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Would be surprised if we’ve paid more than £40-50m of the reported £70m plus add on’s, this early in the contract. Interested clubs would likely know this and may offer to pay Liverpool their money back, if we wanted him gone. Then there’s always Saudi…

Despite 777 owing one company up to $600m, which you’d imagine would take longer than the 7 months to rack up than they’ve been asking to be cleared as fit owners than, they’re now blaming the Premier League for today’s widespread exposures of the tinpot gangsters they clearly always were; https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1714907946.html

Interesting article on 777, makes them sound as bent as a barbed wire fence. https://archive.fo/2024.05.04-203619/https://www.ft.com/content/d99f425c-da9d-4860-9a6b-ee65b7424490

Forgot about him, somehow. He’d be a great buy.

Yeah, I’d think top 4 would be great for him and the expectations will be tampered which will help him. Can’t help but think Klopp either got carried away himself as this season built beyond all expectations or just went for it all and hoped for the best. I think we often do better as a club when we’re slightly off the radar, a bit of underdog angst.

We shouldn’t be afraid of signing lads in their prime but as you say, it’s risky. Is it Nunez as the main 9 again or do we hope this fella brings Gakpo back up to speed? I worry neither is good enough for trophies, top 4 is our goal next season you’d think.

It’s a good point but remember we’re suggesting best of the rest and/or budget recruiting in line with what we’ve seen from FSG before and to suit the Portuguese-Dutch speaking coaching set up under Ljinders and the Portuguese lad, we had. Of course proven PL would come in, if were to win big again but you’d imagine this fella would want a leaning towards what and whom he knows and that’s the Dutch league/dutch lids! Pure speculation of course but I can’t see Edwards securing a record budget in this fella’s first season or a majority of prem-proven new additions.

His style, technique and finishing looks so much more repeatable, simple and grounded than Nunez. Just feel he’d have scored a bagful down the stretch this season, in comparison. He already looks more emotionally consistent, too.

I don’t think Maca is an elite 6, John. Both of them can’t play their together in games other than against the bottom half at home. I think it has to be a specialist defensive central mid plus one of them.

On reflection Lee, yes. Granted Slot sets us up tactically and technically well enough to keep 70% average possession at home. My concern is that it’ll be too porous and weak away from home and against the top 6/7. How often have we seen modern Liverpool managers be astute enough to work in any specialist, pragmatic set up, alongside a more attacking and dominant one? Frimpong/Geertruida CDM Summerville/Kubo Gyokeres (if either Salah or Diaz leaves). Would be the shape of my dream window.

I do. I know they were all shocking away to the Shite but he just couldn’t be arsed fully committing to getting into the right position quick enough, then couldn’t get fully back into right back to make it anywhere near worthwhile. That said, I don’t fancy Alexander-Arnold plus Mac Allister either as the double pivot, they’ll be run through. I think it’s one of them plus a top class, ideally dominant central defensive midfield specialist.

As ever, they’ve blamed the reporter. https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1714474268.html Beyond parody now.

Let Edwards do his thing and oversee a good fee, ideally with Saudi; it feels like he’s been itching to go that hellhole for a while. The message will obviously be you can buy him if you wish but it’ll cost you, look at his numbers, lifestyle, ambassadorial value etc Problem is, I’d be open to Diaz and Nunez being moved on too and quite like that Gyokeres lad as the main 9. You’d imagine the new fella will want to work with Gakpo and Jota, albeit injury prone, is versatile and if he favours 4-2-3-1, you’d imagine he’d start Szoboslai off the right. Edwards won’t let 3 go but Salah plus one of Diaz/Nunez would release funds for a reasonable remodelling of the attack, plus whatever budget he gets out of tightarse FSG. He’s walked around for weeks now, to get a cob on and mouth off after being benched, is the end of it. What a player he’s been, those first 3 seasons were incredible - the speed of him, usually with some carthorse hanging round his neck, often ending in some dizzying run and finish. A true shame it’s come to this but the new lad’s system at Feyenoord looks like it values team ethic and is uptempo, he either can’t manage or be arsed with either anymore, it seems.

They know they’ve been bang to rights with years of malpractice and corruption but they’ve been putting the pressure on with the victims stance ever since and as soon as Masters crumbled at the hearing, then got his comms wrong, they had all the deflection material they needed, to the deductions down as low as possible. It’s finally worked onfield too, with the PL not willing to give anything up to 3 penalties against them In a way, they’ve played a blinder, albeit a brazen, shameless one.

It’ll be a very difficult game. We’ve not got the best recent record there and they know how to frustrate us, I often think people oversee the Origi Derby because of the goal but they comfortably held us to 0-0 for 95 minutes, it goes back to then. They're pretty much safe now so the atmosphere will be far less anxious than recent weeks but I don’t think that’ll help us - he tried to push up high and press against Chelsea and got it woefully wrong, his side are rank and Chelsea both broke and played through them at will. That said they made the first chance from it and missed it - Liverpool simply can’t let them get the first goal or they’ll raise their levels, grow in belief and feed off our lost confidence, as well as the obligatory moral superiority, victim complex and Heysel. I haven’t been to that stinkhole for over 20 years and I’m going Wednesday - I hate them as much as they hate us. I hope Klopp does something a little bit different, maybe a Salah off Jota with a solid base, no Arnold at right back etc but he’ll go his usual 4-3-3 with high press and look to dominate possession. First thing’s first, don’t get beat but with us using our only possible run in token against Palace at home, it’s a must win. Head suspects 1-0, heart knows it should be 0-3, it’s entirely up to Liverpool.