They have an 80m striker who can’t get into he team. Bid 111m for a midfielder and didn’t get him that pissed off their other target and didn’t get them neither. After promising a big spend after struggling to 5th last season they have a net spend of what? 70m? All planned by a part time Sporting Director who only got the job because he’s friends with Klopp.
Or sent off throwing the ball back to our player to take a free kick.
I hate being in the position of arguing in favor of Liverpool, but despite the embarrassing stuff with Caceido they also did some excellent business in their center midfield with MacAllister and Szoboszlai. I am not familiar with Endo but he apparently is really solid, at least according to an article in the Guardian today.
But they only found themselves short in midfield because they sold two players out of the blue.
I agree with you on Chelsea. Even after spending god knows how many billions, they don't look anywhere near a cohesive football unit. I still cant see a solid goal scorer for them with the injured Nkunku the only bet. Poch built the deadly Kane- Son- Delli triangle for Spurs. He has the players to build something similar with Sterling, Nkunku, Mudryk etc. But it wont happen this season as they have got nothing like Kane there - a goal scoring machine.
Seriously?
It's all relative. What's a mess for us is probably still better than your onwards and upwards.
That’s one of the best takes on us I’ve seen on here in a long time. I am worried about defense though and if we go into any kind of goal scoring drought we might be in for a struggle. Another good DM and I think we are solid top 4
Yep. They have far more goals in the team which is vital. Imagine thinking having an £80m striker on the bench is a problem. Him, Jota and Gakpo would all be starters for us.
Didn't you fail to even come top 4 last season?
Europa League is reality not relative.
Their kid Stefan Bajcetic looked very good last year and is returning from injury. And they have Curtis Jones who's only 22 and I would have him start next to Casemiro in place of Mason Mount, so that Casemiro isn't playing CM by himself anymore.
That’s what the quotations are for…
They'll do okay with their firepower. But the defence is so bad. I think they got lucky that van dijk missed a couple of games. Looking forward to a bunch of pointing from him after they concede early today.
Cycled back onto the inhalers
Liverpool are lucky to have the ammount of points theyve got so far as they have been poor in a few of their games but got away with it, Chelsea battered them but couldnt score, Wolves battered them in the first half should have been a few up by halftime, and Newcastle should have beaten them after playing most of the game against 10 men but couldnt string 2 passes together and fell apart in the last 15-20 minutes.
I'm not sold on this yet.
To be fair, I think Arsenal will be up there too, but both considerably behind them when its all over.
Yeah, I can see City winning it by 20 points.
Seriously, which are these teams that would've been doing better than Liverpool if only they had all their main players available?
There’s no way of knowing that because they have been injured. I certainly think we’d be in a much better position if our entire first choice back four wasn’t missing along with the back ups and new midfielder. Also our new striker and on loan midfielder not being available from the start and then all the off field stuff with Antony and Sancho certainly doesn’t help matters either.
The main reason they dropped off last season and aren't in the CL is because they had a lot of injuries.
That's very confusing. You said "They’ve also been blessed with having most of their main players available in comparison to other teams." That's why I was asking compared to whom were they fortunate.
Obviously, there's us. But I don't think there are any others. At least so far.
We usually rest 7 or 8 regulars for the EL. The regulars that do start don't usually start the following league game. It's a game a week for us for the rest of the season, baby.
Why?
They had a blip season before their last good season too.
