Liverpool transfers in/out and rumours 22/23 + Contracts

**miller0863** · 4th August 2024, 10:42 AM

Scored a couple of decent goals in pre season, Slot may not be in a rush to let him go permanently

**Daffydd** · 4th August 2024, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by miller0863

Scored a couple of decent goals in pre season, Slot may not be in a rush to let him go permanently

Indeed, Slot tried to sign him for Feyenoord.

According to The Athletic, Slot has been ‘hugely impressed’ by what he’s seen from Carvalho. The Dutchman reportedly now plans on using the forward during the season, unless a suitable offer arrives.

**Steveo** · 4th August 2024, 11:37 AM

Always felt there was genuine quality in there - let’s see IF he has the mentality to make it work with Slot.

**miller0863** · 4th August 2024, 12:46 PM

Yep, many players have had the talent but not the mentality for a top club. We are a massive club world wide, every game is huge, you can’t have one decent game in 4 or 5 and get away with it.

**justme** · 4th August 2024, 12:51 PM

Breaking newssss... we have just signed Diddly Squat

**Insidious** · 4th August 2024, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by justme

Breaking newssss... we have just signed Diddly Squat

Not at all surprised, given the lack of departures.

We'll be registering a 25-man squad in the coming season. Currently, it looks like -

Goalkeepers - we have 3 -

Alisson
Kelleher
Jaros

Defenders - we have 9 -

Robertson
Tsimikas
Van Dijk
Konate
Gomez
Sepp
Quansah
Trent
Bradley

Midfielders - we have 8 -

Mac Allister
Szoboszlai
Jones
Elliott
Gravenberch
Endo
Bajcetic
Morton

Forwards - we have 6 -

Salah
Núñez
Jota
Gakpo
Diaz
Carvalho

So that takes us up to 26 players.

That ignores Nat Phillips - a lad who is unlikely to feature in the first-team squad, but is on the wages of a first-team squad member

Then we have a list of lads who could potentially supplement our main group, or we should be sorting loans for - depending on people's views on individuals. This is lads like Beck, Nyoni, Clark, Doak - add others at your leisure.

For context , last season some of these lads were around more than we may think. Doak made 15 out of the 24 match day squads that he was fit for, which is easily overlooked. Clark made the match day squad 23 times last season out of the 58 games that we played - so they are not far at all from getting chances to feature, in theory.

Then we have lads who aren't QUITE there yet, but we may try to develop further rather than sell - lads like In addition there’s McConnell, Gordon, Koumas aren't too far away.

So lads like McConnell, Gordon, Koumas, Beck, Nyoni, Clark and Doak all need to be getting loans or we have to leave space for them to break into featuring close to our main 25-man group, depending on how we see them.

This will hopefully give some insight into the fact we have quite a few players. We should upgrade in key areas where we can of course, but I don't see much incoming activity if the outgoings don't happen - we won't (for example) buy a 6 and have Endo sitting in a no-man's land outside of the lost of 25 - we'd need a buyer.

So the current squad is arguably too big to carry into a season as it stands just now, with us still wanting to allow for the development of some U21 lads.

Lads like Rhys Williams and Koumetio need sorting too - unless Koumetio went to Dundee - I can't remember.

Sales to sort, loans to sort - and that's purely on the squad size basis, before we get to the usual points people bring up regarding financial outlay.

Will be an interesting few weeks whatever happens - and I wouldn't be surprised if we use the January window either, as so many clubs are sorting PSR stuff within a short window due to international tournaments.

**Kev0909** · 4th August 2024, 01:40 PM

Well that squad is not good enough to challenge for the prem or try for champs league.

That back line.....

Even the attack after last season isn't very impressive..... unless diaz starts actually being better than theo walcott and jota stays injury free for once and not out half rthe season the midfield isn't exactly the best either compared to others.

I guess we're back to the days of being happy with top 4, is what it is.