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  1. I fucking HATE Guardiola. The man is a whining, entitled, silver spoon pussy. He's football's equivalent of Jacob Rees-Mogg. It's very easy to 've magnanimous when you've got incredible wealth and you're coasting to big victories every week but his mask slips when he comes under even a little pressure. At Barca he inherited Rijkaard's team and was in the right place at the right time to benefit from Messi's emergence. Then he goes to Germany, to Bayern, who are head and shoulders already the best team, again rolling in cash. And now City, the richest oil cunts in the history of football. Some people have this fortunate fucking shithouse up on a pedestal. Not me, I detest the man, he hasn't got a thousandth of the humility or the class which Jurgen has, nor is he a fraction of the manager. Fuck off Josep you soft fucking rich boy fucking shithouse bluffing cunt.
    13 points
  2. Your brekky looks like that Gonzo lad from The Muppets.
    13 points
  3. I lost a job through TLW 'You sit at that computer all day and don't do anything'. Fair cop
    8 points
  4. Bought the Echo for the first time in ages yesterday and it just dawned on me how much I'm fed up of being aware of their existence. Sharing a city with this absolute sporting flotsam but still having to be made privy to their every tedious failing. Every other page I had to flick past their shit, and the fucking colour blue. The headline for their beating by Leicester was 'first day nerves'. It's like having a brother who's a complete fucking bum, and you come home from a night shift to find he's broken his leg trying unsuccessfully to break into B&M. You're like 'I don't want to eat my breakfast looking at his fucking boat' but your mum is like 'oh come on you know he's a bit simple'.
    8 points
  5. There were of course rumours earlier that Andy Robertson would miss tonight's game as his wife is in labour, and that Moreno would have taken his place. Personally I'd have had no problem with that - all Moreno had to do was hold her hand and avoid knocking the equipment over.
    7 points
  6. Can we send Milner to Mrs. Robertson instead? He will calm everyone down and be fully in control, whilst Robbo would just run around excitedly.
    7 points
  7. So Tottenham’s title challenge lasted all of three days then. Having somehow, inexplicably, gotten themselves within six points of us (four defeats and they’re only six behind??) they blew the chance to close the gap to three by shitting the bed against Wolves at Wembley. Spurs gonna Spurs I guess. They had the lead at half time too, before completely imploding after the break. Harry Kane put them in front with a brilliant goal. Fair play to him, we know what he can do with his right peg and from penalties and tap ins, but when he’s banging them in with his left from 25 yards it shows what a great all round striker he is. He’s also a massive twat of course, which he showed in the second half when he was booked for diving. It’s not the dive that makes him a massive twat, its the way he covered his mouth while he was abusing the ref. That annoyed me far more than it probably should. My displeasure was twofold. Firstly, don’t cover your mouth when you’re talking to an official as it just tells us all that you’re saying stuff you shouldn’t and it’s also ignorant as fuck. If you’ve got something to say, don’t hide it. Secondly, why is he doing it anyway? The gormless bastard talks like he brushes his teeth with superglue. Ain’t no busy lip reading bastard getting any joy trying to decipher what that big chinned slobbering goon is saying. He’s now Harry Kane MBE of course. He’s always been that in my eyes. The MBE standing for Massive Bell End. Seriously though, I’m struggling with this as I have no idea what it’s for. Presumably it’s for the World Cup, as Southgate got an OBE. England beat a few shit teams and found themselves in a semi final, which they lost. Yet they’re being lauded like the boys of 1966. This country are proper losers. Oh you beat Sweden and Colombia? You’re supposed to beat Sweden and Colombia you low expectation having muthafuckers!! Credit to Wolves though, they were boss. I’ve said before that they’re perfectly equipped to play against the better sides and the results they’ve had have against the big boys are remarkable for a newly promoted side. They’ve beaten Chelsea and Spurs and drawn with United, Arsenal and City. They’ll probably beat our fringe players in the FA Cup next week too. That Jiminez is a good player. I like him. He’s not lightning quick and he’s not prolific, but he’s clever. He was interviewed on MOTD immediately after Kane, and all joking aside, it was easier to understand the Mexican lad than the England captain. Conor Coady was loving it and was the first one in on all the goal celebrations. He’s the captain of course so no doubt he was delighted for his team, but I bet the Reds being top put a bit of extra oomph in his