Liverpool banter 8

06 Aug 2026 16:27:51
@VictorGoddam Don't suppose you in a position to offer any further insight into the possible marquee player?

Obviously don't risk anything pal!

06 Aug 2026 17:25:37
I wonder if where Rodri goes will affect it.

06 Aug 2026 17:31:59
Frenkie de Jong?

06 Aug 2026 17:44:26
One hopes it ain't Barcola: These are his stats from the PSG site:

Lyon 21-24 Ligue 1: 40 apps, 5 goals, Lyon career total 47 apps, 7 goals. 21-22 season: 11 Ligue 1 apps, zero goals, no goals in 2 cup games either.

PSG: 88 Ligue 1 apps, 29 goals over 3 seasons (4, 14, 11 goals last season). 3.03 compared to Rayans 15 PL apps, 5 goals = 3.00, obviously it's harder to score goals in the PL than a Farters league!

UEFA games: 43 apps, 6 goals, a goal circa every 7 games against much, much tougher defences than French Ligue 1, and much more elite teams are in the CL, than a poxy French Ligue
season 1 in Europe = 10 games, one goal.


season 2 in CL = 17 games, 3 goals.
last season in CL = 16 games, 2 goals.

He's a bag of Kaka? 145 million bags of it!
P.S. @suarez7, Rayan has scored 5 more PL goals than Barcola has ever scored! and more assists!

06 Aug 2026 18:19:06
007 Barcola is a quality player. He doesn't play the full 90 in most of those appearances. He improves our team and adds pace and quality in wide areas. He is not by any means rubbish. He is not the complete article either, and maybe a little wasteful, but he is a lot better than our current options.

06 Aug 2026 18:28:52
007 doesn't understand sample size.

06 Aug 2026 19:10:56
@Fifth, not in the least.

06 Aug 2026 22:26:24
Barcola is a very good player, yes, he's expensive, but so is everyone. Mane and Salah would be leaving Southampton and Roma for 85-100m each these days.

06 Aug 2026 23:10:37
Wenger once bid one pound more for Suarez, to which John Henry famously said, "What are Arsenal smoking down there?"

If John Henry pays PSG £150 million for Barcola?

Luis Enrique will say, "Wonder what John Henry's smoking."

OliRed, Fifth Element, ye win a football opinion with facts, not childish name calling.

Wonder what you're smoking!

@Thiago that's a sensible/fair price range of 100 million Euros (£86 mill), has a smaller build than Hugo, too much to risk at £150 mill.

07 Aug 2026 05:21:19
Not sure you can win a football opinion.

07 Aug 2026 07:20:16
Beat me to it, @The Fifth. Is winning a football opinion a competitive pub sport?

06 Aug 2026 16:22:36
Will LFC transfer comitte come out of transfer window with egg on face.

Salah leaving at end of season was known few months in advance.
And we had a very Big list of one Winger to replace. Diomande.
There was no Plan B.

CB; Konate was keeping them occupied while discussing with RM.
Jaquet can be his long term replacement not as a near term.

Leoni was injured.
Gomez is injury prone.
VVD is 35.

Guehi is one that went away. Again, no home worl done for Stop Gap arrangement or VVD's succesor alternates.

Jones would have gone in Jan we kept hold of him.
Endo is not favoured.
Need a DM from couple of seasons.

RW. Salah's replacement.


LW. Diaz replacement.
Pending.

CF bought quality but injury prone player in Isak.
His understudy injured.

Wirtz replaced no one in squad. Added craft but very little output.

Kelleher was sold 10m cheaper then Mama. And mama was oppurtunistic buy.

We need
Steady and reliable no 2 GK.
CB with exp.
RB who can also play CB or DM.
DM who can play CB or RB.
RW to replace Salah.

Except for perhaps RB we had 6 months to prepare the targets

Either we are acting too picky to get best or nothing.
Or they never Phanthom the primary targets will slip away.
Either case we are short on quality 1st team player and Squad fillers.

