Liverpool thread 2020/21

[twosips]

Smells like fear to me...

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

The legend that is Aldo complaining on twitter about the referee blowing his whistle 5 seconds early. It's a conspiracy I tell thee !!!

I wonder if his mrs copped for that poor officiating?

 

[@BluePhil8]

I get all the piss taking about Liverpool on here and enjoy a laugh at some of the comments but to say Liverpool have been luck or are a poor team is ridiculous. They have been in 2 Champions League finals and won 1 . Won the Premier League by a mile and generally been 1 of the 2 best teams in the last 3 or 4 years. Everybody will concede that City have a stronger squad overall but Liverpools best 11 are more than a match for any team in Europe.

Have you been banned from RAWK or something? I’d say distinctly second best to be fair; 6 vs 2.

 

[Ric]

I get all the piss taking about Liverpool on here and enjoy a laugh at some of the comments but to say Liverpool have been luck or are a poor team is ridiculous. They have been in 2 Champions League finals and won 1 . Won the Premier League by a mile and generally been 1 of the 2 best teams in the last 3 or 4 years. Everybody will concede that City have a stronger squad overall but Liverpools best 11 are more than a match for any team in Europe.

Yeah, as much as I'm enjoying seeing you drop points it'd be nonsense to write Liverpool off. You're struggling at the moment but will find your form again before long I suspect. Still see you as our main challengers for the title.

 

[domalino]

Yeah, as much as I'm enjoying seeing you drop points it'd be nonsense to write Liverpool off. You're struggling at the moment but will find your form again before long I suspect. Still see you as our main challengers for the title.

Have to disagree, they are only going in one direction in the table.

The injured players aren't coming back, and the ones who have been playing every week to take up the slack are only going to get more tired and more susceptible to injury themselves.


Klopp is right, if they finish in the top 4 it'll be a good result for them.

They have a run of tricky games - Spurs, West Ham, Brighton, Leicester City, City, Everton starting next week that I will be amazed if they're not 10+ points behind us at the end of it and out of the race.

 

[Ric]

Have to disagree, they are only going in one direction in the table.

The injured players aren't coming back, and the ones who have been playing every week to take up the slack are only going to get more tired and more susceptible to injury themselves.


Klopp is right, if they finish in the top 4 it'll be a good result for them.

They have a run of tricky games - Spurs, West Ham, Brighton, Leicester City, City, Everton starting next week that I will be amazed if they're not 10+ points behind us at the end of it and out of the race.

I hope you're right! Bookies still have them as second favourites though.

 

[Cellarite]

I get all the piss taking about Liverpool on here and enjoy a laugh at some of the comments but to say Liverpool have been luck or are a poor team is ridiculous. They have been in 2 Champions League finals and won 1 . Won the Premier League by a mile and generally been 1 of the 2 best teams in the last 3 or 4 years. Everybody will concede that City have a stronger squad overall but Liverpools best 11 are more than a match for any team in Europe.

See, you're saying the last 3 or 4 years so I assume you mean before this one because who knows what will happen this season?

If we count last season as season 1 and go back, I'd agree you've been 1 of the best 2 teams for the last 2 seasons.

Claiming you were 1 of the best 2 in successive seasons when you finished 4th is stretching things a little. Not that I'd want to accuse a Liverpool fan of exaggerating things for their own argument.

You can claim that during one of those 4th place finishes, you were beaten in the Champions League final (2017/18) but that would be exactly the same as saying Tottenham were 1 of the best 2 teams in 2018/19 when we won the league over you by a point. Tottenham also finished 4th that season and also had a rather fortunate run to a final where they were soundly beaten.

 

[Metalartin]

We aren't top of the league yet and while they are still in the title race, they are still our main challengers. Things can change quite quickly with the way this season is going.

I have noticed that I'm far less interested in Liverpool recently, now that our form has picked up. I suppose it's part of human nature but there's always extra when it comes to City from the entitled clubs' fans and of course the UK sports media. I imagine if Liverpool continue to struggle and start dropping even more points, the anti-City topics will start to ramp up again. Especially if United start to fall away. It's all so predictable.

 

[waspish]

Smells like fear to me...

That’s the owners number one job a manager does top four is where the money is they don’t get top four and it’s is possible with now crowds they’ll have to go and get loan out to add to there debt.