celebrations. Probably singing Allez Allez Allez too. Fuck you, Spurs. Having won at Chelsea and then followed it up by beating City, Leicester lost at home to Cardiff. It’s mad how that can happen. How annoying must that have been for their fans. This is an occupational hazard for counter attacking teams though. Leicester are good when they’ve got space to break into, but when they’re up against a defensive opponent and they have to make the play themselves it’s tough for them. Cardiff had drawn 0-0 at Palace so were more than happy to try and do the same again, but they went one better this time. They rode their luck and left it late though. Puel had subbed Vardy (again, he seems to do it every week, unless he leaves him out completely) when Madison won a penalty. With Vardy no longer on the pitch, Madison took it, Etheridge saved it but Madison looked certain to score the rebound before Sol Bamba came out of nowhere with a thunderous challenge. He had a hell of a game. He’s no Virgil Van Dijk but he’s probably just as important to Cardiff as Big Virg is for us. Camerasa won it two minutes into stoppage time with a beautiful strike from 25 yards. Great result for Cardiff and a kick in the balls for Leicester, who with the players they have really ought to be clear in 7th instead of slugging it out with Wolves, Watford, Everton and the Mancs. Their fans don’t like Puel and I can see why, but be careful what you wish for. Moving on, and there was drama at the Cottage as Fulham beat Huddersfield in stoppage time. Mitrovic got the winner with a shot that went through the legs of the Huddersfield keeper Lossl. Awful that, but he’s a bit shit isn’t he, that Lossl? Mitrovic is such a good player these days though, and as I’ve mentioned a couple of times this season he’s no longer the absolute head the ball he was back in his Newcastle days when he was rivalling Shelvey for ‘thickest man in the Toon’. Back then he was fucking nuts and had no self control whatsoever, but he’s grown up at Fulham and it’s been a long time since he’s been in trouble. That new found restraint was tested to it’s limit on Saturday though when Kamara took a penalty off him even though Mitrovic was the designated taker. There was a time not to long ago when ‘Mitro’ would have ripped Kamara’s head off for that, but as soon as he realised Kamara wasn’t going to back down he not only accepted it, but he went over and gave him a kiss for luck. It didn’t work, as the pen was shite and was easily saved by Lossl. The fans were booing and you could see the disgust in some of the Fulham players. Not cool that at all. You can see on the replay that as soon as the pen was awarded Kamara went running off to go and grab the ball. Selfish fuck. The normally affable Ranieri was fuming afterwards and in hi post match interview it sounded like he said “I wanted to kill him, that’s normal”. I rewound it back and played it three or four times and I’m sure that’s what he said. He also said that Kamara disrespected him, his team-mates, the club and the crowd. Ouch. Meanwhile, Everton lost again. This time at Brighton. Locadia got the only goal and Brighton’s back up keeper made a couple of important saves. Everton are proper shite though. Rondon put Newcastle ahead against the run of play at Watford but Doucoure came off the bench to equalise. He’s been heavily linked with PSG recently. We were linked with him over the summer too. I like him, but I’m not sure he’s that good is he? City got back to winning ways on Sunday with a win at St Marys. It wasn’t entirely convincing and they have a lot to thank that new Southampton manager for. Why the fuck didn’t he start Danny Ings? When I saw he’d left him on the bench I was fucking livid. I said last week that until I could remember his name I’d just call him “not Useless”. I take it back. Not even ‘Useless” himself would have made a bonehead move like that. He’s your best player, so pick him, you cunt. I genuinely fancied Southampton to get something from that game but that was based on the fair assumption that they wouldn’t leave their best player and top goalscorer on the bench. City went ahead, Southampton equalised and for a while we had a game on our hands. Then City went ahead with a fluke in first half stoppage time and then added a third almost immediately. Game over. Annoying as fuck. Onto 2019 and Everton wasted no time in picking up exactly where they’d left off. Jamie Vardy bagged the only goal of the game after capitalising on an elephant like touch from Keane. As I said, Leicester are much better when they can counter attack, and Everton are shite. The best bit came afterwards though when Marco Silva referred to ‘the Old Lady’ as “Woodison”. Hahaha quality freudian slip there. There were empty seats all over the place, which I’m not going to judge as footy is an expensive business and it’s Christmas and that. It is funny though because the Blues are convinced they need a 60k stadium and they’ll fill it. Seriously, they