Arsenal
With Hugo Ekitike set to signal as Liverpool’s pre-season tour commences, is their switch enterprise set to proceed all through the summer season? …
ANOTHER identify in then. Presumably. Unsure.
There’s no photograph of Hugo Ekitike holding up a Liverpool scarf above his head but, however the massive names are calling it a achieved deal.
In the event that they’re proper then a brand new season with the signings of Ekitike, Wirtz, Frimpong and Kerkez appears like good enterprise. Unbelievable, even. Greater than that it’s a transparent assertion of intent. Liverpool wish to defend the League title and win the Champions League. You’ve received to like that stage of ambition.
What’s extra, it’s unlikely that it’ll finish there. If Nunez goes (which appears possible) together with Diaz (God is aware of) we’ll nonetheless want one other quantity 9 and one other ahead. Even then, we’re nonetheless ropey with regards to centre-back cowl, notably if Madrid are as much as their outdated methods with Ibou, in order that wants addressing.
The sheer velocity of the transfers has been spectacular and speaks to a deliberate technique relatively than the same old scattergun coverage adopted by different golf equipment, together with Liverpool, up to now. Final season noticed solely the arrival of Fede Chiesa and now we’re spending. Spending massive.
Final season, Arne Slot gained the league with one other man’s squad so it’ll be fascinating to see what his personal lads can do. I’m particularly to see the place Frimpong and Kerkez begin. Each prefer to maraud ahead, so will we nonetheless be seeing Andy Robertson and Conor Bradley within the full-back roles with the brand new lads in additional superior roles?
The place will Wirtz play? Will Ekitike be a wider ahead relatively than the standard quantity 9 – or will that be the place Isak will play?
Yeah, I do know.
I don’t like speaking about different gamers after they’re not ours. All of it appears a bit entitled. Like we in some way deserve him greater than his present membership does. The odious Actual Madrid try this on a regular basis and I’d relatively we weren’t the identical, but it surely’s exhausting to not dream. What a participant he’s!
For the time being although, he’s Newcastle’s participant and I can perceive why they’re not eager on promoting him. He’s their Salah and everyone knows what it felt like when his future seemed unsure. It’d be good however …
As a rule, I don’t become involved within the fixed want to purchase anybody/everybody and the entire FSG debate. I’m not eager on them however seldom do I frown at their transfers. We’ve grow to be a severe membership once more over the previous 9 years and so they’ve performed a component in that. In spite of everything, they have been criticised for not including to the squad after the sixth European Cup in 2019 and we went on to win the title at a canter the next season. It may be irritating at instances, but when it really works …
It’s been a tough summer season, and I want we didn’t have to switch one specific participant, however the stage of ambition has been heartening. I wish to see all of them play. I wish to see what the form is. I wish to see what the second half form is. I wish to see what the substitutes can do. I wish to see Liverpool shock me once more.
The summer season spending isn’t over but. I really feel positive of that, but it surely’s good to see we’re buying in the proper retailers once more. We’re shopping for starters and we’re shopping for them forward of different golf equipment and rivals. Everybody desires a brand new ‘9’ this season. I hope we are able to get one other, even when it’s not that one.
However I’ll take that one all the identical. Entitled, perhaps, however I can dream.
Karl