 

[Bluemanc100]

I accept that it might be poor choice of wording on my part. Maybe "bargain bin" is not the right phrase. For that I apologize. All I meant to say is that Liverpool aren't a club to spend 100m+ on a Haaland, Havertz or Mbappe, etc. Compared to their closest European competitors, including us, they can't compete in terms of spending.

In any case, my original main point was they are where they are now because of Klopp, not because of shrewd/wise investments. That's my point. I'm not arguing they have made wonderful signings for well below the cost, in fact, they have mostly pretty average signings.

I did LOL... they paid £75m for a defender and even paid £50m for a carthorse when they bought Carroll

 

[bluealf]

I accept that it might be poor choice of wording on my part. Maybe "bargain bin" is not the right phrase. For that I apologize. All I meant to say is that Liverpool aren't a club to spend 100m+ on a Haaland, Havertz or Mbappe, etc. Compared to their closest European competitors, including us, they can't compete in terms of spending.

In any case, my original main point was they are where they are now because of Klopp, not because of shrewd/wise investments. That's my point. I'm not arguing they have made wonderful signings for well below the cost, in fact, they have mostly pretty average signings.

It certainly was not.

I had no problem with the rest of your post. :)

 

[mrbelfry]

Most of those players were bought from the Torres money. Salaries paid for from the Benteke money.

Whilst researching this post it has amazed me how much they have raised from absolute rubbish

 

[Ric]

I did LOL... they paid £75m for a defender and even paid £50m for a carthorse when they bought Carroll

Carroll was "only" £35m, I think.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

The legend that is Aldo complaining on twitter about the referee blowing his whistle 5 seconds early. It's a conspiracy I tell thee !!!

He has a point, for a change. Mane through on goal and he blows before the ’minimum’ added time?

Looked to me that they didn’t want Liverpool scoring, for whatever reason.

 

[FightLikeAGirl]

Well, you haven't observed their signings very well then, have you?

Bargain Bin players you said?

38 Players Bought: £476,450,000


Sadio Mane Southampton £30,000,000 28th Jun, 2016
Loris Karius Mainz 05 £4,700,000 1st Jul, 2016
Geo Wijnaldum Newcastle £25,000,000 22nd Jul, 2016
Mohammed Salah AS Roma £34,000,000 22nd Jun, 2017
Dominic Solanke Chelsea £6,000,000 1st Jul, 2017
Andy Robertson Hull City £8,000,000 21st Jul, 2017
Alex Chamberlain Arsenal £35,000,000 31st Aug, 2017
Virgil van Dijk Southampton £75,000,000 1st Jan, 2018
Fabinho AS Monaco £39,300,000 28th May, 2018
Naby Keïta RB Leipzig £52,500,000 1st Jun, 2018
Xherdan Shaqiri Stoke City £13,500,000 13th Jul, 2018
Alisson Becker AS Roma £56,250,000 19th Jul, 2018
Harvey Elliott Fulham £4,000,000 28th Jul, 2019
Takumi Minamino Red Bull Salzburg £7,250,000 1st Jan, 2020
Kostas Tsimikas Olympiacos £11,750,000 10th Aug, 2020
T Alcantara Bayern Munich £20,000,000 18th Sep, 2020
Diogo Jota Wolves £41,000,000 19th Sep, 2020


Hardly a KFC bargain bucket of chicken is it.

But Liverpool never spend any money.

 

[bluealf]

But Liverpool never spend any money.

Only what they earn by selling want away star players :)

 

[Akira]

It certainly was not.

I had no problem with the rest of your post. :)

Cheers.

Now we can go back to slagging them off.

 

[Akira]

Most of those players were bought from the Torres money. Salaries paid for from the Benteke money.

Whilst researching this post it has amazed me how much they have raised from absolute rubbish

Still does my head in how they sold Brewster for 28m.

 

[Bald fraud]

We aren't top of the league yet and while they are still in the title race, they are still our main challengers. Things can change quite quickly with the way this season is going.

I have noticed that I'm far less interested in Liverpool recently, now that our form has picked up. I suppose it's part of human nature but there's always extra when it comes to City from the entitled clubs' fans and of course the UK sports media. I imagine if Liverpool continue to struggle and start dropping even more points, the anti-City topics will start to ramp up again. Especially if United start to fall away. It's all so predictable.

They’ll be screaming null and void if and when we start to pull away

 

[bluealf]

Still does my head in how they sold Brewster for 28m.

You do wonder what underhand deals have been done, getting shite like Bournemouth to spend top money on players and then to have these players also flop is unbelievable.