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09 Sep 2026 08:14:10
I'm going for the same line up tonight as it was against Ipswich. Perhaps Barcola could start or maybe more minutes.
09 Sep 2026 09:58:30
Yep, keep the same line up. Make a few changes for Fulham.
09 Sep 2026 10:17:26
Barcola to start.
09 Sep 2026 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 3 - Quick Round Up
09 Sep 2026 08:16:45
Great read. Much appreciated ED01. I only saw MoTD highlights and I know you have been championing Sadiki for a while now but he does look like he actually is everywhere on the pitch! He reminds me of Kante. Surely there's some of the big boys looking at him for transfer? Including us? Surely! Anyway, Enjoy the match tonight!
{Ed001's Note - thank you SG. I absolutely love Sadiki, I know they rebuffed a few enquiries in the summer. I would hope we would be one of those enquiring!}
09 Sep 2026 09:29:32
I hope so, Ed. Sadiki may not be a true DM (not sure that is a thing at this point in football, for the most part) but he has an engine, can pass it, tackle and has the type of defensive awareness out of possession that we need, imo.
09 Sep 2026 09:37:09
I’d love to have Lewis Hall and Sadiki. Would solve a number of shortcomings we have.
09 Sep 2026 07:11:22
Ed001 and all Reds.
Question
Do any of you feel "dad" Macalister didn't get offered a new contract in the summer?
IMO after his last season, him and his dad have a cheek! He was not worthy of new contract. He looks to have started slightly better this year, but he is miles of a new deal for me.
Thoughts?
{Ed001's Note - he seems to be letting people know he is up for grabs on the cheap if you ask me. More angling for a move from the pair of them.}
09 Sep 2026 07:51:04
Absolutely. A very accurate assessment ED01. Let him off.
{Ed001's Note - I would be furious if it was me in charge. It was a pre-match press conference and you do that? Completely out of order.}
09 Sep 2026 08:36:35
I haven't seen the interview and didn't know if anything was lost in his translation.
But as you said Ed why do it then.
Also do you think he will be dropped for the game tonight because of it?
{Ed001's Note - I wouldn't expect him to be dropped, Iraola is used to working with players looking for moves away.}
09 Sep 2026 09:27:25
I mean, he was asked a question. It’s not like he stopped and made a big song and dance about it.
Not sad. It's what it is. I think we’ll see a very good Macca this season regardless.
09 Sep 2026 09:40:30
When he actually puts an effort in, he is a very good player, but for the past season and a half he was focussed on improving his swan dive more than anything. I’d wait and see which version shows up this season, but I think his days may be numbered and the club might look to sell at the end of the season.
09 Sep 2026 09:55:08
I'd quite like to see Nyoni get Macca's place this game in all honesty.
09 Sep 2026 10:14:13
Is the club running down their contract?
They can't keep doing this!
09 Sep 2026 00:27:13
The scoreboard found its shape after nine minutes. The performance, perhaps, remained a little more unsettled.
There was something beautifully simple about the opening spell. Gakpo saw Isak's movement before the space had fully opened and played the pass while the picture was still alive. Twice Liverpool found that clarity. Twice Isak finished with the economy of a striker who seems to need only the briefest invitation.
From there, the game became harder to read.
The right side seemed to breathe in and out with each phase. Araujo would settle alongside the centre backs, Muñoz would sink deeper into something closer to a wing back, and at times the space between them felt less rehearsed than discovered in the moment.
Muñoz remains an intriguing watch. There is real electricity in the way he carries the ball, but sometimes the run seems to begin before the destination has revealed itself. He can burst into narrowing channels, throw himself into physical contests, then look surprised when the whistle follows. It feels less like uncertainty and more like the impatience of a young player trying to show everything he has in every action.
Szoboszlai leaves me with a different thought. I am not sure the question is whether he sees the pass, but whether he trusts the first picture he sees. There were moments, particularly around Isak, when the window seemed open for only a second. Another glance, another beat, and the game had already moved on.
Perhaps that is where Liverpool are just now.
