04 Oct 2025 13:34:43
Gakpo has one trick - the old cut inside and look for the curling shot into the top right hand corner. Unfortunately, his shots mostly miss the target.
He also never goes outside the defender and crosses the ball. Also when he cuts in he is so adamant he will be taking the shot, he doesn’t look up to see if any players are in a better position, so everyone knows what he wants to do every time the ball goes near him.
Losing Diaz and keeping Gakpo is a massive downgrade and I would hope Chiesa and Rio get to play whilst Gakpo try’s to get out of being a one trick pony.
04 Oct 2025 13:40:09
I agree should of sold gakpo and kept Diaz instead and also we should play Chiesa more I feel like we have gone backwards this season so far under slot.
04 Oct 2025 13:46:59
Its well-documented that Diaz wanted to leave. Do you think we should have kept Trent at right-back too?
04 Oct 2025 14:04:12
Aren't you a ray of sunshine, NBG.
04 Oct 2025 14:21:49
Maybe Slot likes him doing that, have you thought of that? Maybe the players play like the manager tells them to.
04 Oct 2025 14:25:32
Bayern panicked and seriously overpaid for a player who is heading into his thirties and has wanted to leave for two years. It would have made zero sense to try and keep him. Cody hit the form of his life last year and how he is playing is how he is instructed to play. He will be fine.
04 Oct 2025 14:36:11
And how he ignores the overlapping full back 90% of the time even though one of the ways that we concede most of our goals is 2 v 1 on our full backs cut back to someone unmarked in the box. Yet we almost refuse to use the tactic or its spoilt by Gakpo specifically never playing the fullback in. Salahs side it’s not been an issue before as he usually comes inside with more quality and the fullback used to stand and watch waiting to put a Hollywood cross in. I’m with Slot our form has been indifferent/ poor since it became mathematically unlikely we could lose the league at the end of last season, then we were saying it’s because there’s nothing to play for and they’re tired but now it feels like there’s more to it than that as we’ve not bounced back to the form that won us the title.
04 Oct 2025 14:38:49
Gakpo didn’t want to go anywhere and Diaz did. A bit more difficult to keep and get rid of someone when you are aware of the facts.
04 Oct 2025 14:54:23
I've seen Gakpo go down the outside and cross a ball.
And I've seen him cut inside a score goals.
04 Oct 2025 15:02:38
Amazing that a one trick player who's shots usually miss scored 18 goals last season.
The entire PL must've been proper garbage.
04 Oct 2025 15:21:11
I don't think there is any point explaining to some people that Diaz himself wanted to leave. They are just incorrigible or just riled-up merchants.
04 Oct 2025 15:40:24
Ah back on the Gakpo hating now are we?
All for people having opinions but people saying he only had one trick is just hot nonsense. I have seen him beat his man down the line and cross the ball in, and iv seen him cut inside and score. Lots of times actually last season, second only to Salah and far more than the supposedly superior Diaz. What more do people want from a wide forward?
04 Oct 2025 16:26:33
Same as TAA and CON-ate, Diaz contract expires June 2027, so at the end of this season is in the same boat as the top two, LFC had no choice? it was ideal for both parties he wanted big bucks we wanted a top player with his transfer fee: Hugo for Diaz.
Isak might never have come so the money for Diaz was used first. Hugo can play left wing, would Diaz have ever been better than Hugo over the long term as a permanent number 9, No because we signed Hugo primarily as a Centre Forward.
For the park the bus brigades Hugo and Isak have to start as two centre forwards and stay in the opponents box, wingers either side of them, you have to play minimum four forwards versus the park the bus teams, they play with a back five, LFC only 3 opposition forwards means two spare opposition men to double up on two of ye 3 forwards (Hugo, Isak), i. e. four men marking your two men, and one in our case MO man to man marking on one wing, cos we only play 3 forwards in a 433.
If ye throw Florian forward as a false number 9 also in a 442 system with wingers means five defenders versus five attackers,
strength in numbers, suppose Dom and Flo could be tried 4123 as two false number 9s.
Arne's biggest problem is park the bus teams, palace two losses and one draw last three meetings, Notts forest home and away last year 1 point from 6, Burnley minutes away from a draw, Corner FC only came for Corners and set pieces.
Premier League Champions versus FIFA World Club Champions today, always said the Premier is the hardest competition in the World to win, a resounding away win for me.
04 Oct 2025 16:57:01
From a business sense, selling Diaz was absolutely the right move, even if we are currently poorer for it and he is in good form.
Gakpo is a player that can be improved upon in future transfer windows.
04 Oct 2025 19:32:37
Wow the form of his life. Really?
04 Oct 2025 19:34:26
Slot prefers Gakpo over Chiesa because he is Dutch. Diaz wanted to leave. Not a lot one could do about it.
04 Oct 2025 19:42:42
007, world club champions, that's a joke considering there was champions missing from the competition from Europe. Chelsea shouldn't have really been there and it was easy to win, unlike the prem.