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28 Sep 2023 04:53:02
Anybody else getting the feeling that something special could happen this season?

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09 May 2022 09:32:43
So Madrid have already won their league and a lot of people are giving them a huge advantage against us as they have a lot of down time between now and the final.

Is this really an advantage though?

They're all on the beach already, why wouldn't they be if they've tied up their league?

But consider our form any time we've had any sort of break during the season. We always look sluggish and blunt after an international break or when players have been given time to rest.

So I guess it's a case of would you rather be playing full throttle every week and staying sharp or would you rather have the rest?

I'm actually thinking this could work in our favour.

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12 Jul 2018 09:51:09
Just got to say I’m loving that third strip! Was going to go and buy the little lad his first strip tomorrow, night not be having the red one now.

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13 Jan 2016 07:57:15
Everyone keeps slagging caulker because he was in a qpr team that got relegated and we battered Southampton 6-1.
What the **** does that matter? Put any one defender in those teams and would they have had any different outcome?
We also demolished city 4-1 would you be slagging any of their defenders if we signed them?

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04 Feb 2024 14:00:55
Anyone heard why szoboslai hasn't travelled?

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07 Jan 2023 16:51:37
Thiagos legs have gone? His game has never been about running. Are you suggesting that his legs have gone to the point that you can't pass the ball?

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02 Jan 2023 19:29:37
OK, I think we shouldn't even bother going for Bellingham.

There are so many problems in this side I think the money would be better off spread around the side as Bellingham wouldn't solve the problems.

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05 Feb 2017 01:02:17
Terrible terrible start to the year, who would believe we were chasing top spot in december?

Have we been found out? Yes a believe so, but it goes back far beyond klopps system.

In my opinion we have struggled for years against any side that sets up to defend and hit us on the counter. When we hit that wall of defenders we do nothing, we play pointless balls around the outside of the area with no penetration. The only seasons we have had any real sustained success during a season against teams like this are when we have had a truly exceptional and deadly striker in the side who can unlock those tight spaces or who can score from almost anywhere with a little bit of space.
Looking back over the past years we can only really name suarez and torres in that bracket. Yeah we had owen and fowler and before them rush and dalglish but the game has changed since then.
With torres and suarez they could pull us out of the brown stuff and did it very often, but teams where catious and it showed. Trouble is we filled the rest of the team with too many average players, aside from when we had alonso, masch etc. but the facts are we can not build a team to match the intentions of these top class players. What this means is that if we don't have success within a relatively short time they will look to leave. So either we build a team full of average-good players and get them to over perform like we are now, the trouble with that is its hard to sustain it and we've gassed out.

Second option is to buy world class players in one go spending huge ammounts and outclass any teams we come up against. We don't have the financial muscle to do that so that's out. what's most frustrating about this scenario is that when other top clubs spend 35-40 million more often than not they get a very good player, we get a very mixed bag and a lot of duds. Yes of course we can say but we got coutinho for 8.5 mill and united spent 90 mill on pogba who isn't ripping up trees just yet but the majority of the time we seem to get the crappy end of the stick.

So we have option 3, we develop out youth and mix it with some decent players. Very few players will ever reach the top of world football. Hoping to produce a crop of youngsters than can compete with the super rich clubs is a dream and nothing more. We have some decent young lads but that's it.

Then we move onto managers, we have had some dross at the club and i was genuinly surprised when we mamaged to pull klopp out of the bag. But has he been found out? We have one plan and that's it. Our previous 5 (maybe even more) managers have all failed to address our problems with defended set peices. I can't remember the last time we had a defence where i didn't start panicking when we concede a corner. Attacking corners is also a problem, we must have one of the lowest conversion rates from corners in the prem, in fact when we come up against tight defences and we play cross after cross it hardly ever ammounts to anything but yet we persist with the same tactic.

I hope klopp turns it around i genuinly do but i don't feel we have the players to mount any serious title challenge. We can point to leicster and say that proves me wrong but how often does that happen in world football? Not just england think about europe, how often does a minnow win the title?
The striker situation needs addressing, 20+ goals a season from a seriously good striker is what we need. Firmino isn't clinical or pacey enough to be our main striker, sturridge has had his day.
Defence needs sorting and has done for years any team that gets chance to put pressure on us a few times per game will score without question and our keepers aren't solid enough to prevent that.

Also coutinho is off and i think we all know that, another case of not being able to match the ambition of really good players. If he leaves we need to replace him too.

Its so frustrating being a liverpool fan because we can see the talent that we have, but we are always 1 or w peices away from the finished jigsaw. Other teams laugh at us because we hope and pray and we have good runs and get our hopes up only to do stupid things and mess up again and again.

Come on klopp mate sort this out.

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15 Oct 2016 22:02:36
Had there been any news on lallana? Is he going to win the fitness race for Monday night?

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