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General Football and Sport / Re: BT Sport
« Last post by RedDeadRejection on Today at 12:54:56 pm »Totally here for Klopp going scorched earth on the way out.
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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: Mohamed Salah - Best in the World *
« Last post by Ski on Today at 12:52:43 pm »Think there are plenty who have/are willing to write him off for his form since his return from injury. Dunno what his injury record was like before he came here but guessing his recent lay off could've been the longest ever for him. I'm therefore not surprised it's taking him as long as it is to get back up to speed.
Is he as composed as he usually is? No.
Is his decision making as good as it normally is? Probably not - seems to be taking every chance 1st time rather than picking and choosing when to take further touches.
Has his 1st touch been as good as it normally is? No. Seems to be struggling to trap a ball just now.
Does that mean he's done at the top level and on the decline? Not for me. I'm fully expecting he'll regain all of these traits that make him the player he is soon enough. With only 3 games left it might not come until next season now but I have no doubts whatsoever he still has at least another couple of good years ahead of him.
Wasn't so long ago the boss was saying Mo has the body/fitness of a player 10 years his junior. We've all seen how ripped he is and how well he looks after himself.
I just think there's a lot of frustration in there about lots of things like the boss leaving, being out for as long as he was, struggling to regain his previous form, being desperate to win something in the boss' final season and seeing opportunities in the FA Cup, EL and the league slip away and having not played in the EFL Cup Final so not feeling like he contributed to that. All (or in part) probably manifested itself in what happened on the touchline last weekend added to the fact that he'd have wanted to get on earlier to affect the game.
I hope he stays and shows those that are writing him off that he's a good while away from that yet.
Is he as composed as he usually is? No.
Is his decision making as good as it normally is? Probably not - seems to be taking every chance 1st time rather than picking and choosing when to take further touches.
Has his 1st touch been as good as it normally is? No. Seems to be struggling to trap a ball just now.
Does that mean he's done at the top level and on the decline? Not for me. I'm fully expecting he'll regain all of these traits that make him the player he is soon enough. With only 3 games left it might not come until next season now but I have no doubts whatsoever he still has at least another couple of good years ahead of him.
Wasn't so long ago the boss was saying Mo has the body/fitness of a player 10 years his junior. We've all seen how ripped he is and how well he looks after himself.
I just think there's a lot of frustration in there about lots of things like the boss leaving, being out for as long as he was, struggling to regain his previous form, being desperate to win something in the boss' final season and seeing opportunities in the FA Cup, EL and the league slip away and having not played in the EFL Cup Final so not feeling like he contributed to that. All (or in part) probably manifested itself in what happened on the touchline last weekend added to the fact that he'd have wanted to get on earlier to affect the game.
I hope he stays and shows those that are writing him off that he's a good while away from that yet.
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Media and Arts / Re: Wrestling Thread (AEW, NJPW, WWE, etc) (*)
« Last post by RedDeadRejection on Today at 12:51:19 pm »Reckon Trent? Is underrated personally. Anyone else think so or just me? Heel turn could be decent
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General Football and Sport / Re: BT Sport
« Last post by oojason on Today at 12:51:05 pm ».
'Liverpool vs Tottenham Press Conference | Jürgen Klopp' - from LFC; Klopp had a few choice words on TNT...
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/fieTQLTmHs0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/fieTQLTmHs0</a>
^ or click here to watch - www.youtube.com/v/fieTQLTmHs0
On English teams performing in Europe / playing too many matches / not enough time for rest and training sessions... and changing the approach...
Jürgen Klopp: "Seeing Aston Villa lose last night it means no English team will be in a European final, we should ask, do we decrease the intensity for the players?"
"If no English team is in a European final, have we underperformed? The PL is best in the world, not overrated, the players [overworked]. Someone needs to help the people, cut off one game."
"Two more CL games next season and you can cut off League Cup semi two legs."
"I had a chat with TNT - a television show I will never watch again! - and they said they pay us to play football but I don't see it that way, football pays them."
"You have to become a part of football again and not just the squeezer, that is some advice from an old man on the way out. People can survive without match-days from time to time."
Klopp on TNT scheduling Liverpool for the shortest turnaround in the world between matches:-
“That they dare to give Thursday, Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday 12.30 is a crime. I was actually waiting for Amnesty International to go to them.
“It’s just somebody who sits there and decides that, and I would like to meet or be part of the meeting where someone says, ‘Liverpool 12.30’ and the whole room bursts into laughter, ‘Again!’
“I would like to be there.
“This morning I got sent the stats that says the quickest turnaround in the whole world is Liverpool FC.
“And we sit there, and I’m the same, and tell them ‘you have to do more, fight more, you have to go for it’.
“In the whole world, we have the quickest turnaround between games, that’s absolutely insane. But they are still happy to collect subscribers, you can take me off that list!”
