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Think you’ll find that just emotionally highly strung human beings in general, and most fanbases would react the same. Raised expectations and recency bias brings the worst out of fans, we’ve seen much of it on here this season.

The hate this guy would get if we were on the receiving end He’s a proper shithouse.

Any form of European football next season after the circumstances we have found ourselves in is an achievement in itself at this point, and it’s possible. An ECL run could be a lot of fun.

Dyche rallied them after that deduction, but now they have another one potentially hanging over them it’s a big ask imo. A bad run of form they might not recover from especially with a fan base that can turn so toxic so quickly.

I’ll say it again and again, he’s so under appreciated by our fans it’s unreal. When our press is fully firing he adds so much value all round. He is the embodiment of physical attributes counting above all in the press. How many goals have we scored from high turnovers since August 2022? I know it’s a fair chunk of our total percentage of goals without checking, we have literally brute forced so many goals with the press and he’s been a part of most of them. Hes a player who incites frustration when things don’t go our way, and it results in everything he does so well being overlooked.. lacks a right foot yes, occasionally doesn’t make that key pass but still consistently makes this system greater than the sum of its parts. Glad he’s staying, and doubtful he’s moved on in the summer.

What a result, proper payback on Emery for Howe after last season. The next few games will prove how much of a factor the fatigue was, and the benefits of increased preparation time.. another win on Saturday would be absolutely huge.

Had so much potential, and has dealt well with being thrown in at the deep end lately.. can’t wait to see how he develops next season and beyond.

Grown men, really sad

A DM means we would have to change formation to also incorporate Bruno at 6, can’t see us moving away from the 4-3-3. The current issue is who we have available in midfield, not that we don’t deploy an out and out DM imo.

Unfortunately I’ve heard that defenders generally have his number and track him well.

Anyone considered that he might actually be ill

Interesting

It’s not as simple as just comparing the spending, Liverpool were in a big transition phase and their squad needed a rebuild when Klopp arrived. Pep inherited a side that had won 2 PLs in the preceding 4 seasons yet Klopp came in and re established Liverpool as a top 2 club in the country after seasons of general regression since Rafa, first CL win in 15 years and PL in 30. As coaches they are comparable imo, they both massively improve players and get the best out of them but I’d argue that Klopp has had more out of the sum of its parts of his Liverpool sides than Pep has out of his. Klopp just about takes it for me. Pointless argument comparing Ferguson, football has changed enough since 2013 so much so that its a non starter and we’ll never know. Anyway, these ‘who’s better’ discussions are a bit silly anyway without being able to compare identical situation and circumstances with another but we will all have our own opinions.

Unlikeable when he’s not on your side, but the best coach in world football imo. Liverpool heading into a bit of a transition phase (they are heading that way anyway, with key players getting older or leaving) would be good for a season or two, expect they will aim to bring someone in that favours a high press rather than rip it all up and start again..

Having Murphy and Barnes back will be huge for us, we’ve had to rinse Gordon and Miggy and it’s shown at times.

Sun rises in the (north) east and sets in the west (Ham), clearly

Also we clearly feel there is a lot of value to be extracted from Ligue 1 - Bruno, Botman, Ekitike and probably more we don’t know about.

That’s good value for him imo

People take these links and media reports far too literally sometimes, it’s a dead window so naturally the bullshit level from the press will be increased. Not everything reported is true, not even half of it.. and anything that is will be exaggerated. Some on here ran with this assumption that management had gambled our financial structure on qualifying for Europe and therefore are on course to fail FFP so we had to sell to avoid implications, all because of Bayern trying their luck with Trippier. It’s madness

Pretty weak way of discrediting Longstaff tbh, he doesn’t deserve a Pardew comparison.. no one does

That’s very harsh on Longstaff, he had something like 40 apps last season and was a huge part of it.

I don’t think keeping him stunts any progress at all, he’s pretty much indispensable for the short/mid term and it would be especially silly to sell mid season. We’ve all got good reason to be pleased he’s staying.

The summer is going to have at least one long, drawn out media saga and it’ll probably be Bruno because of the clause.. At least selling him will put the FFP talk to bed for a season or two.

Great news, the fee would have never covered what we’d have lost if he left.

The media are loving using us for clicks in this dead window..