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TheBrownDog
No law against clubs playing youf/fringe players if the competition is too inconvenient for them.Make it U23 players only from next season otherwise scrap this cup.
The league Cup is fantastic.
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No law against clubs playing youf/fringe players if the competition is too inconvenient for them.Make it U23 players only from next season otherwise scrap this cup.
Forfeit would have to be a last resort. With the final at the end of Feb You'd hope to be able to fit the two legs in before then even if Liverpool can't play this week.
FA Cup might be tougher to reschedule if Liverpool can't play that as I think the next round is only a few weeks after this one.
Just ridiculous there are 2 legs with all the 'rona going around atm. Im sure all 4 sides in the comp would have been happy with a one off fixture for the semi middle of next week. It would be the right thing to do and the EFL's needs to make extra revenue from 2 legs should not be prioritised over player welfare.
I doubt they budge after the 2019 quarter final / world club cup clash debacle where the EFL refused to budge. We will end up probably having to play the first leg mostly with 18/19 year old academy players.
I don't think there is any issue with player welfare. No-one is forcing you to play unfit or unprepared players.
You've asked for a postponement, when you have more players available you should play the fixtures as planned.
19/20 January
25/26 January (or the weekend after if both sides are out of the FA Cup
Midweek before the final.
Shouldn't be a problem for you to fulfil the fixture.
I'm not sure if the rules in place for the league apply to the league Cup. If they do, and you have less than 13 plus a keeper available then it will be postponed.EFL probably wont postpone. They wouldn't do it when our whole senior squad was unavailable 2 years ago for the quarter final.
I'm not sure if the rules in place for the league apply to the league Cup. If they do, and you have less than 13 plus a keeper available then it will be postponed.
You've got a big squad, and a lot of kids with senior experience so you must be properly screwed with covid if you can't field 13.
Both Newcastle & Leicester easily could have fielded 13 against Spurs & Everton respectively but pulled the pin due to injuries in key areas more than covid. I've read runours we have 7-8 positive. 4 staff plus Klopp isolating with Covid. 8 injuries in the squad.
We'll undoubtedly release exactly how many positives we have shortly (without naming them) as the club has been very transparent with information unlike others. Considering we played the Chelsea & Spurs games with compromised teams due covid without complaint I imagine the final amount of positives will very likely be significant.
Well Liverpool haven't released numbers, neither have other sides so you're just guessing like everyone else.
If you've got 7-8 positive plus 8 injuries you should be right to play.
That’s 15-16 players..more than enough to postpone the game. How many injuries does Newcastle have? Hear nothing previously of their cases and then as soon as ASM and Wilson go down we hear of issues.Well Liverpool haven't released numbers, neither have other sides so you're just guessing like everyone else.
If you've got 7-8 positive plus 8 injuries you should be right to play.
That’s 15-16 players..more than enough to postpone the game. How many injuries does Newcastle have? Hear nothing previously of their cases and then as soon as ASM and Wilson go down we hear of issues.
That’s 15-16 players..more than enough to postpone the game. How many injuries does Newcastle have? Hear nothing previously of their cases and then as soon as ASM and Wilson go down we hear of issues.
By my count, we’ve got 3 still in isolation (Alisson, Matip, Firmino), 8 injuries (Phillips, Thiago, Hill, Balagizi, Elliott, Minamino, Origi, Stewart) and 3 at afcon (Keita, Mane, Salah).
So 14 players unavailable. And that’s before any new amount of positive tests that may have occurred today.
If it's the same rules as the league your eligible players are your senior squad plus any youth player on the books with senior experience. Liverpool have a lot of youth with senior experience.That’s 15-16 players..more than enough to postpone the game. How many injuries does Newcastle have? Hear nothing previously of their cases and then as soon as ASM and Wilson go down we hear of issues.
Why wouldn't Karius and Adrian be counted as senior players?Talk is more cases being announced today.
I do laugh when Karius & Adrian are counted as senior players available to play by some.
Why wouldn't Karius and Adrian be counted as senior players?
Why wouldn't Karius and Adrian be counted as senior players?
If you have three keepers fit out of the 14, are you expected to play them in other positions?
Neither are outfield players. Pitaluga has generally played as reserve keeper for LC games to Kelleher. Silly to include two keepers who aren't outfield players as part of the "squad" that's available to play the LC semi unless you think Karius playing at false #9 is an acceptable thing to happen in a League Cup semi vs Arsenal.
It seems that you've just made a strawman argument again.It seems he thinks it is fair and reasonable that we play the first leg vs Arsenal with Karius & Adrian playing as our central midfield combination surrounded by youf players and a few senior squad players.