Media Thread 2020/21

[Chak19]

Did Liverpool not get a 7 day break between 19th and 27th?

Wasn't there some stat about having the largest average number of days rest between games (all competitions) over Christmas for Liverpool and City the shortest?

Klopp's gone full Trump on us and the whole sports media have become his OAN.

And they had a 9 day break between 8th when they faced Villa's schoolboys and 17th when they faced the rags. add to that the break that you mentioned and that's over two weeks in total, so who had the two week break bingo you lying **** ?

 

[cookster]

Bein sports Andy gray using the Christmas 8 day break narrative as a positive for city without any mention of number players out with covid. It’s therefore worked

Even though it was 7 days and LFC had a longer break between I think Palace and Villa.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Gabriel Jesus: 'I feel I am playing well, but I need to improve my finishing'

The Manchester City striker on his early memories of football in Brazil, his greatest moment as a player and the title race

amp.theguardian.com

all the stick I get and even the bloke himself admits it...

 

[cookster]

Of all the cringeworthy lines James Pearce has had to put out over his career in order to satisfy his Liverpool propaganda quota, this might be one of the worst.

That's right, Jurgen Klopp went on a rant about how Lierpool aren't top because unlike City, they didn't have the luxury of a...2 day break.

This is the "corrected" quote.

"We need to play football, train and recover and use each minute to train. We haven't had a break, City had 2 days for covid reasons. It's a tough year. Some teams it looks less, but for us, it's tough."​

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It's even more stupid than the original.

James Pearce isn't capable of having a thought of his own.

 

[Chris in London]

It definitely got more vicious later on, when it was clear we were a threat. I think the human rights stuff started around 2016/17, around the time Pep came.

True, but it was pretty vicious from day 1.

Do you remember a headline in the mail early in 2009?

“18th in the league, humiliated in the cup, and they still think they can buy Kaka?”

 

[hertsblue]

It was worse as he said no one else got a game off - obviously Everton did but there were also Fulham and Newcastle games postponed (my memory may be incorrect here but we weren't the only team)

No idea why we even allow him in to be honest let alone take questions of this Rag mouthpiece

 

[BigOscar]

Of all the cringeworthy lines James Pearce has had to put out over his career in order to satisfy his Liverpool propaganda quota, this might be one of the worst.

That's right, Jurgen Klopp went on a rant about how Lierpool aren't top because unlike City, they didn't have the luxury of a...2 day break.

This is the "corrected" quote.

"We need to play football, train and recover and use each minute to train. We haven't had a break, City had 2 days for covid reasons. It's a tough year. Some teams it looks less, but for us, it's tough."​

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It's even more stupid than the original.

Honestly, this is the reason I'm not renewing my Athletic subscription. It was sold as a new dawn for football journalism, unbaised, intelligent discussion above the usual fanzine crap you get from the tabloids. That's what the coverage of baseball is like on there, it's generally excellent. But then instead for the football version they hired people like James Pearce, a fully paid up member of Liverpools PR department.

Such a shame as there was a real market for better football coverage, instead we got the same shite but with added arrogance

 

[leithblue]

Even though it was 7 days and LFC had a longer break between I think Palace and Villa.

Even then they were able to rest as many players as they wanted given it was Villa’s youth team they were playing due to the first team quarantining

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

From past evidence our PR team are highly unlikely to issue such a statement PB.

From your knowledge of the club why do you think we are so passive in letting lies like this go publicly unchallenged ? Surely they can see the damage that is done to the club from such events together with the constant drip of shit from the rag/dipper loving media whores.

It would be one thing if the positive things which the club have achieved were to pass under the radar with little or no comment, but to allow lies and incorrect information go unchallenged is just so wrong for everybody associated with the club.

I understand the overall PR strategy, as frustrating as it can appear sometimes, which is to keep a low profile and not get dragged into slanging matches. It's been pointed out that if you rush out statements to deny or counter something, then fail to do that for something else, the media will take that as a passive admission of guilt ("City refuse to deny..."). I also suspect that our owner is sensitive to potential criticism of the UAE's pretty compliant media, if we started throwing our weight around.

But something like this, which is blatantly false and where Klopp is simply being provocative, should get a factual response. It doesn't have to be aggressive, just to point out that we've actually played 2 games more than them, that they had 8 days gap between the game on the 19th and their 'Boxing Day' game on the 27th, plus another 9 days between their FA Cup game (when they faced an U-18 Villa team) and their game against United. Then the media can't ignore it and it turns the focus back on Klopp, making him look like the dishonest, whining cretin he is.

 

[jrb]

Getting lots of flack on the comments. And from the Svousers. Obviously there will aleays be brainwashed, cult, Scousers.


Pearce.

Klopp doesn’t do mind games. It was a slip of the tongue rather than a deliberate attempt to rile Guardiola. But the reaction was another reminder of the simmering tensions when Liverpool and Man City meet.

