Yeah, getting rid of Bradley at this stage of his career because of a few injuries would be too hardcore of an approach. If we set such a standard, we’d be left with almost no players. Not in question that he should be kept and counted on as one of the 2 RB options, regardless what happens with Trent (I think he’s closer to going than staying).
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Its a good job we didn’t have social media when Gerrard was first breaking through he missed a lot of games injured fans we would be clamouring for him to be sold.
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Kudus looked ace standing up to those Arsenal thugs, with no little skill as well!
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I think he would be a good signing. Has worked with Heitenga too.
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Fully agree on all points. I wish Bradley and Gomez were fit enough to share that right back spot after Trent leaves, so the recruitment could focus on a centre back and a left back but I think that getting a new right back will be one of club’s priorities in the summer.
It’s a separate note but I’m worried that our best youth prospects have suffered so much from various injuries. Gordon, Bajčetić, Danns, McConnell, Bradley, Doak… All have missed fairly large chunks of their respective careers so far due to fitness issues.
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He is a stronger version of Diaz. Very good as a solo player, but terrible with his passing and decision-making.
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He is the one I’ve wanted us to get for a while.
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It feels like Trent, Virgil, and Mo are goners. FSG does not want to pay out new contracts to them.
I fully expect ownership to rest on laurels and say, we just won the League and you want us to buy new players?
Another summer of no incomings. Slot had a fantastic first season with Liverpool but sadly our ownership will let him down. He’s a great manager obviously but he can’t win without the players to back him on the pitch.
Our only hope is we get a King’s Ransom for Darwin Nunez and our other outgoings. This will help fund some replacements. LFC is now a sell to buy club.
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I bet you’re fun at parties.
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If you are not enjoying this season, with what the players and Arne are achieving and are more worried about next season then you aren’t a Liverpool fan, you are just a troll.
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It’s an excellent season. Liverpool have increased their lead to 13 points with the latest win. We’ve put City and Newcastle in their place back to back. No complaints about our current season.
The worry is the future. 3 stars who form the core of the team look to be leaving and Liverpool have always been reluctant to open their pocketbooks. Notably ZERO incomings this past summer and winter window.
We’ve got stingy owners so we have to be realistic about the future. If we lose 3 star players and get no incomings, I know Slot is a great manager, but I doubt even he can work miracles with that kind of handicap.
We must sell as much deadweight as possible to fund the replacements, that starts with Darwin Nunez.
Let’s not conflate having genuine concerns of what’s going to happen after this season with the great success we are enjoying now. Those are two separate things.
It’s just when you objectively observe FSG they have shown a notable reluctance to spend. If we hadn’t lost both Fabinho AND Henderson in the same window, we might still be talking about needing that midfield rebuilt.
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But your take is that FSG are poor owners whereas we have had a sustained period of success under them and are in a position that is the envy of 99% of the clubs in the world.
We are, by all measures, an extremely well run club. Many have spent freely and not achieved anything like our success.
It just comes across as entitled whinging to be honest.
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And there I was, thinking that I was the anti-optimistic one! 
I’m sure that club’s hierarchy will back Slot after this season because there are some inadequacies in this squad that have to be resolved regardless of whether these three stay or go.
The powder has mostly been kept dry since the summer of 2023 and with CL money pouring in again, revenues increasing overall and some sales to be made, I expect a few signings to be made. If Slot wins the title this season, he will likely be the first PL coach to win it without a centre forward and almost without a left back. 
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But you have to enjoy the now, as no one knows what the future holds.
Also, I prefer our owners being frugal and being particular in who they buy.
No owners are perfect, but we could do far far worse.
BTW sorry for being rude early.
Just enjoy the ride.
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There is a difference between stingy and prudent.
With all our prudence, the club hardly makes a profit. You seem to suggest that the owners need to spend their own money to buy players, and the club should not be self sufficient and the owners need to keep pumping in money rather than building a sustainable club. It’s not wrong to be worried about the club future if 3 of our top players but it’s another thing to always slip in snide remarks about the owners. In fact all of us should be damn proud of this club for achieving so much without the reckless spending of other clubs.
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We need to remember Hicks and Gillet to consider how FSG are doing now. The fucking despair of a club running aground, and no hope for the future.
In comparison with now?
They are perhaps frugal, but their track record in turning the club around is on another level.
