Liverpool FC Rumours

26 Apr 2024 21:03:25
Good evening Ed’s,

Have Liverpool agreed a compensation fee with feyenoord for Arne Slot? Also do liverpool have interest in Summerville? Enjoy your weekend.

{Ed002's Note - Yes there is agreement for Slot. I am not aware of interest in CS from Liverpool.}

27 Apr 2024 08:52:05
Thank you.

27 Apr 2024 18:20:42
Hi Ed002, thanks for your information. Just wanted to check, does the agreement with Feyenoord include coaches that Slot wants to bring with him?

{Ed002's Note - No. that needs a separate resolution.#

26 Apr 2024 21:08:45
Rumours around today about Allison wanting to leave can any of the Ed's confirm this. I hope it's not true and don't think kelleher is the answer if he does go.

26 Apr 2024 21:31:19
Can’t see where he’d go to? All the top teams have a top class keeper.

26 Apr 2024 21:40:29
The Middle East Perhaps? I hope he is staying, nearly impossible to replace.

26 Apr 2024 21:41:58
I did mention a few months back per a conversation with some lads in the cafe he wanted to go to Munich.

26 Apr 2024 22:25:57
Manuel Neuer ain’t going anywhere Walter.

26 Apr 2024 22:35:11
Tbf nueur is 38, and Bayern may not have a better chance to replace him.

26 Apr 2024 23:23:50
1860 need a keeper.

27 Apr 2024 00:09:12
Welcome to the Colorado Rapids Allison!

27 Apr 2024 00:38:28
Hope not, best keeper in prem.

27 Apr 2024 01:23:18
If only Allison kept the goal as well as he keep his gold.

27 Apr 2024 02:58:22
He just bought a new house in Liverpool. didn't we just have this conversation?

27 Apr 2024 03:09:51
He's not going anywhere mate, rumours there just to cause a fuss, all media nonsense and clickbait bullsh*t. I hope.

27 Apr 2024 10:59:17
It's just people trying to push the narrative of a disaster scenario for Liverpool.

Allison, Salah, Nunez, Klopp, Diaz, everyone is leaving, including the This is Anfield sign and the Tea lady.

27 Apr 2024 23:18:19
@hsf, Klopp aside I think one or two others you mention might well leave too. It only becomes a problem if the players are replaced either from within or by buying. We sold / let go of Keita, Milner, Fabinho, Henderson and Firmino last summer and - events catching up with the squad after Klopp’s announcement notwithstanding - we are in a very strong position compared to 89 of the other 91 teams in the Football League. It’s not the losing players that’s the problem / worry, it’s ensuring that the replacements are fit for purpose.

28 Apr 2024 09:17:10
At least three of those are leaving HSF?
Klopp and Salah for certain.
And almost as certain that either Diaz or Nunez will go too.

26 Apr 2024 11:45:53
Heard Liverpool has reached an agreement on the Compensation fee with Feyenoord, apparently it's €12m, everything between Slot and Liverpool is agreed so I'd expect an announcement by the weekend.

26 Apr 2024 12:22:18
Hope so, speculative and pure click bait is annoying. Want to thank the 'EDS' for all their time, efforts, knowledge, wit, and sarcasm over the years i've been following.

26 Apr 2024 14:10:43
Is he available before the West Ham match. Ha.

26 Apr 2024 14:25:59
Heard they'll have to pay for Slot's two assistants too that will follow him. Around £13m.

26 Apr 2024 15:00:34
Why would you want him before the West Ham match?

26 Apr 2024 15:32:39
Hope he will SLOT right in!

26 Apr 2024 15:33:25
scouse john L8, because we are absolutely rubbish at the minute maybe?

26 Apr 2024 16:06:56
“ john L8, because we are absolutely rubbish at the minute maybe? ”

Sitting third with a trophy in the bag, three points off top with four games to go.

Whilst the performances have clearly dropped off and we are all gutted, maybe just think about what we consider“absolutely rubbish” now and compare it to what we would have said was “absolutely rubbish” 9 years ago.

