Topic: Roberto Firmino

[CraigDS]

I wish they'd stop doing heart felt vids about him, I keep getting dust in my eyes.

[SamLad]

just watched all his 111 LFC goals on YouTube.

no words.

[Le Westalero]

Anybody else noticed the cliffhanger with the 'I'm going to reveal a mystery now' on that last LFC post?

I mean everything, really everything says that he's leaving. But just imagine the scenes if he stays 

I know it's the hope that kills but just wanted to know whether anybody else thinks the same

[Barneylfc∗]

Given the first installment is 2 weeks away, there's absolutely no chance it's an announcement that he's staying.
They wouldn't be able to keep it under wraps that long and if there was any indication a new deal was even being considered we'd know about it by now.

[Le Westalero]

Given the first installment is 2 weeks away, there's absolutely no chance it's an announcement that he's staying.
They wouldn't be able to keep it under wraps that long and if there was any indication a new deal was even being considered we'd know about it by now.

I know Barney, you're right, just got my hopes up but don't think it's realistic

[4pool]

Bobby is going to be our striker coach next season isn't he...

[Keith Lard]

Bobby is unlikely to be a first team starter at a club like Real Madrid or for Brazil.

He's come off the back of a damn solid season for us and still has tons of peak ability. He's also won everything there is to win at club level with us, and has nothing left to prove to anyone. A bonafide legend for LFC.

Bobby, enjoy your life and take a humungous payout that sets you up for life. MLS, Qatar, Saudi ... whatever. That money is better in your back pocket my man, and you're in prime position to negotiate a long contract that sets you up for life. Time to make some silly moolah and have fun ... This would be my advice to Bobby.

[Dim Glas]

Bobby is unlikely to be a first team starter at a club like Real Madrid or for Brazil.

He's come off the back of a damn solid season for us and still has tons of peak ability. He's also won everything there is to win at club level with us, and has nothing left to prove to anyone. A bonafide legend for LFC.

Bobby, enjoy your life and take a humungous payout that sets you up for life. MLS, Qatar, Saudi ... whatever. That money is better in your back pocket my man, and you're in prime position to negotiate a long contract that sets you up for life. Time to make some silly moolah and have fun ... This would be my advice to Bobby.

I’d hope he wouldn't listen, especially to the Saudi/Qatar bit!

And MLS isn’t setting him up more than playing in Europe is.

Maybe he’ll go to Spain or Portugal, win stuff there too, there’s a club out there going to get one of the cleverest, most fun players in Europe anyway, whoever they may be!  I’d love to see him back in Bundesliga, but he’s already been there done that, so I suspect maybe he tries another league.

[Keith Lard]

I’d hope he wouldn't listen, especially to the Saudi/Qatar bit!

And MLS isn’t setting him up more than playing in Europe is.

Maybe he’ll go to Spain or Portugal, win stuff there too, there’s a club out there going to get one of the cleverest, most fun players in Europe anyway, whoever they may be!  I’d love to see him back in Bundesliga, but he’s already been there done that, so I suspect maybe he tries another league.

Lol I think my subconscious just doesn't want to see him wear the colours of another big European club to be honest

[kesey]

Jurgen give him the nod I tell youse .

[jckliew]

Bob's natural skills can only be founded in the streets of Brazil!
No other player with his skills. 

[Dim Glas]

Lol I think my subconscious just doesn't want to see him wear the colours of another big European club to be honest

there’s defo a LOT of clubs I would’t want to see him play for! Defo not Real or Barca or Atletico, goes without saying no PL club, but he wants to go to another league anyway, I don’t even watch these leagues, but the idea of him play for certain teams is a big no-go!

But other Spanish teams, Portugal, like I say - BuLi (not Bayern!), that I can cope with 

[WhereAngelsPlay]

I can handle him going anywhere but staying in England or heading for blood money, it'd honestly break my heart if he took money off those murderous bastards & taint his whole legacy.

[ToneLa]

Nice or Porto are fine with me

[kesey]

Bob's natural skills can only be founded in the heys of Canny Farm.

[Samie]

Not off to Madrid then.

Real Madrid have now COMPLETELY DISCARDED Roberto Firmino as an option. [@JLSanchez78]

[Legs]

Bobby is unlikely to be a first team starter at a club like Real Madrid or for Brazil.

He's come off the back of a damn solid season for us and still has tons of peak ability. He's also won everything there is to win at club level with us, and has nothing left to prove to anyone. A bonafide legend for LFC.

Bobby, enjoy your life and take a humungous payout that sets you up for life. MLS, Qatar, Saudi ... whatever. That money is better in your back pocket my man, and you're in prime position to negotiate a long contract that sets you up for life. Time to make some silly moolah and have fun ... This would be my advice to Bobby.

With Benzema leaving he would fancy his chances of a game now id say.

I know Madrid saying no but they said that about Bellingham too.

[Thepooloflife]

Looking forward to this mini-series about Bobby.......what's the mystery - change your mind about leaving ?!  God, I hope so.

[TAA66]

There’s no mind changing.  Klopp/the club decided he wasn’t getting a renewal, and rightly so.  Bobby has left at the perfect time, and departs an absolute legend. 

[stoa]

There’s no mind changing.  Klopp/the club decided he wasn’t getting a renewal, and rightly so.  Bobby has left at the perfect time, and departs an absolute legend. 

