Nat Phillips returns... and exits

[Buddha]

From the offal. We've cut short his loan to bring him back for January...

Liverpool have reached an agreement with Stuttgart for Nathaniel Phillips to return from his loan spell in January.

The centre-back has made 11 appearances in all competitions for the 2. Bundesliga side since linking up in the summer.
Phillips will come back to Merseyside at the beginning of next month and be eligible for Reds matches, starting with the FA Cup tie against Everton on January 5.

 

[Modo]

That's fucking great!
Last I checked he was starting alongside Holger Badstuber.

 

[Mamma Mia]

Yay! I much prefer this to trying to sign and bed in a stop-gap CB.

 

[Woland]

Announce Koulibally

 

[Modo]

Some posts from the Stuttgart forum:

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Right! I measure every player in our squad by whether he has the potential for the first division. If not, I don't want to see him with us. However, this applies to everyone, whether for Dida, Gomez, Halg, Silas, Förster, Karazor or Phillips. For all.







But with Nat Phillips I have no doubt that he has this potential. In the opening of the game he has really great facilities, also in the duel behavior and coordination with the colleagues there was a lot to see in the short time. Good thing we have it.







I now tick off the giant goat in half 1 against Bochum under "there are times", even if - as others have rightly noticed - Badstuber would have been made into minced meat for the same action.







My point about Phillips is his risk, which he is currently taking and which, for me, is currently not quite in balance with the positive aspects of his game. Against Aue, there were some very late plays that all went well, but they didn't need it for me. Against Bochum bad passes in the center that have led to dangerous counterattacks several times.







In the overall view, the better IV, because it was more stable, was at least against Bochum Badstuber. But I know that many saw it differently, including STZ.







It would be top, top, top if Philipps maintained his playful approach over the course of the season and at the same time significantly reduced the risk.







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arminio26 wrote:
Absolute disaster

Somehow he has total problems accepting the ball. Every ball feels like it jumps away or puts itself too far in front of each ball. Then he runs after him, but the opponent is there in front of him and he unpacks the tackle, but the opponent is already gone.
So he took himself out of the game.

It is very difficult to assess him.

Somehow he has total problems accepting the ball. Every ball feels like it jumps away or puts itself too far in front of each ball. Then he runs after him, but the opponent is there in front of him and he unpacks the tackle, but the opponent is already gone.
So he took himself out of the game.

It is very difficult to assess him.


Where I wrote that after his first game, I was tarred and feathered.
He never makes it in the first division, technically far too weak, that is never possible today ............

Somehow he has total problems accepting the ball. Every ball feels like it jumps away or puts itself too far in front of each ball. Then he runs after him, but the opponent is there in front of him and he unpacks the tackle, but the opponent is already gone.
So he took himself out of the game.

It is very difficult to assess him.


Where I wrote that after his first game, I was tarred and feathered.
He never makes it in the first division, technically far too weak, that is never possible today ............

Well, as I said, I can't assess him yet. The whole team was bad today. Many of us already looked bad and blossomed elsewhere.

I hope for now Badstuber again. Should be fit.

Positioning and ball handling absolutely cruel today. It will not work like that. Awoudja is stronger there, I think. Should Holger fail next time, it will be Awoudja rather than Phillips!

I think he's okay as IV. But if it goes against a team that only comes in behind like yesterday, then you need people who are a little more playful, with him I regularly despair if he can't get a pass to 2 m properly in the game, his substitution came unfortunately very late.

Well. Phillips remains average for me.

knallgoewer43 wrote:
marra79 wrote:
I am not yet copying him in terms of his development (which takes more time than the one he will / would get from us, he is most likely to be gone in summer), but he is basically not Type IV at all which I prefer and wish for our team.



Oh?

And then suddenly it runs 10 km / h faster after its development?

Take a look at other teams, even in the 2nd division, who take care to hire fast players.
Speed and athletics are the absolute basis for the first 2 leagues today.

And we also want to get the Karazor, do you think it will be even faster, right?



Go poop in the morning. Where do I speak of speed? And speed is certainly not everything, maybe in your IV world. I am not interested in your Karazor Abturn and your ignorance is annoying.

Had to laugh at this one...😀😀😀

Apparently, we've agreed to loan him back to Stuttgart at the end of January.
Not that great of a signing apparently.


Source:

http://forum.vfb.de/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=13504&start=190

 

[DHSC]

@gkmacca called this.

 

[rurikbird]

I fear this means prognosis for Matip and Lovren isn't so optimistic...

 

[mom]

Yeh probably.

 

[Hansern]

I fear this means prognosis for Matip and Lovren isn't so optimistic...

Klopp said in his presser that they were both in a good way though.

Found this regarding Phillips:

 

[JurgenKlopp]

Klopp said in his presser that they were both in a good way though.

Found this regarding Phillips:

Heard he's done ok. Just provides some depth

 

[Dreambeliever]

Angina??

 

[Frogfish]

Klopp said in his presser that they were both in a good way though.

Found this regarding Phillips:

I really hope not - that is obviously a bad situation for a young footballer or indeed any young person.

 

[hmmmmm1]

Is he any good. Suppose it provides cover for the fa cup match where vvd will be rested

 

[Modo]

Jürgen Klopp has explained Liverpool’s rationale behind the decision to end Nathaniel Phillips’ loan spell with Stuttgart.

Centre-back Phillips has returned to Merseyside after spending the first half of 2019-20 in Germany with the promotion-chasing 2. Bundesliga side.

The 22-year-old will now bolster the defensive options available to the boss, who is currently without the injured Dejan Lovren, Joel Matip and Fabinho.

“He’s our boy, he’s on loan at Stuttgart and is doing really well there,” Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com.

“For people who don’t know, Stuttgart pretty much should be, together with Hamburg, the best team in the second division. They are third in the moment, they want to get promoted obviously, and they unfortunately sacked the manager because they are not happy with third place so you see how ambitious they are.

“They are a football-playing side and Nat is doing there really, really well. He played, I think, 11 games.

“Now we have the situation that we have and we thought ‘what can we do to help us a little bit?’ and we asked Stuttgart if they would be ready to give him back to us for a while and they said ‘OK’.

“I don’t think we asked Nat, actually, but he looked really happy yesterday [Friday] when he was in the dressing room so it’s just a nice story that we can do something like this. I hope that from Everton he will be available.”

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Phillips missed Stuttgart’s final outing prior to the German winter break, but Klopp stated that his absence for that game was down to illness, not injury.

“He was ill, that’s how it is,” the manager said.

“And the two guys who play if Nat is not playing: one is [Marc-Oliver] Kempf, who is a big prospect in Germany, and the other one is Holger Badstuber, a former German international for plenty of years, so he has to fight for his place there.

“But how I said, when he was playing he was really good and hopefully we can see that here as well.”

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Looks like he'll play against Everton. We might see a lot of changes in that fixture.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

back to Stuttgart for the rest of the season ... matip and fabinho must be very close to full fitness

 

[Modo]

back to Stuttgart for the rest of the season ... matip and fabinho must be very close to full fitness

That was quick. Thought he'd be with us until the end of the month. Hope we win it and give him a medal.

 

[binomial]

 

[Modo]

You're using it wrong.

 

[binomial]

You're using it wrong.

D'oh!

 

[King Binny]

It's great to have good ties with clubs, making it easier to facilitate such arrangements

 

[Modo]

Did a double take there, palm trees in Stuttgart? Was about to comment that global warming must have hit Germany hard. Anyway noticed that he's in Marbella.