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Liverpool 4 Chelsea 1 (Jan 31 2024)

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Another one to add to the “was that our best performance of the season?” discussion. I’ve heard a lot of people say it is, I’m not sure though. Was it better than the Newcastle game? In fact, are Chelsea better than Newcastle? Probably not, beating Chelsea now isn’t the accomplishment it once was, that’s for sure.

 

There’s a reason they’re 10th and we’re top. We’re miles better than them and it showed. We were at this one right from the start. You could tell after a couple of minutes it was probably going to be a comfortable win as long as we didn’t have to wait too long to make the breakthrough.

 

Klopp hadn’t changed the team as much as I thought he might. Trent and Robbo didn’t come back in, but Dom did. I was a little surprised but at the same time Bradley was man of the match last game and Gomez has been one of our best players all season. They deserved to stay in. They probably deserve to stay in at the weekend too, but sports science comes into that to some extent too.

 

Imagine if someone had sent a couple of months back that Trent and Robbo would be fit and available for selection but they couldn’t get in because Gomez was left back and Bradley was right back, both on merit. It’s mad really, but that’s the level they’ve played at. 

 

And Bradley upped that level and then some in this game. I don’t want to go overboard, but he might be the best player in the world right now. Ok, I’m joking, but the performance he put in against Chelsea was something really special. It was a performance that Trent would have been happy with, yet this is what, his third league start? Second maybe? Incredible performance from him. I’ll get to that though.

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Paul
1 hour ago, dave u said:

 

Not sure how that's totally disagreeing with me as I don't think I was saying the opposite of that. Boehly has absolutely fucked them. He's overpaid massively for pretty much everyone he bought and given them contracts that encourage laziness and players getting too comfortable. Too many new players at once, too many young players thrown in together, and all on way too money.

 

I don't think it's as simple as they bought shite players though. I think it looks that way because of the environment they've come into. Some of them are defo shite, but others would probably look boss if they were playing for us. Enzo, Caicedo, Nkunku and Palmer are all good players. Some of the others (Badiashile, Jackson, Disasi, Gusto) might look a lot less shit if we'd bought them. 

 

Yeah. That’s fair. In retrospect, I was also thinking of what you said on the pod about them not performing that badly. I thought they were wank apart from in a couple of moments going forward. They were absolutely horrible without the ball. An incoherent mess of a press; some going, some staying and all getting run ragged. 
 

I guess I just want to massively emphasise the fact that the original market distorting oil cunts are a fucking shambles with little to no hope of being even vaguely decent in the foreseeable future. 

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dave u

Yeah there's no way back for them any time soon. Spreading out the fees over the length of time they have means they can't spend for four or five years now, regardless of which home grown players they sell. Clubs know they're fucked and will play hardball. Spurs will probably get them down to about 20m for Gallagher. We might even go back in for Colwill at some point.

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21 hours ago, dave u said:

 

He also mentioned homophobic chanting. I didn't hear either, I assumed it was just a warning to ensure it didn't happen?

I didn't hear anything either, but it's the first (and I hope the last) time I have heard it.

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Astounding that they've spent what they have yet not have a decent single striker. Don't really understand their buying policy either. Lavia seemed more about trying to fuck us back over what's his face rather than having somewhere in mind for him to line up.

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