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  1. Endo looks overawed as well. Needs a few good passes or he’s going to unsettle the defence.
  2. Do you reckon he’s the most braindead footballer to ever play for us? He’s got to be up there.
  3. Defensively it doesn’t really matter if Trent goes wandering into midfield when we have the ball. We are fucked regardless because defensively he’s still playing right back. His attitude still stinks and I expect us to get exposed even if it doesn’t because he will go to sleep numerous times anyway. With the ball he will probably just be anonymous again if Newcastle just send a man to follow him inside. We won’t get him the ball and spend the first half an hour causing our own problems or smashing the ball up the pitch from repeated goal kicks after turning the ball over to them doing it a few minutes before.
  4. Unsurprisingly since Abramovich left nobody wants to give them 40m a season anymore. They were told expect a drop off to 25m. Out of the blue they’ve agreed a deal with a company that was set up a few months ago for 40m a season. It turns out this company is also owned by investors in Clearlake capital. The prem have not ratified it yet because they brought those rules in to stop Newcastle doing it.
  5. At the moment Gakpo or Jota are guaranteed starters ahead of Nunez. Not only is Gakpo a better player than him he actually suits the way we play. I doubt Gakpo is bedding into a new position either. As soon as we’ve got someone to play in the 6 then Gakpo goes back up top and the two new midfield lads play the 8’s. The clamour to get Nunez in the team is absolutely baffling. He’s complete garbage. Even the captain chaos stuff has completely disappeared when he plays. It’s just give the ball away or hit a shot in a stupid situation.
  6. Absolutely no chance. Klopps got big plans for him but starts Jota or Gakpo ahead of him up front. If we had paid 10/20m for him he wouldn’t have survived this transfer window. His touch is terrible and his decision making is even worse. He’s got nothing else to his game that’s going to make up for those faults at a top club. He’s been here a year and all he’s shown us is that he’s thick. The early sending off summed up how dense he is and he hasn’t given any indication to suggest different. We are now just throwing him on at the end of games in hope more than anything. He was an awful signing. We seemed to get into a habit of signing players that played well against us. The daft thing about signing forwards that do well against us is that very few if any teams play a high line like we do. He did well because he beat our offside trap and that was it. We could 100% play him in more like Dave suggests but the vast majority of our games do not allow the opportunity for balls in behind. He doesn’t suit playing with inverted wingers and needs crosses for tight games and we play that way even less now with this hybrid mess. Klopp is literally willing to throw another season down the drain to force the hybrid set up through. If he had any plan whatsoever for Darwin he would be playing him now and dealing with the pain of it.
  7. I don’t know why everyone is so baffled by what’s going on. When we signed him Klopp and the coaches clearly thought he was better than he is which is why we paid the money we did. It’s now obvious he’s dogshit and completely thick. He’s not learned anything in a year of being here and it’s obvious every time he’s on the pitch. We now can’t sell him because nobody would give us any decent money for him or pay him the wages he’s on either so we are stuck with him. Even if that’s guessing on my part the second we would go to the market or the player himself to test it then the relationship between him and the manager would be dead and it’s not worth risking it. He’s nowhere near the same level as the other 4 forwards so barring injury or suspension he isn’t going to be playing or getting runs of games. Klopp will just be throwing him on to see if he can get a goal with very little tactical input. I think we are going to see a lot of later career Sturridge-esque performances from him where he thinks to get into the team he needs to score so his decision making is going to get even worse.
  8. I usually agree with you a lot of times but we were absolutely shite. It wasn’t just a few ropey moments. We couldn’t keep the ball at all. I think we went nearly an hour without putting 5 passes together. The set up in every aspect is absolutely horrific at the moment. In our big point seasons we won a lot of games by a goal and struggled to create chances because of a lack width. We were hardly ever hanging on though. We were in complete control of the ball against every team bar City and didn’t look like conceding unless it was a freak situation.
  9. The right back/midfield hybrid position has been a car crash waiting to happen. Personally I think it’s difficult to judge how good/bad he would be in midfield because this hybrid thing is not the same as him playing there exclusively. It was absolutely shit yesterday because Chelsea did what I expect every single side to do. Just put a couple of players in the middle of the pitch from a restart and you can’t get Trent the ball. They don’t need to be worried about the ball going wide right because nobody is there. We then try to pass it out and give it away or have to twat it long. We then just did that over and over again for about 80 minutes. When Trent does get the ball in the middle he then doesn’t have a right back option as a pass. It ends up meaning he’s playing tight straight passes in the middle of the pitch or dawdling on the ball because of the lack of options. It’s mind numbingly stupid tactics that for some stupid reason we are just sticking with. I don’t think I’ve ever seen us struggle to keep the ball in game so badly. None of the angles or options are there. We are getting the worst of both worlds. His lazy can’t be arsed attitude to defensive situations because he’s still “defending” from right back alongside no creativity because we can’t him on the ball when we have it. The long term problem for me now is that we’ve signed midfielders that are better tried and tested 8’s that should play ahead of him. If you put Gomez right back (which I would 100% do) or sign a new RB then the only midfield position I think he suits is playing alongside a ball winner (we are hopefully going to sign) in a 4231. That means you’re then picking between 1 of Szobo and Mac. It’s a fucking mess.