wouldn’t fill it if they were giving tickets away for free. Wednesday night’s games now. The Mancs won at Newcastle. I forwarded that on MOTD. Sick of this nonsense about their ‘revival’ already. Solksjaer couldn’t have hand picked four better opponents than he’s had so far, unless they let him play Everton four times. In short, nobody’s arsed about United, they’re irrelevant right now. The game of the night came at Bournemouth where my boy Troy headed Watford into an early lead. It was a wild first half as both teams just went at each other like two drunks at 2am on Matthew Street. Deeney made it 2-0 when he followed up on a loose ball after Deulefeu had driven at Ake. Poor defending but he made amends by heading Bournemouth back into it after Foster had made a stunning save. Bad luck for the keeper, might have even cost him save of the season, as no-one is arsed how good the save is when someone scores from the follow up. Wilson’s looping header got Bournemouth level but some fella called Sema fired Watford ahead. Who’s he? Where’s he been all season? Soon after it was 3-3 as my other boy Ryan Fraser finished off a lovely move that had more dummies than a Trump rally. All of this was in the first half, but as so often happens the second half calmed down massively and was far less eventful. Ben Foster made some brilliant saves though. After the game, both my boys were interviewed together. It was boss. Deeney was being Deeney, going off on one about how Gosling tried to 'do' one of the Watford players and that Doucoure also could have been sent off, but the ref “completely bottled it a few times”. Fraser just stood there clearly thinking “he’s talking bollocks here, but he’s much bigger than me so I’m keeping schtum”. Huddersfield are so hopeless now that they’re even losing at home to fucking Burnley. At least they got a goal from a striker though, which might be the first time all season I think. Of course it was Steve Mounie, as there’s no way that Depoitre bum was scoring. The lead didn’t last long as Chris Wood fired in from close range. Schindler was then given his walking papers for two quick yellows. Funny thing is, he didn't even know he'd been booked the first time so he was baffled when he got a second. Might be a good idea to write these things down in future. Possibly on some sort of list? What? Oh come on, that's gold that is. Not even Burnley could fail to take advantage of being a man up against Huddersfield, and Ashley Barnes got the winner. Best shit player in the league? He’s defo up there. Very good at what he does. Robbie Brady was sent off late on for a deliberate and slightly wild foul to stop a Huddersfield break. Not sure it was worth a straight red. I mean, in theory it probably was because he just cynically hacked the lad down with no intent of playing the ball, but usually it’s only a yellow when that happens. Mike Dean though. Loves his red card. Disappointing result as I don’t want Sean Dyche somehow ‘worming’ his way out of this (see what I did there), not unless it means Newcastle go in their place anyway. Wolves lost at home to Palace. They’re suffering from Leicester syndrome. They look good against better sides but when they have to make the play while coming up against inferior opposition mimicking their own tactics, they find it really difficult. A marginally offside Ayew broke the deadlock with seven minutes left (and started crying for some reason) and then the second arrived from the penalty spot (of course it did, it’s Palace) after Zaha had been brought down (of course it was Zaha, although this was a stonewaller). Down in the East End, West Ham were all over Brighton and had chance after chance but somehow found themselves 2-0 down. Dale Stephens fired in from a corner (wonderful technique that) and then Shane Duffy did likewise almost immediately. Fair play to West Ham for fighting back. Arnautovic is back from injury and they’re always a much more dangerous side with him around, as he’s fucking boss. He held off Dunk to make it 1-2 and then a minute later prodded in the equaliser. Neither side are in any trouble and neither are going to trouble the Europa League places, so a point apiece doesn’t help or hurt either. Across London, Chelsea were held to a goalless draw at the Bridge by Southampton. They have so many good players but Hazard is the only one who really scares you. They’re almost as reliant on him as Palace are on Zaha. It seems like every move they put together goes through him these days. Alvaro Morientes, sorry, Morata, did have the ball in the net but was just offside. Then he missed a good chance soon after. It’s not gonna happen for him, he should just move back to Spain or Italy. Alonso thought he should have had a pen when he was bundled over by Long, but the ref thought he dived. Looked a pen to me. That Southampton manager basically admitted afterwards he wrote off the Man City game and that’s why he rested players. “I don’t want to say I threw that