Liverpool Thread | 2025/26

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KentBlue said:
Haven't seen much of the dippers so far this season (through choice), but from the little I have seen I think it's more a crisis in confidence than anything else. They are not what I would call a bad team, in the sense that the rags are a bad team, but at times it seems as though they are playing like a bunch of strangers who have never met one another before. I get the impression that certain players don't trust certain others, so instead of using him in a particular passage of play they'll take another option and the whole move collapses. Salah seems to be on an ego trip, preferring the limelight to team play, and as others have said Vain Dick struggles to keep up with the game because age has caught up with him.

I think last season was the perfect storm for the dippers, particularly at Anfield (or the National Slottery as I have started calling it) where everything seemed to come together for them: refereeing decisions, low injury count, yellow/red card favouritism etc, and with the quality of players and the drop off from ourselves and others, they hardly had to break a sweat to walk away with the title. We've just entered the first week or so of October and already there are signs that all is not well with them, we'll see how this particular winter of discontent pans out for them, but I don't think we'll be seeing a repeat of last season.
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Early days but Salah and Van Dijk both look miles off it. Van Dijk escapes any criticism but he backed off and off and just let Caicedo shoot for Chelsea's first and was absolutely nowhere when trying to defend their late winner.

If those two have declined the dippers will struggle. Mac Alister's form has fallen off a cliff as well.
 
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They’ll stick around in the title race purely because of their home form. Neither us nor Arsenal can steal results at home like they can. Arsenal were even the victim of it a few weeks ago.
 
Nedum Onuoha touched on a delicate but salient point about some of their players after the loss of Jota. I think it’s affected some of the players and staff more than we might think.
 
BlueTG said:
Nedum Onuoha touched on a delicate but salient point about some of their players after the loss of Jota. I think it’s affected some of the players and staff more than we might think.
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They'll thrive on that excuse, yeah the death of the lad is sad but many players lose people a lot closer to them than a team mate.
 
With the money they’ve spent, it has to click at some point. You can’t throw £500 million at a squad and not compete - it just doesn’t happen. The real question is how long it will take them to actually find a way of playing.

Right now, Wirtz looks like he’s unsettled the balance of the team. Salah is playing far too selfishly and doesn’t put in the defensive shift he used to, while Gakpo off the ball doesn’t give the same cover to the defence that Luis Díaz did. Then there’s the Ekitike situation, where does he even fit if Isak is nailed on starter through the middle?

At the back, Konate already looks like he’s got his eyes on Madrid, Kerkez has been really poor, and Frimpong is pushing so high that it leaves a huge gap in behind. They’re missing TAA’s quality in possession too, that trademark long ball over the top to Salah just isn’t there anymore, and they’re struggling to play through packed defences.

At the moment it all feels like a bit of a mess, very similar to where we were last season.
 
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