Topic: LIVERPOOL TRANSFER THREAD - WELCOME, 'A PLAYER'!!

[Tobez]

If we want to get the best out of Salad, we'll have to pair him with Vinaigre (Wolves)

[El Lobo]

I compared last season with 5 goals vs the previous season with 20, what are you referring to?

I'm not going to kumquote your own posts mate, go back and look if you can't remember what you said

[Lone Star Red]

I know there's been some discussion about the market and whether or not it's depressed or if there's been any changes one way or another in spend. The Athletic did a piece this morning that I think convincingly shows that there is quite a bit less spend this summer compared to previous summers and that Covid has taken a major toll on the market:



While the PL is still greatly outspending the other top five leaves, over £800 million in transfer fees will have to be spent in the remaining 5 weeks to equal last summer's spend. Some combination of Kane/Grealish/Haaland moving would go a ways towards moving the needle, but I highly doubt the league comes close to the norm in terms of spending.

[Schmidt]

I feel like some people are secretly ecstatic that last season went off the rails. It's tough to demand a squad overhaul every transfer window when you're winning the league and the champions league, but when you scrape 4th all bets are off the table.

Who cares about context when you can be busy demanding we sign players you only heard about 5 minutes ago.

[So… Howard Philips]

I feel like some people are secretly ecstatic that last season went off the rails. It's tough to demand a squad overhaul every transfer window when you're winning the league and the champions league, but when you scrape 4th all bets are off the table.

Who cares about context when you can be busy demanding we sign players you only heard about 5 minutes ago.

4th? I'll have you know we scraped 3rd!

[Jookie]

About the squad registration stuff;

At the moment we have 3 senior players (born before 1st January 2000) more than we're allowed to register for the 25 man squads for PL and CL, including 1 senior non-homegrown player more than we can register. So unless we want to make some players unhappy by not allowing them to play for us we need to get rid of 3 senior players before bringing in any more.

UEFA also requires 4 out of the 25 for the CL squad to be club trained (ie. only 21 non-club trained seniors), so if Ojo and Woodburn are among the outgoings we'd still need to offload two non-club trained players to be able to register all our seniors. That's before signing any new senior players.

Here's the full squad with HG-status for the upcoming season (made before Wilson exit) :

Thanks for sharing this.

Quick Q, why isn’t Phillips counted as club trained? I thought he joined when he was 18-19

[riismeister]

Thanks for sharing this.

Quick Q, why isn’t Phillips counted as club trained? I thought he joined when he was 18-19

Joined when he was 19 so didn't have the required 3 years before turning 21 with us.

[Ghost Town]

I'm not gonna dress it up. I've enjoyed every salad pun and don't gove a toss what anyone says. Je vinegrette rien

[El Lobo]

I'm not gonna dress it up. I've enjoyed every salad pun and don't gove a toss what anyone says. Je vinegrette rien

You're taking the michael now

[Trendisnotdestiny]

You're taking the michael now

What a fun gi (uy)

[Sangria]

It's an echo chamber in here

In here?

[TepidT2O]

It's an echo chamber in here

[royhendo]

I'm not gonna dress it up. I've enjoyed every salad pun and don't gove a toss what anyone says. Je vinegrette rien

We have to entertain ourselves. The club is brassica.

[Elzar]

Gimme Gimme Gimme a new signing.

[Bobinhood]

We need to adapt, we don't need a Bobby clone.

Well if they are working on it in a lab we should at least take a look.

[Flaccido Dongingo]

Romaine calm please.

Unbeetable posts - cannot wait until we can get some peas and quiet after the window.

Why do we love Mo Salad?, Cos he's ace, that's why

[Kenny's Jacket]

I feel like some people are secretly ecstatic that last season went off the rails. It's tough to demand a squad overhaul every transfer window when you're winning the league and the champions league, but when you scrape 4th all bets are off the table.

