Isakly what we need
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Yeah I'm not sure what it is, but I just don't 'feel' Isak as a Liverpool player. Whether that's because he's barely played, barely done interviews, and the fact I'm pissed off he couldn't get fit over the summer, I dunno.
Him being injured legitimately made me shrug
Ekitike is better anyway
2 months out, says Slot. We all expected worse, I think
I dunno, because I never had that with van dijk
I do think that it's because "oh he's not fit" when all he had to do was maintain fitness. Match fitness? Fine. Can't fucking run? Nah get fucked
The slight difference is that Saints chose to remove VVD from match-day squads and made him train alone for a period (following his transfer request), so it was a bit more mutual than the one-sided 'on strike' affair we saw from Isak. Completely agree about fitness. How can an athlete arrive so weak and useless, after being boss the year before? Crazy.
what the fuck?
He's barely registered as a Liverpool player. He's in little promo stuff, he's not in any interviews, he's done nothing of note other than look ill fitting to our system.
Hes a Liverpool player, so it bothers me....but he's not as good as Ekitike in red and seems a lot less involved. Half seems like he doesn't even want to be here.
Shame he's injured. Makes little impact than make me worry Ekitike is now going to get overplayed.
That's more like it.
there’s definitely a feeling with isak that the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze but this christmas / jan / afcon period is probably where he would’ve won us all over. unlucky
to be honest i’ve had a general post klopp malaise about everything anyway. didn’t watch a single slot interview for ages, still avoid them now except out of morbid curiosity when we’ve been awful. luke warm on the signings too aside from chiesa and ekitikes likeability chipping away at me.
to be honest i’ve had a general post klopp malaise about everything anyway. didn’t watch a single slot interview for ages, still avoid them now except out of morbid curiosity when we’ve been awful. luke warm on the signings too aside from chiesa and ekitikes likeability chipping away at me.
I'd imagine two months until the boot is off. Then another month or so rehab.
Could easily be April before he's back on the pitch in any capacity.
I've seen this numerous times on SCM but it's not really the whole truth is it. Newcastle isolated him from the squad first with Howe taking objection (rightly or wrongly) to Isak's wishes to move to Liverpool.
1. Newcastle left him out of their Tour squad.
Although the club claimed that a minor thigh strain had prevented him boarding the private charter plane to south-east Asia, scans indicated no evidence of injury.
2. Isak went to train at Sociedad
3. The PA news agency reported that Isak, who reported back to the club's Benton base on Monday, was told not to come in until after they had left (and he was refused permission to attend the club BBQ) and was pictured arriving at around 3:50 p.m. to let him back in at the club to train when they returned. Newcastle clearly miffed at him training at Sociedad.
Alexander Isak’s standoff with Newcastle escalated on Wednesday when the striker was ordered to train separately from his teammates and stay away from a lunchtime training‑ground barbecue.
Eddie Howe, Newcastle’s manager, had organised the gathering for his players and staff and their partners and children, but Isak was told to delay his arrival for solitary training until later in the afternoon. The rest of the first-team squad had been put through their paces by Howe as they reconvened for the first time since stepping off atheir near 15-hour flight from Seoul shortly after 8am on Monday.
I don't know the whole story but remember most of the above. Was there more to it?
Hopefully the surgery on his ankle wasn’t too extensive.
Surgery doesn't mean invasive any more. I had plates quickly and easily inserted into my broken toes and also a hernia op. by keyhole surgery. I'm not saying this was the same but Slot saying it's 2 months out means it wasn't a major reconstruction.
I can't imagine him playing again until last 2-3 games of the season. If he lost so much cardio fitness in just a 4-5 week summer break, in which he was still "training", imagine how much he will lose when in a cast.
140m down the pisser
140m down the pisser
He's not running on any meaningful capacity until next November I reckon
"Like a new signing"
Sad thing is - you can imagine FSG doing something like this and signing no one in Jan, I mean no one is going to moan if we sign Origi it will be like a party. Pay-as-you-play half season contract.
I don't think we can pin spending money as an issue this season for FSG, they have gone well beyond expectations from me. In fact, it's more the heavy spending without it yet showing a plan has been the issue for now. Would have rather if they held back a little from spending so much on 2 strikers.
I think FSG are just experiencing what it’s like spending a big money in football. They thought they Had a great manager who won the league.
They needed to rebuild the team so they bought one of the best strikers in the league. They thought. A quick fix
But it turns out all of those assumptions are flawed.
They needed to rebuild the team so they bought one of the best strikers in the league. They thought. A quick fix
But it turns out all of those assumptions are flawed.
Immaterial now for 3 months.
