Not should he. He’s a very talented young kid who’s been fast tracked quicker than he should have. I personally don’t think he’ll make it with us but he’ll have a good career.Klipperty doesn't trust Nico Williams much either
Talk about missing the point. @TonyColemansbagofapples is just correctly pointing out that your injury woes are nowhere near as bad as you lot are making out. He didn't say that every player should be interchangeable, he pointed out that you haven't had that many first choice players unavailable at any one time and that you chose to play two first choice players at centre back. Your choice. To patronise him for it in the way that you have is ridiculous.By your logic here, every single position on the pitch should be immediately interchangeable for each member of the squad. If you think that footballers can just adapt to new positions with different needs and skill sets just because they’re first teamers, I’d say it might be a little sinking in that’s needed at your side. If football was as fluid and linear as that, everybody could be a manager. But do you even realise the difference between playing centre mid and centre half? They’re the two hardest positions on the pitch to play and whilst they’re often close to each other, their roles are markedly different. To expect seamless transition at this level is madness.
I’d have replied earlier but I’ve been up the wall with work.
That's not quite true though is it? They have, as I've said previously, been responsible owners financially (even if they're a snide, amoral bunch of cheats). But they've lent the club money to build the new main stand and they're getting interest on the repayments.FSG don’t take a penny out of Liverpool, they never have.
Were you saying that about Curtis Jones? And Williams has been in since he was 18. It’s not a dick waving contest but I bet he’s played more first team games than a lot of your young uns have. And Curtis will be in our first eleven as a regular next year.Nico Williams is 20 in April. We've had many more kids younger than him play first team level. I watch a lot of academy football and take it from me, You have got nothing, nada, zilch in your younger teams
If you go back one page, I address and agree with every point you’ve made in the second paragraph.Talk about missing the point. @TonyColemansbagofapples is just correctly pointing out that your injury woes are nowhere near as bad as you lot are making out. He didn't say that every player should be interchangeable, he pointed out that you haven't had that many first choice players unavailable at any one time and that you chose to play two first choice players at centre back. Your choice. To patronise him for it in the way that you have is ridiculous.
Van Dijk and Gomez have been injured for ages. Yet you waited until the last day of the transfer window to bring in 2 bargain bucket centre halves that you don't trust enough to actually play. That is nobody's fault but your own. Everybody knows that there is generally no value in the January window but are you telling me that your presumably extensive scouting system (or rather our database), and the footballing knowledge and contacts of your manager, could not find 2 better (or more game ready) centre halves than them? If I were you I'd be reserving my ire for your board's woeful mishandling of this situation not at someone throwing a few statistics at you.
I think Liverpool might fare a bit better in the minutes to youth players stakes but lets be honest Liverpool have less excuses not to play them because they have had less strength in depth(they never stop reminding us) than City and Klop takes the cups less seriously than Pep. City often use the youth in the domestic cups and sometimes in the CL too but it's done with more finess IMO.This is my point - whilst the kids have to get into one of the most expensively assembled squads in the game which is a major burden, why haven’t the club drawn more on them? Before the City Bingo firm muscle in, I couldn’t give two fucks how much money you have or haven’t spent and it’s not my point. But for the young lads looking in on the first team set up, they must wonder what they have to do. They’ll probably go on and have good careers elsewhere but that’s not the issue here. It must be harder given how good Foden is but not everyone will be as good as that at that age.
They all train the first team , some have for a couple of seasons , the sixteen , seventeen yr olds get mins to rest the first team, selectively in cup games at leastI largely agree with the second sentence. But how many of them have played against top tier CL opposition where the gaffer’s picked them on merit rather than because of injuries? I know they’re only teenagers who’ve got their whole careers ahead of them but they’re nowhere near the first team set up properly.
If I were him, I’d be targeting Thiago and Henderson. Of course he may not but he’s got so much ability on and off the ball that the sky’s the limit for the lad. Him and Foden will be English midfield mainstays for many a while.Curtis Jones has played 22 premier league games. Out of interest, who will he replace in your starting eleven next season. Hope its not a centre half
I backed you before Tony lad but that's a ridiculous question. Klopp has openly said that he would rather give up management than pay big money for players ...If you haven't got the kids in your academy, will Klopp be a cheque book manager? Or will he disappear?
And so he should - he’s a different class of footballer. Nobody’s disputing that.Foden has more minutes than all the Liverpool kids added together
Here we go, excuses. We are ALL “under the cosh of a pandemic” and everyone get injuries. I would say that Liverpool have got away with light injuries for past two seasons, so conversely your argument would mean that that is reason you did well in those seasons. Stop whinging about them and get on with it.Why is this? The first sentence shows how daft the ‘worst defending champions ever’ comment was and as for the second, look at United. Not one of you or I would ever have had them near the top of the league right in it at this stage. If you win the league this season, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad team or you won’t have deserved it. But if United won it, have they then usurped the likes of us two as the new kings? Of course not, because there are a lot of other factors in play. So if LFC finished 4th this year, would it be the end of the world? In fairness, the drop would hurt but it’s against the backdrop of a full season under the cosh of a pandemic and a pretty horrific injury list. It’s not ideal but it doesn’t make us a bad team overnight. That’s what I mean in the second sentence, not that anything you may win will be tarnished for example. Far from it, the best team usually wins the league whatever year.
I have all those stats to hand. Absolutely incredible. Anyone would think Liverpool's squad were on drugsHere we go, excuses. We are ALL “under the cosh of a pandemic” and everyone get injuries. I would say that Liverpool have got away with light injuries for past two seasons, so conversely your argument would mean that that is reason you did well in those seasons. Stop whinging about them and get on with it.