Liverpool FC Premier League Champions 25/26 - Talk /Gossip/Rumours

Seems nuts to even expect this team to have gelled together after a few games.

Arsenal next, nice home game, this game will reveal a lot .

I'm glad Robbo stayed (I assume he is) because Kerkez was always going to need time. I'm not really comfortable with pundits slating him given he's been thrown into the fire in a PL winning team, and is 21 years of age.

I'd agree Robbo should start against Arsenal.

Ornstein has reported that James McConnell is heading to Ajax on loan.

Bold

I dunno how hes worth.more.than 50m!

I think Newcastle have backed themselves in to a corner in any negotiations by insisting an outlandish fee for Isak and not budging on it.

There was talk that they didn't want to sell Isak first so that clubs wouldn't then try to fleece them but if they're insisting on 150 million anyway then other clubs will still fleece them by saying "well, we know you'll have 150 million to spend so our player is 60 mill, cough up".

What would go better for Newcastle in negotiations is that they valued at 150 and accepted 120 / 130. Then they could make arguments of paying below 60 million for Wissa.

By making a hard line on the sale of Isak they are setting an example for the likes of Brentford and Wolves to take hard lines with them.

There's a narrative going around still that Liverpool are the big bad bully here picking on poor Newcastle and upsetting their best player.

I have fxxk all sympathy for Newcastle and Eddie Howe. He wound his players up before the game to get at our players and be over physical. If the ref was stronger from the start there could have been 4 or 5 Newcastle players on yellow cards in the first 15 minutes. We're lucky to come away from the game without any serious injuries.

Deliberately going in to a game with a plan to be over physical to send a message about a fxxking transfer is small time mentality from Eddie Howe.

Ah hes pretty fecking good tbf.

Think he's handled the transfer stuff fairly even handedly as well.

He didn't dive. That evolved from a hospital pass from Jones to Gravenberch a minute earlier.

Gravenberch got the ball away to Konate as he was being taken down by Guimaraes, the referee signaled to play on and Liverpool broke forward.

Ekitike wriggled free of Tonali in the box and Wirtz exchanged passes with him as Guimaraes came steaming at them.

Guimaraes kicked Ekitike from behind causing him to lose control of the ball. Instead of falling over Ekitike started to drop back and Tonali was there to hold his hand again.

Ekitike wasn't into the hand holding malarky and rejected Tonali's advances, unfortunately Tonali's legs gave way at that moment in time.

Guimaraes committed two bookable offenses in that 30 second sequence.

Ekitike not called up for international duty so that's another week of training for him

Rumours (and nothing more) that Guehl is attracting suitors from the continent.

I feel a bit sorry for him, I think he's a decent manager, not to the extent the media hype him up but good nonetheless. I do feel for him in regards to the Isak stuff as the reality is he has to answer the questions but doesn't have the power. I reckon he'd love to get shot of Isak for the monies bejng quoted and reinvest but doesn't have the power to make that call.

Newcastle overall are a little bit amateur hour in how they're running things, not liverpools fault that it's being highlighted as such.

Newcastle are really struggling to get a replacement which is not good news all round.

Bajcetic staying put for this season anyway. Hopefully he can recover from injury and get a few appearances before Christmas.