Scott_M

We mostly had >60% possession under Klopp, it’ll be interesting to see the differences with us on the ball. It’s hard to say I hope we do more X, Y or Z under Slot, because we most likely did X, Y or Z under Klopp. We were best 18/19 and 19/20 when we just smothered teams. 21/22 was very good, almost unbeatable, the football wasn’t as good as the previous mentioned seasons. I hope we are more back to 18-20.

I just watched The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Henry Cavill & the guy from Reacher lead a list of complete D Listers to shafting the Nazi U-Boats. Like most Guy Ritchie films, it’s a load of cockneys, nowhere near a funny or clever as they think they are (Old chap! / Old Boy!) , trying to act witty and chipper… it actually makes an interesting story a bit annoying.

Gojira. Awesome. French cunts.

Unrelated to Curtis Jones, I agree with the above. Neville said something during a game last season, might have been Everton or Villa, that we seemed to be running at 100mph to try and keep up with City & Arsenal, all the late goals and close wins etc etc etc… at the time I thought “fuck off Rat Boy”, in hindsight, like the above, he right. Coming from behind every other game, really late winners, hanging on in games… I know it’s exciting, it’s not sustainable. Say we’d have killed off Brighton at Anfield earlier, could we have made a couple of subs and players could have been fresher for Sheff Utd? Could we have killed the game v Sheff Utd off earlier, made subs and had everybody fresher for Old Trafford? Could we have killed the game at Old Trafford, made subs and had everybody fresher for Atalanta etc etc etc. IMO, I think then answer to all the above is yes. We need to be more ruthless at either end of the pitch.

I think Jones is a bit like Keita. Hear me out on this! Very good technically, Keita maybe had a bit more bite about him, Jones maybe a bit more in the final third. They both are good players when fit and in a run of games / rhythm… the issue is we’ve such an abundance of players they don’t get that run of games and when they do, they get injured as soon as they start hitting top form. I hope / don’t think Jones is a big a shit house as Keita, it’s just frustrating the way it’s gone for him.

Gonna ruin the surprise about who Homelanders mother is…

Insightful, thanks. Although if we lose tonight, I retain my ability to change my opinion on everything and everyone.

I’m going to ignore that shocking pun. It’s a weird season approaching for us all. For almost a decade we’ve expected to be entertained and season on season improvements - for 7/9 seasons we got exactly that and more. It’s a step into the unknown, I understand the apprehension. I’m pretty positive on us anyway, I think we can surprise a few. We’ve a core group of players (Trent, Quansah, Konate, BradleyMac Allister, Gravenberch, Gakpo, Szoboszlai, Nunez, Elliott, Jones and a few others I’m forgetting) who are all <=25. They should improve. Alongside them we have some of the best players in the world in their position over the past 7/8 years, been there, seen it, won it. Obviously the way last season ended was a huge disappointment. I expected better. We should have gone closer on the 3 remaining fronts. We should be stronger for it this season. I know the whole premise of this thread is for new players to come, and as one of the top contributor to it I’m as guilty as anybody, there is always a definite lack of remembering what we actually do have.

That’s some 4D chess shit right there.

My Dad text me earlier on VDB. I laughed.

I’m not really interested in going tit-for-tat on this. He’s had injury problems. He’s been away on loan, done well, developed himself further, now is his chance. He takes it or we move him on.

Think that tweet is somewhat misleading. This is the full bit of the interview. Diaz has to go before we’d consider anything. https://x.com/anfieldagenda/status/1816818041763610863?s=46 IMO, Diaz and Gordon will stay at their clubs this season. Both will move next summer when they are in the last year of their respective contracts. Gordon will only just have tuned 24 then, he’s still got plenty of time on his side.

Feels a bit unfair, time will tell. Supposedly he’s been one of the stand out players so far in training. I’d assume Slot will have had a word with him, ie you have a chance now to show us what you can do, the rest is down to you.

Hopefully that’s beaten out of him and he can show what a good player he believes to be for us.

Maybe not the perfect metric and there will be others to consider, IMO, VDB looks like he should be looked at closer / given an opportunity… https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/clwyppqqrjjo.amp