We might be able to get Kabak on loan for the season give Schalke say £3m and pay his wages.
We could loan them Neco/Rhys Williams in return.
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He'd probably do well against Van Dijk when we have to sit in a bit to see out matches. Where he might get caught out is when our line is played high, but if someone like Henderson is in our midfield to cover space left by Trent that leaves a player bombing at Phillips, it will minimise the impact.
Ideally next season I'd have 5 centre-backs as we don't know how Van Dijk and Gomez will recover.
Van Dijk
Gomez
Konate (?)
Kabak (?)
Phillips
Looks pretty good to me. Much as none of us want to see Fabinho at centre-back, he is a very serviceable emergency option as 6th choice - and by and large that should be a rare occurrence for any side. Totally fine with him playing there for 2-3 matches a season if we are desperately unlucky with injuries, but we should never be down to the bare bones like that in a "normal" season realistically.
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We might be able to get Kabak on loan for the season give Schalke say £3m and pay his wages.
We could loan them Neco/Rhys Williams in return.
YNWA
Phillips is not the future.
He was a desperate option.
He has done well .
Not let liverpool down.
But he is PNE level at best.
Good luck to him in the future.
Davies will be sold in the summer.
Kabak possibly bought to sell too.
CB
VVD konate Gomez Matip next season.
Rowdy Yates
Totally agree with all
of this - but we have to remember Matip is not back up to anyone. He can’t play more than a few games a season. So that means we need to buy 2 CB - or Konate and 1 other.
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We haven't bought Kabak yet unless I've missed something (and if we have would someone link me please) so I suspect we will try to haggle with Schalke to try and get him for a couple of million cheaper, due to their relegation - perhaps offering a player on loan from the youth set-up as a sweetener.Originally Posted by dicko1969
Or alternatively we'll "do a Liverpool" and go into next season with four centre-backs - Van Dijk, Gomez, Konate and Matip - and be left pulling our hair out in January
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Phillips had done very well, he should be our cup game CB and emergency cover, I know football has moved on a lot, but to be quite honest, he's like a better version of Carragher, better in the air, better with the ball, better positionally and at reading the game
If we were back when Houllier arrived, he'd be the player partnering Sami and we'd have never bought Henchoz and Carra wouldn't have got a look in, under Houliier or Rafa
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One thing I have been a little perplexed about re Phillips is how we use him at corners, he has a tremendous leap, but not the happy knack of muscling through players levering his way into position, I've thought for a while we should just have him in a fixed position and Trent try to ping it right onto his head where he just have to get above the defenders, see how it works out and if doing that creates gaps in how opponents defend our corners and the players can be briefed at HT how they might exploit it
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You’ll have some hangover Tuesday 19. All weekend on the sesh!
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Weekend ? He's been on it since we won the league!!
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At least someone here is on it
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