That was the week that was (May 22-29 2021)

Saturday May 22:

Wow, as far as tributes go this one is pretty spectacular by Klopp.

“Gini Wijnaldum. An LFC legend now and forever. What this person – this wonderful, joyful, selfless person – has done for our team and club I cannot sum up in words in truth because my English is not good enough.

“He is an architect of our success. We have built this Liverpool on his legs, lungs, brain and his huge, beautiful heart.

“If – and it is still is if – he goes, he does so knowing we as his teammates are eternally grateful for having this special human being come into our lives. I love him and he will always be family.”

I’m intrigued by the ‘and it is still if’ part though. Why add that if it is definite that he’s leaving? I feel a bit like Lloyd Christmas here, but is he telling us there’s still a chance?

Meanwhile, “Hamez” has taken the last couple of Everton games off due to ‘fatigue’ and posted this picture on his instagram, causing something of a fume with our neighbours.

The irony in this is off the fucking scale. They signed him due to his social media clout, they bragged about him having more instagram followers than LFC, they embraced all these new fans from Colombia, and now they’re crying about the ‘content’ he’s putting out. It’s that content that got him all those followers, so you live by the smartphone you die by the smartphone. Losers.

Sunday May 23:

L 2 Palace 0. Third. Haha fucking hell. The rest of the league should be looking at that and wondering just how the fuck that happened, because we were dead and buried a couple of months ago. What a dog turd of a season though. Man City won the league without being anything special, but all of us who were meant to be challenging them fell massively short. People actually think United are City’s closest challengers when really they’re a million miles off. If they’d had to deal with what we did they’d have been relegated.

Chelsea had to deal with Frank Lampard, Spurs and Arsenal are just a hot mess and even Leicester, one of the non-big six teams that should have taken advantage, well they choked like dogs in the run in for the second year running. What does any of this mean for next season? Honestly, I don’t think any of it means shit because this year was a complete outlier and none of what happened is relevant because these circumstances will never be repeated.

Next season everyone starts with a clean slate and as of right now I’m not worried about City being ‘uncatchable’. That may change depending on who they buy though, because they are a couple of top quality players away from being out of reach I think, especially as we aren’t going to be competing for those players. I’m talking Kane, Sancho, Mbappe, Haaland, Grealish etc

Now more than ever we need Edwards and Klopp to be the smartest people in the room

Monday May 24:

The kids lose the Youth Cup final to Villa. No complaints, they got fucking battered in the first half and were lucky to only be 2-0 down. The second half was better and they had opportunities to take the game to extra time but couldn’t take them. 

The only one who impressed even a little bit was James Norris. I thought all the others were below par and the ones who you would have been looking to step up were the most disappointing. Koumetio, Balagizi and Musialowski did nothing. 

That being said, it fucking stinks that this was a one off final played at Villa Park. That shit just isn’t right. Either have it two legs (as it always used to be) or play at a neutral ground. We had this a couple of years ago too when we had to play away at City. It’s shit, but it’s like virtually every other change made to the game in recent years. None of it makes anything better.

Meanwhile, it looks like Konate is close to a done deal and some reports say we’re paying more than his buy out clause just so we can pay in instalments rather than the whole lot up front. Makes sense as £40m is a big slice of the budget considering we need to strengthen in midfield and up top as well. Is the money going to be there for what we need? And if it’s not, then I want to know which cunt wouldn’t sanction the contract for Gini?

There won’t be a permanent deal for Kabak though. I knew there wouldn’t be as it’s been pretty obvious for a while that he was not high on the list of targets. I think he may well have been good enough for us if the circumstances were different, but it’s not the right time for him. He did a top job though and can leave with his head held high. He’s played a lot of games in Germany but he’s still a kid and coming into the situation he found here was really not easy.