We have had success in the last few years, and denied more by a club ran on illegal financial practices. Had City been above board financially, we would be chasing No 23 titles this year.
We have responsible owners. And successful ones to boot.
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I can see your concerns but also disagree with a whole lot of your post.
Yes the Van Djik and Salah contract situations attract concern. That’s fair. They are part of the teams spine and replacing that, when the need arises could be tricky. No one disagrees with that point.
But otherwise, liverpool is the best managed club in the league. The squad is stacked with players that all contribute. The only questions surround Nunez and Chiesa.
For me there is a test for Slot coming for sure. We all know we will be looking to transition certain squad members and its how Slot works with the team is crucial.
You’ve just watched your team dismantle Newcastle to go thirteen points clear, and that’s the post you decided to make?
Where is the post in the match thread commenting on the game or celebrating the win?
It’s a fucking ridiculous post.
Firstly, why does it look like all three are gone? It looks to me like Virgil and Mo will stay, but we just don’t know yet.
Why are you predicting another summer with no incomings? Based on what?
Everything in this post is just doom mongering based on no evidence that you’ve simply talked talked yourself into.
Liverpool spend to the capacity they can, which is more than the vast majority of clubs. We can’t make a loss and we don’t. The owners are not allowed to pump money in, even if they wanted to.
Here is the thing that always escapes fans like you - the ‘just fucking sign players’ lot - at the level we operate at it becomes very difficult to improve on what you have. Look at how many players United buy, or Chelsea, and ask yourself are they improving? Is that spending helping them close the gap?
Liverpool rightly keep their powder dry waiting for the right signing, and that is clearly the right thing to do. Who else has won a title in the last few year outside clubs who are systematically cheating?
It’s absolutely fucking wild that your take on this season after losing a generational manager and replacing him seemlessly, and possibly even improving us, is that everything is lost and the future is bleak.
Title challenges are wasted on fans like you.
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@John Henry
Where’s the money for defending FSG?
Such skint misers FSG are.
#FSGout 
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[quote=“vjcpatriot, post:9222, topic:114, full:true”]
It’s an excellent season. Liverpool have increased their lead to 13 points with the latest win. We’ve put City and Newcastle in their place back to back. No complaints about our current season. /quote]
Perhaps that has something to do with having the best squad in the country, perhaps Europe with many of those players signed for club record fees or near to it, and much of the growing revenues earned by the club funnelled into higher wages to retain those players?
[quote=“vjcpatriot, post:9222, topic:114, full:true”]
The worry is the future. 3 stars who form the core of the team look to be leaving and Liverpool have always been reluctant to open their pocketbooks. Notably ZERO incomings this past summer and winter window. [/quote]
2 of whom were signed for club record fees and will be 33 and 34 this summer. Also, zero incomings is false, we signed Chiesa last summer and were very close to getting Zubimendi.
Worth remembering that the club’s business was interrupted because of a change in coaching and recruitment staff. We also had a very good squad so there was no need to rush into the market to buy players and having question marks about the future of 3 key players influences that decision. That money saved will help fund business this year, whether it is the 3 new contracts this summer and any new signings.
[quote=“vjcpatriot, post:9222, topic:114, full:true”]
We’ve got stingy owners so we have to be realistic about the future. If we lose 3 star players and get no incomings, I know Slot is a great manager, but I doubt even he can work miracles with that kind of handicap. [/quote]
There is no handlicap. Slot has the best squad in terms of ability and depth. FSG have shown that they will pay big fees for key players and in most years the club has spent more than it has earned from transfer fees, even coming close to falling foul of the FPP limits a few years ago.
Worth remembering when Utd are sacking tea ladies and crying poverty that they have net spending of more than a £1bn on players over the last decade and left their club in ruins. Being profligate with money is much worse than being careful with it.
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We must sell as much deadweight as possible to fund the replacements, that starts with Darwin Nunez. [/quote]
We have very little deadweight in this squad.
[quote=“vjcpatriot, post:9222, topic:114, full:true”]
Let’s not conflate having genuine concerns of what’s going to happen after this season with the great success we are enjoying now. Those are two separate things. [/quote]
Your view of what happens with this club and the actual reality appear to be two separate things too
You probably would have. For most of us, no because even without losing them both we had still made significant signings to replace that midfield, and any remaining change would most likely have happened last summer if there was an obvious need for it.
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