Liverpool Banter 2

26 Aug 2026 17:41:57
Barcelona up to their necks in debt, bidding €100 million for players whilst Liverpool, after a huge investment, are penny pinching. Liverpool will not finish in the CL places with the current squad and this statement can be bookmarked.

26 Aug 2026 18:02:47
Barca are the last club I'd want us to be run like!

26 Aug 2026 18:19:32
Spending to get yourself out of debt is a dangerous thing in this market at this time.

26 Aug 2026 18:34:58
Penny pinching while reportedly close to signing Barcola for over £100 million, and still looking to buy other players.

26 Aug 2026 17:35:31
The club has gone from a position of hiring a 2x German league title winning manager, to a 1x Dutch title winning manager, to a head coach who finished 3 points behind us when we accumulated our lowest points total in the PL since Jurgen’s first season.

Now, I’m not digging out AI here as he could turn out to be absolutely fantastic and I’ll gladly support him until such time (hopefully it doesn’t come) where here’s not cutting the mustard.

My point is - However well our club is run over the past 10 seasons we’ve been incredibly lucky - as FSG have made some rank decisions and employed some absolute dross when, since 18/19 we should have been going from strength to strength.



All of us on here can see the areas that the first team and squad needed strengthening in - We’ve let players leave on a free. We should have got tied down to contracts way before - Edwards appears to have had his head up his ass about the multi club model and forgot we are LFC, and Hughes, well, currently the bloke shouldn’t be able to scout and buy a bag of sweets never mind football players.

There have been some poor decisions made over numerous years that see is where we are now. If FSG aren’t planning a review of how we got here, then they should be getting one in the diary.

26 Aug 2026 18:57:53
Sir Bob - I for one would like to understand how you move a player on if they don't sign a new contract? I have been thinking about this since Trent moved to Real Madrid. i'm pretty sure it's not that simple to say "sign or we sell you". The player has a contract that has to be honoured by both parties.

You could insert a break clause easily, but you can't insert a "you must sign or leave" clause. Players agents talk to clubs all the time, players decide what path to take probably 18 months in advance. I don't know what the answer is and I'm interested in what the Ed's and others on the site think.

26 Aug 2026 17:14:29
Well it’s good to see Hughes is in full acceptance, he’s leaving with his reputation in the garbage, so he repays us with garbage negotiation tactics for garbage players.

The only positive I’m taking from all this is Iraola coming in, and slot going, if nothing else, we might actually have a fit squad by the middle of the season…

I’m treating this like the mess Klopp took over from Rodgers but with better players.

26 Aug 2026 17:11:35
I've never once jumped the gun, but Richard Hughes seems to be out of his depth. It's bordering embarrassing for him, after last year's spend at will approach.

26 Aug 2026 17:09:56
It's starting to look like amateur hour.
Why can't we bid what people are asking or keep away?
We've had this Bezos business that to be fair is as clear as mud and to be allowing Hughes to be overlooking transfers knowing he's on his way out is nonsense.
In fact it's nigh on a waste of time now when every club in the world knows we're desperate for wingers.


Can't believe we look this disorganised after winning the league a short time ago. In fact it's a travesty.
Sarr? Honestly, it smacks of desperation. I'm expecting a long season personally.
Sorry for the doom. It's just not a good look.

26 Aug 2026 17:06:33
Absolute laughing stock.

26 Aug 2026 17:04:35
I like Bradley Barcola but Left wing is ironically a position LFC are well stocked in. If it is one in and Gakpo out, then a small pool of starting quality players remains the same but loses more Premier League quality and experience.

26 Aug 2026 17:03:06
LFC are negotiating with Crystal Palace for a player in the last week of a summer transfer window! Yeah that worked so well literally last summer!

26 Aug 2026 16:54:22
Eds and fellow Reds. No idea what is going on. And not quite sure what bids have been made for who as I trust little of the reporting from anywhere. But, if we approached Brighton for Minteh and got knocked back and then didn't raise any bid to their asking price and so turned our attention to Sarr, why would Palace not do much the same thing and knock us back which they seem to have done.

According to reports.