Arne Slot says Liverpool still trying to strengthen after failing to sign Martin Zubimendi
August 16, 2024
"In the background, [sporting director] Richard [Hughes] is trying to strengthen the squad as he can but, unfortunately, Zubimendi decided not to come.
There’s a very strong chance that we’ll be without VVD and/or Konate at some stage this season, Joe Gomez isn’t good enough to cover, Matip needs to be replaced with someone good enough to replace Virgil. Id like to see Ederson and Guehi/Hincapie. Haven’t seen any links to Tomori for any of the top teams, would’ve thought he would be an option considering hes English aswell
This will be a difficult season for Liverpool.
Without Klopp, Liverpool may very well finish below top 6.
Also I think Arne Slot won’t last full season.
I get that Zubi is a baller but Liverpool must have known he’d be tough to get judging by how many clubs he rejected or didn’t engage with. Knowing that the player is notoriously difficult to get out of San Sebastian I’m surprised that they didn’t have an alternative or plan B lined up for what seemed like a tough shout from the start.
Poor guy inherited Klopp’s transfer dilemmas.
It seems like the club and everyone around it seems to rave about our analytic and transfer gurus but these dudes seem incapable of coming up with more than one target a year.
Then recently when they have managed to find someone it’s like Tchouameni or Bellingham and you’re like “how the fuck do you get paid for that, you just looked at high potential players on fifa” haha
I know the holding midfielder market has been shocking in the last couple of years but seriously, how are Caicedo and Zubimendi the only targets they’ve managed to come up with?
Not if Hughes has anything to say about it. I’m more worried for next season, we could be seeing VVD, Trent and Salah departing, all of which would need to be replaced and we still need a 6. Our transfer department have been a shambles for a while now, and if FSG want liverpool to be competing, they need to be more ruthless in the way they get these transfers over the line.
Meanwhile jörg schmadtke do a better job in three months
Question for Liverpool fans, what’s the latest with Stefan Bajcetic? Is he rumoured to feature much this season, go out on loan, interested to know.
To be fair, these things can be tricky when you first have to see if Bournemouth is able to pitch in part of the fee and want the player on loan first.
This is why Klopp doesn’t want Michael Edwards and ran out of energy with FSG’s meddling.
Totally unfair criticism about Richard Hughes. Bournemouth have benefitted from him this transfer window.
When you look at their squad, literally all they need is cover or someone to push for Endo’s place, and they are good! They have good players and cover in every other position.
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There’s a very strong chance that we’ll be without VVD and/or Konate at some stage this season, Joe Gomez isn’t good enough to cover, Matip needs to be replaced with someone good enough to replace Virgil. Id like to see Ederson and Guehi/Hincapie. Haven’t seen any links to Tomori for any of the top teams, would’ve thought he would be an option considering hes English aswell
This will be a difficult season for Liverpool.
Without Klopp, Liverpool may very well finish below top 6.
Also I think Arne Slot won’t last full season.
I get that Zubi is a baller but Liverpool must have known he’d be tough to get judging by how many clubs he rejected or didn’t engage with. Knowing that the player is notoriously difficult to get out of San Sebastian I’m surprised that they didn’t have an alternative or plan B lined up for what seemed like a tough shout from the start.
Poor guy inherited Klopp’s transfer dilemmas.
It seems like the club and everyone around it seems to rave about our analytic and transfer gurus but these dudes seem incapable of coming up with more than one target a year.
Then recently when they have managed to find someone it’s like Tchouameni or Bellingham and you’re like “how the fuck do you get paid for that, you just looked at high potential players on fifa” haha
I know the holding midfielder market has been shocking in the last couple of years but seriously, how are Caicedo and Zubimendi the only targets they’ve managed to come up with?
Not if Hughes has anything to say about it. I’m more worried for next season, we could be seeing VVD, Trent and Salah departing, all of which would need to be replaced and we still need a 6. Our transfer department have been a shambles for a while now, and if FSG want liverpool to be competing, they need to be more ruthless in the way they get these transfers over the line.
Meanwhile jörg schmadtke do a better job in three months
Question for Liverpool fans, what’s the latest with Stefan Bajcetic? Is he rumoured to feature much this season, go out on loan, interested to know.
To be fair, these things can be tricky when you first have to see if Bournemouth is able to pitch in part of the fee and want the player on loan first.
This is why Klopp doesn’t want Michael Edwards and ran out of energy with FSG’s meddling.
Totally unfair criticism about Richard Hughes. Bournemouth have benefitted from him this transfer window.
When you look at their squad, literally all they need is cover or someone to push for Endo’s place, and they are good! They have good players and cover in every other position.