The Three Amigos

[miller0863]

The biggest difference Sid, is that both Mo and Virgil have repeatedly said they want to stay leading us to believe a deal can be done.
Trent has never once come out and said he wants to stay.

I think that’s were much of the indifference comes from, along with the showing of young Bradley to ease the pain somewhat.

[justme]

The problem with giving Mo and Virgil longer contracts means we will probably not sign anyone in January. can't be having our cake and eat it. someone's gotta pay the bills..We desperately need a DM to be able to give Gravenberch a rest here and there
If all our centre backs remain fit.we can just about manage for the rest of the season..

[JockStrap]

Slot seems to be making him a more conventional right-back, which could very well be a deliberate strategy in case Trent leaves, as you can find a right-back replacement for a deeper-lying right-back more easily - whereas trying to replace 18/19 and 19/20 Trent is much harder.

Don't take this the wrong way but make a dedicated effort to watch only Trent for 15 minutes in any game. He's the least conventional RB you'll ever see. His game hasn't changed under Slot and there's not another RB I'd swap him for.

Beyond that, I'm not even talking about his stats and wages. I'm thinking of the attitude of our fans towards one of our own. We should be thinking of TAA in the same way as Gerrard. A natural leader and captain and one of the best in the world in his position. We should want him to see out his career at LFC rather than a shrug of the shoulders and a pretence not to be bothered whether he stays or leaves. Welcome to 2024 LFC fans I suppose.

[justincredible]

Did something fart.?

[JockStrap]

Did something fart.?

It's your breath.

[RedMagic]

The problem with giving Mo and Virgil longer contracts means we will probably not sign anyone in January. can't be having our cake and eat it. someone's gotta pay the bills..We desperately need a DM to be able to give Gravenberch a rest here and there
If all our centre backs remain fit.we can just about manage for the rest of the season..

Our local and much loved, award winning bakery employs a baker who only has access to a limited supply of expensive, quality ingredients, some of which are coming to the end of their shelf life. He also has access to a few bog standard ingredients which aren't perfectly suitable for the type and quality of cakes he wants to produce and is expected to produce.

Meeting the expectations of the bakery's owners is a very difficult task given the ingredients at the bakers disposal. The owners of the bakery have a very profitable business on their hands, but instead of reinvesting some of those profits into making sure the baker has enough quality ingredients at his disposal to be able to keep producing top quality, award winning cakes year after year, they regularly give him things such as Lidl own brand Swiss rolls which they then expect him to turn into a masterpieces capable of winning top awards. They want him to continually be the baking version of Jesus turning water into wine.

We're one the top half dozen highest earning clubs in world football. We can afford to buy a few good quality players and pay top money to our very best players. The problem is that our owners are rarely, if ever prepared to do either of those things, never mind both at the same time.

[Insidious]

Don't take this the wrong way but make a dedicated effort to watch only Trent for 15 minutes in any game. He's the least conventional RB you'll ever see. His game hasn't changed under Slot and there's not another RB I'd swap him for.

Not taken the wrong way, don't worry.

I'll make the point of doing so, but I do see changes - not drastic, but they're there - and the stats do seem to somewhat back it up.

Tonight's a bad example as he had spells where he tucked in and played to the right of a deeper-lying Gravenberch in front of Robbo, Gomez and Van Dijk, but I do feel he is staying back more than under Klopp and is closer to the touchline.

His tackles won per 90 minutes have increased from 1.08 to 1.69 per game, he is getting dribbled past less often (2.5 times per game down to 1.08) then there's the reduction in long sprayed passes too - down 20.7 to 14 per 90, with the diagonal switches also down from 1.3 to 0.9 per game.

He's getting fewer touches of the ball Alex (down to 73.8 from 95.9 per 90) and slightly fewer in the attacking third - though this is a very small disparity at 22 per 90 down from 24.3.

I do think these are deliberate tweaks, with Slot aiming to make the system less "reliant" on Trent in case he departs - but I'll happily place full focus on Trent a couple of times this season and see what the eye-test tells me.

I am in no rush to replace him by the way - I must emphasise that. I just think Slot is trying to ensure that right-back is less integral to his system for the moment, but could of course be wrong.

[jozza800]

Our local and much loved, award winning bakery employs a baker who only has access to a limited supply of expensive, quality ingredients, some of which are coming to the end of their shelf life. He also has access to a few bog standard ingredients which aren't perfectly suitable for the type and quality of cakes he wants to produce and is expected to produce.

Meeting the expectations of the bakery's owners is a very difficult task given the ingredients at the bakers disposal. The owners of the bakery have a very profitable business on their hands, but instead of reinvesting some of those profits into making sure the baker has enough quality ingredients at his disposal to be able to keep producing top quality, award winning cakes year after year, they regularly give him things such as Lidl own brand Swiss rolls which they then expect him to turn into a masterpieces capable of winning top awards. They want him to continually be the baking version of Jesus turning water into wine.

We're one the top half dozen highest earning clubs in world football. We can afford to buy a few good quality players and pay top money to our very best players. The problem is that our owners are rarely, if ever prepared to do either of those things, never mind both at the same time.

We already pay our best players 'top' money. We have one of the highest wage bills in football.

[Steveo]

Well - according to this:
https://www.givemesport.com/clubs-hi...otball-soccer/

On top of our low net spend we are 5th in the Premier league and 13th globally just above Inter Milan.

According to this:
https://football-observatory.com/Mon...ster%20United.

We are earning far more than many of the clubs spending more on players and more on wages.

So:
5th & 13th on wages in 2024
6th & 10th on net Spend last 10 years

Pretty damning when you consider that the Premier league spend is more than double its closest rival in Italy and 3 times more than has been spent in Spain

It's fair to say we have massively over achieved considering.

I'm sure it's all down to fucking brilliant data analysis

[JockStrap]

There is another explanation Victor. See if you can work it out.