Liverpool FC Rumours

10 Sep 2025 10:12:06
Hi EDS!
Just seen LFC up for sale again?
Is that true? I don't know how I feel about this now.

{Ed001's Note - they are looking for investors not a sale.}

10 Sep 2025 11:33:49
Hold up - what have I missed? Has something been announced?

10 Sep 2025 12:58:50
Think they are looking more at selling Pittsburgh Penguins (their NHL Team)

Honestly, as long as the club runs the way it's going, with strong investment when it's needed, it's hard to complain.

They have really grown this club from a dark place.

I'll never love an owner unless some die hard cash rich honourable fan takes over. But FSG have been great so far.

Of course they have made mistakes here and there. The forlough being the big one. But they backed down and overall, I must say, they are doing a good job. Mostly by not interfering too much.

God, look at west ham and Nottingham Forrest or Spurs or Manchester United (for different reasons) . We're ok with FSG. That's for sure.

10 Sep 2025 13:20:50
So exactly what was said last year or was it the year before they wanted to open up to someone else investing in aswell.

10 Sep 2025 14:50:47
Time for a whip round.

10 Sep 2025 15:04:53
They've proved to be great owners. Fully agree with Davey. Some mistakes but few and far between. We could be in a boat with many others under far worse guidance so we are lucky. I wouldn't swap them for any of the other 18 PL clubs ownership. I don't know how Brighton or Bournemouth owners manage it, albeit at a different level and with transient players each and every season, but they seem to do a stellar job too, so a shout out to those also! . but I may be incorrect in applauding without knowing the insurance and outs there. Anyway FSG are the ones to beat IMO.

10 Sep 2025 15:22:23
Anyone who remembers Hicks and Gillette will thank their lucky stars we got FSG.

10 Sep 2025 16:41:50
What, I can't see news of this anywhere?

I can't imagine they'd be willing to sell after receiving no offers that matched their valuation two years ago.

We'd also be worth much more in a couple of years when we (hopefully) win a few more trophies with this influx of major signings, as opposed to right now.

Just can't see anything in this.

10 Sep 2025 17:12:01
Maybe I’m a bit ignorant as I don’t know too much about other clubs’ owners, but surely we’ve got to be right up there with the best in the league? I agree with Davey and sg - we’re really fortunate. Things could have easily gone from bad to worse, but under FSG we’ve only grown year after year. They’ve consistently invested in the club, in one way or another.

I’d genuinely be gutted if they sold, because the grass isn’t always greener. That said, I can’t see them selling any time soon - they must be making good money from it and the project is clearly still moving forward.

10 Sep 2025 17:52:16
Liverpool are not for sale.

10 Sep 2025 18:04:47
FSG in.

10 Sep 2025 20:07:57
sell a little piece whilst the value is at its highest, and growing?

10 Sep 2025 20:20:18
How about opening it up for 1,000,000 fans to buy £1000 worth of shares!

Im in.

10 Sep 2025 20:45:24
FSG is looking for investors in the Penguins as well, but if the right offer comes along they will sell.
Im originally from PGH and listen to the sports talk from there daily.

10 Sep 2025 20:51:08
Ha ha LFC8. That was good!

10 Sep 2025 21:37:37
Ed02 was saying for years that FSG were always on the look out for investors. Nothing’s changed in that respect.

From the perspective of the well being of the club, I’d pick Shank’s arrival at number 1, and the arrival of FSG at number 2 and the work King Kenny has done for the club over decades both on and off the pitch, would be number 3.

11 Sep 2025 00:47:15
Didn't ages ago Ed02 say we'd been up for sale for a while but I don't think anything worthwhile has ever come of it?

11 Sep 2025 01:14:57
@Salah -
From 2010-2015, FSG made a lot of mistakes as they learned the landscape of football - perfectly understandable.
From 2016 - present, they've been the best owners in the league, bar none, though Tony Bloom and a few others also do a lot of right by their clubs.

The only thing I wish they'd do is not try to take liberties in terms of trademarking, 'Project Big Picture', the Super League - in other words, actions that could not really be described as in good faith. Just rely on the power of a competitive LFC to make money rather than maximal extraction that leaves a sour taste.

11 Sep 2025 09:13:10
While being in the minority, I've been saying for years that FSG have been great owners. Constantly upgrading both on and off the field. Look at the stands, look at the training facilities (with more to come as announced recently), look at Klopp being brought in, and look at the commitment to winning with this summer's player purchases. Yes, they've made some mistakes, but don't we all?

Regardless of whether you sell the entire club or just a part to investors, the starting point is always getting an evaluation for the entire club. It's then that you know what premium you can charge for a partial sale to investors. So when the club was "for sale" a couple years ago and only partial investors came in (Bluebird), nobody was wrong. FSG were going through the necessary process.

LFC is a "golden goose" for FSG, in my opinion. They've multiplied their investment incredibly well. And I don't think they mind the image and prestige of being the owners of one of the best football teams, in the most popular sport on the planet. So I doubt they'd sell completely. But partial sales let them maintain their majority control and still pursue their goal of expansion into other sports and other teams.

11 Sep 2025 11:56:57
I wonder whether the changes at Tottenham may have triggered anything at FSG. I know QIA (PSG owners) are showing interest in a stake at Spurs.

10 Sep 2025 00:19:44
Konate won't sign, even after meeting all his conditions.

I apologise, thought it would get done.

We will target a high level centre back to replace him next summer.

Leoni has made a huge impression, seen as the eventual Virgil replacement.

Ta.

{Ed078's Note - cheers Carra.

