Liverpool Transfer Rumours

01 Sep 2026 23:20:37
So after renegotiating with Everton for Balogun, Monaco went back on their word and pulled the plug on the Camara deal, so we may be back in the picture at a later date. Alex Crook has reported today that it was our preference to wait for Camara, so hopefully something we can pull off in January.

01 Sep 2026 23:38:43
Bro, he went to Chelsea. Already confirmed.

01 Sep 2026 23:39:16
Oh I just realised the move to Chelsea is off. Wow

01 Sep 2026 23:43:12
🚨😮 Liverpool made a call tonight to tell Lamine Camara’s camp that they are potentially interested in signing him in 2027, and to tell Monaco to WAIT.

His move to Chelsea has now fallen through.

AS Monaco cancel Lamine Camara-Chelsea deal after a written agreement between clubs.

Chelsea are FURIOUS and call it a deeply unprofessional way to conduct business.

✍️ Ben Jacobs

01 Sep 2026 23:44:11
Chelsea deal off.

01 Sep 2026 23:58:24
Potentially interested?
That's a strange one.

02 Sep 2026 00:10:06
Why would we wait? This makes zero sense.

02 Sep 2026 00:16:33
I've never been more relieved.

02 Sep 2026 00:18:01
Wink, Wink, Hood-Winked : )

02 Sep 2026 00:20:33
Agreed, Rigsby. I find that very strange as well. Either you are coming back for the player or you aren't.

02 Sep 2026 00:21:04
Player could get hurt, play slip, change his mind, get better offers, etc., so take all with a grain of salt. Sounds like the LFC PR machine at work.

02 Sep 2026 00:41:48
Absolute bs. We needed him this season. Love it that Chelsea got messed around.

02 Sep 2026 01:16:15
There are better-run pub teams than us at the moment.

{Ed666's Note - I hear the fox and hound signed Camara

02 Sep 2026 01:45:26
Unfortunately, you are correct, SJ.

02 Sep 2026 01:56:34
Does that mean budget is so tight that we need to generate funds by 2027 to sign players? Are we that deep in debt?

02 Sep 2026 05:11:40
It’s about freeing up at least one non-homegrown spot by 2027. The last one was taken by Barcola.

02 Sep 2026 05:37:53
I also told Megan Fox to wait as I was interested... that turned out well!

01 Sep 2026 23:10:04
Wow Camara to Chelsea off. Liverpool in touch to say they want him in 2027.

01 Sep 2026 23:22:20
I think you're reading a bit too much. The report is that Liverpool told Camara and Monaco to wait and the deal in turn did not go through with Chelsea. Seems like it all depends on when Macca goes.

01 Sep 2026 23:24:33
Scenes! Absolute scenes!

01 Sep 2026 23:27:50
Yes wait until 2027.

01 Sep 2026 23:33:07
So who's that now that we have booked in 2027, Minteh, Sarr, and now Camara? It's like Jan 2026 all over again with Guehi and Semenyo, no wait...

01 Sep 2026 23:41:50
Post Richard Hughes life starts now.

I hope the club don’t intend to gaslight us with puff pieces. Tony Barrett and Neil Jones, we see you.

02 Sep 2026 00:00:03
Perhaps not Kaiser. I understand everyone is saying the deal will be dependent on Macca leaving, but if it's down to squad space rather than a need to sell, then I believe Endo is in his last year, so would free up a space for Camara. I've also read that Camara has always preferred us so is happy to stay in France for another year.

02 Sep 2026 00:05:37
The Edwards/Hughes tenor ended up being a major clown show, certainly wasn't what anyone expected that's for sure. Going on innuendo there's been a major mess left behind

Question is now, who's going to be employed to pick up the pieces & sort it all out!

02 Sep 2026 00:18:47
LFC PR MACHINE.

02 Sep 2026 00:23:38
I'm glad they've both gone. Disgusting pair.

02 Sep 2026 00:44:18
LFC should employ Steven Gerrard as DoF!

02 Sep 2026 01:00:06
Haissem, why employ Steven Gerrard as DOF? What makes him qualified for the role?

Bazzinga.

