Vincent Vega

Apparently City’s directors work for free, and Newcastle’s for a pittance.

What a fantastic player.

What a fantastic player.

Jimmy Carr and Rose West I thought it was.

Some City fan was trying to banter Liverpool fans on Twitter, one of the reds has gone back through his posts and found that he’s had the tattoos below done. He’s now unsurprisingly taking merciless stick.

Gomez played a blinder against Haaland in the Anfield game against them last season as well. One of our best players on the day.

I did say it was unlikely, and you’ve given some reasons why. It will just feel weird seeing him manage another team in the future, and I hold out a small amount of hope that he could find his way back to us. In all likelihood I know we will appoint another manager and we all move on.

There’s definitely something to this as all the connected reporters (Joyce, Bascombe, Andy Hunter) have done articles for today’s papers. They all seem pretty confident that we have an excellent chance of getting Alonso, and that we’re being respectful to Leverkusen my allowing Xabi to get on with his job of winning a first title for them, but Xabi is fully aware of our interest. They’re all saying that the noise coming from German reporters is just that, noise. Deep down I’m still hoping we can persuade Klopp to take a year’s sabbatical before coming back, and that we just need to find someone to hold the ropes for the year he’s away. I think it’s unlikely though, and the club have to prepare for a future without Klopp, and Xabi has to be first choice in that scenario.

Getting as many people as they can from Brighton has worked really well for them so far, so targeting De Zerbi makes perfect sense.

These journalists discovered how wild Everton Twitter is when they questioned some of their business in 2018 when they won the transfer window.

Anyone know much about this lad? Signed from Boca Juniors for €8m his in the summer, and we’re now reported to be willing to pay his £60m buyout fee.

Fixed.

Some real laugh out loud stuff in this pod, I think they actually benefit from alcohol consumption. As for podcasts in general, had a listen to this The Athletic podcast with James Pearce and Ornstein earlier and found it an interesting listen. Hope you lads don’t mind me recommending it in this thread, I couldn’t find another appropriate one.

Interesting read this, from The Times: Lee Clark: When Bobby saw Liverpool’s big dossier, he knew he’d play Former Newcastle midfielder Lee Clark, father of 19-year-old Bobby Clark, says son chose Liverpool because he was ‘blown away’ by their plans to get him into first team so quickly I’m still on a high now. It’s the best day I ever had. It’s outdone anything I ever did in terms of professional sport. I was crying tears of joy at the end. I could have walked on water when I left Wembley. I was right in among the Liverpool fans, at the end where the goal was scored. Everything was unbelievable. We speak every day and Bobby sent me a voice note on Saturday night to say he was involved. I’m not an ex-player or coach when I talk to him, I’m Dad. I just tell him how proud I am of him and how much I love him and do the best you can do. The only advice I ever give him, be it under-18s, under-21s or first team, is when you’re on the pitch make sure you’re the hardest-working player on there. If he wants to speak to me about something technically or tactically he’ll come to me, but I don’t go pushing things to him at all and that’s how it’s always been. It’s just me sitting proud as punch as a parent. He’ll ask me about certain situations and I’ll advise him then. I’m more there for the disappointments, that’s when I come into play. I was watching the dugout during the game and then I saw the call from Pep Lijnders [assistant manager] down the line to Bobby to come back so I knew. I could see him getting stripped. What was my heart rate like at that moment? Oh man, it was through the roof! The feeling of pride when he came on was immense. All the stuff he is doing is surpassing anything I did. It’s a completely different feeling. It’s your feelings as a dad. How emotional I am, how proud I am. It’s just phenomenal. I’m trying not to kick every ball for him when he came on, but you are really. I’m watching his movements. He looked so calm and composed. He takes everything in his stride. I was in line with the goal and it was a great header so it’s just an amazing feeling when you’re part of it and your son is out on the pitch. He would have been up for taking a penalty and I think he would have been one of the five. How would I have coped with that? I’d have collapsed! There were four clubs who wanted to sign him when he left Newcastle United and it was Bobby who said to me, “Liverpool is my choice.” When he went to Liverpool they had a big dossier on him and it was amazing. That was the academy staff and all the first-team staff. They had footage, match reports, where they saw him playing. What stuck in Bobby’s mind was: “We aren’t signing you to make the under-18s or win the Youth Cup, we’re signing you because we believe you have a pathway to the first team and we have a manager who likes to play young players.” It blew him away and it has all been proved right. He bought into it and he’s loved it from the first minute. He was initially living with a family who were superb to him, along with another three players, Stefan Bajcetic, Conor Bradley and Owen Beck. They all got on really well. You see that at the end, when all the academy boys are getting their picture with the cup, and I think there were 11 or 12 of them. They teach them the right way. The under-18s and under-21s play the same way. Jürgen [Klopp] has had loads of involvement with Bobby and he gave him his debut at 17. He’s trained with the first team on a consistent basis since he was 17. Vitor [Matos, elite development coach] and Pep are the ones who bring the boys through at a young age and get them used to training with the first team and tell them the tempo the manager wants to play at. Then Jürgen gets to see them very quickly, he’s been to a lot of the under-21 and under-18s’ games. The production line is amazing and you’ve got a manager who puts them into the big games. He puts them on when there’s something to play for. It was 0-0 on Sunday when Bobby came on and there were 20 minutes left. How did I feel when I left Wembley? I was sky high. I told Bobby how proud of him I was and of what he has achieved. I said: “I tried for over 20 years and nowt, and you’ve done it in a couple of months, you bugger!”

And this is the analysis of the cup final (again it won’t embed, says it includes an emoji or something). https://youtu.be/hBPmBUv_xQo?si=J_MGz0zyuDng4QNA

https://youtu.be/m7tw5fzFbFk?si=qd-1k7BtC6CaRtIl It won’t embed for some reason, but this is the analysis of the Mancs.

I thought Gaël Clichy was impressive on Monday Night Football with Carragher, tactically aware and demonstrated a good understanding of the game. The analysis by Carragher and Clichy of both the cup final and just how piss poor the Mancs are defensively were both really interesting.

Read from the bottom up.

So does that mean Forest will get the same punishment and Everton get another 6 points deducted for their latest breach?

Even people who wanted VAR to be brought in surely didn’t think it would be used in the way it was yesterday? It was supposed to end the real howlers, that was how it was sold to us, but instead you’ve got the equivalent of the Bottom Inspectors from Viz running it and goals are being chalked off because you haven’t wiped properly.