I know you’re referring to the pathway rather than age, but surely age is a factor also. Conor is 21. At age 21, Trent had:
Sure, but I think that backs up my point. One of the concerns people raise about Bradley is that we supposedly still dont know enough about what he has with concerns of someone his age and inexperience being given such a key role in the squad if that is the direction it goes. But he will be older than trent was when he reached that stage and have more games under his belt.
For some reason I think Gomez is more likely to leave in the summer than Salah, Trent, VvD.
You are also forgetting that Bradley has to replace Trent a world class RB, Trent had to replace Clyne, so you wouldn’t expect Connor to be as established in what he’s won.
Plus Trent was in an established team when he won all that, where this team is still in transition and all be it doing very very well.
The disrespect Trent gets on here and in general from a lot of Liverpool fans is truly amazing i hope he does go. You know as the saying goes you don’t know what you had till its gone.
I don’t see anyone disrespecting Trent here.
I hope Trent stays, but I fear the longer it goes on without him signing, the more likely it is that he goes.
In the spirit of the thread, who would I buy?
Lukeba
Marmoush
Tchouameni
Kerkez
Those are the positions we need hirings for. Not too sure about Lukeba and Marmoush (haven’t seen the 10 games) but I’d be all in for Tchouameni and Kerkez.
Give over.
Yeah it’s pretty apparent. It feels like a lad talking shit about his ex to hide how broken hearted he is she dumped him
No, it’s even worse. It’s shitting on his girlfriend because a hot, rich guy hit on her.
It’s not disrespect. It’s accepting the reality that he is most likely to leave and that he is replaceable. The only shame for LFC would be if he leaves for free.
Joyce:
Leny Yoro was viewed as a potential star, but the centre back wanted assurances he would play this season. When none were forthcoming, the now 19-year-old moved from Lille to Manchester United. No one could foresee injury scuppering his campaign thus far.
It is understood that it was Mike Gordon, Fenway Sports Group’s president and responsible for the day to day running of the club back then, who ultimately decided renewing was the sensible use of resources. That has proved astute, especially as one of the options understood to have been discussed by Jürgen Klopp was to replace Salah was Antony.
The Brazilian would instead move to Manchester United for £82million that same summer and has had 17 goal involvements (12 goals, five assists) in 87 appearances since. At a different club under a different manager, those figures might have been better but Salah-esque they are patently not.
We ended up with Nunez so…
Err… he hasn’t played a single game for them so what does this mean?
It was £52 million I believe but still a lot though.
Its talking about Antony, not Yoro.
Which isn’t a bad buy. Overpriced. For sure.
Useful here and there, but far from what we thought/hoped we would be getting.
Oh definitely. But he’s scored 36 goals in 76 odd games for Liverpool. Not to mention his assists and other work.
Could he have done better ? Sure. There’s a 25 goal a season player there. Just can’t equate him with Antony who’s been a rank shit hire.
He was middling last season. But even there , he still comfortably outperforms whatever output Antony has produced for United over his career.
When you compare that we have mainly been a better side overall than United in that period, it’s not hard to see a possibility where Nunez does as bad as Antony if he was at United and Antony does a bit better at Liverpool than at United during that time. We’ll never know.
The other thing is that both, especially Nunez were brought in as key players for now and for the future. Nunez replacing Firmino was always going to be intersting from a tactical point of view, are we ready for that type of change and is it good enough in terms of simply quality.
Sometimes, targets between a Liverpool in successful years and United in problematic years aren’t a million miles apart. These articles also don’t tell the full story, of course. Why wouldn’t Liverpool talk between themselves about Antony 2+ years ago? But it can be a long way between a discussion and decision to bring him.
2 years ago is exactly a period when we had issues in the directors level between the owners and coaching staff.
Sure, we got a lot more things right than them. Nobody can get everything right and hopefully with more stability now across all roles, we can kick on again.