02 Sep 2026 02:16:44
He will give his all to serve LFC.

02 Sep 2026 05:04:15
Just giving your all isn't always good enough. I'd give my all as an F1 driver, doesn't mean I have the minerals to compete!

02 Sep 2026 05:16:12
I would also give my all to serve as DoF for LFC. Not sure if that makes me the right candidate though.

01 Sep 2026 18:09:12
Chema Andres going to Brighton for €23m. Was he not a name mentioned a lot on here during the summer? Really just took for granted when we sold Jones we would replace him in the squad. Baffled.

01 Sep 2026 18:48:51
I agree, Flo, but we have too many non homegrown players. Should have gone for Wharton and Scott. Yes, both overpriced, but two English players in midfield who are 22/23. So sorted for years.

01 Sep 2026 18:50:42
They’ve signed the Baleba and Minteh replacements now. Question is, will they bend on the price?

01 Sep 2026 18:59:12
VV, you must be quite annoyed with Andres going for €23m. Seems like he'd been a great option for us.
As for homegrown, drop the players we don't want or who wouldn't take a move. Club and results come first.

01 Sep 2026 19:03:31
Wharton is flyweight and our problem was we have too many vanilla
players like
Grav. We need some grit. Wharton isn't it.

01 Sep 2026 19:06:25
At 23 million it's such a safe bet at his age. Even if he didn't take off and ended up only as a rotation option we could still get 50-60 million in a couple of years with inflation.

01 Sep 2026 19:17:24
Swamp, I agree with you. Wharton may have the qualities we need in deep midfield to possess the ball.

However, like you, his issue is that he is not mobile enough to cover the ground required in transition/when we lose the ball.

01 Sep 2026 19:25:59
Alisson
Mamadasvilli
Kerkez
Tsimikas
Virg
Leoni
Araujo
Jaquet
Dom
Macca
Endo
Gravenberch
Wirtz
Barcola
Isak
Ekitike
Munoz
Chiesa
Gakpo
17 spots available in a 25 man squad. Can have more but size of squad shrinks.

Who's dropping out McGov?

01 Sep 2026 19:28:54
Oli, who do we have that gets the crowd going these days? Araujo and Munoz are a type we’ve been missing and it’s no surprise that Andoni has gone for them.

Wharton would slice open defences and get Isak pumping, but if we get him it would have to be instead of Grav.

01 Sep 2026 19:34:54
Obviously Chiesa or Endo drop out. How on earth are they still at the club?

01 Sep 2026 19:35:51
Not one English homegrown player. Shocking.

01 Sep 2026 19:36:18
Wharton would have been a red on June 2nd if Slot hadn't been sacked. It was as close to being a 'done deal' as it could have been. Things seem to cool off in May, so I suspect Richard Hughes knew that Slot was on his way out. Wharton is not an Iraola midfielder and he pretty much made that clear when he said, "We had to change some plans" in reply to transfer questions about Wharton.

This is the problem with sacking a heavily-backed coach halfway through a rebuild. Square pegs, round holes. The advantage, though, is that these are not Iraola's players (except Munoz and Barcola). So Isak's record transfer price tag doesn't really matter any more.

He had to play last year when he could because of his fee. But now, if Hugo comes back firing, he'll be first choice number 9. I had hoped we could find a way of them playing together, but the Barcola signing kills that idea. That's where everyone wants to play. If Liverpool was the Titanic, we would just capsize (Sliiiide to the left! One hop this time!)

Maybe we should just put nine outfield players on the left flank and give the whole of the right side to Endo. Give that lad a gumshield and no one is getting through alive. 👊🥊 God help 'em.

01 Sep 2026 19:49:27
Ape, Jacquet and Leoni count as U21 for EPL, but not the UCL.

For the UCL we can drop either Endo or Chiesa, and Ekitike can be added in Jan when the list is refreshed.

01 Sep 2026 19:58:48
Chiesa, Endo and Eki are out until sometime into next year, plus he then needs to get match fit etc. Do you really think we'll see him this season after that terrible injury?