He wasn’t perfect but he did what we needed him to. Maybe in a couple of years we’ll revisit it and if we do I’d be happy to see him back here as he seemed like a good lad as well as a promising player. Obviously they prefer Konate but I don’t know what that actually means for our spending. We could have had Kabak for £18m and freed up funds for other positions, but instead we’re paying £35m or whatever it is on Konate. Does that mean we’ve got more money to spend than people think, or did we just prioritise centre back over other positions?

Tuesday May 25:

Happy ‘sorry but I’m really not arsed about Istanbul Day’. Seen all the clips on social media, just skimmed over them all. Fair play anyone who still likes the trip down memory lane but I’m all Istanbul’d out now, especially with Chelsea and City preparing for a final this weekend. It didn’t annoy me though as it has in the past. It would have if we’d finished 5th, but because the season ended up being ok it didn’t seem too desperate. Nothing worse than when you’re shit and you have Istanbul thrown in your face.

Meanwhile, Southgate bottles naming his squad and includes half a dozen or so extra players who will be cut next week. Just prolonging the suffering for some of those lads who know they aren’t getting in. Like Trent, if reports are to be believed. I just can't see Southgate being brave enough to make that call.

Can’t remember if I mentioned this last week or not and can’t be arsed checking back to see if I did, so I’ll just say it again. Last week I had Talksport on in the car a few times and the talk was usually about the England squad. I heard four different pundits picking their squad and not one of them had Trent in it. Not even Martin Keown, who may not be everyone’s cup of tea but he’s not thick. But even he has bought into this weird bullshit about Trent somehow not being in England’s top three right backs. Never mind right backs, he’s one of their top three players!! They don’t deserve him. I really wish he was Scottish.

Staying with full backs, although this one doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Trent, I thought these quotes from Alberto Moreno were quite interesting today. “To this day I don’t understand why I got so, so much criticism, when the whole team didn’t play well. The finger was pointed at one player and …” Moreno shrugs. “I don’t think that’s OK. People blame you. Only you. It was like I lost the final. It’s hard. You can’t get it out of your head. You look at the paper, at social media – I don’t usually pay much attention to social media because it’s all so false – and read things. ‘Alberto, Alberto, Alberto, Alberto.’ I’ll go to my grave not understanding why I got all the blame.'

This may surprise you a little, but I mostly agree with him. The whole team was shite that night and Klopp didn’t cover himself in glory either with his inaction when the game was getting away from us. We didn’t lose because of Moreno, but what he seems to be unable to grasp is that until his brain farts we were well in control of that game. He turned the tide against us and then nobody was able to swim against it. So while what he says is mostly true, I’d think a lot more of him if he owned his own shit, because he’s a likeable lad other than that.

Wednesday May 26:  

I don’t know exactly what has happened at the Hillsborough trial as quite frankly reading about it just makes me angry and depressed so I try not to follow it too closely. Basically though it has been stopped before it went to a jury, which means that 96 people were ruled to be unlawfully killed and fuck all has been done about it. None of those responsible were dealt with by the law because the system - and the whole country for that matter - is fucked and stacked in favour of rich cunts and freemasons.

Is anyone remotely surprised by this though? I could not have any more respect, admiration and sympathy for those who have fought so hard for justice and I feel just so fucking sad and angry for them. But I’m not the least bit surprised. Nobody was ever going to be held to account because the establishment looks after its own. Always has, always will, and nothing will change because the good people of this country keep voting for the cunts no matter what they do.

It's like all these calls for an inquest into the government’s handling of Covid and all the unnecessary deaths. Even if there was an enquiry where it was proven that Johnson and his cronies took bets on how many people they could kill by their actions, they’d still win the next election because there is literally nothing they could do that would stop the people of England voting them in. That’s the world - or the country - we live in.

A jury of regular people may well have done something, but a judge? Get the fuck outta here. Remember the other cunt judge they put in charge of the inquest back in the day and the first thing he said was a quip about “Liverpool fans being late again”. I absolutely despise this country and wish I’d been born somewhere else. I’m not sure where like, as most of the world is just as fucked up as here. New Zealand seems sound though.

