Liverpool banter 9

05 Jul 2026 13:05:12
Football place reporting Juve set price at around 50 mil Euro for Khephren Thuram 6ft 5, good box-to-box and one Liverpool had looked at under Kloppo. Reporting usual click that 5 prem clubs are monitoring. (including Liverpool). I think he’d do well double pivot instead of Jones or Macca and either of them sold would fund the move. Especially if Fede would go the other way.

05 Jul 2026 15:46:39
If he wasn't 6ft4 and had his Dad's legendary name, he wouldn't even be at Juventus. Few years ago, I was sucked in by the YouTube hype. Having now seen him play, he's just a Temu Gravenberch.

05 Jul 2026 13:01:06
The damage Slot and Hughes caused is starting to show during this transfer window. As far as I'm concerned Klopp won that league title and not Slot. Why oh why didn't we sack him before Christmas?

05 Jul 2026 13:40:20
Still banging on about Slot. Chances are, if we'd have sacked him before Xmas, we wouldn't have been able to have got Iraola.

05 Jul 2026 13:51:12
Chances are, if we sacked him before Christmas, we'd be a more popular destination for players than now.

05 Jul 2026 13:52:02
May have been able to get Alonso though, Rome. But I'm just glad that we are done with Slot and he is gone. I'm looking forward and feeling excited about the football again next season.

05 Jul 2026 14:05:45
I don't get how Hughes and Edwards weren't sacked with him. Keeping him beyond November was just neglect, everyone knew it was over.

05 Jul 2026 14:14:40
We clearly didn't want Alonso, Drac. I'm just looking forward to a new beginning, though I'm not expecting an instant fix. Very much a case of one step back, two steps forward.

05 Jul 2026 14:22:11
Players don't make decisions based on a few months of form. If we'd missed the Champions League, then yeah, maybe, but we didn't.

Keeping Slot beyond Christmas has had no impact on our ability to attract players.

05 Jul 2026 14:36:46
Dracred, Liverpool didn't even try for Alonso in the end. I'm sure meetings took place, but if the club wanted Alonso in charge, he wouldn't have taken the substantially worse option of Chelsea before we even hired Iraola.

05 Jul 2026 14:38:23
Any chance we could look forwards please? What's done is done.

05 Jul 2026 14:47:05
He went to Chelsea because Hughes and Edwards were still dilly dallying about whether to sack Slot. I believe that if we had made that decision sooner, we would have moved for Alonso instead. Just my guess, though, since it's all ifs, buts, and maybes at this point.

We'll never be able to tell what would have happened had we sacked Slot earlier. We can only guess. And it's all immaterial now since we have Iraola whom I am really excited about.

05 Jul 2026 15:13:50
It's all water under the bridge now, we move on and support Andoni to the hilt.

A poster was saying yesterday (he is, of course, allowed an opinion, like us all). He has fears that Andoni may be the next Thomas Franks. Nobody knows that, not even Andoni himself, how it eventually turns out.

You can only judge Andoni by his past managerial stats. The last time Bournemouth lost a PL game was January 03, 2026, to now PL champs Arsenal, 3-2. Since then 16 PL games unbeaten: 8W, 8D, 6 clean sheets.

Andoni's unbeaten record continues with LFC.

Maresca and Alonso are all under the same pressure as Andoni, as Jurgen said he hopes things click for him (Lady Luck). As Sir Bob often said, no matter how good a side you are, you always have to have the "rub of the green" (stroke of luck, going for you).

I personally think LFC have made an "Exceptional" choice, and with a little bit of Friar Tuck could do quite well, after all most of the squad had a full seasons holiday last year at Slots Holiday Camp!

05 Jul 2026 15:24:36
I agree, Dracred. Some of our own trusted ITK's reported that we had started discussions with Alonso and that talks broke down. I don't think it was any coincidence that Mike Gordon had to come in and sort the mess out right after Chelsea signed Alonso.

Edwards refused to budge on his total control, and Alonso wasn't going to let a suit dictate his own future after what happened at Real, evident by the fact that he was given considerable power over transfers at Chelsea.

I felt that once FSG saw Alonso go to Stamford Bridge, they were rightly pissed with all the dilly-dallying and sent Gordon in to sort it out.

