PODCAST: Alexis Mac Allister is a Red - Signing Reaction

[tlw content]

The first signing of the summer has been made as World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister has arrived from Brighton for what appears to be a bargain fee.

 

TLW Editor Dave Usher is joined by Paul Natton and Ian Brown to talk about the new man, where he will fit in, how his arrival might impact on the current squad and what it might mean in terms of other signings. 

 

 

 

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[suzy]

Great fun that, didn’t expect to be hearing about fish tanks though!

[dave u]

Some would call it a glass coffin.

[Chris]

FFS @Brownie bringing up “that Leicester game”

[aws]

7 hours ago, dave u said:

Some would call it a glass coffin.

Naby size.
 

Jurgen -  “Naby Keita sleeps with the fishes”.

[No2]

On Curtis Jones, he's done well but his output wouldn't be considered acceptable in 2 years time. He needs to keep improving so the idea of feeling sorry for him or whatever doesn't work.

[Red_or_Dead]

Not listened yet, is this just Dave calling him a useless cunt for the whole show?!

 

 

[razor]

Great listen, lads.

 

I'm on board and excited.  I wasn't before listening.

 

And, Dave, you should have tried to get a tenner for the £30 tank on Marketplace.  Jurgen take note...

[The Midnight Rambler]

I’m proper shat at sleeping and Dave’s AI chat and GF shark thread ain’t helping lads.

[dave u]

7 hours ago, razor said:

And, Dave, you should have tried to get a tenner for the £30 tank on Marketplace.  Jurgen take note...

 

Wasn't an option mate. The fella in Skem had been trying to sell it for weeks, and I had nowhere to store the bastard, not if I wanted to stay married anyway.

 

I mean look at it...

 

[Brownie]

17 hours ago, Chris said:

FFS @Brownie bringing up “that Leicester game”

It’s all part of the healing process.

[dave u]

I had healed. I didn't even know what you were talking about as I'd put it to bed. You opened up the old wound though so when I keep going to back to it in future pods remember that it's on you, not me.

[Captain Howdy]

I love these pods, the fish tank saga brilliant. One point, when doing Dan Corleone never ever miss the blueugh blueugh blueugh out at the end when it collapses to the ground, it’s key. 

[Remmie]

If liking that Mac Allister AI song makes me a twitter or Internet bellend then so be it, I think it's ace and hope it takes off. 

 

I don't believe it is an AI generated song though, just some smart marketing people getting a banger out there and listened to. 

[Pidge]

Is there a video that came before the betting company one? I assumed it wasn't really AI. 

[aws]

I can’t believe AI came up with something so shit. 

[Pidge]

To be fair that was Sash.

[dave u]

7 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

I love these pods, the fish tank saga brilliant. One point, when doing Dan Corleone never ever miss the blueugh blueugh blueugh out at the end when it collapses to the ground, it’s key. 

 

Duly noted!

[KMD7]

Great pod as always. 

 

Getting rid of both Thiago and Costas though..

 

 

 

 

[Piechnik99]

On 11/06/2023 at 09:55, dave u said:

 

Wasn't an option mate. The fella in Skem had been trying to sell it for weeks, and I had nowhere to store the bastard, not if I wanted to stay married anyway.

 

I mean look at it...

 

Steve Harkness (or Sharkness) framed shirt just out of shot...

 

[dave u]

7 hours ago, Piechnik99 said:

Steve Harkness (or Sharkness) framed shirt just out of shot...

 

 

I wish.

[redrosetints]

I wanted a birdcage and they bought me a fish tank

[Alan Sex]

The Mrs caught me having a sly fish tank once. 

[JohnnyH]

On 11/06/2023 at 09:55, dave u said:

 

Wasn't an option mate. The fella in Skem had been trying to sell it for weeks, and I had nowhere to store the bastard, not if I wanted to stay married anyway.

 

I mean look at it...

