Street Preacher

Most of our players have had the odd month off injured though. Only a few have played most of the games. Who knows why this is happening right now, probably a mix of a few things. Klopp leaving, some players not being as good as we thought they were, injuries disrupting our flow etc. Let's hope they can somehow pull themselves together and start performing. It's now or never.

Best result for us i think.

Exacrly.It's a rare thing for the Liverpool job to come up and would be rarer still that he would either be out of a job or ready to leave his job at the same time as us needing a new manager.

Thiago Motta. Gut feeling.

On the surface, it seems like a sensible career decision by Xabi but I think it's actually a bad decision. We are a big club where he is loved and where he would be afford time, that's a rare thing in football. He may have his eye on the Real job in a couple of years, but a few bad months there and your out on your arse.

As soon as he mentioned it being his dream was to have managed Liverpool, the fans were always going to make it happen along with the club. The wonderful side of football. Obviously that even though he never got to manage us that Liverpool is still his club.

International football has lost it's mystique. Most of the best players play in England now so it doesn't have that effect it once did. Part of me would like to do away with it completely but at the very least there shouldn't be such a thing as international friendlies.

Haha

Although it's not certain, maybe he will have less sway at Liverpool than he did at Bournemouth. Also we've got such a good backroom team of transfer that he'd have to be total shit to mess things up. As someone previously said, from what has been written about him, he's more of a negotiator. Fingers crossed.

Regardless what happens with the rest of the season, coming out of it with likes of Quansah, Bradley, Danns etc is a hell of a result. Just Quansah and Bradley has saved us how much? Very exciting.

One of his players tried to shake his hand after he was subbed and the manager just completely blanked him. Some of these manager's haven't got a fucking clue when it comes to man management. It's great having a tactical mind etc but you need to keep your players and fans onside.

I was reading an article about Ruben Amorim & he sounds really impressive. When he was at Braga, Sporting paid £8m compo to get him in even though he was very inexperienced so he must be highly thought of in the game. I'd love Xabi to be our manager but Amorim could be a good option.

As klopp had shown, one aspect of being a good and successful manager is having the right backroom staff. Hopefully if he does get the job he has a good team around him.

Xabi seems the obvious one and there's slim pickings elsewhere. De Zerbi is a good coach but there's just something about him that makes me think he's not right, just a feeling. Amorim positive reviews but can't pretend I've seen much of Sporting and never even seen him interviewed. Ancelotti(not going to happen)would probably be a good bet for two seasons until someone takes over.

Agreed. He will wait until the new Messi has come through the ranks and they sort their finances out.

It's hard to know if it's good to know now or at the end of the season. Pros and cons. I'd prefer to know as we can make the absolute best of him and also the fans &, players can use it to help us in the last few months of the season.

Bit of a strange suggestion that he might have wanted to manage the 66 England team considering Sven didn't start managing until the late 70s. Also it's pretty well known that Sven is a red. These tv presenters haven't got a clue.

I'd add Alisson to that short list. Genuinely don't think we will be able to get a keeper close to his level.

Hopefully Diogo will stay fit for the rest of the season, we're gonna need him.

Get in! Nice one Jota.

Agree. Man City have gone away, become world champions & will be confident of catching us fairly quickly. It's been said before that we are ahead or where we should be etc but I don't totally buy into that. You cant plan to win the league in 2 seasons time, you have to grab the opportunity when it arises & this season with City not being themselves in the league is an opportunity we can't turn down. Next season they could be back to their best & we won't have a chance. Got to stop these draws.

Draws are killing us this season.

I think we are living in an age in which fans find it almost impossible to recognise that players of clubs they dislike are good. I see it all the time on Twitter. Salah isnt a patch on Hazard. Van Dijk was only quality for 18 months. Strikers AND centre backs are shit these day etc. So many bad takes. When it comes to pundits, the media and governing bodies not recognising him, I think it may come down to our relative lack of success, certainly compared to Man City. If we had won one more title and a European Cup then I think it would open people's eyes to how good he is.

Very true. He must be a closet red.

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