The Fish

No. I think you're a cunt.

Because I don't want to marry a cunt, but I don't mind having a pint with one.

Howe is way too "High Performance podcast" to have a beer with, Klopp might be a bit of a cunt, but at least he's not dull. And if I stopped drinking with cunts, I'd be drinking alone.

Final Outcome - 7th in the league with a chance of European competition. Quarter Final of two domestic cups. Out of the CL in the group stage. 85 goals scored, but 62 goals conceded. The mitigation of injuries goes further than just missing key men, it's also the strain it puts on those left standing, and the need for players like Burn and Longstaff to play despite being injured. To achieve the above while missing >30% of squad by value for 25 league games and 40% for 8 league games, is remarkable. 2 Results - Big results against the likes of PSG, the Manchester clubs in the cups, taking 18pts off the top 7 clubs. The hammering of Sheffield and winning by 3 clear goals on 9 occasions, only losing by 3 on 3 occasions. 1.5 Signings - Livramento and Hall have certainly looked like they'll become our first choice fullbacks, Tonali looked good for those 8 games. Barnes looks a good addition and has scored some important goals. But, Livramento has missed a chunk through injury, Hall is still learning, Tonali has missed the majority of the season and Barnes has as well. 1 Team Performances - Really difficult to judge given the ridiculous injuries we've endured. But, we played superbly in games, PSG and Sheffield spring to mind, as do the Villa games and the cup games against the Manchester clubs. Even with the injuries we've looked sluggish to start, we've lacked the sharpness in our control of the ball and there have been games where we've barely turned up against very beatable opponents. We are 3rd in the league for xG, but 9th for xGA. We have improved our xG from last season (76.98 -> 84.48) and scored more (68-85) but are way more open at the back (41.86->62.46) conceding almost twice as many goals as we did in 22/23 (33-62) 1.5 Player Performances - Gordon and Bruno are my players of the season. They've consistently dragged the team over the line when we've been labouring. Schar and Isak get special mentions too. The latter would surely have scored even more had he been fit. Burn, Longstaff, Almiron, Dubravka have all had moments where you wonder if they'd ever played the game before, but it's only really Dubravka who you can say was playing without the shadow of an injury looming over them. Miley, Hall, Gordon have all improved their game too. 1.5 Overall 7.5

I think Liverpool think we must all love Klopp because they do, and the pundits/journalists/ex-pros do. And look, I don't doubt I'd rather have a pint with Klopp than Howe, but he's a bad loser, he's fully bought into the "It Matters More" horseshit and he's twisting reality to paint Liverpool as plucky underdogs. End of the day you look at the top managers not just on what trophies they've won, but on how they've changed the league. Ferguson did it for ages, Wenger did it and Guardiola has done it. Has klopp changed the league to the same extent? I'd say not. Plus scousers are usually cunts, so there's that.

differcult

Shame on me? Shame on you!

Haven't checked this after about three weeks into the season? How'd I do? If I'm not bottom we should ban whoever is.

Plus a £40m deal for another Brazilian. Neither of them joining until 2025.

I think that both he and Bruno play similar roles albeit in different ways. Both can defend and can evade pressure, both can get forward and create opportunities. He's not quite the out and out defensive midfield, but he's more defensive than a true blue central midfielder. He's kind of box to box but lacks the physicality you'd expect from that role. He's definitely not an attacking midfielder, but he does create chances. He's not a regista, mezzala, or carrilero, but I think the term that best describes him is Segundo Volante. https://medium.com/@moderntactics343/tactical-investigation-what-is-a-segundo-volante-2bb3491cbf5b Now, I know a lot of you absolutely fucking HATE foreign muck, but honestly read the above and I think it describes his role very well. It even references Barella who we were very much interested in, before we switched to Tonali. FWIW I think the gaping hole has more to do with Pope's absence than it is our midfield. If Pope was fit our defence would be higher up the pitch, closer to the midfield.

Not sure if the hirsute homosexuals would feel the same.

Maybe not. Maybe yes. Maybe they won't give a fuck.

We've definitely got space to spend this season. TV Money, League position payment, decent cup runs, CL money, Adidas deal, Saudia Formula E tie-in. Saleable assets are; Almiron £15-£20m Longstaff £25m Wilson £15m Targett £10m Lascelles £5-10m Krafth £2m Hayden £2m Fraser £3m Dubravka £1m c£80-£90m Plus dumping some wages from the likes of Hendrick, Ritchie, Dummett, Karius Now, lets be conservative and say we can't even raise 1/2 that amount from player sales. So, £30m plus change. Add that to 70% of the amount provided by the club's revenue which was £250m in 22/23 and our budget could be £205m (30+175) on fees and wages, amortised over the length of the contracts.

That's mostly because the players making mistakes are holdovers from the old Newcastle. Dubravka, Longstaff, Almiron, Krafth, Murphy, Ritchie, Dummett, Lascelles, none of them* were supposed to play much if any part of this season. But we've needed to rely on them to varying degrees. We've also had to lean more heavily on the bluechip players. Bruno and Gordon were playing 90 minutes game after game, with no respite. Leading to more bad decisions, more mistakes, more brainfarts.

Not sure, sometimes it comes out (like who voted for/against changes to PSR rules), but it doesn't always leak. No, I don't think we will. Where we're looking to end up, we need to make sure big decisions aren't missed. For all VAR gets things wrong they tend to be the subjective calls that happen in the box, at pace. We want to be attacking the box at pace so we'll want them reviewed.

Read my lips (enough is enough)

How will he cope moving to Newcastle? Afterall he's just a Smalltown Boy

Your football knowledge is only matched by your business acumen.

I don't think he's quite worth £130m

I'd rather

Has it hurt the top 6 more than it has helped? Will relegated clubs care enough? There's 9 nay votes.

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