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14 Oct 2025 22:16:03
Hi all, first time posting here.
Is there any truth to the links of Antoine Semenyo? The price tag seems abit hefty, especially since it's looking like the defence is more of a priority imo.
As for the defence, does anyone think we will go back for Guehi in Jan? Hoping it's not a battle for him in the summer.
14 Oct 2025 23:40:04
If there’s only enough money/ FFP budget to fix one position then personally I’d agree that defence should be given priority. I don’t think that’s the case though.
They’ll be multiple players for multiple positions that are considered suitable. If a deal can be done then it will be, I don’t think they’ll be an order to it.
Could be wrong, but that’s how I see it.
Agree1
15 Oct 2025 08:18:11
I fully expect us to sign a defender in January. The way Konate has performed this season it would be a miracle if he is still at the club come next May.
Agree1
15 Oct 2025 09:13:11
Seeing as Konate is out of contract and has rejected all contracts we have put before him, I think it's unlikely that he'll be staying with us. We have also looked to bringing in his replacement too in Guehi last summer and all reports seem to point to us bringing in one more CB during the Jan window.
Agree1
15 Oct 2025 09:22:12
If we don’t sign a CB in January, maybe even two, then we are setting ourselves up for failure in the League and CL.
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15 Oct 2025 09:38:46
Semenyo is only viable if we are looking to replace Salah earlier rather than wait till his contract runs out. For right now or Jan if possible, CB and midfield should be priority, IMO.
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15 Oct 2025 11:30:34
Centreback has to be priority in January. My preference would be to get Joel Ordonez from Brugge in January and pick Marc Guehi in the summer on a bosman.
Another midfield body would be great, but I don't see any intent from our recruitment team there at the moment. It seems like that is more of a long term plan - perhaps with Macca / Wharton part of the story. Stiller and Baleba are probably on a list too.
That said, if January came around and we picked up Lamine Camara from Monaco or Djaoui Cisse from Rennes, you'd get no argument from me!
Semenyo would certainly offer us some speed and power in the wide positions but I suspect addressing these positions is now a next summer thing. Gakpo, Mo and Rio have only just signed deals remember.
Agree0
15 Oct 2025 20:16:47
We’re playing a bit crap due to influx of new players and some of you want to buy more players in January? Gomez is still here you know.
Agree2
15 Oct 2025 20:27:47
scouse john L8 - it's pretty clear we're short of a CB, even with Joey G available. With Ibou and Joe's injury records and Leoni out for a year or more, it's sensible to think we may dip into the market in Jan again. You can't really call that crazy or greedy.
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14 Oct 2025 19:59:18
Honestly Ed025 it was a bit of banter that obviously went wrong and came across badly.
Sorry about that.
It was basically saying I wouldn’t expect you guys to support our lads when they’re going through a storm.
I realise it reads badly so sorry for that.
{Ed025's Note - yeah Ron i must say it upset me mate, we have both been on here for a long time and had mutual respect, i did not take Diogo,s passing lightly and that sounded like i did because i support Everton...thats just not me..
14 Oct 2025 21:25:25
My mistake, hope we can move on with no hard feelings.
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{Ed025's Note - of course we can Ron..
14 Oct 2025 22:20:14
I for one know that ed25 and ron keagues posts will be of the utmost respectability and no call for anything more to be said.
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{Ed025's Note - cheers Digger..
14 Oct 2025 23:12:59
ED025.Iv just booked you both a room in the Devonshire .
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{Ed025's Note - you could have gone a bit more up market strom, im not an asylum seeker you know mate.. :)
14 Oct 2025 23:51:19
Haha Ed025.thats why i got it a bit cheaper . don't get much for £25 nowadays. bargain, all you can eat aswel 😅.
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{Ed025's Note - i think i would sooner spend a night in Risley Strom.. :)
14 Oct 2025 23:57:42
Ed025.Iv got a pair of Risley Runaways for you, they'll get ya from the Dev to Risley in no time.
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{Ed025's Note - great stuff Strom...im a 10 mate..
15 Oct 2025 00:40:08
To be fair to Ron Ed you actually upset me by insinuating that I was using the death of Diogo and Andre as an excuse for poor results. At the least you agreed with a post which accused me of it anyway. I expect it from some of the posters on here but I thought you were better than that.
What I actually said was that it affected our preseason preparations which is undeniable. So for you to say I was being disrespectful to the memory of Diogo and Andre is bang out of order.