10 Sep 2025 05:59:36
Thanks Carra
Do you think it will be Guehi to replace or him and an additional one?

10 Sep 2025 06:13:41
Ta Carra for the info and all the news you throw our way.

10 Sep 2025 06:35:33
If leoni is seen as virgil replacement why not just put him ahead of konate? If he's gone in 9 months then make him the backup defender.

10 Sep 2025 06:48:40
My thoughts exactly Coffan. Slot is practical and did this last year with Bradley after Trent announced his departure. I expect as the season rumbles on and Leoni gets a chance to show us his stuff Konate will start playing back up.

10 Sep 2025 07:08:06
Konate was tapped up years ago its been obvious he had no intention of signing.

10 Sep 2025 07:19:24
I've got a feeling Leoni might end up as our signing of the season.

10 Sep 2025 07:28:23
He’s very inconsistent so not really bothered about him leaving the only thing that annoys me is it’s a free to RM or PS again.

10 Sep 2025 07:36:43
We will need someone who wins a high % of ariel duels to replace him - that is essential for this league.

10 Sep 2025 08:10:00
C0ffan,

He is getting familiar with the language and will be eased in.

Ta.

10 Sep 2025 09:11:40
Cheers Carra. So Konate makes demands, they’re met and he still wants off. That’s up to him of course but why waste everybody’s time? Onwards.

10 Sep 2025 09:16:07
Get rid in January surely. Get at least some money in and more importantly i;m not sure Konate has the mentality to play to his best ability when he has both feet out the door.

10 Sep 2025 09:23:59
Annoys me now we couldn't sign Guehi. Trent should have been the last time someone who already has his head at another club and his bumper contract should be playing week in week out for this club.

10 Sep 2025 09:31:24
I know JG needs to be carefully managed to keep himself fit and available and is needed to cover all the backline but him and VVD is the best CB pairing.

10 Sep 2025 09:53:25
Ultimately if Konate doesn’t sign he’s welcome to try his luck elsewhere, as Ed002 used to remind us, footballers are transient employees and most are quite fickle at the best of times. I think that this summer does at least show there’s ambition and clout to go out and get the best, so there’s every reason to think that adequate replacements will be brought in.

10 Sep 2025 10:05:08
Thanks for sharing, Carra. I had hoped he would renew as I do feel he is showing signs of being more physically robust under Slot. We have bought in his new French teammate, Hugo, plus rumours of Olise next summer.

Why anyone would want to leave this project is beyond me, but each to their own.

Assuming he goes there, Real Madrid would have Trent Konate Huisen - which could have been 3/ 4 of the Liverpool defence if things had worked out differently.

Time to start looking for the perfect foil for Leoni then.

10 Sep 2025 10:12:55
Leoni is the future, Guehi on a free in summer to replace Konate…. Simple’s….

10 Sep 2025 11:59:58
Mbappe has been tapping him up apparently, he said he's been calling him twice a day to join him at Real Madrid 😅 Konate is decent but I imagine he'll be a bad signing for Madrid without Van Dijk babysitting him through some games 😵‍💫.

10 Sep 2025 12:16:22
Probably cos Leoni is a child and hasn't done barely anything at senior level.

10 Sep 2025 12:17:13
Maybe Chelsea’s 8 year contract strategy has credence when you consider you want to keep someone for 5 years but reality is it’s only worth 3 before itchy feet can set in. If you don’t get something over the line in those 24 to 18 months prior to contract ending, you’re going to see it happen more often where players will bide their time to get a free.

10 Sep 2025 12:56:37
Personally, I won’t lose any sleep over Konate leaving .
There’s better than him out there who’ll jump at the chance to join us next summer.

10 Sep 2025 14:28:23
Bastoni x Leoni CB pairing .

10 Sep 2025 14:51:44
Good luck to him, I’ve no problem with players seeing out their contracts.

10 Sep 2025 14:57:58
Well Konates agents and himself played us there then, waited until summer window closes so he can leave for nothing, s**t trick from him that, he should of been told, nothing signed by July 31st he will be put up for sale, we have to learn.

10 Sep 2025 15:29:49
At least RM won’t be taking Guehi on a free as well. Need sure Konate starts as it is.

10 Sep 2025 16:18:00
No problem them running down contracts but playing them every week has to stop, or do we want this happening every summer?

10 Sep 2025 18:11:35
Yeah let's not play one of our best defenders because his contract is running down. Genius.

10 Sep 2025 19:31:49
Ok Thunder let's keep playing players in the first 11 week in week out every season in the last year of their contract when they have no intention of extending. let's keep losing tens of millions every season (while people still expect big signings) . Or instead let's make a stand and let every player know that its fine if you want to let your contract run out at LFC but by doing so you will be watching others play the big games every week while you give them a rest in the early round of the Cups and dead rubber CL games. If its true about Ibou, a player i have always bigged up i would bench him nd hope Gomez stays fit till January when we can get Guehi. I guarantee if Konate does find himself watching the games from the bench until Xmas he'll be only begging Real to come in for him in January because he won't be going to no WC with France if he's played little to no football.

10 Sep 2025 20:02:40
I'd be playing Gomez over Konate until Jan. As long as he stays fit, Joe is a great player, knows how to play with Virg and is so good on the ball.
Konate can then kiss his WC plans goodbye and wait for a chance to play if/ when he is needed.
Just a shame we didn't get Guehi to slot in straight away.

10 Sep 2025 20:25:41
That's the definition of biting off your nose to spite your face. In the past 5 years we've seen Lallana, Wijnaldum, Origi, Milner, Firmino, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Keita, Thiago and Trent all leave on free transfers and we've just spent over £400 million this summer. We seem to be doing ok. I'm more concerned with Liverpool winning matches and trophies than making money.

