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They know they’ve been bang to rights with years of malpractice and corruption but they’ve been putting the pressure on with the victims stance ever since and as soon as Masters crumbled at the hearing, then got his comms wrong, they had all the deflection material they needed, to the deductions down as low as possible. It’s finally worked onfield too, with the PL not willing to give anything up to 3 penalties against them In a way, they’ve played a blinder, albeit a brazen, shameless one.

It’ll be a very difficult game. We’ve not got the best recent record there and they know how to frustrate us, I often think people oversee the Origi Derby because of the goal but they comfortably held us to 0-0 for 95 minutes, it goes back to then. They're pretty much safe now so the atmosphere will be far less anxious than recent weeks but I don’t think that’ll help us - he tried to push up high and press against Chelsea and got it woefully wrong, his side are rank and Chelsea both broke and played through them at will. That said they made the first chance from it and missed it - Liverpool simply can’t let them get the first goal or they’ll raise their levels, grow in belief and feed off our lost confidence, as well as the obligatory moral superiority, victim complex and Heysel. I haven’t been to that stinkhole for over 20 years and I’m going Wednesday - I hate them as much as they hate us. I hope Klopp does something a little bit different, maybe a Salah off Jota with a solid base, no Arnold at right back etc but he’ll go his usual 4-3-3 with high press and look to dominate possession. First thing’s first, don’t get beat but with us using our only possible run in token against Palace at home, it’s a must win. Head suspects 1-0, heart knows it should be 0-3, it’s entirely up to Liverpool.

Alll this has to be in place before they buy the actual club? Before they pay Usmanov (via his bagman Moshiri) a penny? Then they’ve got to fund the sacking of Dyche and his team, instal a new coaching set up, then offer them a budget for the squad rebuild, just to achieve a level of sporting stability. Either 777 are thick as mince for getting involved in the first place and don’t know what they’re in for, even if they can afford it all, or they’re putting loans in purely with the intention of making money via the interest. If it’s Usmanov all over again, just with a different frontman, they’re still in a mess - his appointments and overseeing of it all were alarmingly bad and there’s a high chance someone finds out, leaks it and they’re back at square one - let’s have it right, Masters and the PL have made a botch of the hearings and comms but they know full well how bent it’s all been and just aren’t letting it go on, especially with clubs like Southampton, Leeds, Leicester and Burnley - all historic members for one reason or another, going down as a result of it all - and kicking off about it. Thats £500m just to prove sustainability and clear the debts, then another agreed amount to buy Uzzy out - say another £400-500m, then funds. Anyone with half a brain is waiting for an investment piece in a well run club or for the European Super League to buy into. That or 777 are just another bunch of bent shysters looking to wash a load of dirty cash… A match made in Walton.

Seen a load of this doing the rounds already. They’ve become overnight self-appointed campaigners on behalf of all of the 92 Member Clubs and are passionately defending their rights to a dream football experiences and much needed sources of income… In the exact same way they passionately care for supporters of Leeds, Southampton and Burnley who operated well within FFP but Everton stayed up to their expense. Truly, The People’s Club.

Seems to have mentally checked out just as the business end kicked in, strange mindset for an elite performer, Ramadan aside. Be keen to read between the lines and see what he wants other than more money, he still has the back end of his prime to dig in to but if he still wants to go to that woeful Saudi league, regardless of who the new coach is, Edwards might field bids and look to move him on. It’s a shame as I think a savvy manager rejigs the front line and gets another great couple of years out of him but it’s likely he’s just sick of all the things he didn’t like in the first place, the weather, the money, the having to share the ball around. At some point Liverpool need to move on from the reliance on him, it does get to him to be fair. Been some player, he’s a real crossroads now - it would be a shame if he’s lost interest just as the final push started.

It’s a shame but they just ran out of steam in the end, some of Klopp’s obvious tactical weaknesses and a few unfortunately timed injuries, did for them. That said, I thought we were finished after last season and he’s turned it around brilliantly, in the main. To go from 5th to comfortable top 4 again and a trophy, exceeded my expectations - I expected a battle for top 4 that we can just nick with a fair wind, like the end of season Middlesbrough game in his first full term - I felt something like coming again. I never expected a title race and like all of us I went along with it until the last week but we really didn’t have enough - as good as the Endo lad has been, City have Rodri, Arsenal have Rice - it’s the absolute foundation and bedrock of the best sides. Of course the obligatory internet/tellyclapper provincial bantz merchants will be having a ball online but to get the Club a Champions League restart is hugely important, for the new fella and financially. He was miles better than expected, Klopp. Gave us some amazing memories and moments and was almost perfect. He changed the club from a museum - that mad season under Rodgers aside - to pure excitement with a good dose of excellence thrown in. He had his faults off the ball and in defence of course but I’ll always be truly grateful. I’m 46 and those five years of 2016-2021 will be the best football I’ll ever see and that was because of him.

Forest are minty, their away crew as bad as any smalltime provincial gobshites as there’s been at our place for a long time. Wouldn’t mind a look at Gibbs-White though, hell of a player, a true athlete.

