Media Thread 2020/21

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domalino said:


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.
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I seem to remember us playing on a Saturday then Tuesday while they played Saturday/Thursday at one point. Does that not count as a 2 dy break also?
 
west didsblue said:
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.
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Funny how no one in the media mentioned our injuries last season as an excuse
 
LongsightM13 said:
Jack Gaughan managed to write an entire article in the Mail on this “war of words” without apparently seeing fit to state the correct facts and demonstrate that Klopp was at best mistaken or at worst a bitter, bare faced liar
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I was corrected last week when l thought he was a twat over the reporting of the WBA match. He was a twat then and still is a twat.
 
spiny said:
Only after 19 games have all teams played each other once. That is the first milestone to negate any arguments about easy fixtures.

The League is decided after 38 games including home and away fixtures with all teams. The start and finish is the same for all clubs making a mockery of Klopps statement as all teams play within the same time frame. Desperate or what?
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Except we started later than everyone and thus our 38 games will be played with a lower average amount of time between them.
 
LongsightM13 said:
Jack Gaughan managed to write an entire article in the Mail on this “war of words” without apparently seeing fit to state the correct facts and demonstrate that Klopp was at best mistaken or at worst a bitter, bare faced liar
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You'll may have to subscribe for the paid version to see a more balanced report and......I'll bet it'll still not be there.
 
JRockBlues said:
I seem to remember us playing on a Saturday then Tuesday while they played Saturday/Thursday at one point. Does that not count as a 2 dy break also?
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The whole thing is laughably wrong.

Easiest/Hardest Christmas schedules (Not including our postponed game which changes us from 2 to 2.6)

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Number of 5+ day breaks between games this season :

Liverpool 4
Manchester City 1

(By the end of February this will be 6 vs. 1 as we make up our Everton game and play cup games)

Days per game this season :

Liverpool 4.8
Manchester City 4.1

Days between last game of 19/20 and first game of 20/21

Liverpool - 34
Manchester City internationals - 19
Manchester City non-internationals - 33

Why the distinction between our internationals and non-internationals?

Well that's because while Liverpool got a full 7 weeks between their last game of 19/20 and their first league game of 20/21. That allowed them to have a full month of preseason with 3 friendlies and a trip to Austria before their first league game.

Manchester City got 5 weeks between seasons...except the last 2 of those weeks were taken up with the September international break. So 90% of our squad were playing less than 3 weeks after the loss to Lyon and not only did we not have any preseason friendlies, our first league game was 2 days after the first full squad training session of the season.

This is why Pep was so ready to talk about it, and why he said "They have forgotten. We have not forgotten". We had a shit schedule and he and his staff will have lost a lot of sleep trying to plan their way through it.

The fact we managed to get through those first few months of the season without ending our chances of silverware, with no preparation at all compared to the teams we faced, with 8 players out injured or with covid at the beginning of the season...it's absolutely incredible.

I don't know why this has irked me as much as it has, but Klopp's lie, and the James Pearce propaganda about "he only meant 2 days!!!" really annoyed me more than their usual bullshit.
 
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franksinatra said:
Which article was this?

I read an article by Jack Gaughan and it included a fixture list of matches, as was requested by @eversince 76, and highlighted we only had 7 days off.
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Added in by the production journalists so like headlines and pictures, nothing to do with him. But nowhere in his text. And nowhere dies he point out or address the fact that Klopp was factually wrong
 
domalino said:
The whole thing is laughably wrong.

Easiest/Hardest Christmas schedules (Not including our postponed game which changes us from 2 to 2.6)

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Number of 5+ day breaks between games this season :

Liverpool 4
Manchester City 1

(By the end of February this will be 6 vs. 1 as we make up our Everton game and play cup games)

Days per game this season :

Liverpool 4.8
Manchester City 4.1

Days between last game of 19/20 and first game of 20/21

Liverpool - 34
Manchester City internationals - 19
Manchester City non-internationals - 33

Why the distinction between our internationals and non-internationals?

Well that's because while Liverpool got a full 7 weeks between their last game of 19/20 and their first league game of 20/21. That allowed them to have a full month of preseason with 3 friendlies and a trip to Austria before their first league game.

Manchester City got 5 weeks between seasons...except the last 2 of those weeks were taken up with the September international break. So 90% of our squad were playing less than 3 weeks after the loss to Lyon and not only did we not have any preseason friendlies, our first league game was 2 days after the first full squad training session of the season.

This is why Pep was so ready to talk about it, and why he said "They have forgotten. We have not forgotten". We had a shit schedule and he and his staff will have lost a lot of sleep trying to plan their way through it.

The fact we managed to get through those first few months of the season without ending our chances of silverware, with no preparation at all compared to the teams we faced, with 8 players out injured or with covid at the beginning of the season...it's absolutely incredible.

I don't know why this has irked me as much as it has, but Klopp's lie, and the James Pearce propaganda about "he only meant 2 days!!!" really annoyed me more than their usual bullshit.
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Excellent post. I applaud you!
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
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.
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we need to have unofficial voices on the payroll, that’s what the red lot do.
 
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