Miscellaneous LFC Stuff...

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

2 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

'Tis the season.

 

Love all the players but the young lad who got Jurgen definitely won the lottery there.

[VladimirIlyich]

7 hours ago, Jimmy Hills Chin said:

Love all the players but the young lad who got Jurgen definitely won the lottery there.

Klopp is just ace.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Paddy, Vladi & Mili - cool as puck.

[Tony Moanero]

3 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Paddy, Vladi & Mili - cool as puck.

Fuck’s sake, Patrik Berger is going bald. He looks a bit like Jack Torrance 

[dockers_strike]

14 smaller clubs holding the other 6 to ransom yet, the 14 want their 'share' of the financial riches the other 6 generate for them.

 

Jurgen Klopp has revealed the depth of the rift between Premier League bosses which is ensuring calls for extra substitutes to deal with rising footballers’ Covid rates have been blocked.

Last week’s meeting of top-flight managers brought the conflicting agendas of rivals into sharper focus.

 

Klopp has been a long-term advocate of tweaking the festive calendar, and like Chelsea’s Thomas Tuchel feels recent extraordinary circumstances ought to have prompted emergency measures - such as more subs - to protect players.

 

But Klopp cited Burnley as among those leading the resistance, and claimed it is wrong that clubs with less-demanding schedules are allowed to dictate the agenda for those whose players have more commitments.

 

“What we realised again in the managers meeting - and we know it has always been like that - is how 14 clubs make the decision to change. You need 14 clubs,” said Klopp.

 

“There is something wrong. Here is an example. With Burnley, I am not too sure how many of their players play international football. When our players play three games, they (Burnley) have no game. They have 38 Premier League games and three or four cup games, to make around 42 games a season. So we are talking about an issue which some clubs and players definitely have, but it is decided by the other teams and we make a competition of it.

 

They say, ‘well they are better than us’, and that is a real problem. (Five subs) is the right decision, especially in this moment, because you bring players back in this moment, after Covid infection or an injury, and because of the games they have to play you risk injury and they have to go out again, maybe after 60 minutes. That is a real problem.

 

This wonderful game is so wonderful because usually the players on the pitch are in good shape, are well trained, are well recovered and go for it. That is why we love the game. Now the situation is much more difficult.”

 

Many clubs feel that the strength in depth of clubs such as Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea will give them an unfair advantage with extra subs, enabling them to rotate more high-class players.

 

“Look, it is pretty much that with a lot of teams, we have to put the competition aside and don’t say City has better subs than Southampton or that we have better subs than Burnley or whatever,” said Klopp. “Yes, that is probably true - whatever that means exactly because they are still Premier League teams and can cause problems. But if you talk about the quality of our players and (value) in the transfer market and all these types of things, then yes that is the case.

 

The problem is this intensity for a top-class footballer in England is definitely at the edge. It means a top-class player in England plays 38 games, cup games could take it to around 43. Then international games, pretty much all of them play for the national teams - that’s eight, nine or 10 games a year. Then Champions League - the further you go, the more games. Pretty quickly you are in an area of more than 50 games. In my first season here, the Europa League Final was our 64th game. Yes, now we have squads. But there are some key players who only go out when they are injured.”

 

Klopp said the fact England is standing apart from most of the world on the issue of five substitutes is cause for concern.

 

“The best league in the world, the most intense league in the world, is the only one in Europe with only three subs. That is not right,” he said.

“We still have to talk about it. You can’t change it without a vote from the other clubs and their problems are different problems so they say no. I don’t see the circumstances to change it, to be honest.”

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/12/27/premier-league-festive-fixture-schedule-branded-ridiculous-just/

[Chip Butty]

There is a new book coming out that has all the programs ever printed, in, well it’s two books to be exact. Supposedly getting a free copy due to a very close friend supplying the guy who’s constructed the book with those super rare programs that cranks struggle to get hold of a copy of.
I’ll post some pictures when am given it. Apparently it’s meant to be around the £60-80 mark, so can’t see it selling loads. Probably directly proportional to the number of cranks we have in the fan base. 

[Tony Moanero]

3 hours ago, Chip Butty said:

There is a new book coming out that has all the programs ever printed, in, well it’s two books to be exact. Supposedly getting a free copy due to a very close friend supplying the guy who’s constructed the book with those super rare programs that cranks struggle to get hold of a copy of.
I’ll post some pictures when am given it. Apparently it’s meant to be around the £60-80 mark, so can’t see it selling loads. Probably directly proportional to the number of cranks we have in the fan base. 

This one? If so, it looks brilliant.

 

[Chip Butty]

Yes, that’s the one, I should of been picking it up at Leicester tonight, but a Covid positive test has blown that out the water for me, so one of the lads dropping it off at mine tomorrow. Teaser below, does indeed look brilliant! 
 

 

[Chip Butty]

Book arrived and oh my word, what a book. It appears also that some games had more than one program and some of the more exclusive games - those additional programs change hands at 4 figures, the Telesport 84 program being the Holy Grail, apparently. 
 

if you get a chance to purchase one take it up, it’s ace.

 

[Tony Moanero]

15 minutes ago, Chip Butty said:

Book arrived and oh my word, what a book. It appears also that some games had more than one program and some of the more exclusive games - those additional programs change hands at 4 figures, the Telesport 84 program being the Holy Grail, apparently. 
 

if you get a chance to purchase one take it up, it’s ace.

 

It’s look great, that. Footy programmes are ace. I’ve always liked the design of the old United Review ones.

[easytoslip]

27 minutes ago, Chip Butty said:

Book arrived and oh my word, what a book. It appears also that some games had more than one program and some of the more exclusive games - those additional programs change hands at 4 figures, the Telesport 84 program being the Holy Grail, apparently. 
 

if you get a chance to purchase one take it up, it’s ace.

