Case

Gakpo allows City to rest/rotate Doku, even Haaland. They’ve gotten rid of Marmoush and Grealish will go soon. It’s a sensible move for them to have cover in all positions. A policy we should have. Selling them Gakpo weakens us in exactly the way in strengthens them. Madness, unless the fee is very very high.

Eh, no.

I went with my son three weeks ago on a Tuesday morning. Enjoyed being in the ground, but the ‘tour’ was crap. The audio is clearly for fans whose first language isn’t English. I know about Heighway and Sami and Julian Dicks, so I didn’t bother listening. What you want is to be shown around by a human who you feel is enjoying themselves at least a little bit, not a video of Virg turning around and leading you into ….. nothing much at all. Money generating money saving rubbish. To be fair, I did chat to a couple of the lads pointing where you should go next. One about the local effects of the blues leaving Goodison and another lad about the Roy years. Both were great. But those lads should be doing the tours, not pointing their fingers at where groups of people should walk next.

Phil Clarke is making concrete progress to accelerate toward Pauline Fenelly. Discussions are advancing with the buxom beauty, and an agreement could be reached quickly. Case remains attentive, but hasn’t acted yet.

Clearly we’re traditionally, historically and in terms of honours the far bigger club. But the ‘We Are Liverpool Football Club’ thing doesn’t work as a primary reason to sign for us anymore. I’m not suggesting you’re saying this by the way, but there’ll be a ‘Chaz Carthy’ Chelsea fan on a forum somewhere asking why anyone would want to sign for Liverpool when they could sign up for the mighty Chewsea. They’ll have CL footie next season. We …. might not.

Everton need a right back too btw…

Is he Mexican? An Aztec Camara?

That's a pretty kind draw on first impression. Avoided Real, Barca, PSG and Bayern. Curtis will welcome us with open arms.

Is he a better right sided player than no one at all is my current criteria.

Spurs have signed Marmoush on loan. Surely they won't now take Gakpo as well? Edit - They're also committed to buying him for £60m NEXT Summer - That must mean they are running low on funds THIS Summer, no - or close to PSR (is it called now?). If so, unless they've set the money aside for Gakpo already they surely can;t sign him. BUT - With Marmoush gone - he sometimes played off the left, City may be in for Cody before Tuesday,

You wouldn't take Premiership proven Ismaila Sarr, who has scored a few goals against us and plays right wing/striker where we have no cover at all, on a free transfer?

Elliott just looked totally unfit/TOO bulked up when he came back.

That sounds like we HAVE to sell Gakpo to get a RW. So we either do that and have no cover for Isak at CF or we keep him and don’t have ANY right wingers. What a bunch of c****.

If he costs £100mm and we (stupidly) sell Gakpo for 70, then the potential upgrade - Barcola is younger, faster, hopefully different tricks) is worth it for the 30mm difference. But. RW, CM, RB and most importantly CF backup. We all know, but little or none of it will get done.

Keep Gakpo

Apparently UEFA have introduced a new rule meaning we can’t be drawn against Real Madrid at Anfield. But we could be drawn against Real Madrid at the Bernebau. Obvs, no team can be drawn against the same previous opponent at home three years in a row, not just us.

This weekend?

It's £10m too much imo

I suggested Sarr back in June. But then I thought we needed and might sign five players and I thought he'd be the cut-price one. The fact he could very likely be our ONLY signing is f***ing ridiculous. I reckon Richard Hughes is yer man Kabak, sent to reek revenge on us all.

I felt jealous that Real Betis had signed Troy Parrot the other day. What have we become?

On the plus side we’ll have a new letter from JW to read on September 2nd.

Can Jacquet play left sided CB post-Virg?

If we’re selling in June, then Bayern, Barca, RM, Dortmund, City might all have been interested. PSG maybe. I think he probably deserves another year, and I have no doubt about his ability. He’s a brilliant footballer, with a lack of physicality for this League and, for me, a lack of desire, grit. Isak is in a similar category, but he has shown desire previously, for Newcastle, so he’s more of a puzzle.

I’m not suggesting we sell him. Yet. I’m saying that if there was a real possibility that we could have gotten Rodgers and selling Wirtz was a route toward doing so, then there’s no reason (other than our innate incompetence) that it couldn’t have been done,

They’re two separate events, no? Sell Wirtz in June, get Rodgers in July. It’s all theoretical obviously, but there’d be plenty of teams who’d want Wirtz if we’d made it clear we wanted rid. We all know who they are.