game, but I knew we had more chance against Chelsea so I wanted my players fresh”. Fucking twat. Where’s your integrity to the spirit of competition? Now I know how my main man Neil Warnock felt all those years ago when Rafa screwed him over by resting players at Fulham. There is one ever so slight difference here though, as Rafa didn’t actually do anything wrong and Warnock was talking absolute Zlatan (and has been ever since), but still, fuck that Southampton manager, the City enabling cunt. Sarri revealed afterwards that he didn’t know they were signing Pulisic. He says he was asked a month ago what he thought of him, he told them he thought he was good, and then he heard nothing more until the deal was done. That’s a fucked up way to run a club, but it’s what Chelsea have done for years and they’ve had success doing it. Can’t see any manager being happy about it though, and Sarri may go the way of Conte soon if this continues. Arsenal bounced back from their bumming at Anfield by smashing sorry Fulham all over the Emirates. It was 4-1 but could have been double. Sessegnon should have put Fulham ahead early though but shot wide when clean through. He did the exact same thing at Anfield too. He then completely missed his kick from a few yards out when the goal was gaping. As much as I like him and would happily have him at Anfield, he’s an attacking left back rather than a forward for me, as his finishing is pretty shit. He can deliver a cross though, that’s for damn sure. He got down the left and put one on a plate for Kamara to score. Only one player celebrated with Kamara, which shows how pissed off they all are after the penalty shenanigans at the weekend. Fulham were two down by that point though and they conceded another two after it. They’re doing my head in as I feel as though they shouldn’t be this shit considering the talent they have. I mean fucking hell, they spent £100m last summer!! How can you be this bad? Moving on, and Spurs had a 3-0 stroll against Cardiff in a game that was over after 25 minutes. Eriksen and Son scored nice goals, while Kane got incredibly lucky when a defender’s clearance hit him and rebounded past the keeper. Of course he celebrated it as though he meant it, the absolute goon. Not that we should expect anything better from a man who is prepared to shamelessly accept an MBE while standing alongside genuine heroes. "What did you do to get an MBE then?" "Nothing much, just flew halfway around the world and risked my life diving into an underground cave to rescue some kids who'd got stuck. You?" "Scored a couple of penalties, three tap ins and a complete fluke in the World Cup" "Oh, ok. Against anyone good?" "Yeah, Tunisia, Panama and Colombia" What a shameless dribble chinned cunt.
    6 points
  8. I have no problem with your pessimism. I am very cautious. However I wanna address this thing about the slip costing us the league. IT DIDN”T! It’s lazy journalists and rival fans that spout that shit. Hendo”s red against City was a major disruption to our consistency. The tactics against City and Palace are equally to blame. The tactics employed by the manager against a Chelsea team who came for draw were naive. Also we concede two against Chelsea. The result at WBA. It goes on. One slip didn’t cost us the league.
    6 points
  9. Lets put it into perspective - We have played 21 games including our nearest runner both home and away and are leading the league by 4 points. Sure we haven't won the league at Xmas etc, but not one of us would ever have dreamt to be in this position. We are a good team. We may not win the league, but we'll give City a good run for it.
    5 points
  10. Fuck it. Hard to be too angry because even a week before Christmas I'd have bit your hand off if you'd offered me being 4 points clear on the other side of the City game. That midfield is what really fucked us, I have no idea what Klopp thinks three meat and potatoes mids give us but it negates the best part of his side; playing on the front foot and keeping the pressure on, whilst simultaneously failing to stifle the opposition which I have to assume is the intention. It's especially amazing when you consider City have wobbled when teams have got at them which is what I assumed we'd do. Lovren is a waste of space though. I'd rather see VVD with a tailor's dummy on wheels attached to his waist than watch that dismal fucker doze off for three seconds at a time, I mean does he have fucking narcolepsy or what? There are days when life is beautiful, then I remember that he plays for us and I'm like Johnny Nice Painter from The Fast Show. I can't stand the sight of the fucker. He's under contract until 2021 and if I won the lottery I'd pay it up myself. He's an accident waiting to happen.
    5 points
  11. Disaster, end of the world, they’re all shite, sack the manager etc. Every single person on this site would have bitten their arm of for our position now in mid August. Re-group and make this the exception not the rule.
