re: Liverpool's Slot Machine, Season 2: RIP Diogo! WTF is going on?

Yep, watching Sky Sports live right now.......it's off.

Crystal can frick off. It’s fine we will take him for half price in January or free next summer. Just dumb by them honestly. They won’t come close to relegation without him, just sell now.
I think we are fine with Gomez and leoni as backups tho for time being

Igor, Thanks a lot for stopping the greatest transfer window of all time.

Bummed about Guehi but hopefully we can get him in January before the CL knockouts


We are fine as long as Gomez stays healthy. Which sadly isn’t really much of an if but when. Sucks so bad he’s been so injury prone cause he could’ve been part of our back line for over a long time

Given we got in Leoni and Gomez didn't leave... barring catastrophe, I think we can hold out on Guehi until January... Hopefully, CPFC Is proactively lining up a replacement..

I'm still not sure how we couldn't have arranged to send Gomez the other way.. especially if the rumored €15m asking price was real... seems like a no-brainer for CPFC to do that deal...

Honestly, I love Joe's versatility and think he's more than capable of playing meaningful minutes at CB if healthy... I hope we can find a way to re-sign him.. but think he'll eventually leave for a starting role at a smaller club..

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I still want Guehi in January. He's simply better than Konate.

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I really hope we get him in Jan, too.. though I don't think he's better than Konate.. Maybe more reliable health wise..

I think Konate is easily a top 5 CB in the EPL... I feel some people are acting like he's turned into Dejan Lovren after a couple of rough outings...

I just think the ability to have Guehi fill in for Konate or VVD and still have a championship level CB tandem would be immense... Just his versatility as a CB.. a right footed CB, who primarily plays on the left...

Joe Gomez came into Sunday's game playing like a man on a mission. Guehi talks definitely lit a fire in him. Muscling Eze off the ball while out of position in the 85th minute may have been the defensive play of the game for me. You can question his fitness record but not his effort.

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though I don't think he's better than Konate

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I don't think Konate is as good as people think.
He's had guys covering up for his mistakes for some time now.

We've played 3 games and he has only 8 duels won, and 7 lost.
3 aerial duels won, 1 lost. How a CB has only had 4 aerial duels shows his lack of aggression, and proves he's been simply letting balls bounce instead of actually heading them.

VVD has 21 duels won, 7 lost.
VVD has 17 aerial duels won, 5 lost.
How one CB has that many more than the other is a bit ridiculous.

Konate has 2 tackles won in 3 games. Fricking Szobo has 7 as a RB in 2 games.


It's his lack of aggressiveness that is bothersome to me, and you just can't play that way as a CB. and it's not just to start this year. You could see this towards the end of last year. It's not become a glaring issue to the teams success b/c we are that good everywhere else, but it's a problem, and if we want to win the Champions League, then he needs to play better.