01 Sep 2026 11:34:44
I think LFC will be done for today.
Quite late in the day now and I think talks would be
happening by now.
I do feel they missed a trick with Camara.
But I guess we need to strap ourselves in for quite a frustration season as a little more effort in the transfer window would have made LFC far more stronger.
01 Sep 2026 11:48:32
The whole point of choosing to do business late is getting the prices down as the deadline clock runs down. We have had multiple bids rejected for players, suggesting the players want to come and we feel there is enough information to make a bid. Why would we simply stop now, given there are 11 hours of chicken to play now?
Monaco need to sell players. Long-term target Lamine Camara is there to be signed.
It's a no-brainer to try, unless Camara wants to go elsewhere or stay.
Minteh has clearly been unsettled. That is why Brighton raised the asking price to £80m. Both sides will know from the Baleba-Man Utd saga an unsettled player is a risk. Perhaps they will agree on a price.
Saying all that, Richard Hughes is an absolute whopper, isn't he?
01 Sep 2026 11:58:42
Villa got Mbaye for £47m. What were we playing at? Hughes is a shambles. STC
01 Sep 2026 12:02:58
By all accounts, Worzal, they were asking us to pay a lot more than £47m. Probably because PSG see us as a direct rival in the CL, so want to weaken our position as much as possible. That's their prerogative.
01 Sep 2026 12:15:08
@worzal69 we went in with a bid of around 48.5. Once Leverkusen had their bid accepted the player said he wanted to sign for us. Then PSG said actually the price is now 60 million so we walked away.
They knew we were getting Barcola for a lot cheaper than they wanted, so they put Mbaye's price up to compensate but agreed to sell him to other clubs for less.
01 Sep 2026 12:22:32
Villa accepted a large sell-on clause.
01 Sep 2026 12:26:06
Fly, that only works if teams actually want to sell. Mbaye is the only RW we pursued who really falls into that category, and we made a complete balls of that. I'm sure Palace and Brighton are very happy to hold onto Sarr and Minteh.
Riosstepover, we never even submitted an official bid for Mbaye, Rumour had PSG asking for £60m (€70m).
Villa have brought him in for a touch under £48. Are you telling me that a difference of £12m is "a lot more" and it couldn't be resolved one way or another?
01 Sep 2026 12:32:08
I'm just playing devil's advocate here. But 18 months ago, if you had told me that would would end up with Florian Wirtz, Bradley Barcola, Alexander Isak and Cody Gakpo as our front line, with Munoz and Rio as backup, I would have laughed in your face.
Richard Hughes has massively unbalanced the team, but it's not his fault that Slot didn't get the best out of Wirtz & Isak or that they themselves have gone missing. They both need some fluency and luck to go their way. Wirtz is jinxed. Wonder save last week form Newcastle keeper, then a goal chalked off for Frimpong doing Frimpong thing, then another quality save from a header. He could be 3 for 2, then it's a whole different conversation. Fine margins. I know, I know. If my auntie had balls. (she she'd be my auntie because this is 2026). ?
I don't know if people have forgotten how bad we were last season. Genuinely the worst, most boring football I've seen this club play in 40+ years of being a fan. So I'm not that downhearted on our first two performances. Slot ball to Iraola ball is night and day, so it will take up to 8 weeks to really know everyone's role on the pitch. In the meantime, we're undefeated. Ha.
Every pundit seemed to think Liverpool were pants and both Newcastle and Forest were amazing. I'll take that because we still drew both those games. We won't get 'worse' from now on. The only way is up, baby. :) I'd like another signing or two, but we have a massive wage bill. Cody won't play every week and he's on £1 a month! God knows what Barcola is on now. Chiesa in on a fortune, so I'm not sure why he's still here. I want to blame Richard Hughes, but he did bring in the names we all wanted. He just unbalanced the team in doing it. It's also not great that he's working for Al Hilal already.
Anyway, nothing is ever as good or bad as we think it is. We were never going to touch Arsenal this season, so let's just score some goals and have some fun again. Like Klopp's first season with 20% fewer goals conceded. If we need to score 3 goals every week then we'll score 3 goals most weeks once this team of amazing players gels and gets some confidence. We got caught on the break in all of Klopp's tenure. It's just part of the risk/reward of playing a high line. We'll finish 3rd and get the UCL semi or final. And if we're in it, we can win it. The glass is half full. Conor Bradley back soon and then we can finish this rebuild in Jan and next summer with a few quality addictions.
01 Sep 2026 12:39:39
Monaco turned down a £38.5 million bid for Camara from Chelsea - we should be right in there to nick him !!! ?