06 Aug 2026 17:24:59
I think the real answer is, now Klopp's gone it's back to normal.

He was an outstanding manager and man, FSG can put all the success they've had to that bloke.

They bought Edwards back thinking he was the man but let's be honest, Klopp probably made half the bad signings look good and the other half that were good he made look great.

06 Aug 2026 20:08:17
Good article on TIA about Hughes hanging AI out to dry regarding transfers.

06 Aug 2026 19:16:45
1 season of bad football and it's like yep we are back to under Hodgson, same owners that saved us from going under same owners that have given us the most success in 35 years, yes they could be better but come on.

07 Aug 2026 06:31:28
Issue is not owners but transfer committee. Owners have sanctioned money, or we would have not pursued 100m players.

07 Aug 2026 07:24:56
That's not how it works @bhav.

06 Aug 2026 15:35:36
Anyone else find it hilarious how Vini Jr. used Arsenal to get a new improved contract, and everyone except Arsenal fans could see exactly what was happening 🤣 Ornstein was even reporting it in such a biased way because he’s an Arsenal fan looool.

06 Aug 2026 16:44:33
Arsenal fans redefine the term delusional.

06 Aug 2026 17:01:33
Am sure Arsenal fans are more than delighted with their squad. Am sure they are laughing at us.

06 Aug 2026 17:16:07
You are seriously laughing at Arsenal? League champions and Champions League finalists and favourites for a second title in a row, whilst we finished 5th and are going into the season with a weaker squad than last season. Yeah, they are a real joke!

06 Aug 2026 17:20:27
But Arsenal don't have the best fans in the world.

Liverpool do.

06 Aug 2026 17:33:53
Were we ever mentioned in the whole Vini saga?

Rather be linked to that type of player than not be.... Says everything about where they are and where we are.

06 Aug 2026 17:34:11
Can't knock Arsenal's ambition in fairness.

06 Aug 2026 18:15:20
Didn't realise this was an Arsenal blog reading some of these comments. 🤣 Settle down, fellas. You're allowed to poke fun at other teams. I personally don't believe Vini was ever properly considering joining them. His agency is RocNation, which is notorious (as we have seen) for playing clubs to get the best deal for their players.

06 Aug 2026 19:12:43
Seriously, who in their right mind thought the "Vini Jnr to Arsenal" was a thing?

Clearly, many in the Arsenal fan base did cos they really thought that when you leave RM, Arsenal is where you go to.

As Chewy said, the delusion is epic with many in that fan base.

06 Aug 2026 19:24:47
Glass houses, stones.

06 Aug 2026 20:17:48
If I was an Arsenal fan I'd be breathing a big sigh of relief. The lad needs a lot more maintenance than he is worth.

06 Aug 2026 21:54:07
Arsenal are gonna get a shock this season when they find that rugby tackles are indeed against the rules, and will be enforced for a change.

06 Aug 2026 22:06:10
Chewy, if we finish above them we'll more than likely win the league.

06 Aug 2026 15:31:39
With Diomande to RM official at £120m. Does this affect Barcola?

Younger, less experienced and has won back-to-back UCLs.

PSG can sit still on £145 easy now

06 Aug 2026 16:42:17
If Robbo and VG are correct, then no, as it is already a done deal. Plus, after this season he only has 12 months on his contract and so his value will drop further.

06 Aug 2026 17:00:56
So he has 2 years left then, man of Todd?

Wishing a season away won't in itself make his price drop, mate. If they say they want £140m and we don't pay it, in the hope we get him cheaper next year is no solution to what we been right now.
We did this with Guehi and Semenio last year and are now weaker because of it? 2 class players that went to a direct rival.

For the sake of peanuts.
Personally I think Barcola at the amount they want is too much. As I think he maybe lightweight in the prem?
All in all, as each day goes by I'm convinced we are messing up, I have no trust in our recruitment team. I hope to god I'm wrong.