01 Sep 2026 20:12:19
Whose rebuild was it though? Slot's for R Edwards. Slot was the frontman, nothing more.

01 Sep 2026 20:17:45
Eli may never be the same. Isak is the elephant in the room. The incumbent leftovers of a previous regime, unsuited to our new style.
I’d rather Wirtz play as false 9 with Barcola and Munoz either side.

01 Sep 2026 19:41:59
Big Hairy Ape, Ekitike can be left off the list until January, which would give us a space

01 Sep 2026 19:54:17
MK did a very good write up of Wharton's limitations. He's a dead weight out of possession. I don't see that Wharton offers anything different to Nyoni in possession.

Flyweight is a very fair assessment of Wharton too, just watch his defensive displays against Everton & City, soft as volcanic diarrhoea, as for Scott? Just another middle of the road number 8 and we're very well equipped for those.

Mcgoveb, at that price he was well worth a punt. He's the modern defensive midfielder in the Rodri mould, he is physically dominant, something lacking in all our midfielders, reads the game well defensively and understands his responsibilities, something our midfielders don't. He also offers a threat in the box at set pieces and a strong presence in his own box.

Someone is going to end up paying Brighton at least 4 or 5 times that amount in a few years if he carries on in his development.

01 Sep 2026 20:30:30
Should have just let Endo go on a free or pay up his last year's wages and release him and brought someone who actually adds something to the squad.

01 Sep 2026 20:24:28
Chiesa and Endo are out till next year? when did that happen?

01 Sep 2026 20:35:08
Wharton is not our guy. He's slow, tackle shy and cries on the floor more than Mac Allister.

I don't think I've ever seen Andres play. If I have, he never stood out.

01 Sep 2026 20:37:41
I hear you, SwampDonkey. But that's just as bad because Hughes is also outta here. I think we'll all find out that Slot had more say in *some* transfers than we currently think he did.

I thought it was FSG/Liverpool propaganda at the time, but Wirtz also confirmed in one of those mind-numbingly tedious giggly-female-presenter-asking-dumb-questions-about-food-and-music interviews that Slot "sold him the dream".

After Wirtz spoke with City, Bayern and us, Slot called him via zoom and they spoke for a long time about his role at Liverpool. By the time Vincent Kompany tried the same thing, it was too late. Slot's shiny head had hypnotised Wirtz into living, dying and being reincarnated at Anfield.

Slot clearly had a vision, then either realised he couldn't do it or was given square pegs. But he wanted Wirtz and Isak.

Einstein once said: "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid." Kerkez inverting to midfield was worse than a fish trying to climb a tree. It was ridiculous. He looked even more like Theo Von. Which would back up your point that Slot didn't want or choose him.

Slot also fell out with the hierarchy for selling Diaz, which was a ridiculous thing to do. He was the beating heart of our League title. Like the assister to the assister 9 times out of 10. He ruined Man United with his intensity and work rate.

I know he was 28, but the fact that we've turned down £85m for Gakpo and took £65m Diaz is so dumb. Diaz was favoured by both Slot and Klopp on the left wing. Then when Nunez completely fell off a cliff and started missing open goals, Slot still preferred Diaz over Gakpo as a striker.

The Dutch connection and how much he stuck with Gakpo last season made me wonder if Slot had something to do with his new pay rise/contract extension. He's on £1, 000, 000 a month now and won't be an automatic starter. He'll play 20 mins, twice a week on the left and fill in for Isak before Hugo returns. And if he plays full-time on the right, God help us.

Make it make sense!!!

01 Sep 2026 20:42:13
Totally shattered seeing Chema Andres going to Brighton for €23m. Could have sat Chiesa out the whole season. They are spending 35M on GK who is not even going to play but couldn't spend 23M on an upcoming young strong DM. I really hope LFC hijacks this one.

01 Sep 2026 20:44:15
I wonder if Endo gets a game as DM? He was excellent under Jurgen, although that seems like a decade ago now and Endo is 45z.

01 Sep 2026 20:44:49
Florian Musiala,

Don't know where you got that from, Florian? Newspaper articles talking earlier today said Chiesa just had a minor muscle injury. I've not heard anything about Endo.

Leoni is the one closest to returning out of himself, Ekitike and Conor Bradley.