    5 points
  12. Not ideal, but the amount of screaming queens in here is borderline farcical. We've been unbeaten until the beginning of January, only losing that record at the home of the champions. Calm the fuck down.
    5 points
  13. Damn Good game from two excellent sides. Came down to small margins - unfortunately the quality of finishing from Aguero and Sane. Still four points clear
    5 points
  14. As I say, speak for yourself. I didn't want them to win, I still don't, but there's no way I'd be like how these blue bellends are, where the outcome of this game is more important to them than either of the competing teams.
    5 points
  15. Pearce says he’s in the squad. He’s Scottish. Like all Scottish newborns the baby will be sent alone into the Highland wilderness, armed only with a bone knife, to prove its worth against the local wildlife. That frees him up for the game.
    5 points
  16. I got my job of the last eight and a half years directly through TLW.
    5 points
  17. The worst case scenario is we end the day only four points clear at the top of the table. Drink that in for a moment.
    5 points
  18. We will both drop points between now and the end of the season. I'd have pushed a war widow down a flight of stairs for a four point lead and only one loss after 21 games.
    4 points
  19. Win, lose or draw tonight I remain completely optimistic. I have complete faith in Jurgen and a belief in our squad which I can truthfully say I've not felt for decades. Very proud of our lads, win, lose or draw. But we can win tonight, we can win it all tonight.
    4 points
  20. Counting down the days to death with delight rather than horror.
    4 points
  21. Looking forward to @3 Stacks list of 15 Young Studs To Watch Out For In 2019 (Number 4 Will Shock You!)
    4 points
  22. Nearly at 10 pages 24 hours before kick-off. Shit is getting real, my friends.
    4 points
  23. Fuck City and fuck Guardiola the baldy headed in awe of Klopp cunt. We're going to win 3-1.
    4 points
  24. Not too fussed, we were gonna lose one at some point, might as well be Vs the only team in the league that is on our level, nothing to be ashamed of. We played well, it was a game decided by fractions of measurements, if this or that was an inch either way then we might have won. Lovren is Lovren, he's a backup CB, Gomez will be back soon so we won't have to worry about it for a while. Overall I enjoy playing city, they usually actually play football, but our two games vs them this season have been the most defensive I've ever seen them or Guardiola play, 11 men on the line at times trying to hoof it away. Only we can make them play like that the shit bags. The game vs arsenal might have took a bit out of us, I know we battered them but they are a good team and we had to work for it to do that, might be why some of our starters weren't quite at their best, and why others only came on as subs. Ideally I would have liked the arsenal line-up again. Still top by a clear margin, still in our hands, still playing good football. Hopefully Klopp and the lads learn from this and use it to push us even harder. Ps. Fuck Henderson off, a big game like that needs an inspiring leader, he was devoid of any passion whatsoever. Compare him to how Kompany and Virgil were acting. It's night and day.
    3 points
  25. Can't win these games with nine players. A championship standard centre back and a central midfielder hiding for 90 minutes. They needed fucking off years ago and they still do. Depressing stuff. Just completely unnecessary. It's not like City put six past us. We're really fucking good. Alisson and VVD are immense, yet we've handicapped ourselves by playing two players that should be at fucking West Ham.
    3 points
  26. Fuck me, there are some hysterical fannies in here.
    3 points
  27. Keep calm lads. We're well in this still.
    3 points
  28. Wouldn't get too worked up about the city fans, you have to remember they're not used to big games and are only repeating what they've seen on telly over the last few decades. It's like if you took a cocker spaniel to the opera, you can't be surprised if it pisses on the curtain.
    3 points
  29. I love and hate games like this in equal measure. I'll be shaking like a shitting dog all game, even if we are 5-0 up.