Pure speculation, of course, but it perfectly fits the timeline and the rumours surrounding it.

05 Jul 2026 15:28:27
007 - People who think Iraola is anything like Thomas Frank are simply equating “manager from smaller team goes to bigger team” - a foolish take. I actually have a lot of respect for how Thomas Frank has progressed through football, but he was awful at Spurs. Iraola is nothing like him.

05 Jul 2026 15:35:20
I'm glad we didn't appoint Alonso and I much prefer Iraola.

05 Jul 2026 16:13:20
Alonso was still at Madrid at Christmas.

05 Jul 2026 11:48:50
Im an ITK

I definitely know England are playing within next 24 hours, but that's it


Anyway, let's just enjoy peoples comments, some may be spot on with a guess some may just be blagging it just because maybe they feel a bit down in their life and need us to support them at the time

Some people (not a dig) need to feel they are listened to, mental health is a real thing, let's just support any comment unless its disrespectful.


Some can be just idiots liking to get us all talking and responding.


So basically let's just enjoy football and what the edd have created for us woth their spare time, this amazing thing we all read and sometimes comment.


And let's also say, even the it's the not it's and even people saying stupid stuff to get a rise

We all read it and enjoy it


Im a firefighter, and when I get a chance to catch up and read, I love it all. It really helps especially after a bad shift

As we are all here breathing and hopefully going home to our loved ones at least one more time


Love

05 Jul 2026 13:02:28
Take care of yourselves.

Jerry Springer.

05 Jul 2026 13:30:05
An ITKF.....An in the know firefighter...This site is ablaze with rumours at the moment. I've got some rumours myself, but I'd probably be shot down in flames by some helmet...

05 Jul 2026 14:22:26
Unless the thunderstorms in Mexico delay the game. ?

05 Jul 2026 16:14:38
I know a Mexican fireman that had twins.
Jose and Hose B.

05 Jul 2026 11:02:19
On a separate note, this website is getting shoutouts on social media.

I hadn't seen it before today, so thought I'd share.

It was from a random clickbait fan page on Facebook called The StatsMan.

Post is below and I am making a presumption that they are referring to this website. Not sure whether to say congratulations or watch out for other pages stealing your info, lol. At least they're referencing the website, kinda :D

-- POST BEGINS --

On the Liverpool Rumours forum last night, an insider with a strong track record posted:

"Liverpool have resumed talks with RBL and are trying to come to a suitable arrangement over payment structure of the fee. I've been made aware a 5-year deal has been accepted with Diomande, and he is not holding out for a move to PSG.



In fact, he is having little to no involvement in it — he's leaving it all down to his reps." Liverpool Transfer Rumours

The same insider added: "I'm saying we still sign Diomande."

Crucially — when Ornstein and Romano reported the PSG preference, Liverpool Echo journalist Ian Joyce did not rule out a Liverpool move.
In transfer window intelligence, what journalists do NOT say is sometimes louder than what they do.
Personal terms accepted. Payment structure being negotiated. Insider saying it happens. This is not over. This is just getting started.

-- POST ENDS --

05 Jul 2026 12:15:58
Who's Ian Joyce?

05 Jul 2026 12:35:57
Cross between Paul Joyce and Ian Doyle. ??

05 Jul 2026 13:04:05
I listen only to Joyce Doyle. She's at no. 35 and has an in at AXA.

05 Jul 2026 13:09:52
Is she a friend of Sarah's, though?

05 Jul 2026 16:15:19
Explains why there has been some absolute weapons on here of late. ?

05 Jul 2026 08:54:58
Why aren't we talking more about the bias being shown to Argentina?

Some of thise decisions in the Cape Verde game were ridiculous....

05 Jul 2026 09:23:54
I think we are all a bit defeated by how capitalistic the World Cup feels now. Infantino doesn't hide that he's in it to make as much money as possible, and, of course, his star boys Ronaldo and Messi need their teams to have favourable decisions to have more eyes on the TV.

05 Jul 2026 09:35:56
I couldn't believe Paraguay didn't get half a dozen yellows and a red.

05 Jul 2026 10:32:28
Paraguay were horrendous in their antics. I normally root for the underdog, but was delighted to see them go out.