There are passages when everything suddenly aligns and the game looks almost effortless. Then there are longer spells where the midfield can still be travelled through, the rotations are still learning one another, and the next action arrives just a fraction after the moment that first invited it.
Two goals. A clean sheet. Three points.
Enough to show that something is beginning to take shape.
Not quite enough, perhaps, to say it has found its rhythm.
YNWA
RedP
09 Sep 2026 06:23:11
Fornax Lite
09 Sep 2026 06:58:11
You're a good communicator OP. I mean, I love your articulation, really enjoyed reading it. Cheers.
09 Sep 2026 08:03:17
Really enjoyable reading, RP.
As Stevie said after the Charity Shield.
"Bit more of that please, Fernando."
Seriously, it would be nice to keep this going as a weekly thing and see how it develops.
09 Sep 2026 08:19:29
For a moment I thought I was reading Barney Roney in The Guardian!!! You are well versed, RP8.
09 Sep 2026 09:09:00
Did have high hopes after your first post.
However, this smacks of AI - very heavy LLM fingerprints.
Not necessary on these boards - just be yourself.
09 Sep 2026 09:25:53
I thought I was reading an extract from a Charles Dickens novel.
09 Sep 2026 09:32:33
"Szoboszlai leaves me with a different thought. I am not sure the question is whether he sees the pass, but whether he trusts the first picture he sees."
I find this take very interesting, OP.
08 Sep 2026 21:16:15
Name a brilliant underrated player that went under the radar for just how good they were. Could be any league and any time really.
I'll go with Lubo Moravcik for Celtic. Amazing player.
08 Sep 2026 22:10:48
Lucas Leiva for us. Unbelievably underrated imo. Shame he struggled so badly with injury.
Playing at the minute, I'm going to get absolutely slaughtered for this, but I think Kai Havertz is underappreciated by his own and wider football fans. I think he has excellent technique, is good in the air and works very hard.
08 Sep 2026 22:27:36
What a great question. I hate to say it, but Dennis Irwin for me.
{Ed025's Note - great player AOE..
08 Sep 2026 22:37:57
Maybe not too underrated, but maybe Carrick for me.
08 Sep 2026 22:56:36
Didi Hamann
08 Sep 2026 23:20:11
Irwin was a great call to be fair.
08 Sep 2026 23:58:47
For Liverpool, I’m going Emlyn Hughes. One of our all-time greats, but goes under the radar as does Ray Kennedy.
From other clubs and another blast from the past - Gary Mabbutt! Proper pro and a lovely bloke.
09 Sep 2026 00:20:20
John Wark won the league twice in his first two seasons and was top goal scorer. Never gets a mention that’s underrated for me.
09 Sep 2026 00:45:41
Good call with John Wark.
I’m going for Ronnie Whelan.
09 Sep 2026 02:33:12
Not sure if under-rated, as everyone talks favourably about him, but Mousa Dembele's career was criminally average. I always thought he was exceptional for Tottenham, but no big team ever went in for him, despite his qualities. His ability, attitude and performances deserved more, and it is a real shame he didn't amount to more.
09 Sep 2026 03:07:52
Ronnie Whelan 100% never gets enough recognition.
Let's not forget Steve Finnan as well.
{Ed078's Note - Paul Konchesky anyone?
09 Sep 2026 06:29:45
Steve Finnan... good shout, Barry.
09 Sep 2026 07:19:39
Was going to say Steve Finnan, Mr consistent.
09 Sep 2026 07:25:24
Steve Nicol. Could play anywhere across back 4 or midfield either. RB was his main position and he scored a lot of goals from there including a hat trick against Newcastle (think he RB that day). Footballer of the year in 89. Wonderful player. Goodness knows what he'd be worth in today's market.
09 Sep 2026 07:29:33
Sammy Lee.
09 Sep 2026 07:38:18
Forgot Craig Johnston, good player and designed good football boots.
09 Sep 2026 07:46:54
Cyrille Regis.
09 Sep 2026 09:35:06
Fatwallet, Johnston was my Dawg growing up in the mid-80s, man. I wanted to play like him back then.
That being said, a lot of great shouts on this thread.
