Liverpool thread 2020/21

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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
 
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.
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.
 
Where's Ben Woodburn now? Going to be a superstar. He's 21 now so best buck up. Kelleher 22, Liam Miller 21, Curtis Jones, Rhys Williams 20. They best get their skates on too. This is your academy mate. They''re shite. Best get that cheque book out again. What was it? £75M Van Dijk, £67m Alisson
 
FSG don’t take a penny out of Liverpool, they never have.
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.
 
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
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.
 
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.
If you go back one page, I address and agree with every point you’ve made in the second paragraph.
 
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