Topic: LIVERPOOL TRANSFER THREAD 2023 - archived discussions about what’s offensive

[disgraced cake]

I agree.

LFC academy kid, been coached by & played for Klopp before. He's now gone & gotten first team experience.

If am not mistaken, he'd count as home-grown too?

Yeah, he probably would.

On the left back spot, interesting to see what happens with Tsimikas this summer. Have a feeling there'll be interest in him and after getting less football this season I'm sure he'll be considering all his options.

[TepidT2O]

Bellingham has rather a lot of strapping on his left leg. Avoid.

Has done for a few weeks

[Hazell]

Has done for a few weeks

All the more reason to avoid him.

[JasonF]

All the more reason to avoid him.

It's kinesiology tape, not a prosthetic leg.

[Hazell]

It's kinesiology tape, not a prosthetic leg.

Is it not a prosthetic leg? Are you sure?

[G Richards]

Kone, Thuram, Gravenberch.

In the game: €120M Bellingham, or which trio?

[Asam]

Kone, Thuram, Gravenberch.

In the game: €120M Bellingham, or which trio?

if i had to pick an alternative trio:

we need 4-5 top players if we want to turn things around:

Mohammed Kudus
Fernando Luis   
Nico Williams
Mohammed Simakan

+ 1 of the following:

Exequiel Palacios
Luka Sucic
Florian Wirtz

[DelTrotter]

Jude and Stevie was pretty cool there  Hopefully a nice chat off camera too.

[Red-Dread]

Jude and Stevie was pretty cool there  Hopefully a nice chat off camera too.

Don't do it to yourself

Highly unlikely we sign him

[newterp]

Don't do it to yourself

Highly unlikely we sign him

Stevie's too old. Hope the club realizes this.

[Samie]

[Samie]

Don't do it to yourself

Highly unlikely we sign him

You don't speak for me. Go away. 

[Flaccido Dongingo]

I'm sick of the summer transfer window already and it's still 3 months until it opens.

[Samie]

[DelTrotter]

Get it announced!!

[Hazell]

Henderson's clearly hugging Kane in that picture.

So welcome Harry Kane MBE, I think you're a fine upstanding human being.

[farawayred]

Henderson's clearly hugging Kane in that picture.

So welcome Harry Kane MBE, I think you're a fine upstanding human being.

Signing Kane would create a dilemma - we'd get a shit-ton more penalties, but who's gonna take them? We're selling Mo...

[elsewhere]

What's our Plan B if Bellingham doesn't happen?

[BER]

Why is Henderson trolling us?

[farawayred]

What's our Plan B if Bellingham doesn't happen?

I thought plan A was for Aurelien Tchouameni, dodn'y happen and plan B was for Bellingham. Maybe we're on plan C... I wonder if that stands for promoting from within, Curtis or Carvalho...

[Avens]

Don't do it to yourself

Highly unlikely we sign him

It's not though is it. 

[Garlicbread]

Jude please...

[amir87]

Well it’s certainly not going to be fun if he ends up at Man City.

[RedG13]

https://twitter.com/michael_reid11/status/1640034148810211336

[Asam]

What's our Plan B if Bellingham doesn't happen?

wait until the perfect player becomes available only for them to reject us

[Phineus]

https://twitter.com/michael_reid11/status/1640034148810211336

I’m sure our top class medical department and injury riddled squad wouldn’t make that worse.

[lionel_messias]

Well it’s certainly not going to be fun if he ends up at Man City.

I'm convinced people within football knows what's coming
for Man City. HINT: signing a 4 or 5 year contract with them not a
good plan for up and coming players 👍

[Hazell]

https://twitter.com/michael_reid11/status/1640034148810211336

He'll be finished at the age of 25. The Mike Tyson of football.

[Hazell]

Signing Kane would create a dilemma - we'd get a shit-ton more penalties, but who's gonna take them? We're selling Mo...

Oh yeah, didn't think of that. Sign him up!

[Ravishing Rick Dude]

I thought plan A was for Aurelien Tchouameni, dodn'y happen and plan B was for Bellingham. Maybe we're on plan C... I wonder if that stands for promoting from within, Curtis or Carvalho...

Seems like we'll have to dig the whole alphabet

[Knight]

Well he’s definitely playing too much football as a teenager!

[RedSetGo]

Jude already playing too many games is a genuine concern, especially as today's game is more physical & faster than when the others on that list played. And Jude has moments in the game when he's all-action mode.

IF we get him, I reckon Klopp & his team will tell Jude that there will be a plan to manage him. He can't expect to play 3-games per week all season, no matter what the player himself wants. If we get CL, keep him away from all cup games. If we end up in Europa, it becomes easier to manage him as I don't think he would play any Europa games until QF/SF stage.

[RedSetGo]

Jude praising Stevie; Stevie praising Jude

Jude clearly starstruck by Stevie 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1640058407511097347

[HardworkDedication]

https://twitter.com/michael_reid11/status/1640034148810211336

That really is a crazy number of games to have played for someone who is still a teenager. The worry would be that he suffers from burnout before his peak years.

[Knight]

That really is a crazy number of games to have played for someone who is still a teenager. The worry would be that he suffers from burnout before his peak years.

Not sure this is quite right. He’ll presumably peak,in terms of footballing ability, earlier than most players because football performance is mostly downstream of minutes played. He’s also very obviously a physical specimen already (like Rooney was as a teenager) and so his physical peak seems to be earlier. That means he’ll probably peak, both in terms of athletic and footballing performance, earlier and he’ll, perhaps, drop off earlier too. As long as we are alive to the possibility that he’ll have played his best football by the team he’s 27 that’s not a problem. It’s still 8 years of him.

[Gerry Attrick]

https://twitter.com/michael_reid11/status/1640034148810211336

Dortmund don’t help his case by playing him against literally everybody. Since being there he’s played cup games against Duisburg, Braunschweig, Paderborn, Kiel, Wehen Wiesbaden, Ingolstadt, St Pauli, Bochum, Hannover and 1860 Munchen. They’re killing him for no reason.

[Skeeve]

The mistake I'm desperately hoping the club doesn't make is if they're able to sign Belligham and then assume our midfield issues are over. Bellingham is an excellent player, but his strength is his ball carrying into the final third, breaking into the box, being the most attacking midfielder in a midfield three. Our issues this season have come from a lack of defensive intelligence and intensity in the area behind our press.

Belligham makes us a better team. He does NOT address the issue that has plagued our midfield this season.

Indeed, regardless of Bellingham, our midfield needs multiple additions this summer, ideally none of them being Mount.

[clinical]

Indeed, regardless of Bellingham, our midfield needs multiple additions this summer, ideally none of them being Mount.

I still think Mount ends up staying at Chelsea.

[tubby]

Dortmund don’t help his case by playing him against literally everybody. Since being there he’s played cup games against Duisburg, Braunschweig, Paderborn, Kiel, Wehen Wiesbaden, Ingolstadt, St Pauli, Bochum, Hannover and 1860 Munchen. They’re killing him for no reason.

Maybe because they know that he's moving on before the end of his contract so they might as well get as much mileage out of him as possible before then.  His level isn't really dropping at all with all these minutes.  It'll be someone else's potential problem down the road.

[Too early for flapjacks?]

With a 34 game league and a month winter break, he's still getting it easier than if he was playing in the PL. Didn't he also play a stupid amount of games for Birmingham when he was 16/17?