11 Sep 2025 04:45:44
Funny how we, here, treat incoming players as humans and outgoing players as chattels.

11 Sep 2025 08:27:04
It's fascinating to see how many react to this kind of rumour by wanting to punish the player, a response driven by their their emotions.
FSG are businessmen, they'll do what they see is right for the club with emotional detachment. Even if Konate does decided to leave, he won't be benched to satisfy those who feel the need to lash out.

11 Sep 2025 08:27:14
Thats great Thunder, but unfortunately the club is also ran as a"self sufficient"business. All im saying is we need to be known as a club where when your not fully commited you will be behind the ones that are in the pecking order. Konate is the perfect player to make an example of, he's not Virg or Mo. Players should know that if you have a year left at LFC and your not prepared to extend that that's fine but you will spend your last season as backup to players interested in taking the club forward.

11 Sep 2025 09:20:57
Selling him in January is all fine and good, but if he refuses any sale (regardless of the club it is), the club is basically at a disadvantage. There's no benefit to sitting him down on the bench or the U21's, for the second half of the season, when you could use him in case of injuries, illnesses or whatever else.

It used to be that one year, prior to contract expiration, was enough to deal with players and know where you stood. It's clearly not the case anymore. You easily need two years. Player power has increased massively.

11 Sep 2025 09:22:05
I would agree with dropping Konate, bit not to punish the player, he has been a great servant and played very well for the most part during his time with us, if he wants to leave, he is entitled to and so be it. I would drop him out of pure practicality, which with Slot being how he is, is what I predict to happen as per my above. If Konate is not the future, then start prepping for and imbedding that future now. He can always cover while Leoni settles in and if JG gets injured.

11 Sep 2025 15:20:30
Step forward Castello Lukeba.

11 Sep 2025 21:39:22
Didn’t we do this last season?

11 Sep 2025 22:22:19
Why the hate? If he wants to go and live in sunnier climes then he has every right to.

As long as he’s giving his all whilst he’s here then why would we care? Benching a player that was integral to us winning the title last season is plain madness.

Help us to win number 21 and go off and do your thing. Everyone’s happy.

11 Sep 2025 23:42:52
FSG will be well used to players seeing out contracts and entering 'free agency'. It's how the American sports model works.

I would imagine the preference will become the same for LFC, in time. After all the transfer prices for the top players are now so ridiculously high that it's going to be much smarter to follow Real Madrid's model.

IE get to a position of strength (top team in your country), buy the very best to strengthen when you get there (Isak, Wirtz etc) Then target elite players at 24/ 25 as their contracts run down/ run out (Guehi? )

12 Sep 2025 03:28:59
Slot will pick what he thinks is the best team to play for each game. Anything else would be stupid. To be fair, I can’t remember the last time a fan, or group of fans, were asked by the club to pick the team for a match.

14 Sep 2025 11:18:18
Ibou was class last year for us there were matches were he was as good as virg
Not happy we are losing a player to possibly Madrid for free again but if he won’t sign you can’t force him and can’t just drop him because he’s leaving out of spite.

05 Sep 2025 23:11:29
Bayern Leverkusen want a new manager Glasner would be a fit?
I heard that steve (the quiff) parish on transfer day was in the gym until 6pm that is why it went to the last minutes.

This has cost his club millions of pounds why would you go to the gym at such a pivotal moment? Did he have no intention in selling the lad to us?

05 Sep 2025 23:19:37
If it's true that he was in the gym. I'm going to report him! lol. He should be showing mor due diliagence than being in Jim. He had work to do.

06 Sep 2025 01:10:50
I hope I don’t have to explain to you the difference between being in the gym and being in Jim.

06 Sep 2025 01:21:35
I heard he left the gym around five-ish but headed off to the local Pizza Hut for a meat feast.

06 Sep 2025 06:35:44
Parish does 45 mins at the pecking mirror, then 25 mins of aggressive shouting, 15 mins of lunges at a cardboard cutout of Alan Pardew and then has only 95 mins to fix his ludicrous barnet. It all takes time.

06 Sep 2025 07:09:02
So that’s why Jim white was missing from skys deadline day!

06 Sep 2025 12:36:48
Poor old Jim white. He loves dead line day.

06 Sep 2025 13:02:37
Rumour - yes Parrish was in the gym beyond 6 o clock, but had already sanctioned Geuhi leaving, so it it didn't matter where he was or what he was doing .
Glasner was the spanner in the works, by saying he couldn't leave and would resign if he did . until replacements were found and then doing what he could to deter any replacement ( hence the Brighton fella chosing W Ham over them) when Glasner told him he'd get limited minutes .
As I said - RUMOUR!

06 Sep 2025 13:30:21
@thunderbird2 a particular politician in the US could, Jim (Gym) Jordan….

06 Sep 2025 20:10:07
But the question remains, why did Liverpool leave it till tge last 2 to 3 days of the transfer window instead of trying to force a deal early in August and give CP a deadline to complete the deal because it was obvious thst CP had no desire to sell.

{Ed001's Note - what are you talking about? Palace were happy to sell, they needed to sell and the deal was all agreed long in advance. They just wanted to play him in as many games as possible first. We didn't need him desperately so why push it? Then Glasner threw his toys out of the pram, put the kibosh on the replacements and blocked the sale. Palace had every desire and needed to sell as they are in a mess financially after losing their main investor John Textor in the summer.}

07 Sep 2025 03:56:26
wouldnt it be funny now that within the next few mths, if a bigger club comes for Glasner and he chooses to move

In a sense, he still walked out the club at an inconvenient time, not sure how Parish would take that after he
1) made CP in an even poorer financial state
2) upset the club captain

burned bridges maybe?

