Liverpool banter 3

06 May 2024 12:33:40
I'm sure most of you are aware of the football streamer mark goldbridge

He did a video recently calling out man city and how they're ruining English football etc well it turns out he's been sent a cease and desist order by the club basically telling him if he does it again they will be suing him for slander

1. Who do they think they are?

2. If city are threatening to sue a man who makes YouTube videos it makes you think who else have they been intimidating? Cease and desist orders to pgmol? Pundits?

Cancer of a club and they are destroying the English game.

06 May 2024 07:35:14
Much better yesterday. 3 key things for me that changed our fortunes.

1) Trent back playing as an actual right back and holding the width.

2) Going back to the midfield that saw us playing our best football this season (Endo, Macca and Elliott) . If only we'd done it sooner instead of persisting with Jones and Szoboszlai who've just looked miles off it since coming back from injury.

3) Gakpo and Diaz interchanging throughout the game, so Gakpo was on the ball more in his preferred wider role and as a result looked arguably the best player on the pitch (along with Elliott) .

Went a bit to pot after the substitutions disrupted our flow but we'd already done the damage so it ultimately didn't matter. It's almost certainly too little too late this season (barring a quite spectacular implosion from both Arsenal and City) but hopefully we can end on something of a high by carrying this performance into the final 2 games.

06 May 2024 01:42:38
Beggars belief that now the title has seemingly gone we've reverted back to playing Trent as a more traditional fullback.

It worked very well today, attacking wise it meant Salah could get in the game. More width too from Trent and meant there was always a switch on to the opposite wing (or fullback) .

After the subs we lost our way a bit. But a lot of it came from inverting Trent leaving the right flank horribly exposed. That being said both goals conceded was horrible play and very poor defending but the switch of personnel and tactics allowed Spurs a way back into the game. Not too concerned, this Spurs team have shown they can fight - they did against Arsenal.

Game management is something this team needs to get better at. I thought the midfield also had a tough time, as good as Endo has been for me, I feel we do need a world class CDM in there to compliment the talents of Mac Allister and his midfield partner (whether that be Grav, Szob or Elliot) .

Anyway, good result and an enjoyable watch. Hopefully we can win our remaining fixtures and finish on a strong points tally of 84 and give Klopp a great send off!

05 May 2024 09:53:16
If anybody would like to view one of the worst ref decisions of all time check out the red card given to Georges Mikautazde for Metz in their defeat by Rennes.

Some minor fronting up, they gently brush chests, oppo strike takes a tumble and the ref sends him off. VAR sends ref to have a look but Monsieur Ruddy Buquet decides to make it all about himself and sticks with his decision!

It's not a bad decision, it's a Ruddy awful one (I'll get my coat).

You can't help look at something like that and think what has happened to football.

05 May 2024 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - BlueNose1878! has posted a new article entitled, Sean Dyche is doing his job at Everton

04 May 2024 07:39:02
{Ed's Note - Seano_ has posted a new article entitled, What Liverpool FC Should Do

03 May 2024 20:07:02
Liverpool have champions league football next season, that’s a step forward on the last one. Hopefully will help attract some players as well.

03 May 2024 10:02:10
I've just seen a post on twitter claiming Andy Cole was only caught offside 24 times during his whole career?

That's an insane record if true and what a player, would of loved us to get him before the mancs.

02 May 2024 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - Dillinger has posted a new article entitled, POTENTIAL EPL SIGNINGS FOR LEEDS UNITED

01 May 2024 06:54:50
If Klopp turns out to be a modern era shanks in terms of the way he turned the club around then we can only hope that Arne is the next Bob.

But how likely is that?

Well let's look at where we are. If we win our last three games that will leave us on 84 points (and I get that looks unlikely right now but go with me) . Unbelievably despite how dire this season appears to be ending that would be Klopp's fourth highest points total in his 9 year tenure.

Statistically 84 points would also be a very good performance historically. In the last 28 seasons (38 game seasons) 84 points would have won the league in 7 seasons. It would have seen you finish second in 21 of those years.

It would leave us 17 points better off than last year. City would only be 2 points better off and Arsenal 5 points better off.

Now I am as gutted as everybody else about how the season has panned out but I do believe when you look at it objectively Arne is picking the team up in quite a good place. Yes there are issues but compare it to the state of the club when Klopp took over. In Rodger's last full season we were 25 points behind the winner. In Klopps season we were 21 points behind. If we finish on 84 we would at most be 7 behind.

And we can all think of a list as long as our arm about things that could have gone better this year.

So given where we are, how close we are and how much room for improvement there is (both defensively and offensively) I think we have reason to be cautiously optimistic that Arne could take us to the next step.