See Liverpool are playing and full strength starting eleven. Definitely isn’t peds or anything involved.
See Liverpool are playing and full strength starting eleven. Definitely isn’t peds or anything involved.
There's literally no need to rest players until about April, other than as squad management. 9 days until the next meaningful game, so this team picks itself.
Liverpool have also been very lucky with scheduling over the past few Christmases.
Pretty sure if playing football and training was my full time job I could play three matches a week.
Evidently not enough peds for Keita.
Must have given his to Mo.
Henderson is quality. I'd be tempted to sell De Gea in the summer if anyone is still willing to pay decent money for him.
Edit:
That hair is majestic.
The selling De Gea ship sailed with that new contract of his.
PSG might be stupid enough.
It always bother me that Mane's hairline starts about an inch further back that it looks like it should
Heaton and Wesley both out for the season. Jed Steer (number 2) still out 'til the end of Feb and McGinn until March/April.
At least Mings is back.
Yeah, you're fucked. Wanna borrow Andy Lonergan?
Actually, that 'keeper you played against the Liverpool youth team was half-decent.
They are looking at Butland apparently.
Comes like RobocopOriginally Posted by Raoul Duke
Nyland. He's alright, but third choice. Steer is second choice, but out until end of Feb.
Don't think we'll sign a keeper as we even have Kalinic who's fourth choice (and a twat).
Being a fourth choice keeper
On that note, do we still have Rob Eliot? Wikipedia says we do but I won't believe that until he gets a run-out against Rochdale.
"I don't know Robin and Robin doesn't know me," Solskjaer said on Friday.
"He probably doesn't have a right to criticise my management style and I won't change."
"Yeah Robin, he took my [shirt] number 20 and that's probably all he's going to take from me as well," Solskjaer said.
Meow.
The last swipe doesn't even make sense. Properly rattled.
It reads better than it actually looked on video. He’s big time rattled.
Just watched it. He's on the brink.
"Yeah, well ... how many Manchester Uniteds have you managed!?"
If Joelinton scores, we riot.
The 'I don't live in the medieval times' parting shot as he walks away is bizarre.
Charlie Nicholas probably thinks Solksjaer has absolutely nailed van Persie with that epic verbal beatdown.
Sounds like he is really salty about that shirt number.
Explains why Diogo Dalot can't get a look in.
Ole gunner solsjkSOUR am I rite
That equaliser felt so inevitable. We should've had the game won but Joelinton is shot.
Idah you little dancer
I think he was trying to make a point about it not being the bad old days and he doesn't have to be an angry shouty man to be a good manager.
Tom Pope scoring is amazing after his tweet the other month.
Utd game was fucking atrocious.
Are Man Utd in a worse state then Arsenal?
I'm glad I tuned in for that.
Yes
Arsenal are just having the same bounce United had this time last year so all of the HOT TAKES from the other night are wank.
Arsenal are in a far worse position than United, although that's not to say United's position is in any way enviable. Arteta's as big a binman as Solskjaer, probably bigger really.
They are both in the same position of being owned by asset-stripping Americans. Liverpool lucked out on that one.
You have to have an asset before you strip it, so we're in phase 1. No idea what Kroenke's game is.
I think our Americans basically lucked out with Klopp and the transfer market.
Aren't Arsenal on the brink of breaching FFP? They're spending what they can. Their problem, so far as I can see, is that they have spent 11 kagillion quid on their attacking options and got everyone else from the local foodbank.
It leads to a setup which is unbelievably corporate (particularly at United). This may be financially lucrative but doesn't actually breed footballing success. To win on the pitch you need a bit of luck, a bit of money, but more importantly a couple of good leaders (be it manager, sporting director, chairman, star player) and clear chain of command. That is why Chelsea's Russian gangster model is much better able to re-invent the team every couple of years than United's pot noodle model. There must be so many competing interests within the hierarchies at United and Arsenal. Back in Fergie and Wenger's time you knew who made the decisions and that everything going on around the periphery of the side only existed to serve the team being good (admittedly this may have been less true in the post-Rock of Gibraltar Fergie final decade, but he was still the boss and everyone knew it).
Leicester under the Thais is actually another great example of doing it right. The Thais are in charge, they parade around with elephants and giant cans of beer and whatever else, and that's it. Their aim is for the team to do well and they try (mostly successfully, thus far) to put the right people in place to do it.
I don't really know how FSG work but I do get the feeling that if Klopp left tomorrow to become the fifth member of Kraftwerk, they probably wouldn't fuck it up and turn the club into a money-shitting mess.
Doubling his money while spending none is what he's doing.
The 2011 takeover bid by Stan Kroenke puts the club's market capitalisation value at £731m. As at 5 March 2018, a single share in Arsenal had a mid price of £30,000, which set the club's market capitalisation value at approximately £1.9 Billion.
All funded by loans based off his other assets [American Sports and Walmart]
It'll be almost impossible for him not to make a billion pounds selling the club without having spent a penny and prior to him taking the club private in 2017/18, Financial Results showed he was taking out 3 million quid a year + his salary/dividends.
It's disgusting how easy it is to make money when you're already rich.
It's been a combination.
Do you remember how shocking our transfers were with Ian Ayre? They(FSG) came into the business vastly under-prepared and not understanding the game at all and hired some guys they heard good things about. Dalglish got the sinking ship at least seaworthy after Uncle Roy tried to sink it. But he was clearly limited.
Rodgers came in and the money was spent, but not well. Lots of players bought for £10m+(which was a lot more meaningful to us back then) that flopped. Sakho, Allen, Clyne, Markovic, Balotelli, Moreno, Borini, even Firmino and Lallana under Rodgers didn't work.
Though around the same time Rodgers came in, they slowly started fixing things commercially and behind the scenes at the club. Not long after Klopp arrived we appointed Peter Moore and later Michael Edwards. Those 3 things combined turned it on and off the pitch, but it wasn't a quick fix.
We also had the advantage that really no matter how bad we got, 7th or 8th was the lowest we could fall due to financial disparity over those below. That's not so true now. Look at Arsenal just squeezing into the top half after half the games are played.
Has this Nottingham Forest penalty been turned down over his arm or was it his knee?
Everton full strength today while Liverpool have rested heavily.
That would stand to reason wouldn’t it? One is about to be league winners and is a year removed from winning the champions league and the other would celebrate for 6 months for any form of silverware. The Cup is hardly on Liverpool’s radar.
I'm quite happy to be fair. No one overly cares for the 2 domestic cups these days, but now we'll get to see what the likes of Minamino and Elliott/Jones can do against your average premier league team.
It's Everton at home in the cup. You'd have to be a Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool style figure to get away with putting out this sort of side.
I guess you've got to rest the back four, you lose any of them and it all going tits up is suddenly within the realms of possibility, and once you're doing that you might as well just sack the game off entirely. Chirivella over Oxlade-Chamberlain in midfield is clearly a shop window thing.
It’s the fa cup. It hasn’t been important to proper clubs in decades.
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