As I said the football recently has been crap and I have seen more pulses in a morgue but looking at it objectively we’ve come so far.

26 Apr 2024 16:10:07
Going to face all the same fsg problems Klopp good luck to the poor bloke, he’ll be tired in a few years too.

26 Apr 2024 16:17:04
Scouse, I think Mark was having a laugh.

26 Apr 2024 16:22:14
Just one thing, probably showing inexperience, but I knocked Amorim for it so I think its only fair to knock Slot too. Can he not keep his gob shut until the current season ends?
I wouldn't be too happy to hear my manager, with games left in the season, to be talking about how happy he is to be going to another club.
Now, as I said, it's probably down to inexperience but I would think the top brass at LFC aren't too happy about it either.

ANYWAY, hopefully Slot moves smoothly (slots? ) into the position of LFC manager and uses the talents he will have at his disposal to have a very sucessful career at our club. Looking forward to it actually.

26 Apr 2024 17:08:06
Will he bring Bakayoko to replace Salah?

26 Apr 2024 17:12:45
I think Klopp's and Slot's statements to the press are to allow them to keep control of the narrative to some extent and curtail the worst of the speculation when things inevitably leak.

26 Apr 2024 17:49:03
The Ha at the end should give it away. But Klopp can’t motivate the players properly so a new voice is very much needed.

26 Apr 2024 18:38:48
Surprised me too PC. maybe putting pressure on his club to get it done.

26 Apr 2024 18:44:59
Do you not think a agreement with a manager secretly agreed before klopp devastating announcement would not of caused or eased the unrest which is clearly running through the club now? Or even a quicker decision on who we wanted? Still would of loved alonso, even amor in really excited me but slot is well respected and he's got feyernoord playing decent footy.

26 Apr 2024 19:37:17
I like the guy saying unambiguously that he's up for it. He's also not jeopardising his current team's future by coming out with it now. Feyenoord are pretty much guaranteed to come second in the Dutch Eredivisie. They're 9 points behind PSV with 3 matches to play and a negative goal difference of 30. Meanwhile, the third placed team are 12 points behind.

26 Apr 2024 19:43:22
Lets hope and prey we are not getting a ten hag.

26 Apr 2024 21:55:45
Ten Hag is terrible with the media and I can't imagine he's much more charismatic with his players. I know nothing of Slot and quite frankly I'd never heard of him until 02 mentioned his name. Trusting in what I'm reading and Ed's rubber stamp.

26 Apr 2024 21:56:21
@JLDA agree mate - the bloke is just being honest - he was asked a question and he answered it honestly, fair play to him.

26 Apr 2024 22:18:26
Damnded if you do and damnded if you don't.

26 Apr 2024 22:53:37
WDW3 - A lot of the stuff I've read on Slot stresses that honesty is one of his big features.

27 Apr 2024 02:42:06
Damn the man - what will we do without the tapping up rumours?

On a more serious note - as a Liverpool fan I’m happy that he is joining. He seems honest and capable from the little I have read and those qualities aren’t a bad start in my opinion.

25 Apr 2024 18:20:55
Hi Ed2

Was there an actual fallout between Edwards and klopp as reported in the media And was this why Edwards left initially?

{Ed002's Note - I am not aware of a "fallout" but as I have eplained before responsibilities were an issue.}

25 Apr 2024 22:00:07
I thought the "media report" was entirely speculation on the part of Jamie Carragher?

26 Apr 2024 15:11:53
Wouldn’t believe a word that comes out of Carraghers mouth it’s all basically Sly sports BS.
The fella blows whichever way the story/ gossip goes.

