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[JohnHandcock]

If City is banned in Europe, that would be bad news for us.

[Xgenre]

Originally Posted by JohnHandcock

If City is banned in Europe, that would be bad news for us.

Actually it is great news for us. If they breach FFP and get banned, then they must work hard to balance the figures. If they get banned in Europe and has zero Champions League money, then they need to sell more players to balance the books. Right now, they have a strong starting 11. Given how inconsistent Spurs and Chelsea were least season, even the Man City reserve 11 may possibly qualify for Champions League in the EPL. That is quite unfair if their squad strength is due to financial doping.

[CTOA3954]

World's best defender is going to AC Milan.

[ThisIsMelwood]

Manchester City have landed the first major blow of the summer transfer window by meeting Atletico Madrid star Rodri's £62.6million release clause.

Don't need to sell and still can buy player. What bs FFP?

Still can afford Harry Maguire at £70million???

[WankJanice]

Originally Posted by ThisIsMelwood

Manchester City have landed the first major blow of the summer transfer window by meeting Atletico Madrid star Rodri's £62.6million release clause.

Don't need to sell and still can buy player. What bs FFP?

Still can afford Harry Maguire at £70million???

I think they have very good lawyers who are able to deflect any challenges..

Maybe now need LFP rules!!1 Legal Fair Play!

Cheers

[LeeHsienLoong]

I do not think we need to panic.
We knew Man City will splash the cash every season and United are in trouble after another poor season.
Chelsea is in chaos as usual and with Lampard onboard he will need time.
I'm not worried about Arsenal or Tottenham because I think their goal is stability.
Probably another 1 or 2 signing as we have a very compact squad and they work well.
On the short term I hope we win the Super Cup and Club Fifa World Cup.
Long term as every fan expects the Premier League title.

[ThisIsMelwood]

Liverpool have made signing Lille's Nicolas Pepe their No 1 priority in the summer transfer window.

Is he good?

[WankJanice]

Originally Posted by ThisIsMelwood

Liverpool have made signing Lille's Nicolas Pepe their No 1 priority in the summer transfer window.

Is he good?

Bro,
he is a winger who likes to cut in and score.
However, he is not known for his work rate so Klopp may not like that..
Inter Milan also hunting for him.

[escobar43535]

I'll just leave this here.

Make of it what you will with respect to whether we are going to purchase a marquee player in this summer transfer window

“If Ox can stay fit – new player for us,” the boss told Liverpoolfc.com.

“Rhian the same; he is a really big talent. We’re really looking forward to seeing him in training and all that stuff. It will be an important role for us, we planned an important role for him. So, new player.

“Like Joe Gomez is pretty much a new player. Adam Lallana, new player. After a lot of problems last year, if these boys can really stay fit then that’s completely different to last year for the team because there is real quality. That’s cool.”

Oh yes, not forgetting another 'new' player in Naby Keita as well!

https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/fir...llana-brewster

[Soul_Reaper]

Originally Posted by ThisIsMelwood

Liverpool have made signing Lille's Nicolas Pepe their No 1 priority in the summer transfer window.

Is he good?

Good in one league does not necessarily mean he can succeed in the BPL. The French league is more technical & flowing artistry type of football rather than the rough and physical style of the BPL. But if he can withstand the physicality of the BPL.... we have a potential "Thierry Henry". He is fast, strong in the air, can score with both feet and dribbles well.

However if Liverpool does buy him.... I forsee 1 of the following will have to leave.

M Salah
S Mane
R Firmino
B Woodward
R Brewster
A Lallana
X Shaqiri
D Origi
A Chamberlain

My guess is Lallana as his body is constitutionally too weak for Liverpool's high tempo style of play...... thus high risk of injuries occuring again & again.

[ThisIsMelwood]

Liverpool first day training



Hope among them can find a new star.

Guess who will be the new star?

1. Rhian Brewster
2. Oxlade Chamberlain
3. Harry Wilson
4. Naby Keita
5. Sepp van den Berg

[ThisIsMelwood]

Happy birthday to Virgil Van Djik. DOB 8 July 1991.

[escobar43535]

TNP

Neil Humphreys: Juergen Klopp needs to go shopping

European champions Liverpool look weak and weary, just a month before start of new season.

Neil Humphreys
Sports Columnist
COMMENT
Jul 11, 2019

Liverpool are a five-a-side team away from where they need to be in a month.

Imagine Alisson in goal, an attacking trio of Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah with Xherdan Shaqiri floating just behind.

Juergen Klopp can't, not for the foreseeable future.

All five are not with the rest of the squad for pre-season training. All five should give the German pause for thought.

With about a month to go before the new season kicks off on Aug 10, he's four superstars and a mercurial maverick short of a flying start to the campaign.

Title dreams are usually made of sterner stuff.

Klopp exudes self-confidence like Tony Stark in a tin can, but he can't assemble those who seek to avenge Manchester City's one-point triumph.

While he continues to emphasise his good fortune for having such a talented squad, he can't draw attention away from the threadbare nature of that squad.

Firmino and Alisson were last seen partying at the Copa America, following Brazil's tournament success. They are a three-week vacation away from returning to full training in Liverpool.

Mane's Senegal faced Benin in the African Nations Cup quarter-finals this morning (Singapore time). Like the Brazilian duo, he isn't expected to feature in Liverpool's pre-season American tour.

After Egypt crashed out, Salah might put in a brief appearance, presumably to appease American sponsors, but a pre-season cameo isn't coming anytime soon.