That lad is going to be special. I just hope an ACL hasn't ruined him, but he's young enough to recover. In a few years, Jacquet and Leoni will look like the exceptional pieces of business that they were/are. Powerful, quick, decent on the ball and up for a fight. Love it.

01 Sep 2026 20:46:21
VV and MKS, I agree re: Wharton. He can pass a ball and progress it up the pitch but he lacks any type of mobility or physicality in transition and that is of no advantage to us esp. with the PL we are currently in.

01 Sep 2026 20:47:01
Endo does not have to be registered if there was someone
better available.

01 Sep 2026 20:47:24
I’d rather Isak and Wirtz weren’t at the club at all, but what can we do?

01 Sep 2026 20:53:36
Kaka009, McConnell (DM, 21) and Nyoni (CM, 19) are up-and-coming talents. Forest bid £30m for Nyoni.

If we’d paid £30m for someone else’s 19-year-old, you’d probably be happy based on your Chema Andres comment. But you don’t want us to trust our own academy?

The only logical reason to sign a midfielder would’ve been if Macca, Grav, Endo or Szoboszlai left.

We only sold Jones, and Iraola had literally said publicly how impressed he’s been with Nyoni. It’s logical to assume Nyoni replaces Jones.

01 Sep 2026 20:54:32
Chema Andres is a phenomenal signing. Brighton will be selling him in 12-15 months for 100m+ for sure.

01 Sep 2026 20:59:44
So confused as to why people keep discussing the homegrown non-issue.

01 Sep 2026 21:00:47
Wharton scores highly for the league last season in tackles, recoveries and possession won in the final third of the pitch when compared to similar players. He’s better defensively than what we have, he’s not a physically imposing monster, his talent is in his in-game intelligence.

And the lad's only 22.

On top of that, the vision we lack since Trent left, he possesses the closest thing we’d find.

Would have made a great addition, and the lad's English, and seems to like the club.

01 Sep 2026 20:58:10
Mattytman1980 - Your Theo von Kerkez reference is hilarious. Pair of red neck
Forest gumps.

01 Sep 2026 21:07:45
We don’t ever play Chiesa or Endo so why do they need to be listed or registered? Better to loan them out, surely, even if we had to pay half of their wages.

01 Sep 2026 21:21:26
Probably because it is an issue, Chewy. You're the only one who seems to think it isn't. Only being able to sign players by selling others, or paying them their full salary while not being able to play them is quite clearly an issue.

01 Sep 2026 21:33:29
inbeta1989, Do you mean that? Like, really? 👀

The root cause of Wirtz's bad start last season was Salah. He wouldn't have been 007 if Salah hadn't missed half a dozen chances created by Wirtz. His whole season could have played out differently then. Newcastle keeper had a wonder save last week. Then he scored a goal against Forest but Frimpong was doing Frimpong things, so it was chalked off. Then another cracking save from his header. He *could* be 3 for 2 this season already and then it's a different conversation.

Watch him on Player Cam. That lad currently thinks too fast for the rest of our squad and gets frustrated. He finds so much space and no one risks finding him. Especially Dom.

Three times in the first half against Forest, Wirtz ran into acres of space with nothing but glorious green grass in front of him. Isak started sprinting as soon as Wirtz did. Perfect. Pass. Pass. Tap in.

What did Dom do? Passed it back 40 yards to Alisson. Both Wirtz and Isak threw their arms in the air in frustration and Iraola turned his back on the field.

So they must be practicing these passes in training to react like that. It's just a confidence issue and a lack of trust in our defence. That's where we miss Trent. He wasn't scared to play that diagonal and usually pulled it off.

The whole team know how defensively frail we are right now. So when Dom has his foot on the ball and the pass to Wirtz risks being intercepted, he doesn't want us to get caught on the counter after losing the ball. He'd already done it twice himself with dopey, sloppy, misplaced passes. You can see it in their play. Everything is so... safe. Everyone except Munoz, who has that touch of madness in him. I love him already. Gives me Jota vibes.

Hugo also thinks quickly, which is why he said he loves it when Wirtz is on the pitch with him. So if Isak doesn't shine before January, Hugo will have his chance to be a starter and then we'll probably have to sell Isak next summer. He knows he has to up his game within the next few months.

