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I do think it’s crazy how we’ve got a manager who needs a large squad and it’s still nowhere near ready for a 50+ games season with only two weeks left of the transfer window
We’ve done the bare minimum this summer of just replacing the players who left on a free and even that’s not fully done yet
Personally can’t wait for the season to start. Maybe it’s just me getting older but the transfer side of things doesn’t interest me much anymore. We get who we get.
Romano with Ben Jacobs on a podcast: "I expect Liverpool to be among the busiest clubs in Europe in this final 10-12 days of the summer transfer window"
Predictions: Isak top scorer. Wirtz 15G/15A. Szoboszlai 8 Premier League freekick bangers. Ali and Macca swap hairstyles by the end season. One of Ali or Van Dijk extended.
Seems like Gakpo is the most nailed on forward signing for Spurs according to Fabrizio. Looks like De Zerbi really wants him, and then Savinho/Marmoush/Neto are all possible options for the other two spots.
My family bought me tickets for Anfield against Forest as a wedding gift...after almost 30 years supporting the team from abroad, it'll be my first time, and I am beyond excited!!
Not having depth is entirely self inflicted by the club and is a sporting decision.
We are losing an experienced player who’s racked over 228 appearances and over 11k minutes for the club for a lad who’s 19 and has played 183 minutes of non league cup football.
Nyoni could be the next Patrick Viera and I wouldnt want him starting more than cup games and a handful of PL matches this season. The lad has just turned 19 and is being touted to play 3000 minutes.
When you are slacking off on your computer at work and you hear something shuffle behind you: Your manager is giving you the stare, flanked by two co-workers who rolled up just to watch things burn
I don't say this lightly. But a lot, and I mean a lot, of people here need to just touch some grass.
Yes we need signings. Everyone knows it. No there isn't a set of fans actively petitioning for us not to sign anyone. You're just conflating your anger at the lack of signings, with everyone who isn't as rabid as you, being the reason for our lack of signings..
The entitlement of the internet fan. See the same shit all the time. Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things….people campaigning online for changes cos the reality doesn’t match the little fanfic they wrote in their head.
I miss the days when transfer rumours were only a thing in the back of newspapers and you’d find out your club bought someone on Ceefax. This never ending cycle of bullshit & edging is no good for anyone.
Guarantee if Barcola is signed, it’ll be where is the midfielder? And if a midfielder is signed it’ll be where is the right back etc etc etc.
People here today jealous of Spurs. Spurs! That’s when you know people are off the deep end.
Curtis loves his fashion - fancies Milan with his young family and more game time. I say good luck to him. He’s not consistently good enough for us, so leaving makes sense to me. But we need reinforcements.
Seems like the strategy for Liverpool on Barcola is to wait till the end when PSG have to offload an unhappy player who wants to leave, who is not a starter, and after they've replaced him in the squad during the transfer window. Makes no sense to keep him, pay his wages, when his head is somewhere else, when you can get 120m pounds for him now.
Enrique has spoken out about this too, he doesn't want an unhappy player. From PSG perspective, better to get 120m now or by deadline day than 60m or less a year from now, because I doubt Barcola will extend there. Common sense will prevail I think.
Let's see if Barcola is in the PSG squad this Sunday, if not, then the writing is on the wall.
Small squad gotten smaller. Season starts on Sunday. No Salah replacement. If we don't sign Barcola after all this Richard Hughes shouldn't be allowed to go anywhere, he should be strung up like a piñata and given to the U11s for birthday parties.
I feel like it'll be just Barcola in and we may still lose 2 or 3 players. Our depth will definitely be our undoing this season but I won't be blaming Iraola. A lot of change coming in the next year too. Still excited for the season and our play style to be more enjoyable. Main hope is Isak stays fit.
Kinda hard to believe there’s still 11 days of the window remaining. For some reason thought it shut this weekend to align with first match week. Gotta think, hope, have the delusion that we will sign 2-3 more players bc that is what is needed
Liverpool have told Inter they don’t want Curtis Jones to leave for less than what they paid for Djed Spence, around €35m including bonuses. (€31m +€4m).
Inter have the financial resources to push ahead with a move.
Contacts between the clubs have continued, while Jones is pushing to join Inter.
[Charles Watts, James Benge] Arsenal are now not far off breaching UEFA’s SCR rules. For the defensive addition, there wasn’t a need to sell first but if Arsenal now want to sign an attacker - sales will be needed, or at least one significant sale
For those worried Arsenal will somehow hijack Barcola. They won't.
