Liverpool Thread - 2022/23

[bluealf]

I have never heard of him.

In all fairness, he has played 72 times for Barcelona and 63 for Juventus, he isn't an unknown player.

He may be a not very good injury prone one but a lot of people will have heard of him, for my own sins I signed him in FM once lol

 

[JamesMCFC]

We'll smash Liverpool next week anyway as long as the H-1000 model is playing

 

[mexico1970]

Who is the this Arther Melo never heard of him! At least they get the insurance on his wages

Never mind bloody foreign football, he was a bit part player at best for those teams ;)

42 games and 48 games wiki says he's played, he's 26 years old and has played what looks like 2 seasons.

The suggestion here is that Liverpool will miss him even though he hasn't played a single game for them yet. Next they will be saying that they are shit because Mane isn't playing.

 

[Nascent Blues]

In all fairness, he has played 72 times for Barcelona and 63 for Juventus, he isn't an unknown player.

He may be a not very good injury prone one but a lot of people will have heard of him, for my own sins I signed him in FM once lol

He sounds like a 'very good injury prone one' to me.

 

[Shaggy]

has anyone, at anytime, ever read such a pile of shit as this !!???

I think the difference going back to the 60s then coming forwards is that we organically and spontaneously invented that culture and made it our own. It was real, and born out of something real. We don't really need anyone to show us the way. The pyro has added a modern, colourful twist to it. One I really enjoy too. If George plays Dua Lipa it's because her song was adopted into LFC fan culture after a European cup Final we played in. Again, a natural absorption of something new into our cultural heritage and not something forced and contrived.

I understand it with Abu Dhabi. They are an artificial entity without identity. They have to contrive something because, if they don't, they have nothing. There is no sense of occasion in anything they do, so they have to force it. It's all a bit sad and contrived, like WWE. A horrible, contrived, choreographed charade.

We set the pace all those decades ago, and others are still trying to copy. The whole 'Ultra' thing is just trying to recreate the Spion Kop of the 60s, 70s and possibly 80s with a modern twist, yet all of it is contrived and overthought, unlike the Spion Kop, which was in-the-moment, of its time, unique and absolutely authentic. I feel utterly privileged to have been a young lad on the Spion Kop from the early 70s onwards.

Lights and pre-game songs over the tannoy don't put the shits up the opposition, yet even the current Kop can do, despite being a castrated and sanitised version of its former self. We still have something real, in a world full of plastic. I think we should cherish it and not go down the route of the likes of Abu Dhabi. They are trying to create a sense of occasion that we do without even trying. Of course, we'll continue to evolve our cult

at least the Candle Lighting miscreant admits they are a cult.

 

[117 M34]

Just looked at odds for next week and we are favourites to win.

I don't often look at match odds but would be surprised if we were favourites away at anfield many times since pep came.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Dips really can't afford to lose this especially with us up next.

I expect a fiesty game, ideally with a red card for one of their best in the world players....any one of the 11 will do.

Nunez ideally. Just for the laughs.

 

[chesterbells]

But as football fans, surely what's best for us, is some kind of excitement throughout the season?

For any given match, I want City to win, and for Liverpool, United, Arsenal, Chelsea to lose - but when I step back, I know that to enjoy the season, City need to lose games, and our rivals need to win. I'm happy for Arsenal to be winning at the moment, and would like two of three teams in the mix come March, at which point City thrash them in dramatic fashion and we can all relax for a few weeks :)

There’s the difference between us maybe, you’re a football fan, who can “step back”.
I’m not a “football fan” at all. I never watch games that don’t involve us - not gonna waste my time. I’m only a City supporter, not a general football fan. I honestly don’t care about the bigger picture of an exciting title race etc.
As such, that’s probably why our views diverge.

 

[mexico1970]

There’s the difference between us maybe, you’re a football fan, who can “step back”.
I’m not a “football fan” at all. I never watch games that don’t involve us - not gonna waste my time. I’m only a City supporter, not a general football fan. I honestly don’t care about the bigger picture of an exciting title race etc.
As such, that’s probably why our views diverge.

Yup, it hasn't got to be some Disney plot where everything comes good at the end, it's just as enjoyable playing a season where all that's left is carnage, whinging, shinfing and screams of cheating oil bastards.

 

[bluealf]

Next they will be saying that they are shit because Mane isn't playing.

That is true though lol