I was impressed by Mbappe. Showed great fight and heart. He is already an amazing player, but if he were to bring that to his game every game, like he did in his younger days for Monaco, he would be clearly and unequivocally the best player in the world today.

Instead of there being a debate. He has been the biggest star of this World Cup for me. He is on fire for them. Not just goals. His all round desire and general play. Touch greedy, which is needed, but he is playing brilliant.

05 Jul 2026 10:46:31
The worst referee I have seen in a very long time. Just what was he thinking? The fact that he booked 3 French players and not one Paraguay player is completely baffling.

05 Jul 2026 10:55:24
He will be sent home. That referee was not up to the task. Also, in the Scotland v Morocco game he denied us 1, possibly 2 pens, and failed to send off a Morocco player. How he was picked for the World Cup is a mystery. I should dust my whistle down and make a comeback.

05 Jul 2026 10:39:10
while we're at it shall we talk about the sports washing going on by hosting the world cup in America?

:)

with respect to argentina, I want them to win so I may have missed the apparent bias in their favour!

{Ed001's Note - why do you want the most racist nation on earth to win?}

05 Jul 2026 12:22:35
What makes it worse is the Argentina players themselves singing that pass the ball song on their bus during the Copa America last year...I'm hoping Macca wasn't singing it too.

05 Jul 2026 14:10:23
Ed001 is right on Argentina. Here in South America it's extremely well known that racism is an accepted way of life in Argentina, their former president once said on national TV 'we don't have problems with blacks, that's brazil'

Having met a few it always surprises me just how casually they throw racist terms around as if it's just normal language. I think it's a cultural thing there

05 Jul 2026 14:04:46
Hey Ed. I have been living in Argentina for the last 14 years. I personally would not call it the most racist nation, the city where i live it's quite multicultural [ Tandil ]. I have American, Canadian, English and South African friends here.

Perhaps i am wrong, but i have never seen racism towards us here. I will say that they dislike the English, but i think that is because of the Falklands, as i said maybe i am wrong.

{Ed001's Note - you really need to learn the history of the nation and why there are so few black people left there. It is why the Nazis chose to flee there and why so many Israelis go there, it is a Nazi nation.}

05 Jul 2026 14:30:46
Argentina is the team I least want to win!
Horrible!

05 Jul 2026 15:53:46
@welshman2501 the people you're friends with seem to be mostly foreign, that's why they give that impression

I live and work in Brazil and it's very common opinion that Argentina is a pretty racist place, especially by comparison to the countries around it.

05 Jul 2026 08:31:58
There’s more “itk’s” here then the “hnfc”. ???

05 Jul 2026 09:47:34
What is HNFC?

05 Jul 2026 09:55:38
I believe it's "have no football club". It's a collective of out of contract players who spread false info in order to try and get picked up by a club.

05 Jul 2026 04:15:47
Football Italia reports we are surprise candidates for Luca Koleosho from Burnley. Was on loan at Espanyol then recalled and sent to Paris FC. Fiorentina interested, but report says if we offload Chiesa to Florence we will move for him. Raw only 21 but electric pace.

05 Jul 2026 14:12:14
Fiorentina can't afford Chiesa wages. Strong tie between player and club, but we will have to subsidise his wages to send him there. I know a lot of people at Fiorentina at both exec and coach level, so I'm 100% sure about this.

It would also very likely be a loan not a sale.

05 Jul 2026 00:15:02
Wow, Joe Hart talking about sportsmanship and moral integrity when discussing Paraguay's performance against France.

Ehh, you are one of the last people to claim that. You played for the biggest cheats in England. 115 charges for a reason, and you are taking the moral high ground?

Please.

05 Jul 2026 05:51:21
? Hart signed for City when he was 19, several years before the new owners came in, and he was sold off long before the 115 charges came to light.

05 Jul 2026 10:39:45
He's just a player, mate.

05 Jul 2026 11:35:14
He also got dumped quick sharp by Guardiola, who has recently said it was the decision he regretted most, how he treated him.

05 Jul 2026 11:54:21
He was a goalie. Not a CEO for God's sake!.
??

05 Jul 2026 12:22:03
Joe Hart isn't involved in the 115 charges in any way mate. I don't think you can throw that at him.