26 Apr 2024 16:17:57
Spot on, Klopp4pm. Carragher si the last person I would listen to.

26 Apr 2024 16:34:42
I'm not sure specifics were ever reported, but from the outside looking in there was a steady stream of departures of key people (Edwards, Graham, Ward) that coincided with Mike Gordon becoming less involved (FSG shifted his focus to other projects), Billy Hogan (a sales background) becoming more involved, and Billy Hogan being seemingly less capable of keeping Klopp from being a lot more involved in recruitment. Always got the impression it was a bad move to put a guy who enjoys pleasing people / getting yeses for a living in charge of Klopp, who needs a stern, strict boss like Gordon.

26 Apr 2024 17:14:48
Only things that come out of Carragher’s mouth is either embarrassing drivel or phlegm.

26 Apr 2024 17:59:09
To be absolutely fair to Carragher on this one he made it obvious he was making a supposition based purely on the timing of Edwards coming back. He didn't try to imply he had insider knowledge about a fallout between them.

27 Apr 2024 02:43:54
What’s the difference between ‘need to know’ and ‘I want to know’ @OP, what difference does it make? We are where we are.

25 Apr 2024 15:47:08
Ed’s any chance we’d look at Eze or Olise. Both been v good this season.

{Ed002's Note - I cannot answer such questions. Obviously Olise is an eChelsea player so Klopp may be keen.}

25 Apr 2024 17:55:15
Seems to be very rare that footballers ever want to move from the bright lights of London up to the gravy-filled streets of the north.

25 Apr 2024 18:22:09
“Pit pony filled streets” of the North stoneage 😉👍

No offense to anyone but you couldn’t pay me to live in London, too much crime and most of it violent.

25 Apr 2024 18:34:50
Despite my being an LFC fan, I am a southerner born in Farnborough and I have to say I bloody love London. Love Liverpool too mind, to be fair there's not many cities I dislike. Bristol maybe lol.

25 Apr 2024 18:59:12
London being anymore violent than any other UK city is a fallacy.

25 Apr 2024 19:55:26
Olise is a massive United fan and is on record as saying he wants to play for them. Given that United, Chelsea and City will both rumoured to be after him in the summer I’d forget any notion of him joining as it will be to any club that isn’t us, it’s not worth bothering only to be turned down. Eze is a London lad and has no interest in leaving the place, he’s said as much, expect he’s waiting for Arsenal or Chelsea to make the inevitable offer.

25 Apr 2024 21:29:34
As a resident in London for many a year now, I feel London has become a cess pit. It's truly disgusting.
I am no hard man but can look after myself, but I don't feel safe in London when on my own.
Even some of the more decent areas have become unrecognisable. There's so many scummy people that would kill you for your last watsit.
I have to travel with my kids regularly in central London and I am embarrassed they have to witness what the capital has become.

25 Apr 2024 21:56:04
Give me the cobbled Streets of the North every day over London. I've never seen the pull, unless your an international business needed to be down there.

25 Apr 2024 22:23:12
I'm sorry Neggy but that is the biggest load of pish I've ever read.

26 Apr 2024 04:04:40
VV, Odegaard is a Liverpool fan and has been on record previously about how much he wants to play for us. I wouldn't take much notice about what players say to the media about what fan of a team they are. Caicedo, for example, has been a RM and Arsenal fan before deciding that he's a Chelsea fan. It's all mostly pandering and posturing. If we wanted Eze and Olise and seriously went for them, I'm sure they would consider joining us.

26 Apr 2024 06:11:27
120m for the pair. replacing salah and diaz.

26 Apr 2024 10:43:57
Hey Westwood, I live in Crowthorne. Went to Farnborough Tech briefly in my younger days.

26 Apr 2024 12:46:40
Give me the beaches of the central coast in Australia any day over the UK.

26 Apr 2024 12:56:56
Having travelled the world for 30+ years with my work, I can offer an opinion on which is the best city, and for me there is 1 standout - Liverpool. The best city in the world.

26 Apr 2024 15:13:56
Couldn’t pay me enough to live in that hole called London it’s now 3rd world.

25 Apr 2024 12:25:15
Ed002, do you think we might finally follow up interest in Teun Koopmeiners this summer? I believe we've been scouting him for a few seasons now and correct me if I'm wrong, but he's worked with Arne Slot previously at AZ.

