It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

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tolmie's hairdoo said:
Coutinho money ;)

There's this myth that Liverpool don't spend big money, but they spent £40m on Gapko in January, £85m on Nunez last summer, Luiz for £50m the January before.

As you say, they have the money, it's whether they want to make a single statement signing and just sign Bellingham, and hope to get away with not fixing other positions for another 12 months.

It's a risk, but might be okay with that to keep Klopp happy. It's really only the midfield they need to replenish with Fabinho, Henderson and Milner on their last legs.
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Would the remainder of the coutinho money cover Gvardiol too? :P
 
vincent said:
Could you see him and Rodri in the same team? Not sure I could
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2 holding midfielders would potentially mean 2 attacking midfielders and 2 strikers - a 4-2-2-2 formation - instead of wingers.

Maybe Grealish and Foden more central in front of Rice/Rodri and behind Haaland/Alvarez? Have full backs that bomb on and provide the width with the security of two holding players who can cover their spaces defensively?
 
skillman said:
2 holding midfielders would potentially mean 2 attacking midfielders and 2 strikers - a 4-2-2-2 formation - instead of wingers.

Maybe Grealish and Foden more central in front of Rice/Rodri and behind Haaland/Alvarez? Have full backs that bomb on and provide the width with the security of two holding players who can cover their spaces defensively?
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We were doing that a decade ago under Mancini and MP, worked for a season or so each time and then it got found out and picked apart. Plus we'd need at least 3 new top class full backs.
 
aguero93:20 said:
We were doing that a decade ago under Mancini and MP, worked for a season or so each time and then it got found out and picked apart. Plus we'd need at least 3 new top class full backs.
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Not done it under Pep yet though. Another evolution to our play maybe?
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Coutinho money ;)

There's this myth that Liverpool don't spend big money, but they spent £40m on Gapko in January, £85m on Nunez last summer, Luiz for £50m the January before.

As you say, they have the money, it's whether they want to make a single statement signing and just sign Bellingham, and hope to get away with not fixing other positions for another 12 months.

It's a risk, but might be okay with that to keep Klopp happy. It's really only the midfield they need to replenish with Fabinho, Henderson and Milner on their last legs.
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It's certainly a myth that they don't spend money, Jude won't be enough thou when you had Tiago to that list as well. I wonder if Gakpo was signed with them knowing that Firminho was off.
 
skillman said:
Not done it under Pep yet though. Another evolution to our play maybe?
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Can't see him doing it, it's a hard system to balance while maintaining numerical superiority in the middle of the park in possession (Guardiola's holy grail) as your fullbacks have to stay wide, your attacking mids can't drift too deep without isolating the strikers (might work with a Felix/Messi/Kane type SS but we don't have one) and it's difficult for the defenders and holding mids to link up with the front 6 in possession without leaving the team wide open to the counter, as we frequently were when Yaya joined attacks. There's a reason we used to bring on an extra CB when we wanted to push Yaya forward.
 
aguero93:20 said:
Can't see him doing it, it's a hard system to balance while maintaining numerical superiority in the middle of the park in possession (Guardiola's holy grail) as your fullbacks have to stay wide, your attacking mids can't drift too deep without isolating the strikers (might work with a Felix/Messi/Kane type SS but we don't have one) and it's difficult for the defenders and holding mids to link up with the front 6 in possession without leaving the team wide open to the counter, as we frequently were when Yaya joined attacks. There's a reason we used to bring on an extra CB when we wanted to push Yaya forward.
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True.

It's just Rodri won't be dropped, Rice would command a high fee and wouldn't come just to sit on the bench while we wouldn't pay that to have him sat there either. Unless the club have seen something in him that make them think he can be an 8 (which I personally think he could be)?

All hypothetical obviously but his name is constantly cropping up. Whether it's just to make Chelsea panic and pay up, who knows.
 
skillman said:
True.

It's just Rodri won't be dropped, Rice would command a high fee and wouldn't come just to sit on the bench while we wouldn't pay that to have him sat there either. Unless the club have seen something in him that make them think he can be an 8 (which I personally think he could be)?

All hypothetical obviously but his name is constantly cropping up. Whether it's just to make Chelsea panic and pay up, who knows.
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Rice can play at eight but I'd question whether he can play it to our standard and there's definitely better options out there (probably cheaper ones too)
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Not sure the last one is. We are still in the box seat for the other three.
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Way I see it with Bellingham (I maybe wrong often am), is that he’s willing to go to City or Liverpool but as long as we’re at the table Liverpool can’t afford him. Their only hope is that Bellingham says he wants Liverpool no one else so they can start getting to work on the fee with Dortmund. If we’re at the table we’ll pay a fee that Liverpool won’t.

Hence all the pushing and begging Bellingham to Liverpool, it’s a desperate ploy to get him to commit to Liverpool.
 
oldius said:
I said it elsewhere, but we have to find a way to make KDB less essential for the team. The evidence is that he can no longer reproduce the exquisite quality he can if he is asked to play game in, and game out, two or three times a week. He is a star, a player of genuine world class, but he is human, 31, and has been playing top-drawer professional football and international football, relentlessly, for a decade, and it takes its toll. He is 32 in 3 months. If we can rotate him more, he could have three more years with us, playing as he can. His skillset, like Yaya's, is probably irreplaceable by one player, so we replace it with a combination of skills from others, just as we did back then. The drive and dynamism he has is not the toughest thing, it is his passing through the lines in the attacking areas that is hardest to replace, IMO.
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Ive been saying it for 18 months.....only to receive much abuse.
 
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