Liverpool Forum (Anfield) - Part 25

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Need someone that's willing to be back up, and can play LB or RB.....TAA and AR26 will always start when fit...
 
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Ben Chilwell will not be cheap. I believe quite a number of clubs are targetting him.
 
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Medicated Oil said:
Mane is less selfish this season as he will square the ball to the players with better chances.
Just that the players may not be able to finish it off.
Some of the goal that he carved out is his own credit.
Sadly, no one in the team is doing that magic now.
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Have to disagree, Mane is getting more selfish this season.
His passes forwards just happen to be either bad or impossible for the others to chase after, or gets intercepted.
His passes backwards if you'll notice is getting more Sturridge-like, i.e. when he has the ball and perhaps Salah goes forwards to a more advantageous position its getting more and more likely that he instead passes back to a midfielder or Robbo and then he runs forwards himself to elicit a return pass (just like Studge used to do)
I've seen Salah getting frustrated each time he makes a good run but Mane just does't pass to him - he throws up his hands and looks to the sky in frustration - but nowadays he just got used to it, kind of gave up.
If you look at their body language when they are next to each other, somehow it's not the same as their first season together (just look at the award ceremony recently for some African player award - they were both on stage but it was really awkward)
I know Mane has been scoring a lot of vital goals of late but I still think he has been selfish this season, perhaps playing bridesmaid to Salah at all the prize giving events has made him so.
But just in case people come in and say a selfish striker is a good striker - just know that all those draws - against Leicester, West Ham, Everton etc - they could've have been wins if there had been more fluidity and just those 3 draws meant 6 points lost , 8 if you count (a depleted) manure. We won't even need to worry about goal diff ...
 
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Zzz... Ryan Sessegnon of Fulham sua la... Still very young to be moulded and polished by Klopp and can play right n left wings also...
 
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odyas said:
All those who failed him in the finals are being shipped off, lol
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First choice defence has been entirely changed last 18 months

Alisson, Trent, Gomez, Virgil and Robertson.

Downgraded/gone/going Simon, karius, Matip, lovren, clyne, Moreno.
 
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s7460597 said:
That's what I was trying to say earlier.

If mane wasn't dropped them why should Salah be dropped now?

This season, we haven't really seen the front 3 firing simultaneously? It'll be great to see this for the remaining games.
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Partially also due to Klopp change in game play. It is more pragmatic this year.

But imo, it is largely due to the fact that other teams have changed how they defend against us and play against us.

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Iirc For the past few years Not many good midfield players can walk right into the first XI and stay on...

So far only Arturo Vidal and maybe Rakitic

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kennysme said:
Have to disagree, Mane is getting more selfish this season.
His passes forwards just happen to be either bad or impossible for the others to chase after, or gets intercepted.
His passes backwards if you'll notice is getting more Sturridge-like, i.e. when he has the ball and perhaps Salah goes forwards to a more advantageous position its getting more and more likely that he instead passes back to a midfielder or Robbo and then he runs forwards himself to elicit a return pass (just like Studge used to do)
I've seen Salah getting frustrated each time he makes a good run but Mane just does't pass to him - he throws up his hands and looks to the sky in frustration - but nowadays he just got used to it, kind of gave up.
If you look at their body language when they are next to each other, somehow it's not the same as their first season together (just look at the award ceremony recently for some African player award - they were both on stage but it was really awkward)
I know Mane has been scoring a lot of vital goals of late but I still think he has been selfish this season, perhaps playing bridesmaid to Salah at all the prize giving events has made him so.
But just in case people come in and say a selfish striker is a good striker - just know that all those draws - against Leicester, West Ham, Everton etc - they could've have been wins if there had been more fluidity and just those 3 draws meant 6 points lost , 8 if you count (a depleted) manure. We won't even need to worry about goal diff ...
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nobardy lke 2 play 2nd fiddle de....lke mani say striker must be hungry....n selfish at times....but must be able to score lar.....u see our front 3.....to moi least selfish is firminho....so quiet but so efficient...abit off tis season prob coz klopp gave him another role to play deeper...still loving his no look goals....n the way he chases n gets the ball bk.....
 
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If Coutinho is available, I say go for him. Better us then go to Manu.
 
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Think need 100m for Phil. But he sort of burnt bridges with us anyway.. and now linked with man-u.. .

We were linked with Lorenzo insigne and now recently dybala. Rather these 2 and may actually come cheaper
 
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