Before you go throwing stones you should clean the windows of your own glass house mate.
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{Ed025's Note - i can see how it affected the pre season Robbo as it was still very raw then..and even the first few games (which you won), but its been over 4 months now and yes i think some people are using it as an excuse for poor set ups and bad form, if they are that is disrespectful..
15 Oct 2025 09:23:55
To be fair though @25, as an Evertonian you do talk some right cobblers about football 😉.
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{Ed025's Note - we all do at times i suppose WDW, the thing with Evertonians is that we dont have our heads up our own arses mate or a sense of entitlement...which is why we are known as "the peoples club" i would think.. :)
15 Oct 2025 09:39:51
Spot on, Ed. I concur.
Agree1
15 Oct 2025 10:01:00
How is it disrespectful to say that the players preseason was disrupted because the entire club had to deal with such a tragedy?
How is it disrespectful to say that because preseason was disrupted the manager had to ease players in to the season to prevent injuries?
Yes we won the first 5 games but you could clearly see we were playing at half pace for most of the games and we tired towards the end of games allowing leads to slip. The last 3 games are just a continuation of that. We haven’t played any different it’s just that the results haven’t gone in our favour which is what this furore is all about.
I was in no way excusing results or saying that anyone was to blame, bad results happen even when everyone is fully fit. I was more saying that the setup and tactics could have been dictated by a lack of fitness due to the disruption that the club had in preseason.
Once again though you and others jump on what is a very logical statement and call it disrespectful and making excuses. Excuses for what? Losing a game? We don’t need to excuse losing a game it’s part of football and those that lose their heads when it happens need to find a different sport.
I just think that the criticism is way over the top and there are some very obvious mitigating factors as to why we might have started the season playing like we have. At the end of the season the points will be tallied up and the champions will deserve the title regardless of all of this. I’m not making excuses or being disrespectful to anyone I’m making an observation and offering a point of view. You can choose to agree or disagree but to call it disrespectful to the memory of Diogo Jota is bang out of order and shows just what type of person you really are. Any excuse to criticise the kopites and make them look bad eh?
You should be ashamed of yourself mate.
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{Ed025's Note - stop being a dick head Robbo, you are taking things out of perspective as usual and you need to read the posts and especially my replies before you comment stupidly, you got binned as Beckers Pecker because you were a prat and you are right on the cusp again....maybe a bit of time away from the site to reflect and consider how much of a gobshite you have become will help..
15 Oct 2025 11:06:21
Ed025, I am totally with you on this. It absolutely affected pre-season, but we cannot use a tragedy as an excuse for what's happening on the pitch. Is Konate so poor this season because of a tragedy or because his head's in Madrid? Are we getting exposed in almost every transition because of the tragedy or because our tactics are not right or our players don't know their roles yet?
It's too easy to make excuses and in my opinion it's hugely disrespectful to do so. We are not playing well for a variety reasons and when the players cross the white line, I would imagine they are focused solely on the game.
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{Ed025's Note - thats my way of thinking as well TBB, its a bit disingenuous to blame it all on the sad loss of Diogo mate imo..
15 Oct 2025 11:33:49
You don’t have to post my responses Ed I understand. I will say thought that the heading to my original post was not mine, that was added by whichever Ed posted it and was not really what I was saying.
I was not saying that the players needed time to get over the death of Jota, that’s a completely different conversation and one in which is impossible to quantify. My post was more about the impact the situation had on our preseason and the effects of that.
I don’t for one minute think that the players are running around out there thinking of Diogo and it’s affecting performances. Quite the contrary I think it’s more likely that they are happier to be on the pitch playing as it takes their minds off it if they are struggling.
But an entire squad missing the first 2-3 weeks of preseason and then probably not in the right mental place to be grinding out the rest of preseason is bound to have an affect on fitness levels in the first part of the season. That was my point.
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{Ed025's Note - which was exactly what i said..
15 Oct 2025 12:59:51
Mate, ed25 is a great ed and is always level headed and provides a neutral viewpoint so to call him out like that is massively disrespectful and comes across like you are a bit of a knob. Wind ya neck in pal.
Agree0
15 Oct 2025 13:14:05
Ah he was Beckers Pecker before? Makes sense🙄
We’ve been playing at half pace all season so far. More out of tactics I would guess and we scored a lot of late goals in those games so that would contradict the players getting tired late in games.
