Polarboy

In fairness to Carr, if we'd bought players like Aubameyang etc. when he recommended them we'd have had a very decent team. But of course Fatley pretty much always went for the cheaper option.

Who was tweeting this about the Steve's?

😨 Not the Steve's!!! Well at least Eddie, should he arrive tomorrow, knock wood, will be bringing a Stephen with him in Stephen Purches.

Well he certainly had a preference for Ake when he was at Bournemouth, who of course is very calm on the ball and can play it out. Or at least he can when on form. He's been a bit patchy for Man City.

I had a look and the rules are a bit confusing, but you can loan a maximum of four players throughout a full season, but you can't have more than one from the same premier league club, and you can only register two at a time. So effectively we'd only be able to sign two players on loan in January. So yeah, we'd definitely need to persuade players like a Lingard and Tarkowski, that kind of level, to come on a permanent, then perhaps allow them a relegation clause in their contracts.

You can have 200m, but if the high value players don't want to come, at least on a permanent transfer, it's not much use. As some have said we're far more likely to loan players in January, with perhaps an option to buy if we stay up. Not many high level players are going to want to come if there's still a sniff of relegation about us, which there almost certainly still will be in January. Having said that If we get a decent DOF, I'm sure there will be a few interesting loan options given our resources when it will come to agents fees and player wages.

30m is a joke for someone who's barely played in about four years.

Is that a joke? I ask because there's banter from Liverpool fans that they want Howe to spunk 75m on Origi given he wasted 35m on Solanke and Ibe when he was at Bournemouth. In fairness he is a decent player, but 15, 20m is the limit I'd pay for him.

More from Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp on BBC Radio 5 Live: "There was another situation with Aaron Cresswell on Jordan Henderson." You thought that was a red card? "My god. I'm not your puppy. Hopefully, you have an opinion yourself. All good." Posted at 19:1319:13 'Difficult to take' FT: West Ham 3-2 Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp on BBC Radio 5 Live: "[The long unbeaten run coming to an end] is the least of my problems. However long a run is, it will come to an end. "There are couple of things that happened during the game that are difficult to take. If you don't take your chances you're leaving things up to ref decisions." Which ref decisions are you not happy with? "It's really interesting you ask that. I'm not sure I want to answer the question if you don't know the situation I'm talking about. Do you not think [Alisson was impeded for the first goal]? Is your job not to have an opinion? Okay that's nice. "We saw it back, Alisson wants to go for the ball, Angelo Ogbonna hits Alisson's arm with his arm, that's why Alisson's arm deflects the ball into the goal. "There are countries where everyone would say that's a foul. The keeper must get help, otherwise in these situations everybody runs at the keeper because he must make sure he gets the ball. But he has no chance because if he pushes, it's a penalty." 😂Klopp is such a fucking tit, especially when they lose, which admittedly isn't that often.

If I had to guess I'd say it's going to be much higher than 29 points this season unfortunately. There isn't three teams as bad as Fulham, West Brom and Sheffield United were last season. Norwich are perhaps on their level, but Brentford have had an amazing start, so unless they fall away badly they're well on course for survival, Villa are going through a bad patch but have very decent players, Burnley you can never bet against surviving, Leeds under Bielsa will likely hit a winning run at some point, likely when Bamford is fit again, and as for Watford it's 50/50 as to whether Ranieri can turn them around, so they could perhaps join Norwich as being as bad as last seasons three relegated teams.

It's surely a formality now that Howe and his assistant have attended the match with Staveley, but I still won't be changing the thread title until it's official, official. Once bitten twice shy 😄👍 Two weeks break would normally be ideal but Dubravka, Clark, Schar, Lewis, Hendrick, Krafth, Fraser, and Almiron will all be away on international duty. Having said that Clark and Hendrick being away isn't that big a miss. You still have Lascelles, Shelvey, ASM, Wilson, Big Joseph, Ritchie, Hayden, Fernandez, Manquillo, Murphy, Darlow, Willock, Gayle, presumably Dummett won't join the Wales squad, and Longstaff nocking about the place, so he could at least try and up the fitness of the remaining players and try and instill his ethos and tactics in them. Then he only really needs to pull Fraser, Almiron, Dubs, and maybe Lewis into the fold. Clark and Hendrick, though it pains me given they're Irish, can go twiddle their thumbs somewhere.

The blonde with the glasses? How fussy are you mate 😂

Fair play to the BT cameramen. Every bint they've shown in the crowd has been decent 😉

Clark assist for Hayden is fucking hilarious given how this match, and previous matches have gone for both. Jones seems to have actually told them to push up the pitch, so far play for that at least.

Krafth with his one decent cross of the season.

No changes at half time. What does Jones need to see like.

We're so shit that Jenas is actually making sense with his critique of us.

Jenas saying we're obviously giving Brighton respect by sitting off them, and not going on the front foot. What he doesn't realise is that this is how we play against every team we play.

Jenas' incisive commentary, "Yeah, he's a good player".

So Norwich have won away to Brentford, and Burnley have drawn away to Chelsea. Not the best start to the footballing evening for us.

I tell a lie, Murphy has replaced Manquillo as well. So three changes, but he easily could have made five or six.

The only changes to the side are Almiron and Shelvey in for Longstaff and Fraser 😐 Fuck sake like.

Is Luke Edwards actually being useful for once. Wonders will never cease. It would seem he's extremely confident that his info is correct. If he wasn't he'd word it in the vaguest way possible in case if was nonsense. Can't get more clear than Howe will be at the match.

The Knight Ryder is wildly speculating about whether Howe is insisting on bringing in his own sporting director, this Hughes bloke I think his name was. Apparently that was the problem at Celtic. If he is insisting on that he can fuck off. The club are literally in the position of paying for the best in the world in terms of DOF, so if Howe does want Hughes in he's taking liberties. Who the technical director/director of football is, is not down to the manager. If anything it should be the other way around. Having said all that it would still count as an almighty fuck up from the club if they got this far only to be surprised by this. Maybe Howe did something similar at Celtic, as in led the club to believe everything was fine, and then sprung the DOF thing on them near the end of negotiations, thereby hoping to force their hands. A lot of wild speculation here, but even if the aforementioned was the case, the club should have contacted Celtic before any of this to find out exactly why their talks with Howe collapsed.

Chicken boy reckons the plan was always to announce it after the game anyway, so no need to panic as yet.