Chris, Ross, Georgia & Errol are here with this week’s Podcast, where we discuss the news that Xherdan Shaqiri will most likely leave Anfield this Summer, and Virgil Van Dijk could make his Liverpool return in Thursday’s friendly against Hertha Berlin.
- KICKOFF QUESTION(s):
- Will Smith @willsmith_h_95
- If you could bring any past LFC “flop” back to play under Klopp who would it be? For me it would be Ryan Babel.
- matthew dennis @matthew21259556
- If all the LFC squad were competing in Olympic events. Which player would be most likely to win what event?
- Will Smith @willsmith_h_95
- TOPICS:
- VVD, JOTA, ROBBO TO FEATURE AGAINST HERTHA BERLIN
- Looks like a lot of the squad will be playing 60 mins
- VVD in line for a few minutes. Klopp says he’s looking very good. “He looks really good in training and maybe we can bring [him in], but I need to have some final conversations. He looks ready and we will see.”
- What could this mean?
- Gomez is close behind, with Klopp suggesting that the fixture after Hertha, scheduled to be against Atheltic Club on August 8, could very well commemorate the return of the No. 12. “Joey is very close. There is no race between the two of them; they had different injuries and stuff like this, but [he is] very close,” Klopp continued.
- Jota and Robbo will probably get 30 mins
- Where do you expect to see Jota line up?
- Thiago, Hendo, Alisson, Fab, Firmino to return by Aug 2nd
- TRANSFERS
- Niguez Contacted (Marca) but United seem to be the likely destination (50mil euros)
- West Ham want Ox – Could be a loan deal – would you?
- Shaqiri wants out. Liverpool won’t stand in his way. 15mil – Lazio/Napoli look like the two front runners.
- Can Harvey Elliott replace him in the squad?
- WIJNALDUM
- Gini speaks out about keyboard warriors
- ‘There was a moment I didn’t feel loved and appreciated,’ says Wijnaldum. ‘Not [by] my team-mates, not the people at Melwood. From them I know, I can say they all love me and I love them. It was not from that side, more the other side.’
- ‘I have to say also there was social media. When it went bad I was the player who they blamed – said that I wanted to leave,’ he says. ‘Every day in training and in the game I gave everything I had to bring it to a good end. During the years, Liverpool meant so much to me and also the way the fans in the stadium were treating me.
- ‘On social media, if we lost, I was the one who got the blame. There was a moment when I was like ”wow, if they only knew what I was doing to stay fit and play every game”. You get players in their last year who are like, ‘I’m not playing because it is a risk’. I did the opposite. I was training hard, I was giving everything. I didn’t always play good but after the game I could look in the mirror and say ”I trained hard to get better”.
- ‘I think the fans in the stadium and the fans in social media – my feeling was that they were two different things. In the stadium, I can say nothing bad about them. They always supported me. Even when they came back [into the stadium], already knowing that I was going to leave they still supported me and in the end they gave me a great farewell.’
- Interesting that he talks about the disconnect between fans in the ground and fans online.
- Lots of talk about turning the twitter feed off but should he have to?
- Will this cause fans to stop and think before they type abuse?
- VVD, JOTA, ROBBO TO FEATURE AGAINST HERTHA BERLIN
PODCAST
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