I don't like City, but those charges aren't a reflection on individual players unless they knowingly took brown envelopes of cash on the side.

04 Jul 2026 20:44:48
Is it just me or does it not appear that the most logical conclusion to all of this is that PSG agree a deal with RBL that allows Diomande to remain at RBL for 1 more year and join PSG next summer. In the meantime they sign Akliouche and keep hold of Barcola until next summer when they get Diomande.

Meaning RBL and PSG both get what they want and we miss out on both our primary targets I hope I'm wrong, but it just feels like we're getting played here and PSG hold all the cards Hope we have other options up our sleeve!

04 Jul 2026 21:07:10
That's exactly what came to my mind, but I'm not bothered, the Diomande deal feels like I've gotten an email from a Nigerian Prince, Barcola's going to be overpriced, he's nobody's dream signing, tbh, and I don't too much fancy funding PSG signing our no.1 target. I think I'd like to see us bring in Mike Godts on the left, and Bowen or Rayan on the right.

I'm unsure about the RW position, as the market's poor and the talent is lacklustre, so I think Bowen could tide us over for a couple of years whilst we put the scouts to work, he would bring some much needed grit and leadership to the team.

04 Jul 2026 21:47:33
I like Bowen, but I feel we will be overpriced and is probably just last his best.

04 Jul 2026 21:53:41
Very much doubt the Qatari funded back to back winners of the Champions League are struggling for money. Plus, they've just sold Ramos for EUR75million. This whole narrative of us buying Barcola would be funding them getting Diomande is comical.

04 Jul 2026 22:11:34
If we got that kind of money, maybe we should test the Olise waters. Cheeky 160mill bid. He is worth that kind of money.

04 Jul 2026 23:25:07
RabrizioFomano, nobody said PSG needed our money, but in case you didn't know, they've completely moved away from their previous ways of reckless spending to adopt a much more disciplined and sustainable model. They won't be spending excess amounts on top talent without selling, so even though the owners may have plenty of money, we would still be funding their purchases.



RedScarface, now that I can sign up for, he's the only one on the market who looks anywhere near fit to fill Salah's boots atm. I've been wishing the club would make a move for him for at least 2 years now.

04 Jul 2026 23:36:56
Chewy, you are in essence saying they need us to buy Barcola to fund their purchase of Diomande due to them not spending excessive now.
They've just sold Ramos for circa 75 million euros, meaning they would only be spending an extra 30-40 million euros on Diomande, (if figures touted are correct), which they would have made back in Champions League winnings this last season alone so I don’t know where you’re looking at it being unsustainable or ill disciplined.

05 Jul 2026 00:43:38
Do you have any concept of how much £160 million is? It would be the third highest transfer of all time, you don't just put in 'cheeky' £160 million offers for players.

05 Jul 2026 01:22:09
You're all thinking way too much. I guess that's what happens when we haven't signed anyone for a couple of weeks.

05 Jul 2026 04:57:38
RabrizioFomano, no that's the complete opposite of what I said, you're being ignorant by choice now. My literal words were "Nobody said PSG needed our money" So don't make up s*** for the sake of an argument.

All clubs sell players to fund purchases. The funds from 1 particular sale are not directly allocated to a specific purchase; each penny doesn't have an exact destination. Funds generated contribute to overall liquidity, not individual piggy banks with targets' names on them. If PSG make 200m from sales, including a deal with us, we are funding their purchases. End of.

05 Jul 2026 09:49:43
Olise for £160m would be a disaster, he would have to score 25 plus goals a year for five years to justify that, and he isn't a scorer, more a creator. He is also lazy, and I would not sign him. I would much rather a Mane type, someone who works hard of the ball, is quick, direct, scores and creates.

05 Jul 2026 10:45:56
PSG could easily do the following: buy Akilouche with the money from Ramos, agree to buy Diomande next summer as we did with Keita. RBL seem to be more receptive to these types of deals, sell Barcola next summer, Diomande's fee costs them nothing this summer and the Barcola/Diomande fees are close enough to not affect their balance sheet too much.



They may also move on Lee for decent money.