You say that yet I didn’t see you mount such a defence when Salah was dropped and people were blaming him for our attacking woes….which since have been disproven as we scored more and win more with Salah on the pitch.
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The problem is… I don’t think that was disproven. Up until Isak’s injury in January where he was out for a while…
According to GPT it was:
25 goals in 16 matches when Salah started and
16 goals in 9 matches when he didn’t.
Don’t think it is quite fair to count games when we had absolutely everybody out… so hardly disproven.
With so few games, I don’t think it was proven either ( that we score less… so many factors come into play).
Let’s just leave it as uncertain.
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I think, if it is even true, then it’s likely to do with his old Brighton boss Roberto Di Zerbi being the Spurs manager now.
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Doh!! I forgot Di Zerbi was at Brighton
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Nope, not having it.
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I think Liverpool supposedly contacted Van Hecke when Slot was in charge. Maybe their interest changes now with Iraola, maybe not.
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None of which has anything to do with the constant bashing of Gakpo for being one of the many players who had a down season last time around and who we’d hope the manager can get him back to playing his best.
Salah meanwhile won’t be here so what does he matter.
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Not the point.
@Mascot said he doesn’t like players getting scapegoated. So I pointed out that Salah also got scapegoated but he didn’t seem to mind that. That’s where it started.
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I agree that it’s not Gakpo’s fault that he isn’t as good as Diaz but people can’t help but compare their last seasons, given they played more or less the same position at Liverpool. I know it’s not fair because Gakpo is playing in a dysfunctional team while Diaz is in a high-flying outfit.
Gakpo would also look much better if he was playing at Bayern.
No, he was talking about Gakpo. Then for some reason you’ve brought Salah into the conversation despite the fact he won’t be here next season. It’s an entirely pointless diversion.
Nope. Read again
He said he doesn’t like ANY player getting scapegoated.
Salah was getting scapegoated WHILE he was still a Liverpool player. The only “pointless diversion” is you jumping in when you weren’t part of the conversation.
Temporary thing that’s happened two seasons in a row. If he wants to go to Spurs ahead of us then so be it.
Not worth caring about.
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Schlotterbeck would be my option there anyhow, I do think we need to consider looking at VVD replacements and I don’t think we have an obvious version and I believe he has played in both CB positions so would allow a transition of sorts as I think Leoni and Jaquet if they are deemed our options play the other side to VVD. Then again perhaps these lads we got the academy are looked as the long term options.
I do think we need to buy one this summer.
Also probably cheaper.
We need another CB certainly, as far as I’m concerned. Even if van Dijk and Jacquet are an elite partnership having them backed up by Gomez and Leoni is just miles away from good enough.
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Oh I noticed Schlotterbeck signed a new contract but there had been arguments, maybe Dortmund protecting value.
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Supposedly it has a release clause active for certain elite clubs - we’re rumoured to be one.
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We were until the loss to Villa knocked us far enough down the ESPN power ranking that we no longer met the threshold.
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Heard a lot of rumours of Yan Diomande being signed for a huge price to play RW???
Haven’t we learned anything at all?
What are we supposed to have learned?
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Gakpo was poor last season, and it was said by many. So was MacAllister, so were many of our players. And as supporters we get frustrated and say it, thats fair?
There isn’t a rule that we can criticise one and not do the same with another.
Salah was so much more important to the club than Gakpo can even hope to be, yet there weren’t many jumping in when he was being pilloried?
I think thats a fair point @koptician was making.
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