The way I see it, Liverpool’s summer approach is looking more cautious than chaotic. That might frustrate some, but after a couple of recent sagas where we ended up chasing players without full control of the situation, you can understand the club wanting everything lined up before they properly move.
Why the noise doesn’t always mean movement
The talk is that the club were hopeful Antoine Semenyo would fully buy into the project, but without that green light the interest cooled. It’s similar in spirit to the way we’ve been linked with big names like Alexander Isak: we’re not charging in unless the whole deal looks doable.
You don’t need insider jargon to see the logic. Liverpool have been stung before when a chase becomes public, expensive, and ultimately pointless. That can’t be the model every summer. Sometimes the most sensible decision is simply to walk away.
Centre-back: quality now, not just potential
On Marc Guehi, the claim is there’s been no real progress because Crystal Palace haven’t indicated they’re ready to let their captain go, and their own replacement plans haven’t moved on. Whether that ends up true or not, it fits a familiar pattern: if the selling club isn’t even half-open to it, you’re just burning time.
There’s also the suggestion Liverpool are unlikely to push for Joel Ordonez, despite him being looked at before, because the club don’t want to stack the back line with two young “one for the future” centre-halves. The feeling is the next one through the door should be a proper ready-made starter, roughly mid-20s, someone who walks in and raises the level immediately.
The bigger issue: us, not them
What’s really jumped out from the fan conversations is how quickly we turn on our own. Truth is, the most shambolic thing around Liverpool right now might be the tone of the fanbase, not the players, not the owners, not the manager.
It hasn’t been a vintage season for entertainment across the league either. Plenty of sides have been “boring”, and plenty of games have been flat. That doesn’t mean you accept poor runs, but it does mean context matters.
We’ve seen Arne Slot steady things when it needed steadying. So maybe, just maybe, we don’t go from “messiah” to “fraud” in the space of a few bad weeks. Three points against Fulham would do nicely, and then it’s onto the Gooners with a bit of steel in the spine and less noise in our own house.
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