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[LIBlue]

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.

Would the remainder of the coutinho money cover Gvardiol too? :P

 

[skillman]

Could you see him and Rodri in the same team? Not sure I could

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?

 

[aguero93:20]

Would the remainder of the coutinho money cover Gvardiol too? :P

10 times over.

 

[aguero93:20]

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?

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.

 

[skillman]

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.

Not done it under Pep yet though. Another evolution to our play maybe?

 

[foggy1974]

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.

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.

 

[HelloCity]

Dream scenario
1. Zaha (free) - winger
2. Chilwell (70m) - LB
3. Iwobi (40m) - KDB replacement
4. Martial (free) - rotate with haaland

Wtf

 

[aguero93:20]

Not done it under Pep yet though. Another evolution to our play maybe?

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]

Wtf

Drugs mate. Always get a good breakfast into you before taking them.

 

[SWPISHOME]

Wtf

Surely it's a wind up...