When I look at our midfield options now we're missing one thing that Arsenal and City have, and that is a physically dominant but mobile player. They have Rice and Rodri who can both glide around the pitch and thrive in a physical battle. When we played Atalanta, Koopmeiners absolutely bullied us all over the park. He was quicker, stronger and more imposing than anything we have in midfield.

He'd be an excellent signing in my opinion, so just wondering if our interest has moved on or not.

{Ed002's Note - Teun Koopmeiners (DM/CM) Atalanta are reluctant to sell but his agent wants the player to be playing regularly in the Champions League with Newcastle, Juventus and Napoli having declared interest. Interest of Milan shifted to Tijjani Reijnders so they can be discounted. Approaches were been made to Arsenal, Manchester United, Spurs, Liverpool and Chelsea although none have spoken with Atalanta and all have other targets for now but cannot be discounted with Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United having sent scouts. And Arne Slot, if he becomes Liverpool coach, knows the player well. Brighton and Aston Villa interest has gone. Juventus has a creative solution and, like Napoli, will push for a summer move. Player has made it clear he wants a Juventus move. Marseille have walked away due to the quoted cost although a change of ownership could see a huge shift for them. Atalanta are seeking €60M if pressed to sell.}

25 Apr 2024 13:46:21
It is evident we need a midfield anchor/ defensive midfielder, that ain’t Koopmeiners.

25 Apr 2024 16:01:40
Cheers Ed002, detailed as always!

Viktor, do we need an anchor? Endo has been very good and Bajcetic deserves a chance in pre-season before we commit to spending big on a more long term DM. Rice doesn't play as an anchor for Arsenal, Jorginho does, but that doesn't stop Rice adding physicality to their team. We lack that physicality in our midfield. I personally wanted us to sign Rabiot or Milinkovic-Savic last summer because I thought it was obvious we lacked a player of that ilk in a more box to box role. Koopmeiners can bring that to a team, but if not for us we need someone else of a similar profile in my opinion. He just makes the most sense having worked with Slot before and already being of interest ot the current recruitment team.

Szoboszlai in midfield just hasn't worked so we probably need to push him further forward as an option in the front 3 where he plays for Hungary and where he played for Leipzig. That (and Thiago going) leaves a big hole in the midfield roster so we should sign a player who can offer us something we lack which, in my opinion, is an indomitable presence in the midfield.

25 Apr 2024 16:16:56
Endo is not the answer if we want to push for a league title.
He's good at what he does, break the game up and play a pass. Very safe. He reminds me of Lucus Leiva. Lovely lad, good player but not to the level to compete for the title.
We may have it at the club already with Bajectic or Trent but if not, we need someone at the level Fabinho was at in his peak.

25 Apr 2024 16:40:07
Guimares at Newcastle has a release clause. Edwards liked him previously.

{Ed002's Note - Edwards does not pick the players.}

25 Apr 2024 18:10:11
I don’t see Trent being a DM.

25 Apr 2024 19:00:14
We were never going to win the league without a proper no 6.

25 Apr 2024 19:01:41
Koopmeiners, Rabiot or Milinkovic-Savic - good grief.

25 Apr 2024 21:00:26
Well we are not losing the league because we lack another defensive midfielder. We are losing it because we had injuries on key players also our forwards losed form and had bad luck with their finishing.

25 Apr 2024 20:05:16
I’d have thought it was pretty clear that we needed a defensive midfielder from our extremely soft centre that teams can run through at will, MK. As has been demonstrated so well by United, Palace, Atalanta and Everton recently.

And yes he might be physical, but he has the pace and turning circle of the QE2, which doesn’t suggest a player made for the premier league. If we sign him we’d still have a gaping hole in the middle for teams to run at our defenders. The last few weeks have shown that there is a need for a top quality defensive midfielder.

You won’t find a title winning team that doesn’t have a very good or brilliant midfield anchor, until we bought Fabinho we won nothing, we were also rans.

