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Quote from: Stablexcoin on June 23, 2025, 10:49:05 PM

Liverpool target for 2025/2026 season is to become Premier League champions and Champions League winners. Liverpool won't pay very huge amount of money for Florian Wirtz and want to place their focus on FA Cup or Carabao Cup, Liverpool are going for the big titles. Liverpool defending their championship as Premier League winners is easy if they stay solid focusing mostly on that part. Playing Champions League will give them a diversified performance, making them forfeit one title at the end, or injuries in the long run because they don't have better substitute.

Liverpool wants to win both Premier League and Champions League in 2025/2026 season but this might be tough. They do not want to spend much on players like Florian Wirtz perhaps trusting their current team or looking for cheaper good players. Wanting to win FA Cup or Carabao Cup seems odd if they are aiming for biggest titles though it could be about winning any trophy or giving less experienced players game time. Saying it is easy to defend Premier League title is strong claim as staying at top is always very hard. Lastly playing in Champions League could spread their team too thin possibly causing injuries because they might not have enough good backup players. To win both big titles Liverpool will need strong and deep squad to handle all games without players getting tired or hurt.

Spot on about the “thin squad” risk! What most fans fail to realize is how dangerous the new format of the Champions League is this season. Liverpool will have to face 8 other European teams during the league stage. No walkovers, all are serious, and each point counts since you must end up in the top 8 to avoid a knockout round. Throw in the 38-game Premier League run, and that is survival mode between October and February

The club had always boasted of doing more with less. The number speaks for themselves: Liverpool has the best trophy-per-pound ratio in England in the past ten years. This year though they have changed their tradition and have broken the club record to sign Wirtz (£116m), they have also paid big money to sign Frimpong and Kerkez. Therefore, the unwillingness to spend is half the truth. They simply do not want to waste money stupidly, and only spend big on the player they want

The spicy part comes with Slot rotation (or lack of it). His rotations were minimal last year. Salah and Van Dijk had more than 3,300 minutes in the league. That is insane if you want to pursue all the trophies with the new UCL. Unless this team finally believes in the backups and youngsters, fatigue is on its way. Their major advantage last year was to staying healthy (injuries dropped 64%). But with additional games, it is a risk

Winning both the PL and UCL? Less than 15% chance by the bookies’ logic. And it would require a perfect storm: new signings gelling immediately, Salah remaining injury-free, and Slot learning how to rotate before the engine blows. Those that say it is easy have not experienced a title defense in this era