Dave D

A win today would surely rank as one of our finest

I'm considering the pub but it has all the ingredients for a prison sentence coming my way when I go on a anti United whirlwind rampage as Mourinho starts geeing the crowd up if they look like winning

I was apprehensive anyway but no Clyne or Matip? Hmmmm.... Come on LIVERPOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Liverpool in off field utter incompetence shocker

Hitting them on the break very difficult without Mane.

It had me all a flutter. Lets stop now, that was terrible

Feathery. Dont know why that amused me but it did

I opted to watch Game of Thrones so I cant offer much. However I can tell you that a bloody great dragon re-appeared after going missing for a bit. And a dwarf got drunk

Part of me thinks let us park the bus for a change. Mignolet Karius Clyne Moreno Matip Klavan Lovren Milner Gomez Henderson Sakho

Take Mane out and we pretty much become the side that limped over the line in 7th or 8th or whatever last season

Time to send the man round to see Matip:

I'm just relieved the goal wasn't another "howler" from Karius or Lovren so we avoid days of expert punditry and endless replays. Think Klopp got the two line ups for the cup games the wrong way round. First team could have seen off Plymouth and have a rest and the youngsters would have probably created and learnt more by playing a half decent side who wanted to actually play, unlike Plymouth. Dont fancy us at the weekend. I'd liken it to being a bit like Rocky's first fight with Clubber Lang in Rocky 3 coming up given our past two outings in comparison to theirs.

Ayre will come back with an empty mug

To be fair Spurs got Alli (then loaned him back) in the same year we signed Firminio. Alberto was a couple of years before. We had monitored the shit out of Alli though. I guess had we signed him and someone else spent £20m+ on Firminio we would all have been up in arms about not being able to compete/spend etc. Both very good players- Alli looks as though he has a bit of a edge about him- could come off the rails or go on to greater things. Who's the lad that was bombed out of United and was at Lazio last time I heard?- In answer to my own question- Ravel Morrison.

Ayre would have felt shopping at MK DONS was a bit beneath him. Think Alli went to Spurs for £5m. Alberto cost £6.8m.

If we'd drawn with City and beaten Sunderland it wouldn't seem such a punch in the guts in a strange way. It's a good haul of point over the Christmas period. Agree with most that we have to spend now. I felt we needed to anyway, but we won't see Sturridge until April, the lack of clarity on Matip suggests issues, Coutinho and Lallana are both prone to niggles and I'm not sure we are clear on Henderson? What I do know is, listening to the last 10mins, it would seem we were playing everything through Moreno.....! That says it all really

Don't count on it

Thanks- hopefully puts this latest niggle behind him and goes on to become one of the greats. Don't mind admitting, the potential he's shown excites me in ways that aren't normal for a 39 year old man.....

Ok. Cheers. Anyone know what his injury record was like at Schalke? Think he could be the CB we've lacked for years, since Hyypia I'd say, only worry is injuries. Klavan is probably well suited for playing Stoke to be fair.

Is Matip available? Does he get in a side that has kept 2 clean sheets?

And, despite being actually sacked, get paid off each time. Allardyce probably actually hopes to be sacked in about 18 months

Its likely we got him from the "only crap while playing for Liverpool" pot. In good (and very shit) company Morientes Balotelli Ziege (although Im not sure if he was that bad) Carroll Benteke James etc etc etc

Sturridge is a proper striker, the only one we have. He's a natural, but as we all know, we can't rely on him. Forget that he can't press and close down. If he was 100% fit all season he plays every week. If we can sign a finisher that's even 80% as good as him that can actually stay fit we will be in the title race right to the end

People criticise the bench but ordinarily that should include Matip, Can, Sturridge, Coutinho, Ings etc. We aren't going to sign another 3 or 4 decent players who don't even get a look in when they are fit