Who cares about context when you can be busy demanding we sign players you only heard about 5 minutes ago.

What happens if you dont scape 4th as was the case last year ?

[Crosby Nick]

I'm not gonna dress it up. I've enjoyed every salad pun and don't gove a toss what anyone says. Je vinegrette rien

Yes!

[Samie]

Some of these puns needs addressing.

[Flaccido Dongingo]

Some of these puns needs addressing.

Balsamie

[CraigDS]

Some of you lads need to go outside and touch grass.

Or at a min smoke some and calm down.

[Schmidt]

What happens if you dont scape 4th as was the case last year ?

4th? I'll have you know we scraped 3rd!

Pedants!

Why do we love Mo Salad?, Cos he's ace, that's why

Boggles the mind that people are so eager to toss him at the first opportunity.

[Asam]

I feel like some people are secretly ecstatic that last season went off the rails. It's tough to demand a squad overhaul every transfer window when you're winning the league and the champions league, but when you scrape 4th all bets are off the table.

Who cares about context when you can be busy demanding we sign players you only heard about 5 minutes ago.

Yep, I was absolutely ecstatic that we finished 3rd so we could complain about transfers.. give you’re head a wobble mate, nobody thinks that way-

When we did win the champions league and premier league titles did we really press our advantage whilst we were at our most attractive? I don’t think we need, we have signed some very good players but we are still short on quality, we have a chance to address the weakness in the market (as I don’t think there’s a good enough young forward at the club or a midfielder coming through who can step up and replace Gini)

If we did have players coming through then I would be against buying someone else for the sake of it, if you don’t think there’s a problem then let’s see if the club chooses to strengthen or not

[Yorkykopite]

Yes!

Big Dick Nicoise likes that.

[Kenny's Jacket]

Yep, I was absolutely ecstatic that we finished 3rd so we could complain about transfers.. give you’re head a wobble mate, nobody thinks that way-

When we did win the champions league and premier league titles did we really press our advantage whilst we were at our most attractive? I don’t think we need, we have signed some very good players but we are still short on quality, we have a chance to address the weakness in the market (as I don’t think there’s a good enough young forward at the club or a midfielder coming through who can step up and replace Gini)

If we did have players coming through then I would be against buying someone else for the sake of it, if you don’t think there’s a problem then let’s see if the club chooses to strengthen or not

I dont think the year after winning the CL was that bad to be honest

[TepidT2O]

Yep, I was absolutely ecstatic that we finished 3rd so we could complain about transfers.. give you’re head a wobble mate, nobody thinks that way-

You know, transfers are just a bit of fun….

This comes across as a wee bit more aggressive than perhaps you had realised…..


Let’s keep it fun eh?  Plenty of proper things in the world to get annoyed with…  such as Roy’s salad puns.

[Flaccido Dongingo]

Big Dick Nicoise likes that.

Hopefully we'll get a tuna out of Keita this season.

[Schmidt]

Yep, I was absolutely ecstatic that we finished 3rd so we could complain about transfers.. give you’re head a wobble mate, nobody thinks that way-

When we did win the champions league and premier league titles did we really press our advantage whilst we were at our most attractive? I don’t think we need, we have signed some very good players but we are still short on quality, we have a chance to address the weakness in the market (as I don’t think there’s a good enough young forward at the club or a midfielder coming through who can step up and replace Gini)

If we did have players coming through then I would be against buying someone else for the sake of it, if you don’t think there’s a problem then let’s see if the club chooses to strengthen or not

There's a difference between thinking we could strengthen in a few areas and getting irate because we haven't signed 3-4 players already.

[El Lobo]

You know, transfers are just a bit of fun….

This comes across as a wee bit more aggressive than perhaps you had realised…..


Let’s keep it fun eh?  Plenty of propeller things in the world to get annoyed with…  such as Roy’s salad puns.

Thats just plane stupid

[Kenny's Jacket]

You know, transfers are just a bit of fun….

