re: Liverpool FC 2026/2027 Season Thread: AI is taking over!

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but let’s not pretend Barcola was going to come in and be our savior,

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Too late for me. I would love to see Barcola wearing a Liverpool shirt. I think he would be a very good player under Iraola.

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think we have been very spoiled by Salah, Firmino, and Mane, when the truth is that we struck a generational gold vein in those three. Now that all have moved along, we are finding that the gold mining business is a lot more hit or miss than we remember.

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I think you have to give a lot of credit to Klopp too. I think a big part of it is making sure the players fit together as well as what you are doing.


Mel ready had an interview with salah and he said he was told the players coming in last year would play to his strengths and then they brought people in he had to adapt to. That type of thing is not always easy in the transfer window but Klopp showed time and again he was excellent at it.

Lots of chuckle-fricking in our recent past when we haven’t had the one elite manager we had in Klopp.

That’s on both the player and manager sides.

Iraola doesn’t seem like the type to put up with BS for very long. He is direct and moves with purpose, as far as I can tell. He’s even verbally pressuring the club about the need for more transfers to the media already.

That was one endearing quality that Klopp brought, if you ask me.

No idea what to expect.

Kerkez needs to muscle him at the halfway line or that was bound to happen

That’s an awfully reachy take. It’s preseason. You have no idea the manager’s tactical intent for those games. It seemed, at least to me, like he was testing out first team tactics (to great success) in the first halves and shifting to experimental tactics and testing second/third team assets in second halves. Lines up with the scoring mostly, too.


We’ve had dangerous moments and generally good pressure.

Jacquet looks like a future stalwart CB with insane progressive, probing passes for that position.


Worrisome both fullbacks are on yellows. We need to keep baiting Wissa before we go down a man.

We will score if we play like we did again in the second half.

That’s 100% on Virgil. Both goals he didn’t press high up when he had back up and the players got to get forward enough to be dangerous.

Not confident in this team. At all.

Clear penalty let's go