01 Sep 2026 12:36:45
Richard Hughes is a total disgrace with his juggling of Al Hilal's and our transfer window. Can't believe our best transfer is actually Richard Hughes leaving.
01 Sep 2026 12:46:36
Schultzy, I would love that to happen. Hoping Richard Hughes doesn't mess about trying to pay on Klarna while Chelsea sign him from under us.
01 Sep 2026 12:50:26
Didn’t someone say they wanted a bidding war? We can’t do that with Chelsea.
01 Sep 2026 12:56:06
The reality is that the squad is not far off that which won the league. Weaker in a couple of positions but stronger in others.
Think positive thoughts, once AI whips them all into shape, we will be flying!!
01 Sep 2026 12:57:29
It’s just the end of FSG, they’re probably thinking let the Bezos money sort it.
01 Sep 2026 13:01:56
PSG have played us enough times over the last couple of years to know we’re nowhere near being a threat, Riosstepover.
01 Sep 2026 13:03:26
Don’t think we can blame the club on Mbaye. It seems PSG were acting the maggot. Shame I’d have liked to get him.
01 Sep 2026 13:03:41
I'm far more concerned with getting CM and RB reinforcements than a RW this window. No RW targets are gamechangers imo.
RB is a major, major hole to me. There's no timeline for Bradley's return and even when there is, the poor kid has missed 85 matches over the past 3 seasons. To think that will change after a major knee injury, to me, is simply delusion. We can steady the position by moving Dom there, but then we lose even more depth in midfield.
We've lost something like 2000 minutes by Curtis leaving and then if Dom hypothetically moves to RB we lose even more.
On top of that, this is all matching minutes 1:1 when Iraola is known to play a more demanding system.
I hate that we're leaving Iraola so short, I'm excited for Barcola but can't help but feel we're writing the season off in September and could be at risk of not finishing top 4/5, which would really hurt our chances at elite RW next summer.
01 Sep 2026 13:04:00
As some have already said, we needed a 6 and a RB in this window, and here we are in the last hours of the window hoping for one of them if not both. Not a chance this late in the day.
Camara was a no brainer @ the price, so you have to wonder what really is going on behind the scenes.
It's the manager I feel sorry for because it's going to be a struggle to compete in any competition this season, and when it's all said and done, that will reflect on him and the questions will be asked. Top 10 finish if we are lucky.
01 Sep 2026 13:14:08
Hoping Richard Hughes doesn't mess about trying to pay on Klarna while Chelsea sign him from under us.
@HamannPineapple
This is fake news. I'm fed up with people slandering Richard Hughes like this. Boils my piss with all the negativity surrounding him. He does NOT use Klarna.
He uses ClearPay with Temu cashback. He's also using an American Express Platinum credit card that expired last night.
So if we *really* want to buy a forward or a RB, it looks like dipping into the last of the Coutinho money, but reports suggest it's buried in John Henry's garden.
Might have to use a Bunker Buster to find it. Stay right where you are, Minteh. We're coming to free you! ? And what I mean by 'free you' is that we're going to put in a £70m bid at 10:50pm tonight that will obviously be rejected... but at least they can say "we tried".
Only Liverpool could bid £114m for a DM (Caicedo) on deadline day in 2023 and still not have bought one 3 years later. ? And we still somehow won a league and a domestic cup.
01 Sep 2026 13:13:00
Marty that is a very positive outlook, but what this level of spending shows is how well the ownership group has done (plus Klopp) to bring the club out of the duldrums and back competing on all fronts. Financially and on the field that we now have that buying power .what it also shows is Hughes and Edwards ineptitude to spend that money on developing a balanced squad that can compete on all fronts. Instead that have treated the last two summers as their very own fantasy football, with no regard to playing styling or team cohesion.
It is easy (relatively speaking) to sign high profile players when you have big pockets, it is much harder to actually develop and plan a squad that can compete for multiple years that is his failure. He took a very good team, made big name signings with seemingly no strategy other than to follow his own wet dream
01 Sep 2026 13:22:16
Absolutely Chewy! What would you say if you wanted to buy a house which the seller had already agreed to sell for £300k and then you come in and they say £320k to you?
I’d be telling them to do one.
The thing is, if Hughes had agreed say £55m he’d be getting hammered by people like you for paying more than PSG had already agreed to sell him to Leverkusen for.
01 Sep 2026 13:46:20
Rio, the house thing happens all the time, like everything in life it depends on how much you want or need the house/ player/ object, if you really want or need it then you'll pay the asking price.