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

because we are doing so well elsewhere it’s fine…it’s not the end of the world.

Missing out on more FA Cup games is excellent for our season. Missing a game against City is all the better.

Rw. Diaz, he might be just going through a big dip in form. It happens.

Szoboszlai looked like he was on the decline earlier on in the season. Not now, he's one of the best players currently and he's flying.

Diaz could spark again this season. Talk of selling him is silly and premature imo.

If this has been posted before, my apologies, but I read on RAWK that the last time Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs & Chelsea were all gone before the 5th round of the FA Cup, was 1984. Liverpool won the league, European Cup & League Cup that season. Omen?

I have to be honest Villa game being rescheduled in this 2 weeks mix really threw me. 5 games In 2 weeks just doesn’t seem feasible to come out unscathed without injuries and dropped points.

Think we could have managed Everton and Wolves with full strength teams and with a week to recover take on City & Newcastle. Throwing Villa away into mix absolutely messes with our recovery that week and a real headache now with rotation and potentially overloading key players who on can’t afford to drop if we want to win those games . Arsenal aren’t dropping points to Leicester or West Ham so really wonder where we’ll be by time Newcastle come to anfield and Arsenal play Forest .

Beating Everton and Wolves is critical now as we’ll need that 9 point buffer. Hope I’m wrong but I just can’t see us winning all of those 5 games if such difficulty.

A good point on City game timing for sure but there’s rhythm and then there’s overload. As I said I was okay with 4 games but this Villa game feels like it’s just made a tough run really punishing on the players . Injuries for some reason feel inevitable with 5 games . rotation and tiredness could well play a part in dropping points as well . Again I hope I’m wrong

I’m not concerned about the chasing pack other than Arsenal who will be well rested. The fixture vs Forest would be game that jumps out but it’s annoying even then Forest have only 3 days between Newcastle away and the crucial game at Arsenal and might rotate . Arsenal have a day extra off on top a light schedule anyway . Anyway it’s just crucial to beat Everton mid week or there will a lot more pressure on those remaining very tough 4 games .

Agreed. That's why any talk of the league already being wrapped up is so premature. It's not even close. You can quote me on this if you like but we will 100% drop points during that run of 5 games in 15 days, it's about how many we drop if you ask me and we will most likely pick up a few injuries so again the question is how many and to whom and how that affects the squad for the rest of the league.

6 points clear with a game in hand could easily become 2 points or 0 points clear with a game in hand in the space of a few days with how the games are scheduled and if that happens we will be under enormous pressure to not "bottle" it as we "had it won" in Feb or whatever. If that happens every game will become an uphill struggle.

I sort of agree, one trophy a season is difficult, never mind three whichever they are. But I suppose it is because the League Cup was only founded in 1960 while the FA Cup was founded in 1871 and there are more than 600 teams participating in it. There are 6 rounds from August to October before the competition starts in November and then the PL teams enter the competition in the 3rd round.

I don't really care if we win three trophies if it isn't seen as good as United's treble. People will always find something to minimise our achievements. I do the same so if we do go on to win a treble we can enjoy the 3 trophies on the parade while other fans quibble whether 1999 was better or not.

This conspiracy theory about FA Cup draws is getting old.

Look at the ties for the next round, none of them are in anyway sexy. If there was a scenario where they fixed a draw they would be absolutely making at least 1 big pairing per round and City would have gotten us or United

They use different people for every draw. Think through how improbable fixing would be keeping everyone involve quiet forever....and for no major benefit.

The fun thing is City got Real in the CL and I'm looking forward to watching that one

The next round of the FA Cup? Zero interest even as a neutral in 100% of those ties. Awful draw

If Liverpool had beaten Plymouth, we would 100% be playing City in the next round. But we didnt and most of us dont care

Although Carra definitely fixed the league cup semi final draw to ensure we played Spurs at home in the second leg rather than the reverse! But that wasnt pre-planned, he just saw the opportunity and couldnt resist

I trust Slot to rotate the players where required, where as Klopp would run the midfield into the ground in the same situation. Players can get overloaded but Slot's team appear to be on top of managing the minutes and the training of the players.

It will be interesting to see if this trip to Dubai has the same effect as it did last year for Arsenal. Before they went to Dubai last January, after 22 games they were 5 points behind us and stuttering. The came back revived, scored for fun and won 14 of their remaining 16 games, only losing to Villa and drawing with City.

1st round the numbers are allocated alphabetically 2nd round your number is based then on the tie you were drawn. 3rd round the 1 to 44 is alphabetically for Premier League and Championship teams with the rest then assigned by the order of the tie from round 2, 4th round to Semi-finals the numbers for the draws are based on the order of the ties from the previous round

I think the ship has sailed with regards to shadiness on that front but warm weather I think is pretty much scientifically proven to help with joints and muscles, no?