Away Toon

Real deserved to win, when it matters Liverpool's forwards not good enough, 3 finals and not a goal to be found.

Mane and Salah have been particularly poor

Anyhow Liverpool might be the better team, but my money's on Real to win it.

Why is this useless irrelevance the first thing I see when I come on here? Bin this thread off and forget our nasty past and look forward to whatever comes next.

Lodi and ASM on the left you would think is a non starter, maybe Harrison to replace ASM is the general idea. Lot of maybe's.

Creaking badly here

ASM is passing more often, unfortunately his passing is often not very good. and his finishing has never been great. Hopefully he can improve as we do, otherwise he'll be out or on the bench.

Longstaff probably our best player, ASM currently the worst wiith Bruno not far behind..

Longstaff back in beast mode.

Newcastle are intensifying their interest in Manchester United and England goalkeeper Dean Henderson, 25. (Mirror) Newcastle are interested in Reims striker Hugo Ekitike, 19, but Borussia Dortmund are also weighing up the Frenchman as a replacement for Erling Haaland. (Fabrizio Romano)

Rico Henry as an attacking left back.

Defensively we were better with the Swede than with Trippier

So I see we are still absolutely shit.

Bad goalkeeper. Sell. Am I allowed to say that?

ASM so fucking unprofessional. Please sell the fucker.

Not sure Everton are getting what they deserve but Chelsea certainly are. Sweet fuck all.

Real Madrid are monitoring Newcastle and Brazil midfielder Bruno Guimaraes, 24. (AS - in Spanish)

Looking back at the videos I'm surprised Tielemans didn't take Willock out when he went past him. Glad he didn't but he would have just got a yellow and Leicester a point.

Better get on with it here, as Leicester are about to take the reserves off and get at us.

It's the height of conceit or just stupidity for Pep to have picked this side, hope Liverpool absolutely batter them.

Pep sent them out to lose with the team he selected, and losing they are. Tit.

Newcastle want to make Brentford's Christian Eriksen their 'flagship' summer signing and will compete with Tottenham, Everton and West Ham for the 30-year-old Denmark midfielder, while the Bees are keen to extend his contract in west London. (Northern Echo) Both Arsenal and Newcastle are linked with Lyon midfielder Lucas Paqueta, 24. The Brazil international was previously linked with Paris St-Germain and has a price tag of around £58m. (Chronicle) Newcastle are poised to sign 17-year-old Irish defender Alex Murphy from Galway United. (RTE)

I must be the only one that thought Merino was slow, weak and terrible when he didn't have the ball.

It is all just so slow from both teams and for a neutral boring as well. If Wolves wake up and go for it they'll nick it 1-0.

Joe Linton is just not involved in the game enough to play where he's playing, as a last resort I'd play him more central where Shelvey stands about, or as a CH or just sell him for glue.