'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

lol wow

lmao that works sometimes

eh, keeper should have had that

prob a foul ten seconds before

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alas

why are they trying to waste time srsly

holy shit @ that 30-second barrage in added time

result not as net negative as it might have been, attempts stats as irrelevant as possession ones always are (aka SV otm)

On target doesn't tell how many were harmless trundles or straight at the keeper.

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― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Thursday, January 4, 2018 9:39 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(I'm delighted you even got the underscore right Tom <3 )

how actually good is lingard

is he shit good, good shit, quite good, very good or just another 'talented english player'

― imago, Monday, January 1, 2018 7:09 PM (four days ago) Bookmark

still don't know the answer to this btw

He's a talented English player who's having a real moment.

I still don't think he does enough to influence games in an overall sense from #10 or the wing (although he is much better playing centrally) but he seems incapable of scoring anything but screamers

Def agree that wing is a bad place for him. I also would easily take a hundred better #10's over him. But yeah, the kid keeps scoring goals ffs

Mkhitaryan hauled off at half time again though

dead man walking

Yeah he's done. He'll enter the no man's land Blind suddenly finds himself in, too.

Heard Dortmund would be open for Mkhitaryan to return. I hope so for the guy.

don't the Dortmund fans hate him?

A lot of them do, but this is football: they'll welcome him back in loving arms in no time probably. He seems sensitive a lad who needs a warm nest, so I hope he finds it somewhere. Too delicate for Mou's bulldozering for sure.

Also, for the record - and the finish wasn't all that - but props to Lukaku on that second goal. He was standing still, on his own half, and then set up the attack in a blinding pace. Beautiful.

yeah, really nice counter. Seems to have a much better understanding with Martial than he does with Rashford (who seems to be in a bit of a young Ronaldo phase at the moment in that he's forgotten his teammates exist. Exuberance of youth and all that, but he shouldn't be a starter at the moment)

Yeah, agree. And this is Mou-ball, so Rashford is in danger of becoming the new non-scoring, fifth-wheel-on-the-attack-wagon taht Lingard used to be until very recently. I'd play Martial sooner right now too because he connects the dots more than Rashford's individual class matters.

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Dat headline <3

Coutinho off for £142m according to the Liverpool Echo.

As much as I've loved the wee shite and it's crazy money and the magical lure of Barcelona and all that why this transfer of a cup-tied player to a team who've already won the league couldn't wait til the summer leaves a bitter taste

Would take mahrez in a heartbeat btw

XP agreed

With keita coming etc it just seems a pointless aggravation

Otm. He'll miss out on cl football and could've left this summer w/ heads up high

As much as I've loved the wee shite and it's crazy money and the magical lure of Barcelona and all that why this transfer of a cup-tied player to a team who've already won the league couldn't wait til the summer leaves a bitter taste

― i know kore-eda (or something), Saturday, January 6, 2018 12:00 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

also re mahrez

lol, some of the fucking numpts on 606 talking about potential Mark Hughes replacements who could "do a job", all beginning with R: Redknapp, Rogers and Rowett.

But not Ryan?

Gyan Riggs? The Man Utd legend was allegedly waiting for a truly massive vacancy to open up, one that befits his talents, something like Kitman's Assistant at Ossett Albion.

Interviewing for the Wales job...

agree about coutinho. he should have stayed until summer, but also prob the club should have told him to f off. maybe klopp didn't want the hassle. if they are gonna sell him it's good they just did it early in the window. i do worry the team will lose something without him and the early narrative seems to be we'll hope lallana and ox can do a job in his place :/

on stoke, would be funny if somebody at lasts gives it giggseh rest of season

Nothing could make laugh harder

As fantastic as Salah has been, Liverpool don't have another player capable of orchestrating attacking play in the way that Coutinho does, the jump in their performances since he came back from injury has been massive. Might be better off just throwing money at a proper playmaker or #10 in the transfer window.

That said, they've got enough attacking threat elsewhere and that + VVD should probably see them okay until they can reinforce in the summer. There's going to be a big hole in central midfield without Emre Can as well.

Keita coming in will help with the hole-in-the-midfield thing. i agree tho, a number 10 and a proper quality holding midfielder would be high on my list of priorities if I was FMing this Liverpool team

assuming goalie goes without saying here

oh yeah that too.

Peter Beardsley: Racism & bullying accusations against Newcastle U23s coach

Still such a punchable face after all these years

Looks like the midwife beat you to it

that's solidly in orange card territory

can is not partic great imo. keita is more a replacement for coutinho than can i'd say, based on what i've read/youtube. he's more attacking.

dunno if the rise in form is solely due to coutinho - he's been great but the team generally has been improving.

i think robertson is really good btw - barely mentioned but he looks fantastic to me.

Can can do one imo, no great loss. Robertson has been superb, surely made the position his own now. Great cross on him and can actually defend, genuine upgrade on moreno

yeah he looks a total bargain at 8m

Loved how Everton clearly targeted him the other night and apart from an early couple of scares he kept bolasie in his pocket for the rest of the game

yeah and he was well up for the fight too - that team could do with more of that, vvd looks like that kind of competitor too. i do think a proper bastard central midfielder would be good, albeit one who can play a bit.

i know that's prob retrograde thinking but they are obv a bit mentally weak when the pressure comes on.

For sure

Yeah it's less that Can is irreplaceable or anything and more that you just don't have another player like that. A proper powerhouse central midfielder who can pass and turn defence into attack would do so much for Liverpool right now, but you've looked thin there for several years, especially given the game Klopp wants to play.

i think to an extent keita will be that but he's not like a defensive midfielder. box to box, people say. the clips i've seen he looks like a guy who travels with the ball well.

Yeah I think you need both and there's maybe a bargain to be had in someone who could play alongside Keita and protect the back four. Would probably turn you into genuine title contenders, or would in normal times at least.