 

 

 

Well that was an interesting listen.  I’m not entirely sure what went on there.  But getting the photographic evidence to back up the oddest football analogy since seagulls were following trawlers is a chefs kiss. 

 

I was thinking that if the LFC.TV channel starts doing the commentary using nicknames, we could be in for a brilliant season - “Alisson rolls the ball out to ‘Calm as you Like’, who passes it infield to the Lighthouse, who plays a quick ball to the Egyptian King, who crosses it….. FISHTANK!!!!!! “

 

 

[JohnnyH]

The rest of the pod was a great listen as usual.  Really interesting chat about what happens to Kostas for example with the way our play is changing.

 

The Fabinho chat was really interesting too.  Firstly, the whole sacrificing a player just to shake up the dressing room thing is a load of nonsense.  It was nonsense 20 years ago and is nonsense now.  In fact, no proper manager would ever use it now in the modern world where staff (be they multi-millionaire footballers, or people in an office) expect to be treated fairly and decently.  A manager who does it would lose the dressing room immediately.  Alex Ferguson is always used as an example, yet he never did it.  What Ferguson did was move players on at the right time.  Like we did with Gini and Mane for example.  Mark Hughes, Paul Ince, Roy Keane, Andre Kancelskis – they were all finished at the top level.  They weren’t “shock sacrifices” they were good, sensible player management.  The one that is used as an example of it is Jaap Stam, yet that wasn’t the case at all.  Stam wrote a book that criticised Ferguson so he dumped him.  And even at that, Ferguson has said since that he regrets that.  Yes, the players were shocked, but only at Ferguson for cutting off his nose to spite his face.    I noticed that on the pod Paul gave the Usher standard of “I agree but” and then went on to correctly say that that just isn’t Klopps style and he’d never do it. No manager would.  The players would immediately lose trust in the manager. 

 

But the whole matter-of-fact conversation was bonkers, to me.  It was so easily said that he was brilliant for years, but then had a huge drop off (which he did) and then “yeah he might have got his form back for the second half of season but”????  What????  The whole rest of his career is just ignored and it’s decided that the last 6 months and the 4 seasons before that somehow don’t count? I nearly crashed the bus I was pretending to drive from the top deck front seat.

 

We have already lost 3 midfielders this season in Kieta, Milner and Ox.  Thiago may as well count as 4 gone as we get no playing time from him.  Henderson is starting to wane and can’t do 90 mins every week and will become that Milner role.  So just the matter-of-fact decision we should get rid of ANOTHER key midfielder is bonkers stuff.  And that’s why it won’t happen.  Mac Allister should settle quickly, but imagine one of Thuram or whoever comes in takes a bit of time to find his feet (like EVERY Klopp signing does) we’d be crying out for a Fabinho.  We can definitely consider moving him on next summer, but it would be madness to do it this summer. This isn’t football manager, you can’t make massively wild changes and expect it all to work immediately.   Also, we need to stop referencing the first half of the season as if that’s his norm.  We saw easily enough over the second half of the season that he still has a role to play, and so I find it extraordinary that people just dismiss that I don’t know who said it on the pod that “We need to make it clear that you can’t fall off a cliff like that and expect to stay at Liverpool”, but I assume that person will also be demanding we sell Trent if that’s the criteria?  Ands the answer is no, of course they won’t.  We talk about Trent re-finding his form and that’s brilliant news, but not Fabinho?  He’s only 29.  He has a key role to play, even if it is to help bridge the change to a new midfield next season.

 

But having said ALL that, I do fully accept that I seem to be the only one who thinks this way?  Certainly on the pod whenever it’s brought up you all seem to agree with each other that Fabinho is done and should go (whether you think Klopp will move him on or not is another thing) and so I appreciate there is a very strong view out there and I seem to be in the significant minority, but I just think the second half of the season backs me up?

 

Anyway, great pod again.  And I look forward to a new pod every time we sign someone.  Especially if it’s some 18 year old no-mark.  Or will it be like Real Madrid where only the big names get the stadium announcement kicking balls into the crowd…..