Liverpool FC - Talk /Gossip/Rumours 25/25

I don’t think there is any plan to bring Quansah back, and certainly not in Slots time. He obviously wasn’t rated and was let go, the buy back seems very much a token effort to me given how high it is.

This is it, forget the manager, and consider that Konate is supposed to be in his prime. Jaquet and Leoni are just kids in comparison. If VVD walked out tomorrow we would be absolutely f*cked with Konate as the no. 1 defender. Simple as that. He’s not good enough for prime Liverpool.
I’m ok to take a chance on kids for a year or two, or to get someone else in. But Konate to me is not god enough. It’s amazing how everybody goes nuts about the manager but half the squad is not good enough either.

Konate was lambasted for some of his play this season, all of a sudden he is someone we just have to sign to a new contract no matter his demands. I would like to keep him, but we don't know his wage demands.

Ive seen this a bit but outside of trent and now ibou, what other premier league club is losing players coming into their peak years on a free. Pogba to Juve comes to mind alright. Are there more comparative ones? Should be happening all the time if times have changed so much.

How many players have we seen leave on a free and we have missed? Think hard now for the last 10 years.

Not too many leave and go on to better things.

There's some solace in that, but that doesn't mean the team is stronger without them. Liverpool and Trent worked. Liverpool have not worked since trent went off vs psg in 2025. Trent has not been successful since then either.

Konate is a league winning first choice centre back. He shouldn't be the next cab off the free transfer rank

Klopp did leave behind a brilliant team, and as we know, that team went on to win the league. However, there is one huge caveat: it was built around several once-in-a-generation players who are now unfortunately entering the twilight of their careers.

You can have four or five transfer windows to prepare, but the reality is that we may never see players of the calibre of Alisson, Virg, Robertson, or Salah again in our lifetimes. I've been following Liverpool for over five decades, and they're the best players I've seen in their respective positions. For me, Hansen and Virg are probably the two greatest defenders in the club's history.

The comedown was always going to be significant given the quality and influence of the players we eventually have to replace. But ee have faced challenges like this before and have always found a way to rebuild. That's why I'm still optimistic.

I don't expect us to win the league in the next season or two, but if we recruit well during that period and continue developing the outstanding young talent already at the club, we'll give ourselves every chance of building the next great Liverpool side. The future may look different, but there's every reason to believe it can still be a very bright one.

Im not hugely bothered about Ibou moving on if he wanted more than the club were willing to pay him.

I am bothered that its another sellable asset leaving for nothing when we need the money to reinvest in the squad.

You really are a glass half full kind of guy!!!!!

I generally support those who swim against the tide. And you are most definitely one of the few remaining in this thread that refuse to criticise the club.

But you are not putting up any arguments to the contrary other than "I told you so" yourself.

The season has been a disaster. We scrapped over the line for CL. Literally just by other teams not performing.

Your only defence of Slot is he won the league. He did but with whose squad. He definitely changed tactics compared to Klopp but it's one dimensional and it seems others have figured it out. A good manager should have more than one plan. Chucking all attack on with 10mins to go is not a plan.

The evidence of our demise as a good team started around the Carbaro cup and not just here has pointed that out. All of us missed it at the time as we thought it was season in the bag. The first 5 games were wins this season but they were brutal performances and again we all missed the signs. After that, the team painted the signs of their demise.

You can't give Slot all the positives without allowing him take the negatives. It works both ways. Congrats on the title but now explain the dreadful performances.

Unfortunately the negatives outweigh the positives going forward. The future does not look bright with Slot in charge.

This is not true. VVD has oozed class, and sure has made a few mistakes here and there but he has been probably the best defender in the world for 5 or 6 seasons, and top 5 for the other 2 or 3. To actually put Konate in the same league as him is an absolute disservice Jesus.
Konate is not and has never been at anywhere near the same level as VVD. you are delusional if you think so. We have not signed a world class CB in almost 10 years now.

Not even just on a free, there are only a handful of decent players who have left and improved at all in the last couple of decades including sold. Diaz is the latest imo, and the first in a while. I can hardly think of another.

You have absolutely misunderstood and twisted my comment. VVD is on another universe to konate through his time at liverpool but last season it's deluded to say he oozed class. He's the best CB I've seen since I've supported liverpool but he's not beyond criticism for last season which is what I've speaking about . VVD and konate both played their part in us leaking goals this season especially late on in game. If konate leaving okay, but losing another 70m player that I've seen PSG, real and barca fans all gladly saying they'll take him it's shocking. Prime VVD is many levels above prime konate but konate absolutely is alot better than some are saying on here and there absolutely no upside to Losing him on a free bar wages saved in the bank. Very disappointing to lose him

He's had a bad season. Imo as he hasn't had the likes of quansah pushing him for his place. He's definitely a loss but gives jacquet a chance to establish himself. He would not have been worth a big contract