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Vanjagl said:
And Firmino is playing really good. Any signs of new signings for L'pool?
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To add to my response above mate, I've just come across this, this evening that answers your question somewhat-

https://mobile.twitter.com/LFCZA/status/1142734393561309190

Reliable journo Jonathan Northcroft on a transfer podcast on #LFC's transfer business. Fast forward to 39:26 (link: https://play.acast.com/s/thetransferwindow/8bb016dd-932c-458a-a200-e221de6ede74) play.acast.com/s/thetransferw…/1

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*Quoting Northcroft who's a top end journo for what that's worth-

"I think this is a sign of #LFC's evolution. They have been building themselves into getting into this position for the last 6 years."

"Michael Edwards feels that #LFC have gone through that phase of trying to sign a volume of players, and trying to sign players to devleop to take the club forward on the pitch."

"To a position where they're almost complete, not complacent, but the feeling they've got a high grade squad/high grade players in most positions which the manager identifies with and wants."

"#LFC are now in a position that they can just try pick off who they feel are the top players in the top end of the market. Van Dijk and Alisson for world record fees is a trend I see continuing."

"I expect #LFC to bide their time, trying to sort out smaller deals, outgoings like #Mignolet, outgoing loans, tying up #Origi on a new deal which I expect."

"#LFC will save their energy by signing very young players to develop but trying to pick off up some of the top players in the top of end of the market."

#LFC will be working off lists they've compiled over the last 3-4-5 years but now only working on 1, 2 or 3 choices as opposed to from choices 1 to 10. They can afford to look at the cream"
 
Yeah, that makes sense. And even your key players are in the right age. Who's over 30? Milner?
 
Pretty much. Lallana I think is the only other one. Then Lovren who's pushing 30.

Everyone else is more or less 27 or under. With most everyone tied down for the next 4/5 years. Real good aged mix for the long haul.

I can definitely see say Mo being flipped in another few years when he's 29/30 for a ridiculous fee. But there won't be any kind of panic as the replacements will already either be in the squad or identified and heavily worked on to step straight in. The day's of a Suarez situation of panic are long past thankfully.

Really is a ridiculous turnaround in three and a half short years from the highly, and rightly, ridiculed transfer policy pre-Klopp to the highly envied one now.
 
Yeah, I would think that 3 major finals back to back easily makes you one of the most attractive destinations in all of Europe. When by contrast you were barely top 4 destination domestically before Lord Jesus Klopp arrived.

What a transformation, really, it's like something from FM.
 
Tyton said:
Yeah, I would think that 3 major finals back to back easily makes you one of the most attractive destinations in all of Europe. When by contrast you were barely top 4 destination domestically before Lord Jesus Klopp arrived.

What a transformation, really, it's like something from FM.
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Utterly mad isn't it?

A couple of weeks before he took over in mid-October of 2015 we'd struggled past League Two Carlisle in the League Cup on penalty's. At home! The club was as low as it'd been in living memory save for the Hodgson debacle.

3 and a half season's later we're Champions of all of Europe and well arguably the club on the highest ascendency across the entire Continent. The unrecognisable transformation on every level, so quickly, from the utter carnage he walked into is FM mad. Great analogy.

From that stunning first press conference that blew everyone away when you just knew right there he got it, and more so totally got us ..... folk laughed on here when we saw the similarity's to Shankly and called him a Shankly for the modern generation. Nobody's laughing anymore.

Absolutely blessed to have Jürgen Norbert Klopp Esq. Wouldn't want to be sharing this wondrous journey, that's only at the start, with anyone else.
 
I see Mingolet is reporting that he is happy to stay as backup. Lovely guy by all accounts and a good pro but keep hearing he is the best backup gk in the league. Sorry but I'd rather bring back Alex Manniger from retirement then have Mingo in goal even for the cup games.
 
Our video guys consistently bang out some superb work and this new one is another belter.

And the ref miced up. That DEFO would improve the VAR carnage massively!

[video=youtube;yrG3C-R7D5s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=yrG3C-R7D5s[/video]

You could guarantee me now that we either win the PL next season. Or we'll be in Istanbul next May for #7. And I'm taking the later in a heartbeat and planning another party on the banks of the Bosporus.

This feeling man, knowing you're the best in all of Europe.

It just doesn't get ANY better.
 
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dilakh2 said:
I see Mingolet is reporting that he is happy to stay as backup. Lovely guy by all accounts and a good pro but keep hearing he is the best backup gk in the league. Sorry but I'd rather bring back Alex Manniger from retirement then have Mingo in goal even for the cup games.
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'If' he does stay, there goes any thoughts of deep domestic cup runs all things being equal.
 
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Its fine. Liverpool did amazing job at finding the right player and elevating them to a world class status. Its really amazing how having a players with right mindset and proper coaching can do.


