DecidedByPoll

Agreed.

A small part. There are much bigger economic and social reasons why Anfield and other parts of the city have become run down.

He (and others) have gained money from making the club worth more. They’ve not taken profit from direct day to day running of the club. So they’ve not taken money from fans. You might moan about director remuneration but it’s not wildly different from any other premier league club.

The lad can wear what the f*** he likes, but he can only be captain when he shows that he can’t be physically dominated and doesn’t back out of challenges. I want a captain that no opposition player will push around.

I agree, but the approach from FSG is not to have wasted salaries. Endo hanging around barely getting a game when we could pay a more talented and younger player to do the same role on the same salary isn’t the right way forward.

I don’t think we buy a midfielder until we sell at least 1. It would be good to shift Endo.

Not sure if this has been linked before - but it’s a run down of all the football structures in last season’s premier league. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/18/premier-league-sporting-directors-who-are-they-and-how-much-power-do-they-all-have

He was really, really good.

He’s managed the game really badly.

Genuine f*** up from FSG. But replacing Hughes might actually be the best thing for the club.

They work very well for Brighton, Brentford, Bournemouth, Arsenal, Manchester City…… The structure isn’t the problem, the implementation of it and the people involved can be the problem.

…. spends £300million on attacking players last summer….

Or like the one under Klopp where we essentially bought no one. We won the league both seasons after. We clearly need some new players, and they will come - we were willing to offer £100 mill for a young winger.

Gordon is great when he has space to run into. He’s not so great against teams who just sit in with a low block.

Yep. But not a bad player.

Luis Alberto got 112 goals and assists in 242 games in Serie A. He was a very talented player - he just wasn’t ready for the premier league. I would imagine they have a wider array of metrics with which to judge players’ ability to adapt now.

You’d imagine it’s Minteh. If we sign him I reckon he’ll score more non penalty goals than Saka.

The point is that not even a manager as great as Klopp can turn average players into brilliant ones. It’s ok to say that we had players who wouldve been brilliant regardless of which manager managed them. Rodri/De Bruyne/Haaland would’ve been brilliant regardless of their manager too.

Like Cody Gakpo and Darwin Nunez.

Veron failed because they already had Keane and Scholes playing in midfield and Ferguson couldn’t accommodate them all. Ibrahimovic’s ego stopped him from playing Pep’s way. Hazard got himself fat and injured. None of the above is comparable to the self motivated, hardworking players whose talent, humility and durability came pre packaged and fitted the 4-3-3 system which was the preferred formation of pretty much every top team at the time.

Which players under which managers who are even remotely comparable to our 3?

Klopp sprinkled his particular magic over the players and gave them the right structure to maximise their talents, but under any top manager in Europe Mo, Bobby and Sadio would’ve been world class together.

Possibly. But he and his team also scouted, identified and bought what was, at the time, possibly the best forward line in the world.

Edwards and team bought Ali, Van Dijk, Matip, Robertson, Fabinho, Gini, Salah, Bobby and Mane. That’s definitely competent.

Minteh https://www.wearebrighton.com/newsopinion/hidden-stats-put-yankuba-minteh-in-top-five-wingers-this-season/