 

[Chak19]

It was worse as he said no one else got a game off - obviously Everton did but there were also Fulham and Newcastle games postponed (my memory may be incorrect here but we weren't the only team)

Villa had a 20 day "break", didn't stop them from losing to West Ham and Burnley

 

[old blue]

It’s no wonder Pep is irritated. The media purport to be knowledgable about football but the level of the questioning is so poor and repetitive. How many times does he have to say one game at a ime before it sinks in that Liverpool is just another game to a professional like Pep, and as he says the same number of points are at stake. On a side note the sly sports prediction (can’t remember wich journalist) predicred that both the Blades and Burnley would restrict us to a draw,
Rather than genuinely try to predict, they are like schoolchildren who hope for a certain result without any credible reasoning.
Yes it’s nice to have positive articles written about City but who actually cares really? What matters is what happens on the pitch and I’ve said before I would rather they dislike City and betray their obvious ignorance and bias rather than fawn over everything we do (as per Utd. And L’pool) which not only. alienates the rest of football fans but even Utd fans, if my experience of them is a anything to go by are embarrassed at some of the shite written about them
Lets keep showing them how it’s done on the pitch, not the back pages of increasingly irrelevant “newspapers”

Nice opinion mate, your input should be far more prolific.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

There’s also the narrative about Liverpool being unlucky with their injuries compared to us. Have they also got their best player out for weeks? Have they had their top scorer out for months? Ok they’ve got their best defender out but we’ve hardly had an injury free season. Quite the opposite.

How many players have LFC lost to Covid. We must have had seven or eight by now including Sergio, Jesus, Walker, Mahrez, Gundogan, etc etc. We have also played more games than anyone, especially over the Christmas period. Our quarter-final at Arsenal and semi-final at Old Trafford have been airbrushed out of history. Klopp has made a fool of himself again.
Liverpool FC must be one of the moist poisonous clubs in world football given their hacking, leaking of stories, and relentless smear campaign against us in the media. That doesn't even include their fanbase.
Why can't they just shut up, behave with a bit of dignity, and do their talking on the pitch?

 

[old blue]

One in the eye to the media this thread.

If that is a reference to 1066? If so very subtle, well done!

 

[give it to gordon]

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Getting lots of flack on the comments. And from the Svousers. Obviously there will aleays be brainwashed, cult, Scousers.


Pearce.

Klopp doesn’t do mind games. It was a slip of the tongue rather than a deliberate attempt to rile Guardiola. But the reaction was another reminder of the simmering tensions when Liverpool and Man City meet.

Slip of the tongue lolol a slip not another slip lolol. Gerrard likes this !!!

Seriously if this Peace ( never heard of him ) thinks his readers believe that it just reinforces my belief not to buy papers or sky or BT etc.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

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Getting lots of flack on the comments. And from the Svousers. Obviously there will aleays be brainwashed, cult, Scousers.


Pearce.

Klopp doesn’t do mind games. It was a slip of the tongue rather than a deliberate attempt to rile Guardiola. But the reaction was another reminder of the simmering tensions when Liverpool and Man City meet.

I have now had a chance to watch the comments from Klopp online. Pearce must be a total moron if he thinks it was a slip of the tongue. It was very deliberate and unfortunately Pep took the bait by hitting back too quickly in public. The response from City should just have been an official one which corrected the false statement from Klopp in a routine sort of way.
However I think this little spat will galvanise Pep and motivate our players. Remember that many of our players have suffered from Covid and have fought hard to get their fitness back and Pep's mother was killed by the virus.

 

[TheCentralScrutinizer]

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Getting lots of flack on the comments. And from the Svousers. Obviously there will aleays be brainwashed, cult, Scousers.


Pearce.

Klopp doesn’t do mind games. It was a slip of the tongue rather than a deliberate attempt to rile Guardiola. But the reaction was another reminder of the simmering tensions when Liverpool and Man City meet.

One of the comments on there is a classic..."how do you know it was a slip of the tongue.....are you in his head as well as his arse"?

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

I have now had a chance to watch the comments from Klopp online. Pearce must be a total moron if he thinks it was a slip of the tongue. It was very deliberate and unfortunately Pep took the bait by hitting back too quickly in public. The response from City should just have been an official one which corrected the false statement from Klopp in a routine sort of way.
However I think this little spat will galvanise Pep and motivate our players. Remember that many of our players have suffered from Covid and have fought hard to get their fitness back and Pep's mother was killed by the virus.

I disagree, Pep hit back just at the right time as the media had already started to report Klopp‘s quote and, as usual, without any challenge which meant those gullible enough would have took it as fact.

Pep is the face of City and by highlighting it the media had no choice but to then right the wronged narrative.

 

[danielwood5]

Not the kind of thing I'd wank over but whatever floats your boat.

Lockdown affects us all differently.

 

[eversince 76]

It shows how bias the media is. Klopp’s comment is false and it would simply need an article with a fixturelist to show that. Did the media bother? It probably doesn’t sell papers.