At this point, you cant go much higher with transfers. Maybe a few youngsters but even that is not important since Lpool have a great prospects in their youth teams.
 
dilakh2 said:
I see Mingolet is reporting that he is happy to stay as backup. Lovely guy by all accounts and a good pro but keep hearing he is the best backup gk in the league. Sorry but I'd rather bring back Alex Manniger from retirement then have Mingo in goal even for the cup games.
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I know Joyce was suggesting the club want to retain him yesterday, but the windows got a long way to go yet mate.

Hopefully a club like that saves us from any chance of seeing him out there next year-

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...-eye-8m-simon-mignolet-transfer-a4175146.html
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
I really like the idea of adding to the growing Oranje group.

Ala Hoever, that would be a really intriguing addition with an eye on the next few years and Lovren and Matip.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spo...erpool-hopeful-beating-bayern-munich-16480624

https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/liv...of-netherlands-u-19/5aq0r1p6hu2p15jsrztq2vwxx

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A very informative piece on this lads rapid development.

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2019/...-sepp-van-den-berg-liverpools-next-joe-gomez/
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Things move fast. It would appear this one is all but done-

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/soc...rces-liverpool-to-sign-coveted-dutch-defender

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spo...-confident-finalising-swift-transfer-16481371

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...petition-sign-17-year-old-dutch-defendersepp/
 
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Scouseinthehouse said:
'If' he does stay, there goes any thoughts of deep domestic cup runs all things being equal.
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I would rather a kid in goal then watch Mingo in goal again. Even the Wolves cup game a decent keeper couldve saved both or at least one of the goals. I'm not joking when I say he isnt even good enough for the premier league. One of the worst footworks i've ever seen in a keeper and the myth he is a good shot stopper goes out the window as I remember a stat in his last starting season were he let in every first shot on target. Like I said before nice guy but not even good enough to be backup.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
I know Joyce was suggesting the club want to retain him yesterday, but the windows got a long way to go yet mate.

Hopefully a club like that saves us from any chance of seeing him out there next year-

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...-eye-8m-simon-mignolet-transfer-a4175146.html
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Heard there interested in taking back Clyne as well although both will be hard to shift as they are on quite high wages. Wont stop Edwards from making a profit on them though lol.
 
dilakh2 said:
Heard there interested in taking back Clyne as well although both will be hard to shift as they are on quite high wages. Wont stop Edwards from making a profit on them though lol.
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With Utd looking like they're set for a highly inflated gamble on Wan-Bissaka, let's hope that Palace through good chunk of that back our way for both Clyne and Mignolet.
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:

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Liverpool have signed highly-rated 17-year-old Sepp van den Berg from PEC Zwolle for an initial £1.3million
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From not so much as knowing this lad existed 2 days ago, I'm honestly really enthused by this one.

Everything just fits.

Any kid that's been the youngest to break the great Clarence Seedorf's record of 10 first team Eredivisie appearances makes you sit up. To have 22 games in the Dutch top flight and cup (15 starts), along with already being a part of the Natherlands U19 squad at 17 ..... kid must have something specail. And everything you've read the last few days from his coaches at Zwolle through Dutch journo's attests to how highly he's rated in the Netherlands.

I love the fact we've beaten off Ajax and PSV in his homeland where he'd of definitely started from day one. Along with mighty Bayern Munich. Which when you consider the amount of youngsters now going to Germany for first team opportunity's early that is another major coup.

I love the fact that he's coming in not as an academy player per se, but one who they view as a serious first team option going forward. And with the heavy Christmas period added to with the CWC this year, there's every chance he'll be involved in the first team in that and the domestic Cups before/ by-the-turn-of-the-year. And there's the 21's entering the Checkatrade Trophy too that will continue to expose him to the rigours of the men's game.

I love the fact that we've got a living, breathing, glorious technicolour example of Trent to show to him that if you're good enough and do everything we require, you'll play early here. And his compatriot Hoever and his rapid rise from U18's through the 19/23's to a first team debut at 16 and training full time with the first team just adds to that for Sepp and the attractiveness of the youth pathway at Anfield.

And given the roaring success of our scouting/ transfer policy off our tireless analytical work, that just fills you with massive confidence that this could well be another gem for absolute buttons.

It's got smacks of Hyppia and JMG about it.

And it's great to add to our growing Oranje contingent at Anfield. He'll certainly feel at home.

And then there's the distinct probability of Lovren and maybe Matip not being here over the next 2/ 3 seasons. So the planning for that now with Hoever and now van den Berg can't be anything other than a great thing.

Mad to be this excited about someone you'd never so much of heard about 2 days prior, but I genuinely am for everything stated above.

Everything just fits.

Here's to a long and successful career at the best club in Europe Sepp.
 
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