Ha you’ve already written off a 22yo as not ‘Liverpool standard’. Doubt Vini Jr or MBappe would agree
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Slot deserves huge credit for pulling back, adapting and making us competitive again.
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Bradley proved he is Liverpool standard, because he’s been part of the first team squad for a few years now. Now he has to prove he is standard to be the first choice RB at Liverpool for long periods. He definitely has the potential to do it, even though he’s not a young talent anymore. Hopefully he gets there.
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He’s only just turned 22. At the same age Robbo still had another year at Hull
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Yeah, you get all kind of different careers. Nobody should be surprised with the level of performance last night, because he had a few games like that before. But I think we’re all aware now that the next step is to prove it he can do it for much longer periods than before. Injuries permitting and form.
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I don’t believe he is. But like i said one offs are no use for anyone.
I’m loving an Irishman scorned 
Fair play, you stuck to your guns throughout and backed yer man. Full credit to Conor Bradley, he hit the heights with that performance and showed everything you could possibly want in a modern fullback, against the highest level of opposition.
The issue for me, with Bradley, was never his quality, but his fitness. I was wondering if he would be able to get it together for a sustained run, and put his injury problems behind him. I think I read that most of it was growth related, and was a case of maturing into his body, so here’s hoping.
Well played that man. He was excellent.
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I’m really pleased for Slot and the last two performances. I feared he might be stubborn, which would’ve been his downfall, but he’s actually got us back to very energetic and more structured performances. Seeing some players actually drop back into midfield when we attacked to ensure we had bodies in the event of a counter was so encouraging, which makes our gung-ho Bagel FC approach against Man Utd all the more confusing. I’m hopeful he’s learnt that even with the wealth of riches in the side this year comparable to last year, we can’t have that approach in a game ever. We need to see it consistently after the international break.
I want to see these performances away from home, and then the longer term aim is to integrate Isak, Frimpong and Kerkez into this style. I don’t want to see Kerkez being narrow and inverted, but bombing down the left flank.
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Yeah it was a much more coherent performance and its really difficult to look past the reality that we back to what previously worked. Individually there should not be much required to integrate each of those 3 missing players…maybe Frimpong the most challenging because of his more attacking/running style, and so maybe you concentrate on pairing him with Robbo who can balance him better than Kirkez can right now.
But the challenge becomes once you try to integrate them AND returning Wirtz to the middle. This is nothing about my faith in Flo to deliver, but about the shape and the ripple effects of that. The difference in this side between having 3 legit mids vs 2 and a 10 has been night and day. It’s not just about having more players behind the ball when we lose it, but we possess and use the ball far better with more options to use in the middle third. I get Slot’s thought for wanting to move in that way, but it has had the opposite effect than he envisioned. Doesnt mean we drop it entirely, but maybe that is something we put off until next year when we can have another summer rethink of the personnel required for it to work.
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Just a quick point re Bradley and not to take the thread too far off topic… Maybe he is at a stage when his skeletal body has finally slowed down and stopped growing, which would help fight against the stress and strain of a footballers life.
If I remember back correctly, Stevie G had the same problems with his body in his early days, funny enough, when he was also playing at RB… If the lad can get some fitness consistency into his game, the RB spot looks nailed down for seasons to come eh
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Houllier sent him to France to have his back reshaped.
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Yeah Ive had those holidays 
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You know I love you to bits but it’s “Kerkez” and “Gakpo” - and in your correct spelling of their surnames lies the key to their turnaround in form. Please, for the sake of everything, type them correctly, otherwise I’m gonna fade away with sadness!
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I never mentioned Cody. And just like Utd only upgraded Schmeichel from a wire coat hanger to a plastic one once he’d got through a season, Milos will get more spelling consideration once he’s settled down and established himself.
The problem with a few players that we have signed in recent years, is that they are easy to mistype, and once they are, they are stuck, wrong, in predictive text.
Szoboszlai has caused me all end of grief that way. Great player, lethal in Scrabble, hard to pronounce, and impossible to spell.
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Against Bournemouth Cherki was immediately looking to release Haaland as soon as he got the ball. Make sure he hasn’t got the time to look up and you’ve greatly reduced the threat straightaway.
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I assume Man City will attempt a similar game, tie Pep in knots and you’ll probably get a result.
We lost both Bradley and Konate for some time after the Madrid match last year. Not the case this year and they both seem to have found form.
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