Thursday May 27:

Woke up this morning to the news that United lost the Europa Final on pens last night. Nice. Even better, Moreno scored one of the pens and then absolutely obliterated United on instagram afterwards. Funny as fuck, I saw it this morning and watched it about half a dozen times and it got funnier each time. “Manchester United… GET OUT” hahahaha he was always a really funny lad to be fair. 

Meanwhile, Mbappe took to social media to show off his new tattoo….

Friday May 28:

Konate is done. I have no idea what to expect. Maybe he’ll kick on and become one of the best in the world or maybe he’ll be another sicknote like Matip and Gomez. We needed to sign another defender though and if this is who they wanted above all others (which apparently he is) then I guess I’m happy enough with that. 

The suggestion from James Pearce is that we won’t be replacing Gini though. I mean, I suppose you could argue that Thiago was signed to replace Gini and that’s fair enough, but whatever way you try to dress it up we’re still a midfielder light now because we can’t count on Keita to give us anything. Then there’s the increasing number of injuries Hendo is picking up, Milner is another year older and Ox isn’t exactly reliable either. So that leaves Thiago, Fabinho and Curtis. We need another, it’s blatantly obvious. I’d go and get Ward-Prowse as he looks like a perfect fit for us and is ready to make a step up.

Of course I’d prefer Grealish but the talk is that City are in for him. I’d be sick if that happened. I’d love him here but we don’t have the money to make Villa sell. He’s worth far more to them than he is to anyone else, but this talk of City looking at Kane and/or Grealish for huge money is a little disturbing. As much as they’ve taken the piss out of FFP with their spending, the one thing they haven’t done is gone massive on fees in the way that United have. If City start pulling that shit by signing £100m players then everyone else may as well forget about it.

I won’t be watching that Champions League final tomorrow and I just hope Chelsea can stop those cunts from getting their hands on our trophy. I’ve got no love for Chelsea but I fucking despise City so there’s no dilemma here. 

Saturday May 29:

Would usually post the diary today but thought I’d hold off a day so I can cover the CL Final. I didn't watch but I tuned in without a couple of minutes left and watched stoppage time and then some of the celebrations. Chelsea winning was the lesser of two evils by far, but I did think I’d be more sickened by it than I actually was.

Weirdly, it didn’t bother me at all seeing them win and celebrate. I didn’t begrudge them it. There isn’t one Chelsea player I’ve got any kind of dislike for and although Tuchel seems like a fucking weirdo I can’t say he bothers me too much. Can’t stand their fans of course, but fair play to Tuchel and his players for ruining Noel Gallagher’s birthday.  

Tuchel has Guardiola’s number doesn’t he? This wasn’t even that difficult for Chelsea, they just completely nullified City once again and only gave up one shot on target. Guardiola shit the bed and tried to be too clever again and that’s a huge flaw of his his. In the biggest games he out-thinks himself every time. Not only did he not start with a striker, he decided he’d also leave out a holding midfielder too. Rodri starts virtually every game but he was benched for this. It’s amazing how often Guardiola shoots himself in the foot when the pressure is on.

He’s spent the last ten years or so with every possible advantage he could have and he still can’t win a European Cup without Messi. Bald fraud. Chelsea have been a consistent force in this competition and they’ve earned the right to win it. They’ve got scars, they’ve been to finals, lost in semis generally just been a big player for the best part of 20 years. City have no more right to winning it than Spurs would have had when they faced us. They haven’t earned it, they don’t have the scars. Now they’ve been in a final and lost that gives them more right in future, but the other thing to consider here is that the cunts shouldn’t have even been in it as they were thrown out for cheating.  

So all in all the last week has been pretty good. We secured a top three finish, we’ve made a new signing, United lost the Europa League and were trolled by Alberto Moreno and now City and the Gallagher’s are left crying their hearts out. Considering where this season looked to be headed that’s a pretty reasonable outcome all in all.

…. and that was the week that was.