The Official Liverpool FC Thread [Vol 19]

The Official Liverpool FC Thread [Vol 19]

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Flip Martian

19,740 posts

191 months

Monday 12th July 2021
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In other news - Kloppo has ditched the specs...

https://twitter.com/TheKopHQ/status/14145576679772...

Flip Martian

19,740 posts

191 months

Monday 12th July 2021
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and Pep Lijnders is writing a diary. Nothing controversial of course but some might find it interesting. Training camp day 1:

https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/437670...

Adam.

27,363 posts

255 months

Monday 12th July 2021
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Flip Martian said:
In other news - Kloppo has ditched the specs...

https://twitter.com/TheKopHQ/status/14145576679772...
Stretching "news"

Flip Martian

19,740 posts

191 months

Monday 12th July 2021
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Adam. said:
Stretching "news"
On a day when the footy news has been serious/disturbing/depressing, I was being rather flippant quite deliberately. Of course it's not "news"...just trying to post some levity on a bleak day.

Adam.

27,363 posts

255 months

Monday 12th July 2021
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Fair enough, agree an appalling day for football

ChocolateFrog

25,743 posts

174 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Any rumours of substance about at the moment?

anonymous-user

55 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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ChocolateFrog said:
Any rumours of substance about at the moment?
We have a thread on RedCafe which collates all 'decent' transfer tweets across the various 'reliable' accounts and only thing I've seen was mention of Saul from Atletico a couple of days ago, but he was also linked with us, struggled in the first team and didnt make the Spain squad so may be his agent touting him out

type-r

14,191 posts

214 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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ChocolateFrog said:
Any rumours of substance about at the moment?
FSG devil's advocate hat on.

Apparently we've signed three new defenders and two new midfielders.

Can't wait to see VvD, Gomez, Matip, Keita and Ox play this season.

Flip Martian

19,740 posts

191 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Supposedly interested in Mikkel Damsgaard, Domenico Barardi and Youri Tielemans depending on who you believe. I suspect all of those are just a result of mid summer news lull, now. Saul is the most mentioned but there's never anything that looks like concrete evidence.

type-r

14,191 posts

214 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Personally, if there is cash for one more first team signing, I'd like to see us get an improvement on Bobby certainly in terms of scoring.

We are still top heavy in midfielders, Keita, Hendo and Ox returning and Curtis coming through, I can't see a replacement for Wij. Thiago now bedded in too. We'll probably see more in the way of sales with fringe players leaving; Karius, Grujic, Neco, Wilson, Origi to name a few potential candidates.

ChocolateFrog

25,743 posts

174 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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type-r said:
Personally, if there is cash for one more first team signing, I'd like to see us get an improvement on Bobby certainly in terms of scoring.

We are still top heavy in midfielders, Keita, Hendo and Ox returning and Curtis coming through, I can't see a replacement for Wij. Thiago now bedded in too. We'll probably see more in the way of sales with fringe players leaving; Karius, Grujic, Neco, Wilson, Origi to name a few potential candidates.
Karius really is like Herpes, just can't get rid of him.


ChocolateFrog

25,743 posts

174 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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type-r said:
ChocolateFrog said:
Any rumours of substance about at the moment?
FSG devil's advocate hat on.

Apparently we've signed three new defenders and two new midfielders.

Can't wait to see VvD, Gomez, Matip, Keita and Ox play this season.
Good point.

Keita I've given up on seeing any return on our investment.

The Ox? Fingers crossed but the odds on him regaining his pre injury form and fitness is slim.

Gomez needs to kick on and really cement that CB position, he wouldn't be in my first 11 if everyone is fully fit.

VVD only has to be 50% of the player he was and he'd still be the best CB in the league.

Flip Martian

19,740 posts

191 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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According to Klopp today, Gomez, Virgil, Matip and Trent are all on separate "still coming back from injury" programmes and not in full training with everyone else yet. Sounds like Virgil and Gomez are still a few weeks away from that but all going well so far.

A few promising kids at the camp too - including Ian Rush's great-nephew, Owen Beck, who's just been handed a 5 year contract - his 3rd new contract in a year - and Mateusz Musialowski, who has been called "a Polish Eden Hazard". Big things expected from both. But probably not next season. The future is bright.

epom

11,622 posts

162 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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ChocolateFrog said:
type-r said:
Personally, if there is cash for one more first team signing, I'd like to see us get an improvement on Bobby certainly in terms of scoring.

We are still top heavy in midfielders, Keita, Hendo and Ox returning and Curtis coming through, I can't see a replacement for Wij. Thiago now bedded in too. We'll probably see more in the way of sales with fringe players leaving; Karius, Grujic, Neco, Wilson, Origi to name a few potential candidates.
Karius really is like Herpes, just can't get rid of him.
Sorry to hear that, have you tried bleach ?

NRS

22,250 posts

202 months

Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Probably our main needs are a CB and a striker. We have a big risk VvD might not be nearly as good coming back from a huge injury, and the others are still injury prone. Up front it was goals we struggled with a lot of the end of last season, so a potential Bobby replacement might help.

Chris Stott

13,468 posts

198 months

Wednesday 14th July 2021
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We already signed a CB... Konate.

eyebeebe

3,003 posts

234 months

Wednesday 14th July 2021
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Flip Martian said:
A few promising kids at the camp too - including Ian Rush's great-nephew, Owen Beck, who's just been handed a 5 year contract - his 3rd new contract in a year - and Mateusz Musialowski, who has been called "a Polish Eden Hazard". Big things expected from both. But probably not next season. The future is bright.
I’ll look out for them going out on loan for the next four seasons before being sold on for 10m. /cynical

NRS

22,250 posts

202 months

Wednesday 14th July 2021
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Chris Stott said:
We already signed a CB... Konate.
Yes - you did see how many we used up last season though... and a season or two before that we had the same problem due to injuries there. A second one would not be a bad thing, given none are likely reliable over a season.

Chris Stott

13,468 posts

198 months

Wednesday 14th July 2021
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We have VVD, Gomez, Konate, Matip, Philips & Williams.

We won’t be able to carry all of those in a 25 man squad.

ChocolateFrog

25,743 posts

174 months

Wednesday 14th July 2021
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epom said:
ChocolateFrog said:
type-r said:
Personally, if there is cash for one more first team signing, I'd like to see us get an improvement on Bobby certainly in terms of scoring.

We are still top heavy in midfielders, Keita, Hendo and Ox returning and Curtis coming through, I can't see a replacement for Wij. Thiago now bedded in too. We'll probably see more in the way of sales with fringe players leaving; Karius, Grujic, Neco, Wilson, Origi to name a few potential candidates.
Karius really is like Herpes, just can't get rid of him.
Sorry to hear that, have you tried bleach ?
Usually just stick to Zovirax but just when you think it's gone, bam it's back, often following a period abroad.
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