It would also be an absolutely stupid move after all the stuff everyone has gone through with saying goodbye to him. A change of mind could have been a thing maybe a bit later in the window once Bobby has seen all his options and the club are getting a clearer picture of the money they have to spend and what players they're getting. In a three part documentary, that has been produced over weeks and maybe even months with the announcement of the big reveal in the trailer mere days after Bobby actually leaving would be idiotic.

In an ideal world I would hope for the announcement being something like Bobby keeping a place in the city and wanting to come back once he's done with playing and ready to take up a position at the club, but I don't really see that. He'll probably go back to Brazil once he's done playing and he'll visit from time to time playing games for Liverpool Legends. I would imagine the mystery would be something rather boring like Bobby revealing something about the relationship he had with Mo and/or Mané or something he said (for example before the Barca match). Or it will be that he knows how to play the piano and he's playing/singing his own song or has written a song about his time at Liverpool/about the support he got. The latter would be my favourite, but my expectation is that it's something rather trivial like Mané snores when he's sleeping or something like that.

[newterp]

Not off to Madrid then.

How does anyone with a brain COMPLETELY DISCARD bobby??

You don't put bobby in the corner!

[WhereAngelsPlay]

You don't put bobby in the corner!

Many have tried & failed.

[SamLad]

How does anyone with a brain COMPLETELY DISCARD bobby??

You don't put bobby in the corner!

if you do, he'll make you look like a fool by falling to the ground and backheeling an inch-perfect nutmeg pass between your legs. 

[mikey_LFC]

Wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up in Saudi Arabia.

[ToneLa]

Wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up in Saudi Arabia.

Well I would be.

[SamLad]

Wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up in Saudi Arabia.

RM are losing a bunch of forwards this summer so him going there, despite what RM are saying, could well happen.

I'm sure Ancellotti would love to have him (although he may get the boot soon from what I've read).

[rob1966]

https://twitter.com/HendersonXtra/status/1663998185902047233?s=20

prepare to cry some more

A mate of mine works for the company who does all the AV for LFC, press conferences, match day stuff etc and he did the AV for that. They're not allowed to approach the players for autographs and stuff, but the jammy bastard got to sit in on it. He's not even a Liverpool fan either.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

Wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up in Saudi Arabia.

If he does he'll be dead to me. can't see it happening though.

[tubby]

Would be very surprised if he goes somewhere like Saudi Arabia.  He's got one good run left in him at a much better level, surely there's a bunch of European clubs who would take him.

[diegoLFC7]

Would be very surprised if he goes somewhere like Saudi Arabia.  He's got one good run left in him at a much better level, surely there's a bunch of European clubs who would take him.

Shocked as to how we allowed him to leave without offering an extension even if it was a short term extension. Bobby is still firing in goals, and puts in a shift every time off the bench. Would have loved to see him get a run out in the Europa League. It just feels weird not having Bobby around.

[SamLad]

Wait till you see him in another shirt.  Gonna be gut-wretching.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

Shocked as to how we allowed him to leave without offering an extension even if it was a short term extension. Bobby is still firing in goals, and puts in a shift every time off the bench. Would have loved to see him get a run out in the Europa League. It just feels weird not having Bobby around.

That was the owners decision, they know better than the Boss.

[tubby]

Shocked as to how we allowed him to leave without offering an extension even if it was a short term extension. Bobby is still firing in goals, and puts in a shift every time off the bench. Would have loved to see him get a run out in the Europa League. It just feels weird not having Bobby around.

He's been injured for half the season and half of the season before that.  His pressing has dropped off and he's always been a streaky goalscorer.  There's every chance that if he did start every game for us next season, he'd only bang in 10 goals in total.

It was the right time to part ways and if we knew we were keeping him on, then I'm not sure Gakpo gets bought.

[RedBlakey]

I don’t think I’m emotionally ready for this thread to be moved to the ‘Former LFC Players’ section 🥲🥲

[Cafe De Paris]

Can’t believe we’re letting him go. He can still do a job for another season. Any news on where he is going to.

[Flaccido Dongingo]

Can’t believe we’re letting him go. He can still do a job for another season. Any news on where he is going to.

He wants to play more regularly, good luck to him.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

He wants to play more regularly, good luck to him.

He actually wanted to stay, the Boss also wanted him to stay & most supporters wanted him to stay.

[Persephone]

He's been injured for half the season and half of the season before that.  His pressing has dropped off and he's always been a streaky goalscorer.  There's every chance that if he did start every game for us next season, he'd only bang in 10 goals in total.

It was the right time to part ways and if we knew we were keeping him on, then I'm not sure Gakpo gets bought.

I agree with this, Bobby is a legend and he will always be remembered with great affection. However his injuries were piling up and with a squad in need of massive regeneration, holding on to aging and injury prone players is silly. By letting Naby, Ox and Bobby go there is more wiggle room with wages and if we can bring in 2 players to replace those three, who are almost always available to play its a huge upside.

[Red Beret]

I waver back on forth on this, but the truth is we've seen the best of him, and sentimentality has always been LFC's soft underbelly.

I'd rather remember him as he was and his amazing brilliance, rather than watch him languish on the bench or declining in real time on the pitch. A slower game will suit him.

[ScottScott]

He actually wanted to stay, the Boss also wanted him to stay & most supporters wanted him to stay.

'We need to be more ruthless and let aging players lose their legs on someone else's pitch. But only if it's a player we all hate, otherwise we'll piss our pants like we always do about every decision and blame the owners'