On Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 4:08:33 PM UTC-4, MH wrote:
On 2020-09-12 13:01, Al Kamista wrote:
On Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 2:04:23 PM UTC-4, anders t wrote:
Quoting Al Kamista in rec.sport.soccer:
Boring game so far, 3-2 at halftime.
Leeds are impressive. Liverpool's defense has been a shower of shite.
Relegation battle for Liverpool FC this season? ;-)
With defending like that, probably.
I think the team is suffering from a little arrogance after the last 2 seasons. Klopp has a lot of work ahead of him because they are nowhere near ready mentally.
They seemed a bit rusty. Particularly Van Dijk and Gomez, and Alexander-Arnold. Man|- was not really up for it either. I was kind of surprised Jones got the call as a sub, ahead of Minamino and Milner.
Also a bit surprised Origi did not get some minutes (replacing Man|-) towards the end.
Do you think players like Shaqiri and Harry Wilson will still be around
in a few weeks ?
Wilson will almost certainly be sold. He's 23 so he needs to move on with his career. To be honest I hate this Chelsea-esque model of loaning out young players for years giving them a faint dangling hope that one day they will be ready for the first team, but in actuality they are just a commodity being farmed for a decent selling price. It's not just Wilson - there's Grujic, Phillips, Ojo, Brewster, and others.
Shaqiri, who knows. Klopp never took to his lack of work rate, but he's always injured anyway. If we are not signing anyone then I think he'll probably stay for another season.
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