Liverpool Banter 2

25 Jul 2026 23:23:58
Joe Gomez... New manager, new injury.

26 Jul 2026 04:07:08
New manager, new injury, same old fan response.

25 Jul 2026 23:22:11
8 mins into pre season and Gomez goes off injured. You can’t write this s***.

25 Jul 2026 23:22:00
Joe Gomez should be sponsored by Walkers. 🙈

25 Jul 2026 23:18:40
Joe lasted all of seven minutes. Great start to the season for him.

25 Jul 2026 23:17:56
Joe Gomez didn't even last 8 minutes, and people don't want to bring in a proper centre back??

He's a complete liability, has been for a long time.

25 Jul 2026 22:12:11
Jeremy Jacquet out of our first pre season match with an injury.

Fair to say, his integration into becoming a Liverpool player has now been completed.

25 Jul 2026 22:22:24
It's just precautionary, but this did make me laugh. People will be saying we need 2 CB's now.

25 Jul 2026 22:36:59
Slot's fault. Down to training.

25 Jul 2026 22:40:32
Tonight is the start of our new Andoni Iraola DNA future?

Nashville to be renamed "Smash"-ville after tonight!

Best of luck, Andoni, "You're the Man".

25 Jul 2026 22:42:12
I thought at least Ramsey would start.

25 Jul 2026 22:51:05
It's not a worry. We still have a 19 year old coming off an ACL, an injury prone player, and a 35 year old who can play there.

25 Jul 2026 22:52:19
Frimpong's chance to show Iraola why we don't need a new rb, Barry. Ndiaye has the same opportunity in terms of a cb. The whispers coming out the club are that Ndiaye has really impressed Iraola so far. Hopefully, he shows us why tonight.

25 Jul 2026 23:14:55
We should sign 7 CBs cos they keep getting injured.

25 Jul 2026 23:17:11
Gomez injured 7 minutes in.

25 Jul 2026 23:17:18
Gomez is off injured already.

The man is cursed.

25 Jul 2026 23:17:52
Gomez down and subbed off 8 mins into the preseason... Tale as old as time.

25 Jul 2026 23:18:31
Imagine telling me Joe Gomez is a good reliable squad member. What a joke he's still at the club.

25 Jul 2026 23:19:50
Gomez injured 7 minutes into pre season. 🤦‍♂️

25 Jul 2026 23:23:18
Good goal, Morrison.
Gomez? Seriously.

25 Jul 2026 23:23:51
Apparently we don't need to sign another centre back.

25 Jul 2026 23:25:54
Yis know Live Chat is open, lads? I'm feeling lonely in there.

25 Jul 2026 23:26:17
I remember a time, people on here said he wasn't injury prone. 😂

25 Jul 2026 23:31:26
As robust as a bag of kin Quavers. Ffs, get rid.

25 Jul 2026 23:32:36
Well that was unforeseen.

25 Jul 2026 23:43:59
These two kids at cb are all over the shop positionally.

25 Jul 2026 23:50:01
Gomez minor niggle now. Sign 3 CB's. Panic stations.

25 Jul 2026 23:54:10
You know as well as anyone, MK, we need another CB.

25 Jul 2026 23:56:03
First half report:

4231 Jones & McConnell as double pivot with Elliot in front. A little slow and disjointed, but 6 of our team are kids vs. a fairly experienced Sunderland team. Clearly more of an effort to get the ball forward quicker with less faffing around between the CBs. A more definite CB -> Full Back -> Midfielder approach and then try and go from there.

Although, frequently enough, they'd go back to a CB from midfield to recycle if they couldn't keep going forward, but there is a clear effort to get the ball forward quicker in the build up than under Slot.

Most of the time when we do get it to an attacker, it is to Rio. I'd like to have seen Elliot, Morrison and especially Wright get involved more.

25 Jul 2026 23:56:34
Mk, the only centre back we have that has played senior football and is currently fit is 35 yr old Virgil. Jaquet, returning from shoulder surgery, and not fit atm. Leoni, returning from ACL, and not recovered. Gomez injured/always injured. Am I missing anyone? Except these 2 kids that could be good but look like they don't know whether they are coming or going atm.

26 Jul 2026 00:01:31
If I speak...

26 Jul 2026 00:02:35
MKS, It doesn't matter if it is a minor niggle. He constantly has minor jiggles. He cannot be relied upon for two games of 90 minutes back to back.

So our CBs for the season opener are: Ndueke and Ndiaye. No pressure on the young lads then. Ease them in gently.

Jacquet is injured/not playing as a precaution.

