Marc Albrighton & Flav Bateman DEBATE Why Liverpool Have STRUGGLED To Sign Their Midfield Targets

it's no surprise of how the goals come about there salah's salah's got the ball in behind and and jat has sort of been in the middle the the poacher that he is if you like he's he's always in the right place at the right time I think you're going to see a lot of that this season under slot with with salah's Pace I think he's going to have a lot more assists this season than actual goals I think he's going to be the one to break in behind and lay it on a plate for whoever's on the left wing or through the middle or whatever midfielders coming through from the sort of 10 position and I guess that goes back to where you're saying you need this Striker so if you've got these four players putting in chances you need someone that's just going to put the ball in the back of the neck exactly that would you would you say then that the the Nunes signing in in many senses hasn't been what you wanted it to be then oh 100% it hasn't worked out how I thought it would work out I think M Mass massive potential Nunes great paced I mean when he does hit the back of a net he's got a wicked shot I mean last season at Newcastle when we were down to 10 men he was amazing but I just think he's just not consistent enough and I think at this level when you're fighting against the lights of your arsenals and your cities now you need that to be clinical because games like this you may only get one or two chances you know when you've got an niip switch who are maybe sitting bit deep later on in the game so yeah we need that Striker who's going to put in the back of the net how about this Prime position that I don't even know how many midfielders you missed out on now whether it's sh manyi whether it was Lavia now zuy like why are Liverpool unable to to capture this position that they seem to have been trying to fill for at least two to three seasons now my honest opinion it's the hierarchy I think we're not willing to pay the money that's required to secure the signature of these players I think Liverpool is always a TR top draw Club to come to many players will want to come so I don't think that's the issue I don't think even under Jurgen that wasn't an issue the manager I don't think under slot will be too much of an issue it's just the paying the money if you think like it's paying the money but you wouldn't want to pay 100 million pound a cedo or 50 million necessary for Le you had Chelsea that come in and made it very difficult for Liverpool and FSG yeah I I understand that and I'm not saying for them to pay above the odds of course not but I feel like we want to shop at little and get marks and Spencer's players if that makes sense and it's just not going to work sometimes you're going to have to put your hand in your pocket and pay that little bit extra to get the man that you want yeah but I think Liverpool have got have got the pull of the size of the club that they are um over over other clubs like Liverpool's got this tradition there we go yes moosah come on yeah Liverpool have got like this this history and tradition that people want to be a part of people want people want to be a part of that so I think they've they've got that on other clubs and there'll be players I remember when Torres signed like all them years ago my favorite Striker yeah and like the thing that attracted him was was the club it weren't anything else around it it was just that club like he wouldn't wanted to sign for anyone else um and I think they still carry that probably even more so now that they they've had the success in in recent years no 100% I agree with you and you want players that want to come to your club for that reason more so but I just feel like with the position of the number six where we need it to now kick on to the next level that's when you need to pay that extra money as opposed to waiting for that player who's got the love for the club The Lure the aura you know the Champions League blah blah blah sometimes you just got to say right here's the money cuz we need you you're going to make us better and kick us on to the next level and then when you've got time to play around you can wait for that player who really loves the club and whatever has a real interest but for now that number six position so do you think the FSG potentially don't want or not interested in investing enough to challenge Man City because they know 100% I mean hats off FSG The Stadium expansion our training ground facilities they've done great work but now we need those owners who want to challenge they're happy to compete as fans we want to challenge and we want to be winning it but as an owner you're kind of looking and going I might put 200 million into this first 11 and we don't win it then what like then you've got problems down the road that's football that's football you're not guaranteed to win cuz you spend money but you have to speculate to accumulate you got bigger chance hav you say I think the the added complexity is we've seen it now you've gone two nil ahead you're talking about you want to Center forward in but if you're the the hierarchy and you're seeing MOS get a goal assist and open day you probably think if it's not broken we looking at this goal here it's trademark mosella right give and go with shabz he gets into the box a lucky deflection but he man man to get his toe in it and put it away I'm I'm liking the new celebration I like that um you guys might remember AC Milan gilardino used to like that Arch celebration but um yeah if you're looking at it from that perspective they're probably thinking why do we need to invest more if what we've invested so far is still yielding some sort of a return that's shortsighted this is football things can happen like I don't want to say what can happen but this that's shortsighted you have to plan for the future great you want your present team to be working and scoring but you know to think what if what if what if do you not think that's difficult though with with them like managerial situations like how long does a manager get you could you could go and sign players players now and the manager might only last six months and all of a sudden you got this player on a six-year contract okay okay that's true but we're not talking huge amount of signings