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  12 hours ago, Hassony said:

His articles are really poorly written 

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Haha yeah I thought the same. 

  12 hours ago, PaulMcC186 said:

Seen a few people say they think it's Frimpong's agents pushing the story that Liverpool are very interested. 

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Could see that if it was just Romano pushing it but not for Joyce and those ones. 

Hassony

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  12 hours ago, honourablegeorge said:

Sky's headline is he's "willing to join Liverpool"... think a pinch of salt until someone reliable has it. Bad News Pearce can't be far off.

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A friend of mine told me few weeks back that a common friend he has with Frimpong told him that it was a done deal 

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  12 hours ago, PaulMcC186 said:

Has Joyce said anything? Can't see anything on his twitter. 

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There was a clear embargo brief the other day wasn’t there. Joyce and some others going with frimpong being “a leading candidate” should Liverpool decide to replace Trent 

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  11 hours ago, psl said:

A De Bruyne replacement you'd think.

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Aye. Supposedly said he wanted to go to Bayern last week. 
 

City will just casually drop another few hundred million in the summer. 

growler

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Even if they get punished. No one ever gets forced to lose players. 

makes complete sense to strengthen now, then worst case relegated, come back anyway with a clean slate. 

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Frimpong counts as homegrown doesn’t he? Born in Netherlands but grew up in England. He can through Manchester City’s academy 

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  12 hours ago, Hassony said:

A friend of mine told me few weeks back that a common friend he has with Frimpong told him that it was a done deal 

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I was quite optimistic about this and now you’ve burst my bubble

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Telegraph:

Arne Slot already tried to sign Sam Beukema, now he is linked with Liverpool

Arne Slot was reminded just why he tried to sign Sam Beukema for Feyenoord three years ago, when the pair met in a Champions League fixture this season.

Both were in Dutch football in 2021 and had a meeting that Beukema vividly remembers as he weighed up his next move from Go Ahead Eagles.

It was not just Slot’s presentation, given at his family home, that stuck with Beukema. The centre-back was also accompanied by his uncle, Bas, who happened to be a huge Feyenoord fan and made his feelings clear on where he wanted his nephew to play.

“My uncle was even more excited than me!” recalls Beukema. “It was a really good conversation and he showed me things that I hadn’t thought of before.

“You could see he approached football differently to other managers and I had a really good feeling – and so did my uncle. He told me to go there but I said, ‘let’s wait’.”

Beukema, now 26, chose AZ instead, as they were a more stable outfit at the time. There are no regrets, as the Netherlands centre-back went on to Bologna to be part of Italian football’s surprise package, who played attacking football unlike traditional Serie A teams.

They play in the Coppa Italia final on Wednesday against AC Milan, and victory would spark city-centre celebrations to top last year’s Champions League qualification.

And in 2021, nobody knew Slot would turn Feyenoord into champions and then conquer the Premier League in his first season at Liverpool.

“I went to AZ not because of Arne Slot but at the time I didn’t know how Feyenoord would do and AZ was more stable and was a more safe choice,” Beukema says. “Sometimes you think ‘what if?’ but who can tell if things would have been different? I was happy with the choices I made.

“He texted me and wished me good luck and said unfortunately you did not choose us, but I wish you the best for the future. We played Liverpool this season and I spoke with him, he asked how I was and said, ‘Now at this level, we are here’. He said, ‘You played a good game and surprised us, we didn’t expect you to be so aggressive and do so well with the ball’. I think he expected an easier game, but gave us a really big compliment.”

Bologna have been receiving compliments from all quarters over the past couple of years, with Thiago Motta the manager when they started this project to rejuvenate the squad with younger players.

Motta moved to Juventus and Vincenzo Italiano has carried on the same style, putting Bologna within sight of another Champions League qualification and the chance of a first trophy at the club since 1974.

“We had a lot of possession in a lot of our games. As a centre-back, we were in midfield, and played different to any other teams in Serie A. [Riccardo] Calafiori, was in the front line a lot,” says Beukema.

“I was saying, ‘Cala, stay back, you’re a defender’, but Motta gave us that freedom to go forward and I did it, too. This year under Mr Italiano, we still have the dynamic way of playing, but it is a bit more direct and the difference is that we play one-v-one across the pitch. It is intense and you need to be fit. But we don’t change for anyone.”

Calafiori was a high-profile departure last summer to Arsenal, along with Joshua Zirkzee to Manchester United.

Beukema himself has been linked with Liverpool, given Slot’s admiration and being in the market for a centre-back. The player is happy at Bologna and, while he is a fan of the Premier League, there has also been interest in him from Italian clubs.