07 Sep 2025 09:34:19
I posted a few days ago that Real Madrid would be all over a deal for Guehi for free in the summer. I was shot down as Guehi is not high profile enough for them. Now reading Real, Barcelona and Man City are all interested. So not only has Guehi missed out on a move to LFC, There is now a chance he moves elsewere. Could also start a bidding war in January.

07 Sep 2025 10:17:30
He'd agreed a deal and envisaged himself as a Liverpool player when man city were already interested. Absolutely no reason what so ever to suggest he won't.

07 Sep 2025 10:41:59
Gaga - sounds like what happens when top clubs are in for top players.

07 Sep 2025 14:53:18
Thank Ed01 for the clarification as that was my question. So basically CP hsndled their end poorly. Hopefully we sign him in the January. Thank you again anx best regards.

Excuse my poor English and grammar snd spelling errors.

{Ed001's Note - yes, it was all on Palace. The deal was ready to go a while in advance but Glasner kept causing issues with replacements. Glasner is a selfish prick, he will lose the players if he keeps arsing them about and that would be catastrophic for Palace. One of their strongest points is the team ethic they have.}

07 Sep 2025 16:07:51
I get what you are saying Faithinworks and Leeroy, but he should already be a Liverpool player. As we all now once Real are involved it becomes difficult.

07 Sep 2025 23:11:30
Are Real Madrid interested in? I haven’t seen their name mentioned, except within the Context of them picking up Konate on free.

08 Sep 2025 07:41:43
Real will always be interested in frees in the knowledge they can flip them if it doesn’t work out for a substantial profit. TAA take note.

08 Sep 2025 12:08:45
I think it’s telling that we didn’t just offer more to seal the transfer. Nor were we prepared to let Gomez go the other way.

This was a deal that we saw as good value but one that we didn’t particularly need.

We knew that we could sign an England international club captain on the cheap but we weren’t prepared to throw any more at it than we absolutely had to.

I’m not completely sold on Guehi just because I don’t think he has the attributes to play CB for us. I think he’d make a better full back and I think he’d have ended up at Right back fighting with Bradders for a starting place. Frimpong will end up playing further up the pitch.

As a Liverpool centre back you need height, speed and strength. Height because we get targeted at set pieces, speed because we are normally higher up the pitch and teams go over top early and strength because you will be left one on one quite often.

Guehi doesn’t really have any of those attributes.

{Ed001's Note - money wasn't the issue, so offering more would not have made a difference.}

08 Sep 2025 13:39:25
I’m sure if we’d offered £50m earlier in the window Parish would’ve snatched our hand off Ed regardless of what Glasner said.

The signing was opportunistic and not deemed a priority so we were prepared to offer less and take our chances until the final day.

{Ed001's Note - sorry but that was not what it was or how it works. Pointless trying to discuss this as you clearly think you know better when you have nothing but guesswork.}

08 Sep 2025 18:07:22
I think guesswork is what we all have Ed because we weren’t there were we?

Thanks for your time, rude as usual but thanks anyway.

{Ed001's Note - right you do only have guesswork, but you will shout over anyone who gives out information in pure ignorance as always. If you were not so damn ignorant and argue with everyone who actually is giving you info, you might not get such rude responses. But ignorance is tedious and annoying.}

09 Sep 2025 12:39:24
Glasner walks out of there in a heart-beat if he gets any interest from a club he likes the look of.

12 Sep 2025 03:15:32
@RR - is it a crime to go after a better job these days?

05 Sep 2025 14:55:19
I was talking to someone who is close to the "he who shall not be named" camp this morning. he's a close family friend of theres. He told me that it was 2 years ago when "he who shall not be named" decided to leave. Funny enough, Klopp also was going to leave that summer and Bellingham joined Real. He even started taking Spanish lessons around this time. When Slot came in he treated him differently to Klopp, just another player who needed to work harder on his defensive side. The first time he said that to "he who shall not be named" solidified his need to leave.

05 Sep 2025 15:03:14
Thanks Thefields appreciate the insight.

It’s a bit of a ‘nothing-burger’ to me, still a club legend 👍.

05 Sep 2025 15:04:54
Hit send too early haha.

The narrative of he wanted to leave for another culture and to try a different league was false. He knew what we were about to do this summer and decided that he wanted to leave anyway. This fella seems to think he left because Slot wanted him to work on his defensive side and the fact Bellingham was there.

Make of it what you will but I don't think he is wrong.

05 Sep 2025 15:49:11
Thanks for sharing, Thefields.

Either way, we are here now busy building a dynasty.

05 Sep 2025 16:06:51
Does it matter?
It'll never dilute the memory of "corner taken quickly".

05 Sep 2025 16:14:13
Slot was right though. Trent had a good season when we was used more as a conventional right back.
I never thought this inverted stuff he was doing was a good idea.

05 Sep 2025 16:17:54
Trent was driven by self interest, as are most of the human race.

05 Sep 2025 17:36:28
If he decided to leave 2 years ago it was nothing to do with Slot and how would he know we’d sign Isak, Wirtz et al. I smell bllsht.

05 Sep 2025 17:42:55
A real pity trent left as I feel the captaincy, which he would've got in not too distant future, would have brought his game up another level.
The 1 fault I would've had to vvd game was that he wasn't aggressive enough but since he got captaincy he certainly aggressive enough now and he's better than ever.
Same with trent, I think what stopping him from being absolute world class player, particularly as a degender, is his lack of aggression. if he was captain I don't believe we would see any lackadaisical attitude from him.

