The Virgil van Dijk Problem
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
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I personally feel like his comments were more towards international football. He knows we love him at Liverpool. But everytime he plays internationally, his own countrymen criticize his captainship constantly. Must be quite draining.
Unless his body fails him, we cannot sell van dijk, football has changed look at Thiago silva playing till the age he played at mostly off his defensive IQ that he’s developed over the years. VVD can still be a great defender even if he loses his pace
None of that goes in Van Dijk’s favour, he hates blocking shots and his best attribute is jumping
You put words to what I've been thinking since the end of last season but especially after the post euro interview
Looking forward to hearing more from you about ramping up to the start of the season! Would be interested to hear what you have to say about what sort of players the squad still needs and whether or not they'll actually make the necessary signings
If you take James Milner as an example, when he 'retired' from international football he improved as a player for us. Why would Virgil not be the same?
I think Virgil and Trent were badly affected by Klopp's departure. Even as a fan I am struggling to be excited by the new season. I wouldn't blame them if they want to go. Trent going wouldn't bother me but Virgil would leave a massive void. To lose Milly, Henderson, Klopp and Virgil within such a short period would be catastrophic in my opinion, that leaves us with one proper leader who knows the club well, Robbo.
VVD is consistent for LFC, the inconsistency is in his partner ships - Konate & Matip were always injured and Quansah is inexperienced.
Succession planning is always wise, particularly with players on the wrong side of 30. And it would be prudent to manage Virgil's minutes in order to get the best out of him when he is playing.
I'm not particularly wedded to the idea that we need a left-footed CB. I'm just not convinced footedness of the CB particularly matters. On the wings, absolutely, but middle of the pitch it just doesn't strike me. Of course, I am open to data suggesting otherwise or meta changes within the game that lead to conclusions that left-footedness particularly among CBs is valuable.
For my money, our nailed-on CBs going into this season are:
Virgil
Konate
Quansah
Gomez
Gomez is a swiss army knife of sorts, can do reliable bits across the backline. If the all the fullbacks stay fit (god willing), you'd imagine he'd see more time at CB than he did last year, which is fine by me.
Konate/Quansah may as well be 2a/2b (with Virgil as the undisputed #1). Both are quality, but differ in that Konate is injury prone and it should be sort of expected that Quansah might have a bit of a sophomore slump. Hopefully he doesn't and he continues his rise but I think, as a fanbase, we need to prepare for the possibility that there might be some slight regression - just the sort of thing that happens. Ideally, Konate stays fit and Quansah gets reps to supplant Virgil as the LCB, allowing Virgil the rest he desires and deserves in non-big games.
I think we need at least one reliable CB as an incoming transfer, someone young with potential to become a world beater. Why I wouldn't be as high on someone like Calafiori is that I'd imagine he wants to be a starter. So we need a younger player who is fine with bedding in, being a rotational option at the moment as he grows into being a long-term future starter. I'm not enough of a wonk to know /who/ that sort of player is, but that's the profile I'd be after.
I don't trust Nat Philips. I know reports are that Sepp VDB wants a move - can't blame him! Generally, footballers want to play football. Can't fault him for wanting to start elsewhere versus being depth/rotational/loan fodder here. But I hope we get a real good look at him in the pre-season and if it seems like he's made some real strides after being in Germany, particularly with on the ball quality, then I'd love if it we can convince him to do at least the first half of the season here. If it doesn't work out and he's not playing, then loan / sell in the winter in order to do right by the player.
I'm not usually one to comment, especially on RUclips, so hopefully this isn't a word salad and has at least some coherence to it
Fine by you? Bet you said that when we conceded 5 against Madrid
@@CodPatrol lol
@@stackq999 Gomez was horrible that game, never should have played for the club again after that. There was no reason to play that bad, Madrid was nothing special that game
@@CodPatrol lol
Managing his minutes will be crucial if we want to get another 3 good years out of him. The problem with signing someone as back up (even more so a left footed one) is the game time you are providing. Lets say Virgil needs to be rotated 1 every 3 PL game and for cup games, thats not a lot of minutes for a young talented centre back we should look to attract. Given the other center back position is already covered by Konate/Quansah/Gomez thats even less opportunities to play. Maybe the answer would be to move on Tsimikas and sign a left footed cb who can also play left back (see Gvardiol/Ake/Calafiori) but its a rare and expensive profile
VVD unsure, Trent interested in Madrid, salah last year of contract. Diaz wants Barcelona, Darwin removed all Liverpool pictures from social media … good start
Trent is not interested in Madrid, VVD unsure about his international career and the amount of minutes he will be playing, Salah last year but that’s not a problem and he is inclined to renew his contract, Barcelona cannot get Diaz .. all is good stop worrying
@@loaimahmoud2949 have you heard a term having blinkers on ?
Whilst every other club is making moves we have our 3 best players on a last 12 month contracts …. And have not signed anyone when I think majority think we need 3-4 players ….
But okay, just go and hide your head in the sand
He has one year on contract. Normal to make these comments, which is a favour to LFC, enabling them to sell him for a good price. Never give a new contract to a 30 year old. always sell and buy young
VVD is no idiot, intelligent human, he didn't need to wittness Hendo's departure and attitude when leaving to know, how not to do it. His comment is the start of how to depart as captain properly. I have no idea but I'm guessing that in the next two years he'd love two goes at the CL, which will lead into the world cup and perhaps that will be his departure from top class football. We wave him off from Anfield to the world cup, that's class. I love our captain
World Cup? He’s failed at every single one and down to his own doing
15 minutes lets goooo
Slot will be looking at players he got and see if they fit his style, no transfers til January in my view unless players leave or don’t sign contracts
He can tell within a week who doesn’t, enough with the excuses
Salah and van should both go get as much money for them and move on
You wanna get rid of two of the main pillars of the squad in one shot ? What a genius!
My view is he should go now and the first year of Slot should be seen as transitional and a top 4 finish is the target. Get his huge wages off the books, remove the contract problem and get Guehi in alongside Quansah. being honest VVD is not an on the pitch captain and last year he couldn't stop the rot when thing went on the slide or when we kept conceding first all season.
Exactly, we conceded first about 18 times last season and people wanna tell me Van Dijk is still a top 5 centerback. Top 4 should never be the aim though
Sell Gomez, Matip and Robertson. Get in Guehi, Inacio and Fulham’s Robinson.
Virgil is very obviously already mentoring Quansah, you only have to watch how he plays the game to see it.
How’d that work out with Gomez?
@@CodPatrol Gomez was at the club years before Virgil joined and suffered with serious injury issues between 2018 and 2021 meaning he spent a lot of time in the treatment room rather than on the pitch.
Your fall off has been monumental and beautiful to watch
Haha, I love getting comments like this.
Not the key takeaway, but isn't the point of a clip-on mic that it.... ya know.... clips on?
My feeling is, given the rumours, that we're actually succession planning by looking at a couple of young CBs
Sometimes I like to feel young and hold a clip on mic…
How does Laurence make a living these days? Or did he always have another job even when he was with Geordie?
The problem is not VVD, it's the lack of consistent top level CB partner alongside him.
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imho Salah been the faar bigger problem. He and his pesky agent should've left two years ago before we gave the aging winger the new contract. His performances since then nowhere near justified his salary and he starts every game.
And the team wouldn't have qualified for any European Competition,, Put some Respect to that name you anti LFC fan 😏😏😏😏
@@hajjk8244 born and raised in England, buddy? Can’t stomach he’s finished
@@hajjk8244 any teamplayer on a third of his wage and only scored half his goals would've helped us more. You know LFC and Klopp made Salah, not the other way round.