Summer transfers

[Insidious]

Didnt think right back would be a priority but rumour that liverpool ready to bid 69m for barca RB Kounde.
With slot prefering sozbo and jones at RB ahead of frimpong could be something in it,kounde has also played CB.

Wonder what our budget is?

I'd love a right-back to come in, but if I thought we had (entirely made-up speculative number) a £200m NET budget for the Summer, I wouldn't place right-back as our biggest priority by any stretch.

If (and it is just that right now isn't it? There's so much speculation as to what may happen) we end up with a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 that requires decent wide players, I'd be wanting two quality wide players and a defensive mid all wrapped up before we touched the right-back issue.

[RedMagic]

As long as Slot is still in charge it doesn't matter who we sign. We could sign a prime Maradona, Messi and Maldini, yet Slot would find some way to get them playing like Sean Dundee, Erik Meijer, and Titus Bramble.

[Insidious]

As long as Slot is still in charge it doesn't matter who we sign. We could sign a prime Maradona, Messi and Maldini, yet Slot would find some way to get them playing like Sean Dundee, Erik Meijer, and Titus Bramble.

It does feel like next season will be.....turbulent, that's for sure.

My main hope is that a player coming in to shore up the space in front of the defence, complimented by some pace and goal threat out wide, might actually lift us a bit - though just how much "a bit" is and whether or not it will actually happen.....huge question marks.

I'd far rather we changed manager, but if it is to be Slot, then I hope he can find something of what he had at Feyenoord or last season with us.

The energy/conditioning of the players and the permission to go on breaks is a huge concern. The "benefit of the doubt" in me wonders if Slot is struggling massively with having his family in a different country and how much that might be impacting things.

Hopefully he can find a job in Holland close to his family and we can find a Manager that better suits our requirements, not to mention our expectations about style of play.

He does my head in, but I don't want to harbour genuine resentment for a man at the helm when we got no. 20 so hope there is a resolution that suits all parties.

[jozza800]

It does feel like next season will be.....turbulent, that's for sure.

My main hope is that a player coming in to shore up the space in front of the defence, complimented by some pace and goal threat out wide, might actually lift us a bit - though just how much "a bit" is and whether or not it will actually happen.....huge question marks.

I'd far rather we changed manager, but if it is to be Slot, then I hope he can find something of what he had at Feyenoord or last season with us.

The energy/conditioning of the players and the permission to go on breaks is a huge concern. The "benefit of the doubt" in me wonders if Slot is struggling massively with having his family in a different country and how much that might be impacting things.

Hopefully he can find a job in Holland close to his family and we can find a Manager that better suits our requirements, not to mention our expectations about style of play.

He does my head in, but I don't want to harbour genuine resentment for a man at the helm when we got no. 20 so hope there is a resolution that suits all parties.

Problem is Slot is determined to push everyone forward. In Grav and even Mac, we have players who are more than capable of being a 6 and 4. Grav did it last season.

Lets say we do bring in a Wharton, the issue wont suddenly fix itself if he's asked to play the same way as Grav and/or Mac.

There are lots of issues with Slot being manager but if fundementaly he's not tactically sound then it's a real problem and all of the other stuff becomes more of a problem. My issue is that he just doesn't seem to be able to see it despite it being an issue all season. And I genuinely don't think he'll get to preseason and just figure it out.

He did use a 4231 at Feyenoord, but I didn't watch any their games so I don't know if the 6 and 4 played the same way. Maybe they did, but your less likely to get punished in the Eeridvisie compared to the Prem.

[teesred]

The Anfield wrap discussion after sunday's game was basically saying our issues won't be solved by recruitment. It's not a player problem we have.

[Red October]

Wonder what our budget is?

I'd love a right-back to come in, but if I thought we had (entirely made-up speculative number) a £200m NET budget for the Summer, I wouldn't place right-back as our biggest priority by any stretch.

If (and it is just that right now isn't it? There's so much speculation as to what may happen) we end up with a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 that requires decent wide players, I'd be wanting two quality wide players and a defensive mid all wrapped up before we touched the right-back issue.