06 Aug 2026 17:09:36
Chrissymate, that's not what I am saying.

I am making the point that it is a done deal already, according to two of our 4 most reliable itk.

The other point I am making is that OSG won't price him out of a move when they are already signing his replacements, and knowing that if they leave it another window Barcola's value would drop.



Also RBL have made it clear they don't want to sell Diomande, hence the inflated fee. PSG are wanting to move him on so I don't believe it will be £140m, probably between £100-120m.

06 Aug 2026 17:35:39
After this season he has only 12 months left. 😂😂 Brilliant.

06 Aug 2026 17:53:17
Younger, less experienced and won back to back UCLs ???

Diomande is 19 years old.
Barcola is 24 on 02 September 2026.

06 Aug 2026 19:15:00
Not sure they are related. RM had Diomande done already, and we are full in for Barcola, and, per Robbo or TheFields, that will be done too.

06 Aug 2026 19:39:58
Not even Real Madrid execs knew they were in for Diomande.

06 Aug 2026 20:10:20
How much time did Hughes spend flogging that dead horse?

06 Aug 2026 15:12:11
Anyone missing desperate scousewives considering the transfer news is very slow.

06 Aug 2026 14:30:47
Ed's do you have anything on if we have any interest on Spence?

{Ed001's Note - no.}

06 Aug 2026 15:11:17
I really hope not. He is dreadful.

06 Aug 2026 16:19:03
Good player Spence don't understand the dislike but each to their own I suppose.

06 Aug 2026 15:40:32
And long may that continue, Ed.

06 Aug 2026 16:39:23
I'm with you, BeKind. If he played for a foreign club, most folk would be all over him. Left back or right back. Better than Bradley and more reliable. Definitely better than Frimpong.

06 Aug 2026 17:36:23
Would depend on the price for me.

06 Aug 2026 17:57:37
Love Jeremy just gutted he isn't looking like a prem player but things can change but I would swap for Spence even if Ed will personally block the move wink wink

06 Aug 2026 18:59:24
DJed Spence is not better than Connor Bradley. Not even close.

I'm not against signing him for cover, but come on.

{Ed025's Note - Bradley is far better RSO...at lying on a treatment table.. :)

06 Aug 2026 19:19:14
Rome, if Spence was this crap, he still wouldn't be a good player for us regardless of wherever he plays. He played at Rennes on loan, btw, before Spurs took him back and didn't do jack there, so there's your answer.

Better than Bradley? Nah, that's not a thing.

Were Bradley not having injury issues, you wouldn't mention both of them in the same breath, esp. with how Bradley lit up the scene when he got his chance and was League 1 Player of the Season prior.

More reliable? Of course. We can rely on Spence to be crap, for sure.

06 Aug 2026 19:38:20
Oli, Djed Spence was named in the Championship Team of the Year. Are we playing Top Trumps?

I maybe wrong, but wasn't Bradley just Bolton's Player of the Year?

07 Aug 2026 06:16:31
Rome, never let the truth get in the way of a good story mate.

07 Aug 2026 07:15:41
I think I said the exact same thing regards to Oli, last week, JK.

07 Aug 2026 07:42:27
You're right, Rome.
My son's mate is a Bolton fan, and he used to tell us about Bradley and his time there. My lad even jumped on the Trotters bandwagon for a weekend and went to Wembley for their play off final win.


He was Bolton's player of the season, not the League One Player of the Season.
OliRed still insists that Konate was MotM in the 2022 CL final, though.
Courtois got the award, so that ain't a thing, right?

07 Aug 2026 08:12:28
Thank you for clarifying, Rigsby. I'm sure Oli will be on later issuing an apology for, not the first time, being factually incorrect.

Hope you're well, mate.

07 Aug 2026 08:38:42
Rome, indeed. Bradley was Bolton Player of the year. That being said, Spence still isn't good enuff. That is my main point.

