Isakly What Was Needed: Liverpool Transfers Thread (2025-26)

As much as I love Ali I do think the club should have cashed in on him and promoted Kells instead of doing the deal with Brentford. No doubt it would have riled many supporters tho.

 

We need to get better at selling players at a high. Not once they've broken down or a couple low years and retirement.

We do have some great examples like Coutinho. We just need to be a little more consistent.

That way we incrementally refresh the squad instead of needing 2-3 years to do a major overhaul.

 

probably would have baffled many in the squad as well.

 

Are there any other examples though? Early morning but I'm drawing a blank ....

 

Coutinho was definitely the stand out trade.
We do seem to get good returns on kids.

But one Coutinho sale every 2 to 4 years would solve a lot of problems.

We should have done that with Salah 2 years ago. I know we got one more brilliant season that led to the league title. But his sale could have rebuilt either the defence or forward line. We should have also sold Allison last season and kept Kelleher.

This could have set us up to consistently be competing for the title.

 

I agree completely about Slot.
Part of the problem with the summer signings is we allowed the team to age out.
I also still believe they signed players for a planned tactical change.

 

Yet would now look as pretty shrewd business as an aging Ali seems injury prone .

 

I think most ppl after looking at our transfer business believed we'd be strong challengers for the title again. I still think all of the signings are good ones and will prove to be so in the future.

However, I think theres a good case to say the squad has been unbalanced and weak in core areas all season. due to injuries , the unexpected drop in form of previously reliable players and also the stubborness of Slot both in tactics and reluctance to fully use his squad. Over reliance on a small core of players has really taken its toll on perfomances and results this year imo which why I believe Slot should go.

 

His injuries only really kicked in (Freudian ) started this year though and conventional wisdom is goalies play into their late 30's no problem.

Unfortunately Ali isn't fitting the mold (mould?). damnit.

 

Actually he was out for large chunks of the previous season.
It wasn't noticeable because Kelleher stepped in, and proved to be rock solid for us.

 

What I have heard about Kelleher - and the reason why he was sold - is that Kelleher is about as good as he’s ever going to be now (opinion, obviously) whereas huge potential is seen in Marmalade (opinion again, obviously).

 

you guys are right - selective memory by me I guess. I looked at his outages over the past several years, there's been a lot more than I remembered.

 

let's say Allison is not injured that much this year, then he definitely is also here next year.

So, if that, then two more years for Kelleher approaching his prime and not playing regularly was probably not felt by either him or LFC to be of prime benefit to him

 

Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City and Real Madrid are keeping tabs on AC Milan and Portugal winger Rafael Leao, 26, who is valued at about £60m. (Mail)

Ivory Coast winger Yan Diomande's agents have already held discussions with Liverpool and Paris St-Germain, but RB Leipzig are keen on keeping the 19-year-old at the club for at least one more season*. (Bild - in German)

* they'd be crazy not to say that given our desperation.

 

Or lets say we sold Ali a year ago and get a really good price for an excellent experienced keeper and promote Kelleher , another excellent keeper with years of football ahead of him. The reality is the club would have a solid keeper with either and the decision is about the timing and when to move on your older experienced guy so as not to block the younger emerging talent .

 

Yeah - I get that. It's just a different perspective when the guy you are talking about is one of the 3 or so best keepers in the world still. It becomes harder to decide to move someone that good on before you "need" to, I think....

 

Seems to make sense at that price?

Denzel Dumfries - He has a €25million (about £21.7million) release clause in his contract this summer
Paul Joyce confirms Liverpool's interest in £21.7m defender

 

In his first five seasons at Liverpool he missed a combined 19 Premier League and Champions League games – through either injury or illness – but in just under three campaigns since, he has been sidelined for 37 in both competitions (à la The Guardian).

 

yeah - we would have beaten leipzig and then had at least a semi against Messi, neymar, mbappe and etc, and maybe the final against Munich. We were pretty much the best team in the world that year

 

England and Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones, 25, has emerged as a target for Aston Villa. (Football Insider)

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