And on Tuesday, Klopp confirmed that Shaqiri's calf tear, picked up during last month's Nations League Finals, hasn't healed. Liverpool's medical team haven't offered a recovery date.

The Swiss midfielder was hardly omnipresent in Liverpool's late charge for English Premier League and Champions League honours, but he offers handy cover for Salah, Mane, and even Firmino, in a rotated attack.

All three are out, along with Shaqiri, which raises a slight concern for a club who were optimistic enough to release Daniel Sturridge and sign no one beyond teenage defender Sepp van den Berg.

Liverpool have sold or released five squad members and lost four attackers to either injury or post-tournament fatigue.

In the giddy euphoria of Champions League success, Klopp offered variations on not fixing what isn't broken.

The Reds aren't broken, obviously. But they are fragile and will remain vulnerable until late August at the earliest.

BENIGN AUGUST FIXTURES
Apart from Arsenal's trip to Anfield and the Uefa Super Cup clash with Chelsea, the Reds' fixtures are relatively benign next month.

But they recorded the third-highest points tally in history - 97 - and still finished second.

The tortoise and the hare analogy no longer applies. It's Manchester City's Roadrunner and the rest. A slow start and the EPL title race will be essentially over before it's begun.

Klopp has beamed with characteristic positivity, focusing on his teenagers and glossing over the fact that only 16 players kicked off pre-season training.

He is insisting that the kids are all right.

Rhian Brewster won the Under-17 World Cup in 2017, collecting the Golden Boot along the way. After wrapping the striker in bubble wrap for two years, Klopp seems ready to unleash the 19-year-old's raw power and speed.

The Reds consider Brewster to be the long-term successor to Sturridge, which is quite a leap of faith. Brewster hasn't made a single senior appearance yet.

At Manchester City, Phil Foden is a month younger than Brewster, but made 13 EPL appearances last season and qualified for an EPL winners' medal.

Unless the Reds take a sudden plunge into the transfer market, they'll be pinning their temporary hopes on the untested.

At least their forgotten man returns to the fore.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has recovered from cruciate ligament surgery and effectively becomes a new signing, and a most welcome one.

Jordan Henderson, Gini Wijnaldum and James Milner offered tireless industry, but the defining difference between Liverpool and City was the sort of inventive wing play that defines Oxlade-Chamberlain's game.

RUSTY WINGER
But a rusty winger can't compensate for a missing trio up front, much less the Reds' standout goalkeeper (Alisson was the literal difference between Champions League success and failure in the last two seasons).

Philippe Coutinho has been mentioned, but a romantic return seems to be the work of speculative journalists rather than Barcelona board members, who need the Brazilian as a makeweight in a deal with Paris Saint-Germain for Neymar.

Klopp's confidence remains unshakeable, but he must be wondering if he can close the gap on a stronger City when four of his attackers will have a compromised pre-season preparation.

While his stars enjoy their vacations, he might consider doing what most wealthy folks do on their holidays.

Go shopping.

https://www.tnp.sg/sports/football/n...ds-go-shopping

[ThisIsMelwood]

Originally Posted by escobar43535

TNP

Neil Humphreys: Juergen Klopp needs to go shopping

European champions Liverpool look weak and weary, just a month before start of new season.

Neil Humphreys
Sports Columnist
COMMENT
Jul 11, 2019


https://www.tnp.sg/sports/football/n...ds-go-shopping

Actually I dislike this guy comments in TNP...usually nonsense and flip-flop too much...

Paul Mariner makes more sense below...you dun sign a big money player to sit down knowing not first choice 11...

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/foot...Origi-contract

how any new players coming in to unseat Firmino, Salah and Mane...need backup but not starting 11...so no big name player will seat down to wait...

If somebody cheap comes along am sure Klopp will sign...preferably let Wilson, Brewster, etc hv a go...

[escobar43535]

Originally Posted by ThisIsMelwood

Actually I dislike this guy comments in TNP...usually nonsense and flip-flop too much...

Paul Mariner makes more sense below...you dun sign a big money player to sit down knowing not first choice 11...

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/foot...Origi-contract

how any new players coming in to unseat Firmino, Salah and Mane...need backup but not starting 11...so no big name player will seat down to wait...

If somebody cheap comes along am sure Klopp will sign...preferably let Wilson, Brewster, etc hv a go...

Well my own pov is as follows...

If say a Dembele or Sancho...becomes a feasible option for transfer I would like to think we'd make it happen or look to make it happen, it should go without saying. What Klopp should not do is go and buy say a back up left back for £20m who'll sit on the bench as much as Moreno, what is the point? In case Andy Robertson breaks his leg? Nah, that just doesn't cut the mustard for me. Especially when we have versatile players who can play them positions anyway to a standard that won't hurt our game short term.

What I'd like though, is another inside forward at the club but this player has to be at levels of Salah and Mane or at least has the potential to hit them levels, like the 2 players I mentioned or again what is the point? Its just wasting money to buy a £30/40m player on 100k a week wages to sit on the bench for 75% season and probably isn't any better than the likes of Brewster(hopefully he shall make a big impact in 19/20), Origi(who I gather has just signed another contract and hopefully returns to pre Funes Mori injury budding top form), Shaqiri.

We are a different animal in the transfer market now and hopefully we won't be repeating the mistakes of years gone by. The board, management, coaching, recruitment staff are all top notch at this club and now you have the likes of Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd scratching their heads how we are so so far ahead of them despite largely having the same resources if not slightly inferior resources over the past 5 years.