Street Preacher

Souness must have been talking shite or maybe got mixed up. Must be an element of truth to it as turning down a player like that is not something to be proud of.

Souness said that Ron Yates told him there was a young Danish goalkeeper who was a red and was willing to pay for their own travel to come over on trial. He didn't go for it as we had recently signed James and Brucie still hadn't left. He also said that he turned down Cantona.

He's the hardest to replace I'd say. Still a great keeper and years left at the top. Only negative is that he misses a chunk of each season through injury which means we need a very reliable backup.

I think the fact that he hasn't made more of those things in one of the reasons he is successful. He always trys to be positive, even when everything is going to shit. Two clubs, one fairly(Real Madrid) and one unfairly(Man City)have stopped it from being possibly our greatest era. Unlike rival fans we can obviously see things in that context and that's how we know he has done such a good job.

Personally think it's an underwhelming signing. Obviously he has his plus points(attacking football, won stuff etc)but it just doesn't seem to be the type of manager a club of our size goes for. I guess it's mostly the fact he's come from the Dutch League and he doesn't have a big profile.

Most of our players have had the odd month off injured though. Only a few have played most of the games. Who knows why this is happening right now, probably a mix of a few things. Klopp leaving, some players not being as good as we thought they were, injuries disrupting our flow etc. Let's hope they can somehow pull themselves together and start performing. It's now or never.

Best result for us i think.

Exacrly.It's a rare thing for the Liverpool job to come up and would be rarer still that he would either be out of a job or ready to leave his job at the same time as us needing a new manager.

Thiago Motta. Gut feeling.

On the surface, it seems like a sensible career decision by Xabi but I think it's actually a bad decision. We are a big club where he is loved and where he would be afford time, that's a rare thing in football. He may have his eye on the Real job in a couple of years, but a few bad months there and your out on your arse.

As soon as he mentioned it being his dream was to have managed Liverpool, the fans were always going to make it happen along with the club. The wonderful side of football. Obviously that even though he never got to manage us that Liverpool is still his club.

International football has lost it's mystique. Most of the best players play in England now so it doesn't have that effect it once did. Part of me would like to do away with it completely but at the very least there shouldn't be such a thing as international friendlies.

Haha

Although it's not certain, maybe he will have less sway at Liverpool than he did at Bournemouth. Also we've got such a good backroom team of transfer that he'd have to be total shit to mess things up. As someone previously said, from what has been written about him, he's more of a negotiator. Fingers crossed.

Regardless what happens with the rest of the season, coming out of it with likes of Quansah, Bradley, Danns etc is a hell of a result. Just Quansah and Bradley has saved us how much? Very exciting.