Do you actually watch LFC play?
Gomez very rarely played long balls (long ball as in those passes that get over head height you know real long balls) he started incorporating them this season before his injury with England. They were not as good as Phillips long balls.
I even commented back at the start of the season how I wished Gomez would stick to what he’s good at, you know what @ILLOK mentionned earlier about ‘skipping’ past the pressure and passing up axially.
Your interpretation is just so fucked up it’s beyond belief. You just make it up as you go along and ignore any context.
Sometimes I have liked some of your assessments but the way you go to extremes and absolutes is so tiresome. Why not try to understand?
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So it wasn’t easy and your there saying bring someone in.
As I have said in other threads to you I’d love that we bring players in I just don’t think it’s a piece of cake and you’ve just prooved it.
So other than picking up pieces of cake what other options have we got?
Gomez made more long passes per game and at a higher accuracy rate than Phillips last season per 90 minutes. Just because you remember something a specific way does not mean it’s true. Especially if others remember it dramatically differently and they have the evidence to back it up.
It only wasn’t easy because we tried to sign those CBs the weekend the window closed because we didn’t spring into action till it was confirmed Matip was out for the season. All of those deals would have been able to be accepted and completed in time if we’d had started at least a week before the closing of the window. Even the Kabak loan only just got over the line as they were able to sign Mustafi as a free agent on a 6 month deal. Otherwise we wouldn’t have even got Kabak. This is nothing to do with how difficult it is to sign a CB and 100% a result of LFC leaving it so late to enter the market.
Nonsense!
How do you know that?
For fucks sake people without Nats prominence in the air we wouldn’t be in Champs league, his physical presence helped nullify the long ball neanderthal teams. Well done Nat.
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But without his incompetence on the ground, we’d have won the league.
Or something.
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Are you saying we should sell him to United for £80m?
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Why would we bother selling?
He probably earns in the region of 300K a year. If you use Ben Davies as a benchmark fee for a Championship level defender he will fetch very little (£500,000, plus £1m potential add-ons)
For all his flaws, he is virtually a zero-cost option for the club.
Given he has already played 20 times for the club, not sure there are many better options for a 5th choice backup. Perhaps free transfer CB close to retirement you maybe pay £5M a year wages ?
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Reading a lot of comments on here you would think the idea is for Nat to be first choice Centre half.
If he is kept he’d likely be 5th choice and if he was a superstar you would imagine he’d be grabbed by a club who would have him a lot further up the pecking order.
What he has shown,with some shortcomings is that he can be a useful player to have around in the lower part of the pecking order.Can’t think of too many top class CBs who would want to be #5.
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Money money money
A good CM + CF combo will cost no less than £70 million. IMO, we should buy another backup RB because Neco is fucking garbage - just someone as good as Milner-as-a-RB is enough.
I can only see another CB being bought if Matip is offloaded. In that case, we should buy Botman.
Thomas darling. If you want to call teenage Liverpool players who have shown incredible ability and resilience to appear in the red shirt at such a young age, ‘garbage’ (or sub-players, or one of your many other descriptors) can you do it on Twitter please, with all the bellends? I’d like to think we’re a bit better here.
Regarding ‘Neco’, is he good enough for Liverpool? Possibly not in the long run, we’ll have to see. But he has clearly got ‘something’ that the boss likes, and he’s getting selected in the Wales squad too.
The problem with fans like you is that you want the instant gratification of the transfer market to solve all problems. You would have probably written off Trent as shite when he was making his first tentative appearances in the first team. I can imagine you would have been unimpressed with signing Andy Robertson, or Hendo, or any of the other unheralded, unfashionable players who have blossomed here.
So we absolutely shouldn’t sign a right back. Arguably it was a mistake last season to sign a left back (and just to be clear, getting a left back and not replacing Lovren was something I was absolutely fine with). Recent history shows that we should always prioritise strengthen the core of the side. You can fudge the full-back positions with youngsters, midfielders or centre backs (I’m not keen on the latter of these though). It’s an important position for us, but it’s also quite forgiving - you can protect a youngster making an appearance at full-back a lot more than you can protect a midfielder, centre back or striker. There is a reason young players breaking through into their senior rides often get their first games at full back.
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Agree 100%. 'Cept for the darling bit.
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Sorry, but seeing Neco keep hitting crosses into opponent’s body can be very annoying. Defensively, he is also very weak as well. I mean, I would rather playing Milner there over him.
But, have you ever considered that TAA can get injured? You can notice that City’s 2 RBs are Walker and Cancelo - the gap is much closer than TAA and Neco.
Ideally I would prefer buying a full-back player who can play both wings.
Well Milner is pretty good to be honest.
And Walker/Cancelo may be a closer gap than Arnold/Williams but the gap between Arnold/Anyone else is pretty significant also and we are probably paying next to nothing to have Williams in a backup RB role while City are paying over £100k a week for theirs.
It wouldn’t be a wise use of our more limited resources to invest in a better quality right back.
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Well, we don’t exactly have £100m to drop on two players for the same position (and then not really trust either of them), do we?
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Therefore I said that ideally that sub player can play both wings - like Milner.
We have Milner and he’s only 35 he’ll be here for at least another 15 years. 
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No worries. You’re entitled to your opinion. I’d rather you tried to keep the criticism proportionate and respectful.
Have you ever considered that Pep drops about 100m a season on full backs? They essentially cheat at footy manager. We can’t do this.
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Nat Phillips was valued at around £1.5m at the start of the season. Now, his value is around the £10m mark.
Rhys Williams has seen his value increase significantly too, holding a market value of around £5m.
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