11 Aug 2026 00:47:53
Sorry guys but Arsenal are now in for Barcola.
11 Aug 2026 01:53:19
So said the king of France, moisture Carlos.
11 Aug 2026 02:44:21
At least make something fun up.
11 Aug 2026 06:25:23
@KC, did you put Arsenal up to it? Is it your fault? If not, don't worry, you don't have to feel sorry.
11 Aug 2026 06:53:55
Alongside Vini Jr, Morgan Rogers, and Yan Diomande, I heard Bradley Barcola has rejected Arsenal's approach.
11 Aug 2026 07:06:00
Aaawww, don't be sorry. Is the Enzo sale money still being used to buy Wirtz?...
11 Aug 2026 07:22:38
Why are you sorry. Barcola is not a rugby player now, is he, so what's to be sorry about.
11 Aug 2026 07:37:48
If he chooses Arsenal over us then he wasn't for us anyway.
Hopefully, we're just waiting on Bezos to give us free Prime, and Barcola will come quicker than on next day delivery.
11 Aug 2026 08:16:48
Didn't you also tell us that Konate was off to Barcelona?
11 Aug 2026 08:19:15
KC, what's your point? The media says so; therefore, it must be true? Everything is in place for him already, or did Arsenal find £1 down the back of the couch? ?
11 Aug 2026 08:26:00
Why are people ripping into the poster? Arsenal probably are in for Barcola as they want a left sided winger. We've taken a month to get nowhere. Good luck to them, a well run club with real ambition.
11 Aug 2026 09:15:45
Pretty much every high profile player we ever got had other clubs interested.
Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose.
Other clubs being interested in Barcola is not a shocker.
I'm hoping we win out given the groundwork done and get this over the line.
11 Aug 2026 09:24:01
Ripping posters down is part and parcel of this site, mate, but Yh YNWA I guess.
11 Aug 2026 09:29:23
Arsenal have always been in for Barcola. They are desperate for a left winger, and he's the best available, so why wouldn't they?
There are 2 reasons why he hasn't gone there. Firstly, he doesn't want to, and secondly, they can't afford him.
Arsenal have spent the last 3 seasons buying players for big money (CBs mainly), without selling anyone of note.
That's just not sustainable. They've now just wasted £75m on Bruno (a player they don't need), so they need to get selling players to balance the books.
Spending over £100m on Barcola is not on the cards for them.
11 Aug 2026 09:32:29
Match, because he doesn't give a source, and it's been all over social/clickbait for the past week and his track record isn't great. Think of it not so much as ripping into as educating to point out that this site isn't as gullible as social.
KopEnd1, when the circumstances, and it's necessary, then sure!
11 Aug 2026 09:37:00
Indeed, @Distant red. Has Vini Jnr signed for Arsenal yet, btw?
11 Aug 2026 10:15:28
I'd not see the signing of Bruno as unnecessary. They will want to retain the title, unlike us. We did spend to retain, but not all areas. Arsenal, as much as I hate them, I do admire their strategy.
They have sorted top shelf GK quality and numbers in the defence. That's what builds you a title winning team. We've neglected the defence. Their midfield is packed with quality and options. If you think Bruno, a leader and stand out quality, does not improve them, you don't know football.
Rice. Eze. Zubo. Bruno. Four Rolls Royce players. Add the second shelf they've got to come in for cover and rest. We've Dom. Gravenberch maybe. And our back up? Jones, Endo, Harvey? All to go. Nyoni? Is he in that bracket? One day, hopefully, but today? Nope. So let's not knock rivals with that level of talent and ownership that wants to succeed. Unlike ours.
11 Aug 2026 09:53:48
Bit confused with Barcola deal, Liverpool.com saying today a bid is being touted!!!
Thought it was a done deal already days ago, just waiting for PSG for some s**** reason; this had been going on week after week and looks piss poor, or is Liverpool.com a bag of wind?
I believe the posters on here with track records, but can't understand this website journalism.