Have faith, mate. They will both come good this season and then we'll all see their value. Because no one available has ceilings as high as those two. Now that potential has to become reality.

01 Sep 2026 21:56:50
"He was the beating heart of our League title."

This literally never happened with Salah having the greatest individual season in PL history and cleaning up all individual awards including Golden Boot, POTY awards, the works.

But Diaz was the heartbeat of our blah, blah, blah.

The revisional history is heavy on this one, mate.

01 Sep 2026 21:57:20
We can't waste money paying players and not registering them, but if the manager doesn't want Chiesa and Endo he should have been harsh and frozen them out early doors and told them and their agents to find moves away to free up non HG spots. There's always a solution.

01 Sep 2026 21:58:03
Florian Musiala,

It was me. I got his potential after meeting some Stuttgart fans on holiday in Benidorm. They also said RM gets a percentage of any future deal. They said Rodri 2.0.

01 Sep 2026 21:57:21
SimpleSoul,

Who do we sell them to? Who would want them in their current state? Chiesa's wage is a joke. £160k a week for nothing.

I'm most definitely NOT an ITK, but I do have one contact at Anfield who has worked there for years in & around the medical and physio department.

BOTH Chiesa and Juventus lied to us (*allegedly before his lawyers come after me!). He has a 'condition' that wouldn't show up on a standard medical or fitness test. A condition that is quite the problem for top athletes.

What do athletes need to recover? Probably even more than nutrition? Sleep!

The dude has chronic insomnia that supposedly started when he moved to the UK. My arse. Juventus sold him on the cheap to us because he was useless to them in that state. We only recover in certain phases of a sleep cycle, and even sleeping tablets mean we don't enter that phase for long. For us normal folk, we'll probably be okay with 6 hours of poor quality sleep. But athletes? Not a chance.

FSG wanted to sue both Chiesa and Juve, but it never happened. I don't know how you prove they knew about this beforehand?!

Anyway, that's the Chiesa issue in a nutshell. Maybe he should read some of my posts on here. They're long enough to make anyone sleep. 😄

01 Sep 2026 22:21:47
Now that the window is over, I will comment on what I think. So glad that Barcola signed, but I am very concerned about the midfield and fullback positions. Now I was thinking, either the club does not recognise the gaping holes in the squad, or they are not able to fill them. I don’t like either of these options, and I am not sure which it is.
The longer the window went on, I have started to believe that FSG are on their way out and do not want to invest more money. I also think the data driven stuff needs to be stopped and we need to start scouting and buying players like other clubs.

Our performances on the pitch tell you everything you need to know about the team and what it is lacking. A decent DM could have been picked up for 50-60 million, but the fact that they seem to insist on sticking with this terrible midfield completely bewilders me. Then the fullback situation: we have gone from having the 2 best in the world to having the worst in the PL and being a complete laughing stock. Gonna be a long hard season. Kind of reminds me of Hicks and Gilets' final season.

01 Sep 2026 22:32:56
Trey I can see making it here. McConnell I don’t. He’s 22 in two weeks and a decent player but I doubt he has a Premier League career.

01 Sep 2026 22:46:48
Florin Musiala, I do apologise my sentence generation wasn't correct. I forget we are so grammatically correct on here. I meant Endo and Chiesa to the question who do you drop, and then Eki is injured. Knowing grammar is becoming more important on the site. I'll work harder to make sure my phone and I do better.

01 Sep 2026 22:55:42
No issues with Nyoni getting his chance and would prefer him over Dom in the double pivot. Again, though, he is lightweight off the ball.
Stuttgart concede a boatload of chances even more than we do. Maybe not Andres's fault, but they get cut open far too often.

01 Sep 2026 23:17:26
Thanks ed1, ed25 and ed66, Carra, thefields, Robbo, Ned and VG. 4 decent signings. Still some problem areas but I guess that's what January is for. See you all then.

