Saturday Feb 10…
Harry Wilson gets his first goal for Hull. Ideal scenario is he scores a load for them and comes back to become part of the first team set up next season, but how many players have gone on loan and then come back to establish themselves? It generally seems like when we loan someone out that’s the beginning of the end for them. The ones who are going to make it (Trent & Gomez being the most recent ones) tend to not be sent out don’t they? I hope Wilson bucks that trend as I like him a lot.
The Turkish press (no idea what the fuck it’s got to do with them like) link us with Wilfred Ndidi from Leicester. He’s pretty good, I like him, and if he’s Can’s replacement then we could do worse. But £50m? Fuck off. Even if it were £30m (which would be reasonable enough) these numbers just don’t add up. Allowing Can to leave on a free is bad enough, but the bigger problem is the cost of replacing him and the unnecessary hit to the transfer budget.
Just find a way to get Big Sexy signed and then use the money we have on a boss goalie and another Salah / Mané to give us a genuine rotation option rather than having another year of this ‘praying nothing happens to either of them because we have no-one else’. Letting Can walk and spending £50m on replacing him is the exact opposite of the transfer policy the owners have tried to implement since they walked through the door.
Also today, Stevie’s lads are drawn against the Mancs in the kids version of the Champions League. That should be worth watching as the lads have been great so far in this tournament, but not having Brewster is a blow. Hopefully Klopp let’s Stevie select Woodburn as if he’d let him play against Arsenal the other week we might still be in the youth cup. Bet the mancs have an extra few thousand on their usual gate just so they can sing about Gerrard, the sad, obsessed bastards.
Sunday Feb 11…
Southampton 0 L 2 Yeah that’ll do. Great second half even though we didn’t add to the scoring from the first half. Van Dijk just breezed through his return to St Mary’s and was smirking every time the camera went on him as he was being booed.
It’s not a particularly big deal but it tells us a fair bit about his temperament I think. He’s not going to be arsed about his fee or what anyone says about him, and that’s obviously a good thing. He’s like the Fonz, only with a man bun.
Bit worrying that the Fab Four has turned into a Dynamic Duo virtually overnight though. Mané wasn’t shit but he still isn’t Mané, is he?
In other news today, Rafa was partying like it was 2005 as he stuck it to Jose. Great result for Newcastle and just as good for us. Hoping for a Chelsea win tomorrow night now just to tighten things up even more and put the Mancs on the brink of being knocked out of the top four altogether. I know I know, a Chelsea win isn’t good for us, but as long as we keep doing our thing it’ll be fine, and how funny would be if Mourinho & co dropped from 2nd to 5th in the space of a couple of weeks?
Their next game is Chelsea, so a win for Conte’s men tomorrow sets that one up nicely. I’m still hoping that Conte is going to offer him out and then when he says no, just keeps poking him in the chest to goad him.
Monday Feb 12…
Chelsea did win, comfortably, as poor old Sturridge lasted just three minutes before his hammy went ping. I’m not going to make light of it or try to say anything clever. It’s just sad, I feel bad about it. Loads of different fitness experts have worked with him to try and make him more durable but his body just isn’t up to the task.
As I say, it’s just sad. What makes it worse is that he’s a model pro and lives his life the right way, eating the right foods and not being a pisshead. Andy Carroll gets injured all the time but you just think “well what do you expect?” but Sturridge isn’t to blame for any of this, he just has a fragile body.
He’s done everything he can to strengthen his body but it hasn’t worked and I can see him retiring by the time he’s 30. Either that or he’ll end up at West Ham like every other washed up 30 something looking for one last payday.
Meanwhile, Lovren says when he makes a mistake he punishes himself by not speaking to anyone for a few days. Kinell, there are Buddhist monks living in the Himalayan mountains who’ve taken a vow of silence that must be better conversationalists than this poor bastard. Probably explains why his missus... no that’s low, even for me.
Tuesday Feb 13…
Clyne is back in training, so obviously he’s off the gear now and rehab must have worked well for him. Here’s a question. Has there ever been any Liverpool player out for any length of time with a back injury who hasn’t been subjected to claims that he wasn’t injured and is in fact a crackhead? Fowler, Agger and Clyne have all had this shit thrown at them. “Failed a drugs test…. suspended by the club…. can’t come back until the drugs are out of the system…” You can set you watch by it now.
