Only one of them will be bought, since both are LCBs.
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Who mentioned it?
Yeah thatās in the past then, I thought it was something recent. A year or two ago in football can change a lot of things. Perhaps he was one of the options if we didnāt get Wirtz. For example, we were after Gordon in the summer of 2024, Olmo also earlier that same summer and Huijsen last summer.
Obviously heās a quality player, but weāre well covered in his best zone. We have enough questions as it is how to make Szobo and Wirtz and Ekitike and Isak work (thatās not counting Salah, who is here and weāll see if he is next summer), let alone adding Rogers to it.
We could say itās simply competition and the weakest link drops out, but I just donāt see enough reasons to go for Rogers now.
He could perhaps play off the left towards the inside, but itās questionable whether thatās his best position, especially outside Villa, who play basically without wingers.
And we might need someone new for the right side soon, or at least competition.
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The winter transfer window will be closing in the next week, and we have zero sign of any investment ā itās shameful.
Iāve given up on Slot, but a new manager would also struggle with our unbalanced squad right now. Pep needed to spend Ā£200m this time last year to turn around Manchester City and make them top 4. Itās not about how much youāve already spent; itās the truth that we have very obvious holes in the squad that need to be filled ASAP.
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We just spent Ā£450 million a few months ago, i know it may surprise some people but we arenāt owned by a petrol state .
So i wouldnt call it shameful tbh , i would say once biten twice shy is more appropriate.
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And not one of those 3 players looks like being an ongoing fixture at the club. One has already been loaned out and the other two have barely played this season and already new signings in their position come in and push them further down the pecking order. City have a no consequence approach to spending because for them there arenāt, but that sort of ineffective spending would paralyze any other club for the foreseeable future. We only had the ability to have the summer we just did because historically we have avoided that sort of panic buying.
I am surprised and disappointed we have seemingly not moved to bolster a back line that needed more done to it even in the summer. But City is not the bench mark to look to
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Weāve got 5 defenders right now, and at most 6 for the rest of the season, and weāre still playing in both the Champions League and chasing Top 5. Itās a huge chance that we will lose Champions League football next season. Weāve needed a new defender for years, and taking a year to bring one in with a risk of losing hundreds of millions is, yeah, shameful.
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I would go for Van Hecke from Brighton only one year left on his contract. Van De Ven too brittle and too expensive. shlotterback in the summer. CHs are our Achilles heel all season if that area is weak it affect everything else.
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Iāve suspected for a couple of seasons that we were keen on him just on the way both Klopp and Slot have interacted with him at the end of our games against them over the past few years.
If youāre looking for an unreliable rumourā¦
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Donāt want one with an Achilles heel anyhow
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Rodgers was linked before he signed a new contract, though, that ship has now sailed. Wharton, thoughā¦ There might be something.
Iām interested to see what happens with all those new contracts, though, whether people decide to stick. I think that having a manager like Alonso would help sway their decisions in our favour.
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ah, I wasnāt aware that he had signed a new deal recently.
Just want to add to the comments about a central defender. It seems reckless to not address it this January, regardless of what happens with Slot. We need two. Even if we signed the ālesserā one right now, to let the new man have his main choice in the summer, fine.
We are threadbare, and there is a CL to play for, an FA Cup, and obviously the League, where we need to focus on finishing in the CL spots - a task that is looking shakier as each bad result goes by, as Chelsea and Man Utd enjoy a new manager bounce and Villa, City and Arsenal are further ahead again.
Let me throw out a name. Senesi. Bournemouth. Contract expires in the summer. Maybe a modest fee could get him now? Argentinian, Prem proven, 28 years old so experienced.
Iām not so stuck on the name, rather, the lack of activity, which seems very careless indeed.
Other needs like a winger, and probably a ball playing defensive midfielder, can wait until summer when we put more pieces into the new team we are building.
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I was so disappointed with that that I subconsciously decided to misspell his surname. 
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Just wanted to say I fully approve of your continued use of that spelling and should he ever end up at LFC I demand this to be his official name.
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Not unreliable transfer rumour anymore.
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17 so wonāt move until the summer, I believe.
Heās 6ā6" so if heās halfway decent heāll be in the first team to help us deal with set pieces 
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On his current form I would barely be comfortable at 80k, however it depends on if its 100% his form or if a fair amount of fault fall on the manager/tactics.
Heās going be a tall lad when he grows up.
Wasnāt this the guy that was mentioned by random site in Ecuador?
No, thatās Ordonez.
Steele on him in that article from a few days ago:
Reports earlier in the month suggested Club Bruges defender Joel Ordonez was on the verge of a move to Anfield but that was dismissed as untrue.
The Ecuadorian could be one to watch more broadly ā not necessarily for Liverpool but other top teams ā this summer and is valued at around Ā£42m.
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Ah fair enough.