“I’ve been following the Premier League since I was a young kid and I love the competition,” he says. “For me it is maybe the best league to play in. I’m playing in a really big league, but the Premier League is something different with all the big teams, the high level. You see the atmosphere also and it is amazing.

“Let’s see. I always like to challenge myself. I challenge myself a lot at Bologna, but I don’t know what will happen in the future. You can feel something special is coming here. We have these two objectives and want to achieve them both. We want to make history with the final. It will be really big for this club.”

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  2 hours ago, Candystore said:

Telegraph:

Arne Slot already tried to sign Sam Beukema, now he is linked with Liverpool

Arne Slot was reminded just why he tried to sign Sam Beukema for Feyenoord three years ago, when the pair met in a Champions League fixture this season.

Both were in Dutch football in 2021 and had a meeting that Beukema vividly remembers as he weighed up his next move from Go Ahead Eagles.

It was not just Slot’s presentation, given at his family home, that stuck with Beukema. The centre-back was also accompanied by his uncle, Bas, who happened to be a huge Feyenoord fan and made his feelings clear on where he wanted his nephew to play.

“My uncle was even more excited than me!” recalls Beukema. “It was a really good conversation and he showed me things that I hadn’t thought of before.

“You could see he approached football differently to other managers and I had a really good feeling – and so did my uncle. He told me to go there but I said, ‘let’s wait’.”

Beukema, now 26, chose AZ instead, as they were a more stable outfit at the time. There are no regrets, as the Netherlands centre-back went on to Bologna to be part of Italian football’s surprise package, who played attacking football unlike traditional Serie A teams.

They play in the Coppa Italia final on Wednesday against AC Milan, and victory would spark city-centre celebrations to top last year’s Champions League qualification.

And in 2021, nobody knew Slot would turn Feyenoord into champions and then conquer the Premier League in his first season at Liverpool.

“I went to AZ not because of Arne Slot but at the time I didn’t know how Feyenoord would do and AZ was more stable and was a more safe choice,” Beukema says. “Sometimes you think ‘what if?’ but who can tell if things would have been different? I was happy with the choices I made.

“He texted me and wished me good luck and said unfortunately you did not choose us, but I wish you the best for the future. We played Liverpool this season and I spoke with him, he asked how I was and said, ‘Now at this level, we are here’. He said, ‘You played a good game and surprised us, we didn’t expect you to be so aggressive and do so well with the ball’. I think he expected an easier game, but gave us a really big compliment.”

Bologna have been receiving compliments from all quarters over the past couple of years, with Thiago Motta the manager when they started this project to rejuvenate the squad with younger players.

Motta moved to Juventus and Vincenzo Italiano has carried on the same style, putting Bologna within sight of another Champions League qualification and the chance of a first trophy at the club since 1974.

“We had a lot of possession in a lot of our games. As a centre-back, we were in midfield, and played different to any other teams in Serie A. [Riccardo] Calafiori, was in the front line a lot,” says Beukema.

“I was saying, ‘Cala, stay back, you’re a defender’, but Motta gave us that freedom to go forward and I did it, too. This year under Mr Italiano, we still have the dynamic way of playing, but it is a bit more direct and the difference is that we play one-v-one across the pitch. It is intense and you need to be fit. But we don’t change for anyone.”

Calafiori was a high-profile departure last summer to Arsenal, along with Joshua Zirkzee to Manchester United.

Beukema himself has been linked with Liverpool, given Slot’s admiration and being in the market for a centre-back. The player is happy at Bologna and, while he is a fan of the Premier League, there has also been interest in him from Italian clubs.

“I’ve been following the Premier League since I was a young kid and I love the competition,” he says. “For me it is maybe the best league to play in. I’m playing in a really big league, but the Premier League is something different with all the big teams, the high level. You see the atmosphere also and it is amazing.

“Let’s see. I always like to challenge myself. I challenge myself a lot at Bologna, but I don’t know what will happen in the future. You can feel something special is coming here. We have these two objectives and want to achieve them both. We want to make history with the final. It will be really big for this club.”

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Who wrote that?

Gethin

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  23 minutes ago, Swipe said:

Is he not contradicting himself there a bit 

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To me, implies having a the ability to use an alternative system from how we played this season 

Maybe more aggressive use of fullbacks, with maybe a midfielder dropping deeper to help out the CBs. Kind of fits with the "play the game in the opposition's half" thing that someone quoted on here the other day 

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