Leoni is out for at least another month. Virgil may/may not be eligible as he played an entire season without missing a game and then every minute of his nation's games in the World Cup.

And who else is there? You don't win nothing with kids.

26 Jul 2026 00:04:48
Rome, I've been saying it all summer, mate. I want a Rb who can also cover Cb, for exactly this reason. Gomez is injury prone. Jules Kounde or Arnau Martinez would be spot on.

26 Jul 2026 00:05:54
Red-Will, I've been saying for months we need another CB.

26 Jul 2026 00:14:17
I know people didn't rate him on here, but we should have never sold Quansah. He was treated appallingly by Slot and would have taken clownate spot last season if we'd kept him.

26 Jul 2026 00:19:24
As much as I like Harvey Elliot, that performance in the first half certainly won't impress Iraola.

26 Jul 2026 00:43:26
Don't we need a right back to cover the right back that has to play centre half?

26 Jul 2026 03:39:17
Thought McConnell looked very good and suited Iraola's system.

26 Jul 2026 04:50:16
Who was that Italian bloke who came on in the second half?

26 Jul 2026 05:34:25
Jacquet and Leoni have played senior football. They were starters for Rennes and Parma respectively before coming to us. They are young but they are highly rated and sought after by other clubs before coming to us

26 Jul 2026 06:33:55
I said who are fit. They are both injured.

25 Jul 2026 21:32:33
I think people are thinking I am saying we will win the league with this squad. No! We need fresh talent and strength; it's essential. But players like Ramsay was Scottish player of the season when he was 18 or 19, Elliot, Chiesa, Wirtz, etc.

could benefit. Sometimes a new manager can bring out the best in certain players and develop new youngsters who weren't given a chance and Slot was very limited in this category.

25 Jul 2026 22:08:47
Ramsey was Young player of the year in Scotland. The general gist of your post concerning Ireola, I hope you're right, but this whole Slot should have played more kids, as someone who follows the academy, I simply know it's naive and was just another stick to beat with.

25 Jul 2026 22:30:57
Hailstones, if you're looking at Chiesa as an option, you can forget about challenging for trophies.

25 Jul 2026 22:57:56
Have you watched the Scottish national team? I could win young player of the year up there.

25 Jul 2026 23:02:51
Flo, I only get to see highlights and bits on YouTube from our youth teams. Are there any players you think could step up this season?
Heard good things about the young cbs we got in Jan, Abe and Morrison. Are there any others to look out for?

25 Jul 2026 23:33:47
I always think we will win the league always have always will.

26 Jul 2026 00:45:43
Even if Slot was still manager, Scousejohn?

26 Jul 2026 03:41:43
I disagree, Florian, part of a manager's responsibility is to watch the academy, see players who might be worth giving game time to, create opportunities for them to be tested in the first team. Slot failed this brief spectacularly. It is not another stick to beat him with, it is genuine criticism of something he did poorly.

25 Jul 2026 20:54:32
So just say theoretically the door was closed on Diomande and Barcola, what names would be thrown about as possible and good enough alternatives? I’d like to see suggestions besides Rayan as that’s been done to death. Any other suggestions?

25 Jul 2026 22:05:28
Godts
Yildiz
Moleiro.

25 Jul 2026 22:20:05
El Mala.

25 Jul 2026 23:11:28
Maybe El Mala, but not sure how suited he is to the RW. He looks good on the left and through the middle, though, more mobile than Gakpo through the middle.

Maybe Gakpo, Rio, Munoz and El Mala to rotate on the wings. El Mala and Gakpo can offer cover for Isak through the middle.

Elliott, Szobo and Frimpong to offer an option on the right, if absolutely necessary, to manage other players' minutes here and there on a cup game in early rounds.

Then reassess in January.

RW market is not the best, to say the least.

26 Jul 2026 04:52:01
Diaz, Nunez?

25 Jul 2026 21:28:24
Ed033 could you do a poll please.

Would you be annoyed if Yan Diomande didn't move to Liverpool

Yes

No

{Ed033's Note -


Yan Diomande poll

25 Jul 2026 21:57:47
I hope we stay clear, looks more trouble than he is worth.
With the agents he is worth, I think he will be a nightmare. Madrid fit him and his team perfectly.

25 Jul 2026 22:06:01
I don't think this will be close.

25 Jul 2026 23:14:30
I wanted him initially but I'm over it now.

I want Barcola. If that doesn't work, maybe go for El Mala and just go with him, Gakpo, Rio, and Munoz for now.

Not ideal, but there's not a lot of decent options.