Appealing a 2-point deduction in case you go down instead of other much smaller clubs you’ve already cheated on by spending hundreds of millions more than. Then blame everyone else, act all faux wholesome and innocent. There’s then a thread on boardhost called “Harvey Elliott’s parents”. 40 and 50 year old fellas. He’s about 20. The absolute state of the scruffy cunts, I fucking hate them.

They certainly spend a lot of time posting about a Club, its manager and supporters whom they’re so much better than, don’t they? Mysterious how they spend so much time comforting and reminding themselves of it. Special mention there to “efcman4eva” who is ploughing the boot in to our out of town contingent and how much of a blight they are to the City on match days, comparing Anfield to Disneyland… commercialising football and further making the game it about TV and money. Whilst admitting in other threads that he’s from St Helen’s, doesn’t go the game and hopes for a huge boost in revenue, profile and PR from Bramley Moore, given its iconic location.

92% wages to turnover. Heysel, Clive Thomas, Collina’s, Moyes, corruption, tourists, VAR and illegal steroids fault. Clearly.

The football Inter played at times when they came here was good as ours, all bar the cutting edge of Salah, Mane and range of Alexander Arnold - it really surprised me. But there just doesn’t seem to be the connection there and you’d probably have to shape it all around what he’d want to make him 100% comfortable.

He’s about 42, isn’t he? Let’s say he manages until he’s around 60, he can have a successful spell at all of the 3 clubs that he’s rumoured to covet - Liverpool, Madrid, Bayern. There’s a good chance we get him first but there’s also a chance he doesn’t last at either Madrid or Bayern, our fella fails and both get a second shot at it together.

Well he isn’t, is he but the field seems to be If not Alonso then him and Amorim. The more I think about it, the more I’d love for them to explore their chances with Ancelotti for 2/3 years.

The wives and birds all probably have a bigger say in these things than we imagine - does she want to come back to northern England again and all that? Klopp was frequently jokingly having a moan about the climate, Salah too. Whichever way it goes, we have to go as elite as possible but if Bayern beat us to him, it’s a very small market and I don’t fancy the Sporting lad at all. De Zerbi is the front runner then, unless they decide to pay Daniel Levy whatever he asks for, for Arl heavy lemon big Ange…

Whose fault is it anyway #7653470… https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1711189440.html

You’d suspect Edwards would want to give Hughes a bigger budget than usual for his first spend, just to cover the odd dud.

There’s a world where Matip & Thiago’s exits are already a given.

I think he fancies a contract elsewhere but doesn’t want to be see to be asking to go, in case it burns his bridges with the crowd.

Just a little joke, mate. Hope you’re ok xx

Out of Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold (can’t be arsed with grown men calling strangers by their first name) and Salah, I think Edwards & Hughes will be open to selling one of them. The attack is reliant on him, again. That may or may not be something they fancy addressing and this summer may or may not be the time they want to do it - if so, it’s definitely risky. I’d personally prefer to offer all 3 of them deals, move Matip and Thiago on, review offers for Kelleher, then offer the new manager a budget for a couple of key additions to start his rebuild off - it doesn’t need the overhaul it may have once appeared to.

So they need someone to come in and invest £3bn to pay off Moshiri, buy the ground and clear debt? If I’ve red that right. That’s before they set a recruitment budget for new players, likely including replacing Dyche and staff, to get them up the table enough to justify the increase in ticket and box prices, which by all accounts with have upsides of up to 300%? You can’t see a private investor doing all that, even with the boom in Premier League investment, just to take a long haul punt on breaking even over say, 8/10 years, it may take to recoup and sell up? Unless it’s bent money being used to flush through the western system but they’ve already had moshiri and usmanov bounced for doing exactly that. Anyone with that type of cash will be far better advised to wait on the new Super League set up and pick a club in that. Administration looks their best bet so far, including if the 777 deal is using the ground as leverage and they ended up being tenants, under separate companies to the club, hilariously. That said, I’ve somehow got a horrible feeling they’ll end up somehow surviving it all, stay in the Prem and find a way back to mid table. I hope I’m wrong, my hatred for them as increased with age, rather than eased away.

They seemed to have dragged us into the debate for the behaviour of their own. https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1707935818.html Fancy that?

They’ll get points back and either another successful appeal or they’ll have the second charge squashed for the double jeopardy shout they’ve gone mad over. None of this looks good on the PL and with Masters making a bit of mess of the recent hearing and subsequent communications, they need to keep their brand as high as possible. It still leaves the shite in the bottom six again and facing a derby down the back stretch of a season where all they have again is try stop Liverpool winning up to 4 trophies. The delays over the takeover approval are another worry for them, they’re already £180m in debt to this lot, just for running costs, who have a bad track record as well, who pays for that stadium god knows - they certainly won’t be getting away with bumping the prices up to our levels - £7,8,900 without European football. They’re still lathered in shite and doesn’t it suit them?

Liverpool are having another good season, Everton are shite again. So let's make up more stories of heroic Blue bitterness to deflect and comfort each other again. Special mention to the one who acted out of hatred of tourist Reds, whilst visiting the city himself using a hotel and posts under the name Solent Blue, have a mind to log in as a Blue and use their own logic in reminding him that "football on Merseyside is none of your business, you wool prick." https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1707387521.html

“More scripted than WWE”. https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1706745440.html I love the pain LFC cause them.