'Klopp learning about the word 'penultimate' - and asking if he will get a lawsuit for saying something negative about TNT 😂 😂 😂':-
https://twitter.com/TheAnfieldWrap/status/1786336692955119693 (40 second clip from the Spurs press conference)
'EVERY word of Jurgen Klopp’s brilliant dig at TNT Sports and fixture congestion!':-
www.thisisanfield.com/2024/05/every-word-of-jurgen-klopps-brilliant-dig-at-tnt-sports-and-fixture-congestion
Fuck BT/TNT for their lazy unprofessional and damaging 'journalism' in their coverage of the 2022 Champions League Final in Paris. And Jake Humphrey too for his comments - and his vacuous and needlessly belated 'apology' some 12 months on.
'Liverpool vs Tottenham Press Conference | Jürgen Klopp' - from LFC; Klopp had a few choice words on TNT...
^ or click here to watch - www.youtube.com/v/fieTQLTmHs0
On English teams performing in Europe / playing too many matches / not enough time for rest and training sessions... and changing the approach...
Jürgen Klopp: "Seeing Aston Villa lose last night it means no English team will be in a European final, we should ask, do we decrease the intensity for the players?"
"If no English team is in a European final, have we underperformed? The PL is best in the world, not overrated, the players [overworked]. Someone needs to help the people, cut off one game."
"Two more CL games next season and you can cut off League Cup semi two legs."
"I had a chat with TNT - a television show I will never watch again! - and they said they pay us to play football but I don't see it that way, football pays them."
"You have to become a part of football again and not just the squeezer, that is some advice from an old man on the way out. People can survive without match-days from time to time."
Klopp on TNT scheduling Liverpool for the shortest turnaround in the world between matches:-
“That they dare to give Thursday, Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday 12.30 is a crime. I was actually waiting for Amnesty International to go to them.
“It’s just somebody who sits there and decides that, and I would like to meet or be part of the meeting where someone says, ‘Liverpool 12.30’ and the whole room bursts into laughter, ‘Again!’
“I would like to be there.
“This morning I got sent the stats that says the quickest turnaround in the whole world is Liverpool FC.
“And we sit there, and I’m the same, and tell them ‘you have to do more, fight more, you have to go for it’.
“In the whole world, we have the quickest turnaround between games, that’s absolutely insane. But they are still happy to collect subscribers, you can take me off that list!”
'Klopp learning about the word 'penultimate' - and asking if he will get a lawsuit for saying something negative about TNT 😂 😂 😂':-
https://twitter.com/TheAnfieldWrap/status/1786336692955119693 (40 second clip from the Spurs press conference)
'EVERY word of Jurgen Klopp’s brilliant dig at TNT Sports and fixture congestion!':-
www.thisisanfield.com/2024/05/every-word-of-jurgen-klopps-brilliant-dig-at-tnt-sports-and-fixture-congestion
Fuck BT/TNT for their lazy unprofessional and damaging 'journalism' in their coverage of the 2022 Champions League Final in Paris. And Jake Humphrey too for his comments - and his vacuous and needlessly belated 'apology' some 12 months on.
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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: New Kit thread
« Last post by Statto Red on Today at 12:49:53 pm »I'm pretty certain now that no shirt will ever match the 125th anniversary jersey of 2017/18. Goddamn thing was a work of art.
That day we wore it for the first time, we could have beaten Brazil 1970 in that shirt, let alone beaten Middlesboro to qualify for the CL
Kind of loved this shirt too, & helped that we won the league in it.
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General Football and Sport / Re: Spurs - First Ten Games 23/24 League Champs
« Last post by Brian Blessed on Today at 12:47:29 pm »Klopp also got to two cup finals in his first season. You wouldn’t happen to be Australian, would you, latortuga?
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News and Current Affairs / Re: UK GE and Local Elections, plus polls, and policy.
« Last post by cornishscouser92 on Today at 12:47:24 pm »The response to the Sheffield green party tickled me on Twitter the other week
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General Football and Sport / Re: Premier League Fixtures 3rd - 6th May
« Last post by Hazell on Today at 12:47:22 pm »Biiiiig shrug.
Although I am taking my kids to Brentford v Fulham tomorrow which will either be an absolute stinker or some mad end of season 4-4.
Two big questions remain.
Who will get relegated?
Can Man Utd upset the odds and finish with a positive goal difference?
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News and Current Affairs / Re: UK GE and Local Elections, plus polls, and policy.
« Last post by RedDeadRejection on Today at 12:46:46 pm »Fucking bored of these fucking Corbynite c*nts popping up on all my streams with their childish fucking boring fucking shite.
Liebour.
Fucking grow up, you stupid c*nts.
Not seen anything on my feed to be honest. But if it's stuff about Israel and the LBC Starmer interview I have seen then I don't think it's childish at all.
Thankfully it won't make a dent.
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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: New Kit thread
« Last post by disgraced cake on Today at 12:45:33 pm »Don’t love the collar but otherwise it’s fine. Much better than 21/22 which is the worst one ever for me followed by 14/15.
It’s miles better than both of them.
Was the 21/22 one the one with the weird orange collar/sleeves? Never got that at all. Great season though.
I'm amazed people actually signed off on this collar, though. Nike been relatively poor on the whole.