  10. The specific left centre back thing is a daft idea. Robertson was crap yesterday but he still played largely as a left back in this formation. I wouldn’t be playing a centre back there because they would have got slaughtered. At some point Klopp is going to wake up and stop doing this stupid set up as well because it’s killing us and at that point you’ve wasted money. I’m not against signing a centre back because of how injury prone ours are but a specific led sided one because of the current formation would be stupid. We need to sign a right back and two midfielders that can come straight into the team.
  11. I’m only 15 mins in but Brownie has absolutely nailed it. It’s his attitude to defending. It stinks and has stunk for years. The interview tells you all you need to know. We’ve made someone the vice captain who is literally willing to burn the team down to force the manager to move his position. I don’t even think the hybrid position is the problem defensively. Most of the problems come when he’s in position. There’s so many times when the ball or the player goes past him and he just goes into can’t be arsed mode. There was one occasion where someone got behind him and Konate sprinted his arse off to get back. At that point you can clearly see Trent completely turn off tracking back getting slower and slower. He 100% takes the view of oh well if they score now there’s nothing I could have done and if Konate makes the tackle then great. What happens is Konate makes the tackle but the ball spills out back to Chelsea where Trent then should have been but wasn’t because he couldn’t be arsed. Chelsea then fuck it up and goes for a corner and Trent runs off giving Konate a high 10. There’s absolutely no way he isn’t getting slagged off by the other players. They will all be fully on to him. It feels like a war of wills between Trent and Klopp at the moment and we are the losers.
  12. He’s running his arse off and the set up is killing him. He then gets dragged off because he’s not getting the ball. I’m not surprised he’s fuming. Other than the first 15 mins or so when Chelsea were clearly nervous and panicking the way we are playing now is going to create even less chances than we were making last season.
  13. The players aren’t doing basic things like running as fast as we can and reacting quickly to second balls etc but we are being completely hamstrung by the set up of the team in and out of possession. We have completely stupid tactics like the full backs never overlapping the winger. All of these things seemingly offer absolutely no benefits at all and leave us struggling to keep the ball, create chances and leaving us completely wide open to easy and hopeful passes. Klopp is turning us into a complete mess with these stupid decisions.
  14. I just love these braindead goal kick set ups. I don’t think we’ve kept the ball once.
  15. Do you reckon we will continue this stupid set up from goal kicks despite us just giving the ball away within 2 passes every time and never actually working it to Trent? It’s like we have these set plans and then nobody pays attention in game to what is actually happening and changing it.
  16. The transfer fee is separate to his wages. All clubs have plenty of players they never paid a transfer fee for. Their wages just go in the period they relate to. The capitalised transfer fee is spread over the life of the contract unless the contract is longer than 5 years at that point it’s just spread over 5 years instead. I actually don’t see what the fuss was about. If a club wants to sign players on 7, 8 or whatever year deals then I don’t understand why they aren’t allowed to spread the fee over that term. They’re taking the risk and committing to pay the players for that whole period. It’s not the genius move that it was made out to be.
  17. I think Chelsea’s plan was to wait until the last day of the window and try to force Brighton to accept a lower bid banking on them not wanting an unhappy player which is why he’s been sat in London for a week. They’ve still got a fairly strong hand because of Caicedos stance. I think they’re probably thinking we weren’t expecting to have him in at the start of the season anyway so they may as well stick to that plan. They’ve clearly got the money and it will stall us committing to signing other players. Worst case scenario is that they match our bid late in the window.
  18. I don’t think this is as clear cut as a few people have been mentioning. I doubt we’ve been playing 4D chess but the result of this is going to be that either we sign Caicedo or Chelsea have to pay an additional 30m more than they planned which you would think would leave them out of the running for Lavia. Southampton then only have one club bidding for him and that club have shown they are willing to walk away and go for another player. If they need the money they might crack first.
  19. He’s genuinely not that good. This is the most Everton thing we’ve ever done though.
  20. It was a complete panic buy decision anyway. Very Man Utd style. It’s got accident waiting to happen written all over it. A couple of misplaced passes and he would be getting the Nunez treatment. I’ve got no idea whether he would completely shit the bed off the back of it or not but it wouldn’t be easy. We shouldn’t be paying 110m for a defensive midfielder. It’s laughable.
  21. If it’s true that it’s the Saudi’s behind this Clearlake company then they are exactly the same club they were. They’ve always been a shitshow waiting to collapse but with a bottomless pit of money you can continue to attract players by offering to pay them far in excess of clubs like us can and there’s the fact that you know other top players will go there for the same reason. They’ve flagged recently because of City doing what they did but having more money and Klopp being in the league. It will be business as usual for Chelsea eventually.
  22. I honestly reckon he gets given a script by their PR team.
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