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Caleta-Car https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/duje-caleta-car/verletzungen/spieler/238266

Klopp on Matip: “Unfortunately, we found out now after everybody looked at it that Joel will be out for the rest of the season," said Klopp. “But he will be ready for the start of the next pre-season and finally everything will be sorted.”

Not going to be easy to offload given his wages, contact length and recent injury record.

Loan fee will probably cover most of today’s outgoings, probably

Obviously Minamino going on loan frees up a non homegrown spot in the CL squad. Allowing Adrian to remain I guess

He’s been released by Arsenal on a free so the window doesn’t matter.

We seem to have rejected an approach from Southampton to take Neco Williams on loan

It’s the Croatian left stranded at the airport I really feel sorry for.

Just when we thought we’d exhausted all the CBs we’d enquired about (it’s been a few hours) but 33yr old Marcelo also seems to have been a player of interest.

Think he’s fairly nailed on for Bayern. Konate seemed like one we were looking at for the summer (also has a release clause apparently). But can’t see us getting him and Kabak.

Davies and Calenta-Car predominately left sided centre backs (as is Botman). Konate, Demiral and White predominantly right sided. FWIW.

There was from the Spanish media. https://sportwitness.co.uk/liverpool-player-looking-way-month-receives-clear-transfer-snub/

Another thing he wouldn’t get in the way of, if he leaves, is registering another non English trained player in our squad. I’d say you might have had a chance, at a premium, at the beginning of the window... but it’s not like they could use a cash influx to bring in a couple of additional signings at this stage. It’s interesting he hasn’t featured on FNB’s list of targets though.

Report in the Spanish media that Adrian is seeking a move before the window closes and we won’t stand in his way.

The ‘big moves’ won’t be happening if we’re not in the Champions League though. On a broader point, anyone think the news we weren’t bringing anyone in this window may have impacted on squad morale? Given Jurgen has been mentioning ‘small margins’ it may be one of the contributory factors.

I really don’t think this comes down to the lack of acceptable talent in the market. It seems pretty obvious that the main problem is we can’t afford it. Klopp said as much in the last couple of weeks: “If the world was in a completely normal place and we have this situation, you could be sure we would try everything to do the right thing now,” he said. “But the world is not in a normal place so I don’t know why we constantly treat a football club like it’s independent from all the other struggles around. It is not a time for massive investment if you don’t have the funds for it. Obviously football clubs live off what they earn. We still don’t have supporters in the stadium, a lot of stuff is still different, and that has gone on for a long time. “So I don’t understand why people now talk about the situation like nothing happened. We are still in the middle of a pandemic so that’s not the best time we’ve ever had. “I cannot go to the owners and say: ‘Without that we cannot win anything.’ We have to make the best of it, and that is what we have always done. It’s not that nobody wants [a new central defender]; the question is if we can.” Klopp insists Fenway Sports Group, Liverpool’s owner, shares his desire to strengthen in central defence but should not jeopardise the club’s finances in the notoriously difficult January market. “In good times everybody thinks our owners are really generous and in bad times everyone thinks they are really tight, but they are not,” he said. “They are absolutely concerned about the club and the success of the club and understand how we have it. “They see exactly the same things I see about the necessity to sign players and things like this. “It is not that I say: ‘A centre-half would be really nice,’ and they say: ‘Wow, a centre-half? Really? Why?’ It’s all clear. It’s all on the table. We work on it, as you can imagine, but January is not the easiest transfer window and on top of that it is not having the money exactly as you want.” ****** Another sign of our relative lack of funds is the contract renewals being kicked down the road. In a normal season they’d have been done by now (Van Dijk, Alisson, Fabinho) but I think we’re biding time as they don’t want to commit until they get clarity on whether this season will finish and when they’ll get fans back into the stadium again and a normalisation of income streams.

For me, it’s been Bobby’s passing. It has gone to pot. This isn’t a new development either. Previously he was arguably our most incisive passer in the final third, now he’s either struggling to find his man or when he does a lot of the passes seem to be slightly behind or to the wrong side. His main role in the team is to link up the play. If he’s not fulfilling that role then really serious questions need to be asked.

The fear I have is that falling back and potentially even missing out on Champions League may also derail that rebuild.

Yeah that’s fair, although given where we were at that point in time I’d have been surprised if we were able to get Falcao, who was very much a player on the up around then.

True, but that’s the example that shows what I’m getting at... talented players who weren’t British, didn’t have Premier League experience were available at that time too. I just think it was a flawed approach at the time, putting too much emphasis on those particular attributes.

I just never thought he fit our style of play. Not mobile enough (even when fit). He was a Hodgson signing in a post Hodgson world.

Sure. But they had put Comolli in place and that was the first showing of their strategic approach. It wasn’t very nuanced. Suarez aside, there seemed to be a specific focus on British players with Premier League experience. I reckon Kenny also played a part in shaping that focus re Carroll and the acquisitions the following summer what it’s worth.