Join us as we chat with Liverpool legend David Fairclough about the current transfer window, Liverpool's potential signings, and expectations for the upcoming season.
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Speaker 1:
Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of the Liverpool Connection podcast. I am joined with David Fairclough. We're just going to have a couple minutes chat about chance fairs, hopefully coming in, and what he expects, hopefully where Liverpool are next season. Alright, david, hi Daz. So we've already got a McAllister in, which is? you know, we got him in before the window cracked open and had to kind of seem like they're falling off already after you know, six days of the window opening and we've got nobody else in. I'm sure you're a bit more level headed than some.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it's a difficult time of the year because, i mean, there's still an international game to be played and so in that regard, the season hasn't finished. The 21 international competition is just about to begin, so there are players still out there who are preoccupied with other things, so it's never easy to get chance fair over the line anyway. But in these times, the way that contracts take a while to put together and the busy schedule, i think you've got to accept that it won't be maybe as easy as Jürgen might have intimated initially, saying he wants to do all nice and early. There's always a little bit of an issue of some sort that delays this type of thing. But clearly Liverpool need strength and the amount of players that we've been linked with and continually linked with other players, i think we've got to expect that Liverpool will sign other players, that's for sure. But we might just have to have a moment to have patience before it's all sort of top and tails so to speak.
Speaker 1:
Yeah well, i mean, i think people don't really understand. You know it takes a while for transfers and Liverpool have probably already talked to their reps and you know all the stuff is going on while these lads are on international duty. So it's just having to wait for them to finish and then, you know, come to Liverpool for the medical and sign on the dotted line. I just think this day and age, just people just need to have patience. But there doesn't seem to be patience anymore. It's like people forget about the football and they're more into chance fairs, like winning the chance fair league, than they are. You know, following the team, i'm just at a loss sometimes how I could care less. I have every bit of faith in Jürgen to do the job. He said we're going to get players in. You know Jota Kanute and Virgil have already said you know we need reinforcements. They believe they're coming in. I believe that. What was your thought on? obviously we didn't get jues, but we got McAllister. What's your thought on him?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, mcallister is a good sign and great sign and he showed his quality even before the World Cup but really came to the fore in the part that he played in Argentina's World Cup win. It wasn't first choice at that point but as that competition progressed McAllister drew in profile and clearly Liverpool must have had some sort of agreements or some conversations ongoing because almost immediately the season ended. You know that was the one sign and that could be confirmed. But you know, everybody knows that Liverpool are going to strengthen. It seems a modern day thing that everybody, the one people, want it and they want it now. But you know you have to be realistic.
Speaker 2:
As we perhaps partly mentioned, contracts are a difficult thing to complete these days because there are, you know, so many things get added to a contract. In the old days it was just a case of basically the clubs agree in a transfer value and you agree in wages on with the team, but players ask for so much. These days Life's become a bit complicated in that way. And also, you know, a couple of weeks initially after the season finishes, players and managers if you're not involved in international football, they go on holidays and the like. So you know it takes a little bit while, just sort of, for clubs to get back to work in practice. You know, and, as I say, it's got to be a little bit patient. The season's you know, preseason training is probably a month away. So as long as we get the bulk of the business done by then, i think Liverpool will be in good shape.
Speaker 1:
Do you think we can get back to challenging again?
Speaker 2:
Well, i think so. Of all the teams perhaps who could challenge Manchester City, for example, i think Liverpool are the one team, because everybody who comes to Liverpool has to play with the massive expectancy that we have as Amfield And I think for that reason I mean, and we all sort of make, you know, we all make our predictions, but I wonder whether or not Newcastle will be able to sustain that type of standard and fresher and expectancy next year. You know Liverpool, i think, is a club, that's that you know. We've lived with it for so long And, as I say, everybody who comes to Liverpool knows what is expected. So, you know, i fully expect Liverpool to be very much in the hunt And if anyone's going to be fit enough to keep the pace with Manchester City, then I would say Liverpool the one team. The kids could do that.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, i'm the same in Newcastle. I think they overachieved this season with that squad. Obviously they're going to, you know, add to it. But then you know there was talk of, like, maybe Neymar, but I think he'll go to the Saudi League, like some of these other people.
Speaker 2:
Can't quite see Neymar in a Newcastle, newcastle in wind, that East Coast, east Coast. I don't think it's the biggest attraction for every football.
Speaker 1:
No, exactly. I just think, you know, with them having Champions League as well, they've not had Champions League for years and years, so that's extra games for them. So I think it'll be tough for them, but, yeah, i have every faith that will challenge. Again, i think Klopp will get the right players in Maybe not the players that a lot of people want. You know again, this isn't FIFA or football manager. This is real football, and Klopp wants these engines in the team, doesn't he?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, obviously in the rebuild it's been something that was missing from Liverpool's play last year that intensity, the closing down and something that probably we hadn't replaced once Winaldum left. But we want young, hungry athletic players that were being linked with that type of player. It'd be interesting if we get the ones that we're willing to. They got some outstanding names on the wish list. Let's hope, you know, as we say, that can be confirmed in the next few weeks.
Speaker 1:
And what the big question I want to ask you, the trance question midfield or keep the hybrid role?
Speaker 2:
you know, i'm not. I'm a bit sort of I'm thinking it's not reinventing the wheel, i don't think in playing in a sort of a higher position in a third of the field, the main thing is, you know, when you don't have the ball, you all defend, and when you have the ball, you should all attack. Now, whether or not that sort of leaves leaves those vulnerable sometimes, if he sort of spends too much time in sort of in a midfield line, you know it remains to be seen. I think if Liverpool expert, you'll play with a back three, it puts a big strain on the right side and centre back and you know, i think we'll see plenty of teams target that type of type of area. If, if Alexander Arnold, you know, persist in in playing this sort of the role that he's currently in, Do you think we need to bring in a right back though?
Speaker 2:
Well, i would. I'm a little bit of a old school. I'm not sure about playing with a back three. I think your players are back Four or a back five. Now where he's playing at the moment, for me doesn't allow him as much of an opportunity to get back and make the back line of five. So so I tend to think that you know, maybe, i mean we look, i mean who knows the young lad from Rangers who had only had one real one, one star, look to have. You know all the attributes. So the only time we'll tell whether or not, what, what Jürgen decides to open up the season with. But yeah, i think certainly a right side defender, another right side defender might, might actually appear on the shopping list.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, i agree as well. Well, i mean, you know, you've still got Connor Bradley as well and Gomez that can slot in there as well. And last but not least, what's your thoughts on Henderson? Is he going to be playing more of the Milner role this season, do you think?
Speaker 2:
I think so. I think you've been kept in as the, you know as the statesman and the, you know the example to the younger players, unfortunately. you know he does catch up with the, with players, and then Fendo, perhaps he's not, he's not quite able to to, to, to fulfill the role that he was playing in, you know, two or three years ago. but it comes to everybody, doesn't it?
Speaker 1:
Yeah, i agree. You know he'll play probably a bit more minutes off the off the bench, but I still think he'll keep the arm band.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, i mean, he's got that position as club captain and and so you know he has a, he's a valued member of the of the dressing room and if he's, you know, happy to to fulfill that role and to play more as a bit of a bit to a pub player rather than the first, the first starter, then you know that's not a bad position to be in. To be in Liverpool and even just being the squad will be an exciting time next year, i think.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, i agree, well, thanks everyone for listening. Thank you so much, david, for coming back on and having a quick chat with me Again. please like and subscribe. check out our Childhood Heroes series that's coming out every Sunday our story pods. Thank you for listening and we'll see yous next time.