This comes across as a wee bit more aggressive than perhaps you had realised…..


Let’s keep it fun eh?  Plenty of propeller things in the world to get annoyed with…  such as Roy’s salad puns.

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I carrot believe how bad they are

[TepidT2O]

Thats just plane stupid

oops

[Robinred]

Hopefully we'll get a tuna out of Keita this season.

Mayo get your wish.

[royhendo]

I carrot believe how bad they are

This thread is peppered with high quality. Just take the thyme to ingest it.

[newterp]

Balsamie

what on earth do Samie's balls have to do with this!!!!! gross!!!!!!!

[TepidT2O]

We need to get another signing Waldorf before people go stir crazy.


Some of you lot are going around like a young Caesar and think it’s caprese to make high profile signings.

Then some of you get a Cobb on when you can’t satisfy your weird Mbappe Fattoush

[Asam]

There's a difference between thinking we could strengthen in a few areas and getting irate because we haven't signed 3-4 players already.

To me this is about two things

-Honesty - where do we really stand and what is a realistic expectation?
-Accountability- Is the club providing the resources Klopp needs to be successful?


I would rather see us all enjoy the season and win rather than spend the next 9 months convincing people that the manager wasn’t provided with the resources he needs to compete

Klopp will be gone in a few years, we can back him while he’s here because he’s earned it and perhaps win a few more trophies or we go into next season with a realistic expectation, as it stands a top 4 finish is the best case with our squad as I see it- perhaps you think having more options in defence is all we need but as I see it the midfield lacks goals and we don’t have enough competition for places upfront

Perhaps you are happy with a top 4 finish? Not everyone gets a horrible feeling in their stomach when they see another team above us at the end of the season or lifting the Champions league and that’s okay

[El Lobo]

To me this is about two things

-Honesty - where do we really stand and what is a realistic expectation?
-Accountability- Is the club providing the resources Klopp needs to be successful?


I would rather see us all enjoy the season and win rather than spend the next 9 months convincing people that the manager wasn’t provided with the resources he needs to compete

Klopp will be gone in a few years, we can back him while he’s here because he’s earned it and perhaps win a few more trophies or we go into next season with a realistic expectation, as it stands a top 4 finish is the best case with our squad as I see it- perhaps you think having more options in defence is all we need but as I see it the midfield lacks goals and we don’t have enough competition for places upfront

Perhaps you are happy with a top 4 finish? Not everyone gets a horrible feeling in their stomach when they see another team above us at the end of the season or lifting the Champions league and that’s okay

The thing with this though, is that for people like you it'll always be 'no' even if we are successful. It'll always be 'in spite of FSG' and 'purely down to the genius of the manager' and you'll double down on him not being backed anyway, so what's the point? If we signed no-one else but won the title because we didnt have anywhere near as many injuries, you'd still insist he wasn't backed.

[Asam]

I dont think the year after winning the CL was that bad to be honest

Not that bad isn’t excellent or fantastic though right? I hate to say this but I do get the feeling that we are kicking the can down the road and saving up a pot for the eventual Klopp replacement in a few seasons to rebuild, Klopp keeps us competitive whilst spending the bare minimum and then a new manager starts again

[Kenny's Jacket]

Not that bad isn’t excellent or fantastic though right? I hate to say this but I do get the feeling that we are kicking the can down the road and saving up a pot for the eventual Klopp replacement in a few seasons to rebuild, Klopp keeps us competitive whilst spending the bare minimum and then a new manager starts again

I did think winning the league was fantastic to be honest

[Welshred]

Not that bad isn’t excellent or fantastic though right? I hate to say this but I do get the feeling that we are kicking the can down the road and saving up a pot for the eventual Klopp replacement in a few seasons to rebuild, Klopp keeps us competitive whilst spending the bare minimum and then a new manager starts again

The year after we won the CL we won the league for fucks sake, of course it was excellent