Liverpool FC - Talk /Gossip/Rumours 25/25

Suarez didn’t improve as such, except maybe discipline, the others weren’t really that decent, at least with us.

He did.

198 goals and 109 assists in 283 matches.

He ended up as Barcelonas third highest scorer of all time.

He was there for six seasons...

I doubt any fan missed Aspas when he left, that corner is burned in our memories. People may have been missing him in tough times years after but when he left he was not missed. Suarez leaving was a miss but we received a good fee for him.

It is interesting that we have had departures for players for free but if you think about it the alternative is players being sold in their prime. We have not had to do that for many years. Fans will also have to think if they want to be a club that earns money from transfers to be financially viable it will mean losing your best players at their peak when their value is the highest. I prefer to have the players playing for us at their peak and not receive anything or a smaller fee if they have given their best to us.

I am also not deluded to think we will not have our best player want to leave us in the future, it happens to almost all clubs. But the recent spate of players leaving for nothing is not always a sign of a bad strategy.

LLol Aspas

You couldn't have set a lower bar for a player to do well after leaving us he was that bad.

I suppose the point being players that play for Liverpool and go to teams in Europe, even England ( Torres ) who are top tier don't always have the success they think they will.

Wilson, Ings and many others will do well in mid to lower tier teams.

Wilson has looked great this season but would you really bring him back...don't think many of us would

Exactly, huge part of the problem at united is they gave huge contracts to mid players and ended up with a very mid team. It took years to undo the damage. Konate is supposed to be at his peak, but his peak is not good enough. We have suffered from decades of mid level central defenders, with the exception of VVD. We need to either breed up exceptional talent, or buy it in for perhaps up to 100M. I’m willing to take a shot on Leoni and Jaquet to start next year, expectations are already scaled back anyway.

You really would wonder are they genuine supporters or just trying to wind up people? Liverpool are the most successful club in England. I think we can all agree that this season was an unmitigated disaster,there was so many factors that contributed to that. Some posters want to put the majority of the blame on Slot which is fair enough,but god a bit of perspective as well.

Imagine saying out loud that we are the laughing stock and embarassing. I think a lot of supporters of other teams would gladly love to be in our position.

There’s probably an element of wind-up merchant about it. I also find that football fans, particularly some of those who follow the biggest clubs from the comfort of their couch or bar stool every week can be incredibly tunnel-visioned. That makes it difficult to step back, assess things objectively, and see the bigger picture rather than getting lost in the latest narrative.

Everything becomes reactionary. It’s why you see posts claiming, “I told you this last year,” or “I was always right about Player X, or manager Y” What those takes conveniently ignore are the countless other strong opinions that turned out to be completely wrong. The hits are remembered and celebrated while the misses are quietly forgotten.

That’s why I struggle to take those posts seriously. More often than not, they’re just hindsight masquerading as insight, with all the failed predictions and bad calls swept under the carpet. It’s easy to look like a visionary when you only keep score of the times you happened to be right.

Arne gone it seems

Yes looks like he is going to be sacked

Just goes to show how little us fans and the wider press really do know. How many posts have we seen up in here with claims that he'll be definitely there next season. All based on soundbites from the likes of James Pearce and Romano etc...

This a 100%,the club were hardly going to come out during the season and say that they intended to sack him at the end of the season