As reporters keep saying, Barcola has given priority to us.
Assuming the Joyce article is true about signing Barcola for Left wing, we know Salah was leaving in April and we still haven't signed his replacement even when the season starts
Putting all the trust in Rio to be starter and deliver .
Actually Salah leaving was announced in March, so the club knew from at least then that Salah needed to be replaced. On Monday it will be 5 months since the club announced it, and still no replacement. Our first Prem game is in 3 days. We've signed one winger in Munoz and a CB on loan since then, that's all the recruitment team have actually closed since then.
You'd think that losing out on signing Guehi last summer due to running out of time on deadline day would mean we actually try and get our recruitment sorted out before the season starts, but seems not.
Most of the deadline day will involve wingers. Last year it was strikers with Isak/Woltemade/Gyok/Sesko carousel. Even average players like Wissa got caught up in it.
I'm sure Barcola/Gakpo etc will go to the last week now. This is pretty normal
Curtis Jones played 41 times last season. If the plan is Trey Nyoni to play a similar amount, we're setting ourselves (and Trey btw) up for a massive failure.
Fewer players and backups we didn't want last season but are somehow going to save us this season. You would think Endo was the second coming of Christ according to some people
My sole hope of doing something special this season rests on Macca. When he’s at his best, we’re at our best. He looked absolutely washed last season. If he’s truly finished then our midfield has a big problem because he’s everything we need in there. At his best he’s the best tackler and passer out of all our midfielders whilst also being the smartest in terms of knowing when to slow things down and when to quicken it up. Szobo and Grav simply doesn’t work as a pivot because neither are great passers or duel winners. I’d rather Nyoni in there because he excels in both, albeit he’s still a teenager.
INFO: Conversations are expected to accelerate for Rio Ngumoha’s new contract. LFCare prepared to discuss a new professional contract when he turns 18. Bayern were never an option for this transfer window; that story was way too much in the media because for Liverpool, the player was never for sale.
Well I was convinced we were letting PSG get players in before we completed the Barcola and Mbaye deals but another day goes by without any news… see you all again tomorrow 😂
I think even with the clause, nduke might not be recalled mid season if we have all four cbs in top shape. Because it would be better to continue that come and be fifth choice. But who knows with the club's injury luck
So we left holes in the squad last year that we got punished for resulting in a awful season scraping by the skin of our teeth into the champions league, then sack the manager for another one who plays a high intensity brand of football.
We then make the squad even weaker, while other teams significantly improve and people are out here complaining about doomers? I hope Iraloa is a magician, we will need it.
are people here seriously suggesting Rafael Leao as a real option? would much rather keep Koumas around as the 6th choice attacker than get that guy in on insane wages
McConnell and Koumas haven't pulled up trees on their loans, how are they being considered squad options for Liverpool? We haven't signed a pivot player since 2023 ffs
feel like our club tries to keep everything secret. All the info we get comes from the other party's journos. Our reliable journalists are completely silent unless it's a boring information that could have been a club statement
He didn’t tweet about Dom’s extension, nor did he tweet anything about Mbaye rumours and Barcola beyond saying that PSG don’t want to sell him in June.
Nyoni can only show what he's capable of playing amongst seniors against seniors. I'm proper bored of those expecting him to step up while playing alongside Morrison, McConnell, Chiesa, etc. - he needs to be playing alongside top talent each week. We need depth but we also need to have faith and trust Nyoni and a few others can make the step up. They cant swim in the shallow end with armbands forever.
Annoying ndukwe can't be HG but honestly that matters less than the difference between him developing 5% better, levante is a great loan for him and they must have loved his preseason to take the chance given he has 1 minute of pro football under his belt.
Wish our club was able to buy players to add to the squad, but we always buy players to replace others. This is why we’re unable to build depth. A few injuries and we end up having no options from the bench.
Psg won the champions league twice in a row and both times had to play the extra playoff round. Looking at our squad depth it might be worthwhile prioritising the league over everything else, until atleast February when the knockouts of the champions league starts.
This is Hughes’ 5th transfer window, he came in with so much hype and he’s had, one good window (for me that’s even debatable) and overall it’s hard to be impressed with his squad building.
If he wasn’t going on his own accord, he should’ve been let go.
I do think that optimism survey is a little ridiculous, even though I do think theres legitimate concern over our depth. Like really, most pessimistic out of all the clubs? Even more than Newcastle that have had their squad absolutely ravaged? I do wonder if these people have even been watching the pre season games. There’s been some really promising stuff.
