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Featured: That was the Week that Was (Jan 10-14 2022)


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Monday Jan 10:

 

Brighton become the first club to join LFC in backing the Hillsborough law. Have to say I’m shocked it wasn’t Everton. Bill Kenwright has always been great when it comes to standing with us over Hillsborough. His influence there is on the wane though and Moshiri seems like a fucking knob. I expect he’ll eventually get on board when he sees which way the wind is blowing, but it would have been nice to have them throw their support behind it from the get go.

 

Staying with Everton, and Digne is joining Villa. This is too funny. Forget all the noise around it about the player not being happy and Rafa saying he isn’t committed. The nuts and bolts of this are that Rafa Benitez took over at Everton and sold their best player to Steven Gerrard. That’s it, nothing else is relevant here. Rafa sold their best player to Stevie. Imagine an alternate reality where Klopp left us in the summer of 2020, Mourinho replaced him and then sold Van Dijk to Lampard at Chelsea. Because that’s the equivalent of this.

 

Meanwhile, Achterberg does a piece with the Athletic and one of the things he spoke about was Karius and his current situation. “It’s down to him, his agent & the club to try to find a solution, Hopefully there will be one this month. It doesn’t help anyone to sit for another six months without the feeling you are really fighting for something.”

 

This is presumably in reference to reports last week of a German club wanting to take him but being put off by his wages, and Karius refusing to leave without a payoff from LFC. The easy thing here is to rip into for being a greedy twat who values money over wanting to play, but this is more nuanced than that.

 

Karius is on a good contract here. Not huge money, but it’s more than he’ll get anywhere else because his stock has fallen so much since he signed the deal with us. So this is probably the biggest contract he’s ever going to have in his career. He’s got six months of it left, and having not played all season, what’s another six months of doing fuck all? 

 

Besides, if he waits until the summer he’ll have more options than he has right now, so quite frankly, he’d be absolutely mad to walk away from this contract to go and sign for the first team that comes in for him this month. If I was him I’d sit tight too, and it wouldn’t JUST be about the money, it would be about options too.

 

Meanwhile, the EFL have said they won’t be charging LFC for postponing the Arsenal game. What the fuck kind of news is that? It should never have even been a discussion point, but by putting this out it’s implying that maybe there was a case to answer. May as well put out a statement saying we won’t be charged with Mendy’s rapes or 

 

Sadio scores a late, late penalty to give Senegal a 1-0 win in their opening game. Good for him, but not so much for us as ideally we want him back here asap. Same with Mo. I don’t mind either with Naby. If he comes back then sound, but if Guinea go all the way then good for him. I want Senegal and Egypt out quickly though. Sorry lads.

 

 

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On 15/01/2022 at 14:02, tlw content said:

...since 2018 we’re bottom of the net spend table and have made a £3m profit. We’re defo the world’s poorest rich club.

Is that true? Sounds like one of those stats that depend on extremely specific parameters. 

 

A couple of quick searches reveal... 

Last five seasons - 7th

Since summer 2019 - 16th

 

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