05 Sep 2025 17:58:18
He’s left. Who cares how, when and why it happened?

I’ve forgotten about him already.

05 Sep 2025 18:02:36
Trent is currently in my top 3 scousers the other two are Tommy Smith and Stevie G.

05 Sep 2025 19:18:36
WM that's because he didn't tell Slot until late March about what he intended to do. If you smell bullcrap, you need to stop rolling in cow fields mate.

Robbo, closure. Some people still care. I couldn't give a toss either tbh, just thought I would pass it on.

Ingland nah. Mine are Jimmy Corkhill, Barry Grant and Tinhead 😂.

05 Sep 2025 20:17:03
Thing is though Thefields he could’ve decided 2 years ago that he wanted Madrid as an option but wanted to wait until closer to the time to make his final decision. We’ll never know for sure.

But really, who cares? He wanted to go and he went, end of story.

He didn’t do anything wrong but now he’s gone so anything he does is irrelevant to me.

I was at the ‘corner taken quickly’ game and it was one of the best nights of my life (I had bruises everywhere after that game) but not because Trent did what he did. It was because Liverpool came back from 3-0 down to win against Barcelona.

I support Liverpool and he doesn’t play for Liverpool so I couldn’t give a toss.

05 Sep 2025 20:58:15
That's for the confirmation fields . I always thought he planned it . ran his contract down because that what Madrid told him to do . he was tapped up ( Like Konate now) . but these posters who still believe the sun shines out of his backside still amazes me. I also think Slot didn't fancy him as a defender . so good riddance . the only thing what bothered me was the transfer money we never got, not him leaving.

05 Sep 2025 21:31:17
You know what I can’t stand? Is the “ corner taken quickly” shout to defend his legacy. If it wasn’t for origi it was just a corner.

05 Sep 2025 21:43:27
Thanks The field,
Really appreciate the information you provide but I suspect you know Trent wanted to sign a new contract two years ago with LFC and there was no offer from Madrid at that time . He's left and think we just need to appreciate the great contribution he made to LFC history . I have great memories from his time at anfield.

05 Sep 2025 21:51:08
Interesting, thanks for sharing Fields. At the time I did think it could be related to Klopp leaving. Let's not forget that Slot fired a parting shot (or gift as I believe as he put it) fo Alonso regarding TAA's defending.

05 Sep 2025 22:05:56
Scouse John. exactly. it was Origi who scored the goal, he hardly gets a mention.

05 Sep 2025 23:00:07
I’ll be honest, I don’t care what Trent is doing. He’s gone and we are on to bigger and better things. Let’s focus on Slot and this new dynasty both Hughes and Edwards are building.

05 Sep 2025 23:24:36
Good info mr Fields. Regardless of whether people want to hear it, it’s still a rumour. Keep sharing please, it’s why we are all here.

05 Sep 2025 23:30:06
Top 3 scousers? Lad? Give it a rest!

Steve McMahon, Robbie Fowler, Ian Callaghan and Jimmy Case, Trent really is not fit to lace their boots. Learn your history. Aldo too and Jan molby all way above that fella. Not a clue mate. !

05 Sep 2025 23:49:32
I don't get this at all. Why was Voldemort taking Spanish lessons?

06 Sep 2025 00:42:25
Thanks Thefield.

Was just asking this qn the other day on the Banter page.

It’s a big shift in his attitude, going from future club captain, to leaving despite knowing our big upcoming summer plans, and opportunity to create an era of dominance.

The fact that the announcement was made only after the final game of the season, also allows him plenty of opportunity to make a uturn on his decision, unless a pre contract agreement was alr signed.

Oh well, he had made his decision and we move on. I would wish him well, but there will always be this asterisk to his name that will taint his legacy here.

Have a good weekend all!

06 Sep 2025 01:23:46
Ah yes, an international break - standard slow day at the office.

06 Sep 2025 07:25:46
We will see how good he is in defence in a few weeks when he’s up against Isak, mo, Gakpo and Ekitike. Or will we 🤔.

06 Sep 2025 07:50:40
I have no problem with his leaving or wanting to leave. But he could have approached it differently. The decision to leave was clearly made in terms of years and not months as some are claiming. He kept refusing contract talks or we would have heard something about talks taking place.

The club nurtured him for 20 years? He served the club for 20 years? Both very true. But he could have easily left a year earlier and made sure the club received a good amount, instead of the pittance received. It's a business at the end of the day.

Amazing player? Yes. Legend? No. If players like Owen, Suarez and Coutinho don't qualify, then no reason this guy should either.

{Ed077's Note - Players like Owen, Suarez and Coutinho didn't win your club LEAGUE titles, or UCL for that matter though. Trent was integral in the most successful period of your club in the PL era. Just because he ran down his deal doesn't mean you guys have to start acting like he didn't serve the club well during his time.

06 Sep 2025 08:13:55
Exactly Ed077 👏👏

My criteria for club legend are simple:
1) Winning titles - champions leagues and premier leagues.
2) Doing something extraordinary for the club or the community.

I’m not bothered about corners etc.
Owen - won a few cups, some might say the cup final against Arsenal qualifies as something extraordinary but not me. It was 2 good finishes to win a match where we were second best.
Suarez - amazing player, won no titles, disgraced himself and the club with his behaviour.
Coutinho - again, won no titles.

Trent - didn’t cost the club a fee, won everything on offer with the club and left for £10m. He’s a legend.
Running your contract down is not a crime. It’s his career, he helped bring incredible success to the club.

06 Sep 2025 08:43:27
You are wasting your breath @77 - for some it’s like breaking up with their first girlfriend, even the ones who haven’t had a real life girlfriend just yet.

