Howay

Aye, if it’s true it’s a good deal. I have a hard time believing much when that club are involved mind, they’re the one club that seems to pay significantly lower than any discussed release clauses/demands in the media after the signing. It always seems a bit like publicity and playing into this perception that Klopp is doing more with less than anyone else in a time where most transfers are officially undisclosed.

Aye, he also played for the worst attacking side in the league for half the season which heavily impacts his statistics, as seen by his shooting ones which show his accuracy despite getting the opportunity to shoot as much when compared to his peers, as well as his defensive stats. Compared to the same stats for ASM: We can play around with stats all day to shape narrative how we want tbh, the thing that’s clear is ASM doesn’t mesh with Howe’s style of play - he suits a style where he gets all the ball and can do his mazy runs to the corner flag to his hearts content. Gordon is a youth prospect tbh.

Almiron follows Al-Ittihad on Instagram apparently

Maybe Al Ittihad will buy him

Completely spot on. They’re fucking unreal, every top player in football grew up a massive Liverpool fan who is absolutely desperate to play for them according to that lot. Bellingham, a lad that was clearly Birmingham City through and through, was obsessed with Liverpool that lot reckoned and that worked out well . It’s complete delusion, a Liverpool glory hunter I know does it all the time - every top player anyone else signs was a target for them, or wanted to play for them etc.

It’s really nice to see a focus on improving the level of our academy sides. We’ve recruited heavily in this department already with a lot of highly rated British and Irish players, hopefully we see some of them make their way into the first team.

I agree he has shown some adaptation to his game this season, the issue is I just think his natural game is basically the opposite of what Howe wants so it’s always going to be an uphill battle. Those instincts are hard to overcome, I think it was one of the last games this season where twice he received the ball over the top and should have been gone with an easy one on one but instead he slowed and tried to check his man and beat him rather than just sprinting with the ball while he was already clear. His shooting is also pretty poor, so it’s a lot of things to improve when we could just sell him and buy better. I get why people are so attached to him and want him to work (although not to the extent some do - not including you in that btw Gloom), but it’s a good time to move on for both him and the club.

A lot of stats like that are really helped by being subbed on in games we are comfortable in, and Howe finally trusts he can come on and not harm us. The reality is he’s a player who turns the ball over in horrendous positions, leaves his left back exposed, and doesn’t massively help our aggressive press when the ball is turned over (something which has been a huge factor for us). He’s a player people always seem to search for every positive stat or involvement to support him being some brilliant player, the reality is he’s not which will be underlined when we see who bids for him.

Aye, Luke has absolutely had his life. Also after his whiney little post about Newcastle fans not getting their club back the dope has the below as his Twitter background

These types of posts by journalists that sniff their own farts is beyond tedious at this point. We all know the points, but doing things like calling a club people have a connection to a pawn will always create a hostile/defensive response - then they have a whinge about the abuse they received before trying to make it seem like they were actually trying to make some noble, important point before having another snidey little dig. Inevitably ones like Holt, and Delaney join in before they play a big game of “haven’t we been hard done by” soggy biscuit the crumpet munching pricks. Gan kick rocks Storey you nerdy cunt.

Aye, he won’t have any insight into Howe’s thoughts tbh as Ashworth and Howe have both agreed to keep everything within the club. I think a lot of these are roll over rumours from earlier windows too, it’s also quite a noticeable trend that when a player is linked and then the link gathers steam people like Romano start posting about it then most the time it goes nowhere - I tend not to pay him much notice tbh especially after the Joao Pedro mess.

Spot on, they’ve been wanking themselves silly over Real Madrid winning CL after CL with their fucking super team, the wages of Bale, Benzema, and Ronaldo alone would have been eye watering let alone the rest of their team. We’ve had years of Italian sides dominating Europe, years of Spanish sides, what’s the difference if it’s a few years of Premier League dominance? This constant outrage that football was this totally equal game and has now been ruined is laughable, just like the whinging about Man City winning a few titles in a row conveniently ignores the fucking dominance of Manchester United and how they drained the best talents from all other PL sides for yonks. For a long time Barca and Real Madrid enjoyed massive financial advantage over the PL sides since they hoovered up the lions share of TV rights while the PL sides had more of an even split - again something conveniently ignored now the PL sides are getting similar TV revenue despite the more even split across the league.

so not happening

Think it’s the same source that broke the Isak bid?

Agreed, I’ve seen it from a few pundits now as well as the YouTube crew about how leicester should have given it a go against us but if they did we’d have fucking smacked them as you say. Our attackers work well when there is space, they struggle when the pitch is condensed and teams sit back, so if Leicester tried to come at us we’d have had a ton of space. I think the pundits are also forgetting that Leicester are shite and we dominated the ball - if that was Liverpool rather than us they’d not have been saying this.

Szoboszlai Is captain of his national side at just 22 so clearly has leadership qualities, whereas Maddison seems a bit immature still. From the few games I’ve seen of Szoboszlai he seems a good fit for Howe’s system, but as others have noted Maddison is a proven talent in the PL, I won’t grumble with either signing tbh but definitely think it’s Szoboszlai as primary target and Maddison is the back up option.

Everton circling the toilet for another season like the mackems did for a decade or so.

This commentator is desperate for Chelsea to score

What is Burn doing ffs

It doesn’t matter but it’s a real shame to go into the summer like this, would have been nice to have give these dick heads a kicking.

Couldn’t disagree more with this, the bloke is a very poor full back. Little in attack and his positioning is woeful. Anytime he’s played this season he’s cost us goals, like he did today.

I’ve been very consistent on him, never rated him and thought last season was a purple patch from him. He never got anywhere his man today, as he hasn’t any time he’s been brought on this season.

Matty Targett is a fucking woeful player mind.