Chris_R

This. Howe properly loves Burn, which I do too but only as a central defender. Fucking sick of seeing him at left back.

He only cares about money and he's on 300k/week for the next 6 years. Doesn't matter if he plays or not, reckon he's perfectly happy.

Doesn't bother me if they want to (wrongly) twist that we only won because of lucky home ties and being the only club to take it seriously. We still won it. And there isn't anything they can say that would make me wish we'd had more away draws or fielded kids. Best footballing day of my life.

Just your second game in nearly 4 years?!

Add in 6 years of wages plus a signing on fee, it's more than £230m

Isak was only different because it was to us whereas Wissa was to another club. Both are mulit-millionaires stamping their feet for more money. And yes I have the same double standards, Wissa spat in someone else's face not mine, so I'm not going to hate him like they do. It's not my responsibility to hate him on their behalf, just like I don't expect Liverpool fans to hate Isak for the nature of his move there.

I did wonder this, I thought live it looked like a foul and nothing I saw on the relays convinced me otherwise. Glad it wasn't scrutinised!

It was spend time on that or do my actual job, so it wasn't a tough choice.

Depends how you measure it. Is it from release to first bounce, or from release to Barnes' first touch? If the latter it changes things a lot and I'd argue a pass isn't complete until the receiving player touches it. After all, many passes are over the ground and yet we don't say they travelled 0 meters.

Strong disagree. GK should always be at the bottom IMO, attackers at the top. Can't stand these upside-down formations people do.

Soon there's going to be more inside that leadership group than there is outside of it.

If he can play 60 minutes, he's as fit as he ever was for us. If they're expecting him to get to a level where he'll be sprinting after low odds balls in the 89th minute, they've not done their homework.

eScouser at work who couldn't find Liverpool on a map has spent the last 4 months baiting me about the proposed transfer, then gloating that they'd bought him. If he wasn't in charge of finance and needed to sign my expenses off every month I'd have told him to get fucked. Oddly I haven't heard a peep from him in the last few weeks.

Well every other club seems to get their money back on their failed signings. That said I'm not writing him off, way too early.

Suspiciously cropped the date off the above one...

Yeah if getting a few more million means having to watch the rat bang in goal after goal whilst Liverpool win the league, I'll pass thanks.

Please don't say stuff like this, I might start to like him again.

I think we'd have been likely sold in the second division, but not to anyone with a shred of ambition. That >>>>> Ashley, but PIF >>>>> that. We got lucky.

He's gone on strike, only wants Liverpool.

When he hit that penalty, I was certain someone was going to have to go get the ball back from the metro station. Then the net rippled. Just sublime.

Twice the player Isak is for half the price.

Don't all Spanish players have to have a minimum fee release clause? Obviously it could be eleventy billion pounds, but technically every Spanish player is available.

I dunno if he's a better striker than Isak but he's certainly a better footballer.