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I wonder what part of 'from next season' you didn't get you fucking spaz. Fuck off.

My old man often harps on about how the Captaincy was unceremoniously taken of Phil Thompson and given to Graeme Souness. I genuinely like Hendo but it's time to make Virgil Captain from next season.

*If* we really are not planning on signing a new GK then I personally would feel better if Mig is starting the new season in the shirt over Karius.

I don't want Karius to fail or to see him struggle, I just don't want to see him in goal for the simple reason that he not good enough. He's never looked liked being good enough from the moment he made is debut and no amount of support or perseverance with him is going to change that. Klopp's not stupid he sees what we see the problem is that it's now a massive climb down from here to drop him and give the shirt back to Mig...which he absolutely needs to do btw if we're genuinely not planning on signing anybody. It's almost as if the position of Goalkeeper at Liverpool this last 3/4 years has just become completely untenable.

At Anfield tonight...I asked my Dad (never missed a game at home since '73) if he'd ever witnessed a goal keeping performance as bad as that. My Dad's ace btw 71 years old....he never gives out against a Liverpool player... ...he was nearly in tears. I didn't ask him to elabotare any further. If that lad pulls on our jersey ever again it will make me seriously question our Manager (and I really don't want to have to do that).

Today was a powerful demonstration that I was very proud to support and take part in but on the walk away from the ground it did occur to me that actions like this are not sustainable for us a loyal match going fans and it doesn't hurt the Owners financially. I think a development on this is a total boycott of any/all snacks, drinks, programmes, merchandise etc inside and outside the Stadium on match days (basically anything with an Official Club stamp on it). If we can somehow get the masses to buy into this idea that will really start to hurt them and maybe hopefully have them start to re-think their current values when it comes to us as supporters.

9. For 'only' £4 I was able to buy a 520ml 'pint' of Guinness (which was only 10p more than my usual 440ml 'pint' of bitter). Positive to take away. Lesson learnt. Showed class and character too. Might get two against Villa?

He'll do his best, he'll give 100% and he will get us a few goals (probably nowhere near the number he got last season) but it's just another unambitious signing that won't exactly have anybody getting overly excited.

Can't help but get the feeling that the owners just don't give a fuck anymore and are possibly looking to sell. The cynics may say they never gave a fuck but I don't believe that to be true in the beginning. John Henry can't even be fucking arsed to show up anymore, not even for a Wembley Semi-final nor the final home game of the one of the Club's biggest ever legends. The imminent relaxation of FFP is just the final nail in the coffin.

Meh

Yeah he's a decent player, even I'm not negative enough to slag this one off too much.

Yes but it's just not going to happen. Rodgers is going to get another season.

I know it's embarrassing what we've become when it comes to transfer dealings under FSG. I think I'm going into hibernation now, somebody wake me up when it all stats again and I'll deal with all then.

Like others I had a bit a mixed reaction. At first I'm like "What the fuck have you lot to be singing and dancing about?" But I'm not going to begrudge Stevie a few days on the piss if these lads actually are his mates.

All of Tuesday's papers are going hard with the line that he's staying. I imagine some accountant somewhere reminded John Henry how much it would cost to sack him only 12 months into a new 4 year contract. I agree that he's lost the dressing room, those players on Sunday threw him under the fucking bus and there's no way of denying it. I've done my best to support him this season but I'd be gutted now if we don't move him on because I just can't see anything whatsoever to get excited about moving into next season if he's still here.

There we are then, he's 150% staying and that's that. It's probably true. Close the thread until November.

It's really quite sad what a fucking soap opera we have turned into. It's every Summer this shit is happening now and next year it will be Coutinho probably. A more important question is why are we dicking around with player contracts and trying to do it all on the cheap? You could say these recurring contract problems are all our own doing. Whatever you think of him, Sterling should have been given his pay rise at the end of last season, whether or not you or I think he's worth the money is about as irrelevant as his age, the fact is he was and is a first team regular in a top 4 Premier League team (as least he was before this season) £35k a week is a bit of a piss take for somebody playing at that level week in week out. The more this develops I'm just getting more and more frustrated with FSG. Some on here have called BR nothing but a charlatan and bullshitter but my worry is that it goes much higher than that. FSG still need to show that they have the ambition to turn Liverpool into winners again, so far they have not and I don't really think they have the stomach for it either. Don't get me wrong they are a safe pair of hands compared to many of the clowns running football clubs these days but is there much more to come? They have already admitted that they can't compete without FFP and now that looks to be on the way out.

Can't really see anyone paying us £7M for Borini to be honest unless Sunderland come back. I'd keep Lucas. Until we can put a team on a field that can prove it can defend then we need a player like him on the books.

You mean like we were able to invest our transfer in-comings on a World Class player last season? If world class talent didn't want to come and play in the Champions League this season they sure as hell are not going to come and play in the Europa League next season. Selling him is a win for his agent, a lose for us and the the jury would be firmly out on what that would mean for Raheem.

We need a statement from FSG immediately after the game at Stoke. That way we can close this fucking thread one way or another. Rather than arguing on here we should open a book on it...would be a lot more fun. I'll have a tenner on him staying.

His performance level has dropped because his head has been up his arse ever since the contract business went public and he did his BBC interview. I suspect he will leave this summer one way or another but that's not the best for the Club. We stand a better chance of being a better team next season if he stays because as I've mentioned already it's us as fans who have our heads up our arse if we think we will be bringing in one single player this summer who is better.

I think one of the biggest issues is that there really isn't much to get excited about for the immediate future. It's not like we're coming away from the match saying to ourselves I can really see what he's building, what we're trying to do and aren't XYZ players really coming good? (Countinho the exception). The one thing I will say is that for Christ sake if they are to get rid please God only do that it we have a proven/winning Manager coming in as a replacement because the only thing more depressing than another season like this one would be to wake up on August 8th with somebody like Gary Monk or Eddie Howe in charge.

Were the Americans at the game today? I couldn't see from where I was. I would like they think they would have been for such an occasion but either way will be interesting to hear their assessment of this shambolic season.

Do you really honestly think we'll be singing one single player this summer who is better? No...me neither. Keep him.

I'll have to only turn it on at 4:06pm I think. For the sake of not projectile vomiting my Sunday dinner all over the TV I'll give the pre-match dick stroking a miss if that's all the same. Protocol in this Country apparently? Fuck off.