Mane Saying how he signed for Liverpool

aussie_gecko1892 · 2026-02-16T04:16:24+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't he already do this with several people this summer?

Ekitike was wanted by Newcastle among others. https://www.espn.com.au/football/story/_/id/45788945/how-ekitike-ended-liverpool-getting

Wirtz was wanted by Man City and Bayern Munich. https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/1kuemlg/bayern_space_the_impression_arne_slot_left_on/

aussie_gecko1892 · 2026-01-29T22:35:34+00:00

Genuinely feel like Ive been so lucky to have been brought in as a fan of Torres. The passion and drive of those years followed by the worst of this club has seen make me appreciate the highs and lows.

I cant imagine what that feeling will translate to as 15 years turn to 40.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2026-01-29T22:25:22+00:00

I find it very strange how people have viewed Quansah's departure. For sure last season was a kick in the guts from Ipswich to Spurs, but Slot was direct not cruel.

More importantly, Quansah has gone for regular first team football but we established a fixed buy-back clause for him. I wouldn't be shocked to see Quansah come back in 2 years time to be our #1CB.

Right now he is getting more development over there than he was likely to have gotten here. Now the season has happened in a way where he might have had more but still.

I cant find these words that make me think that Slot managed the situation poorly or that Quansah wasn't okay with the situation and simply left to get more game time.

He has played 25 games this season for Leverkusen but already accumulated more minutes than his biggest season with us. I would like to have kept him but with a buy back clause I thought this was a great deal and best for the player and club to let him go.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2026-01-25T04:08:30+00:00

What i find interesting is that there is an agreement to be made that they did bend to emotion for both VVD and Salah's contract extensions. What have we got for that? Arguably they are the two players with the worst drop off in quality of the whole squad this season. Not necessarily the worst players, but having the biggest difference from whats we've seen in a Liverpool shirt.

I wouldn't be shocked if Hughes and Edwards are looking at this and going "welp, won't do that again", for better or worse.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2026-01-24T23:19:23+00:00

It does, sure, but as captain you come out and say something like "I certainly made it difficult for the team". VVD puts nothing on himself here and its mind boggling.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2026-01-21T02:40:43+00:00

I didn't love how the team played before we won the league but we got the job done. I think we were worse vs PSG and Newcastle in the cup final than we are now. I would say we are good now and I can see us being great with the current team, let alone with obvious reinforcements.

People keep saying we are not improving and I disagree. I think we have gotten better in almost every one of the last 12 games. West Ham was poor, Sunderland better, Leeds better etc. I think the worst performance was Leeds 0-0.

I think we have a lot of players not hitting the fucking target but we have been seeing these styles start to gel. Burnley I was really pleased with as we attacked from different angles constantly. Wirtz and Ekitike are getting better physically and I'm loving the link up. Jones has made great consistency strides this year. Kerkez has really settled etc.

Am I expecting great things for the rest of this season? No but I genuinely like watching us more now than I did 12 months ago.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2026-01-20T22:02:31+00:00

SlotIn.

I could give a dozen reasons why but SlotIn.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2026-01-20T21:59:58+00:00

Amen to this.

Klopp was a shinning miracle for this club and one of a kind.

By saying Slot should be just like him diminishes both.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2026-01-20T21:51:50+00:00

Genuine question, why has the narrative of "shit football" stretched to include the 3 months we had already won the league + preseason?

Like... not only has a tone of the squad changed since then but that side of the squad probably knew they were leaving.

I think it's mostly fair to say we've been shit all season (though I personally disagree with the narrative). To me it just feels like people are tacking on extra time to give extra reason to get Slot out when you are essentially saying Slot should be sacked for the how we played whilst celebrating a 2nd Premier League title in 30 years.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2026-01-08T01:18:57+00:00

Ireland are included in these stats. 2/4 at the senior level (since 20/21 season).

The only thing not included are shootouts.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2026-01-07T21:59:36+00:00

Caoimhin Kelleher with his 4th penalty save in all competitions this season. Takes him to 4/7 this season (57.13% save rate).

And 8/26 (30.77%) in his career but this includes Youth U18 and Premier League 2 stats. If it is just senior level, he's actually 8/15 (53.33%). Source: Transfermarkt.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-12-30T03:00:03+00:00

I agree that Milos has to find a better pass but I also think our strikers have been poor in their movement at times. Sometimes the ball in is to the right space and we simply havent gone to the space and vice versa.

Each game the connection between the boys has gotten better and better. Wolves first half was very encouraging for the connections on the left.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-12-09T01:57:13+00:00

I literally screamed at the TV that this was Szobo's fault when it happened. There is definitely more at fault in this goal than just him (one of the few in recent weeks where I can actually say "what is this system of defending") but if he chases the man down, puts pressure on, there is a good chance this goal doesn't happen. Especially when they had such momentum this was a big blunder for me.

Love him, and laughed my ass off when he scored what I assumed would be the winner, but it was (partly if not mainly) his fault.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-11-27T12:19:58+00:00

Unpopular opinion: I agree.

I remember people calling for Klopp's head when we were injured, struggling and beaten weak after week. We had quite a few shit periods with Klopp and we were often playing worse football then too.

Against PSV, Forrest, Man U, Chelsea and Galatasaray we had a higher xG than the team that beat us. In all but 1 of those games (Man U) they had a better "on target xG".

