Reddish-Blue

I found the highlights from the Burnley FC club page on youtube, not sure if it's geoblocked... https://youtu.be/ajAl7MlOfu8?si=VYQeAjUgtVpC4AlQ&t=74

The only thing that Poch had was working with a young group of players and developing them like his previous stints in the PL. Will be interesting to see what they do at the end of the season as I feel like we'll either stick with Poch or continue the Brighton fantasy and get De Zerbi 😆

Do we have any players that haven't been injured this season? Chilwell and Reece are the same at this point, they play a few games and then it's hamstring or something else and we're left without full backs.

As if the current owners would bring back the guy they sacked

Which club is buying Broja for 20 million? He looks so much worse since his injury. I just hope he doesn't end up like CHO, all that potential and we ended up getting around 5 million for him.

We lost Rudiger, Kante, Kovacic, Jorginho in 2-3 transfer windows and became mid-table The simple fact is: we never replaced any of their qualities. It was about spending big on "potential", go and get Lavia, Enzo, Caicedo for 300 million....yet none of them get anywhere near the midfield we had.

Agree the end product was annoying but he's still far far ahead of Madueke/Mudryk on the wings.

He was frustrating to watch but at that point in time, he was what we needed in that deeper midfield role. For that goal vs Barcelona, he'll always be a LEGEND.

I'm sure Mikel would just laugh and look at his trophy collection from his time at Chelsea, hopefully Caicedo gets to lift a trophy someday and repay that mammoth price tag. 😆

Caicedo isn't average, not his fault that the club were stupid enough to pay 100+ million for him. I bet he would have looked just as good as his Brighton days at Liverpool. How is that Klopp gets new midfielders and they seem to be able to work in his tactics from day 1 (that guy they got from Leipzig, Gravenberch, MacAllister are all new to Liverpool)....but at Chelsea every player takes so long to figure things out.

Yeh and with INEOS taking over United, they're getting Dan Ashworth and apparently he's keen on working with Potter again... I feel like we would end up with De Zerbi as the owners seem to love anything related to Brighton....

He won't be short on offers, just like Alonso and De Zerbi. Will be interesting to see where Amorim & De Zerbi end up in the manager merry go round.

or maybe he said no to us...just like Luis Enrique and Nagelsmann

Because money talks. Apparently he was on crazy wages + bonuses at United... At least with Pogba he'll be able to say he helped his country win the World Cup.

It's because once you have a solid system in place, you can get away with playing the 'kids' as the senior players know their roles and they can control the game to make it easier for the 'kids'. I remember back in the day Ancelotti blooding plenty of kids in our cup games, Van Aanholt, Kakuta, McEachran among others.

There is definitely room for improvement and that starts with the basics. Use players in their best position (i.e. don't play a young CB at LB just to give him game time, if he's good enough, blood him in as a CB) Figure out the best midfield moving forward (really is a shame that Lavia could barely play 3 games all season, he's the one with the passing ability we lack) Huge question marks over our attack (did we really expect Mudryk and Madueke to get 10-15 goals this season? What's Sterlings role? Jackson looked better in 2 games on the left flank than most of the season as striker.....and is Nkunku ever going to be fit for 10+ games in a row or is that the reason why Leipzig sold him, knowing that he was injury prone?) Top 4 is dreamland at this stage but we really shouldn't be down in 10th/11th place either. You can't tell me that the current squad is any worse than United/Brighton (based on current league table). The difference is United have enough quality to take those 50/50 chances from guys like Rashford, Bruno, that Haaland-lite striker they got and then they have two game changing youngsters in Garnacho & Mainoo.

That's what happens when you don't have any experienced players (other than Thiago Silva) to set standards in training You think the fitness would have been this bad if Jorginho, Kante, Azpi and others were still around the first team squad?

It doesn't even matter if they threw on 3 16 year olds for their debuts in extra time, the fact that we can't score a goal in 90 minutes sums up our season perfectly! And even then, we only beat them thanks to Trippier losing his mind on the pitch, gifting a goal and them not being able to convert in the penalty shootout.

Just wait for the 50/50 call in a key moment of the game, it'll go in LiVARpool's favor and they'll end up winning. Klopp could field multiple youngsters in the final and it wouldn't even matter as they've beaten us so many times in finals...

That was down to injuries at the wrong time of his development and then for some reason he was being re-trained as a wing back to satisfy the manager in charge at that point in time... The weirdest part was that we replaced him with players who are the same quality as him (Mudryk & Madueke). Normally when you sell players, you want an upgrade or at least a more well rounded player....but CHO is no worse than either of the wingers we ended up spending 100 million on...

I can only see Mbappe ending up at 2 clubs (that are actually serious about winning trophies and competing) - 1. Real Madrid, 2. Liverpool (you just know they've got Alonso lined up as the next great manager)

I feel like Gilchrist could have come on...he's been playing that defensive cameo role for a number of games this season. As the saying goes, if you don't play the youngsters how do you know they are good enough? Like when Klopp played Bradley against us, no-one expected him to be the standout player of the game and yet by the end of the game, he was toying with us.

You're forgetting the fact that we had experience all over the pitch and the team was well-drilled in how to get through a low scoring game. Right now we don't have Rudiger, James, Azpi, Kovacic/Jorginho/Kante, Christensen... Our team is decent enough and you can see they are keen on putting up a fight but we just don't have the quality to see out 90+ minutes against a top 6 PL side at the moment.

His replacement was like Moyes going to United back in the day, far too big of a role for a manager of limited experience and quality. With the current players we have at the club (and the injuries), if Tuchel was in charge, we wouldn't be better than mid table. You think he would magically make our defense better without a fit Reece James? And I'm not really sure what he would do with Mudryk - Sterling - Jackson and Palmer in attack as none of them seem like players that would do well under him.

For me it's: Mourinho > Ancelotti/Conte (League titles) > Sarri > Tuchel