Liverpool Pre-season 2024

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Coming right up boss.

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First U-18 game not off to a great start in Germany.

Liverpool U18s twice walk off after alleged racism

  Liverpool have called for an "urgent and thorough" investigation after their under-18s team left the pitch during two games when a player alleged he was racially abused in Germany.

The team walked off when the player said he was targeted during their opening match of the Bundesliga Cup youth tournament against Hoffenheim on Friday.

On Saturday they left the field in protest after the same player said he was abused during a game against Frankfurt. The match was abandoned.

"Liverpool FC can confirm that a member of our under-18s team reported he was racially abused by an opponent while playing in the Bundesliga Cup youth tournament at Schwabisch Hall in Germany on Friday," read a club statement.

"The player immediately alerted the match official, his team-mates and our coaching staff. Consequently, LFC’s management team decided to stop the game and leave the pitch together.

"In a further incident, the same player was the target of abuse during a fixture in the tournament today. Again, the player alerted his team-mates and coaching staff and our management team opted to leave the pitch once more."

Liverpool said they were "proud" of the player's decision to report the incident and that he had shown "maturity" with his response.

Frankfurt sporting director Timmo Hardung said, having spoken to the accused player from his club, the incident was a "misunderstanding".

"We can rule out racism. It is a linguistic issue," Hardung told German newspaper Bild., external

"We therefore hope that we have also cleared up the misunderstanding with the players concerned and those responsible at Liverpool FC."

Hardung said racism "has no place here" and they took "such an accusation seriously".

Hoffenheim, Frankfurt and the Bundesliga Cup have been contacted for comment.


 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cv2g3np5p9do       

aye no cool.

More inclined to wait until the season starts proper, to draw any real conclusions, to my mind anyway.

First U-18 game not off to a great start in Germany.

Liverpool U18s twice walk off after alleged racism

  Liverpool have called for an "urgent and thorough" investigation after their under-18s team left the pitch during two games when a player alleged he was racially abused in Germany.

The team walked off when the player said he was targeted during their opening match of the Bundesliga Cup youth tournament against Hoffenheim on Friday.

On Saturday they left the field in protest after the same player said he was abused during a game against Frankfurt. The match was abandoned.

"Liverpool FC can confirm that a member of our under-18s team reported he was racially abused by an opponent while playing in the Bundesliga Cup youth tournament at Schwabisch Hall in Germany on Friday," read a club statement.

"The player immediately alerted the match official, his team-mates and our coaching staff. Consequently, LFC’s management team decided to stop the game and leave the pitch together.

"In a further incident, the same player was the target of abuse during a fixture in the tournament today. Again, the player alerted his team-mates and coaching staff and our management team opted to leave the pitch once more."

Liverpool said they were "proud" of the player's decision to report the incident and that he had shown "maturity" with his response.

Frankfurt sporting director Timmo Hardung said, having spoken to the accused player from his club, the incident was a "misunderstanding".

"We can rule out racism. It is a linguistic issue," Hardung told German newspaper Bild., external

"We therefore hope that we have also cleared up the misunderstanding with the players concerned and those responsible at Liverpool FC."

Hardung said racism "has no place here" and they took "such an accusation seriously".

Hoffenheim, Frankfurt and the Bundesliga Cup have been contacted for comment.


 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cv2g3np5p9do       

If it's genuinely a linguistic issue. No harm done. If that's a cover up effort. Get it sorted  !

More inclined to wait until the season starts proper, to draw any real conclusions, to my mind anyway.

See that’s your biggest weakness, you’re too sensible.

See that’s your biggest weakness, you’re too sensible.

No not really, thanks for the compliment anyway.

Jesus - never seen it (seen the first one) but that surprises me. That can't be CGI then as I thought Nolan was against that.

Either that or the pitch needs a bit of work

Shame Danns not made pre season tour to USA would of been nice to  see more of him

Gonna be a little short of striking options aren't we? 

https://x.com/djmc76/status/1815743880219783548?s=46&t=_4uI6CiVRqge8WqM7F37Iw

Initial squad for USA tour in position order as it’s so frustrating when they do it in numerical order

Kelleher
Jaros
Pitaluga
Davies

Bradley
Stephenson (CM who can play RB)

Quansah
Van den Berg
Phillips
Nallo

Robertson
Tsimikas
Chambers
Beck

Szoboszlai
Elliott
Jones
Endo
Bajcetic
Morton
McConnell

Salah
Carvalho
Doak
Gordon
Koumas
Nyoni
Blair

My team vs Betis (second half team in brackets)

Kelleher (Jaros)

Bradley (Stephenson)
Van den Berg (Nallo)
Quansah (Phillips)
Tsimikas (Robertson (c))

Szoboszlai (Elliott)
Endo (Bajcetic)
Morton (Jones)

Gordon (Nyoni)
Salah (c) (Carvalho)
Doak (Koumas)

Additional options from the bench:

Pitaluga
Davies
Chambers
Beck
McConnell
Blair

Real Betis have recently signed our former 3rd choice keeper Adrian and have also added Diego Llorente to their squad signing from Leeds.