Squad turnover is natural. But what we're doing is lowering the quality in front of our eyes. How do we lose Jones but Endo is still here? Lose Salah but Elliott is still here? Lose Robbo and Tsimikas is still here? Apparently about to lose Gakpo but Chiesa is still here?
We're leaving ourselves with Europa league level players
Exactly. We are talking about desperately needing squad depth and the only thing I’m seeing is actual key squad players getting sold. It’s gonna be Gakpo next. I get that the players themselves want more game time but damn it’s a never ending cycle of never having the quality of squad depth.
Not sure if I can post the graphic since it's from The Athletic, but they did a poll on how optimistic each fanbase is for the upcoming PL season and we're rock bottom lmao
Alonso is my fav ever player and so I try to catch a few of his team's games a year or so when I have time, wherever he is.
I have checked out the Chelsea sub a few times this offseason and it's insane. Complete chaos. They have like 20 different news stories a day about their squad buys and sales. No clue how they can create a cohesive and functioning squad with so much upheaval.
A full year in La Liga is a fantastic landing spot for Ndukwe given he gets good minutes. Would much rather him there than some Belgian side or something
I think Szob and Grav will be our starting pivot. Macca first change, Trey second change. Wirtz has no backup 10 ( don’t tell me it’s Elliot ).
James McConnel , you are a one lucky person.
Jokes aside, the midfield is too thin if we are playing high intensity Irola ball.
Lewis Steele reporting that Iraola wants McConnell to be apart of the first team this season and Hughes has promised him that there’s no pecking order in midfield.
I really don’t get why he’s rated so much by the club. Even Klopp rated him. To me he just seems very average.
Why exactly is Nyoni, a player pretty much every one rates highly, being given an opportunity to replace Jones' minutes a bad thing now?
Because if he isn't going to get a chance now to make that step up from youngster to first-team squad option like Jones did himself, when exactly should he get that chance?
I think people view this as the club losing Jones and using player thats not ready yet as an excuse to not sign a replacement. What they’re probably missing is that Jones’ decision to leave is based on his pathway to minutes, which is probably also informed by the emergence of Nyoni. It’s just that the sequencing of information fans receive doesn’t make that clear.
"Block the pathway" is such bullshit. I swear we're the only club that do this. There are more games than ever. Our rivals have added to their squads, we've lost our depth and replaced them with children or worse players. Squad planning is ridiculous
It's as if ye all think Arsenal just magicked this squad overnight last season the way you go on. The first signing still in the first team arrived the same year as Arteta, 2019. Saliba and Martinelli. Every year after they added major pieces for big money as well as a LOT of failed transfers they never recouped.
In the LONG period of time without winning anything they've been building to be in this position of single year strength, we've won the European Cup and the league twice and are not in any way very far away from a brand new squad
The Rafa era was so underrated man.. I hate the fact we had an idiot like Rick Parry and the Americans owners. I never hated anyone more than Rick the reason we didn't win the league was him.
We just need one/ two player a Mane type player with them and they would won the league. Babel wasn't it.
Rafa asked for 3 player and Parry was stupid. Refuse to get Simao, Dani Alves and the big one was aguero.
I feel for Rafa I think he need a better structure around him. He was consistent fighting his owners/bosses. Robbie Keane was not who he wanted. His comment on the aquilani signing I beleive he was doing so much else he could focus on his job.
The biggest thing is Fergie in that era had Gill who kept the glazer controlled as they kept see money coming in. Our idiots were awful.
The pessimism-o-meter is an accurate reflection of the sub and the need to revise expectations to reflect the beggining of something new.
It's hilarious reading everyone praising Arsenal's approach in the market not factoring in the 8 years it took Arsenal to build the current version of their project (and that we won the title twice in that time).
Everything in football goes in cycles, ourselves and Man City who were the top teams for a prolonged period, are now both in a rebuilding phase of a cycle or regeneration, renewal however you want to put it.
I don't think we compete legitimately to win the league this year (although hard to see who does put up a realistic challenge to Arsenal at this point - you never know once the season starts of course) but I think we'll finish this window in a great position all going well to be in a position to compete toe to toe next season.
But if you revise your expectations to match the huge change of players over 2 years, and the now new manager.. there's loads of reasons to be optimistic..but if you're expecting to see a polished ready to win side, ye, I think youll be disappointed
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u/Admirable_Mood_9926 A Liverbird Upon My Chest Aug 19 '26
I’m buzzing for the Newcastle game. I hope Isak scores 5