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Musiala is so good. Bayern started brightly.

Still don’t understand how Eric Dier is a starting CB for a CL semi-finalist. It makes so little sense it might have broken the space-time continuum.

Okay so SCM Hive Mind has persuaded me that we badly need a Centre Back. But who???

The latest bet right now seems to be William Pacho... who I had never heard of a week ago, but looks nice and big. Does anyone know anything of him?

Who else should we be looking at?

Everton are calling in a leading firm of restructuring and insolvency advisers, the Guardian understands, raising further questions about the proposed takeover of the Premier League club by 777 Partners.

The move comes as the club are believed to still be waiting for a further £15m of loans that 777 had pledged to provide Everton with during April, according to one 777 source.


The latest loan would have taken the amount the club had borrowed from the American firm to more than £200m during the seven months since it was announced it would acquire Everton.

However, 777 appears to be experiencing further financial difficulties, with its low-cost airline Bonza entering voluntary administration in Australia on Tuesday. Meanwhile, 777 Partners is understood to have parted company with its UK PR advisers after falling behind on paying its fees.

The developments raise further questions regarding whether 777 will be able to complete its takeover of Everton – and how the club will be funded until the end of the season.

When companies fall into financial difficulties, directors are required to take professional advice and closely monitor a business’s finances to ensure that they are not trading while insolvent.

The Guardian understands that Teneo – a global financial advisory firm with a large insolvency division – has been approached to advise Everton and its directors.

When asked on Monday about the firm advising Everton, Daniel Butters, Teneo’s chief executive of financial advisory, said: “We don’t comment on any client situations.” The phone line then went dead.

Everton declined to comment.

The developments also raise questions about how long the Everton owner, Farhad Moshiri, can retain control of the club, only a month after assuring fans that 777’s takeover was entering the “home straight”.

Another set of Everton creditors – MSP and its partners, the Evertonian businessmen Andy Bell and George Downing – has loaned the club about £160m, which is secured over the new stadium development at Bramley-Moore Dock, as well as a charge over more than half of Moshiri’s 94% stake in the club, according to corporate documents filed in the Isle of Man. That consortium could use its security to take control of the club.

777 did not respond to efforts to contact the company.

With Robbo not getting younger, and the form a bit more spotty, we need to look for his successor.

What about Ian Maatsen, currently on loan at Dortmund? Chavs need to sell too. 22 yo.
Other good alternatives?

No matter what happens with Salah, I think it's clear to everyone we need to buy a new centre-forward. Nunez will probably stay for at least another season, but a team with any ambition cannot afford to put all our eggs in the Nunez basket yet again – and if Diaz or another winger is sold, Darwin will be able to compete for playing time both as a striker and a wing-forward.

So who should we be targeting? In the world of centre-forwards, we often see duopolies – high profile strikers who emerge at roughly same time and are often compared and judged against one another: Haaland vs Mbappe, Kane vs Lewandowski, Hojlund vs Darwin. This season arguably the striker duopoly is represented by Gyokeres of Sporting vs Santi Gimenez of Feyenoord. (Of course these two strikers happen to play for teams coached by the "finalists" for Liverpool coaching job, which I guess makes it spicier if we were to show interest in both.)

Here's a decent compilation and comparison (warning – it's made by a Chelsea fan, similarly starved for a decent #9). Which of these two would fit Liverpool better? Any other suggestions for a new #9 that can potentially displace or seriously challenge Darwin and give us a new dimension? Do we need more of a penalty box finisher or a roaming striker who can create chances for himself and others?

View: https://youtu.be/KXo6U8NK-Ho?si=wgbLHE-DzrY0VGe_&t=40

Personally, I'm leaning towards Gimenez. There is something about him that says he will score goals anywhere he goes.

Let’s not forget all the good stuff that happened this season just because the wheels came off at the end.

1. Quansah unexpectedly emerged as a top-class CB

2. Mac Allister is a baller and a great buy, future leadership material

3. Elliott proved that he belongs, he is a man now

4. Kelleher is good enough to be Premier League quality #1

5. @Bradley is a baller

6. The kids in the Academy and on loan are more than all right. Danns, Carvalho, Morton, Beck, Clark, Koumas, Nyoni, Van der Berg, Jaros all made major strides and Bajcetic and Gordon got over their growth issues.

7. Every player had at least patches of very good form - due to injuries it never fully came together, but at various points we saw the best of everyone: Jones, Endo, Szoboszlai, Gomez, Gravenberch, Jota, Gakpo, Nunez, Diaz - they all shone and even carried the team at one point or another.

8. Van Dijk is back to somewhere near his best

9. Trent is emerging as a leader, despite unsettled position.

10. We have a new structure in place and are back to the data-driven ruthless approach to transfers. Unlike most of the competition, we actually know how to run the club sustainably and are not threatened by the toughening of the rules.

What else?

Keep or sell?

View: https://twitter.com/AnfieldEdition/status/1784224061079384277

View: https://twitter.com/MenInBlazers/status/1784217711595200796

Utterly bizarre. Mbappe scored a similar goal last year. The goal was given. Why is Taylor intervening to correct Areola’s mistake?

View: https://twitter.com/MenInBlazers/status/1652739573263343620

The case is if it weren't for the heroics of our GKs we could be where Man U are.
Do we need the same surgery to our back line as our MF?
I think it has to be looked at. Yes, it's easy to be reactionary, but it's not quite worked at the back. God knows how many times I've seen them make a wayward pass that could have cost us.

The. reserves. &~* O Sp Fortnight.