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Can someone please confirm if Lovren was any good for Southampton last season? What was it about him that made us splash £20M on him?

FIFA reeks of corruption. This report was pretty ridiculous even by their standards. A FIFA ethics committee finds FIFA to be clear of corruption. What a surprise. But they go one step further by accusing England of corruption...simply because England had the temerity to question FIFAs selection process. It's absolutely farcical but what can you do? FIFA answer to no one, they are a law unto themselves. The European nations + South America need to breakaway from FIFA and soon the other confederations will follow.

He finally moves to a big club. This will end in Sociedad getting relegated and Moyes sacked at the end of the season. At least the city he's moving to is nice.

I'm getting a bit worried about Brendan. His signings, team selections and decisions are baffling and his attempts to dress up awful performances smacks of self-delusion. I would still give him time to get things right though, he deserves that much.

Don't hate the player, hate the game, or something. Word up.

Brendan chats shit in interviews these days. Today apparently we deserved something from the game. Fucking deluded. We were easily 2nd best and deserved fuck all.

Struggling to see what he offers. No pace, no movement, no trickery, no effort, not a team player, nothing. For me, Lambert and/or Borini start every game until Sturridge returns.

Debatable.

He didn't look this bad in the world cup, so what's happened to him?

I hate to say this but since Suarez left and Sturridge has been out, Brendan has been totally clueless. He doesn't have any idea on the shape and style he wants us to play. The team is totally devoid of ideas. It's shocking that he (along with the fans) seem to be pinning our hopes on a revival when Sturridge returns from injury. No backup plan if Sturridge is injured again. We will finish in mid-table unless we improve drastically.

We've been shit but so has the ref. The club has to make a complaint about this ref.

Another player that was enhanced by playing with Suarez. Back to normality for Hendo and a few others now.

No surprise. Had to be that cunt too.

Brendan needs to make changes at HT otherwise Chelsea will walk this in the 2nd half. What is so striking is the difference in the number of players on both sides that take silly chances and make ridiculous mistakes. Chelsea have almost none whereas we have lots. Mourinho doesn't put up with players who dick around on the pitch.

Really struggling now. We don't have players who can control a game whereas Chelsea have them all over the pitch.

No chance of winning with that team. Pretty much the same team that struggled against mighty Newcastle.

I was worried about Lazar because he didn't even look good in his 'highlights' videos on youtube. But I do think he will improve once the whole team starts playing better. Sterling looked really good last season because the team was tearing it up. Now we are playing shit Sterling doesn't look that great, although it doesn't help when Brendan sticks him on the wing. Hopefully better things to come from Lazar.

Not as big a fuck up as Moores bringing in Houllier as joint manager because he didn't have the balls to sack his mate Roy. Who the fuck has joint management teams? Typical of a dinosaur like Moores to do something like that. Thankfully Roy had some dignity and left, leaving Houllier to finally fix the team up.

Parry and Moores, a pair of fucking idiots who stood by and watched the mancs steamroller past us and did absolutely nothing to arrest the slide. The only right thing Parry ever did was to appoint Rafa as manager.

Good effort from the team, well surprised by that. Can looked really good at times and Toure rolled back the years. Could have nicked a goal too if we tried. Mig also played well. All in all, a shit result but not a bad night, all things considered.

FFS decent chance, crazy cross messed it up. Can looks promising. Lazar not so much.

Aside from the fact fringe players are being used against the best side in Europe, just how well can this assortment of players selected by Brendan play together? They will be disjointed and won't know what the fuck is going on. Brendan has effectively thrown these lads under a bus. One of the most staggering decisions I've ever known as a Liverpool fan.

Nah, if he played his strongest available 11 no one would complain if we got beat. Picking a weak team like this is pretty insulting to the fans and players.

Except our dignity and reputation. We're the 5 times winners of this tournament and should not be humiliated by any opponent. There's a good chance we could suffer our worst ever defeat in Europe tonight (5-1).

I think Brendan's lost it. What is he thinking with that lineup? Never known a Liverpool manager to accept defeat before the match has even kicked off. Maybe Woy, but at least he still put his best team out when he had to. Baffling selection.