    3 points
  30. I think that should end with "but they are consumed by petty parochialism."
    3 points
  31. Happy New Year everybody, 2019 here we go. Review : Raw Power by Iggy Pop and The Stooges Never been a huge fan of The Stooges tbh, although the one time I did see them live I remember I really enjoyed them. Anyway... [presses play] Search & Destroy - Right off the mix is raw (and fucking awful), Iggy's vocals are clear enough but the drums are almost inaudible. Okay, but what a great song ! Great chorus, great (Ron Asheton?) solo. Bowie mate, what's going on ?! Great start to the album, Search & Destroy is full of colour and energy, catchy as fuck. Gimme Danger opens with a nice acoustic guitar and a barely audible tambourine panned hard right. Iggy sounding very Jim Morrison. Gimme Danger picks up the pace slightly about halfway through, but still very Doorsy, which is alright by me. 2/2 so far. Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell screeches in with high octane and burning rubber and another great rock n roll riff. Iggy sounding throaty, gritty and up for business. More nice guitar work, a real stomper, great live I bet. Keeping the run going. Good stuff. Note: I can hardly make out a single word which Iggy is singing due entirely to the awful recording and mixing. Penetration goes in balls deep, another good riff, vocal again extremely high in the mix and I can make out the lyric here. Iggy sounds deranged and completely fucking crackers tbh. Is that a xylophone I can hear ascending throughout the chorus? Another tick in the box. 4/4 so far. Raw Power shoves it's way in with another big dirty guitar riff and some keys (or is it someone with a drumstick and a beer bottle?). "Raw Power baby just won't quit, Raw Power I can feel it." Feeling it too Iggy lad, I could very easily get down to this live in some sweaty dive bar. Filthy guitar sound with some amp break up keeps this roll going. Best song yet ? I Need Somebody plods in, noticeably slower and more considered. Some nice acoustic jangle accompany the patented Iggy Pop drawl. Drums like biscuit tins, the record does sound fucking awful (reckon they spent the production budget on smack?), but the songs are full of life and attitude and energy, bringing a smile. Another great song. Shake Appeal has a shuffling riff, hand claps a-go-go. Iggy screams his lyrics from his throat, the killer rock n roll solo doesn't last nearly long enough for me. Weakest song yet imo. Death Trip sounds like the production has gone back in time inside of a biscuit tin, "Sick boy, sick boy, going round, losing my grip", so I'm guessing Irvine Welsh drew inspiration from Death Trip en route tae the scheme? Nice riff again, worth the effort to pick them out. Vocals again have that Doorsy feel. Fades out with a bastard of a solo. Okay then, feelings? Raw Power is clearly a set of songs which were intended to be listened to in a live setting, written and performed with an infectious energy which doesn't always translate to listening to them on your living room hifi. Understandably The Stooges needed to get their songs out there, to a wider audience, but fucking hell Bowie lad. Not sure what else to say. This album sounds outrageous, raw as sin, like ramming a rusty pipe up a stray cat's arsehole. The songs though were (mostly) excellent, full of youthful vigour and infectious energy, overflowing with piss and vinegar. There's loads of soul here. Take it or leave it. It's an 8 from me Clive.
    3 points
  32. 'cunt them in the bastard' is another favourite.
    3 points
  33. An away win would be amazing, as would a draw, really. A defeat wouldn’t be terrible, proving it isn’t a hiding. I’ll be watching Emmerdale and old Easties on UKTV Play. Got the Dempsey and Makepeace DVD boxset for Christmas, too.
    3 points
  34. 3 points
  35. Still got this bloody multiple sclerosis. It’s proving a right pain to shake off.
    3 points
  36. They've played some average sides and Pogba is playing for a move. I don't like seeing them win but if he gets a summer transfer kitty out of it and spends a quarter of a billion pounds on Jamie Vardy then it's all grist to the mill. The best thing about the mancs is that they believe their own bullshit. They'll start to think it's destiny and that he'd a product of their own bootroom (which they've never really had) but in actual fact he's a proven premiership failure. They're incapable as a club of doing things for pragmatic, dispassionate reasons, everything has to have a story or be for show - that's why they keep buying big name players they don't need. As long as that's the culture of the club, they're fucked.
    3 points
  37. Let's have it you citeh twats. Sterling is a massive twat and knobhead Pepsi Guardihoolahoop can shine it and fuck off. Fuck being scared. Time to smash their dreams.
