The Unreliable LFC Transfer Rumours Discussion Thread (Part 3)

[redalways]

@Nobluff

I’m assuming the green from the chart above is his last season with Benfica.

Yes. The variance is fascinating. It looks like -.20, +.34, -.13, -.24, -.06 in per 90s.

[stevenalonso]

On a lighter note, lol..United lost to Asean All Stars - team assembled yesterday i guess
And this is before the game

https://x.com/markgoldbridge/status/1927727318237098433

[LondonRich]

Is Ekiteke better than Nunez? Better the devil you know? He feels for £40m than 80!

[jabu]

https://x.com/AnfieldSector/status/1927741681794756687/photo/1

take it easy there gakpo… now we know why the “for sale” rumors might be true

[GermanRed]

I’ve seen this movie. It’s called ‘My boss’s hot wife’

[Mascot]

@redalways

How many more times is this going to get repeated? He did not overrule them. He was told that Núñez didn’t fit the way we were playing, and his response was that he wanted to change the way we were playing.

I thought about putting up the @redalways signal when I saw that

It’s even more funny, because we all know that Klopp can’t overrule the data team anyway. We know this because Klopp wanted to sign Brandt and instead they got him Salah against his wishes

[FGred]

we are taking all comers Ekitike is wanted by Chelsea as well.

[redalways]

@Mascot

I thought about putting up the @redalways signal when I saw that

You wanted me, but if you notice, you actually got @Limiescouse instead.

[FGred]

IMO yes he is.

[stevenalonso]

he is gone now for sure. Lol.. Sold to the first bidder.

[RedOverTheWater]

For the non-smokers it might be a slightly jarring sight to see top class athletes lighting up a celebratory stogie.

Just musing out loud, but have we got to the point where smoking a cigar is less frowned on, for a top athlete, than overindulging on a big fat cheeseburger?

On a personal note I love to see them letting their hair down a bit and enjoying the moment after a long season of hard work.

I would imagine they will all have summer workout schedules to stay on top of, and when pre-season starts they will be ready to go. But they can’t be robots, and they need to find a way to let off steam.

[cynicaloldgit]

@RedOverTheWater

top class athletes

I assume it’s okay if a Man U player does it?

[RedOverTheWater]

Luke Shaw smokes 40 a day and hits Greggs on the way in, and out, from training.

It hasn’t done him any harm!

[WeeJoe]

@RedOverTheWater

It hasn’t done him any harm!

[Limiescouse]

@Mascot

@redalways

How many more times is this going to get repeated? He did not overrule them. He was told that Núñez didn’t fit the way we were playing, and his response was that he wanted to change the way we were playing.

I thought about putting up the @redalways signal when I saw that

It’s even more funny, because we all know that Klopp can’t overrule the data team anyway. We know this because Klopp wanted to sign Brandt and instead they got him Salah against his wishes

That didn’t happen either. The data team presented Mo and Brandt as the best two options available to them. Jurgen was initially excited about Brandt for obvious reasons, but the data team had a clear preference for Mo. He was younger, meaning he was on a trajectory with likely a higher peak, and going to be cheaper, because he came with a label of already being a prem failure. So they put a presentation together for Klopp to argue why Mo was the best fit available and Klopp said great.

Graham gave an interview only a couple of weeks where he directly addresses this story - the presentation pitch bit starts around 8 mins in, but the bits before there are interesting as well. He explicitly says Jurgen had the final say, as he always did, and had he have chosen to go with Brandt it would have been fully backed by the data team. He was just convinced by the argument they made to him about Mo being the best choice, which Graham puts down in part to the confidence they’d earned with their success in the prior summer.

Liverpool’s Transfer Genius Reveals How They Signed Salah & van Dijk Before Everyone

[Limiescouse]

@redalways

@Mascot

I thought about putting up the @redalways signal when I saw that

You wanted me, but if you notice, you actually got @Limiescouse instead.

[Mascot]

@Limiescouse

That didn’t happen either. The data team presented Mo and Brandt as the best two options available to them. Jurgen was initially excited about Brandt for obvious reasons, but the data team had a clear preference for Mo. He was younger, meaning he was on a trajectory with likely a higher peak, and going to be cheaper, because he came with a label of already being a prem failure. So they put a presentation together for Klopp to argue why Mo was the best fit available and Klopp said great.

Graham gave an interview only a couple of weeks where he directly addresses this story - the presentation pitch bit starts around 8 mins in, but the bits before there are interesting as well. He explicitly says Jurgen had the final say, as he always did, and had he have chosen to go with Brandt it would have been fully backed by the data team. He was just convinced by the argument they made to him about Mo being the best choice, which Graham puts down in part to the confidence they’d earned with their success in the prior summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4-zOLoZRmc

Is that for the benefit of anyone who might not have realised I was taking the piss?

[Limiescouse]

[PeachesEnRegalia]

@Mascot

@Limiescouse

That didn’t happen either. The data team presented Mo and Brandt as the best two options available to them. Jurgen was initially excited about Brandt for obvious reasons, but the data team had a clear preference for Mo. He was younger, meaning he was on a trajectory with likely a higher peak, and going to be cheaper, because he came with a label of already being a prem failure. So they put a presentation together for Klopp to argue why Mo was the best fit available and Klopp said great.

Graham gave an interview only a couple of weeks where he directly addresses this story - the presentation pitch bit starts around 8 mins in, but the bits before there are interesting as well. He explicitly says Jurgen had the final say, as he always did, and had he have chosen to go with Brandt it would have been fully backed by the data team. He was just convinced by the argument they made to him about Mo being the best choice, which Graham puts down in part to the confidence they’d earned with their success in the prior summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4-zOLoZRmc

Is that for the benefit of anyone who might not have realised I was taking the piss?

[legalalien]

Is Ekiteki better than Delap? They sound very similar; young, fast, full of potential. But one of them is 70 million pounds cheaper.

Mmm … which one should we gamble on? Maybe the cheaper one?