For me, I have to go for Steve Finnan, as well. Criminally underrated.
08 Sep 2026 18:38:30
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 3 - Quick Round Up
08 Sep 2026 18:49:21
Thanks Ed001, love reading these.
{Ed001's Note - cheers mate, really glad you enjoy.}
08 Sep 2026 20:03:00
Thanks Ed 1 top read as always 👌
{Ed001's Note - thank you Tim.
08 Sep 2026 22:05:09
Good read well written thanks Ed001
{Ed001's Note - thanks mate.}
09 Sep 2026 07:39:16
Agree with the shout on VAR. Gabriel went over the ball, imo he meant it.
{Ed001's Note - I don't know if he meant it or not, but I just don't see how VAR can be trusted to make these decisions. It has to refer it to the referee in charge.}
08 Sep 2026 18:12:42
We should look at Lewis Hall, Kerkez needs competition.
08 Sep 2026 18:34:44
Wouldn’t be surprised to see other players given a chance to play left back soon.
08 Sep 2026 18:58:47
💯 He needs competition, look at the difference competition has made to Gakpo’s form. I think Kerkez will come good under the new gaffer.
08 Sep 2026 19:03:44
Competition? Wherever Lewis Hall goes he’s going to be the starting left back.
08 Sep 2026 20:23:07
Would be great to add an English player but can't see us paying such a fee for a rotation fullback.
Lewis Skelly would be ideal as he would get minutes in midfield too. Swap with Rio? Lol.
08 Sep 2026 20:56:14
Indeed, @Fifth. If anyone gets Hall at the rate he has been playing, he is going in as the starter.
No competition would exist at that point; he is that good.
08 Sep 2026 21:57:28
I would like to see Chambers given a chance. Perhaps if Frimpong plays, you can balance it with a more defensive option in Chambers and vice versa with Araujo and Kerkez.
I would definitely like to see some more English players in the team though. Hopefully Nyoni will make no 6 his own and Koumas or Danns will become useful squad members.
08 Sep 2026 22:14:49
Yip, I would swap him for Rio. I'm not seeing the development in the kid. As much as I hoped, a lot of the step overs and waving a foot over the ball seem to be worked out by prem defenders.
He's a prime loan out for me in the Championship; someone like West Ham may work. I'm worried he won't get enough game time to learn at this level. Shelly is a very good player, as is Hall.
09 Sep 2026 00:22:19
I agree with other posters on this site who have said we need a young up and coming LB to compete with Kerkez. Right now he has zero competition and Tsimikas is Championship level.
I'm trying to think of names - Svenson, but he would want to start and is about equal. Joauquin Seys and Jorge Salinas seem ok options.
Anyone else have better ideas?
09 Sep 2026 06:42:55
Ipswich lad looks good. Leif Davis is it?
09 Sep 2026 07:41:43
Finally people seeing in Rio that I've been saying for ages, he's mr foot wave, he won't go on loan as he's guaranteed first team football as ed1 said to get him to sign
09 Sep 2026 09:38:16
Rio is now suffering from the same thing Baj did after he shined in a bad team in 2023.
Cos in 2024 when we finally revamped the midfield with actual good players, he was nowhere to be found. Still the case today.
Rio was getting plaudits for doing his thing in an even worse team and suddenly people bought that as he being a viable/starting option.
Now that we have revamped our wide areas with good players, he has been relegated to where he has always belonged: On the bench sitting and learning.
08 Sep 2026 18:11:39
I wouldn't be surprised if Liverpool goes in for both Lee Dyke and Phil Giles for the sporting director and technical director roles. Both are doing an excellent job in Brentford.
08 Sep 2026 21:00:31
Brentford has a set system of working (created in part by their then manager Thomas Frank) so regardless of the manager that comes in, he just executes the system already set in place. Kinda like at the Red Bull group.
If these guys created the system and structure of Brentford, then I wouldn't mind having them here create the structure in Klopp's image.
08 Sep 2026 18:08:24
Well we couldn't keep Salah so next best thing is honour his new country that gets to witness his true greatness.