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johnsonsbaby said:
I think Bradley's injuries have been down to his body still growing. Stress fractures and muscle injuries are common in young athletes. Didn't Gerrard have a number of similar injury issues starting out in the first team? The older he gets, we should see less of these types of injury.

I couldn't guess on Nunez. He needs to have a word with himself because he's starting to look like he's missing the goal on purpose <laugh>. In Nunez' defence, I think Slot took his confidence away early on. All players are different with some playing better in 'adversity' to prove a point and others needing an arm around the shoulder and outside belief in them in order for them to perform. Nunez is the latter.
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Yes but gerrard put on what 4 or 5 inches at least from 15 or 16 up to 18.

Bradley is what he his now.
 
johnsonsbaby said:
I think Bradley's injuries have been down to his body still growing. Stress fractures and muscle injuries are common in young athletes. Didn't Gerrard have a number of similar injury issues starting out in the first team? The older he gets, we should see less of these types of injury.

I couldn't guess on Nunez. He needs to have a word with himself because he's starting to look like he's missing the goal on purpose <laugh>. In Nunez' defence, I think Slot took his confidence away early on. All players are different with some playing better in 'adversity' to prove a point and others needing an arm around the shoulder and outside belief in them in order for them to perform. Nunez is the latter.
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Nunez is done.

Slot clearly doesn't rate him, doesn't have too either as he's a previous regime buy. tbh I think the time for him to prove his worth has come and gone, before Slot had his words, and I think he might have even got worse, not better since his early promise.
Given his age he's still got decent value, so sell and fund someone that can actually score goals.

Lets just admit he's been a flop, can't get them right all the time and every club makes transfer mistakes, Nunez is one of ours.
 
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moreinjuredthanowen said:
Look, thiago came in and was pure class but couldn't get about but when fit we won a lot of games.

Was thiago really a great idea when not fit and costing 200k a week etc? Without him imo we would not have finished 4th in that bad year.

But did Elliott and jones really delivering enough to wait for them and not buying a younger better player?

Buying gravenberch, macallister and Szoboszlai basically turned us around.
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We’re a lot less gung ho under slot than Klopp though. I don’t think kdb legs have gone either - he’s looked fine later part of season when he’s finally been fit.

either way I don’t think we really are interested in him.
 
RogerisontheHunt said:
Neither.

Too injured and expensive.
Too expensive.

Wages can be a killer

Both too short term with no resale value
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Yeah... Although if rumours of TAA being offered over £250kpw are true... Would seem odd if not willing to at least offer KDB the same.
 
Milk.. said:
Which matters for transfers, not for salary. Could argue that KDB being the better player should get a higher salary. It's only contract fees which matter the age.
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At 26 TAA is prime, At 33 KDB is on the decline

Age matters no matter what in sport. How many games is the older player going to actually play, are they a regular starter over someone younger and fitter, what kind of performance are they likely to produce (ie how much running do you want etc).

All about risk and at 26 Trent is/would have been a lower risk as he is coming into prime years for a sportsman.
KDB being 33 is a high risk cause you are unsure as to his decline and physical condition (even if he hadn't spent the last two years injured). Can you afford to pay 250k to a player that may or may not be fit or can't manage more than 1 game a week.

Your better argument would have been Salah.
 
Milk.. said:
Which matters for transfers, not for salary. Could argue that KDB being the better player should get a higher salary. It's only contract fees which matter the age.
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Of course age still matters. But your thinking transfer fee and wages are two separate things when they aren't; the club will be seeing it as a overall package, fee and wages, agent fee, etc all combined.
 
Best thing is see if alisson thinks he is a decent guy and forget real.

If he's willing to work, is flexible to play left and right and a decent dude then go ahead.

No better man to judge than big al.
 
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I would like to talk about the concept of building a side around key players in the context of where we are at now.

in some way you might say klopp built a side around firmino. He stuck him at 9, put mane on the right then moved him to the left and then added salah. Firmino at 9 was the centre of allow the speed to go beyond.

Klopp had to be convinced to have a 6, then we improved massively.

When vvd arrived the defence improved.

When alission arrived the package was complete.


Is slot a 4231 man? Seems so.

Is he going to build around Szoboszlai?

Is he going to build around a striker?

We obviously can't build around vvd or salah.
 
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