Who exactly would you like to be our backup LB, with the standard being that they would do a good job against Mbappe or Vinicius Jr?
You have a better point if you think that Tsimikas will struggle against the average PL quality winger. Mbappe and Vinicius will have success whoever they play against.
Defensive pessimism can be a helpful cognitive strategy tbf
so are you insinuating that my point is kak?
One injury to Rodri and …
brighton spending that caicedo money
One injury to the Beluga now they have sold his back up.
Which is interesting because pretty much every season he has had since he left Austria he has had some period of the season where he was struggling physically. It may not show up fully in the injury data, but at minimum he’s had periods of being in a funk while trying to play through a niggle.
Problem with a lot of the depth arguments is the suggestion these players will play 8-12 games.
No ones coming to do that, Robbo will start most of our games at LB, Tsimikas is fine for other periods and we still have Gomez at this time as well.
Our biggest issue is CM and CB I would have said it was the right side but Chiesa helps with that, you’ve also got him as an option in that midfield.
Enter Tyler Morton, I guess. His move to Leverkusen was denied yesterday, so I presume it’s because the club knew at that point they wouldn’t be able to sign anyone for that role in this transfer window.
As a side note, I assume this will be revisited in a year’s time, so Bajčetić should have some extra motivation to do well on loan because if he proves he can cut it at Salzburg at his age, Slot and Hughes will surely consider him an option for DM/CM, even if “only” as Endo’s permanent replacement in the squad.
Odd window.
Signed a player we didnr really need and not addressed the issues we had plus sold and loaned quite a few
Of all the issues at the start of the summer addressing the cover for the right wing was probably the leading one, which we appear to have done.
I would only agree with you on that case (right wing) because at the start of the summer we still had Bajcetic and Van den Berg with us.
Now we have gotten rid of our CB cover, so I’m slightly concerned there.
Did Kaide Gordon go to Norwich? I don’t see him in the list on BBC Sport.
yes he did
https://x.com/LFC/status/1829650415882760501
Kaide Gordon has completed a loan move to Norwich City for the remainder of 2024-25.
Good luck, Kaide
I think we have got rid of our cover for our cover.
I went into the summer assuming we would do something at CB, but mainly because the noise around Gomez made it seem like we were going to need a replacement for him. With him staying the situation is different. I understand why people would want another CB, but there are plenty of good reasons we’d think that as long as Slot is happy with his current 4 we would be best served putting it off for another year.
Maybe we’re confident in Virgil retaining his form and extending his stay, making the profile we’re after different than if its as replacement for him.
Confidence in the output from our statistical models is a key component of our evaluation process, and that is largely a function of the player under consideration having played enough games at a high enough standard. We typically need a data set of a minimum of 100 games to be confident enough in a positive evaluation of a player to sanction a first team move. But the confidence is also weighted by the level of the competition (French league less than prem, UEFA competition better than most domestic leagues). It is entirely possible to imagine a scenario where we have a player or two we really like but need another year of data before we can get behind sanctioning a move for someone we’ve earmarked as a replacement for Virgil, or to justify pushing out Gomez. If you dont like the group you have already then you need to be more willing to act on whatever you can get now. But if you like your players, then this is the sort of strategy you can use to maximize your success in the market compared to moving now on a player who ultimately wasnt what you thought he was, or you settle for someone less fancied but more well known.
About time LFC let Nat go and pursue his career. Tossing him around seems really unfair for a very good servant of the club.
should have taken the 4 million at the beginning of the window
