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We're broke maybe because we keep resigning him every few weeks.
In end Apr this year.
Liverpool loanee Tyler Morton to undergo operation on fractured foot
[article]"We have another injured player, Morton is out for the season, he has a fracture on his foot. He got it in the first half, he played the whole second half, he's incredible, a tough boy,” Jon Dahl Tomasson revealed.
"He couldn't walk after, he will have an operation. It's disappointing as it's a position we are stretched.
"We are disappointed, that is football, we can't turn it around. He had a lot of pain at half-time but played the second half and that shows the character of the boy with a fracture.[/article]
Linked to Johan Bakayoko this morning, a Belgian left footed right-winger at PSV. 20 years old, so would take up one of the U21 NHG places. I wonder if Palace have asked to take Ben Doak on loan as part of the Doucoure deal.
If we are after Bakayoko then Salah is off, that's what the journos over here are saying, they can't understand why we'd spend 30mil on him otherwise.
Also he seems to be very hit and miss
Also he seems to be very hit and miss
Because he’s going to be our Reserve Keeper when we sell Allison.
[article]LIVERPOOL have built a cage football pitch nicknamed the ‘Melwood Arena’ at their AXA Training Centre this summer in an effort to 'create the street' and improve their attacking play.
Pep Lijnders revealed that the arena had been inspired by the gaiolas (cages) of Portuguese street football.
“I asked Jurgen what the budget was last year and said I would love to build a gaiola, which is like a street pitch,” the Dutchman explained. “Jurgen in these moments is brilliant.
"I tell him the idea, ‘This is what I want, because of this, this and this.’ I really believe that we need to be better in the final third, more creative, [that] in the small space we need to hold the ball better.
“We can develop 100 exercises, but the best thing would be if we create the street. It took a while to build it, it cost a lot of money, but we had a good budget, so that was cool.
“Now we have a 20 x 40m pitch, with boarding, nets and big goals, to train this offensive aggression. We designed it ourselves. I asked the players what we should call it [and] we call it the Melwood Arena (after their former training ground).
“It has natural grass, with sprinklers so they can water it before (playing). It has to be natural grass, exactly the same as the deso pitch we have (at Anfield). On one side it says ‘Melwood Arena’ and on the other side - and Vitor (Matos) make this quote - ‘This place belongs to the ones who only have winning in their mind’.
“It comes from Porto, because at Porto we said, ‘We love the ones who hate to lose.’ The ball is constantly in play and doesn’t go out. We play 5 v 5 and winner stays on. And what I see in these moments… the creation, the type of goals, it just blows my mind.
"I really believe the player has to be with all he has into the session. Not just the legs, not just the lungs, but also the brain, the heart. That is why I love to go back to the old days, where it was winner stays on, the street.”
Lijnders also likes to use something he calls the ‘identity game’ at Liverpool.
He explained it like this: “Two teams play each other and the other team is waiting in the other half. So one team is always defending the halfway line and attacking the goal; and one team is defending the goal and attacking the halfway line.
“When they pass the halfway line they play against the team there."
Lijnders said both the 'Melwood Arena' and identity game were inspired the same objective: stimulating competition and getting the players to uphold their honour.
"I believe that football is about honour - you want to be the best you can be," he said. "Because how can I inspire Mo Salah, after how many games? But I put Mo Salah in the identity game and tell Mo, ‘you pick six players,’ and then I say to Trent (Alexander-Arnold), ‘you pick six players,’ and I say to Virgil (Van Dijk), ‘you pick six players,’ and play the 7 v 7 identity game.
“You know how it goes? You know how it goes?! They train with a knife between the teeth! You reach levels you could not reach without that. So I try to play with the honour of the players a lot. They don’t know, but that’s what I try to do, because that’s the only way to improve.
“This is something you need, this hunger, this passion. You need to stimulate something.”[/article]
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That is from before Klopp's presser
I know what you mean. High prices are no guarantee of high quality, and lower priced players do turn out to be really good acquisitions. It's how they perform that counts, of course.
I can see why people would be more reassured by a big money signing, more money does usually denote better quality and performance. I think it's a matter of perception. Alexis Mac 'only' cost £35m, not a massive fee, yet people seem happy with that, whereas Endo was only £16m and some were disappointed. I'm optimistic that both will be good for us.
Anyway, regardless of the price tag, we still need a couple of more players in, don't we?
Agreed, plus there's the Dutch connection with ten Hag.
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