@arjun_rmsh Szobo shouldnt be playing that CM role
He doesn't have the positional sense for that role
If he does play there, there should be proper no6 to protect him
🟥 Liverpool’s Warning Is Hiding in Plain Sight
⚽ #LFC 2-3 #Monaco
I couldn't care less that Liverpool lost 2-3 to Monaco. It's pre-season. The score will be forgotten before Monday morning.
What matters is what the game revealed.
For 45 minutes Liverpool looked quick, aggressive and dangerous. Alexander Isak wanted the ball constantly, Florian Wirtz kept finding pockets where good footballers cause damage, Cody Gakpo looked sharp, and there was a purpose to the attacking play that had been missing far too often last season.
There's a very good football team in there.
The problem is how quickly it disappears.
Once the changes came, Liverpool lost authority, creativity and threat. The second half became flat, disjointed and increasingly vulnerable. That concerns me far more than any friendly defeat because it exposed the distance between Liverpool’s best players and the options underneath them.
A Premier League season doesn't allow you to pick your best eleven every week. Injuries arrive. Form disappears. Suspensions come. Champions League nights demand rotation. That is where squads are judged.
Isak and Wirtz can transform this attack if they stay fit. Iraola looks capable of getting far more from both. Yet Liverpool cannot build a season around hoping the first-choice players are always available.
There are three weeks left in this transfer window.
Richard Hughes must use them properly.
Liverpool need more quality, more reliability and more genuine first-team options. Fail to do that and a top-four challenge could become far harder than it needs to be.
Mo Salah was incredibly loyal to Liverpool for years when he could have gone anywhere in the world.
The level he played at consistently during a time when City and Liverpool rewrote the standards for club football in the UK are unmatched by ANY player in Europe, I don't care who he is.
Doing that week in week out with no injuries in a league as intense as the premier league at the level City and Liverpool were playing surpasses anything Messi and Ronaldo did in my opinion. Ronaldo had one or two great seasons in the UK, same for Suarez, Torres etc, even John Barnes only did it for 3 seasons.
I stick by that, he was the best all things considered, especially in terms of a role model to all our kids.
I will follow how he is doing for the rest of his career and watch as many games for Trabzonspor as I can.
Gravenberch doesn't solve any of the issues we currently have.
Our issues are defensive, he doesn't address that.
The need for a DM is absolutely glaring, Gravenberch isn't a DM no matter what they tell you.
And the lack of signing a DM means we need a RB, because if we haven't an energetic DM to cover for Trent defensive failing we are going to be continued to be exposed down Trent side.
And with Konate, Matip and Gomez clear injury issues not signing a CB would be an absolute joke.
We clearly needed a DM, RB and CB this Summer and we haven't got addressed these areas
Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth and Burnley have a higher net spend than Liverpool this Summer.
Absolutely outrageous that.
Wonder where the 250 million went????
Club is far far too big for FSG.
Premier League teams with a higher net spend than Liverpool (£59m) this summer:
- Arsenal (£163m)
- Chelsea (£140m)
- Manchester United (£135m)
- Bournemouth (£110m)
- Newcastle (£89m)
- Aston Villa (£81m)
- Burnley (£77m)
‘Biggest rebuild in the club’s history’.
• We beat Chelsea to win the Super Cup
• We beat Chelsea in 2020, then lifted the PL title in front of them
• We beat Chelsea in the League Cup Final
• We beat Chelsea in the FA Cup Final
• We've finished above them every year since 2018
But yep, Chelsea own Liverpool.
Liverpool are one of the biggest clubs in the world and we've limited ourselves to doing one signing at a time whilst taking a month to complete a deal for a 19-year-old Championship player. No matter if you're FSG In or Out that should not be acceptable for a club our size.
@mihir138 I am all for umlimited funds
But I think smart recruitement is key
Like what newcastle are doing
Chelsea are just doing it like real life Fifa😂😂