Roma are trying to tie Alisson down to a new deal while Jack Butland is apparently stalling on signing an extension at Stoke. I’m telling you, we better not sign Butland or I’ll be seriously fucking pissed off. If we’re going to do that we might as well sign that big Fraser Forster goon as he’s of a similar bang average standard, only he’ll be cheaper. Plus there’s the bantz of buying from Southampton again.
Wednesday Feb 14…
Porto 0 L 5 Fucking hell, that was an incredible performance. Have we ever done this to a decent side in the knockout stages? The answer must be no, because City’s 4-0 win in Basel last night was apparently the biggest away win by an English side in the knock outs. They held that record for only 24 hours though! Boss tha’.
Remember when a 0-0 or even a 1-0 defeat was seen as a decent result away in Europe? It wasn’t that long ago, but now a result like that would be a real letdown as I expect these lads to score at least three in every away game they play (domestically and in Europe), and they usually do.
This team is unlike anything we’ve ever had before. I’m not saying they’re the best, I mean they’ve won fuck all yet, but they are definitely unique. We’ve never seen the likes of this before, not on this stage anyway. 28 goals in seven Champions League games. Incredible really.
This competition really suits Klopp’s style because every team in it is used to winning games and never has to play defensively in their own league (except the mancs), so they try to play that way against us too. Porto are a big club with a proud history in Europe. They’re not going to suddenly put everyone behind the ball and try to shithouse their way to a result. Not unless they bring Mourinho back anyway.
I don’t care who you are though, if you open up against us and try to play out from the back you’re getting fucking spanked. This is why I’ve been saying all season I want Barcelona as I reckon we’d take them to the fucking cleaners.
I’d back us to win the whole damn thing if it weren’t for the fact we have to win a one off final at a neutral venue. I’ll back us to get to the final, but I won’t be backing us to win it as we don’t have a good track record of late, and nor does Klopp.
Oh, one more thing, welcome back Sadio.
Thursday Feb 15…
Roma’s director of footy clearly isn’t happy about being fleeced over Salah. "In the end, with bonuses, we got €50 million for him, which is a figure I don't feel is the best for him right now," Monchi told Sky Sport Italia. "It's still double what their first offer was, and at the time we needed to sell and he already had an agreement with Liverpool, so we couldn't do anything else”.
The funniest part of that is out initial offer was only £20m or so. That’s insulting. It’s great that we got Mo so cheap but it’s probably screwed us for any future deals. Reports tonight claim they want £67m for that keeper. A few weeks back the price was meant to be around £40m, so they’ve defo slapped a ‘Salah tax’ on there. Hope we have a Plan B.
Meanwhile, in Spain...
Casting for the reboot of Sons of Anarchy wasn’t going too well.
Friday Feb 16…
The word has been put out that we’re not going to be held to ransom by Roma for Alisson. No surprise there, it was obvious after Monchi’s comments that Roma are going to be virtually impossible to deal with now. All the reliable sources are running with it, but they’re also suggesting that the form of Karius has caused Klopp to shelve plans to sign a new number one. I’m calling bullshit on that one I'm afraid.
Maybe by the end of May Karius will have played so well that this will indeed be the case, but now? After three decent games? Nah, he’s proved absolutely nothing yet. Actually that’s not true. He’s proved he’s not a complete bum and he might become pretty good, but we don’t know yet. I don't hate him anymore so that's progress of sorts.
It makes sense to tone down all the talk of replacing him though and let him just get on with trying to prove himself, so although I’m sure Klopp is indeed playing down the talk of signing a new keeper to the press, I’m equally sure he’s lying to them through his newly whitened teeth.
On the field tonight, Harry Wilson played for Hull at Chelsea. Believe it or not, I watched this game (at least until Wilson went off injured, I couldn’t change the channel quick enough after that), which is unusual for me as the only live games I watch these days are ours. I wanted to see how Wilson did though and my take away from this is that we should recall him immediately because playing with those bunch of shitbirds isn’t going to do him any good.
He was several classes above his team-mates but you probably wouldn’t know that if you weren’t specifically watching him, like I was. Time and again he’d pop the ball off and move into space looking for a return ball, and time and again they didn’t give him the ball. He even won a pen for them in the second half but they couldn’t even convert that, the fucking losers. Bring him home, Kloppo!
Sad to see Kev Stewart producing one of the worst performances I’ve ever seen too. I root for Kev, he's got a fantastic attitude but he looked like he’d won a competition to play in this game, he was so out of his depth. We swapped him for Robbo and it only cost us around £2m. Daylight robbery. There’s another club we probably won’t be able to do business with again.
So anyway, that was the week that was
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