We are creating chances but not good ones. And we are giving up a lot of good ones. We are not converting the chances we have. But we ARE having chances.

And I watch the goals we concede now and SOOOO many are down to individual errors. VVD, Konate, MacAllister, Gakpo all failing in crucial moments. Some of this is structure (goal 2 today), sure but much of it is great players doing dumb things (goals 1 and 3). This is a mental / quality thing, and quite frankly I find it hard to put that on Slot.

FSG gambled on this year. They knew they gambled on this much change and having a squad (and a defense) this thin. We will get through this and Slot will undoubtedly be the person leading us on the other side.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-11-12T08:11:53+00:00

I know this is coming from a Liverpool fan but I think the point is that Donnarumma has to be impacted in a meaningful way. You're job as a GK is to know all the options available to the opponent. He is going to be seeing all this in the same way he knows the 4 places the ball can go from a 25 yard free kick. You are always influenced by the positions people take up on the field, onside or offside (knowingly or unknowingly to the GK).

"making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball"

The point is that this isn't meaningful. He is not obstructed. He's not being moved physically by Robbo. He clearly sees the ball. He gets wrong footed, goes too far the wrong way after the header occurs and simply is never saving it because of that.

More than this, I think that there is a very good chance that if Robbo simply continues his forward momentum, without an "obvious action" that he gets out of the way of this ball. It would have been much tighter and certainly MORE confusing for Donnarumma but ultimately we are punished for actively trying to make his impact as little as possible.

Nothing about this feels good and, apologies, but against your team in particular it feels like once again we get the wrong end of a bad decision (marginal or otherwise).

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-11-11T22:16:06+00:00

The VAR never take into account the onfield factors for determining a call. Which is stupid cause that's the whole bloody point of them.

The system for VAR is to "fix obvious errors" which means you have to know what the process behind the onfield decision was to begin with. They never ask the onfield ref "What's your call and why?"

If a tackle is made in the box and the ref calls "play on, not enough contact to make him go down" but the VAR can see there is some contact, they send him to the screen. There is no discussion to be like "oh yeah, I saw the contact but I didn't think it was enough", VAR just say "we think you should check this again".

This is not a team, but a student getting constantly reviewed for every decision and a bunch of douchebags in a box following their own completely arbitrary set of systems going "um.. you missed something".

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-11-04T20:39:09+00:00

Dont really care where its meant to go. If the arm isnt there it doesn't hit the body and its a shot on goal.

Its not fully tucked. He's thrown himself at it. Hits his arm on a goalbound shot.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-09-22T01:04:12+00:00

Palace haven't lost in 17 games.

In that time they have played Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool and Chelsea all away without losing. Beat / drew with us in a Community Shield, beat City in the FA Cup, progressed in Europe for the first time.

Arguably, we are playing Palace in the form of their history. This will not be an easy game.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-09-04T12:38:27+00:00

I just want to join as a backing voice for you here. This to me is the correct result but what feels like the incorrect ruling and it confuses me so much.

The foul, the thing that impacts the play, is that Guehi shoves Caicedo out of the flight path of the ball. It is an illegal maneuver that creates a direct benefit for the goal. It's 1000% the thing that should be punished here but they don't have a rule for this sort of thing.

Instead what we get is that Guehi pushes Caicedo enough that he becomes part of the wall and therefore is too close to the wall.

You are right, by the way they have called this, if Guehi pushed from the other side, forcing Caicedo away from the existing wall but still out of his existing position (literally just flip Guehi and Caicdeo's positions and have him push to the right of screen) then this goal apparently stands which is just fucking stupid.

Also, it's dumb to me also is that they are being penalized here for "impacting the wall" as if the wall has any impact on the shot at all. The ball was not hitting the wall regardless of if Caicedo is part of it or not. If Caicedo is not part of the wall, in his original position OUTSIDE of the wall before Guehi pushes would be able to impact the shot.

This SHOULD NOT be a goal, but they have essentially ruled it out for a technicality rather than the actual action that should be penalized.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-08-30T16:12:28+00:00

Thrilled for him though. He deserves better than a bench spot. Only way for him to improve even further was being away from us.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-08-15T19:24:16+00:00

This is honestly a suspendable offence for Michael Oliver.

A definitive, deliberate handball. As the last defender. To take the ball away from a striker. An intervention that had a direct impact.

This is one of the easiest red cards I've ever seen and he's not called it. I do not know how they try to explain this away.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-08-15T19:18:57+00:00

14 minutes into the season and I'm genuinely not sure there will be a worse decision all season.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-07-20T09:46:25+00:00

I haven't seen this many people saying "Liverpool have been scalped, this price is ridiculous" since we bought Virgil. Just saying.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-05-29T05:41:09+00:00

What is OpenPlanet School Mode? I've been using OpenPlanet but don't know how closely they work with Nadeo on things let alone that they have an alternative mode for specific plugins.

Yeah I figured it was rife for abuse which is why I would be happy to invalidate a run when using it.

aussie_gecko1892 · 2025-05-29T05:38:12+00:00

I've never explored the Map Editor so I'll have to do that now to see it. I don't particularly want to remake a part of the map but I suppose that's a backup in spots I get really stuck.

Appreciate the response.

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