Quote from: nelson4lov on August 04, 2024, 09:07:52 PM

Quote from: shinratensei_ on August 04, 2024, 02:22:54 AM

Liverpool was cooking Manchester United. And I'm feeling very optimistic if we're gonna enter the title race against City and Arsenal soon. I can't really understand why people are pushing off Liverpool to sign a new player ASAP. In fact, they don't need to sign a new player.

Our new Slotball system is amazing. It holds the ball to draw in attackers, then tries to play out from the back.. It's also gone very smoothly. And Slotball is the thing that I have ever dreamed off. Im sure we're gonna cook any big clubs in the EPL soon.

Of course we won against Betis, Arsenal and Man Utd using "Slotball" as you put it. While it made me happy that we won those games even if they were not competitive; The matter of concern however, is the amount of balls we are giving away in our half and very close to our post. For instance, Konate was under pressure a number of times yesterday and he gave the ball very easily on those occasions if not for the interventions of Kelleher and Jaros for those saves, Liverpool would have taken in more than 3 goals.

Slotball would work only if our attackers score as much goals as possible from those breakout counters otherwise, we'd just keep conceding more than we score.

Don't be too complacent about the wins obtained in pre-season matches even though indeed, Liverpool managed to win and beat all teams that can be assumed to be strong like Arsenal and Manchester United. But still,for me personally the results in pre-season matches can in no way be used as a reference and also cannot be used as a guarantee for Liverpool to dominate the Premier League next season. Because anyway, in the actual match later it is still very possible that the results will also be very different, because in the actual match later they will play with the main squad and ofcourse with better efforts too.

But about buying players or not, for me it only needs to be done if they basically need it. But, if for example Arne Slot is still able to improve the quality and performance with the existing squad, then at least it would be very good to minimize the purchase of players. Because after all, not wasting money will also be the best way to reduce or minimize expenses.