07 Aug 2026 09:04:26
Oli, I don't necessarily want us to buy Spence, would much rather we buy Kounde or Kayode. However, I maintain that Spence is an upgrade on Frimpong, who I'd look to sell, and he's more reliable than Bradley, who I'm still not that convinced about.



As it stands, we are in the mire at RB and Spence would more than do a job. He's certainly not crap, like he's been described on here.

06 Aug 2026 13:32:57
Hi.
Ed 01, what is your opinion on Luke Chambers?
Cheers

{Ed001's Note - I don't really have one, every time I have tried to watch him play he is injured.}

06 Aug 2026 16:20:10
Seems to have done well, not watched any of the friendlies other than the odd highlights, but seems the write ups are pretty complimentary.

I hope some of the young home grown lads can step up this season.

Who is the next scouser in the team?

06 Aug 2026 12:44:47
Who's the dude that's a window cleaner on here that gets info direct from a player?
Loved his insight.

06 Aug 2026 13:18:04
George Formby.

06 Aug 2026 13:22:20
Sandon, you beat me to it, mate. Damn you!

06 Aug 2026 13:53:52
And me. 😂

06 Aug 2026 13:41:09
Could have gone with Timothy Lea also mate maybe one for ed025 that one though

{Ed025's Note - i have got a confession Sandon....never heard of him mate.. :)

06 Aug 2026 14:43:33
Ahahaha
Bet you had the whole series taped on VHS.
U used to go through pallets of toilet roll, yer ma used to say.

06 Aug 2026 15:13:54
I read all the Confession books, Sandon. Syd Nogget! My teenage years. Couldn't be doing with Dickens!

06 Aug 2026 15:41:15
Can Timmy Lea play RB/CB? 🫣

06 Aug 2026 16:19:51
Cleansheets n windows?

06 Aug 2026 15:28:43
🤣🤣🤣
I reckon ed025 wrote them books on his experiences

{Ed025's Note - i never Sandon, but they are true reflection of my life as a young man i suppose mate.. :)

06 Aug 2026 12:05:29
I see Mbaye and Zabarnyi both started for PSG yesterday as they got hammered by Mallorca. Presumably means that there are no imminent transfers for either of them. By all accounts Mbaye was average and Zabarnyi was the worst player on the pitch.

06 Aug 2026 14:07:01
Shipley, until something is concrete, players are obligated to do their jobs and play in the games they're expected to play in.

As for how well they played, that will have no bearing on whether we or any other club sign or don't sign them.

Preseason friendlies are not that important, esp. their results.

06 Aug 2026 14:09:14
Maybe they know they are leaving, and don't want to get injured, and it's preseason, and they may not have a squad to choose from?

06 Aug 2026 14:36:04
When irony gets lost eh, Shipley?

06 Aug 2026 15:47:29
@Oli, I was simply pointing out that when a transfer is close to completion, a club will not usually play that player. This is to protect them from getting injured and the transfer collapsing - it has absolutely nothing to do with a player's 'obligation' and I would never expect a player to refuse to play if asked.
The rest was just information that I was passing on - there was no judgement from me. I didn't watch the match, and I didn't rate the players. I completely agree with you that how they played in a pre season game will have zero effect on any club's decision to sign them, so I am slightly confused as to why you even brought that up.

I simply thought that it might interest some people on here as both players have been linked to us this summer.
Just to make sure Oli is happy and has all of the context, I will also point out that it was PSG's first pre season game, so I would not expect anybody to be excelling. Like I said, I'm just passing on factual information with no value judgement from my side.

06 Aug 2026 18:49:35
You are very negative, Oli, at the moment. Do you need a cuddle?

06 Aug 2026 19:24:05
Nah, Flange. I'm good. Thanks. I'm always positive, and I am looking forward to the new season, btw.


@Shipley, seems you are offended with what I said. That was nowhere near being a personal attack or anything like that against you, but it seems you are upset.

The response seems a bit over the top, as well, and not sure why.

But you're my guy, so no problem, man. I apologize.