Liverpool Season: 2021-22

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Liverpool are set to finalise their squad for the first half of the 2021/22 Premier League season following transfer deadline day

Liverpool will be unable to name a full 25-man squad for the first half of the 2021/22 season following their transfer deadline day business.

With the Reds focused on tying down players to new contracts ahead of signing new players, Ibrahima Konate remained Jurgen Klopp’s only signing of the summer as the last day of the transfer window saw Jordan Henderson, Nat Phillips and Rhys Williams become the latest players to sign extended deals.

The latter then signed for Swansea City on loan for the season, with Sheyi Ojo, Jake Cain and Luis Longstaff also completing temporary deadline day switches to Millwall, Newport

And it was Ojo’s departure which made it impossible for Liverpool to name a full 25-man squad as they were left with seven homegrown players over the age of 21, following Ben Davies and Ben Woodburn’s own loan exits earlier in the window.

However, Klopp will not be left short for the opening months of the season with the Reds still boasting a number of Under-21s player, born on or after 1 January 2000, who do not need to be registered in their 25-man squad to feature during the campaign.

Curtis Jones, Neco Williams and Harvey Elliott are three such underage first team players who don’t need to be registered to feature for Liverpool, along with the likes of Kaide Gordon, Billy Koumetio and Conor Bradley.

Meanwhile, the Reds do currently possess their full quota of 17 overseas players after Divock Origi and Loris Karius failed to secure deadline day moves.

As a result, Klopp could name a 24-man squad including four goalkeepers up until January if Liverpool wish to register the German shot-stopper, despite the fact he has no future at the club, is out of contract next summer and hasn’t played competitively for the Reds since the 2018 Champions League final.

Alternatively, if Liverpool wish to leave that space free, in the unlikely scenario of a free transfer arrival outside of the window, considering Karius is highly unlikely to even make a matchday squad this season, they could instead register a 23-man squad for the rest of 2021.

Liverpool 2021/22 potential Premier League squad in full

Goalkeepers: Alisson, Adrian, Caoimhin Kelleher (HG), Loris Karius.

Defenders: Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, Joe Gomez (HG), Kostas Tsimikas, Andy Robertson, Joel Matip, Nat Phillips (HG), Trent Alexander-Arnold (HG).

Midfielders: Fabinho, Thiago Alcantara, James Milner (HG), Naby Keita, Jordan Henderson (HG), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (HG).

Forwards: Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah, Takumi Minamino, Diogo Jota, Divock Origi.

Senior Under-21s players: Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliott, Neco Williams.

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I’m pretty content with the transfer window. I would have loved to see Karius, Davies, and Ojo leave permanently. I would have loved to see a new attacker if we could move Origi or Takumi, similarly, I would have loved to a new midfielder if we could move Keita or AOC.

I’m pretty content with our squad options. Yes there are question marks over Origi, Takumi, Keita, AOC; but why do we have to dread the worst? If we consider ourselves that cursed, then there’s no point in buying a new player too, unless he is a shaman or something.

Adrian, Kelleher, Neco, Gomez, Konate, Nat, Tsimikas, Milner, Keita, AOC, Curtis, Elliott, Bobby, Origi, and Takumi; that’s fucking shitload of quality, diversity, and experience to supplement the starting XI. If just half of them are fit and on form, by rotation, we will win multiple trophies.

YNWA.

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That’s the curious thing, it doesn’t seem like we’ve accepted an option to buy on him either.

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Fuck the Echo for that headline.

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I would use Liverpool Gecko for browsing their site. Just replace the “liverpoolecho.co.uk” with “liverpoolgecko.co.uk”. Still have to suffer the headlines, but at least they don’t get paid for coming up with that crap.

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Really stupid, isn’t it… the level of this paper has plummeted to new depths apparently.

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Poor Karius. From 1st choice to 4th choice in 3 years.

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I see Gary Neville says there’s ‘something not right’ at Liverpool and written us off, stating United will finish above us.

So we’re definitely gonna win the league now

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Because we didn’t spend like a drunken sailor while a global pandemic still rages on, the players were blamed right at the beginning for not belonging to reality but in reality it is those at the very top, the talking heads and so on.

From Infantino to the bloke on a PL talking show they’ve all treated football like some kind immune bubble.

If you are spending 70-80m+ on players who are replacing what was brought in the season before that’s what I label as madness and something not right.

He really talks some shit, a load of forwards just looks like a really unbalanced side but no let’s just bang on about a 36 year old Ronaldo returning like he is 26.

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Maybe we should collect all the comments by pundits and :v:t4: experts :v:t4: and then bomb their social media when we end up above ManU and Chelsea.

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You can’t shame a shameless

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And Neville was praised for opposing the greedy super league. Yet expects the top teams to spend like beyond their means.

ps. Didn’t realise drunken sailors were known for their spending too

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Well if they were like me at University they would end up buying an Apple dog :confused:

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WTF is an Apple dog? :thinking:

Is it like a real dog, but more expensive?

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Well the initial price was about £40, it’s an expensive speaker if I’m honest (Did kind of keep me company when it worked).

Doesn’t need vet fees mind.

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Neville is an hypocrite, what he is doing with Salford is exactly what he whines about.

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Gary Neville: “Something isn’t right at Liverpool.”

Gabriel Agbonlahor: “They’re in big trouble because their bench is like a 10th-place team’s bench”

20 BBC pundits: Not one picks Liverpool for title with fourth place most common selection.

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Most of them have not even got a brain cell. :grin:

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:rofl:

He wasn’t that good even in FIFA10 :rofl:

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Well, they have a point. Scoring goals is still a problem for our forwards and certainly our midfield and we have already two injuries upfront. There are good things too, our defence is back to strength and Elliott is doing fine in midfield most of the time but I don’t think it will be enough to win the PL again.