06 Sep 2017 12:26:59
Harry, did you know that Liverpool have 25 British/ Irish players in and around the first team squad?

Ward, S. George, Clyne, Arnold, Gomez, L. Jones, Masterson, Robertson, Flanagan, S. Hart, Williams, Henderson, Brannagan, Ejaria, Lallana, Milner, Chamberlain, Woodburn, Kent, Wilson, Ojo, Solanke, Sturridge, Ings, Brewster.

I guess the clubs future is pretty bleak ☹.


1.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 12:48:45
But none of those have any creativity ;)


2.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 12:59:02
Plus the Ox.


3.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 13:01:40
I am not surprised! Why don't you take out the two Brazilians and Mane off from the first team and see where Liverpool finishes 😎😎. Take it as a challenge MK!


4.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 13:33:53
Kelleher the young keeper? Has he left?


5.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 13:42:03
Why are Irish players relevant to the topic?


6.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 14:00:49
VLF, Because most of the top Welsh/ Scottish/ Irish players come through English academies.

Woodburn, Ward, Wilson (all Welsh) and Masterson (Irish) have been with Liverpool for years. Robertson started in Scotland to be fair but developed his trade in Hull.


7.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 14:04:24
Kelleher is still playing for us mate. Think he's with the u21's this season. He seems like a great lad. I went to see a match he played in and after the final whistle he came over and signed autographs for all the kids at the side of the pitch. He is very good with his feet by the way!


8.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 14:07:43
Maybe the answer, Adam, is for them to get dual nationality? Maybe Spanish, German or, Harry's favourite, Croatian? Then he will be fully behind Danny Ward-Kovacic, Jordan Henderson-Kovacic, Adam Lallana-Kovacic and, the best player of all, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain-Kovacic?


9.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 14:32:37
Thanks MKS. It'll be interesting to see if he makes it then. If he's good with the ball on the ground he'll have a great chance. That's a very rare trait for a keeper as we know. Just ask Joe Hart/ Manchester City.


10.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 14:34:27
Trent Alexis-Arnautovic, Jorgen Handanderson, and Dani Warducci sound like great players to me.


11.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 14:32:09
If you take out the non-British players from Liverpool, then the same thing will happen to the club as would happen to any other team in the Premier League. Some very good, some good and some mediocre players would be taken out. And so, therefore?

As usual, there is no argument being made here whatsoever, and just arguing with whatever comes to mind for the sake of winning the argument. No reasoning, no justification being offered aside from the usual "I said so".


12.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 14:59:21
OIrish, i was sat front row just to the left of the goal he was in for 45 minutes, and his keeping style is very similar to De Gea. Obviously the quality is incomparable, but he has very good feet for a keeper, he is very agile and quick around his box, he gets down low very quickly, and he gave out orders at corners.

I was suitably impressed. He is the most talented keeper we've had in the academy in all my years watching the kids, in my opinion. He has to stay grounded though and keep working hard. He is, or at least he was very lean a year ago so he may need to bulk up slightly to cope with the physicality of senior football.

Definitely one for the future though mate. If not at Liverpool, he will make it elsewhere because he is very talented. Masterson also came on in that game and scored an absolute beauty. I think he was in midfield, though when the subs started rolling on and off it was hard to track individuals and where they were playing. I only knew it was Masterson when they announced the goal scorer on the tannoy.


13.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 15:33:45
Kelleher played in the recent cup win for u23s. Together with Grabara we've got some very talented young keepers.


14.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 15:46:03
Or may be the Croatians, Spanish and Germans are better. I ll keep a close check on how England fares in the WC. Pretty confident they ll not get out from the group stages! But hey you could blame Southgate!


15.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 17:27:45
Lallana is a very creative player. Hendo can create as too can AOC. Ben woodburn looks a really promising talent and j really hope he stays to fight for a place as hd is going to become massive I believe. He is also a creative player. Taa looks quite an intelligent player and his future is in midfield. Gerrard started at RB and look where hd ended up. I think taa will become a very creative player. To say england doesn't have any creative players is ridiculous. We are rated at what? 5th in the world? You don't get there by not being creative. I think wilshire will come good, thought he would be great for Bournemouth but he didn't settle in that well. Ok England missed rooney in the final third but Ali simply has to step up. The team has to be picked on merit and not on how good they were last year. Oh yeah, the RB walker is a creative player and I know a lot of people don't rate him but he does make stuff happen down that right wing.

{Ed002's Note - 13th.}


16.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 17:54:48
13th! That sounds more realistic. I don't know where I got 5th from? 13th sounds fair, let's hope it's England's lucky number. Maybe it was in Europe we are rated 5th

Cheers ed 02.

{Ed002's Note - You are welcome.}


17.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 18:22:28
Hey Ed 25.

Roonoldie!

{Ed025's Note - thats his birds mate..


18.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 21:15:31
Fifa ranking ain't worth rubbish though tbh.


19.) 06 Sep 2017
06 Sep 2017 21:39:08
Thanks MKS, appreciate the info. Grabara has impressed me when I've seen him. Not so good with the ball on the floor yet though.


20.) 07 Sep 2017
07 Sep 2017 12:01:17
You can't judge the quality of a player by his nationality, Harry. Even you should be able to grasp that. Guinea have never played in the world cup, doesn't stop Naby Keita from being a great player that you love, does it?