I want, I want, I want SHINY NEW TOYS! - LFC transfer thread

Michael Owen was how old when he was ripping defenders in the PL apart? Granted Danns is not on the same level,, but keeping him as a back to close a game as a 6th option behind Jota, Nunes, Gakpo, and Diaz, with Elliott and Doak in the wings, is not a bad line up! It's the way you develop youth players into a system and ensures a higher level of integration. Why splurge, when you don't even know what these players are capacble off because you haven't given them a chance.

Making signings before the winter window 2024 end, is imprudence, and you will lose a potential gem that you can then regret for the next decade.

 

And so instead of holding on to a 6th choice striker as a home academy product, you should instead ship him out for an overpriced foreigner... and sit around ruing a lost Cole Palmer.

How are you a Liverpool supporter?

 

Can you please give me your handbook on how to be a Liverpool supporter? What I must and must not say? What I must and must not believe? What I have to chant during games? And when?

I know I’ll never be as wonderful a Liverpool fan as you, but I promise, I’ll work so very hard every day to make you so very proud of me; I’ll freely acknowledge I’m not worthy to ever be in your presence or look you directly in the eye. But please, can I have your handbook? Or at the very least, can I subscribe to your newsletter?

 

Thanks Samarkand, I'll let you know when we have our newsletter out. You can be sure to subscribe and take some notes. Id est, how to ensure you have a pathway for the academy into first team action rather than spend Sheik oil money like sh.ts going out of flavour, on overpriced mercenaries.

@newterp And so what is your suggestion then, make him 7th choice behind another 30-50 million Pound signing, and give him all of 50 minutes a season of football, and expect him to develop?

 

I don't know that I'd class these as failures "down the stretch", but there have been multiple crash-out seasons under Klopp. Mostly due to injury, to be fair... but as early as the 2nd season they were barely hanging on to get top 4, key players running on fumes, and needed some wonder goals in last few matches to get there in the end.

I don't know what this has to do with bringing youth through... think Klopp has been pretty good at bringing youth through. But if Mo goes, and Virg has a foot out the door, it's very clear this squad needs high-level buys if they want to maintain anywhere near this level.

The prem is more competitive than ever before; before long, even the Europa league places will not be "easy" achievements.

 

decent, undeniable... but the bar is set so high with Man City edgeing them out in the last 10 games, there have been seasons 10é10 over the stretch, look it up. that often times these later games is where they have been derailed. add all the cup exits, and the games after cup games during the season they have lost or tied, and the picture is not as pretty as you paint. The game against Manchester after playing a 2nd leg at home 5-1 up from the first, is an indication of this.

And yes, I believe Liverpool have cherry picked some of the greatest talent from Europe over the past decade. Not all of them will make it clearly, but it would be jumping the gun to try sort a replacement to bar the path. The club almost let go off Bradley, and things turned quite quickly there...

 

Bullshit. Source?

 

Yeah, he has been seen in the same category as TAA and Curtis. Untouchable. Not to say he didn’t need the time at Bolton, but Anfield almost letting him go? Absolute crock of polished shit.

 

Uh, what are you smoking bro??? Calvin Ramsey was brought in to replace Conner Bradley due to lost faith in him being able to make the step up to 2nd choice behind TAA, and hence the loan to begin with!

Short memory span? https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jun/16/liverpool-agree-deal-buy-calvin-ramsay-aberdeen

 

“About zero support”? Why so generous? There’s no “about” about it. It’s what’s known as pulling something out of your ass.

 

Okay so lets draw a thread here... Liverpool bring in a Calvin Ramsey to play second fiddle to TAA, under the auspices that he would be able to make the step up where Connor Bradley failed, and who was consequently shipped out on loan because management felt he wouldn't be able to make that step. And hence why he was shipped out with Calvin Ramsey replacing him. The only reason Bradley is in the team is because TAA had an injury, and Klopp was left with little alternative but to play him... had it not been for the Bolton loan and him turning things around there, let alone then being brought back into the fold, management were willing to cut him loose.

Moneyball or not, its an indication that a player is replaced for a reason! Hmmm... what could that reason be?

 

Every part of this, all of it, including “the” “is” “and” “of” is a complete crock of shit, devoid of anything approaching common sense or an understanding of football.

The shorthand on this, at least, is now we know what we’re getting when you post.

 

Here's an article outlining how there was considerable doubt that Bradley would be able to make the grade at Liverpool, even after the Bolton loan, notice the quote by a Liverpool coach! and especially given the fact that TAA was undisputed 1st choice, there was a real chance he would be likely moved on. And this coming after the fact that Neco Williams was unable to make the breakthrough and so sold on to Forest, suggesting Bradley was a shoe in, is borderline delussional.

https://theathletic.com/4444647/2023/04/25/conor-bradley-liverpool-future/

Well, at least i know you guys smoking some real loud in here. Its funny how AFTER someone makes it, everyone quips in with 'oh, I always knew that'... the list is endless. Do you realize how many youth products fail to make the grade??? But I'll let you hang on to your delussions, let me know when you're back on the Clozapine and we can have a normal conversation yeah!

And I'll add Calvin Ramsey was brought in because the coaching staff weren't convinced Bradley would be able to make the grade, hence why he replaced him as second fiddle to TAA prior to the Bolton loan. Simple guys. Simple common sense!

 

You can’t hit the center of the earth when you believe the earth is flat.

 

HonestlY, I do not know how you read articles bro, but it seems you're intent on reading what you want rather than what's really being said. I do not need to dig any further, you have done all my digging for me... "and then we will decide together what we are doing from that moment on". Where in that is the certainty that you so allude to ?????? please tell me??? Even after the loan to Bolton, Liverpool were still unsure if bradley would make the grade, because taa was first choice. Having a player sign a contract before shipping him on loan, is NO indication whatsoever that a club absolutely intend to keep him as a team player. Liverpool made Rhys Williams, Harvey Davies, Musliowski all signed a new contract before being shipped off on loan, and that is by no means an exhaustive list. Clubs do that to maintain the value of a player prior to shipping them off. Saying Bradley was a shoe in to return into the fold of the club with any certainty is categorically false, and misleading, but apprarently you have the blinders on and I don't really have the time or the patience to argue this with you ad nauseum. If you are intent on believing so, then so be it... in the grand scope of things it is an inconsequentiallity, but you arguing this only goes to add to my initial position in saying that Liverpool have a very advanced academy that could upset the apple cart in more ways thatn one, and bringing in foreign players would step on a few too many toes, and erect barriers to a pathway the likes of which Conor Bradley himself followed into being a potential first team member. So maybe decide what you are really arguing here, because you are now taking a part of my argument and arguing for it, but seem entirely lost to it.

I am too tired with the circumlocutions here, and have better things to do with my time than to sit here arguing nonsense with you bro!

“Our plans are bring him back, go in the pre-season and enjoy the steps he’s made, then we will decide together what we are doing from that moment on. Conor will be our player, but we have to see if it makes more sense for him going on loan after pre-season or not.”

 

This is beginning to sound like the VAR thread.

 

Until now, I never believed just one person could make the whole internet dumber. Definitely a day for a diary entry.