Maldini

Why? They're reaping the benefits of it. Chelsea under Abramovich irreparably changed the game and sent the money spent on players and agents into the stratosphere. City sent it to the moon but we shouldn't forget the damage Chelsea did.

This should cheer you up. This lad is 21 and has this many howlers in his locker https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOEgs3hDTR7/?igsh=djh0Z28zNG1udWl2

There was a time a few months ago when I almost fell sorry for them, thankfully that delirium has passed and I'm back to having a great time. Soak it in everyone, we waited decades for this.

Nah, (apologies in advance to the people who hate numbers being used for positions) Jones is an 8 or a 6, Rogers is a 10, 7 or 11

The Academy is getting a £20m upgrade https://www.thisisanfield.com/2025/09/liverpools-academy-to-undergo-20-million-redevelopment/?utm_source=livescore&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=foryou

Their wages have been 89% and 92% of their turnover for the past couple of seasons

I'd genuinely refuse to play if I was him, imagine he does his ACL

We don't know that, Glasner was saying he HAD to stay until the end of the Conference League qualifiers

Good news for big Gio though

They'd need 2/3rds of the league to vote on it and it'd be a futile gesture anyway given UEFA's PSR rules are even more stringent. Any clubs playing in Europe have to comply with them

Joe Staymez

https://www.removepaywall.com/ is great for bypassing paywalls, just click through the options, one usually works

Some of these beat reporters think they're Woodward and Bernstein don't they. The reality is they're just assembly line workers in the quote factory. The ego of the man!

This must be by far the biggest turnover ever from a league winning side

He's just been on Sky there saying it publicly as well, saying we all knew there was a chance Eze and Guehi could go but we haven't replaced them and there's nobody to blame but ourselves. Said they're scrambling around now at the end of the window and it shouldn't be like this.

Sky Italy saying Milan are interested in Joe Gomez if they can't get Akanji

Lewis Steele linked us with Can Uzun yesterday, young Turkish #10 at Frankfurt. I'd imagine he'd be Elliott's replacement if he goes

I've a bit less sympathy, he forced their DOF out at the end of the season and he and his son are the recruitment team at the moment. I'm sure he's getting pressure from above to do certain things but he's responsible for this mess too.

He's really leaning into the your-wife's-friend's-husband "who's into football" aesthetic

As mad as it sounds, he's not a big lump, he's actually more of a skillful 10 who drops off and plays in the channels

True yeah, he was out injured for a couple of months as well though. 4 goals, 2 assists in that 500 mins too. The manager really didn't seem to trust him in the first half of the season but he featured more in the second. I don't think he has a long-term future here but it may be one "out" too many this summer given deficiencies in other areas.

He didn't think he was good enough to start but he was very good off the bench in a lot of games. He seems to have a great ability to see what a game needs when he comes on, Monday night being another example, we'll miss that if he goes. I don't think we can let him leave if Isak isn't coming in, Wirtz will need to be pushed up at some point

A visual of this transfer window

That's not how I interpreted that at all, is he not just saying they're waiting to see if they can get a fee from Newcastle rather than a loan from Bayern?

I don't think there is an 8 in this system though, there's two 6s and a 10