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  1. #31
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    £446m Spent

    Now we have no pace on the wings

    still no good midfielder to rotate with grav/maca often, we all know we needed one
    Still no top CB we all know we needed one more to life than guehi who we could get at a later date.
    What a fucking joke.

    £446m SPENT to look toothless in attack looking like utd of last season, scraping games, concede every week and have no control over games at all

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kev0909 View Post
    Why didn't they go for Guehi earlier?? if palace refused even if we offered a bit more- then we could've moved onto someone else- Thiaw or the guys arsenal have signed- and try get guehi on a free later on.

    With isak, I just don't know if we really needed him over a LW like diaz who could play up top and a CDM with that money probably could get both.

    I just don't know after spending so much how we're looking so light in quality in midfield, CB and LW diaz didn't get replaced...

    Bit of a joke really, in the future we're still going to need a LW unless gakpo actually turns class... doubtful.. a salah replacement X2 cbs and a CDM even after spending all that money.

    Transfer team needs to be looked at

    For me jones,gakpo,endo can all leave next season and salah if he carry's on like this a year early, assuming konate will be off eitherway also, that's still 4 changes needed in future and how's that going to work with the amount we've spent and FFP? we're screwed
    I think a lot of it is a result of not investing in the past few windows. They've put all their eggs into this one. The result is too many new players at the same time even though most of those players look good quality (you would hope for the price tags). I think most of them will come good.

    Already Frimpong looks decent and a bit of a threat going forward. Ekitike has started his Liverpool career really well. Isak you'd imagine will be good. Would be shocked if not. Wirtz is already showing touches but it'll take time.

    We're used to seeing players who've known each other well for a few seasons. The last big change was the midfield. If I recall, it took a while for all of them. Szobo was a bit hit-and-miss and I remember people complaining about him a lot. Now he looks one of our strongest most versatile players. Gravenberch was young and took a while to get going too IIRC. Now he's a mainstay of midfield.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Red October View Post
    I think a lot of it is a result of not investing in the past few windows. They've put all their eggs into this one. The result is too many new players at the same time even though most of those players look good quality (you would hope for the price tags). I think most of them will come good.

    Already Frimpong looks decent and a bit of a threat going forward. Ekitike has started his Liverpool career really well. Isak you'd imagine will be good. Would be shocked if not. Wirtz is already showing touches but it'll take time.

    We're used to seeing players who've known each other well for a few seasons. The last big change was the midfield. If I recall, it took a while for all of them. Szobo was a bit hit-and-miss and I remember people complaining about him a lot. Now he looks one of our strongest most versatile players. Gravenberch was young and took a while to get going too IIRC. Now he's a mainstay of midfield.
    Even if they do it's not the point we're still missing a midfielder to rotate with grav and macca, they can't play every game and jones is not the answer, and we're still missing a CB and a top winger, even if Isak-Wirtz come good which i'm sure they will.

    Not sure why these positions have been neglected when we've spent over 400m

    Crazy.
    Last edited by Kev0909; 1st October 2025 at 11:21 AM.

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    Well the argument would be that we should have kept Diaz which is a fair point but then he wanted to go and the money helped to fund some of the others.
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    The question is WHY did he want to go…. People rarely ask about the how and why but they are the most important factors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steveo View Post
    The question is WHY did he want to go…. People rarely ask about the how and why but they are the most important factors.
    Doesn't matter he's gone, but we never replaced him, I'm sure there's some speedy direct winger out there.

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    Well it matters because someone obviously didn’t think he was worth a significant salary increase for… And on the current evidence - I say he absolutely was. Whoever made that decision must be either blind - clueless or both — because Gakpo was never in his class and now is sat there with no competition

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    Nobody can tell me Salah isn’t being marked into oblivion… There just isn’t the threat levels of before on the opposite flank. Teams can now nullify our most potent forward on the right and easily contain our left. As for the counter — wstripped of Luis we are seeing it become a risk? Cody does scores some goals - no doubt - but he loses the ball plenty and breaks down our attacks time and time again with ponderous play. It leaves us wide open to the double counter.

    I mean he is probably the best option we have out there for now but that’s only because we let our second biggest - often our biggest threat - leave for Bayern. They must be pissing themselves we got Florian and they got Luis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steveo View Post
    The question is WHY did he want to go…. People rarely ask about the how and why but they are the most important factors.
    He said he wanted a new challenge and that the project they were building at Bayern was what attracted him the most.
    Whether or not you believe that is obviously another question, but those were the reasons he gave.

    His own words (From his first interview there after joining them):-

    “What attracted me was Bayern’s expectations, because it’s no secret that they're a very big club. I already knew a lot about what Bayern are about. They came for me, they believed in me. That was a really important point in choosing them and joining.

    "It’s a club with a huge amount of history, a club that’s won everything at international level. It’s a very big challenge for me to be part of such a big club. I’m going to try and give my all to keep making history, keep winning titles, to win important things.

    “I already knew a lot about the Bundesliga. I always try to watch lots of football. It’s a league I’ve watched. It’s a league that promises a lot. I realised in my first match that it’s really intense. It’s unbelievable from a physical perspective. You’ve always got to be at it, always in position to score, to attack well. It’s very physically demanding.

    "And it also helps a lot tactically. In this team now, I’m trying to score goals in a different way than I used to. I’m going to learn a lot. That’s the little bit I’ve got to know of the Bundesliga, what I’m going to know more about in the future. Hopefully we'll get off to a good start.”
    Additionally, on Social media, he talked about the prospect of a new challenge that they presented and always challenging himself with a new project like this comging from his blue collar roots in Barrancas, Colombia and the hardships he's endured (roughly translated from his Spanish).

    Nothing in either platform or format about sour grapes at or with Liverpool, nor disappointing wage renumeration offers (although I would be surprised if it wasn't a factor as LFC have a strict wage structure).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steveo View Post
    Nobody can tell me Salah isn’t being marked into oblivion… There just isn’t the threat levels of before on the opposite flank. Teams can now nullify our most potent forward on the right and easily contain our left. As for the counter — wstripped of Luis we are seeing it become a risk? Cody does scores some goals - no doubt - but he loses the ball plenty and breaks down our attacks time and time again with ponderous play. It leaves us wide open to the double counter.

    I mean he is probably the best option we have out there for now but that’s only because we let our second biggest - often our biggest threat - leave for Bayern. They must be pissing themselves we got Florian and they got Luis.
    Plus we can’t find him early in space. We love the ball way too solidly through midfield at the moment. We need to steamroll a weaker side in the league shortly to boost the players confidence imo. Need wirtz to have a stormer and isak to bag a couple. Get the dander up as the saying goes.

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