Liverpool (H) - Carabao Cup 4th Round - Thu 22nd Dec, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[HelloCity]

Seeing as most European leagues don’t start back until mid January and Pep is prioritising the CL I can see why.

Shame as this will be our grandsons(7) first City game.

He is?

 

[MadchesterCity]

I don’t see how it’s any different had the World Cup not been on. They’d have probably been playing more had it not been on!!

Agree, it’s a joke eh

 

[MadchesterCity]

Jack's in new York! Gonna need at least 10 days in the priory then ;-)

He should have thought to himself, this is my big chance to get a regular place at City. If he’s been rippin the arse out of it stateside then he can fuck off, he obviously doesn’t have the right mentality to be a City star

 

[Didsbury Dave]

'Realism' is there's never a poor bookie, us 5/6 & dips 11/4 90 mins or IF we wilt us 1/2 and them 6/4 to qualify.

For what it's worth I think we'll do them 3-1.

To be fair those odds will swing the other way if we announce a team half full of kids.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

To be fair those odds will swing the other way if we announce a team half full of kids.

Without doubt they'd change but a lot on here are in doom mode and think it's a given we're playing nearly the same 11 as yesterday, in which case it's a banker bet on the dips.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Without doubt they'd change but a lot on here are in doom mode and think it's a given we're playing nearly the same 11 as yesterday, in which case it's a banker bet on the dips.

I can’t work out why everyone is assuming that. I’ve asked the question a few times now and nobody is answering. The logical thing for me is to go full strength, or as close as we can.

 

[chesterbells]

Worth a read, or re-read

Liverpool's great history myth exposed as they prepare for Man City crunch

Manchester City are being portrayed on the red side of Merseyside as a false construct - but a new documentary shows Liverpool had the same sugae daddy moment

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Snippet:

The spending did not stop there — in the next four seasons they totted up £230,000 in purchases for players like Willie Stevenson, Peter Thompson, Phil Chisnall and Geoff Strong. Again, translated to modern-day fees, that is around £230million just to get out of the second division and become competitive in the first division.

Allied with Shankly’s excellence, it was a winning formula as they won promotion in 1961, took the league title in 1964, won their first FA Cup in 1965 — 51 years after “no history” City had won it — and went on, after a brief interlude when Manchester ruled the English football roost in the late 60s, to become the dominant force in the country.

Excellent & worthwhile post - thanks for putting this up. I’ve always thought for liverpool fc that “history” starts in about 1960 & anything before that in football didn’t exist.

 

[Blue Smarties]

He should have thought to himself, this is my big chance to get a regular place at City. If he’s been rippin the arse out of it stateside then he can fuck off, he obviously doesn’t have the right mentality to be a City star

Wouldn’t call it ripping the arse. Just enjoying an unusual Christmas break.

 

[Cricket Blue]

Wouldn’t call it ripping the arse. Just enjoying an unusual Christmas break.

Wouldn’t call it ripping the arse. Just enjoying an unusual Christmas break.

I agree with the other poster
Hes barely played for England
Why on earth is not back here chomping at the bit.
Ridiculous that pep has allowed this.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Last 16, bud, no?

Not all players are the same and require different needs after the tournament.

People like Kyle, Jack and Phillips need games, not more holidays and time off.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you have to avail yourself of the advantage.

No mate, group stage.

I know what you mean but think you’re just looking through your blue specs.

Every team will have agreed the amount of days you get having gone out at each stage, such is life.