01 Sep 2026 23:05:02
OliRed,

Salah scored 3 goals and got 2 assists in his last 12 games of that season. 😂 That's why he was all set to annihilate the G/A record. Then he went missing, so Diaz and Gakpo turned up. I swear you Salah fan boys read what you want to. None of what I said was knocking Salah. It was an incredible season from him, up until those last 12 games. We wouldn't have won the league without him. But that precisely zero to do with what I actually said.

You think Salah pressed and dictated play? 😂 Because that's what I meant by 'beating heart of the team'. You know who else called him that? Jurgen Norbert Klopp.

Do you understand the difference between G/A and the engine of a team? Do you understand what I meant by the 'assister to the assister'? Go check the OPTA stats and see WHO started over 60% of our attacking phases. Spoiler Alert: His name rhymes with Ruis Liaz. I saw it with my own eyes sat right behind Slot, in the same block I've sat in since 1999. But yeah, you're right, that didn't happen.

Also, did you see what happened when Diaz left? Salah was still there. 😂 It's not rocket science, mush. Salah broke the 38-game goal scoring record in 2017. You know where we finished that season? FOURTH. Which clearly shows that goals alone don't win you titles. No one on that field had more energy, passion and progressive drive that Luis Diaz. No one. And boy did we find out quickly after he left. Boring, slow, methodical, risk-free football.

We didn't win a major trophy with Salah in the squad until Alisson and Van Dijk came in. So we've seen the team without all of them at some point. When Van Dijk was out with an ACL, we lost SIX home games in a row. Before his injury, Van Dijk had only lost ONE league game at Anfield. What does that tell you about who is more important?

In our league winning year under Slot, Salah didn't keep clean sheets and he didn't pass himself the ball from midfield. It takes a team to win a league, which is why Salah couldn't do that until Van Dijk and Alisson came to help him out. And the beating heart of that TEAM was Luis Diaz. When he was subbed on, the whole atmosphere and pace changed. That's what I'm talking about. Take Diaz out of tat team and 60%+ attacks break down or don't even start at all. And guess what that means? Salah does win all those personal accolades.

02 Sep 2026 02:13:30
@MKScouser I am not saying Nyoni or McConnell don’t deserve to play first team football, but we also play every 3rd day, we need depth, strong bench and most importantly an experienced first team player on DM which we never replaced after Hendo, Fabinho left. The reason DM and tracking back becomes so important is because our full backs are crap and weak at this point, so instead of replacing two full backs better to add a cover on DM to be able to do 2 vs 1
on the wing.

Sabo doesn’t want to play RB, he can’t be a DM, McCalister has no legs left and Grev won’t track back. I have no doubt Nyoni will come out great from this season but what if he gets injured? What cover do we have? If you are going to say Endo, you probably have no sense of what tier-1 football team quality standards demand these days. Just think about playing against RM or PSG, do you think we have a midfield ready for playing against those teams?

01 Sep 2026 18:02:48
Talksport saying Enzo to City is a done deal but Chelsea not going for any replacement this window?

01 Sep 2026 18:51:29
Horrible.Little man.

01 Sep 2026 18:54:24
Weird, Chelsea have a really thin squad. 😂

01 Sep 2026 19:14:37
Well, they were odds on to go for Camara, Ron, given that Caicedo is out injured and Lavia is injury prone, so they are a bit light in that position atm.

01 Sep 2026 19:38:48
Chelsea tried late for Mac Allister but were rebuffed.

01 Sep 2026 19:18:15
Ron so thin, it is the equivalent to an NFL 53-man squad.

01 Sep 2026 21:00:37
I read that as Endo to City. 🤣

01 Sep 2026 21:09:55
Ndiaye to City as well now apparently, Everton having a mare of a window with their target from the US failing a medical according to reports.

01 Sep 2026 21:56:42
Camara to Chelsea confirmed, that’s disappointing as he’s a good player who we could have got.

01 Sep 2026 16:54:45
Liverpool will submit another offer for Minteh this evening, I’m told.
Circa £75-80m.

Crazy stupid if you ask me ????

01 Sep 2026 17:17:55
Nope, not going to happen, my mate. 👎

01 Sep 2026 17:18:38
Minteh will transform the team. His work rate on and off the ball is insane - he is so perfectly suited to Andoni ball. You been on Twitter again?

