scudger99

I don't think we missed Van Dijk in defence as much as we missed Fabinho in midfield. Spot on report Dave, and I also see nothing to be shitting ourselves about in the return leg. Bring on Sunday.......

His calmness in midfield and his passing could be the difference when we head to Bayern next month. Van Dijk's return not only solidifies the defence but it allows Fabinho to return to his natural position. It'll be interesting to see who gets the midfield slots against the cunts at the weekend. You'd think at the moment that Gini and Fab would be nailed on starters, leaving Keita and Henderson to fight for the remaining slot.

Happy birthday lad. Head down mindless drinking to ensue......

One of my heroes when I was growing up, I actually fractured my collar bone at the tender age of 5 copying one of his flying saves. I only wanted to be a goalkeeper because of him, I absolutely idolised him. A class of his own as a player, and by all accounts as a man too. Genuinely saddened tonight by this news, the term legend is used far too commonly these days, but Banks personifies it completely.

The fucking cock has managed to erase the 18 yard line. Rabid BlooShite behaviour that.

That's a red all day long and twice on Sunday. Slabhead knew it too, the relief on his face when only a yellow was waved at him was clearly visible.

What reality is that ? That we've improved massively as a team ? That we've got a top class manager and a quality defence to build on ? You keep up with the doom, gloom and self flagellation lad. I'll see things as they are thanks.

Jesus. Why do you even bother ?

I reckon it's the pace and physicality of the Premiership that's taken him by surprise. Knowing about it in advance and dealing with it are two different things. A bit like boxing, you know when you get in the ring you're getting belted in the chops. It's still a big wake up call when the punches actually start to land. One loose touch, a slightly misplaced pass and he's got opposition players on him in a flash which is why he's playing the safe ball so often instead of the riskier defence splitting passes we saw in Germany. He doesn't want to be the man giving the ball away when opposition players often break so quickly. That's just confidence, and he's got no better manager than Klopp to boost that for him. The cream rises to the top, I'm still very confident that he'll produce the goods as expected. Hopefully during the title run in.

Repped for repping the neg for explaining the neg that deemed an explanation for the original neg.

And yesterday you had us as losing and throwing the league away already. A little bit of complacency, some bad refereeing and a bit of luck and anything can happen.

You can't really expect Klopp to say "I can't think why I held Robbo back so long 'cos Moreno is fucking shit !". He doesn't put players down, he gets the improvement out of them by doing the opposite. Moreno never really improved that much because he's a bit of a thick fucker !

You were also touting the idea of getting rid of Firmino a while back and getting a big grock in the middle to punt the ball up to.

For all those who said we paid over the odds or Southampton well and truly shafted us on the price : read it and fucking weep. Whatever we would have ended up paying, this guy is worth it. This title challenge is a non-event without him in the side. He's not just a bit better than other centre backs, he's a level beyond them. He is to defending what Souness was to midfield, a monster with that velvet touch. Today for the first time I saw his goal for Celtic against St Johnstone on YouTube. Fucking ridiculous, a centre half doing that. Him and Alisson are the rocks that we are now built on. How the fuck could anyone improve on that ? Sheer man love for Klopp for sticking to his guns and chasing this guy and Alisson, Citeh looked like they would run away with it this season but they're looking up the table at us now. What a time to be a red.

2 questions for you : 1 - Would Werner come here to sit on the bench or be a bit part player a la Sturridge ? 2 - Who do you drop out of the front 3 to slot him in, and why the fuck would you do it ?