Saturday Sep 22:
So six years ago we paid City a million quid after it turned out that one of the scouts we took from them still had all their log ins and was able to keep an eye on who they were scouting. How do we know this? Because City have decided to leak this info now, six years after the fact. Officially their stance was ’no comment’ but they defy fed that story to the Times.
These cunts are so transparent. Last week there was a Premier League meeting with all the clubs. Obviously I don’t know what was said, but it’s a safe bet that we’ve brought up the whole FFP thing and this is how they’ve reacted. The funny thing is though nobody gives a fuck about it. And why should they? It’s not like we hacked into their system. The daft bastards didn’t follow the first law of business. When an employee leaves for a rival, you make sure you change all your passwords and disable all their log in privileges.
We don’t know exactly what went on here but if it had been a hacking then they wouldn’t have just accepted a settlement, because that’s really serious and it’s the kind of thing you get heavily sanctioned for. This just looks like City being careless.
Let be fair, if you’re a scout that has moved to a new job and you log in to your account and you still have access to everything from your old club, of course you’re going to have a look. It would be weird not to. Here’s the thing though, when you look at the players we actually signed that year then we either took no notice of who they wanted, or they should be fucking paying us for the shite they inadvertently recommended.
Sunday Sep 23:
Chelsea 1 L 2 Get the fuck in. Massive three points. Don’t care if we deserved it or not and anyone who says Chelsea deserved a point will get no argument from me. It doesn’t matter, we won. We got the three points and we’ve safely negotiated one of the most difficult games we’ll have to face.
In terms of talent, Chelsea re probably the third best team in the country. They might not finish third, but its between them and Spurs as to who has the third best talent level. They showed it today. We had problems with them but I suspect a big part of that was because we were leggy after the Napoli game. We were flagging in the last 20 minutes and couldn’t keep the ball. That’s not really us, so that’s why I put it down to fatigue.
The added bonus of this win is that as well as picking up three points, we’ve kicked Man City in the bollocks. They won 8-0 yesterday and will have been thinking there was a good chance this would be the weekend when they started to make inroads on us. When we had the lead last year, we had a few performances like this that ended up being draws and it cost us. They’ll have been watching this with a massive sense of frustration.
In other news, Bernardo Silva is in trouble after a ridiculous tweet he made taking the piss out of his mate Mendy. I can’t believe he did that you know. I mean, in this day and age how daft do you have to be to think you can do that and not cause a massive shitstorm? Spare me all the “Bernardo is a racist” shite though. He’s not racist, he’s just fucking stupid. Incredibly, inexplicably stupid.
He’s not “a racist” though and it’s just fucking lazy to throw that at him. How many racists have a black best mate? Mendy seemingly didn’t have a problem with the tweet and there was obviously no malice intended. That isn’t the point though. It was a joke between friends, so text him the fucking picture, don’t put it on social media for the entire world to see.
As soon as you put it out there for millions of people, it no longer matters if Mendy is offended or not, as there’ll be countless other people who will be. I also wonder what Sterling thought? More to the point, I wonder what he’d think if it was some random fan sending the image and not his team-mate.
I actually feel sorry for Bernardo here but ignorance isn’t really a defence. Has he been living under a rock? How can he not know that this kind of thing is no longer acceptable? It’s bizarre, but it’s not just this tweet either as there was some instagram stuff that was staggering as well.
Intentional or not, he has to be banned for it otherwise the FA are leaving themselves open to all kinds of shit. Kick it Out are all over it, and I’m sure that Piara Power twat will kick up a stink to get himself a bit of publicity like he did with the Suarez thing.
It’s an unfortunate situation but it should be a teaching point, and not just for Bernardo. Hopefully someone at LFC will use this to re-enforce with all of our lads that they need to think long and hard before they post anything on social media.
Monday Sep 24:
Klopp gets the FIFA coach of the year, Virgil is defender of the year and Alisson is the keeper. Big Virg didn’t get the Balon d’or though, Messi did. It’s disappointing and he probably should have won it, but it’s hard to argue too much about Messi getting it as right up until he came to Anfield he was incredible all season.
Usually these awards are influenced by who won the big trophies, so Virgil can feel aggrieved. This shows that defenders are never going to win it when there’s a superstar forward involved. Maybe when Messi and Ronaldo are gone there’ll be a chance for a defender to win it, but probably not as Mbappe will be cleaning up by that point.
At least Messi has taken the high ground and voted for Ronaldo the last couple of years. Prior to that he never had, and Ronaldo has still never voted for him even though you have to name there players, not one. It’s shameless behaviour, especially as Ronaldo has recently commented about how they are the two greatest players ever. So in all the years he’s voted, he’s never had Messi in the top three.
Neither of them voted for Virgil this year, which is telling as they obviously didn’t want to help the competition. Messi didn’t vote for Klopp either, the snide little cunt. In his own way, he’s as much of a twat as Ronaldo. He’s just less obvious about it. Ronaldo didn’t even bother showing up, as he tends not to do when he knows he hasn’t won.