01 Sep 2026 17:38:08
Brighton have signed Chema and the Millwall winger. Minteh is coming.

01 Sep 2026 17:48:41
Minteh ain’t doing naff all. He’s injured and will need a pre season of his own.

It’d be a pointless signing when we could just revisit it in the winter window.

01 Sep 2026 17:49:11
Swampdonkey, Are you actually Jordan Peterson behind that account?

01 Sep 2026 17:56:01
I think Minteh has had a pre-season, but he’s going to take time to get up to speed.
Any signing would also take time. Barcola will take time to get up to speed.

Making signings on deadline day is generally foolish. Get your business done early and let your manager cook.

01 Sep 2026 17:57:12
Jordan Pickford more like.

01 Sep 2026 17:57:58
It's fine, Gakpo staying is like a new signing! He will play right wing with Munoz, Chiesa and Frimpong covering; Barcola, Rio covering left side and Ekitike and Wirtz can play from left. Szob can and should play on the right defence for now.

The questions will be center of the park. Can Nyoni step up and be the warrior we need in midfield? Kirkez still deserves a chance at left back. No way we're ever replacing him. It's up to the manager now to get a tune out of the team. No excuses.

01 Sep 2026 18:07:59
My main concern is right back, I just hope Gomez comes back quickly and stays fit.

I had just heard that we put a late plan offer for Gusto... so perhaps a late plan deal for a RB is on the cards if anything at all.

01 Sep 2026 18:19:38
Doms going to have to get used to the idea of being the new Trent. No way he has any clause saying where he should play. 300 a week means do your job.

01 Sep 2026 18:37:20
How are we in a situation already where Dom has to play right back?

Our midfield is not great but Dom is probably the best one of them and we’re shunting him out to right back again?

Gomez will not stay fit when he comes back to be relied upon - history tells us this.

01 Sep 2026 18:50:22
Szoboszlai can’t play in a midfield two. His best position in an Iraola team is right wing or right back.

01 Sep 2026 18:52:16
Dom is not a CM. He lacks discipline amongst other things. He should be on the right or rotating with Wirtz.

01 Sep 2026 19:00:06
As much as I would love a rb and a cm. I’ve felt from the Barcola signing being announced that we were done this window. I hate deadline day. It was always fun when we had our business done and I was watching other clubs sign players in a panic. Not so much fun when you actually feel like you need to do business.



Anyway onwards and upwards. We have signed very good to excellent players this window and with Iraola we have a good coach. We have also seen Szoboszlai signed a contract extension. Keeping Cody is good imo also. So it’s not all doom and gloom.

There’s no pfk or Jovanovic either, so there’s another plus.

01 Sep 2026 19:01:11
I think with a new gaffer it's totally fine to make the signings needed or move people on after preseason and all the way to the January window.
I'd rather identify what he needs that tell him what he has.

01 Sep 2026 19:12:10
I don’t think you can see Dom isn’t a CM.

He could definitely play in a midfield 3 if he has licence to push on.

I don’t think he is working now in this current midfield 2.

But AI’s job is to get a system that gets the best out of his players and gets results - there needs to be some pragmatism.



Either coach the players to learn the system better, or change the system.

Failing that, change the players, but that isn’t his job, and Dom isn’t being sold.

So he needs to find a solution with the players he has.

I don’t think the answer is to move him to right back.

01 Sep 2026 19:21:10
Swamp, Szobo can't play in the no. 10 either cos he is nowhere near as creative as Wirtz.

As for Minteh transforming our team, that's not gonna happen with a player who has scored less goals (9 in 66 for BHA) than Darwin did in his first season (15).

That's not a thing, I'm sorry.

Also, what is this obsession with signing a currently injured player? Bonkers this.

01 Sep 2026 20:05:41
Oli, Salah more than doubled his goal output from his last season with Roma in his first season with us, so why is it so unexpected that a player will put up better numbers in a different team?

He's also young, and put up big numbers when he was on loan at Feyenoord.

01 Sep 2026 20:51:36
Rugby, that same Eredivisie that people don't rate when it suits them? Slot and Gakpo were being berated for coming from that same league when it was convenient for them. Keep in mind, I'm not doing that here.

