The Fish

Fucking Hell man, that's barbaric.

No worries, we'll do well enough for the five of us.

They also invented semafour nil

Explain yourself, young man

That is so bad I actually feel pane.

There's no other way.

At 14 I liked comic books, football, Blur and masturbating. I was a complex kid.

Isn't it nice to have real things to be proud of?

I take care of the whole head. Just like your Mum! Heyooohhhhhhh

"Injured"

Dunno where they're getting their date from, but I have us 4th for xG against per 90. (1.02) Also, if you ignore penalties, Liverpool drop to 5th for xG. Behind Everton. If games were played on the spreadsheet, we'd be 2nd, behind Man City

It's way more likely to be a version of A, in my view. I don't think we're going to shift too far from our current style, but we will see more of the ball. And when we do, we'll need better technicians on the pitch. Last season so many of our good chances came from the triangles made on the right by Almiron, Trippier and Bruno. I think Tonali has been bought to take Bruno's place on that flank to allow him either to try and build that same threat on the left with Gordon and Burn/Hall, OR play more in the centre of the attack. Bruno is currently playing as our defensive midfield cover when his best work is done further up the pitch. I think Bruno and Tonali ahead of an out and out DM would allow us to press, have multiple areas of threat and continue our high intensity pressing game. Tonali is not a defensive midfielder, not even to the standard being set by Bruno currently.

I've been trying to think of which Premier League player he reminds me of and I'm struggling. He's definitely not a true blue defensive midfielder. He's no David Batty. Plays on the right of a midfield 3, can drive with the ball, works hard, good solid technical ability, looks for killer balls, operates in that space just outside the corner of the box looking for through balls or crosses. Maybe like an Odegaard? I dunno.

I think that's by design, our boys taking shots from outside the box tend to come when the result is pretty secure.

I think Twitter are expecting any player to hit the ground running as a lot of ours have. Same thing happened with Gordon. Thing with Tonali is that he hasn't played a string of games with our first choice midfield available and a settled forward line in front. And we haven't played a run a games with a settled team against weaker opponents. Tonali is a quality player and I'm sure Howe and our team will get more from him than we've seen so far.

I use a face scrub and moisturiser too, y'know?

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