Our style of play

[Assassin]

It'll be between us and citeh this year. With regard to style of play, we will be more unpredicable offensively and more solid defensively. I think other teams gave citeh too much respect and space to play in last season, hopefully, many have learnt from this error

[ntto]

lets hope all of these new players hit the ground running - all too often there are examples of players coming into the league and taking a season to get up to the pace and power of it

[Fosterbloke]

Easy to write off Arsenal. They'll be invigorated by a new manager, and too many of their players have been underperforming.

Yup. They have two players who've won their respective league's golden boot, a better keeper, quicker defence and a quality tenacious midfielder. I think they will be in the conversation for 4th place.

[Exiled_red]

Don’t mean to hijack the thread with predictions but... IMO City are clear favourites (too much strength in depth and a good manager). We were the second best team last year (IMO) but records will show we finished fourth. To challenge City we will need a near perfect season - VVD, Salah, Firmino and Mane fit and on form, Keita settled (and not many red cards), Henderson and Robertson injury free. I really hope we finish above UTD.

If it weren't for us focusing so much of our efforts on the CL late last season we would have finished 2nd, we didn't have the squad to cope with the demands of both last year. Hopefully this summer we have solved that.

For a title challenge this year we really need to get off to a good start. I think the other sides around us had more players involved at the WC so hopefully this means that they will start slowly and we can get an early advantage. I see Lovren, Henderson and TAA missing the first few games of the season, but I think we can cope with that, Lovren will be the biggest loss there because that is our weakest area cover wise, but hopefully Matip can stay fit in that time.

[Le Chef]

Yup. They have two players who've won their respective league's golden boot, a better keeper, quicker defence and a quality tenacious midfielder. I think they will be in the conversation for 4th place.

Disagree - New Style, new tempo - Me thinks they'll take 2-3 years to get back (ala ManUtd) to challenging, the odd cup perhaps.

If Chelsea hang on to a few then they could be in the mix, but I think the top 4 won't change that much for 2-3 years.

[Fosterbloke]

Disagree - New Style, new tempo - Me thinks they'll take 2-3 years to get back (ala ManUtd) to challenging, the odd cup perhaps.

If Chelsea hang on to a few then they could be in the mix, but I think the top 4 won't change that much for 2-3 years.

Well I guess we'll find out!

Who's rolling out a season's prediction thread?

[Liverpool]

we've basically nicked a part of citys style and made it our own entire game getting wide and in behind low block teams and putting the ball across the box.

Left flank team of Robertson, Keita, Mane, right of TAA, Milner, Salah. The spine of the team VVD, Gomez, Henderson, Firmino just moving it out wide.

I think Henderson will be class at this.

As soon as team tries to shut us down wide, we'll just move inside with runners.

I think its going to require a lot of patience in some games for us to get a break through, and not reduce us to potshots.

[baitman]

not a great performance but more contained.
i wonder if the full backs were under instruction not to go too wide unless we were on the break and had already bypassed the palace full backs, hence robbo and taa often coming back inside???
some nice play from milner and wijnaldum in midfield.
lallana looks like a cock or two [Shaggy, did you ever use that ]

[The_weatherman]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...ach-liverpool/

Jurgen Klopp has appointed a dedicated ‘throw-in’ coach at Liverpool.

Dane Thomas Gronnemark started working on a part-time basis during the club’s pre-season training camp, seeking to minimise the number of errors from the set-play.

He has been primarily helping the first team full-backs, Andy Robertson, Joe Gomez, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Nathaniel Clyne and Alberto Moreno.

James Milner, Sadio Mane and Gini Wijnaldum have also been part of the sessions.

Gronnemark, who previously worked with Midtjylland and Bundesliga sides Schalke and Hertha Berlin was approached directly by Klopp to bring the secrets of his ‘Long Throw Academy’ to Anfield.

Specialist coaches are becoming the norm, particularly on the continent, but a dedicated trainer for throw-ins is a first in English football.

Klopp estimated Liverpool take or defend around 50 throw-ins per match, so it was worthwhile analysing every detail of his team’s performance going into a new season.

After studying his team’s displays last year, Klopp felt his players squandered possession too often from throw-ons. The appointment was geared to rectify that.

Rather than encouraging a long-throw, Gronnemark has been advising on the most effective way of using the restart to trigger attacks, and also how to avoid putting team mates under pressure when in their own half.

His involvement means he travels to Liverpool for a couple of sessions a month and he has already been proactive with the senior squad in the early weeks of this season. It is a relationship which looks like continuing for the time-being.

Gronnemark established himself when he secured the world record for the longest ever throw-in – over 56 yards.

He has also worked with Denmark’s Athletics and Bobsled teams.

[Norbs]

Who is our most important player now, whose absence would affect us most? It's VVD for me

[Fosterbloke]

Who is our most important player now, whose absence would affect us most? It's VVD for me

Still think it's Salah.

[baitman]

Who is our most important player now, whose absence would affect us most? It's VVD for me

Still think it's Salah.

if we lost vvd we'd go to **** at the back, so he is essential.
replace him with lovren and its too wobbly.

if we lost salah we'd struggle to have much creativity, as seen in the CL final when he went off after being garotted by ramosthecunt.
replace him with roboshaq and it might still be ok, but just a bit less direct.

[Norbs]

Does this mean we're still too reliant on certain players?

[baitman]

Does this mean we're still too reliant on certain players?

we have squad depth, but certain key players are above rotation, they are key to our spine strength.

our key players; becker, vvd, no stand out midfielders, salah.

[Fosterbloke]

Another couple of seasons and Gomez will make any defender playing alongside him look good.

Keita will become indispensable as will TAA. Robertson makes our left side tick too.