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16 Dec 2024 09:11:40
I think Southampton on Wednesday night is now a perfect opportunity for Slot to give James Norris a chance at LB. Tsimikas and Robertson cannot be our only options from now to the end of the season, but January is a bad time to buy. With Beck and Chambers away on loan, Norris is the best academy LB available to us. He made the bench against Girona last week, so a Carabao Cup game against bottom of the league Southampton for me gives Slot the chance to test him in a relatively low risk game.

{Ed001's Note - I agree totally with that. Great time to give the lad a run out.}

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16 Dec 2024 09:29:21
On paper Ed001, he really suits the way we want to play as he's played LB, DM, AM and LW throughout his time with the academy. With Slot liking his players to be flexible (as you said in another thread) he might actually fit in nicely. He's also stood out for our u21's in the EFL Cup the last two years against senior opposition. Last season ended at the wrong time for him as he'd just broken into the Tranmere Rovers starting XI as the season came to close. I think it's time to see if he can handle the pressure and intensity at a higher level now.

{Ed001's Note - agreed mate. I was never impressed with him playing in forward positions, but it is useful to have the option and you only truly find out if they are up to it by trying them.}

16 Dec 2024 09:31:50
I don't know anything about him, but needs must as we're down to the bare bones in defence. I've previously posted that I want to go all the way in this competition, but obviously appreciate we can't go full strength. Looking at our previous Carabao Cup lineups, Slot's taking it serious too.

16 Dec 2024 09:36:32
Totally agree MK plus a time to rest Gravenberch
Up the pool.

16 Dec 2024 10:33:48
Southampton have just sacked there manager so not sure if that makes it harder or not ?.

16 Dec 2024 10:43:04
Happy to field as many of the kids as possible for this cup tie and risk going out. I know some people are fond of the domestic cups but going deep into the competitions in two of the last three seasons has ended up costing us in the bigger comps.

Give Elliott, Jota, Quansah, Endo, Morton and Chiesa the minutes they need and give Danns, Nyoni, Nallo, Norris and Kane-Doherty a cup experience.

We have the strongest league position in 5 years. Everything we do should revolve around maintaining or extending the lead we have developed and see it through.

16 Dec 2024 11:10:39
Yeh start a weakened side and leave the big guns on the bench if we need them.

16 Dec 2024 11:13:10
Never heard of the kid but if he is as good as the OP and Ed01 claimed then, so be it. Will he get minutes? We shall see.

{Ed001's Note - woah, when have either of us said anything about him being anything special? Just that he is the best option in the academy, that's all.}

16 Dec 2024 11:42:38
Sorry, Ed01. I must have misunderstood you guys esp. after MKS said, "Norris is the best academy LB available to us". The word "best" must have thrown me off.

16 Dec 2024 11:54:27
I think games like this within a busy schedule is a great opportunity for the youngsters, I know nothing of the lad but it's always good to give the younger ones a go so why not. Good luck to any of them if they're given a chance.

16 Dec 2024 12:00:16
I’d field a weakened side against Southampton and save our first choice players for the weekend as I don’t want to rely upon spurs being a bit spursy.

16 Dec 2024 12:22:25
I'm glad you said it Ed001! For me OliRed, he's still very much the 5th best LB at the club still. Robbo, Tsimikas, Beck and Chambers would all be ahead of him if available! He's a talented young man but so is every player in academy level football. Some players who don't come through the system with the hype often go on to be good players though, and some who attract hype like iron filings to a magnet turn out to be useless under pressure. You simply don't know until you give them their shot to sink or swim. All me and Ed001 have said is that this is a perfect opportunity to throw him in at the deep end and see if he's a swimmer!

16 Dec 2024 12:27:14
No Tyler Morton, Trey Nyoni, Jayden Danns James Norris or Amara Nallo for Liverpool U21 potentially hinting towards first-team involvement against Southampton on Wednesday.

{Ed001's Note - is Morton fit again now? He did pick up a knock.}

16 Dec 2024 12:35:57
Ed001 not sure mate. The source is Lewis Bower who is an independent reporter of LFC academy.

{Ed001's Note - it is very difficult to track injuries outside of the first XI. They tend to just get overlooked.}

16 Dec 2024 12:39:46
Morton was on the bench vs fulham.

{Ed001's Note - was he? Sorry I missed that he was back for it. I never saw who was on the bench.}

16 Dec 2024 13:00:53
MKS, All good, man. I already said I misread the comments. No harm. No foul.

16 Dec 2024 16:12:15
It's a red for you, Oli mate ??.

16 Dec 2024 18:05:37
No way @Salah, there’s no way Oli’s conversation was heading towards goal! Just a tallow card from what I can see.

16 Dec 2024 20:35:33
#yellow. I really need to turn autocorrect off ?.

16 Dec 2024 21:36:42
Haha, very funny WDW and Salah.

16 Dec 2024 23:11:11
I’m campaigning for a bit of light hearted banter between now and the start of the transfer window - probably won’t be much (intentional) laughter when the window opens.

17 Dec 2024 08:33:44
Oh I don't know WDW, I pretty much guarantee I'll spend the entire window laughing at the histrionics from some on here.

17 Dec 2024 10:43:05
I just hope we buy a LB to replace Robbo, a LCB, another CB in case we get any more injuries, a LWB, a RB to replace TAA, a DCM (or two if we get rid of Endo) a RW to understudy Mo (two if Mo is going to leave and two CFs to replace the injury prone Jota - who wasn’t fit to train after the Fulham game - and the less than effective goal scoring machine Nunez.

By my reckoning if we can sign another 9 - 11 players we should be ok ….





 

 

 
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