Rusty Shackleford

Do you think the real Florian Wirtz has just over 5k followers?

Honestly i think it’d be great if they being the FA Cup with them next week. I’m taking my lad and it’d be ace to see everyone buzzing.

Bring it to Anfield next week lads.

Same here. The likes of Frimpong and say Kerkez would do loads to change it. PSG made us look very one paced.

Wirtz interest doesn’t seem at all likely to come to anything to me. His dad supports Bayern, he is said to like the idea of playing in Spain and Man City would pay more in wages. Got to be fourth or fifth on his list in terms of where he’d go. We don’t seem to have the pull/will/money to operate at the top of the market with other rich or successful clubs. We’ll be left holding our dicks again.

They’ve absolutely perfected selling fringe youth players for good money. Seems like half the league has played for them or their youth sides.

He makes loads of sense though. We have a good young right back who has sone question marks injury wise, and Salah who inevitably can’t play every game and needs cover. There probably aren’t many lads out there who can do a decent go of both.

Abu Dhabi will have offered Wirtz’s Mum a hefty contract as an underwater welding consultant. This’ll offset young Florian’s minimum wage. Unrelated though the two are.

Wirtz? Nah we don’t dine at that table. A large fee? Sure. A large wage? Sure. But not both at the same time and certainly not with competition from other big clubs.

We cannot keep losing footballers to those d****eads. Anyone under 30 and with a year left should be given an ultimatum. Sign a new deal or, failing that, a years extension on the same terms whilst an improved deal is discussed. I couldn’t give a s*** if we relegate him or others to the reserves even to our own short term detriment. Let them lose a year of their careers. Enough of d****eads stringing us along.

It is going to sound absurd but for large parts of a lot of games we haven’t been very good this season. More than i’d expect for a title winning side in any case. To win the league doing that is mental. Yeah it sounds daft but how many truly comfortable 90 minutes have we had?

Nunez guaranteed to leave. Elliot, Tsimikas, Gomez and Doak likely. Jota possible and I reckon Chiesa will be a loan. Outside chance of Diaz given it’s new contact time or sale. Bajcetic probably elsewhere on load again too. Morton seems like a lad who will just get loaned until he’s in his late 20s. Phillips will still be on our books in 2040.

I don’t think we’ve been in for him since Gravenberch showed what he can do. He would likely have gone to them with a straight choice anyway with the Basque links.

Wouldn’t be at all surprising to see Huijsen go to Chelsea. You can guarantee agents are getting big payments to nudge players that way. “Now Liverpool were looking like the move to make but I overheard Slot call your Nan a slag”.

Not that bothered whether he’s at the parade or not. But he absolutely shouldn’t be in the squad against Palace. Yesterday was embarrassing all round.

I was in upper main and it was obvious when the subs were read out he was going to get pelters. Bringing him on was a mad shout. Loads were booing. Some by me went full blue.

Anfield is looking glorious here.

Can’t we just leave him out of the squad entirely?

To be fair it’s not surprising he’s going there. His mate is there, Spanish manager. London. I doubt he’d come to us with a straight choice.

According to?

Madrid have had our pants down for decades now. McManaman, Owen, Alonso, finals, beating us to targets etc. To think the Anfield Wrap lads were doing specials on ‘Mbappe 2020’, us thinking Bellingham was a cert and now this. There is a parallel universe in which all three are starting for us next season. I don’t like the other two and I guess Trent has played enough of a k****ead role in all this to be held in similar regard anyway.

He’s been a really good player for us but the flip side to his strengths are the defensive weaknesses. We’ll just change how we setup and be perfectly fine. I can see why someone wants to experience a new way of a life at the biggest club in the world but it’s how you go about it that’ll determine the esteem in which you are later held. A local lad who ‘loves the club’ shouldn’t be leaving on a free. It’s a s***house move that weakens the clubs ability to strengthen the squad moving forward. He’s screwed us to facilitate his move and inevitable eye watering wage/sign on fee. Mac Allister did more for Brighton in terms of getting a fee than this a*******. We may not do release fees but a gentleman’s agreement could have been worked out. A Liverpool ‘supporter’ should be held to a higher standard than an Argentine spending a few years at a club he’d probably never heard of five years ago. Hopefully it all goes to s***.

Not expecting a great deal with that starting lineup. Roll on August.

We do seem to get a few deeply religious lads don’t we? I’m half expecting to see Gakpo and Alisson going door to door in my street handing out pamphlets and salvation. “Have you heard the good news?”. Yeah fellas. We won the league.

He can deservedly be called a legend for what he’s done on the pitch but am I the only one that can’t be arsed with him staying now? Very much cutting off my nose to spite my face I know but i’d just mostly feel annoyed. The advert, the daft celebrations and the cryptic social media b******s can all leave with him and I’ve accepted it. It’s not quite Antoine Griezmann levels of wanting to be the main character but this hasn’t been good either.