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Monday Sep 27: Watched an interview on LFCTV with Trent’s Barca ball boy, Oakley Cannonier, who was been banging in goals for fun this season. He doesn’t lack confidence, I’ll give him that. He said Alex Inglethorpe asks all the kids to write down what they think they can achieve in their career and he wrote “four or five balon d’ors”. Lofty goals indeed, although to be fair he will have to do something like that before the likes of me stops referring to him as “Trent’s Barca ball boy”. In transfer talk today, after what he did to us at the weekend we’re now being linked with Ivan Toney. I’m a big fan based on what I’ve seen so far, but he’s not a good fit for how we play. If there’s any truth in the link (which I’m assuming there isn’t) it would be because Klopp is tweaking how we play, otherwise it makes no sense. He’s boss though and probably won’t be at Brentford beyond this season. I can’t believe Newcastle let him go. Actually I can, because they’re Newcastle, but even so they must be kicking themselves, especially considering the money they wasted on that Jo Elinton bum. Toney is a Red and he loves Big Virg. He said this today “It was pure madness, coming up against one of the best centre-backs in the world. You know it will be a battle. He certainly gave me that. The chance I had at the end, any other defender and I’ll get onto the end of it, but not Van Dijk. He just opened up and shoulder barged me.” Ok I’m now making it official - ‘my boy Ivan Toney’. You know what I’m fed up of? Lazy bastard ‘news’ outlets saying we’re in for Coutinho because Barca want to sell to avoid having to pay us the rest of the money. We’ve already had the money. We sold the debt to some finance company and that’s who Barca owe the money too. And we won’t be signing him because Klopp has had the chance to do it and wasn’t interested. And if he wasn’t interested then, why would he be now? He’s going to ride with Harvey and Curtis and bringing back Phil would just eat into their minutes. What a fucking nightmare that has turned into for him though. He left to go and play with Suarez and Messi, but his form vanished and they sent him out on loan for two years. By the time he was back Suarez had gone and Messi was soon to follow. Now he’s still there with a bunch of nobodies and everyone hates him because his high salary and transfer fee has been used as the main reason they’re so fucked. I shouldn’t feel sorry for him given the way he forced his way out, but I do. I have no ill will to him. We bought him for £8m, sold him for £140m and he gave us fucking loads of boss moments when he was here. Meanwhile, Porto boss Sergio Conceicao is complimentary about what a great team we are but says “they have weaknesses too”. He’s been talking to Patrick Vieira hasn’t he? Probably should have spoken to Thomas Franks, as he actually found a weakness and exploited it rather than just talking about it in his press conference. I’ll say it now. Porto have no fucking chance of beating us, whatever team we put out. Tuesday Sep 28: Porto 1 L 5 See? Porto are terrified of us, we’re completely in their heads now. It’s like Watford and Man City, it’s over before it even starts. Porto’s record against everyone else is really good but as soon as the Reds show up at their gaff they turn into a quivering wreck. We’ve scored six, four and five, and in each of those games I felt like we could have scored double without having to even do much more. We were very good tonight but it never felt as though we were having to do anything special. It was routine, and that was enough to smash them everywhere. Mo bagged another couple and I’d have left him on and told him to fill his boots. If he’d scored one I’d have subbed him, but with him being on a hat-trick I’d have encouraged him to score as many as he could as these kind of games don’t come around too often. It would almost have been a reward for how he’s played this season. Sadio got one and Bobby came on to score a couple, so it was a good night for the font lads. Not Jota, it wouldn’t go in for him on his homecoming but hopefully his time will come on Sunday. How fucking good was Curtis tonight though? Wow. This is the kind of performance I’ve been waiting for from him. He’s been good, occasionally very good, but tonight he was brilliant. And that’s what he’s capable of. I expect him to really kick on this season as he’s going to be a superstar. Also tonight, City lost 2-0 at PSG with Messi scoring a cracker. Ordinarily my attitude would be “fuck Messi, the little tit” but tonight I’ll allow it. PSG are marginally less odious than City, but probably only because we don’t have to deal with them on a weekly basis. That, and the fact their manager is Pochettino and not that little fucking weirdo Pep. On a more sombre note, Roger Hunt passed away today. Very sad and just the latest in a growing list. Our success started with the teams in the 60s so those fellas are much more relatable to us than those who went before. We’re now at the point when a lot of them will be passing away and it’s not going to be too long before we’re losing more of the 70s stars too. Getting old is fucking shit. RIP Sir Roger, you’ll get a good send off on Sunday I’m sure. Wednesday Sep 29: When our game finished last night BT went straight over to the San Siro where Atletico had been awarded a penalty with the last kick of the game and the score at 1-1. I should have been wanting them to miss because I have no love for them and the draw would have suited us best. Suarez was taking it though and I just couldn’t root against him. I would it he’d been taking it against us, obviously, but I still love him even though it’s wrong. There’s a song by the Proclaimers called “Hate my love” and it could have been written about me and Luis…. “I like the smell of petrol I love the taste of booze But I hate my love for you Yeah I hate my love for you I like Johnny Cash Singing "A Boy Named Sue" But I hate my love for you Yeah I hate my love for you You're worse than drink You're worse than crack For you they should bring hanging back And I should be the one to string you up I hate the sound of cliche As it begins to call But I hate my love for you Most of all” On the pitch tonight, United came from behind to beat Villarreal and a video went viral of a load of their fans doing Ronaldo celebrations outside Old Trafford. The