30 Aug 2024 14:09:21
Seems to be one of the quietest summer transfer windows for everyone in quite a while, only Utd seem to be throwing the cash about. Clubs must be really thinking about the FFP or whatever it's called now.
30 Aug 2024 14:32:08
Yeah was said earlier mate that last season there were 2 x over 100 mill signings and this window Solanke to Spurs is highest fee for 55 mill.
In fairness money in football was spiralling out of control so it’s not a bad thing.
30 Aug 2024 14:36:26
Ermm what about chelsea!
30 Aug 2024 14:41:00
Really?
Aston Villa : 7 new players
Brigton: 8 new players
Chelsea: 10 new players
Tottenham: 6 new players
Newcastle: 5 new players
Tottenham: 5 new players
West ham: 8 new players
Wolves: 6 new players
Bournemouth: 7 new players
Brentford: 4 new players
C. Palace: 4 new players
Everton: 5 new players
Fulham: 5 new players
Ipswich: 12 new players!
Leicester: 8 new players
Nottingham: 8 new players
Southampton: 11 new players
Man City: 2 new players (facing 115 charges though)
Arsenal: 2 new players (maybe one more today)
Liverpool: 1 player + 1 for next season
seems to me that everybody has been extremely active in the transfer market apart from last year's top 3!
30 Aug 2024 14:53:54
Giorgi Marmadashvili, Alvin Ayman, Rio Ngumoha and Federico Chiesa. 1 for now, 3 for the future. It's underwhelming but people thought the same the summer before we won the league in 2020!
30 Aug 2024 16:18:51
Difference then MK, was that we’d just won the European Cup for the sixth time, we’d finished a point behind city and were in ascendancy, additionally, we had probably the best defensive midfielder around at the time. None of those things are true for us right now, we finished way off the top and completely fell apart in the league, we were battered in the UEFA cup by Atalanta, we’re certainly not in any way in ascendancy and we don’t have a top class defensive midfielder anywhere in the squad. So comparing 2019/ 2020 with this season is false equivalence.
30 Aug 2024 16:34:14
We didn’t finish on 97points last season or win the CL MK, it’s a bit different from 2020, that comparison is getting very boring very quickly. I think the club have sat on their hands (and wallet) - 1 signing for the team? Can and should be doing better, especially when it’s clear they have identified areas that need strengthening (central midfield and central defence) . Can’t fail to back the manager then expect miracles - no other team with title aspirations does.
30 Aug 2024 17:09:19
Liverpool were 19 points behind City in the 22/ 23 season. They fell apart in the tail end of last season finishing 8 points off the top. You don’t call that ascendancy?
30 Aug 2024 17:34:29
You have to remember MK the only way to possibly improve is to sign a bag full of players. Surely you knew that?
Also you should sign a defensive midfielder when you don’t intend to play with one. And obviously you need another centre back when you already have 4 first team centre backs.
We had some bad games at the back end of last season after leading the way for the first 30 games. That means we are finished and only signings will possibly help. A new manager, new ideas, fresh impetus won’t happen because we haven’t signed a DM we won’t use or a 5th choice centre back.
It’s common sense mate.
30 Aug 2024 17:46:43
I think Hughes using the word opportunistic in his first interview and subsequent follow through of that approach shows what I've suspected all along. A distinct lack of plan for this transfer window. Any results we get this year will have nothing to do with Hughes.
Contracts are the next chance to prove himself.
And being opportunistic is not going to get you to the top of pile. Most likely will lead to a decline as eventually your luck runs out. There needs to be detailed plan how to build the squad to be at the top. So far I'm highly unimpressed with Hughes.
30 Aug 2024 19:33:00
Opportunistic should not be mentioned when talking about our transfer recruitment. Hughes is out of his depth for me. Opportunistic give me strength.
30 Aug 2024 20:00:59
Nearly all my favourite posters are on this thread so better to ask here than anywhere else:
With what we have now are we going to have a better or worse season than last year?
Or, in other words, is Slot going to get a better tune out of the team than Klopp did last year?
30 Aug 2024 20:11:52
Liverpool won the league in 19/ 20 because they signed the most expensive keeper, CB and DM ever in the 18 months before. Not because we signed a few kids in 2019 summer. Our success has been as bought as anyones and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that but we need to do it again.
30 Aug 2024 22:07:26
Slot will take us to third this season. Personally I feel that the 3 that people believe we need to renew contracts have served their time at LFC and should go at end of the season.
30 Aug 2024 22:24:36
Good question Delvecs. Chiesa makes the forward options better. There were key areas in my opinion we could have improved. I'm a big believer that we are missing a cm/ DM to challenge the top guns.
Squad is pretty much the same. Slot is being asked to outperform Klopp this season. I think there was room to improve on last season but I can also see areas where it can go wrong this season.
And of course the three expiring contracts is a massive massive issue for the season after this.
This season should be ok. 3rd place for us I think.
The season after this could be the decline unless we sort at least one or two of those contracts. I think Salah is gone which will be a massive hole in itself to fill. If we have to do Van Dijk and Arnold at the same time with a DOF who waits for opportunities and bargains, then we are well and truly . No there's no better way to put it, ****ed!
30 Aug 2024 23:39:07
I like the guy but slot won’t outperform jurgen with this team. Everyone seems confident we will finish third we only 2 games in let’s see how he handles the media when we lose a few on the bounce.