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What do you think they would bring in? I'd guess £120-150m combined. Would barely start a rebuild.

Don't think we'll get daft money for Salah now, £40-50m at best? Diaz would get a decent wedge but you're probably talking £70m ish. Pure guesswork of course but other than Trent, who'll only have a year on his contract so it's debatable, I can't see any of our players pushing £100m.

Rebuild? With what?

Barring some short spells Salah has been poor since the Afcon in 2022. If we received a great offer last year, and that would have gone into the transfer funds pot, we should have sold him then.

Just unprofessional again in a cup. Wrong team again, and that's on Jürgen, should have been playing with a team half made up of kids throughout the UEFA Cup and kept some senior players back, hungry and fresh, for the league. I knew this would happen, when people were saying it was good to qualify for UEFA as it would mean resting senior players en masse, I knew that wouldn't happen it never does. Jürgen should know better but I guess he was very keen to win it so I can understand why he put his faith in senior players. They've let him down. Need to get back at it in the league, it's not done yet but it will be very soon if they don't buck their ideas up.

Well no I suppose not, and I don't understand why it should be an obsession - I suspect that's due to a lot of rubbish going on in the country - pick a side, entrench yourself and defend your position. But, it might affect their loved ones and they're allowed to care about them.

I've never heard anyone in the UK, outside of Liverpool, call them Sui Mai, they usually say dumplings or even just generically dim sum. Mad fact for you, I'm from Liverpool, in my 40s, and didn't know what Sui Mai were until about 12 months ago.

Said the same at the time of the Arsenal one, Trent should have hung back and stayed the fuck out of it. "Enjoyed" listening to the podcast, thanks fellas. Said it before but I seem to enjoy more listening to the ones where we've not had a good result, I must be a glutton for punishment.

I really want to watch Ripley but, to my surprise, I recently discovered I really don't like Andrew Scott or his acting style. Does he do that thing with his mouth in this, like he's sucking the inside of his lips?

I made the mistake of thinking the Tories were finished during the years they were flailing about with Hague and Duncan-Smith. Never again.

Felt a bit sorry for him yesterday, the effort was there, the running at times prolific, but he picked the wrong final pass every single time. Frustrating to watch, you could see what was coming.

Undoubtedly Quansah's mistake was the pivotal moment. Yes we wasted extremely good opportunities throughout but we do that every match, that's us, that's the standard of our forwards. But a mistake like that when you're on top, in front and looking to build on it is a big blow and it cost us the win imo. But I don't have any ill feelings towards Quansah about it, he's a young lad still learning and generally doing a brilliant job of it.

Thought the same. Kelleher has been great but you can't afford to lose such a key player for half the season and expect to win the league. It could still happen but would be an unbelievable achievement all things considered.

Talk of not being clinical and not having the killer instinct, it's entirely possible these players just aren't quite good enough to win the league. Especially considering injuries we're definitely in a "false" position - in inverted commas as the manager is as important as any player in the team and Klopp gives us so much, he enables us to play above ourselves. I don't think we were arrogant today or casual (except for Quansah's mistake but he's an inexperienced kid) we just weren't good enough going forward, bad decisions and bad finishing. Does anyone think Diaz, Nunez and Salah2 are anywhere near the level of Mane, Firmino, and Salah1? They're not a patch on them.

Haven't you heard?!

Don't think that was anything like the FA Cup match really, Carragher just parroting the easy line. In that match we had it won, started strolling round and threw it away. That didn't happen today. Yes today we wasted several good opportunities but not many clear cut chances, and were undone by a kid making a massive mistake. A good point in the end, whether it's enough remains to be seen.

Keep our cool throughout in the face of shocking refereeing while, hopefully, scraping a 1 goal win against 12 men? If we win, that's the only way I can see it happening. edit - correction, 13 men, forgot about the VAR for a minute

Well one thing is almost certain, we'll get a big decision against us tomorrow, almost guaranteed.

Well, that's that then.

Apart from it being a shocking decision, the justification has horrible implications. Basically saying whatever way the decision was given would have been correct. So there's no rules to be applied now? It basically justifies refs doing what they want. "Subjective" has become the most overused word in football and is basically a cop out, a tool for corruption.

That's probably true, the issue is consistency and officials twisting the rules to do whatever suits. And also for us, would we ever get it? I know every club thinks refs are biased against them but come on, does anyone consistently get big decisions go against them like we do?

Quickest VAR check ever. Amazing how some teams get the benefit of clear and obvious while decisions for other teams are pored over. edit - I don't really think it was a penalty, though you've seen them given, it was the quickness of the review that was remarkable

Deffo an element of truth. Enjoyed the podcast again thanks fellas. I don't get to listen as often, or as quickly, these days but always enjoy.

We seemed to approach that like it was a training match, maybe to keep some in the tank for Sunday which I understand. But, we can't afford to do that a single more time this season (bar Uefa Cup), have to go full tilt from now on in. Nevertheless a good win.

Klopp is also a romantic, and someone used to fighting for everything he has achieved in life, not really things I'd associate with Xabi though the job he's done with limited resources at Leverkusen is stunning, it would have come with low expectations. Ancelotti has a contract until 2026, Madrid could just have easily accepted Xabi going to a bigger club and proving himself there for 2 years before going to them. Xabi could have done that, got himself a big move and still have left the door open for Madrid, but he's not which is why I think Madrid in 12 months is not a fait accompli. I think he's just not in a rush and wants to see what things look like in another 12 months while continuing the job he's started at Leverkusen. And if that means the Liverpool job passes him by then so be it.