Scott_M

After Arsenal scored, I switched to Leeds and watching them falling apart (again) was significantly less stressful than continuing watching Arsenal…

Don’t disagree. I’m working on the assumption Trent, Gomez & Nunez are definitely off, probably Tsmiskas as well. VVD and Salah to stay. Based on that, we definitely need a right back, left back, centre back and centre forward. Endo will probably leave, we’ll want to see how Bajectic is looking before committing to a midfielder, IMO. My personal preference is a Vitinha type signing, it’s preferable but not likely essential. Other incomings to be based on outgoings (Jota, Diaz, Elliott etc).

Woooooooooooo !!!

I can understand why we went for a Nunez over Isak as well. As I said, I think Nunez was on the short list with a handful of others and I think Klopp pushed for Nunez more than the other, probably more highly recommended, players.

I think Diaz was on a few clubs data lists. We obviously took him off Spurs at the 11th hour. Rangnick recommended him to the mancs. We constantly hear about Barca.

Glad to hear! It wasn’t you I was calling a virgin, sorry if it came over that way.

Yeah, as I said, easy story to write. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was on the data teams list as an option but not particularly recommended option.

Yes, apologies. I was a bit hot headed at that reply. Not aimed at you, we should be delighted with this season and the impending parties, posters whinging with the same tired & lazy posts…. it annoys me, I don’t understand it, I don’t want to understand it.

I think that Klopp was presented with various options for centre forward. I think Nunez was on the list, he wasn’t the recommended option. I think Nkunku was the recommended option, he wasn’t doing well at Leipzig at the time and was in the starting France line up. He got injured before the Qatar World Cup, missed the tournament and never looked the same since…

An easy story to write, he was highly rated at Sociedad and did well at the 2021 Euros…

Aaaaaaaand I turn on Luton v Leeds…

White knight? Yawn. For a change, you could add a thoughtful and balanced view to the conversation. What part of my post do you disagree with? I’ve acknowledged we could / should have done more, I’ve also listed justifiable reasons why we didn’t. Oohh we didn’t sign a player in 2020, I’m going to continue to cry about it 5 years later when we’re on the cusp of winning the league. Absolutely pathetic virgins. Again, it’s not defending FSG, it’s pointing out bullshit in the same old lazy narrative by the same old lazy, ignorant posters.

We’ve also been really lucky we’ve had Trent & Bradley come through the academy and finding Robbo & Tsmiskas at low fees.

Nobody has said that. Or at least I haven’t. We’ll likely never know what happened with Klopp, Edwards, Ward & Schmadtke. However, it’s hardly a stretch of the imagination to suggest that between all of them and Klopp’s subsequent resignation, combined, none of it has helped. And who knows, we might be worrying over nothing yet. I accept Trent is likely gone, these aren’t comments of somebody about to leave… https://x.com/lfctransferroom/status/1908162394049688014?s=46

Yay, let’s go over this again… Everyone is in agreement we should have done better that window, some of the reasons we haven’t have been very well documented. So you don’t come back and finally acknowledge (although I’m not holding my breath…) * Klopp actively went into the season taking a “calculated risk” (his exact words) not to replace Lovren and planned to use Fabinho there more and Thiago in midfield. So we knowingly went into the season a defender down. * We were in the middle of the pandemic. We’d just been sent back into lockdown in January. Things were deteriorating again. We spent c.£70m net in the summer window, there were no guarantees when stadiums would be full again. * VVD got injured. Gomez got injured. Matip got injured. When asked to play centre back, Fabinho & Henderson got injured. Moving so many moving parts fucked the team dynamic we’d spent so long perfecting. * It was an open secret we were signing Konate. I know because I posted the original article by Rory Smith. * We then drew RBL in the CL. Konate also picked up an injury. Whether these will impacted signing him in January. * Could / should we have done something else instead of waiting for Konate? Lijnders wrote in his book “first choice or nothing”. * The suggestions by some on here, and the getting their briefs in a knot when we didn’t, that we spend £30m-£50m on Tarkowski were beyond laughable then and haven’t aged any better. A player completely unsuited to how we played or play and we’d be stuck with the useless cunt now. These aren’t excuses. They are valid, factual, reasons. We could have done things that would have lessened the shit show, it would still have been a shit show. We didn’t go to a shit team overnight, a significant perfect shit storm caught us, we bounced back the season after.

Gorst hardly dampening talk of Kerkez or Huijsen…

PS5 was £450 at its launch in November’20. That’s £561 now. If you want to play it on the go, that’s £200 (which is very limited). Another 2 controllers is £65 each. Most new PS5 games are £65 each. So, really, the Switch 2 is cheaper than a PS5 and seems to be getting all the more recent games.

That’s £113 now!

Be funny if Southampton win at Spurs on Sunday.

Let not go down that level of debate again! I think it will be Jones or Bradley.

A controversial take…. but I agree. Unfortunately, I think Klopp made mistakes when given more responsibility, mistakes we hadn’t made in the previous 5/6 years. Signing Nunez, which Klopp allegedly pushed, really set us back. A better striker that window (Newcastle signed Isak that window) or a top quality midfielder and that downturn likely doesn’t happen. We then signed Gakpo in January (no issues with that, he’s a fine player), he wasn’t essential. Luckily we somewhat hit the jackpot the summer after. Whether that was Klopp, Schmadtke, a continuation of Ward’s work, going back to the data led approach or just good fortune… who knows.

Hahahahaha !!!

Although it’s expensive, a PS4 cost £350 at launch 12 years ago. The games are in line with what games cost these days.