The real bone of contention wasn’t who won the Ballon d’or, it was the fucking abomination that was the team of the year. Sergio Ramos, Marcelo and Modric all got in there. What the fuck? Madrid were shite last year. They didn’t win their league and they were embarrassed in Europe. Yet three of their underachieving ‘stars’ got in while Trent, Robbo and Sadio all missed out, and not a single player from Man City got in. Absolutely fucking bizarre that.
Tuesday Sep 24:
Also from last night, Megan Rapinoe reckons Virgil should have won it “just because of how cute he is”. Fucking hell, where to even start with that. If these awards were handed out based on “cuteness”, then sorry luv, you’d be watching Alex Morgan winning it ahead of you every year. I really can’t stand Rapinoe, the insufferable twat.
Women footballers are in a constant battle to be taken seriously and to be judged on their skill and not their looks. Look at the comments any time there’s a women’s footy match on and there are always loads about who is the best looking or who has the best tits. It’s infuriating for those girls, yet here you have the most high profile female footballer doing exactly that.
Yes, she was almost certainly being ironic (unless Virg is so hot that even lesbians can’t help but comment on it), but no-one got it and all she’s done is caused social media to go full on “yer da” with the “imagine if a man had said that” hot takes.
Meanwhile, Klopp does a piece for the Player’s Tribune that was just incredible. The Rocky stuff in particular was brilliant, but the whole thing was just sensational. Not quite as great as the one Robbo did, but it was stirring stuff.
He was absent from press conference duties today though and Ljinders stepped in. I enjoy listening to him, he’s so enthusiastic and gives you interesting tactical stuff. With Klopp having been away yesterday it’s almost as though Ljinders is in charge for this MK Dons game. I wonder how much say he’ll have in the starting line up? Just thinking aloud here, but it might be a good idea to actually let him discreetly take charge of these games to maybe groom him as Klopp’s eventual successor.
Klopp himself is still talking about how Gerrard should replace him when he leaves. Firstly, I wish he’d stop referencing ‘when’ he leaves as it upsets me. Secondly, I’d rather have someone completely familiar with Klopp’s style and methods taking over if and when that time comes (otherwise you’re looking at a rebuild and fresh start, and we know that doesn’t tend to go well), and Ljinders would be top of that list. Maybe give him more responsibility now and see how it goes?
Wednesday Sep 25:
MK Dons 0 L 2. Good that. Entertaining game and just the outcome we wanted. In the next round, some useful run outs for the fringe players and a successful evening for most of the kids (Brewster the only one who didn’t excel). Jones looks a different player this season to the one we saw last year. He’s got his mojo back now.
Elliott though, he was brilliant wasn’t he? 16 years old and he’s playing like that. Other than Milner he was the best player on the pitch and with a bit more luck he’d have had a hat-trick. Can’t wait to see him play again. Hopefully in the next round against Arsenal, but if Shaqiri is fit for that then Harvey will probably miss out.
In other news today, the FA are looking into the Bernardo tweet, but Guardiola has gone on the offensive (quite literally, as what he said today was more offensive than what Bernardo did. Apparently it’s fine because the cartoon actually looks like Mendy and if this was a white fella no-one would be arsed. Well he’s right about the second part but there’s a reason for that. The fact he doesn’t seem to know what that is, is worrying.
He should be charged as well, the twat, as his crime is more sinister than Bernardo’s.
Thursday Sep 26:
It was kind of lost in the shuffle because of how well the kids did last night, but the u23s had an EFL Cup game against Fleetwood last night and they drew 1-1. That doesn’t sound like much, but it’s actually a hell of an effort from the kids because it was basically our u18s playing against a League One side.
Right back Neco Williams got our goal. I think he scored in their last EFL Cup game too. I’m a big fan of his and have been for a couple of years. He’s really good, but he’s a natural right back, and to make it here you almost need to be a converted winger or midfield player. So it’s going to be hard for Neco but he’ll have a good career somewhere I reckon. Talented kid with a great attitude.
There was a penalty shoot out (which we lost) even though it was group game and not knockout. That meant Fleetwood got an extra point. I don’t like that, I hope they don’t bring it into Champions League games. It’s ok to have draws, this isn’t America.
Meanwhile, in the Mirror: “Liverpool bottled the title last season and won’t win it this year either” claims El Hadji Diouf.
Meanwhile, on TLW: “El Hadji Diouf is a useless spitting cunt, the worst number nine in our history, and his opinion shouldn’t be given any kind of publicity whatsoever” claims Dave Usher.
Friday Sep 27:
Barca are fined €300 for tapping up Griezemann. That’s not a typo. Its actually just three hundred. Incredible. The funniest thing is they’re appealing it! The balls on them.
All this Nike v New Balance thing is a bit distasteful. Everything is about money these days. We had a good relationship with NB, they were happy to match Nike’s offer but because Nike are offering a percentage of all sales we want to go with that. I mean I get it, it’s probably worth more cash and Nike is a more prestigious name. It’s just such a “modern football” story isn’t it?
Guardiola has doubled down on his defence of Bernardo, once again repeating the “it looks like Mendy” and “no-one would be arsed if he was white” nonsense. I’ll double down too. This twat should be charged for these comments.
Finally, the club have had their application to trademark the word ‘Liverpool” rejected....
....and that was the week that was
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