Agree4
15 Oct 2025 13:20:43
The team also didn’t miss 2/ 3 of preseason. You’re making stuff up.
Agree2
15 Oct 2025 14:04:06
My 2pence worth on the subject of Jota n our form. I think like any death it hits you not straight away but weeks later . but as Ed025 says we can't use that as an excuse when we were winning, it all was good in the camp. im sure some of the players still miss him but we've all lost people close to us but in the end we put it in the back of our mind n carry on with everyday life . loads of other reasons why were not playing well. players off form, injuries, new players, new systems, the expectation with us spending 400 mill . but only hard work on n off the training ground n in games will help us get back to how we all know we can play.
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{Ed025's Note - spot on Strom..
15 Oct 2025 21:38:25
The best part about this post is it was me who pulled you up for using jotas death as for whatever it was you was trying to say, not Ed25. It’s wrong lad, it’s got no bearing on performance or results. It’s also in poor taste imo. Sorry I can’t sit by, let the lad rest in peace unless we’re paying homage.
Agree0
16 Oct 2025 22:39:41
John, it was Ed025 who I triggered with my comment and Ed025 who I owed an apology to.
Anyone can “pull me up”, many did and many disagree and that’s fine, but I triggered Ed025 with a poorly worded jibe and that’s why I apologised to him.
FYI, “what I was saying” is grief affects your mentality and in elite sport it’s often mentality which separates the good from the best. Mentality affects performance.
If you don’t think the players experienced grief then I can’t help you. I’m not talking about results, win or lose, I’m talking about individual form. I don’t think any one except Hugo has played well at all for us.
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{Ed078's Note - Dom surely?
14 Oct 2025 17:16:32
I don't know about anyone else but im sick of this international brake and can't wait for the game on Sunday. My take on our performances on top of what's already been said is that the first few games we were very 'gung ho' with at least in my opinion everyone trying a bit too hard to make an impression and since then it's been the opposite. There was something in Slots celebration for the Gakpo against Chelsea goal that makes me think we will get it right starting on Sunday. I want to see fire in their bellies and a proper performance as im sure everyone else here does. The dust has settled on the new signings, now is the time to show the rest what we're all about. YNWA.
14 Oct 2025 18:39:04
LFC desperately needs a centre back in the January window, no person on this Earth can tell if he is giving 100% only the player himself.
Guehi might not come in January as if he does he will miss out on a circa LFC £15 million signing on fee, if there is no transfer fee, why would he want palace to get the money and not himself when Parish collapsed the deal at the last minute?
The free transfer club will be very interested in Guehi, there is no doubt whatsoever who Xabi would prefer Marc or CON-ate, or Arne Slot for that matter!
You Tube is electric with regards to the price of Semenyo's release clause.
@Thunderbird 2. my mental health is quite fine thank you, suggest yours is not? as only "IMMATURE BOYS PLAY WITH TOYS"!
YNWA 97 and 20.
Agree0
14 Oct 2025 19:22:32
Well I thought we would beat Chelsea, big team and all that, we would be up for the battle. I couldn’t have been more wrong. So I’m going for a United win in the hope that I’m wrong again 🤷♂️🥴.
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14 Oct 2025 20:09:55
Well @Ernest, I don't know about being sick of the int'l break cos of what I just witnessed. Not only did I see a certain Aubameyang score a quadruple for his country Gabon at home vs Gambia (4_3 win) to get them to the playoffs on Sat.
I just witnessed Nigeria, a team that literally needed 4 goals (yeah, that's right) just to get to the playoffs (not even to qualify directly for the WC 2026, and they got it done. Osihmen? Man, scored a hatrick and easily could have scored 5 goals.
Now I don't know what your int'l break was like (or I think you told us) BUT mine went absolutely insane, lol.
Agree2
15 Oct 2025 01:26:00
Konate is out of sorts, but so are other players. Is it only Konate who isn't trying?
Agree0
15 Oct 2025 09:43:07
Whisper it quietly but I like what Tuchel is doing. We look like we are starting to be a team rather than a collection of Prima Donnas. Interesting to see where it goes. At least we have stopped playing five right backs per game.
Kudos to Pickford too, no matter how average I think he is, 9 clean sheets on the bounce is impressive.
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14 Oct 2025 10:11:18
Everybody saying slot isn't upto it and only won league because he inherited Klopps team.