    3 points
  38. Daniel Sturridge has learnt a lot over his football career, however his most valuable lesson would have been in the last 12 months when he realised that the grass is not always greener on the other side. In a football sense, the striker was in no-mans-land at this point of the season last year.As a player who had a great deal of confidence in his ability, Sturridge felt a change of scenery would help kickstart a career well and truly at the crossroads.The English international still had ambitions of being named in Gareth Southgate's World Cup squad, and with starting opportunities very limited at the Reds, felt the time was right to venture out on loan to West Brom.It is fair to say that the move turned into a nightmare.The 29 year-old who has had a catalogue of injuries in recent years, struggled to make it out onto the pitch for the Baggies, only making six appearances and failing to find the back of the net for the relegated Midlands side.Widely seen as a certainty to be sold in the summer, Jurgen Klopp had other ideas, giving him another chance to prove himself.Sturridge is someone whose body language is a tell tale sign of where his game is at.The smiling, happy dancing figure constantly seen in his early days at the Reds, was replaced by a rather sad figure who it seemed did not enjoy being at the club.However, knowing that he was still part of the managers' plans despite all what had transpired, Sturridge's change of attitude was evident from the pre-season. A fitter, leaner Sturridge was desperate to prove the doubters wrong.The smile and mojo was back, and so it proved on the pitch, scoring a goal in the first league game of the season against West Ham.He has added three since including one of the goals of the season against Chelsea which preserved Liverpool's unbeaten record and could yet prove to be a vital point come May.While he hasn't scored since that cracker at Stanford Bridge at the end of September, Sturridge has maintained a presence around the squad and importantly played a role when called upon.For that reason, it is believed that the club are thinking about offering Sturridge a new deal when his current one ends at the end of the season.The Mail reports that Sturridge has attracted interest from some top clubs in Europe including Sevilla and AC Milan along with big spending clubs in the Chinese Super League.However both parties have no thoughts of parting during the January transfer window with Sturridge determined to play his role in helping the Reds claim a long awaited league title.Barring a spate of injuries to the front three, the days of Sturridge being a consistent starter at the club are over.However, a key element of having a strong and successful squad is making sure everyone is on the same page and willing to play a role.If he can be happy in that role and continue to contribute valuable minutes while managing to stay fit, then a new deal is a smart bit of business for all concerned. View full article
    2 points
  39. Sat here, glass half empty, rolling up bogeys and flicking them into the fire. My life fucking sucks..
    2 points
  40. "Klopp's nuffin unless he wins a troffe. Full first team for the FA Cup." Said no smart person ever.
    2 points
  41. ...and to be clear since I've just eviscerated Lovren, 'absolute dogshit' is a bit stronger than I would have gone for but yes, TAA was poor tonight. I think he gets more of a break because he's a young lad, very talented but still learning and he's at a point where he's not going to learn how to defend against players like Aguero by hacking his way through a season on loan somewhere, plus we'd need to get a right back in because I don't want to see Gomez playing there as long as Lovren has a contract with us. Lovren though is 29 with 50 international caps. What's his excuse? Apart from being absolute dogshit I mean.
    2 points
  42. Look, we’re still 4 points ahead and it’s still ours to throw away but I’m done with Henderson and his fake Mackem ‘I’ll do you’ fronting of players. He offers this team nothing. We are a team who attacks but his go to pass is back to the keeper or defence. He fucking shite.
    2 points
  43. Henderson was a passenger when we needed him in their faces and the refs. I'd strip him of the captaincy now because its only the reason he is getting a start. We played some excellent football and Van Dijk was MOTM for me. Lovren was just Lovren and it shows just what level he is at when he plays alongside Van Dijk. Fabinho was decent when he came on. We had chances to draw or even win. So did they. Its City away. We had chances, we battled and at times played them off the park. Chins up we are still top.
    2 points
  44. These matches gives us a few answers. For instance, this shit people are spouting that players like Lovren and Henderson are actually good should be gone now. Neither are good enough. Lovren looked like a pub player at times, almost gifting City 2 (additional) goals in 5 seconds late in the second half. Henderson lost the ball and couldn't win it back, usually. Once he managed to find a team mate with it he was almost without exception behind him in the pitch. There's no crisis, we lost our first game of the season away against the best team in the league apart from us. But hopefully Gomez and Matip comes back sooner than expected.
    2 points
  45. Just popping back in the thread to call Martin Tyler a cunt
    2 points
  46. Robertson is capable of a better delivery though.
    2 points
  47. Fuck sake, I'm lying here wide awake at 3am thinking about the game, no chance of getting back to sleep! Gonna be a long morning...
    2 points
  48. This person rapes goats & not in a nice way either.
    2 points



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