18 Aug 2017 16:57:26
I have a sneaky feeling Countinho will go to Barcelona and Mr. Doesn't Understand Inflation (Costa) will be his replacement. This will make Liverpool stronger imo. No info just reading between the lines. I'm pleased two of our main rivals for the title are going to be messy for the next few weeks.
18 Aug 2017 17:48:23
Liverpool if I'm assuming I'm reading that correctly? Are no rivals for the title especially with our ongoing mess regarding van dijk. We are a shambles at the back and still need IMO a top midfielder. City and spurs will push united. Whether coutinho stays (he's staying in my eyes) or goes it makes little difference to the shambolic defense. Younger Arnold is the only positive in that defence. Other than that we have two centre backs with no organisation, no communication and no positional sense when under pressure
As for mignolet? He's an average keeper and terrible distributer of the ball. He's takes out more kid's in the stands than finding our own players.
18 Aug 2017 17:49:42
0% chance.
18 Aug 2017 18:01:26
Yeah Liverpool Big Al. You are ropy at the back for sure, but I don't think that will matter too much this season as there are several quality teams that will dominate most games they play, when they play each other it will be a toss of a coin most games.
I think we will storm away to start and you lot with the rest will be playing catch up all season. Costa will be like a Suarez for you guys if it happens, just the way he was talking today about Athletico running out of time made me think that Liverpool will be in for him if they sell Coutinho - they have to take the money on offer it's ridiculous and they don't want an unhappy player. Liverpool will want to make a big statement if they lose him and an out and out striker like Costa would probably tick the box for £50m.
18 Aug 2017 19:00:22
I agree with that Big Al. What are your thoughts on Mr Klopps time at Liverpool so far?
18 Aug 2017 19:01:22
For me they are mental turning down £113m for Coutinho. For that money surely you would expect one of the top 5 most influential players in the world? Coutinho isn't in the top 5 players in the league when it comes to consistently influencing matches. For me I don't even think he's Liverpool's most influential player as Mane is a constant threat in most games where as Coutinho drifts in and out of games. He's just as likely to produce a piece of magic as he is to do nothing at all.
With that money they could sign a proper centre back, a forward and a Coutinho replacement. At that point they'd be a much bigger threat.
18 Aug 2017 19:17:13
Just another example of the simply ridiculous money floating around this window £113 mil for coutinho! Really?
18 Aug 2017 19:37:21
Bargain Deano! And DeGea will leave for £46m apparently.
18 Aug 2017 21:35:50
On klopp he clearly has his faults. One of them illegally approaching players that has made a certain to be Liverpool player possibly a Chelsea or elsewhere player in van dijk. If we fail to sign van dijk there's no owners or club to blame. Just klopp on that one. Also it looks as though he wants a top midfielder in. Keita would be an excellent buy but even that's looking unlikely. His club don't want to sell. So if the window ends with no further incoming players and especially those targets missed out I can't see us having really improved. Our backline is just criminal to be honest. It's not acceptable at a club like Liverpool to have mignolet in goal. Again klopp bought karius who made a few blunders and pulled him out. BTW karius distribution was top class. Sadly he's no confidence in the lad and we're back to problem 1. De gea was a mistake waiting to happen when he first played for United but was given time to truly excel. Karius hasn't.
On the coutinho fee? No I'm not surprised nor even upset at all that we've said no. I've become extremely desensitised to player fees since van dijk was priced at 60 million and fans thought it was reasonable. Same as lukakus and neymars fee. To me it's like monopoly money at this stage. On whether we should sell him as yall think it's fantastic? Absolutely not. It's of no advantage for us to sell at this stage. there's no one available to replace him and that money means nothing in respect to our transfer dealings. Southampton and keitas club don't want to sell so what does coutinhos transfer have to do with that? Plus we have money to spend. We don't need it. Coutinhos our best player and is flourishing into a truly great player. If Barcelona offer 150 I still don't want to sell him definitely not this window anyway.
18 Aug 2017 21:41:46
Have just heard Barcelona have changed and now have offered 114million for fellani, Jose has turned it down though 😜.
18 Aug 2017 22:42:26
I can't imagine anyone wanting Costa now, he couldn't be handling the situation any worse.
19 Aug 2017 00:08:19
I reckon Phil Jones is worth a cool £squillion.
Utterly ridiculous.