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

Wirtz is world class already at 22, walks into any team. Incomparable to the profile of Ekitike.

no soccer team on earth defend man on man it’s all zonal defending lanes pressing the strong side and dropping off on the weak side

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One thing I don't understand about the summer movement is why Diaz wants to leave? We just won the league, we're strengthening the team in key positions and yet it seems like he's adamant he wants to leave and not just for normal south American destinations of Barcelona/Madrid but Bayern.

I don't get it. I had read he was on comparatively low wages but that seems to have been overblown and he's actually on decent wages. Why jump ship at this stage? Presume money is the answer.

Selling Diaz only makes Liverpool weaker.

Another contract and three or four more years of Diaz can only be more positivre than selling.

He's one of our most exciting players since Suarez.

Liverpool can afford their recent purchases after years of frugality.

I don't care if Liverpool make good money winning the net transfer spend league on him if it only makes us weaker.

That's plainly a lose.

It feels like Bayern are trying to revenge on Liverpool after Wirtz.

Or they see Livepool as a feeder club for them after prizing Mane away, now another Liverpool star..

I half agree with the above I think we should keep Diaz unless we're really going for Rodrygo as a replacement but the wages would be a serious stumbling block. I'm not sure who else we could sign for the money who'd improve us.

On the Mane thing - we got prime Mane he was a shadow of the same player even he left not sure how much "prizing" Bayern did.

At the time Mane was still a starter for Liverpool.

Retrospectively he obviously bombed at Bayern and it wasa the right move but it didn't seem like we were cutting dead weight when he was dropping hints to the press with his comment about doing what the Senegal fans wanted.

Who is the younger better replacement for Diaz?

He's still has about three years to go before age starts to take its toll.

Are the books unbalanced that we have to sell him now?

We've spent little over the past few seasons and have the Premiership win money funding this summer's purchases.

He would have moved to Man City in an exchange deal for Alvarez.

He primarily plays on the right for Madrid but he can play across the front three positions and has also done so for the national team. In 2023/24 he played as the centre forward for Madrid. He was deployed late in games against Alexander-Arnold a few times in the Champions League.

Rodrygo would offer more versatility and consistency than Diaz if Slot is going to rotate the players this season.

I don't think enough people look at these scenarios through the eyes of the player who in Diaz's case is South America. We all lover Liverpool and can't understand anyone wanting to leave, especially when we're competing for and winning the biggest trophies but Liverpool meant nothing to Diaz before he joined, certainly no more than say Sao Paulo in Brazil means to any English or Irish footballer who may therefore (if they were playing for Sau Paulo) find it quite easy to tranfer to River Plate in Argentina.

Diaz is half a world away from home, someone who had the appetite to travel, has achieved loads at Liverpool and probably has one final big contract left in his career before heading back home. Of course improved €'s are going to be a big part of his decision but so is trying something completely new and Bayern are one of Europe's biggest clubs, (they are ranked 4th to Loverpool's 5th) so if he wants a new challenge and Barca or Madrid are either not interested or able to offer a deal that competes with Bayern then why not give it a go? Either way he'll most likely be heading home in 4-5 years time so now is as good a time as any to start a new chapter in his personal and professional journey.

I also don't get the double standard applied to players willingness to stay or leave LFC.

Diaz wants to leave and is criticized for wanting to.

Elliott / Gomez / (choose your so called "deadwood") want to stay to fight for their place but get criticized for hanging around and not moving on with some of the criticism, such as accusing them of stealing a living, showing a complete lack of class.

Obviously he's not in the same league as Suarez but he's still a very good player. He's easily in the top 10 forwards in the league. He also really stands out playing for Colombia.

Isak sent home from preseason because of speculation about his future wonder is there anything in it for Liverpool

Bit strange if you ask me,why send him home if Howe expects him to stay? Surely playing him would make a statement that he is staying. More to this than meets the eye