we're talking one or two and how long the manager last it's up to you now if slot has a horrid start and he loses his first 10 games it's down to the to the FSG do they want to stick with him and keep faith in him yeah this is what the problem is owners don't want to keep faith in managers I I think it's fine that ariey slaugh hasn't bought any players in he's come in doesn't know the squad he's known it from watching it on telly but he needs to get to grips with your players I wonder what you think about this Mark it's that it what a ball how much can you know about a squad and how much do you learn on the training pitch like AR slot has learned so much about this team by by working with them on a daily basis is there's only so much you can learn by watching them on telly surely yeah and there's there's probably only so much he can learn from him watching him in pre-season and in training because this is where the real stuff starts now like he'll there's there's a lot of players that that are out there that are good on on a training pitch but get them to Saturday afternoon and and it changes and have you seen that yeah someone's like tearing it up in training and I think I think like yeah I've seen it quite a few times like there's there's players that are they are training ground players um really but I think a team like Liverpool for example they're all top quality players there's no doubt about it but it's the the instructions that he'll be telling them is different to what CL would have been saying so who who adapts to that better who which one of which ones of these players can can take that information on board and and and deliver and deliver what he wants because he's only going to find that out in in a game situation um so I think yeah I think he like you said it's it's not the worst thing that he's not made any signings because he's still assessing this there's no point in going and spending 60 70 80 million pound on a player when he might have something just as good already in his Squad yeah it's it's funny because we've had a lot to to say about this but I mean let's hear what Tony cascarino had to say about Liverpool's business on this morning's breakfast show there obviously have been links with players for one reason or another they've not yet materialized are you concerned at all as a Liverpool man c um I was very concerned at the end of the season because clpp was leaving I'm way more optimistic um and look Liverpool have won games in preseason whether you want to take that as you know going to be how you're going to judge Liverpool doing their in their season I've watched a couple of Liverpool games there is a slight difference you see way less of van dijk's 30 40 yard pass that that's not going to be in the equation this year so often there's a lot more overplay from out the back which sometimes Boulders on really really really dangerous but he wants them to be very comfortable on the ball in very tight situations and they're passing he loves to see you know when players open their body up to shape themselves to where to play the next ball they do that a lot Liverpool under his style I'm a lot more optimistic I'm not bothered by Massive transfer changes I'm not that so when you're talking about less of the Virgil Van D diagonal balls is that because he wants them to play out more less ball tactics and through the Midfield and yeah I I I'm really hoping that Curtis Jones can really settle into the Liverpool team in the way that they play and Harvey Elliot comes in as well because they're both terrific footballers and it is about their passing their movement not so much flicks and little tricks here and there it's more of a sort of Strate strategized way of playing that watching moosel in pre season he looks absolutely sharp as hell he looks like he's really we talked about casemiro looking really fit Salah had his challenges last year physical I think the African nations got in his way slightly and he got injured and he didn't come back and he didn't look he looked nowhere near Moos Salah at the end of last season for Liverpool just seeing him looked like the mo Salah Liverpool fans fell in love with even in preseason was a big plus do you think sometimes that is and obviously I know if you could go back to the time when it was announced that Jurgen klopp was leaving Liverpool fans would have done everything they could have to persuade him to stay but do you sometimes think that a new manager coming in just re-energizes everything there's someone new to impress maybe that's the case with Salah I'm not not to say that he wasn't trying last season but just it's just a new new voice a new person no but his relationship with Salah kops changed slightly towards the end of the season you could quite visibly see that Salah wasn't happy um and why would he be if he's been left out the team and he's been the starwalk of the team for a number of season getting goals after goals um it is a new Direction I feel very optimistic that Liverpool will be certainly a top four team and also there is a lot of stability everyone talks about stability at football clubs is really important it feels like Liverpool are very stable and yes they went after one target do you know what didn't get him move on one good thing about zuba meni it didn't happen and the player made it quite clear and the the club sort of just moved away from it that's it that happens in football and I don't think they need if you look at them in attacking sense now they don't really need anything you know if you look at Diaz on the left you know and then you look at Salah on the right and Darwin Nunes and yot you know just to name a few that they've got a lot there already that's without the influence of the Harvey aliot on am on D via the talk sport app and on your smart speaker talk sport so Tony Tony doesn't feel like much needs to be done um and as we now Liverpool are 2 new up with about 60 Minutes to be played really grown into this game and I think you know before we even came on online you said that it was with with IP switch it's one of those things where you're going to have to see how the game goes the the excitement of being in the Premier League is going to die off a little bit and then Liverpool can take control on am on da via the talk sport app and on your smart speaker talk sport