Does anyone go through the training photos and tick off the players.
I can’t see anyone missing bar the goalies but not one of them is featured.
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Can we lock this thread for few days??? Too many posts may injure the poor sod again 
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My reaction on reading that is similar as that of Bale in the below video…
Is that a fake beard on what’s his face? He looks like Worzel Gummidge!
Thought it would do to take this to the correct thread. Yes on hindsight that comment is a bit slapdash, but I dont feel ashamed and you shouldn’t be trying to invoke shame for a difference of opinion.
I suppose I should have said he advances his standing in the pecking order by what he contributes in the dressing room in terms of morale and camaraderie. Still, the lad cant get to training on time and thats just basic. Im entitled to write him off, but that is because of his injury record, now with a multitude of serious knee tears, he is simply one more away from his pension. If I had any belief in him staying fit my opinion would change.
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It’s kinda unfortunate for him because in the the last pre-Covid match against Atletico he was one of our best players even though we lost thanks to Adrian.
This lad has clocked around 4500 minutes since signing for Liverpool in August 2017.
2017/18: 2,048
2018/19: 19
2019/20: 2,225
2020/21: 162 (with half the season gone)
By comparison Salah, signed in the same window, has played nearly 15,000 minutes.
Year of the Ox, hum…
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Is that a different way of saying to do fuck all?
Should get rid.
Sell, just sell him right away.
When he comes on recently he turns into the invisible man effing useless.
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I feel, his career will be very similar to that of Theo Walcott. Sooner we can launch him to that trajectory, the better.
I didn’t know Theo is currently at Southampton. BTW, Everton paid €22.50m for him 
! In 2018! 
Must we always have a whipping boy?
Ox needs a few games to get back up to speed. His luck with injuries has been shit, but his biggest problem now is that he can’t get games because we can’t give him space to have a couple of ropey ones.
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Are you sure it’s just a couple of ropey ones? He hasn’t really reached those performances from his first season with us. This might just be him now.
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Since his first injury, we’ve just not been able to give him the run of games to find his way back, because we’ve been trying to get 100 points, or where we are now, ravaged by injuries and a playing a scratch midfield that can’t carry him for a few games.
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I would have shoved the guy up front on Saturday, he isn’t the reason we lost on Saturday, dunno if he will ever get to the form he can produce again but it was an odd substitute by Klopp.
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Thought he would at least be a great impact sub this season but he disappointed - but so did many of our players.
It’s important to have all our players back in preseason.
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Excuse me. But isn’t he suppose to carry us instead? We aren’t talking about a kid like Elliott or a freshman like Ozan. He is matured and experienced and should make himself useful when we are in such dire situation.
I like Ox, I remember those wonderful moments/performances he gave us. But he has been patchy all along his Liverpool career. It’s a good game here followed by some average ones, a flash of brilliance then disappearing from the game. I feel he is player who lacks effort, conviction. It’s like he feels his talent alone will do the trick.
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The main problem with Chamberlain as a midfielder is how easy he is to play against. He isn’t reading the game well at all, he doesn’t anticipate where the ball is going to be and to put it simply he doesn’t get close enough to the opposition out of possession. When he’s playing in a midfield 3 he leaves gaps in the midfield and doesn’t cover for others. We’re essentially just crossing our fingers and hoping for one moment of quality in the game from him, which is little different to when Shaqiri plays in the midfield.
If you look at his numbers for tackling, ball recoveries, 50/50s etc, they’ve all dropped massively from 17/18 to 19/20. He’s lost the ability to play with that high intensity. If you compare him to Keita and Thiago, two players that many others keep saying come up short defensively, he is easily second best to those as well. For example - against Brighton Thiago made almost half the amount of tackles (7) that Chamberlain made in 30 league appearances last year (18).
He hasn’t done much to suggest he has the intelligence or quality to make up for the lowered intensity since that injury. I don’t see how he becomes a regular in this midfield again.
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