Agreed. I'd be happy to play Jones, Gomez or even Endo at a push. Then we have Frimpong and Bradley who are first choice when fit (which is rare!). DM has to be top priority. Then the wings as you say. Have no faith that Slot is the man to rebuild us but who knows....if we get some more quality in....it might get us back on track. We need to get our top players back fit and keep them fit too. Isak, Frimpong, Bradley all out for huge chunks of this season. Alisson too. That really has hurt us especially when trying to rebuild.

[RedMagic]

Agreed. I'd be happy to play Jones, Gomez or even Endo at a push. Then we have Frimpong and Bradley who are first choice when fit (which is rare!). DM has to be top priority. Then the wings as you say. Have no faith that Slot is the man to rebuild us but who knows....if we get some more quality in....it might get us back on track. We need to get our top players back fit and keep them fit too. Isak, Frimpong, Bradley all out for huge chunks of this season. Alisson too. That really has hurt us especially when trying to rebuild.

If we're still having to play the likes of Jones, Endo, and Gomez next season, we're likely going to be in even more trouble than we first thought. Things are liable to be even worse if we're going to be relying on the likes of an injury prone Bradley and a neither one thing nor the other Frimpong.

We need quality players in the DM, CB, CM and RW positions. On top of that it could be argued that both FB positions are still an area of concern.

[jr81]

Need a new top quality keeper. Two of our biggest mistakes last summer was selling 2 players that would significantly improve our team right now, Diaz and Kelleher.

Last summer is currently looking like a disaster although I still have hope for Kerkez, Wirtz and Ekitike.

Not giving the extra 5million earlier in the market for Guehi was also a major mistake and letting him go to city.

This summer is massive. We need too many players though to get us back to the top.

Gk, cb, rb, lb, dm, LW (or someone that play across the front 3), rw.

[Ravo19]

Worried that any targets will look at the fallout between players and slot,playing under slot isnt going to attract players and is possibly why robbo,jones,salah,alisson not to bothered about going and others could be tempted if decent clubs come sniffing around in the summer.

[justme]

Liverpool are plotting a move to sign 30-year-old Inter Milan and Netherlands defender Denzel Dumfries to bolster their options at right-back. (Football Insider)

Another Dutch import what could possibly go wrong??
With a name like Dumfries. he should go play in Scotland.

[miller0863]

Old Dutch lad with a dodgy injury record

Yeah great

[justme]

Oh hes got injury issues as well??

Bit like Isak with his constant groin strains. It seems to be an injury that will always plague him. It didn't take a brain box to realize he has these issues..
Our recruitment is poor, How can the likes of Brentford find stars like Thiago and we never seem to be able find rough diamonds like that?.. I could be wrong. But Roberson was the last one..maybe others but can't think of them now

[teesred]

Liverpool are plotting a move to sign 30-year-old Inter Milan and Netherlands defender Denzel Dumfries to bolster their options at right-back. (Football Insider)

Another Dutch import what could possibly go wrong??
With a name like Dumfries. he should go play in Scotland.

He'd be an upgrade on Frimpong. I'd settle for that at the moment. Always been impressed when I've seen him, admittedly not a great deal though.
Frimpong to me just looks way to soft for this league. Might prove me wrong but that's just how I see it, doesn't fancy a battle in any game and is neither here nor there in terms of defence and attack. Also injured far too often.

[Steveo]

Recruitment is always good when you have one of the best managers in history - strangely it goes to shit when they aren’t around anymore.

The delusion was those naive enough to believe it was being driven by the running of the club. That always made me chuckle

[justme]

He'd be an upgrade on Frimpong. I'd settle for that at the moment. Always been impressed when I've seen him, admittedly not a great deal though.
Frimpong to me just looks way to soft for this league. Might prove me wrong but that's just how I see it, doesn't fancy a battle in any game and is neither here nor there in terms of defence and attack. Also injured far too often.

I have issues with players that think more about their appearance than their output. Frimpong should get rid of that stupid headband and geta nice hair cut and comeback focused next season and be up for it. Same with that idiot Wirzt when the weather gets about 7c out comes the gloves.
Just fucking get stuck in and achieve something more.. And that Gakpo chickens out of almost every challenge. another one who got a huge wage increase and downed tools.