{Ed077's Note - 😂😂

06 Sep 2025 09:56:55
"Don't you want me baby? " springs to mind too WDW.

06 Sep 2025 10:05:22
On the "it was just a corner" - Trent started to walk away from the ball then suddenly turned back and whipped it into Origi.
It caught the entire Barcelona team napping. I'd never seen a corner taken like that, and haven't since. Considering the magnitude of the game, it was the winning goal and it was late on, it as a stunningly audacious piece of football.
Anyone trying to denigrate that is simply taking large doses of copium.
It's funny seeing grown men acting like schoolgirls over their first crush though.

06 Sep 2025 10:09:17
Forget him, left his boyhood club to be a squad member underwear model in Spain. Will never play for us again thank god and will be back at Chelsea or Spurs in 18 months.

06 Sep 2025 10:35:33
Alright, I get it. It's individuals who win titles. Not teams. You're right. And my understanding of football is way off. Have a nice day.

06 Sep 2025 10:50:05
And here's the usual suspects defending him . leg end not legend . so what he was part of us winning the league, so was countless other players . he couldn't defend to save his life . yea he had a wand of a right foot. . but a legend to me is how they've conducted themselves, he let his contract run down costing the club millions of pounds, while no letting on his intentions . let that sink in eh .

06 Sep 2025 10:55:40
Flash it looks like its you with the first crush . can imagine you playing that 15 clip every night before bedtime.

06 Sep 2025 11:53:09
It’s not a question of defending anybody it is more the continual revisiting of the same topic every time the lad has a bad game or a good game or an average game. I know this will hurt and it is very sad news for some who can’t seem to let go but the lad has moved on and it’s time for all of us to put big lad’s pants on and let him go.

06 Sep 2025 12:47:31
Its nothing to do if he had a bad game or whatever . The Fields supplied good information about him, what most of us probably all thought was the case . I support Liverpool not a player but people call him a legend . no legend leaves his home town club which nurtured him to cost the club millions . that's my only argument.

06 Sep 2025 13:42:59
I don't play anything of Trent's Stromgodset.
Who cares if he's classed as a legend or not? Apart, obviously from those who just can't let go.
Like WDW said, time to put the big boys pants on and get over it.

06 Sep 2025 14:08:29
By the 'won everything' logic, every player that was involved consistently over that period should be regarded as a legend.
A good academy player that left before he attained legend status for me.

06 Sep 2025 16:07:24
Flash . there is nothing to let go of . the Fields posted something what most sane people thought but the trent brigade came out in force defending him. ( it's a pity he couldn't defend that good ) saying what a corner, what a legend, to me he's exactly like the other scouser who ran his contract down, Macmanaman . I always thought he was a liability anyway n wanted Bradley in but he couldn't keep fit . hope iv answered you with big boys pants on.

06 Sep 2025 16:46:34
WDW and Flash. That's right. You're the big boys with the big pants on and everybody else with a different opinion, isn't and hasn't. There you go. You got the last words in too. Bravo. Made your day on here, has it?

Whose permission do we ask, as to what is permissible for discussion and what isn't? Someone raise their hand, so we can get this done with. Keep smiling. 😊.

06 Sep 2025 17:19:29
No different to Macca or Owen.

06 Sep 2025 18:00:28
Yfronts Stromsgodset, certainly not big boy pants.
ArAy, I've got my hand raised - can you see it?

06 Sep 2025 20:10:18
Flash . better Y fronts than trent knickers eh.

06 Sep 2025 21:59:59
Idgaf about him, but the hypocrisy of someone (wdw) saying let it go whilst getting carrying it on.

07 Sep 2025 01:04:05
@Stromgodset you can go back on this forum to around August 2023 - I’d been over in Liverpool for my dad’s funeral and I was told by someone I knew from years and years back that TAA had started taking Spanish lessons. I said at the time that my mate worked at the club but wasn’t a decision maker but if he knew about it, it was obvious that other people at the club did.

He wanted to move as a life choice but also because he wanted to play for RM. they aren’t mutually exclusive choices - you can want more than one thing at any moment in time.

It seems Liverpool tried to convince him to stay but he just didn’t want to and here’s the thing - I’m sure if you were good enough you’d want to play for Liverpool and you’d want to play for them for your entire career and because that’s what you want you’d imagine every Liverpool fan and player would want the same thing.

Trouble is that not all of us do, some people want to try different things, just because they can. it doesn’t mean that they don’t love Liverpool or us fans, it just means they want to experience something different in life before they pass away.

On the evidence of your (and others) increasingly tedious repetition it seems that you really don’t get the point that there is an alternate view.

07 Sep 2025 01:23:05
If another player had his career then we would all be saying he was a Liverpool legend, how he left or when he decided to go doesn't change what he done for the club, legendary status is not earned by how long u stayed for or how much the club recieved for u it's defined by what u did on the pitch and trent done brilliant for us, if we going to talk about loyalty we have recently loaned out 2 players in Harvey and tsimi who love Liverpool yet many here having a go a Trent have said they ain't good bwiugh) enough and should leave so loyalty is a very shallow word n doesn't mean bugger all anyways trent is no longer our player so what he does doesn't concern Lfc any longer but doesn't mean we have to hate the guy.

07 Sep 2025 10:51:07
between 'he who can't be named', YLFP, LGBT, I have no idea who people are talking about anymore

can we be a bit mature and just use the players' name? lol

I find the constant badgering of Trent the person and the player as real small fry and just a continuation of Liverpool fans' inferiority complex.