 

Some memories there, looks great. 

[halewood pete]

[halewood pete]

[dockers_strike]

A decent article by Bascombe for a change! I wonder if he reads this forum seeing as he's picked up Dave's link between Jota and Fowler?!

 

No doubt that fat cunt samuel will disagree, after all, a club's owners should be allowed to pour as much money into a club by whatever means it wants even if it does result in said club winning 5, 6 or more titles in succession. I mean, if samuel's thinking is correct and a mega rich owner makes their club such bastions of winning, how come lesser clubs cannot mount a challenge? But I digress.

 

As collective broadcast revenues prepare to exceed £10 billion, top of the agenda on the next Premier League shareholders meeting ought to be sending a bouquet of thanks to Jurgen Klopp.

 

What would English football be worth without his Liverpool team? How many countries would commit so much for an annual Manchester City title procession? They would feel like those who complain that their BBC licence fee pays for too many repeats.

 

City are the most proficient, consistent and methodically brilliant possession-based team this country has ever seen. Their capacity to wear opponents into submission deserves all the admiration it gets.

 

But just as Liverpool discovered in the 1970s and 80s, and Manchester United throughout most of the 90s, one-horse races are a tedious turn-off for neutrals.

 

Watching Liverpool theses days is like a joyride. Klopp’s team play in the fast lane for prolonged periods. Those who adore them delight at the incessant determination to attack. Those who loathe them can take comfort from the fact that Klopp's front-footed approach carries enough risk to suggest a slip is not far away.

 

In Liverpool fixtures, it feels like there are two teams on the pitch. Watching City is an exercise in observing one side play keep-ball; the quest for the most perfect training session.

 

Klopp’s solution to knock City off their perch is to attack more. Liverpool took their goal tally to 60 in the Premier League with another two against Leicester City on Thursday night - the highest in their top-flight history at this stage of a season. In all competitions they have an extraordinary 94 goals.

 

On Thursday night, the full debut of Luis Diaz promised to make Liverpool’s forward line even more potent. Diaz did not score, but there was enough in his 89 minutes to warrant the standing ovation he was afforded. Diaz was rapid, strong, clever in possession and found himself in the penalty area often enough to suggest goals will follow.

 

Kasper Schmeichel denied him his first at Anfield, as did the fact Diaz needs to work on his left foot. He sliced into the crowd when well placed midway through the second half. Had it been on his favourite right, one suspects the net might have burst.

 

Ally that to Diogo Jota, who has increasingly resembled a young Robbie Fowler with each pinpoint finish, and it is ever clearer as to why - whether they stay in City’s shadow or catch them - Liverpool are currently English football’s greatest entertainers.

 

The Premier League needs such a challenge to City, no matter how difficult it is for Liverpool’s rivals to stomach. It would be preferable if others got their act together to disrupt what is too often threatening to be a predictable title run-in.

 

City would be heading for a fifth consecutive championship - all achieved with ease - but for Klopp. The odds are still heavily in their favour that they will make it four titles in five years, Liverpool’s latest victory serving only to reduce the gap to a hefty nine points. There is still a broad expectation City will stride away without breaking into a gallop.

 

Even on the back of their more complete performances, Liverpool are fighting to delay the inevitable. They are also perpetuating the illusion of a level playing field. The debate as to whether anyone can realistically stop City would have a different tone if Liverpool had not gone so close in 2019, won the title in 2020 and still be threatening to hang around in 2022. Boredom may have given way to deeper questions about how much of a competition the Premier League truly is at the very top.

Latest standings (top six)

Klopp has shown it is possible to compete without being owned by a nation, but the failings of others underline how mighty difficult it is. If he was so inclined, the Liverpool manager might wonder if he deserves more credit than he is afforded for dragging his club into these title conversations against such a powerful opponent.

 

When Jose Mourinho cited finishing runner-up to City in 2018 among his greatest achievements he was ridiculed. He may have had a point.

Before too long, we may be comparing the Premier League to Scotland before Steven Gerrard interrupted Celtic’s bid for history. In Italy, Juve won nine in a row before Inter Milan finally broke the monotony.

 

English football may be in the midst of an era like that in the Bundesliga, where Bayern Munich are going for 10 consecutive titles. Not coincidentally, Klopp was the last manager who was not in charge of Bayern to win the Bundesliga.

 

Wherever he goes, the Liverpool manager is box office. The rest of the Premier League should be grateful to him. They might delude themselves that it is the fight to stay up or finish in the top four that is bringing in the dollars, renminbi and UAE dirham. Deep down they know that is the enduring promise of a duel at the top that keeps the cash register pinging.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/02/11/premier-league-clubs-should-say-big-thank-jurgen-klopp-liverpool/

[alles ist gut]

 

[Tj hooker]

Looks decent 

[Anubis]

This you, Tony?

 

[Tony Moanero]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

This you, Tony?

 

No, mate. I’m not into wearing skirts.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Konaté is our twentieth different goalscorer this season.

https://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Goalscorers/131

[sir roger]

And still no sign of one for that slacker Alisson.

[El Rojo]

On 29/12/2021 at 18:46, Chip Butty said:

Book arrived and oh my word, what a book. It appears also that some games had more than one program and some of the more exclusive games - those additional programs change hands at 4 figures, the Telesport 84 program being the Holy Grail, apparently. 
 

if you get a chance to purchase one take it up, it’s ace.

 

Got this over Christmas. Insane project in the volume of stuff it covers. Absolutely brilliant. 

[halewood pete]

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Little details like this make me happy that our club can get stuff right.

 

[sir roger]

I am always amazed at how helpful and courteous our stewards ( and police ) are towards visiting supporters compared to others around the country, and particularly abroad.

[Tony Moanero]