Maldini

Linked with a January move for Alejandro Balde in the Spanish media. He was class a couple of years ago, he seems to have fallen out of favour there though.

Yeah, it's uncanny, you don't want to heap too much pressure on him but he really moves like him

He's a weird kind of fast isn't he, like Usain Bolt his legs don't seem to move that quickly but he just eats up the ground.

A guy who played wing back and not full back all last year as well

The problem with how it operates in England as opposed to other European leagues is the lack of accountability. Hughes was here for nearly three years and I don't think I ever heard his voice. In other countries they're much more public facing and have to account for their decisions. I think Hughes has done the big flashy things that impress other DOFs well (for the most part) but he's completely fluffed the boring admin stuff like contract renewals and squad management

The best there was, the best there is, the best there ever will be

Camara in January makes no sense, why would we not just get him before the end of the recent window? We're not close to violating any of the financial regulations I don't think.

Saw a clip of him last week for Real and he looked like the bad version we saw for the first 6 months of last season. Looked like a 5 year old was controlling him on the PlayStation

Gang of f***ing weirdos https://x.com/LeGrove/status/2095334071710703705

Turns out his contract runs until 2028 so we may get a fee next summer after all

If the senior management of the club seriously don't see this summer for the clusterf*** that it is then we're in worse trouble than I thought. 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 - @JamesPearceLFC: Liverpool knew that Newcastle were looking to sell Anthony Gordon abroad this summer rather than to a domestic rival and they also knew that Gordon favoured going overseas. As a result, pursuing him was never deemed realistic.

Even Pearce must wince when they ask him to post that s***e

It took Fabinho a long time to find his form though, he struggled with the shift from playing with a second DM to having to cover it all himself

Lucas, Henderson, Kuyt, Robertson, Fabinho

If you believe the journalists who get briefed then we didn't go for Alonso because it would involve too much of a change in style but the irony is the squad we had in the summer was more suited to 3-4-3 than 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3. Our full backs look more like wing backs, Wirtz looks like he needs he found it easier to find space in that inside left spot that Xabi has in his formation than the ten, Szoboslai looks more suited to playing as the inside right than as an 8 or out and out 10

This is the most frustrating thing about this summer, for all the huge numbers being thrown around there has also been some pockets of real value too.

Fabrication Hawkins amirite

Yeah, we've 2/3 injuries at the moment and our bench looks like it did in the middle of an injury crisis last season. Our season rests on Tsimikas, Nyoni, McConnell, Endo, Ngumoha, Chiesa, Danns etc being able to offer us legitimate contributions when only Rio and Trey have ever shown any sign of being able to do that. [Ron Howard narration] they did not [/Ron Howard narration]

We have literally nobody in the squad whose best or most favoured position is right wing, after we let arguably our greatest ever player leave on a free. Everyone associated with this should be embarrassed to show their faces at Anfield again. Remember all those articles after Hughes' first season along the lines of "yeah they haven't signed anyone but executives across the league are very impressed by the work going on behind the scenes". What a world class spoofer, if he'd spent as much time trying to sign players as he did feeding journalists puff pieces about himself maybe we wouldn't be in this cluster*ck

That rings a bell, around the time we were running a human trafficking ring of mediocre teenage footballers through MTK Budapest. It's funny, we had link ups with MTK Budapest, Genk and Le Havre and let them go before Szoboslai, De Bruyne, Courtois and Pogba came through at those clubs.

All jokes aside we should be looking at what they're doing, their record of bringing young players through their academy and developing young talent from elsewhere is as good as anyone in world football over the last 20 years.

Seems mental to be spending £30m on another keeper when money is supposedly tight and we're so weak in other areas but the algorithm knows best!

Zero chance we're dropping £150m on those two at this point.