Street Preacher

Apparently he's capable of a lot more and showed it when playing in France. Just playing to instructions I guess.

I'm guessing we were originally expecting to go into this season with Fab as our starting DM & were being linked strongly with Lavia since we'll before he left. Was Lavia a back up option incase Fabinho left, or was he going to be his understudy? If so what did that mean for Bajectic? Third choice DM & expected to play further forward most of the time? Also Henderson could have also been an option in the same position. Strange that we go from that to Just replacing Fabinho.

Oh and Robbo is struggling in this new position. Probably needed Matip to leave before we went big on a centre back though.

We need a shit hot centre back. No young back-up bollocks. Matip will be gone next season, Gomez is Shite 90% of the time, konate has a spell out each season and Virg is getting on.

For me, it's age plus the fact most haven't heard of him and he's not played for anybody of note. If he was 5 years younger it wouldn't stand out as much. You're probably right on the minutes played thing, he's played a hell of a lot less than Fabinho for instance. I just feel this was THE summer of our rebuild and signing 30yr old low profile players wasn't something a lot of us expected. Our signings are usually with the present & future in mind. Will be interesting to see if any more signings come in. I think it's imperative that we sign a centre-back now & a very good one as we surely can't continue with Robertson in the current role he's playing.

The big negative against Endo is his age. If this was a 26/27 Yr old it would make a lot more sense. Apparently since 20/21 he has declined sharply in the physical numbers(top speed, sprint distance, sprints per 90). So not sure if this is age catching up with him or some sort of change in the tactics of his team which means he doesn't need to run as much or as fast. I guess we will see in the next few weeks.

In isolation doesnt seem to be a bad signing as he's relatively cheap, has good stats, lot of good things being said about him & he's a DM. But on the flipside we've gone from Lavia & Caicedo to a 30yr old Stuttgart player. Quite strange. Also another non homegrown spot gone. Not sure if this is what Klopp had in mind when he was building his second great Liverpool side. Desperate for a quality centre back now.

Seems a bit of a no-brainer this transfer. Maybe the type of player you would send out on loan, although needs must & it would be interesting to see what he could do this season. He's probably earmarked for Real at some point but we should be taking more educated punts on players like this.

Does anyone else think that we need to follow Chelsea & Man City's way of signing young promising players? Chelsea have obviously been doing this for years & Man City have followed suit. It seems to pay off for them in a big way financially. I've read that we a small amount of players at the academy & when we sign young players on their first contracts we offer relatively low wages. I do get why we do it as the players we have in our academy have less competition & a clearer route to the first team, but is it to change to shake things up & make more out of academy?

Matip or/and Gomez will get injured and he'll have to stay as cover again. He'll end his career with about 80 appearances.

Surely we are at the point that we pull out of this deal? If £46m has been rejected then surely we are going to have to pay the £50m they've demanded all along? Boring saga.

Maybe so but that's possibly 65-70 goals and who knows what he helps us win. We need a solid plan when it comes to a replacement and I don't think they have one. I doubt we can bring someone in to do the same job as him, it would likely be more of a creator. His agent has said he's staying so maybe next summer will be the time?

Under no circumstances should we be selling Mo this summer. Even if we got £150m+ for him, who do we sign to replace him. He's never injured, scores 30 goals a season & is a megastar and brilliant from a branding perspective. Maybe in a year or two I can see him leaving but until then we should do everything to keep him.

We should just fucking go ahead & sign caicedo. The £52m or whatever we go for Fab & Hendo was unexpected. Another £40m on top & Caicedo could be ours. Not going to happen obviously.

Remember watching his debut(Crystal Palace)and every little pass & movement he made dripped with class. You're right about his teammates not being on the same level. His play was almost alien because it seemed out of place. Right player, wrong time I guess..

What a player! Possibly my favourite player ever, even if it didn't really work out for him with us.

Would be interesting to see more of what goes on behind the scenes with regards to these transfer sagas. You're right about the "save a few quid" thing, a few million here & there can build up but it's less than ideal signing players just before the season starts &, I wonder how many points that can cost teams.

I'd genuinely like to know how the process of signing new players goes. The transfer window opens for us on 14th June & shuts on 1st Sep. Now I know it's not simple & there's agents, other interested clubs etc but why do so many clubs leave it until a week or a few days to? Maybe to save a few quid not sure if this works. Also it always seems that clubs work on one signing at a time, not sure if this is the case but it comes across that way. The whole transfer system just seems really bizarre to me.

They probably need the money now & a lot can happen in football over a season. He could be out of form or get an injury. Best sell him now I guess.

Was great for a couple of seasons but I remember being frustrated with him as it seemed he lost that early confidence & went on runs of not scoring much. Maybe his career is looked upon with more negativity than it should but it definitely went on a downward trajectory.

Seems like it. I would usually think this is a very bad idea but the midfield was so poor last season that maybe it will be a good thing. Who do we bring in to replace them if both go?

Weird that journalists keep saying we have 9 midfielders, counting Trent as one I guess. Thing is we have Fab and maybe Bajetic as defensive mids so Lavia or someone is still needed.

I tell you what, that Blippi must be raking it in. He had too much work on his hands so he hired a second Blippi(the one in the tweet) to do all the stuff he couldn't be arsed doing.

I still don't understand how there wasn't a bigger fuss kicked up about that. Scandalous.

Looks that way. Such a no-brainer signing. Shame we didn't realise sooner we were not going in for Bellingham and put that money towards him. Such a good player and so young too.