07 Sep 2025 12:16:59
WDW . what a load of nonsense you've just wrote . its you who has missed the point completely. no one is arsed that he wanted to try a new country/ way of life/ new team . the only fact bothering me n countless others, is that the ran his contract down on purpose costing the club millions of pounds in a transfer fee. Madrid do what Madrid do. get players to run their contracts down n then add them to the squad. in others words tapped up n if they don't run their contracts down then they don't join . as for the tedious repetition, that comes from your over inflated ego about yourself . iv read of few of your condescending comments to others on other threads on here .

07 Sep 2025 12:52:00
Why slag trent off you guys, he cost nothing and contributed a hell of a lot and wanted to move on, it happens, I’d have him back anytime, short memories some of you!

07 Sep 2025 13:20:46
"Not arsed about this at all but it does bother me".
Sounds like an Everton fan talking about Liverpool, not wanting to admit to any kind of obsessive tendencies but then confirming it 10 words later.
FaithIW is on the right track about an inferiority complex.
Comical stuff.

07 Sep 2025 14:32:39
The amount of vindictiveness towards Trent is pretty ridiculous to be honest. I'm sure if he got booed every game by the Real supporters, if he was caught crying on the bench and the Spanish newspapers branded him the worst La Liga player of all time lots of people on here are going to run to their keyboards and have a public celebration on here. I mean honestly move on, it's like people want him to suffer the wrath of god for wanting to leave our club. All the childish nonsense about Bellingham being his boyfriend/ husband is pretty idiotic too, with a big sprinkle of homophobia on top.

07 Sep 2025 17:17:29
Flash . I was answering wdw to his thinking everyone is upset he's left . now as for your Everton jibe n bringing other posters into your lil arguments for some sort of validation. iv been going to see Liverpool regularly since the early 80s . home n away . usually when we see people like you, we swerve them . we all know your type, the ones bitching in the background while , while all the proper lads are doing their thing .

07 Sep 2025 17:20:42
Pb . you disagree so what. other people don't . you putting yourself up as some righteous person . even saying people ganging up on Ed14 the other day.

07 Sep 2025 18:04:21
Yeah I'm sorry I'm not too enthused about bashing people on an internet forum, stroms, online schadenfreude for our ex players is not my cup of tea, nor is bashing ed014 when he's not around to respond. You can bask in negativity all you like though.

07 Sep 2025 18:22:28
PB well good for you . you feel better now with your perfect views . I on the other hand don't bask in negativity. I look forward to my team Liverpool winning . not fantasising about some ex player who people describe as a legend or worry about upsetting someone with what I think .

07 Sep 2025 18:23:34
Would those that don't like TAA running down (or honouring) his contract preferred it if he'd put in a transfer request from his boyhood club?
Liverpool agree to it, ask for a £100m fee and RM just pay it?
That could have happened and he wouldn't have been an important member of the squad that won the League last season.

07 Sep 2025 19:02:34
The whole point was to clear the situation up, by highlighting its not as simple as people make it out to be. We are allowed to discuss things and it ain't revisiting anything, what's done is done. There ain't not changing the fact the rwt jumped ship.

Did he help the club achieve a lot of things during his time at the club? Yeah. Does that mean he's a legend? Depends on where you're from tbh. Most local fans think not and he's a rat for the way he behaved. Most non local fans think he is and don't understand why we act the way we do towards the rat, just like Macca and Owen to a certain extent. he's Welsh 😂. This is because they don't understand how high the standards we put on one of our own are. We expect better from local lads because let's be serious, why would you want to play for any other club.

07 Sep 2025 19:04:53
Yea Rigsby . like Isak done n got his team a decent transfer fee to get the next player in . like Coutinho did. n they're not even home grown players.

07 Sep 2025 19:39:00
Fields. think you're right on how local fans think of him . n how non locals think . fact is he went n cost our club millions in transfer fees . that to me is a rat behaviour n not a legend .

07 Sep 2025 23:12:35
Let’s see if he gets booed like Suarez when RM turn up. My money says he will.

08 Sep 2025 08:45:04
Funny that you use the term "bitching" Stromsgodset.
One of the things that bitchy people do is slag people off that they claim to have an affinity for, normally behind their backs.
Sound familiar? See the irony?
More comedy gold, keep it coming lad.

08 Sep 2025 12:20:07
Flash, your always on here bitching about posters . calling people numpties etc. bringing other posters into the equation for validation . we all know in real life what type of person uou are.

08 Sep 2025 13:30:44
Now you're a psychic too?
This gets better and better!
Am I a worse kind of person than Trent?

08 Sep 2025 14:34:39
Honestly its pathetic that some users still seek to defend his actions.

He crapped on the club and pocketed what would have been our transfer fee for himself in a signing on fee.

He knew exactly what he was doing and lied consistently to the fans.

You reap what you so and I for one am glad to see he is already being dropped for an aging full back.

He will NEVER be a legend for the way he left the club.

He will look back and regret this decision like so many before him when leaving Liverpool.

Now he's just another number and will be churned out before long, expect a loan elsewhere within 12 months.

I am glad the supporters at the ground each week don't have this nonsense attitude and call it what it is and he has no love left from proper fans.

08 Sep 2025 15:29:11
Flash, don't need to be psychic to know what you are . see your love affair with Trent continues . don't forget to play that 15 sec clip before you go to bed tonight.

09 Sep 2025 00:30:42
Define a proper fan, SSH.

09 Sep 2025 04:52:56
Proper fans hate Trent with a passion and want to see him fail, have a rubbish career and end up overweight and bagging groceries, don't you know, Salah?