Secondly, and this is the simple part. Comparing Minteh to Salah or Mane is just blasphemy at this point.

That is cos Salah was levels above Minteh at Roma.

So was Mane at Southampton to the point that Utd. wanted him before we took him as our second signing the year after. You do know that Mane was our record signing that season surpassing Andy Carroll's fee, right? Exactly.

This is not rocket science, my man. It is that simple.

01 Sep 2026 16:54:31
Afternoon Gents

Liverpool haven't rejected a bid for Gakpo

They have simply told City he will not be moving if they can't complete the signing of Sarr.

They're trying

Cheers.

01 Sep 2026 17:20:56
Robbo
I’m hearing Sarr is off and Minteh is the target with another bid closer to £80m.

01 Sep 2026 17:24:31
Oh ho, we will see what happens when the window closes.

Thank you Robbo.

01 Sep 2026 17:47:06
Possibly both Minteh and Sarr...

01 Sep 2026 17:54:24
It’s the hope that kills you guys. 🤣

01 Sep 2026 18:36:08
Don’t want either, but Crystal closing winger from Danish team tells me Sarr will happen.

01 Sep 2026 18:41:26
I had assumed City going for N’Diaye saw an end to their Gakpo interest?

01 Sep 2026 18:53:33
Seems like City and Spurs have moved on so I’m not too sure who would sign him.

01 Sep 2026 19:23:28
80m for a currently injured player who has scored mighty 9 goals in all comps throughout his Brighton career, 6 less than Darwin did in his first season.

Incredible!

01 Sep 2026 19:45:51
Mental, isn’t? To top it off, he is out injured until mid-November, yet we have fans on their knees for this dude, lmao.

01 Sep 2026 16:47:29
Hi diddly Ho,

Gusto’s team have been shopping him around Europe the last few days.

Can’t confirm if we ever actually entertained the idea, but I’d very much doubt it.

Diddly out.

01 Sep 2026 17:13:54
Take him all day at 60m ish, the RB market isn’t great, but he’s good and still young.

{Ed001's Note - he is not good. Or even decent. Or average for that matter.}

01 Sep 2026 18:31:25
He’s muy malo.

01 Sep 2026 18:35:21
If he was going for 75 quid, it might stick.

01 Sep 2026 17:57:30
Not a fan Ed? . lol. Just getting a feeling 🤣

{Ed001's Note - nor are any of the Chelsea fans on their site, he is not a good player by any stretch of the imagination.}

01 Sep 2026 19:24:37
So Ed01, what is the next level down from the levels you mentioned that Gusto belongs to?

Im dying to know.

{Ed001's Note - Sunday league football.

01 Sep 2026 16:43:52
Liverpool made a final push today to sign Malo Gusto on loan, but the attempt ended without success.

The Reds were only willing to consider a loan with no mandatory buy clause, while Chelsea were pushing for a permanent transfer.

Liverpool simply don't have the financial means to make a permanent deal happen.

Via Fabrice Hawkins

'We Broke'

01 Sep 2026 17:03:44
Not sure we have any spaces for foreign players left.

01 Sep 2026 17:48:05
More like we don't want to pay 75m for him on a permanent. And yes, Chelsea were asking for 75m. He's not that good.

01 Sep 2026 17:49:35
Malo Gusto is a northern name if I’ve ever heard one.

01 Sep 2026 19:25:04
Dom is levels above him and he isn't even a RB.

01 Sep 2026 16:43:49
It seems Liverpool made a late push for Gusto on a straight loan, however Chelsea wanted a loan with an option to buy which we declined.

01 Sep 2026 17:00:04
Option or obligation. If it was an option, it was a no brainer.

01 Sep 2026 19:29:50
DHfc, a no brainer? Nah. For those who have really seen him play, a no brainer, he is not.

He is poor and nowhere near Szobo, who isn't even a RB. Can't defend and lacks end product in attack.



Imo, cos we are in need of a RB, doesn't mean we should sign just anyone, esp. one who possesses the same flaws as the one we have.

02 Sep 2026 03:50:09
Gusto is worse than Frimpong from what I've seen.