Are they that far behind in the know regarding transfers, with no insider info? Won't be clicking on their stuff anymore if so, please enlighten me on Liverpool.com, genuinely.
Regards.
11 Aug 2026 09:56:16
Arsenal refused to pay over 100mil for Rogers, so there's no way they will pay over that for Barcola.
11 Aug 2026 10:08:32
I think you're an Arsenal fan, Match, but I'll bite.
Arsenal have done what we've done in reverse. While we were spending big on the forward areas, they were filling their squad with CBs. Their forward options are shocking, which is why they've had to come up with set piece hoofball to score goals. If they didn't do that they'd struggle to get into the top 5.
You can criticise Liverpool for neglecting the defensive areas, but Arsenal have massively neglected the forward areas.
Bruno is not a bad player, but he's not the transformative player he's being made out to be.
Newcastle struggled more when Joelinton was injured. I'm not bothered by them signing Bruno. I see it as them moving sideways, really.
The fact is, no squad is perfect. There will always be weaknesses. We have them and so do Arsenal.
And saying our owners aren't ambitious is just laughable. We are building a squad to be at the top for years. Arsenal have built a squad based on taking advantage of poor refereeing. If the refs penalise holding, blocking, shoving goalkeepers like they should, then Arsenal will have a problem.
11 Aug 2026 10:11:20
Stop liking your own posts, Match, it's beyond embarrassing.
11 Aug 2026 10:12:34
Match, sorry mate, I think you want the Arsenal pages.
11 Aug 2026 10:13:33
So what? ??♂️
11 Aug 2026 10:14:55
It's been in the clickbait rags for the last few days.
Have you only just got back from your hols? Because without any other hint of a source, I can only imagine that this is where you are repeating it from.
11 Aug 2026 10:39:30
@Match, I was having a crack at humour, this being a site for a bit of banter.
11 Aug 2026 10:46:05
Match, yes, this can be a nasty house at times, but you'll find that if OPs speak with the authority and status that their credentials have earned - and not spoof it - then you'll find the folks here are more than grateful, rather charming and often drop-dead funny. It's the spoofing Match, that's all.
11 Aug 2026 11:28:35
I’m by no means an Arsenal fan. I even said in the post I hate them. You can look back at my posts here, I’ve very much been Liverpool until I die.
Our owners are terrible at a lot, but to suggest they’ve no ambition, that I’ve questioned, is fair. Yes, they spent big last summer. But around that and this one? Letting players like Salah just rip up his contract and without replacement? Good? Having, I think, 11 players into their last year or 2 without resigning or selling?
Who is our DOF? They are allowing someone to leave in a month, allow him to go and sort his next job and we are where with his replacement?
Selling huge stakes with an exit strategy.
Sorry if I don’t see these guys as ones without criticism.
But whatever you think, don’t doubt I support Liverpool and always will. Since sitting at Anfield behind the dugout behind Dalglish, Benitez, Rodgers and even suffering Roy. Having a beer with Hanson and Nicol. Having John Aldridge sign my program three times vs Luton on their artificial pitch.
I like checking in on this site and the community here, but I’ll dip out.
Enjoy the summer and let’s hope Andoni hits the heights we expect and hope for. Think he’s the real deal. Only thing I am not looking forward to is the third kit release in September. It’s awful.
YNWA.
11 Aug 2026 11:33:10
@Rioss, I don't know what you are watching, Bruno G is an excellent player. He was by far the most important player for Newcastle. If I remember correctly, their winning percentage without him was.
11 Aug 2026 11:55:28
Arsenal win their first title in decades and all of a sudden they're much better run than us and have more ambition, despite never being competitive in Europe, yes, let's wish we could be more like Arsenal.
11 Aug 2026 12:00:18
But Barcola is only looking at Liverpool.
11 Aug 2026 12:03:07
Basically what Zed said.
This isn't about ripping into posters, but there's a lot of rage baiting **** that's getting posted recently to try and get a rise out of people.
Saying "sorry he's going to Arsenal" without any source isn't a rumour, it's a twitter style wind up.
