It’s not immediate but the lack of good U21 players that can make the step up to the first team will make this club harder to balance financial sustainability and on-field performance. Even some of the U21 players cannot make it in our club, we still can sell them for a fee to generate revenue for the transfer budget.
Hasn’t it been the case for some time that our U21s have been very young compared to the other clubs.
I think Melo might be one of the first times we’ve started a over aged player on a regular basis.
No Gini, no Sadio. Hendo’s legs are gone, Bobby’s as well.
They haven’t been replaced bad planning leaves us with a huge and difficult task this summer
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It’s not just Twitter. This place was full of ‘just give him what he fucking wants’ type howls last year.
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Sadly seems some of us might have gone a bit “Rio” on this one.
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Next season When we upgrade midfield we might see the Salah of previous seasons, just saying.
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To be realistic, we have to at least be looking for alternatives to Milner, Keita, AOC. That’s literally 3 bodies to go for with zero transfer fees recouped from these 3 and the replacements don’t come cheap.
Keita and Ox barely contributed anything this season so one new signing would cover both. 
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Jude Bellingham? Even the best players in the world need a good supporting cast. And looking at whoever that is left, it doesn’t inspire any confidence at all just based solely on reliability.
It is not a concern at all.
The best young players go out on loan or they go to the first team, they don’t hang around in the u21s.
We make plenty of money selling our youth players.
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Hold on there. Howls?
Calls to keep one if the best players in the world happy with an enhanced contract?
There is a section of Liverpool supporters who will never give Salah a break, constantly sniping at his effort or now his contract. He is still one if our best players, but it won’t be enough fir some people
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This season??? I’ve seen both Ox and Keita have good games. Hell of a long time ago.
Owen and Torres were too often injured. When Gerrard played, the rest of the team just waited for him to do everything, Suarez ate babies and kicked puppies. We’re just never happy I guess. But then that’s human nature. If any of us were married to Miss World, her feet would smell and she’d snore.
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More of the same that game. Going through the motions, almost afraid to play and frozen into inaction at the same time. Unbelievable that these are players that have been in numerous European finals over the last few years and competed for the title.
You look at them now and wouldn’t think they were anything special. Crazy.
Given up? Switched off? Knackered? Take your pick I guess.
The trouble is that the first two of those are simply inexcusable.
Every player who pulls on that shirt needs to give 100% in every game.
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Indeed, but something is very broken somewhere along the line. Its across the entire squad bar say Bajcetic who is just breaking into the team.
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First game I have missed this season. Lucky me by the sound of it…massive transfer window coming up but will missing out on champions league mean some targets will not be so willing to come…I guess the likely answer is yes. The acid test will be Bellingham if it is true it was a done deal.
I imagine a lot of the people now saying Salah should have been moved on and isn’t worth 350k are the same ones screaming that FSG should have given him a blank cheque every week.
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Both can be true. Give him blank cheque every week and take it away from him and sell him if he doesn’t perform.
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I know the disappointment towards the end of last season has really hurt us, but agree there is something else that might be contributing to our lethargic displays this season…
It got me wondering if our pre-season schedule has added to our woes… When Shankly’s teams played it was well known that once the clock hit 75mins in a game they would throw the kitchen sink at opposition for the remainder of the game. The crowd knew it would happen, the opposing team knew it would happen and Shankly let it be known that he fed his players up on steak everyday so they could run faster, run harder, last longer than anybody else… All psychological of course, be he was, a master of the mind games.
Another thing he put about, and it is this, his players don’t leave their stamina on the training pitch, he had them save it for the games.
Which all in all brought me back questioning if the pre-season schedule was altered sufficiently enough to counter the exertions of a 63game season, as well as the mental fatigue of failing at the last hurdle or two.
Been wondering if Andreas Kornmayer has adopted his ‘Simon-Said’ routines to cater for the humongous efforts from last season, or if he has just continued to keep pushing for the maximum point of endurance…
There has definitely been something that has broken these guys this season and if Jurgen can’t get to discover what it is… might be time to get one of those TV detectives in to solve the mystery
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