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to be honest I'm not sure I really believe this talk that Ralph wants a smaller squad or the squad is to big, I think maybes he is just being a club mouthpiece with this talk.. I mean what manager wouldn't want to have more options ? its just common logic. the only way that I can see this being a good thing in trimming the squad down is if its being done to bring a couple of quality additions, other wise we are probably better off having more backup

theres a novel idea. sell a quality player and try and replace him with equal quality instead of dipping into the bargain basement. why couldn't we think of that ?

wasn't the Ralph Krueger masterplan/excuse for selling big names a couple of years ago that we needed a bigger roster so sell some big names and use cash to get bigger squad.. now here we are giving away players on loan, and not really looking at buying

Strange way of looking at it, Liverpool won a champions league with djimi traore does that make him a great player? Or would it mean we should all rate long if we were having a few good results with him in the side ? I'm just judging on what I have seen from him individually in the games.. I'm not against the youngsters either like was impressed with tyreke against derby.. thought he put in some cracking balls.. and obafemi also looks explosive

Not really getting him myself. Still yet to see anything from him going forward and for this position it's part of the job. Don't agree with him looking no worse the Cedric either, Cedric is faster better going forward better on the ball, and a better defender.. only thing valery may be better on is heading the ball ?

think tyreke along with obafemi look our best youngsters at the moment. some great end product on a couple of curved balls in especially the ball he played that was perfect for long.. he did more attacking wise in 45 mins then Valery has in all his games put together.. I actually think he maybe even better if used in the Redmond or Armstrong positions as back up to those two.we are short for back up in these positions so why not?

trouble is thats what got us into the mess we are in now, sell the best players and the Poundland replacements don't come off, we were never gonna keep striking gold with the mane's and van dijks we bought cheap when replacing lovren and lallana etc..

does that mean we are open to selling hojbjerg to a elite club ?

Main problems seem to be he is too slow both physically and thinking wise.. like benji says above he tries to play like a fast winger but has no acceleration.. other times he just is too slow in his decision making and needs way to much time on the ball

Like the look of Johnson .. some real quality on a couple of his balls in.. hopefully could be a new redmond type with end product

Sure was, shocking the amount of hate he gets on here. Talked ml into buying the club and we did nothing but improve season after season with him in charge..took no shi from anyone, and I actually loved his ruthlessness. Honestly think we would have made a champions league if he had stars we were close and poch would have given us longer too

fantastic post. agree with pretty much all of that. sometimes a bit too much getting carried away on here when the result goes our way, and all the not good players are suddenly praised. it was a good result against Leicester considering our injuries and the sending off. but the second half was still a total park the bus excercise with us hardly being able to have any of the ball. we played Leicester like they were Man City and got the result

he looks great on youtube.. boufal type skills and looks to have a really powerful physique too

Would be more concerned with striker at the moment.. we only really have ings as a decent option now and he has fitness worries..long is long and Austin needs it on a plate.. Me personally I don't want Armstrong out of the side.. really good player imo and it's nice to have someone with a bit of intelligence in the attack, as even though redmond is vying for our player of the year his decision making can still suck

I was reading through the Brentford forum on him, a lot of posters saying he was the best to come through the youth squad in their lifetime.. a lot of posters also thought he was a cert for going to a top 6 side. even a booby Moore comparison.. he's also meant to have pace. so sounds pretty interesting

feel sad about this one. I always had high hopes for him, just thought he didn't really get a run in the team going and his confidence in full flow.. also very annoying losing him when we have the dynamic duo of Austin and long getting games over him..its a bit like having elyounoussi start when we could have had boufal.. anyway, guess will have to give Ralph the benefit of the doubt on this as I do believe he will be great for us, lets just hope we actually bring in a decent replacement.. all the best in Italy Manolo and thanks for everything

Don't think it helped us that lookman had a cracking game in the cup at the weekend. Silva sounds like he wants to keep him. Shame as he looks very fast and skilfull.. Poulsen rumour sounds very interesting though to me.. sounds like he would really suit Ralph's pressing game works very hard good in the air and good at linking play

try looking at it in a fair way. if you judge his goals scored compared to starts instead of pointless last 15 min sub appearances he scored 4 in 10 in premier starts for us 2016 2017. 11 starts in prem 5 goals. and this season 1 goal in four games. certainly a lot better then we would get from the likes of long which is somewhere between a goal every two and half games or just over

Have to disagree with a good player not wanting to crime and risk relegation.. Ralph didn't mind coming who had a decent profile on paper. And for plenty of players from abroad it's chance to shine in the best league in the world, a more likely path to the first team then if they joined a bigger club, Also there maybe relegation clauses which could work in the interest of both club and player..

please Ralph get long and elyounoussi away from the pitch, Austin not much better. not really impressed with any of the youngsters today but saying that after they came on we could not seem to retain any possession and long was probably one of the worst culprits in not being able to link play or hold the ball.. gotta give a big shout out to Redmond though. our best player by a country mile today

couldnt agree more, nail on head post. and what makes it more frustrating is him being frozen out whilst we use far bigger liabilitys like Austin and long. you pretty much know what you are going to get with those two and its not good, whilst gabbiadini I don't think we have even scratched the surface of his potential, you can tell he has a good long range shot on him but we haven't really had much chance to see it

I'd absolutely love boufal to be brought back and have a fair crack under a good manager tbh.. lets be honest here he was no worse redmond last year and look how much readers has improved!. Boufal at his best can do things we haven't seen since MLT look at the goals verses Sunderland and wba it's the type of talent you need to be absolutely gifted to pull off and his dribbling can be that way too.. why not see what a super gifted player can do under a great coach ?

Doesn't really make sense for McCarthy though.. as he's totally chanceless of playing first team at Liverpool bar injury

I would be sad to see Armstrong drop out.. kinda feel like he's the one that can offer end product more so then Redmond tbh decent goal threat. keeps the ball well and actually has some intelligence which is pretty rare in our squad lol

If we do sign a pacy player? Does he walk into the first team. I mean in our current formation it's hard to drop ings. Redmond although a bit hit n miss has had a decent season and suppose one of the first names on team sheet.. and Armstrong tends to offer a bit of guile and doesn't just run into players or give the ball away which is refreshing.. maybe the going to Ralph's other 4222 formation could free up another first team pacy place.. But also if would be good anyway to get another attacking pacy singer and striker we feel down to the barebones if we were to get injury to ings or Redmond