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

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semenyo looks a class act tonight some signing for city

It’s a real shame we arnt as an enticing proposition as we were at the start of the season , could have been in Anfield

This is a mad stat

Errant nonsense. The FA Cup is still a great competition. Our inability to defend competently will damage our chances of doing well in Europe. We've played strong sides against teams like Galatasary and PSV and still come out the wrong end of the result. We haven't one genuine excuse not to have a go at the FA Cup this season.

On any other season he might have but this season he cannot. We have lost too many games and it’s a real shot at winning a trophy.

It took us too long to score the 3rd goal. If we had scored earlier i think he would have made some changes.

I think the fringe players and some youth players might not be good enough.

I miss Nunez. I have a feeling he was a source of a lot of positivity off the pitch, when he wasn't on it

Yeah it's possible that they are not good enough.

But there's been plenty of youth & fringe players that have featured for the Liverpool first team in the past, but were at least given a chance to prove themselves first. In hindsight some players like Clark, McConnell, Gordon etc are probably not good enough for Liverpool, or probably even PL level football. And maybe even Danns too.

They all had such a prominent run in the first team under Klopp to kick start their careers, albeit mostly in the cups but they all played league games too.

The big picture was 'Klopp's kids' win the league cup and the image of all the academy players with the trophy was brilliant.

But the biggest win of that League Cup final, and the previous cup runs over a number of years was that Liverpool could go all over the country hoovering up the best underage talent and show to them that if you sign for Liverpool at 15, then you will play for the Liverpool first team as there is a clear pathway and we develop players for first team football. Ayman, Wright, Nyoni & Rio were signed on the back of this amongst some fierce competition from the likes of Man City & Chelsea. Rio left Chelsea for Liverpool because of this pathway.

These kids saw McConnell, Clark, Gordon even Kelleher moving to Liverpool at 15 and eventually playing for the first team.

That has all been undone now. The same level of player at underage level are looking to leave Liverpool instead because they are not being given a pathway. They are not even been given a token place on the bench in a cup game.

A few of them got nasty injuries too so I wouldn’t be lauding the fact that Klopp got the kids playing such intense games without repercussions. Slot did mention the overtraining…

the romantic in us loves to see the u18 or u21 doing well…it’s wonderful. But when the club is in a fragile state it’s better not to risk it.

When we were LIVERPOOL it makes sense. At the moment we are LiVeRpOoL so sensible heads must prevail

Conversely Ekitike has 12 goals for us while Marmoush has 9 goals for City (1 since May) and he was signed last January.

City are always going to have instant hits, they get infinite bites at the cherry and poorly spent money doesn't slow them down.

When we buy a player like Nunez we have to play him and try to make it work for years, City are already replacing the players they spent hundreds of millions on last January.

Maybe it is a coincidence but a good few of our youngsters seem to be permanently injured,Kaide Gordon,Jayden Danns and Bajectic to name just three,I also see that McConnell returned from his unsuccessful loan at Ajax injured. I was reading an article lately that the demands of first team football these days is so physical that youngsters bodies are not able for the rigours of first team football and it could do long term damage to their careers if they play regularly.

Even look at Bradley since he broke into the first team and the amount of injuries he has picked up.

What are we too good for the FA cup now? Alonso just got the sack after losing a 4-team competition for which the winner earned €600k more than the runner-up. Some things are more important than a spreadsheet. It's pure entitlement I'm sorry. Given where things have gone in the league we should absolutely be trying to win the FA cup. In any case Slot made 6 changes, Jesus. Like he changed over half the team, and then subbed on when it wasn't going as well as expected. If we were winning 3-0 then he prob would have put on the reserves, but we weren't. Klopp won 2 big trophies in 8 1/2 seasons (CL and PL), the other 6 were all lesser trophies, however every one was a huge celebration for the fans.

I think we likely have very high likelihood at finishing in the champions' league spots, and we're probably not gonna finish top of the league so it literally doesn't really matter if we finish second or probably 5th from a financial perspective.

More like chalk on a blackboard….