We won the league didn’t we?
The new number 9…
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fair point
Can he do the robot?
Translates as:
Positive meeting between advisers and LFC;
Arne Slot thinks highly of him;
LFC want to gazump the deal with Chelsea;
No direct contact between LFC and Frankfurt yet;
Chelsea remain favourites to sign him.
I doubt we are interested at the quoted 100 mill fee.
Not from me. All I've seen are clips and they can be misleading as we all know, but I've not been over-impressed by the ones I've seen of him.
I'm firmly in the Sesko camp.
Met Wirtz for dinner, became the dinner...
The thing I'd be thinking of I was Ekitike is they've just signed Liam Delap and given him the no 9. Clearly he's the guy they think will start.
Least with us it'll probably be less money, but better players and probably a guarantee to start and win stuff
If money is more important than that, then fair enough, The mentality is wrong for the club and we move on
Least with us it'll probably be less money, but better players and probably a guarantee to start and win stuff
If money is more important than that, then fair enough, The mentality is wrong for the club and we move on
Random thought...
Not one that I'm advocating for mind, but it just occurred to me.
It couldn't be that Mo is our new number 9, could it? Frimpong on the right, Bradley behind, Mo up front?
Not one that I'm advocating for mind, but it just occurred to me.
It couldn't be that Mo is our new number 9, could it? Frimpong on the right, Bradley behind, Mo up front?
Wouldn't have thought so. He played there a couple of times for us and was a bit meh.
Yeah, I'm not really into it, but the more I think about it, the less I'm sure that we're splashing the cash on Frimpong, Kerkez, Wirtz and a new 9.
I'm trying to put myself in Slot's shoes and seeing if there's some clever way of messing around with what we've got.
We know he's tactically flexible, so I'm starting to wonder if maybe Wirtz might play the false 9 when we're nominally 433, but also be the tip of the diamond in a 442, or as I think someone else suggested, be a fluid 532 with Grav dropping back into CB, Frimpong and Kerkez as WBs, Macca, Szob and Wirtz as the midfield 3, and Mo and Gakpo up front?
I'm trying to put myself in Slot's shoes and seeing if there's some clever way of messing around with what we've got.
We know he's tactically flexible, so I'm starting to wonder if maybe Wirtz might play the false 9 when we're nominally 433, but also be the tip of the diamond in a 442, or as I think someone else suggested, be a fluid 532 with Grav dropping back into CB, Frimpong and Kerkez as WBs, Macca, Szob and Wirtz as the midfield 3, and Mo and Gakpo up front?
I'm a bit of a tactical idiot, but aren't these three formations the same thing?
I bloody hope not!
I hope we are, as I think it would be foolish to - but whereas the links to Kerkez, Wirtz etc seem solid, the striker ones seem mostly paper-talk
Well kinda, if we're doing that whole fluid thing, which we know he likes
After he talks to Slot, he will push for a move to us and drive cost down. Hoping, although that has not worked for Florian.
I think we're seeing what other teams do. Ideally in these 10 days we'll get the 3 over the line (kerkez, frimpong and wirtz), and then when the window re-opens go all in for the striker.
The likes of nunez and diaz might be have left this window as well. So rather than going all in on a striker, we might be thinking theres a LW more fitting and skimp a little on a striker. Like we might go for Ekitike alone if diaz stays, but diaz goes then we need to go Fofana & Joao Pedro (as an example).
We get these first 3 over the line, then we can refocus
Somehow from you i read that sentence differently 😉
Can strike Sesko off the list of options I guess?
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I don't see why TBH. "Moving initial talks" sounds like the very early stages of negotiations, if indeed there are any. If we're at all interested (and I hope we are - I really, REALLY don't want the Arse or anyone else other than us to get Sesko) he's still fair game unless and until he actually signs.
I mean, at times he's had two in the hole and nothing up top, so...🤷
I didn't really know anything about Ekiteke other than what I'd read on here. Then I heard what Thierry Henry said about him. Then I watched a YouTube of him.
I always think it's best to sign players who look like they've played football before. That's always been my mantra.
£100m and 'a project' doesn't sound right.
This bloke is one to avoid.
I always think it's best to sign players who look like they've played football before. That's always been my mantra.
£100m and 'a project' doesn't sound right.
This bloke is one to avoid.
Well…. In that case we’ve found Gravy’s backup!!!