09 Sep 2025 06:04:57
PB, the man who doesn't like bashing people on Internet forums hahah.

09 Sep 2025 09:39:37
Give it a rest stroms, you're making a fool of yourself mate.

09 Sep 2025 10:10:36
Most people are looking at the Trent thing as Fans by saying you should want to play for YOUR club your whole life, well most people don't work in the same place all their working life, He was here for 20 years he was in an awesome team but he decide he wanted to leave to another country on a lot of money who here wouldn't do that if they got offered it not just in football but everyday life, I wish him the best and we move on. I don't know if he is classed as a legend but given that others are classed as legends for winning a lot less or playing significantly less than Trent he could well be classed as one any way like i say we move on. YNWA.

09 Sep 2025 15:52:08
Salah . why would you think im making a fool of myself. im giving my opinion about a thread on here . just because some people disagree with me, doesn't make me a fool. plenty of people agree with me . if you don't like what im saying scroll past it .

09 Sep 2025 16:48:07
There'll be plenty of people agree that you look a fool too.
Oh to be young and lovestruck again.

09 Sep 2025 17:16:41
Flash, but some people think I'm 100% right. . ive never heard anyone agree with you about anything on this forum . and again seeking validation from others .

09 Sep 2025 16:22:27
@Ed01 Tris can we close this thread down and ban threads on TAA going forwards seems to bring along a lot of nonsense.

Cheers pal.

10 Sep 2025 00:42:11
You've got to love International breaks, brings everyone closer together.

Bickering on the internet is as productive as an Amorim tactical lecture, but at least it's more entertaining for the observing audience.

04 Sep 2025 21:57:44
A bit quiet on here now.
Wake up Eds, got a rumour needing your opinion on please.
Hearing that the Elliot to Villa contract has a clause in it that allows us to talk to Morgan Rogers in Jan and to meet the asking price. This is on the proviso that he wants Liverpool.
Baloney or full rump steak Eds?

{Ed001's Note - sounds like clickbait for a player whose best position is the same as Wirtz's.}

05 Sep 2025 09:41:49
Thanks Ed for saying that. Morgan Rogers doesn't make sense unless Slot wanted to try him in the double pivot replacing McAllister (assuming he goes to Real Madrid), which IMO doesn't his strenghts.

{Ed001's Note - he is a goalscoring midfielder, not a deep lying one, it would make no sense to play him deep. Even if Macca is gone it makes no sense.}

05 Sep 2025 11:14:35
If we’re looking at any kids next surely has to Wharton of Palace next summer. Although I’m thoroughly happy with what we have.

05 Sep 2025 13:31:27
There is a buy-back clause, right?

{Ed001's Note - he is on loan, so we could just cancel it.}

05 Sep 2025 17:25:50
Rogers can play across the 3 in a 4-2-3-1.
He’s played most of his games off the left, almost double the games there than other positions.
I think he’d be a great signing for us.

05 Sep 2025 17:47:06
Hi Ed001. Hope you’re well. Reading above about Elliot, I understood the deal to be a loan with an obligation to buy. By cancelling the loan - at anytime or last minute - does that then mean Villa have no obligation to buy? Hope that makes some sort of sense.

{Ed001's Note - yes, there will be penalty clauses but there is always a get out.}

05 Sep 2025 17:56:52
Thanks Ed001.

{Ed001's Note - very welcome.}

08 Sep 2025 14:36:35
Rogers isn't good enough I would say another Gordon clickbait.

05 Sep 2025 08:30:22
BBC Gossip suggesting that Michael Olise may be a target, as a longer-term replacement for Salah. Think somebody mentioned Olise on here, a week or two back, too. Haven't watched him too often but quite impressed by what I saw. Any thoughts from others on here and especially from those, who appear to be more itk?

05 Sep 2025 10:33:10
Ticks all the boxes for me next summer.

05 Sep 2025 10:42:51
Playing well in Germany and was getting better in the prem the season before last.
He would be a very sensible option.
Him and Guehi on a free next summer with Murillo to be brought in to replace VVD slowly but surely would be another excellent window.
I also like Semenyo though for the right side.
Still looking forward to the rewards of that last window though, hope we go on a long successful run with a big victory at home on the 20.09.25 where we witness Isak scoring his first hat trick.

05 Sep 2025 11:38:31
He’s hit another level in Germany and is on the verge of becoming world class, he should be number 1 on the list of Salah replacements.

05 Sep 2025 15:03:52
Mortem Gamst Pederson.

05 Sep 2025 15:13:30
Shughes, If we sign Guehi, he will replace Virgil and Leoni will eventually be his partner. I can't see us moving for Murillo. Semenyo is shout tho and I would rather him over Olise.

I really don't see what the fuss is with Olise, there is better out there.

05 Sep 2025 16:01:07
My only concern is whether he has hit new heights at Bayern or is the quality of the other teams so poor that he is made to look good. Even Werner looked good in the Bundesliga.

{Ed025's Note - so did Wirtz..

05 Sep 2025 18:06:28
Ed025 Miaow.

05 Sep 2025 18:17:44
Keita looked amazing too.

05 Sep 2025 18:27:40
We all need to be aware that it’s unlikely we will spend much at all next summer given the size of the outlay even with sales out of this one.

We will need at least one CB so Guehi could be a replacement for Konate but I also think we need a second one also if Konate leaves.

Olise could be an option to replace Salah, and we do need to be thinking about life after the great man.

05 Sep 2025 19:07:42
Merlin Rohl anyone (ed25?)

05 Sep 2025 20:57:01
Karius - second best keeper in Germany 😂.

05 Sep 2025 21:32:56
Wirtz is brilliant here too ed25.