Liverpool Banter

16 May 2024 18:12:40
We need a new starting CB and DM
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May be sell Konate to make space or spend money and have the new CB replace Matip.

VVD, konate/ SVB, new CB and Quansah will be CB options with Gomez as 5th choice.

In Mid Thiago is going, I could see we moving on frok Endo, C Jones or Gravenberch

We have Mac, Soboz, Elliot, baj as midfield along with one of above 2.

16 May 2024 20:15:17
I'd sell Gomez,3rd choice rightback and already 4th choice CB before we more than likely strenghten there or give Van Den Berg who's been excellent in Germany a shot. Would bring in decent cash towards actual first 11 starters.

16 May 2024 21:17:10
Aside from the fact that he’s rubbish too - a complete liability as a “jack of all trades”! Definitely sell him 🙏.

16 May 2024 22:02:40
Shultzy are you a mechanic by any chance?

16 May 2024 17:08:24
Question for Ed001, if you have the time to reply please Ed.

A couple of seasons ago you were of the opinion that if teams went at City then they could be unsettled, but that most teams would roll over for them and have their belly tickled, with managers setting up for 'damage limitation' instead of just going at them, which always resulted in City getting the points at the end of the day.

Do you think Pep has fixed this, and are they better tactically now?

Regardless of how they spent their way to get there, are they the perfect machine?

Thanks.

{Ed001's Note - there is no such thing as perfect, every team has weaknesses and this season they have lost enough points to show they are far from it. Haaland can be taken out of a game easily. Rodri is key as he needs to be shut down and have someone on him at all times. He is petulant and loses his focus when that happens. Walker is terrible defensively and can be tied up in knots, people normally avoid him because of his pace but he has always been a weak link. Diaz had him on toast. In fact their whole defence is a weak link when not on the ball. They defend by keeping it and then using tactical fouls. But if teams just stayed calm when they have the ball and not panic, you can just run them about for a bit and they have no idea what to do.}

16 May 2024 18:41:09
Interesting. Thanks for the reply Ed.

{Ed001's Note - very welcome.}

16 May 2024 20:12:06
I think our game at Anfield against City was testament to that. we completely outplayed them. I remember them time wasting at about the 40th minute with thrown ins and thinking - "These are supposed to be the best team in the world? "

16 May 2024 21:44:11
City have to have credit for being serial winners. It’s not easy to prove over 38 games, year after year that you’re the best in the PL.

Agree with ed1 tho. Pulling my hair out watching teams basically sit deep for a spanking. Far more chance of getting a result if you pressure them.

16 May 2024 16:58:45
Var works, people doing var don't work, so what's the answer?
I think it should be put in the bin not because var's not doing its job, but because the referees cannot do their job.

16 May 2024 18:42:14
So your argument is too. give the terrible refs just no chance to rectify their awful decision making? as if that would help.

16 May 2024 21:45:35
VAR is doing its job something like 90-odd percent of the time which is a far cry better than before.

16 May 2024 16:26:16
What do people think of this vote to scrap VAR? For me it’s never going to happen and the vote is being used to facilitate change.

This has got me thinking, what are the big changes that need to happen next season to improve VAR.

In no particular order;

1- Automated offside - these need to come in

2- playing the review live into the stadium so fans have a clue what is going on.

3- no decisions made by stockley park officials, the ref should be making all subjective decisions (except offside) watch the review on the big screen and make their own opinion up

4- removal of clear and obvious, if an error has been made it should be corrected and that responsiblity lies with the ref.

5- stop using so much slow motion replays, slow motion should only be used to confirm where a foul occurred ( inside or outside the box scenario) or where contact was made ( high tackle or to confirm if there was a handball)

6- cut the time for decisions, if something takes 3 or 4 minutes to review then it’s never going to please everyone and it is clearly a subjective decision so go with what you think is the correct call after reviewing the footage

7- remove Howard Webb, this man wants publicity and craves attention, scrap this Mic’d up rubbish with Michael Owen and get on with it

8- stop expecting perfection, we will never get 100% of the calls correct so stop measuring refs to this standard.

16 May 2024 16:58:26
VAR is just a qualified referee watching an incident multiple times on a tv screen, anything less than 100% success rate is unacceptable.
Ultimately fans can accept and move of from a referee on the pitch making a wrong decision but not from someone watching something multiple times and still making the wrong decision.
Get rid of it.

16 May 2024 17:52:45
I’ve dabbled with the notion of bin VAR too but where does that leave us, a terrible referee making a decision on their own! If they can’t make a decision with 100s of camera angles and a team of refs then it will only get worse on their own. I guess the big decision is, does the marginal increase in correct decisions coming from VAR mitigate against the negatives which VAR brings ( fan experience and speed of the game) .

16 May 2024 21:48:24
Multiple posts on this and not seeing any valid points about why it should be binned other than hysterics over the extreme mistakes.

Need to evolve and get better at using the technology.