You do realise that team came 3rd the season before under Klopp?
14 Oct 2025 10:46:08
Funny, everyone was happy we got slot and no Amorin.
Many praised Ed2 for calling out Slot so early.
Now we lost 3 games and all are saying our performance was dire from new year.
Now this talk of he inheritec Klopp team and won because of his team.
Our supporters here have this great disease of Praising Klopp for all good. Even when we failed with Klopp it was the book writer fault at city now. don't get his name.
Agree5
14 Oct 2025 10:57:52
Stop talking logical and posting sensible posts! Slot out 🤣🤣🤣.
Agree8
14 Oct 2025 11:14:06
I’m always a bit sceptical when a post starts ‘Everybody says / thinks / knows …’ because generally I disagree with what ‘everybody’ does / says or thinks.
OP, just say ‘In my opinion I think’. It makes it easier to have a conversation or ignore the post.
Agree2
14 Oct 2025 11:19:33
Bigsqueeze73, Everybody is not saying any of that, tbf.
Agree4
14 Oct 2025 12:20:44
High horse time already? 😂 everyone I know loves Arne Slot being Liverpool manager.
Agree10
14 Oct 2025 12:20:58
Olired, where do I say everybody is saying it?
Im talking about everybody who is saying it.
Agree3
14 Oct 2025 12:22:05
And west derby wanderer, same point to you.
The post refers to everybody who is saying it, and there are quite a few on here.
Agree6
14 Oct 2025 12:43:54
International breaks are looooong. Especially after a defeat.
Slot has a lot of stuff to sort out, but the good thing is, the ceiling is extremely high. We just have to bear with the process.
Worth noting, we never click until the autumn international breaks are out of the way and the season gets into full flow.
There's no doubt there's still more business to do in the next windows (esp CB, midfield, wings) but equally we have the squad to win this year.
Exciting times to come imo.
Agree3
14 Oct 2025 12:49:59
Slot is a top class coach, but when the issues with the team are so obvious that even the average fan can spot them, it is okay to wonder just what the manager and the coaching staff are doing.
We don’t press well (understandable from the perspective of cohesion given the changes to the team, less so from the lack of urgency), we aren’t intense enough when defending (a lot of the goals we concede are down to just being sloppy and unfocused), and the shape of the team is an absolute mess at times.
All I want to see for now is Liverpool being very hard to beat while using the natural talent of the attackers to win games. Good teams win 2-0.
Agree6
14 Oct 2025 13:51:39
@OP, the big clue for me was your first six words “Everybody saying slot isn’t up to it”. I believe that’s where you said it.
Agree4
14 Oct 2025 19:22:19
I think you need to check again WDW.
He is talking to everybody who is saying it. He didn’t say everybody IS saying it.
I agree with the OP. Last season it was ‘Slot is better than Klopp because he won the league with the same squad’. Slot loses 3 games and suddenly it’s ’Slot inherited Klopp’s title winning team’.
Neither are true but it does highlight how basic some people’s minds are.
Agree8
14 Oct 2025 20:11:28
WDW, come on, man. I was going to quote the exact thing. Why are you always taking the fun outta everything, lol?
Agree2
14 Oct 2025 21:52:39
Thank you robbo, it dosent take a rocket science to work out what I’m saying.
Agree1
14 Oct 2025 21:57:19
@Robbo, I know what he said and what he meant to say.
Agree0
14 Oct 2025 22:24:44
Exactly, WDW. @Bigsaueeze, all I did was just respond to what you actually said (verbatim), not what you meant to say. Not sure a rocket scientist can tell that either by just reading someone's statement, which is as open to interpretation as the first part of your comment. Either way, all good, man.
Agree0
14 Oct 2025 22:38:11
@WDW obviously not as he had to correct you and you still got the wrong end of the stick.
Agree2
15 Oct 2025 06:23:15
Surely it should have been Anybody saying or Everybody who is saying?
Agree1
15 Oct 2025 20:33:32
Rover, I’m sure I’m not the first person on here to use bad grammar.
I’m pretty sure it’s obvious I’m not saying every single person on the site is saying slot only won the league because he inherited Klopps team.
Seems like some serious nit pickers on here. its called Liverpool banter not Liverpool bitches.
Agree0
14 Oct 2025 07:39:02
{Ed's Note - Robboslostlegs has posted a new article entitled, Liverpool Players Need Time After The Loss Of Diogo
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