video ended up being deleted because the piss taking was relentless, but live and let live I say. If they want to copy things Ronaldo does, there are much worse things they could be doing than that. Chelsea lost at Juve and it’s noticeable that the media fawning over them has gone awfully quiet this week. All it will take is a couple of wins to start it up again, but I suspect that whoever wins our game on Sunday is going to have a shitload of media bandwagon jumpers on board. City have had them all season anyway, but if we win on Sunday it’s going to be nauseating seeing how many pundits will suddenly be talking up for the league when virtually none of them were giving us a chance when it started. Meanwhile, Rio Ferdinand says he’d take Mo over Suarez. He’s not the only one, lots of people would. If it’s because Mo’s a better person, more stable and not a complete fucking head case on the pitch, then yeah that’s completely understandable. Suarez is still the best footballer I’ve ever seen playing for us though (then he left and his prime years were spent elsewhere, and he was arguably the best player in the world for a spell). As great as Mo is, he isn’t that close. Not yet anyway. The way he’s started this season, it’s possible I may have to rethink if he keeps this up all year. Thursday Sep 30: So I just read that Klopp increased the ‘leadership committee’ to six players. It was four, but Gini left and because of all the injuries last season there were times when none of the ‘captains’ were available. So Klopp asked the players to vote for three of their team-mates and they went for Trent, Robbo and Alisson. I can imagine that Mo won’t have taken that well given how he reacted when he didn’t get the armband in Denmark last season, and the way he’s played this season I probably would have had him in my three, at the expense of Alisson maybe. We’re blessed with a shitload of options though aren’t we? We’ve come a long way since Hendo got it by default. Bobby was asked about losing his place to Jota and said “I’m chilled. Everybody that plays they always look to give their all to Liverpool and those that have been playing, they have been doing a fantastic job. That has to continue from everybody, with the aim of helping the team to secure wins, helping each other to form a victorious team” Good answer, because it’s not him v Jota. It’s four strikers going for three spots. At the moment Mo is untouchable so it’s three into two and Sadio is as much at risk as Jota. And we’ll have so many games they’ll all get plenty of games. After that it’s down to who plays best and that’s how Klopp will decide who plays in the more meaningful games later in the season. Sunday will be interesting, as Bobby got the nod against Chelsea despite Jota having scored in the previous games. Kane bags a hat-trick for Spurs in this Mickey Mouse Euro thing they’re in. I think he scored a couple last week too, but he doesn’t have any in the league yet. If Spurs don’t win this cup they’re never going to win anything ever again. I mean fucking hell, they were in the final of the Champions League not long ago so they should be able to win this thing without even breaking sweat. I keep seeing shit on twitter about this Saudi / Newcastle thing and honestly it’s making me far angrier than it should. The problem is my Mackem brother in law keeps sending me links to tweets, either from Sunderland fans taking the piss, or from Newcastle fans acting like bad cunts. Apparently over 33,000 of them watched some stream of their appeal to a tribunal about the Saudi takeover and Newcastle fan twitter is an absolute fucking car crash. They’re desperate to whore themselves to the Saudis and their all talking about that Amanda Stavely fucking creature like she’s their mate. “Amanda says this” and “Amanda said that”. They make me sick. The only fanbase in the country worse than Everton’s. I badly want them relegated, even though I don't think there's any chance of it as Steve Bruce knows how to stay up and they've goals in that team. Honestly though, if they went down I'be fucking overjoyed just coz of all this Saudi shit. Friday Oct 1: There are two young strikers we’re supposed to be after and they both did well in the Champions League this week. There’s the German kid we were linked with last week, Adeyami, who plays for RB Salzburg, and there’s a Uruguayan wonderkid at Benfica who everyone is scouting. They both look boss but give me the Uruguayan kid as there’s a massive Uruguayan striker sized hole in my heart that needs filling. The club release a video with Robbo and Virg showing the lads their ratings on the new FIFA game. Virtually all of them have been downgraded a little because we had a below par season. Sadio was pissed off at dropping by a point despite he himself saying he was shite last year. They were all moaning about their ratings (except Curtis who is resigned to FIFA giving him low ratings) but Virgil was moaning about Joel’s. He’s obsessed with Big Bird. Every video the club put out now you’ve got Virgil stalking Joel around the training ground telling the camera how wonderful Joel is. I love it. I thought I was Matip’s biggest fan but I’ll take a backseat to Van Dijk. Finally, how great is this from Curtis…. “when I think back to that MK Dons match I’ve come a long way in terms of my whole game. I’m talking dribbling. I just don’t go mad and run off with the ball and try to shoot and score now. I try to assist. Defending wise – second balls, headers and positioning…I’ve improved over the two years and as a person I feel like a man now as well.” “I spoke to Kaide before the Norwich game and I just said ‘everybody knows why you’re here – you’re a great player – so don’t think you have to go out there and beat the world or try to score a hat-trick. I said, ‘if you do score a hat-trick then fair enough! But just play with a smile on your face and enjoy the game’. I told him to take it all in because your debut is a proud time. “I just didn’t want him to think he had a point to prove. It was more about him going out there, enjoying it and getting that experience. He did really well – all three of them did actually – and he was better than me on my debut anyway! Kaide is very good, but they’re all good. That’s why they’re training with the first team.” I fucking love that, he’s only 20 himself but he’s sounding like Milner! ….and that was the week that was.