Welcome to Liverpool FC, Federico Chiesa Cavaliere

[Charly]

Could be off to Turkey by Friday.

Why so?

[BobTheCharmer]

Could be off to Turkey by Friday.

[Corndog]

It seems to be quite clear, he’s a squad player and won’t be any more than that because of who he has in front of him in his positions.

Even if he was at his peak, he wouldn’t have started ahead of salah and likely not ahead of a 125 million pound signing.

[Paul12]

I think it’s due to the homegrown numbers available which means they can’t register as many players as usual. Someone explained somewhere else I thought I’d copy it so everyone can see the reasoning.

The full squad on the UEFA site is:

GKs

Alisson, Mamardashvili, Woodman

DFs

Gomez, Endo, van Dijk, Konaté, Kerkez, Bradley, Leoni, Robertson, Frimpong

MFs

Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones, Gravenberch

FWs

Isak, Salah, Gakpo, Ekitiké, Ngumoha

We only have 5 locally-trained players out of 8 maximum: Woodman, Gomez, Bradley, Frimpong, Jones, so our max squad size gets reduced from 25 to 22.

Ngumoha will become locally-trained next season I think, but he's currently not old enough to count.

This can be supplemented by "List B" players who are essentially the academy kids. So Nyoni, Bajcetic, Nallo etc.

So Endo is a defender now is he?

[Exiled_red]

I assume that Slot will have had a chat with him about it and probably said he will get more opportunities in domestic games as a result.

[Exiled_red]

We can re-register CL players mid way through right?

90% sure that’s right

Yeah you definitely can ahead of the knockout stages as it allows players signed in the January window to be added to the squad

[Assassin]

It's a bit embarrassing for Chiesa but he looks like a good sort. Rio getting minutes in lesser games will be good for development though and if we need Chiesa we've got bigger problems.

After this, I wonder if Chiesa will consider moving to Saudi whilst their window is still open

[Irishnev]

I think Leoni would have kept his place regardless. If everything went to plan, I think it would have been Guehi in and Gomez out, but even if we did hold on to Gomez, I still think Leoni would have made squad.

Ah yes, I didn’t think of that

[SB]

We can re-register CL players mid way through right?

90% sure that’s right

[RedReet]

Another reason to be pissed off we didn’t sign Guehi

I think Leoni would have kept his place regardless. If everything went to plan, I think it would have been Guehi in and Gomez out, but even if we did hold on to Gomez, I still think Leoni would have made squad.

[DerKrampus]

We can re-register CL players mid way through right?

[labourRed]

It's a bit embarrassing for Chiesa but he looks like a good sort. Rio getting minutes in lesser games will be good for development though and if we need Chiesa we've got bigger problems.

[peterbread]

Interesting that they’ve picked Rio ahead of Chiesa. Big vote of confidence and I’ve got to say I like it. I’m sure Chiesa is disappointed but backing in the youth will always get my vote.

I suppose when you’ve got both Frimpong and Dom able to play in those attacking roles it does give you cover with more experienced players as well.

If Guehi comes in January it might mean a reshuffle and Chiesa can be picked then.

[Irishnev]

Another reason to be pissed off we didn’t sign Guehi

[Exiled_red]

I think it’s due to the homegrown numbers available which means they can’t register as many players as usual. Someone explained somewhere else I thought I’d copy it so everyone can see the reasoning.

The full squad on the UEFA site is:

GKs

Alisson, Mamardashvili, Woodman

DFs

Gomez, Endo, van Dijk, Konaté, Kerkez, Bradley, Leoni, Robertson, Frimpong

MFs

Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones, Gravenberch

FWs

Isak, Salah, Gakpo, Ekitiké, Ngumoha

We only have 5 locally-trained players out of 8 maximum: Woodman, Gomez, Bradley, Frimpong, Jones, so our max squad size gets reduced from 25 to 22.

Ngumoha will become locally-trained next season I think, but he's currently not old enough to count.

This can be supplemented by "List B" players who are essentially the academy kids. So Nyoni, Bajcetic, Nallo etc.

For UEFA competition for players to be eligible for the U21 list they have to have been at the club for at least 2 years (as well as meeting age requirements) for UEFA neither Leoni or Rio meet this criteria so to play need to he included on the main list (this isn't the case for the PL).

You would imagine if the Guehi deal had gone through Leoni would have been the one to miss out instead of Chiesa but we can't afford not to register 4 CBs. Interesting though as it also suggests Rio is ahead of Chiesa inches pecking order as he could have also chosen one or the other