Thiago Alcantara

[Josef Svejk]

6 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Goes to show there’s not a single genuine ‘ITK’ journo out there. 
 

They all just report whatever they’re told to. 

https://www.football365.com/news/liverpool-media-fooled-thiago-mediawatch

 

German, Spanish, and even French journalists were better informed than their English colleagues on this.

 

Similar story with Sancho transfer.

[Tony Moanero]

[Megadrive Man]

7 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

I love the fact the Echo was still dismissing the story 8 minutes before it broke...

Bayern confirmed months ago that we were in for him!

 

The Echo have no clue these days. 

[dockers_strike]

7 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

Fucking hell, they still make Etch a sketch?!

[Nolongerathletic]

3 hours ago, Dr Nowt said:

Alisson

Trent

Virg

Fabinho

Robbo 

Hendo

Gini 

Thiago 
Mo

Bobby

Sadio

 

By some distance the best first 11 in Europe.

Not having Fabinho ahead of Gomez...stop right there..Gomez has his off moments but as centre halves go he was very good last year. Not great since lockdown but the fact that VVD, Allison have been even more shaky and Keita been probably our brightest tells you all you need to know!! 

 

Best 12 in Europe!

[Dr Nowt]

8 minutes ago, Nolongerathletic said:

Not having Fabinho ahead of Gomez...stop right there..Gomez has his off moments but as centre halves go he was very good last year. Not great since lockdown but the fact that VVD, Allison have been even more shaky and Keita been probably our brightest tells you all you need to know!! 

 

Best 12 in Europe!

Ha. Aye, Fabinho wouldn’t be ahead of either Matip or Gomez IF they stay fit and on their top form.

 

The good news is, that if is no longer such a concern as he’d let nobody down.

[YorkshireRed]

Another foreign midfielder signed to block my path to the first team. Absolute disgrace.
 

FSG out. Klopp out. Edwards out. 

[RobbieOR]

Personally believe if he doesnt cut it on his debut against Lincoln next week we should send him back to Bavaria 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Fabinho at CB ahead of Gomez and Matip? Maybe we can try Karius on the wing for a few games too.

[Nolongerathletic]

1 minute ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Fabinho at CB ahead of Gomez and Matip? Maybe we can try Karius on the wing for a few games too.

We will allow them the Thiago excitement...drug of choice for today.

 

However, if there ever came a situation that we had to give Karius a few appearances just to sell him, wing might be more productive for that particular shop window!!

[Bobby Hundreds]

So now we can attack more through the middle when teams are so focused on our full backs. 

 

 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

6 minutes ago, Nolongerathletic said:

We will allow them the Thiago excitement...drug of choice for today.

 

However, if there ever came a situation that we had to give Karius a few appearances just to sell him, wing might be more productive for that particular shop window!!

Well he wouldn't handball it, that's for sure!

[Megadrive Man]

11 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Fabinho at CB ahead of Gomez and Matip? Maybe we can try Karius on the wing for a few games too.

 

Can't be any worse than playing him in goal?

[Babb'sBurstNad]

3 minutes ago, MegadriveMan said:

 

Can't be any worse than playing him in goal?

Ha, true enough.

[The Guest]

I reckon Fabinho and Thiago are gonna get on like a house on fire.  It’s definitely not an either or there.  We’re gonna play some mad formations this year I think.

[3 Stacks]

4 minutes ago, The Guest said:

I reckon Fabinho and Thiago are gonna get on like a house on fire.  It’s definitely not an either or there.  We’re gonna play some mad formations this year I think.

Them two in a double pivot is beautifully balanced. It's Mascherano - Xabi Alonso level.

[Section_31]

53 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

https://www.football365.com/news/liverpool-media-fooled-thiago-mediawatch

 

German, Spanish, and even French journalists were better informed than their English colleagues on this.

 

Similar story with Sancho transfer.

Yeah there's pretty much nobody who's opinion I'd place any faith in on transfers now, even Bascombe has been quit on it. Sensible I suppose, if you've got no news don't just make it up.

[diamondjoe]

26 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

So now we can attack more through the middle when teams are so focused on our full backs. 

 

 

Nice beaver.

[Curly]

50 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Fucking hell, they still make Etch a sketch?!

Good to see Thiago leaning against a wall in the obligatory pic, but I expected the carzies at Melwood to be be nicer than that

[lifetime fan]

6 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Yeah there's pretty much nobody who's opinion I'd place any faith in on transfers now, even Bascombe has been quit on it. Sensible I suppose, if you've got no news don't just make it up.

Bascombe hasn’t had a clue since he fell out with Rafa and Parry left. 

[mattyq]

 

[neko]

Fabinho can now become the fourth choice CB, without having to leave a gaping hole in the midfield if/when he does need to play there.

[Trumo]

42 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Yeah there's pretty much nobody who's opinion I'd place any faith in on transfers now, even Bascombe has been quit on it. Sensible I suppose, if you've got no news don't just make it up.

 

Journalists like Reddy and Pearce are now regarded as close as possible to ITKs, but the club is now so controlled in terms of the information it gives out that even they are feeding on scraps. And they'll be happy to put out whatever the club want to put out because it means they still have a semblance of access. I've no doubt that the club keeps a LOT back so that when it gets out, it's on the club's terms and not filtered through someone else's agenda.

 

It's got me thinking about agent fees though. Might the excessive amounts we fork out in agent fees be linked to this control of information? We used to pay a lot less in fees a decade or so ago (of course transfer fees, signing-on fees and wages were much lower back then too), but all sorts of transfer and contract and transfer info was being blabbed by all and sundry back then too. We usually heard of things happening (or not happening) long before the club officially had its say. Are we paying more to agents so they keep a lid on things? Just thinking out loud here.

[liverpoolsno9]

1 hour ago, lifetime fan said:

Goes to show there’s not a single genuine ‘ITK’ journo out there. 
 

They all just report whatever they’re told to. 

The German media were well tipped off weeks in advance of our trusted ITKs. 

[lifetime fan]

10 minutes ago, liverpoolsno9 said:

The German media were well tipped off weeks in advance of our trusted ITKs. 

Exactly.
 

The British based ‘red’ journos do precisely as they’re told.