No idea on a prediction here, just lookin forward to some club football again.

 



 

Initial squad for USA tour in position order as it’s so frustrating when they do it in numerical order

Kelleher
Jaros
Pitaluga
Davies

Bradley
Stephenson

Quansah
Van den Berg
Phillips
Nallo

Robertson
Tsimikas
Chambers
Beck

Szoboszlai
Elliott
Jones
Endo
Bajcetic
Morton
McConnell

Salah
Carvalho
Doak
Gordon
Koumas
Nyoni
Blair

Forgot to mention Danns and Clark miss out due to injury.

Also notable absentees include Rhys Williams and Billy Koumetio, who are rumoured to be leaving imminently. Academy goalkeeper Fabian Mrozek is rumoured to be going on loan shortly hence him not going on the tour.

There’s also been no sign of Calum Scanlon during pre-season and he’s not on the tour, is he injured? I think he has a higher ceiling than Chambers and Beck so it’s a shame he won’t be on the tour.

Does anyone know if any of our pre-season games are live on LFC TV? They usually are, but I've not seen any details yet.

Initial squad for USA tour in position order as it’s so frustrating when they do it in numerical order

Kelleher
Jaros
Pitaluga
Davies

Bradley
Stephenson (CM who can play RB)

Quansah
Van den Berg
Phillips
Nallo

Robertson
Tsimikas
Chambers
Beck

Szoboszlai
Elliott
Jones
Endo
Bajcetic
Morton
McConnell

Salah
Carvalho
Doak
Gordon
Koumas
Nyoni
Blair

Youd wonder why bother your bollix going all the way out there with lads you know will be important first teamers missing and no new signings made to be intergrated into the group

Id say 13 of the squad named, out of 28, will not play a second of prem lge football

Such a waste of time to play this. Professional players already play too much throughout a season and they travel thousands of kilometres to play with B teams, while all this time and energy could be used either to have a proper rest or work in training. I'm not against pre-season games, but what's the point when half the team is not available?

The point is commercial, but it's detrimental to the team. I'll always remember the season we played one day after the Community shield and at the start of the season had almost no midfielders with Ox and Keita already out and Arthur coming in injured.

Does anyone know if any of our pre-season games are live on LFC TV? They usually are, but I've not seen any details yet.

All games live on LFCTV or online on LFCTV GO - https://video.liverpoolfc.com/

Youd wonder why bother your bollix going all the way out there with lads you know will be important first teamers missing and no new signings made to be intergrated into the group

Id say 13 of the squad named, out of 28, will not play a second of prem lge football

Selling the "Brand"..and potential revenue.

Given that we will have so many players coming back having gone deep into the Euros or Copa (Trent, VVD, Gomez, Nunez, Gakpo, Diaz, Mac all made it to at least the semi-finals) I suspect a good few of these lads will start the opener vs Ipswich in a few weeks. I'd say thse players below wll be fairly nailed on for the opener.

Quansah
Robbo
Bradley
Jones and/or Elliott
Salah
Szobo

All games live on LFCTV or online on LFCTV GO - https://video.liverpoolfc.com/

Thank you very much Diego 

Such a waste of time to play this. Professional players already play too much throughout a season and they travel thousands of kilometres to play with B teams, while all this time and energy could be used either to have a proper rest or work in training. I'm not against pre-season games, but what's the point when half the team is not available?

The point is commercial, but it's detrimental to the team. I'll always remember the season we played one day after the Community shield and at the start of the season had almost no midfielders with Ox and Keita already out and Arthur coming in injured.

Here we f***in go, a month away from the new Season and the doom mongers rear their ugly f***in heads, you do realise that we have fans across the pond and that maybe just maybe the club want to appreciate their support in the best possible way they can, by crossing the pond and giving them a opportunity to see us live, to see Mo, Trent, Szlobos et al up close and perhaps be lucky enough for selfies/ autographs etc,

Yes it’s commercial tell me another club that doesn’t use commercialism to perhaps garner further support from other countries, next season I’m guessing we’ll go back to the far east and show our appreciation to those supporters there, pull yer heid out of yer arse ffs !!!


YNWA

Here we f***in go, a month away from the new Season and the doom mongers rear their ugly f***in heads, you do realise that we have fans across the pond and that maybe just maybe the club want to appreciate their support in the best possible way they can, by crossing the pond and giving them a opportunity to see us live, to see Mo, Trent, Szlobos et al up close and perhaps be lucky enough for selfies/ autographs etc,

Yes it’s commercial tell me another club that doesn’t use commercialism to perhaps garner further support from other countries, next season I’m guessing we’ll go back to the far east and show our appreciation to those supporters there, pull yer heid out of yer arse ffs !!!


YNWA

He has a point Billy, players play far far too many games. However, it’s arguably a must for fans outside our country as it does bring in plenty of revenue when you look at the bigger picture. I should imagine some players still class it as a busman’s holiday.