Maldini

Steidten was available and linked before we got Big Jorg, makes you wonder why we didn't get him then if we actually are interested now

Confirmed that there's a multi-episode "fly on the walls" show being made about this season. I'd say the producers must be delighted.

Apparently Villa need to sell someone to comply with PRS. Newcastle trying to get Jacob Ramsey. Anyone there we should be looking at? Douglas Luiz or Ramsey are the only ones I can think of that'd warrant a place in our squad

I think it's important to note that his dad died relatively young at 66, I'm sure that's playing on his mind at times of stress as he approaches that age as well.

Nor should we have, we should have spent the time trying to convince him to stay. Hard to put feelers out without it leaking either

mood

We'd f***ing love the mad prick though

Klopp was and is a unicorn, we had no business getting him with the state we were in

*cries salt tears*

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/oct/05/xabi-alonso-lands-bayer-leverkusen-manager-role-after-seoane-sacking This says Xabi's contract is up in the summer, did he renew at any point?

and Florian Wirtz

There aren't many jobs as big as Liverpool. He'd be a fool to turn us down

This is all Paul Tierney's fault

Suddenly his contract situation has become very worrying

He's top of Bundesliga, unbeaten after 18 games and used to play for us. You'd have to think he's the top candidate at this point at least.

Saw it pop up on twitter with a BBC Sport link and hoped it'd be one of those fake Sporf ones

Man, did not see this coming, I hope he's alright

I think the enforcement of PSR could end up having the most transformational effect of anything since Bosman

I think PSR/FFP finally being real might be the reason FSG have stuck around

Did his ACL as he was breaking into the first team squad and was never really the same, he's had a load of knock-on injuries as a result of it and had two separate stretches of 6 months out with hamstring problems in each of the last two seasons. Real shame, he looked like an ideal Klopp player.

I think outside the box he's probably about as much of a threat as Sadio was but he just doesn't seem to have the same striker's instincts or movement as Sadio had inside the box. If he can learn to get those 6 yard out back post finishes that Sadio seemed to get 5-8 of every season I think he could get his numbers up to a similar level. Sadio was a goal every 180 mins with us, which is ridiculous really isn't it? Diaz is currently 1 in 270.

He played like Liverpool's version of McManaman at youth level and Klopp has moulded him into the Real Madrid version because there's no room for mavericks in his team. That's Jurgen's genius though, I never would have thought he'd be able to become this controlling player he has become. He's really come into his own in the last 6-9 months and he seems to be getting better week on week.

Disagree with this, he's been a real difference maker at times over the last couple of months. His peak performance might not be as high as we hoped (yet) but his versatility has been very important

He's that mad he might still get 22 this season

He doesn't do much but he looks good doing it. I think Klopp will get a tune out of him though. He seems like he's in the same limbo Jones was about 9-12 months after he broke into the first team squad when he was transitioning from the player he was at youth level to the player Klopp wants him to be and was overthinking everything and getting caught on it loads. Gravenberch's natural game seems to be just run at everyone at all times no matter where he is on the pitch but I think Klopp will make him more functional and then like Jones once he's doing the fundamentals right the skills will be able to come out at the right time. He needs to get much better off the ball though.