Virgil Van Dijk

[an tha]

11 minutes ago, Red_or_Dead said:

 

 

 

Whilst I am a big Virgil fan (aren't we all?), he really has been poor and smelling himself a bit too much this season.  As long as we don't lose Konate too we'll be okay (in that we won't get any worse than we are now).

 

 

The worry is Joe Gomez playing - lads form has fallen off a cliff

 

It is a lot to ask of Matip to stay fit and play 2 games a week for a while.

 

1 more injury on top of a lengthy VVD one and we are in some bother.

[Jurgen Knows]

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Nat Phillips.

[Megadrive Man]

In a weird way in might help in that we might have to drop the high line and revert to a more pragmatic way of playing, similar to how we played at the end of the 20/21 season.

[Supremolad]

18 minutes ago, Jurgen Knows said:

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Nat Phillips.

 

Yep. While we still have those who disrespect him by mentioning his name and Maguire's in the same breath, there are many of us who know he is good enough in a time of need.

 

In anticipation, I'll be bumping up my Nat Phillips thread shortly.

[Aventus]

Nat Philips is as good a 5th choice CB as you're likely to find. 

The annoying thing is when the 4 ahead of him keep getting injured. 

 

I'm getting on the Jarell Quansah hype train early so I can cling on to something resembling hope. 

[Red_or_Dead]

2 hours ago, Aventus said:

Nat Philips is as good a 5th choice CB as you're likely to find. 

The annoying thing is when the 4 ahead of him keep getting injured. 

 

I'm getting on the Jarell Quansah hype train early so I can cling on to something resembling hope. 

Big Nat is now our number three CB, well for me.  Might be slow as fuck, but doesn't have the brain fartisms of Gomez.

[DaveT]

On 04/01/2023 at 20:28, Torvald Utne said:

7000 of those minutes played at walking pace though

 

The remaining 597 sprinting back trying to recover when the offside trap is beaten

Of those 597 minutes, 500 of them were utterly needless because of linesmen not flagging when they should have done. 

[halewood pete]

7 hours ago, Jurgen Knows said:

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Nat Phillips.

 

[Reckoner]

Big Nat is a dream boat.

Take me to the champions league Nat!

[an tha]

Fucking unbelievable....

 

Offering an update on Van Dijk's fitness, Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com: "It's not a short-term and I had longer-term injuries as well in my career as a manager. So, it's somewhere in between. 

"He will be out for a few weeks, definitely."

[DJLJ]

https://www.skysports.com/share/12779628
 

Out for over a month. 

[an tha]

You really do have to question our approach around injuries...how the fuck does something like this go from what Klopp said after game to an absence of more than a month - which you can bet your life will be closer to two....

 

The Diaz thing as well.

 

Even so called simple stuff like Firmino recently.

 

 

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

27 minutes ago, an tha said:

You really do have to question our approach around injuries...how the fuck does something like this go from what Klopp said after game to an absence of more than a month - which you can bet your life will be closer to two....

 

The Diaz thing as well.

 

Even so called simple stuff like Firmino recently.

 

 

 

 

Klopp doesn't know what he is talking about.

[Scott_M]

Hopefully he’s back for Real Madrid. 
 

Actually, Newcastle would be preferable. 

[Megadrive Man]

A month should mean that he'll only miss 4 games, Wolves x2 Brighton and Chelsea and will be in contention for the Derby game at Anfield on the 13th of February.

 

What's the betting that he isn't back for that game?

[El Rojo]

35 minutes ago, an tha said:

You really do have to question our approach around injuries...how the fuck does something like this go from what Klopp said after game to an absence of more than a month - which you can bet your life will be closer to two....

 

The Diaz thing as well.

 

Even so called simple stuff like Firmino recently.

 

 

We seem to have lost a lot of backroom staff in medical and other areas. Might explain some of the current chaos. 

[manwiththestick]

7 minutes ago, MegadriveMan said:

A month should mean that he'll only miss 4 games, Wolves x2 Brighton and Chelsea and will be in contention for the Derby game at Anfield on the 13th of February.

 

What's the betting that he isn't back for that game?

A LFC month tends to be a lot longer than an earthly one.

[magicrat]

LFC have re-defined the term " Injury time". 

[Scott_M]

42 minutes ago, MegadriveMan said:

A month should mean that he'll only miss 4 games, Wolves x2 Brighton and Chelsea and will be in contention for the Derby game at Anfield on the 13th of February.

 

What's the betting that he isn't back for that game?

 

We won't need him that night, those miserable fucks won't want to even cross the half way line. 

[manwiththestick]

3 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

 

We won't need him that night, those miserable fucks won't want to even cross the half way line. 

And they will be in full on 'sweep the leg' mode.

[an tha]

It will be closer to 2 months than 1....

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

Is he back soon?

 

As expected without him we’re back to every set piece to the opposition being a good goalscoring opportunity. 

[an tha]

2 minutes ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

Is he back soon?

 

As expected without him we’re back to every set piece to the opposition being a good goalscoring opportunity. 

Make of this what you will....

 

Jan 27: 'Diogo (Jota), Bobby (Firmino) and Virgil, a couple of weeks and [then they] can join training, and then we have to see how quick it goes from there.'

[KevieG]

Obviously with the current trainwreck in midfield it isn't priority, but we should be transitioning out the centre backs now in anticipation of Virgils last few years. Gomez, nowhere near good enough, should be sold this year, and Matip should leave the following year. If Virgil is still good enough to start in 3 years, great. But if not at least we'll be a bit more prepared. 

 

The fact that we've neglected midfield for about 5 years will no doubt prevent this happening as that'll be the priority. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

38 minutes ago, KevieG said:

Obviously with the current trainwreck in midfield it isn't priority, but we should be transitioning out the centre backs now in anticipation of Virgils last few years. Gomez, nowhere near good enough, should be sold this year, and Matip should leave the following year. If Virgil is still good enough to start in 3 years, great. But if not at least we'll be a bit more prepared. 

 

The fact that we've neglected midfield for about 5 years will no doubt prevent this happening as that'll be the priority. 

Konaté is Part One of the CB transition.