decent bids aswell, although i'd like to see another loan for both next year to see what their ceiling is. I expect loans aswell for Harvey Davies, Isaac Mabaya, Ramsey again, the left backs Norris, Scanlon, Beck and Chambers, James McConnell and Lewis Koumas, Kaide Gordon, Jayden Danns and who knows maybe even Quansah. The star trio of the academy seem to be Nallo at CB, Nyoni in midfield and Ngumoha as an attaker.

    Provided we keep TAA, VVD and Salah (big if, but still hopeful), we need to sign a LB/LCB, a DM to compete with Gravenberch, a wide man and a striker (to essentially replace Nunez and Diaz if the latter won't sign a new deal).

    Hato of Ajax would be good option for the left sided hybrid defender spot, I still like Adam Wharton even though hes not as prominent this season (the drop in hype might help the price), he has a lovely left foot and would give balance, wouldn't expect immediate starts either, would be good foil for/alternative to Gravenberch. The striker and winger are more complex. I know hes not popular, but absolutely love watching Gordon from Newcastle. I've yet to see another attacker this season give us as much bother as he did at St James this season. His pace, pressing and added goal threat would make him the ideal replacement for Diaz, and he is versatile too, plays on either wing or through the middle.

    Up front, it would be too much to ask to get Isak out of Newcastle, so maybe someone like Benjamin Sesko or Joao Pedro would be a good bet to replace Nunez.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,872 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    Hato would be an amazing signing .



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,657 ✭✭✭Talisman


    If the rumours are true, Ajax will be open to offers for some of their players after their Europa League game against Galatasaray on Thursday.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,419 ✭✭✭✭TitianGerm


    I think I'd prefer Hujisn (the Bournemouth chap).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,984 ✭✭✭Enzokk


    I don't think they are easy to beat as no team really is, but if we perform well on the night we should be able to beat them comfortably. They can make it difficult for us on the night and make us perform worse than we have and have a chance.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,874 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    There is 6 days between the Spurs game and the Everton game

    ******



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭mightyreds


    Jesus I'm getting everything wrong today, still the break at the weekend after so would like to see a full squad out, should be scope to rest some this week too

    Post edited by mightyreds on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,872 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    David Coote has decided that the best way to apologise for comments about Liverpool is to do an interview......with The S*n

    Right then



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭brevity


    and has come out as gay…

    Wft

    Ironically I am watching The Usual Suspects this evening.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭kefflin


    I wonder what they bayern fans make of graverberch now. Slot has really turned him into a monster



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭GiftofGab


    Slot has really improved our whole midfield and saved the club a fortune. We were willing to splash big for a no.6 for years. Now we could possibly do with a backup no.6 but it's not a priority for the club.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭robwen


    The next edition of AFCON will take place between December 21, 2025 and January 18, 2026 and be hosted by Morocco.

    I wonder is this a point of contention in Salahs contract negotiations



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