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I think the same, and think it will be £40-£50m at best even from the Saudi's. He's not funding a rebuild that's for sure.

Ha, you think that's a cliff?!

What do you think would have happened without the announcement?

I honestly don't think, as a team, we're playing much "worse" than we have all season. Performances have been very average across the whole season with only a few exceptions but until recently we've been scoring goals and winning matches by small margins. So without a shadow of a doubt the forwards have let us down recently, that's what's changed.

For absolute fucks sake.

I know it's hoping against hope where those cheats are concerned but City haven't looked as confident this season, a bit more vulnerable than in previous years. So I'm hoping this just puts a bit of extra doubt in their minds that they may not be what they once were. Maybe.

I'm finally starting to enjoy this 6 episodes in. Episode 1 did whet the appetite but 2 & 3 were a bit of a slog. Then 4 got me interested and 5 & 6 I've very much enjoyed. Hopefully that upwards trajectory continues through the last 2 episodes. I've never played the game which may have contributed to a lack of enjoyment early on, I'm sure if I knew the game there would have been lots of references to entertain me.

Our title challenge is done so I don't know why I'm watching anyway...but Arsenal are currently benefitting from the kind of fortune that went against us today. That's football for ya.

There isn't better manager than Klopp, a new manager will not get more out of these players. We will not be competing again for the league for a very long time without serious and unprecedented (for LFC) investment in the playing side - this will not happen.

I've not especially liked the tactics since we won the league, and particularly the inverted full back situation this last 12 months. And I do wonder if Klopp has gone into autopilot tactically since November (perhaps understandably). But ultimately it doesn't matter and I have no real criticism. We still play lovely football a lot of the time and mostly get results, and Klopp's overall influence clearly has us getting results that bely our, relative, lack of quality.

I have a lot of time for him but he's a problem every match. He's Liverpool's number 9, pretty much a first choice striker or forward, and we can't rely in him to score the easiest chances in the small or big moments. That's a problem full stop, and I don't think it's going away.

Agree. Mane was our most important player throughout his time here often occupying two or three players on his own, fighting for every ball and creating space - Salah being the brilliant beneficiary.

If any wages saved and transfer fee are reinvested in the squad (IF) I would let him go in a heartbeat.

Eh, what gave you that idea? I was genuinely interested to know what you meant by a "different tack", i.e. stop even trying to compete with City? Plough a load of money into it? Or just hope a new manager has more about him than Jürgen?

Did you have something in mind, other than an enforced change of manager?

Yeah he should have fucked off when he made his decision in November and left us scrabbling around for a replacement and a top 6 finish.

How long until the scales fall from some people's eyes? I think the start of the 2025-26 season is going to be very, very ugly.

Yeah we can't have a parade now. Just make Klopp's last match in front of the Kop a massive, massive send off and maybe some kind of civic reception.

I would have, I would have snapped your hand off for that alone but the fly in that particular ointment is Klopp leaving.

You were saying? Not taking the piss, it just baffles me the faith people still put in him.

Maybe not but he's gone stale here, everything has been too easy for him. A new manager/club would not put up with the casualness and lack of effort that we have to watch from him.

I'm not even angry, just fucking sad. Was hoping to exorcise some demons from 2020-22 but life doesn't work like that. Hey ho.

He obviously has great quality but his ego has been indulged. He'll leave in the next couple of years and look like a different player when he does.

If we don't win the this year, which we won't, then it'll be another generation before we win it again.

Fucking hell, as if.