As for Rabiot or Savic, jeez. That’s the bottom of the barrel right there.,

25 Apr 2024 20:33:50
I think szobo is better further forward, but where? Is he a long term right winger, I’m not so sure. For me it’s time to put Trent in midfield, especially with Bradley coming through - he deserves more minutes than just when Trent is rested/ injured. I don’t see Trent as the six though, I think he needs to be free. So I would say we for sure need a 6, Endo can adopt a Milner type role and rotation, but no top team operated without a natural holding player.

25 Apr 2024 22:15:32
I agree we are a soft touch. We definitely need to strengthen the midfield and my god the set pieces v Everton were disgraceful. It was like watching under 9,s v under 16’s. Cowardly.

26 Apr 2024 04:12:02
Many may disagree with me but I see Trent as more of a deep-lying playmaker. He needs someone more defensive minded next to him though. Someone like Endo or Bajcetic is ideal but Mac in a double pivot works as well. I can see him launching balls from deep, similar to what Xabi used to do for us.

26 Apr 2024 08:32:55
Am I missing something here? Endo has been fantastic this season - as good as anyone in the league. It’s not the player that is the issue. I don't think it is a coincidence that he’s not been in the team for half of this poor run. Tactically we’ve got it all wrong the last few games. The players who won at Fulham must be fuming to be left out for those that came in.

Our issue is lack of intensity and desire to slow everything down at a time in the season when it all needs ramping up. Not Endo.

26 Apr 2024 09:04:47
@Drac - agree mate, If Arne comes in and adopts the 4 - 2 - 3 -1, I think TAA could quite easily be 1 of the 2 playing in front of the defence. Playing a bit deeper would suit his long range passing game and he’s not as inept a defender as sone on here would have us believe.

26 Apr 2024 11:43:20
Most of the trouble against Everton was that we kept giving needless freekicks away which we were unable to defend. Every Freekick and corner they took went to the far post and Once it went past the blocked Virgil they had free headers. Its happened more than once this year. Defensively we are naive.

26 Apr 2024 11:58:18
Endo, like Lucas, do their job very well.
Unless I've totally missed Endo shanking open shots on goal, then my thinking is he isn't really the problem.

26 Apr 2024 13:10:39
Agree with everyone above who defended Endo. Really don't see him as the problem, and someone nailed it that our recent poor run has coincided with him being dropped to bring Szobo and Jones back into the midfield. With Bajcetic as back up and Macca able to cover, I don't see a DM player as a priority. Endo and Macca are probably the only senior midfielders we have who actually provide any kind of genuine tenacity so they're not the 2 I'd be looking to replace. We just need a player in there with them who is more mobile and more of a physical presence.

Also, calling Koopmeiners slow is a strange comment given how well he moves around the pitch. He's far from slow. We simply need more physicality for me. We need a Declan Rice type player. I don't really care if that is Koopmeiners but to me he makes sense given his history with Slot. I'd be just as happy with Anguissa, Reijnders, Locatelli etc. No idea if we are interested in any of them though.

26 Apr 2024 16:20:14
Spot on, MKS and QV. It is now Endo's turn to get raked over the coals by the same people who prolly thought he would amount to nothing when he came in.

26 Apr 2024 18:02:50
Jones was phenomenal, and central to the good form and durability, earlier in the season.
Everyone hitting poor form at the same time has, perhaps due to over extending, as always seems to be the case when we go for the quad. I prefered it when we sacrificed the worthless mug and FA cup.

25 Apr 2024 12:02:32
Good afternoon ed002,

Your information on Slot was spot on as usual. Are you aware of liverpool potentially looking to bring in Willian pacho from Frankfurt in the summer?

{Ed002's Note - Willian Pacho (CB) Eintracht Frankfurt have told Real Madrid the left footed CB is not for sale. Liverpool and Arsenal have sent scouts.}

25 Apr 2024 12:35:50
Thanks Ed. Have a good day.

{Ed002's Note - You are welcome.}