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Liverpool related transfer speculation

i don't think it's as much about trophies as you think.

The difference in winning the PL and 4th is just a few million. Ditto the CL where winning it and going out in the last 16 makes a difference of circa £10m in prize money. There was only £40m difference between us going out in the Last 16 and PSG winning it!

In the CL "a larger portion allocated to teams based on their market value and coefficient ranking" so just by qualifying and performing well in the league section and making decent progress in the KOs we are going to make a significant amount of money.

Of course commercial activities will dwarf what we make from any one competition. So it's not about the trophies (though naturally that's what we are aiming for) but about finishing in the Top 4 and qualifying for the KO stages of the CL. I can't see a financial drop off sufficient to put us into the UEFA mire?

Maybe @Beamrider can confirm if I'm miles off or not?
The brand and marketing side get a much much bigger lift when we are the champions of England or Europe.
 
If Garcia qualifies as HG then it works - right now we have 18 OS players and the cap is 17.
Me wanting X and Y is irrelevant, Hughes has shown far greater ambition with signings than me
The questions I have is, can we get Isak and Guehi and is 3Cbs enough? I am not going to include Jo as part of our defence as he is just too unreliable . Endo is too fucking short and Badge like Jo is never fit enough for long enough.
 
Me wanting X and Y is irrelevant, Hughes has shown far greater ambition with signings than me
The questions I have is, can we get Isak and Guehi and is 3Cbs enough? I am not going to include Jo as part of our defence as he is just too unreliable . Endo is too fucking short and Badge like Jo is never fit enough for long enough.

For me the answer is yes to your questions.

Yes we can get Guehi & Isak and yes, 3 CBs is just about enough although a 4th younger CB would be good.

The 4th CB, is essentially a player that’s good enough if required but is also comfortable with hardly playing - because you don’t really want to be relying on them.
 
You won’t get a kid being happy with that. They need games. 7 cup games won’t cut it. Why did Quansah leave? He’d never get the development he needs being 4th choice here.
 
You won’t get a kid being happy with that. They need games. 7 cup games won’t cut it. Why did Quansah leave? He’d never get the development he needs being 4th choice here.
Well Stephenson seems to be that player at the moment and I'm sure he'd be delighted! He'd still get most of the u21 games too.
 
It'll soon be 16 with Nunez and Diaz on their way. Tsimikas could make it 15.

Yeah, but Isak or Rodrygo would likely come in which means 1 spot left to fill - so it’s still 3 out to facilitate 2 in.

Meanwhile we’re talking about selling Elliot & Morton which, including Gomez would give us 5 of out 8 HG players and all of a sudden we have a
 
You won’t get a kid being happy with that. They need games. 7 cup games won’t cut it. Why did Quansah leave? He’d never get the development he needs being 4th choice here.

Versus what, an old player that isn’t good enough to play for us, so doesn’t?

A young defender not getting minutes outside of cup games is a choice that Slote would make.

That’s why I’d prefer we sign Guehi and hope Slot trusts him enough to play more games in rotation with Virg & Ibou.

Whoever that 4th CB is - they’re not playing outside of domestic cups or dead rubbbers unless it’s an emergency - and they’ll play even less if Gomez is actually fit fir any length of time.

At least with a youngster, if he’s under 21, he won’t take up a squad place and we can spend a season drilling him with the expectation that he gets more game time next season and beyond.

That wouldn’t work with an oldie.
 
I remembered Jones got sent off for that, and the feeling I had was meh. That reflects his place in the team really; that we have better options.

Similar feeling to when I was aggrieved with that Nunez sending off back then, when I still had hopes for him. Now, meh.

Jones need to step up this season or he will find himself becoming the Elliot of last season.
 
I remembered Jones got sent off for that, and the feeling I had was meh. That reflects his place in the team really; that we have better options.

Similar feeling to when I was aggrieved with that Nunez sending off back then, when I still had hopes for him. Now, meh.

Jones need to step up this season or he will find himself becoming the Elliot of last season.
I felt nothing but pride of a local lad standing up for the fans.
 
I felt nothing but pride of a local lad standing up for the fans.
Not sure why we get ourselves all riled up over some no marks, perhaps I am not local. I get that it's a derby and local pride and all that but we need to keep our eyes on the prize. If it was someone like Virg, Mo or Macca getting himself sent off and missing 3 games over these lot in the middle of a title challenge, I would be incensed.
 
Versus what, an old player that isn’t good enough to play for us, so doesn’t?

A young defender not getting minutes outside of cup games is a choice that Slote would make.

That’s why I’d prefer we sign Guehi and hope Slot trusts him enough to play more games in rotation with Virg & Ibou.

Whoever that 4th CB is - they’re not playing outside of domestic cups or dead rubbbers unless it’s an emergency - and they’ll play even less if Gomez is actually fit fir any length of time.

At least with a youngster, if he’s under 21, he won’t take up a squad place and we can spend a season drilling him with the expectation that he gets more game time next season and beyond.

That wouldn’t work with an oldie.
What do we have with Gomez? A player who is getting on, not better than Virgil, Konate or Guehi, on a fat wedge and only will get chances in cups or dead rubbers. He’s always injured too.

It’s replacing that with someone who can actually play those dead rubbers and cup games.

If your lad was 20 years old, really good at footy and had the choice of going to Liverpool to play 8 games a season (let’s be serious, once we get closer to a final the big boys play) or go somewhere and play 35 games a season you will take the latter.

If it was as simple as have a kid as our option we would’ve kept Quansah yet we all know, and it’s the same with Elliott, they need games and to improve and build physical attributes to ever get good enough for us.
 
Not sure why we get ourselves all riled up over some no marks, perhaps I am not local. I get that it's a derby and local pride and all that but we need to keep our eyes on the prize. If it was someone like Virg, Mo or Macca getting himself sent off and missing 3 games over these lot in the middle of a title challenge, I would be incensed.
It was retarded especially considering we had injuries at the time.
 
Why are we making it sound impossible to have 4 CB's in the squad?
Injury prone Konate and 47 year old Van Dijk can't play in every game.
 
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