Liverpool Thread - Premier League Champions* 2019/20

Don't sell him. Barca are c*nts when it comes to transfers. The amount of tapping up they do is insane. If he really wants to go flick him to Madrid just to spite them. Unfortunately I realise it doesn't really work like this, but f*ck Barca.

Seriously f*ck Barca. Make them pay 200m like they would anyone else.

Offer them a Neymar swap? Even a Suarez swap would soften the blow.

Yea i reckon 100m easy given those factors, prices are nuts now

You guys have all the power on this one, owners will take flak if he goes cheap

Have heard yarns of a deal involving cash and Rakitic and other shark but hopefully everyone involved just stick to their guns and he's happy with that too. Find out soon I guess but will be pretty gutted if he goes.

Call me crazy but if I was building a team from a blank piece of paper I would take Coutinho before I took Neymar.

I know it's preseason and not to read too much into it and blah blah but get in! Good stuff against Bayern!

Mane's hold up then dink through to Moreno for the second goal...... phoar!

Drawn to play Hoffenheim in the CL qualifiers, should be interesting. They were unbeaten at home in the Bundesliga last season.

Lallana out for two months with an injury picked up in Germany.

Thats a hard one. Most of the he's gone stories are coming from Spain. Nothing that I've seen from "reputable sources" , yet.

What I will say that if he goes now , I'm done with this club. I've been a fan for over 40 years , my Hillsborough story is known. But If they sell Coutinho now, after Klopp coming out and  saying he isn't for sale, that tells me the owners have no ambition to win anything. Yes , I get the fact that it's a crap load of money. BUT you don't win championships by selling your best players. Yes , we have other competent midfielders but they are all a bit the same- especially with Lallana out , I see little creativity in the critical areas. And I absolutely don't trust the club to spend any fee they may get for Cout wisely. Yes , it's Barcelona. And IF Cout wants to go , negotiate with him to go next year , get another year out of him.They've buggered up another transfer window , but no surprise. I can live with that. But if they sell Coutinho now , they're telling me they don't give a shark about winning the EPL this year , or ever. LFC will be seen as a stepping stone club , not a destination club.

Prediction- if Cout goes , we won't get top 4 this year. And under the current owners , LFC will not ever win the EPL. I won't care- I won't be watching.

Sorry, but if Real or Madrid come in that hard for a player, there aren't many clubs with the financial clout to bat them off. If the player has had his head turned as well, then why keep him?

What about this....

- FSG really do want to sell as its good business but don't want to face the wrath of the fans  

- Strongly worded statement as above = reassured/happy fans

- Coutinho hands in transfer request and/or maybe will go on strike after taking advice by John Aldridge.

"Players and their agents hold all the power these days and if he says he won’t kick another ball for Southampton and demands a move, it will happen".....Ooops, my bad, wrong player ;-)

- Club "very reluctantly" agrees to sell as no point keeping an unhappy player = fans understand & accept it & FSG in the clear? 

Its unlikely Coutinho is going to see out his contract (unless he receives some "gentle persuasion" from the chaps who had a friendly word with Gerrard...allegedly!) so, if an expensive asset wants out & may well under perform, cause club disharmony etc,  then unpalatable as it is in terms of player power,not honouring contracts etc is the "best" decision to get rid ? 

except that the prick has now put in a transfer request, and allegedly has had a breakdown in relations with Klopp. I'm sure that's news to the club and to Klopp

Fudge him

Set a stupidly high price. Coutinho is signed till 2022. Liverpool can afford to bench him for a year just to prove a point.

down 2-1 at half time. Need to tighten at the back, Phoenix quality defending.

Mane to have a 25+ goal season before Real Madrid swoop him up to replace Benzema ??

Picking straight back up where we left off last season..... moments of sweet football mixed with shambles at the back. Strap in, gonna be a long season again!

Ripper of a freekick from the young fella this morning! Bit worrying again to concede late but a win away is good regardless.

Watched the extended highlights, plenty of chances for both teams. One of the most poorly taken pens I've seen for awhile too. Looked like he attempted a Panenka but didn't really chip it, coach killer!

There will definitely be goals in the home leg but they'll have to score at least twice so fingers crossed we can get the job done.

Not holding my breath but both are quite necessary I think. Also.... see where Moreno was when Lovren got nutsed then conceded the pen? Yeah about halfway.

You'll probably spunk 90 million on Jonjoe Kenny.

Robertson>>>>>>>>>>Moreno

That is all.

Yes a clear case of waitingforatransferitis. Quite common in Europe at this time of year!

Job done this morning. Plenty of goals and giving up plenty of chances so pretty standard really!

Draw for the groups is tomorrow, exciting!!!

Can's 2nd, a beauty of a team goal

Hopefully you're all tired out for the weekend ;)

Yeah that was an absolute gem. Sullied slightly by giving away a real soft one almost straight after.

Should be an interesting game on monday morning, I'm going out on a limb and predicting goals! 

Pretty sweet draw for the Champions League!

Sevilla, Spartak Moscow and Maribor from Slovenia. Chance for a bit of revenge for the Europa final last year and all!

Hilarious!