This site has always been better than that and why so many people use this instead of those platforms.
11 Aug 2026 13:12:30
£20 in the post, Navy Keith ;-).
11 Aug 2026 13:50:23
Arsenal won it last year, but I don't think they were the "best" team so much as the "least bad." The entire league were pretty poor. It was just a crap season for EPL football all round.
Which is all to say: I don't think we need to be trying to emulate the Gunners. Out of courtesy, you have to give them the nod as preseason favorites, but, depending on us making a few more crucial signings, and the squad adjusting well to Iraolaball, I don't really see any reason why we won't be right up there contending again with the core team we already have.
I feel pretty optimistic about this season.
11 Aug 2026 14:43:05
Match, If you're asking me who I'd rather have out of Rice, Eze, Zubimendi and Bruno.G OR Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Gravenberch and Mac Allister, then I am picking our 4 every time. They're younger and better player for player. Szoboszlai > Rice, Wirtz > Eze, Gravenberch > Zubimendi and Mac Allister > Bruno.G.
Arsenal have an absolutely phenomenal defence (even more so compared to ours which was absolutely all over the lace last season). There is no denying that, but they are nothing special in midfield and adding a soon to be 29 year old Brazilian in Bruno.G, who got absolutely demolished in the World Cup by Kamada and Bouaddi is not going to save them. Brazilian footballers do not age well, typically. Most of them are done by 28-30 for some reason. Fabinho, Coutinho, Firmino, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Casemiro, Adriano, Pato, Neymar etc.
Now in terms of depth, Arsenal can also call on Odegaard and Merino who you can easily argue are better than Jones and Endo. But in terms of the best 3 or 4? Our lads wipe the floor with them in my opinion. What we lack is a reliable foundation. Arsenal's trio of Raya, Gabriel and Saliba is the best in Europe and that is why they were able to grind out scrappy results all season despite having a midfield that can't create from open play or control the tempo/possession.
{Ed025's Note - MK, every team in the world takes Rice before any of the others mentioned mate, the others are at least 3 rungs down that ladder, Sobigheadedandsly...probably 6 rungs down..Wirts is not even on that ladder yet..
11 Aug 2026 16:05:14
Ed025, Rice is so over rated it's unreal. He's not even the best midfielder in the Arsenal team. He reminds me of James Ward-Prowse but with more with pace. Positionally inept, creatively non-existent in open play, runs with his head down etc. He's just good at set pieces and tries hard. I'm sorry but i do not see what so many others see. Graeme Souness had it right; Rice runs with the ball so much because he can't see a pass. Classic English hyping up of an average player.
Zubimendi is Arsenal's best midfielder in my opinion and the only one I'd maybe concede on in a debate vs Gravenberch, who's admittedly just had a shocker of a season. But 24/25 Gravenberch is better than 25/26 Zubimendi.
Arsenal built everything they have on Raya, Saliba and Gabriel. That's arguably the best trio since VDS, Rio and Vidic. Maybe even since Cech, Terry and Carvalho. They also have some very good full backs in Timber and Calafiori (when they're fit). That Arsenal defence is an absolute juggernaut, but their midfield is just bang average as I see it. They don't control games, they just park the bus and hope for Saka or Trossard to win a set piece on the counter. It's effective if you have 2 of the best CB's in the world so fair play to Arteta, but let's have it right, they have to park the bus because their midfield are too crap to be expansive.
{Ed025's Note - i disagree MK, Rice is excellent mate and miles above all those pretenders you listed, i dont expect Zubimendi to get much game time this season because Bruno is well better than him, by the way Gravemberch will have to break out of the basement before he gets near that ladder..
11 Aug 2026 16:14:29
Agreed ED25
11 Aug 2026 18:00:11
With Guimaraes, Arsenal's midfield is a lot better than ours. It's not even close.
We could improve ours, and we really need to.
Out of Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Mac and Gravenberch, we have three number tens and one that I still don't know what his best position is.
I do know that Rice and Guimaraes are much better and more complete midfielders than Gravenberch though.