What I'd like to ask my fellow red-blooded LFC fans is if anyone "buys" into all of this speculation that FSG is suddenly willing to open up their wallets for a spending spree?
Where is the speculation coming from? I don't believe it. I expect us to spend within our means - as usual. we will have a few high salaries off the books in Thiago, Matip, and Adrian - but we need to extend Trent and - probably - VvD. then there is the whole Salah thing - but let's maybe keep that discussion in the transfer thread...if we can.
Sounds like something I’ve read on many of those shite Liverpool FB pages I’ve blocked in the past 2 months.
You have the best manager in the world and you don’t buy him Mbappé and Bellingham, telling him he must balance the books; he leaves and suddenly you’re tearing up your tried, trusted and true business model and buying Haaland, Foden and Rice with your high-interest credit card? Even after you’ve brought back all those people who engineered the low cost, find-a-bargain-in-the-stats? Who don’t work in the Oil rich environs of see someone, pay eleventy billion from hidden funds? Makes so much sense to me.
Arne Slot‘s backroom staff is starting to take shape after Ruben Peeters’ role in the new setup was confirmed. The 32-year-old has served as head of performance under Slot at Feyenoord across each of the last three seasons. But he will take on the title of first team lead physical performance coach at Anfield, according to his agency. Liverpool's first addition to Arne Slot's backroom staff confirmed - Liverpool FC - This Is Anfield
There’s a bit of a journey yet. Don’t know if anyone has seen the LinkedIn job postings (legit) for 2-3-4 members of the back room team? One of them is for a set piece specialist. Klopp had about 8 in his immediate team, Slot seems to have only 2-3. I would have thought that his support team would be bigger. I’m not hugely impressed with the LinkedIn stuff, but at the same time, I’d be very surprised if Edwards & Co. weren’t already sounding out candidates in collaboration with Slot. I imagine the LinkedIn postings are just covering all bases and I doubt any of the back room team will come via a resumé mailed into Anfield. To be fair, it took Klopp a while to get his team in place, so let’s see how Slot has progressed by the time pre-season starts (July 1st, no?).
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...o-here-is-why-he-is-a-great-fit-for-liverpool I have played under Arne Slot so here is why he is a great fit for Liverpool
Ten Hag took a snipe at Feyenoord and van Hanegem reacts: https://www.soccernews.nl/news/van-hanegem-kraakt-ongeloofwaardige-ten-hag/ Van Hanegem cracks Ten Hag's statements about United, PSV and Feyenoord Van Hanegem was particularly surprised by the statements of Ten Hag after the game, who announced that he is not doing so badly at United with two trophies in two years. "He won the FA Cup and he pretended that he has been doing well there in England for two seasons," Van Hanegem began his critical speech about Ten Hag in the Algemeen Dagblad. "How can you say that? He's got the wrong players for a fortune. Manchester United's football hurts the eyes so badly," Van Hanegem continued. In the semi-finals, the whole of England was roling over in laughter, as Coventry City came back from 0-3 to 3-3." PSV and Feyenoord better than United According to Van Hanegem, Ten Hag has been very lucky. "And because a Coventry player was a millimetre offside, it wasn't 3-4 for Coventry in the end. Then you win that cup and then suddenly it's the big win." In addition, the former coach does not agree with the statements of Ten Hag, who previously stated that PSV has been much better than Feyenoord this season. "That may well be true, but maybe the journalist should have said: 'Yes, Erik. But both those clubs play much better football than that million-dollar team of yours, don't they?"
New Liverpool boss Arne Slot could be blocked from making one appointment to his staff ahead of next season. The 45-year-old was eager to bring his Feyenoord assistant Etiënne Reijnen to Anfield but faces stumbling blocks to complete a deal. Reijnen, 37, has previously worked as an assistant and technical director at PEC Zwolle and SC Cambuur respectively but joined Slot at Feyenoord in 2023. His main focus lay on providing analytical and tactical advice to Slot during their time at the club together. Having being appointed as Jürgen Klopp's successor, Slot was eager to bring Reijnen to the Premier League with him but his colleague is now facing work permit issues which could hinder the move. According to AD, the former player does not have the required coaching qualifications to work in the Premier League.
According to Ryan Babel, Dutch managers' gravest miscalculation is immediately returning to their homeland for new signings, getting [otherwise] decent players at extraordinarily high fees, players who then struggle to live to the fees ... Slot will not have to be on that devil's wheel as he's not in charge of signings (regardless of the mad speculative nonsense that's already starting to rumble.) He could have a point, you know. As soon as a coach/manager returns to the Netherlands, [Dutch] clubs will well within their rights rinse them.
True, but there are two significant and related differences with Slot. Firstly, as coach rather than manager, he has a lot less say in transfers; secondly, with Edwards & Co.’s stat based approach, if Slot feels he really needs X from Alkmaar because of his history with him, the stats better match up. While no one is infallible, I find it difficult to believe that Edwards will ever sign/overpay for the Dutch Balotelli, Carroll, Benteke or, indeed, Babel.
I’ll wager Edwards knew that Benteke was going to be a bust but was willing to let Rodgers have enough rope to swing on. He also knew that Benteke was the type of player that the old style British managers loved so the club would recoup most of the original outlay.
IIRC a big reason we signed Benteke was that he regularly gave our defenders fits when he played against us (as did Carroll). back then player input carried more weight than "sports data" (which didn't really exist, tbf).
likely not the right thread but anyhoo .... Fenway Sports Group have appointed Hans Leitert as their head of global goalkeeping - with the new arrival already having started the process of recruiting a head goalkeeping coach at Liverpool. Leitert has assumed the newly-created position as part of an ongoing restructure of FSG's football operations overseen by their chief executive of football Michael Edwards, who returned to the fold earlier this year. The 51-year-old, who held a similar role with Red Bull's football group for five-and-a-half years, has been working for Liverpool for the last six years as a goalkeeping scouting consultant.
Interesting... one wonders if we'll see Kelleher or another of the backup keepers moved out to our "farm" teams.
"The Crooked" straightens things out... That's about par for anything in Ten Hag's topsy-turvy world Van Hanegem has never been a guy to mince his words...
Would have thought he would have had his introductory press conference. Probably Monday because of the weekend.