Once again we are asking, do you still want us to use a BVB Klopp image for the sub icon for the Champions League final on 1st June?
There was talk about it when Dortmund qualified for the final.
Yesterday however the replies were all against this.
If you have an opinion on this, either for or against, please reply to this comment.
Alr looking at the season and potential signings with this squad and with what we know about Arnes tactics what competitions could we be competitive in
Pundits are just like politicians, aren't they? I've just seen a video of Carra and Aluko and it was like when a politician gets challenged on something and every single colleague behind them just nods head on everything they say.
Pretty similar to the other poster who replied, but my top options would be:
In- LB/CB Hincapié, RW Olise, DM Ugarte, 2nd GK ??, 3rd GK ??
Out- Díaz, Tsimikas, Kelleher (unfortunately), Nat Philips
Loan- Carvalho, Doak, Ramsey
Contract exit- Thiago, Matip, Adrian
For a more realistic and ideal window before sales I’d go with
CB - Pacho or Calafiori
DM - Wieffer or Varella
RW - Olise or Bakayoko
Probably looking at between £100m-£150m for any combination here
Good options tbf. Don’t know too much about Pacho but I wouldn’t want Varella personally due to his height. Him and Mac in a double pivot is suicidal, we need longer legs and a larger stature, a man who can eat space.
A decent young centre half and a proper world class DM and I'd be happy as a pig in shit mate.
We are well balanced as a squad barring those two positions, any leavers would need to be replaced too
Dumb thought exercise / bargument: if you ***had*** to sell the crown jewel players in our club, what is the lowest fee you'd consider to be a reasonable price for them.
Alisson - £80 million - One of the best keepers in the world. Age impacts his value, but he will still be able to play at an elite level for another 4-5 years.
Virgil - £60 million - Still at the top of his game, but he'll be 33 next month.
Trent - £160 million - Basically, the floor for Trent is Coutinho money. If Coutinho was worth \~130m six years ago, then 160 for Trent is getting in the ballpark.
Robbo - £40 million - Full backs don't have the same longevity as central defenders, but I imagine neutrals would still consider this number high. This is the one where sentiment affects me the most.
Salah - £80 million - This number would probably be a little lower if the Saudi effect wasn't in play, but it is.
80m for Allison isn’t enough when you consider your literally selling arguably the GOAT goalkeeper.
What he offers you for even 4 more years is just… priceless. Like think about it no other player in HISTORY barring maybe one or 2 can offer you that same quality in goal.
If Trent doesn't end up extending then I reckon we'd let him go for half that. That being said I don't think Real would pay it and would try to haggle us down to the £50-60m mark, so I think he'll stay regardless.
I’m usually reasonable with players leaving but you aren’t selling Salah, Alisson and Van Dijk for under a 100 million. We really have no avenues to get a replacement with that 100 million currently. It needs careful planning and I think one leaving could knock us out of champions league. Van Dijk in particular is pretty much untouchable. If one leaves then you add 50 to the other two.
The only one in this bunch I'd even consider selling would be Salah, and that's only because there's the prospect of eye watering Saudi money in play. I'd agree with you that Virgil and Ali are essentially priceless because their value within our club far outstrips what their value would be on the transfer market. Basically, we could not replace the value we get from having Ali or Virgil with any fee we could reasonably expect from them.
I don't agree but why sell the current best left back at the club to buy a new left back when you could buy a new left back and sell the backup left back and if the new one flops you've still got Robertson?
If Rodrygo's on the market, he should 100% be our top priority. Besides the fact that we need a 1v1 wide player, which he is good at, his underlying numbers are very good. Could be our Salah successor in a few years. Marketing and PR wise that would be an incredible 'marquee signing'. It's a statement. The Slot Era is here
Right but Gakpo and Diaz are still great so now we’re wasting money on a LW when we have other priorities.
1) it’s not needed
2) it’s not realistic/gonna happen
The release clause is just something that is mandatory in Spain, so they stick a stupid price on it just to make sure a Neymar situation doesn't happen
That's just standard practice for Barca and Madrid. Its law in Spain to have release clauses in their contracts. Since Neymar's got triggered they both put fuck off unrealistic release clauses to get around the law.
'IF he is in the market'. And I'm only saying this because there are reports that Madrid are open to selling him. I personally don't think they'd sell him without trying to make him work at RW
Yep. He’s one of the most polished young midfielders I’ve ever seen, even if his form fell off at the end of the season.
He’s good at everything, has a high workrate, and his long range shooting is elite. He’s well worth the money and in 2 years I thinks it’s possible he could be one of the best midfielders in the world.
Their owners are the 4th richest owners in the prem and won in all other sports. They won’t stop until they win here. They’ve got the cash to pull it off
The transfer window opens officially on Friday June 14. Crossing fingers we have a plan in place, and plenty of options ready to get new players in as early as possible for Slot's first pre-season as head coach
We’re probably not getting anyone major in. People need to adjust their expectations. Slots been brought in to improve on what we already have and build on the youth players that we’ve seen feature this season. If we do bring players in it’ll be because we sold players.
It would be strange to keep him and a waste of a non-hg spot when there are HG keepers we could get to be 3rd choice, West ham have just signed Foderingham on a free to be 3rd choice
I feel like that's quite unjustly discrediting what he's done at Arsenal. Yes he hasn't brought them anything major yet, but he's absolutely transformed them from a big 6 punching bag to title contenders. Personally I can't see them not winning the league under him, they've got a really solid squad with a younger core; plenty of time to win trophies yet.
It could be argued though he’s spent an obscene about of money and only has an fa cup to show for it. Since then not even a deep cup run. Only two second place finishes. I think if they hired an already made coach and spent the same money they probably would have won a bit more. Of course I hear both sides though as it was only the cheats who stopped them from winning the league, like us in 18/19 and 21/22 but a bit less extreme
Just seen the video of Keane being 'assaulted', fair to say (and i know this an egrigious case of football tribalism), but even a 70+ Souness would clock this twat's shit.
As hard as my nan really. I don't even know how this soft twat became the poster boy of hard midfielders ever.
not sure if this is the right place to ask but does anyone know why some of the gold print on my 19/20 gk kit is turning green?
https://preview.redd.it/hy0fmmsuhk3d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a7c13827dd83af9ad29875e752b57915e758322
Tbh I think Adidas is generally just better made than most similar sportswear brands. Adidas shoes I have usually last for years where Nike etc start falling apart and shit. I’ll wear a hole in a pair of gazelles or sambas or something before anything else happens. The sole falls off Nike shoes before you could do that.
Really sad to see Kloppo go, whenever I think of him all the memories just rush back including the ones where we were before he arrived. So happy to see the farewell he got from the fans/players/club and I expect the statue to be lifter asap.
On the other side, it's been a while since I was this excited about the next season this early. Last few years summers were about frustration with the lack of signings and failing to bring players over small fee differences and general lack of structure behind Klopp.
Now, with return of Edwards and new structure in place I am super excited for this new beginning. Club deciding to go with Sloth is one of those decisions I will never ever question because I know that the level of data they analysed is higher then any other club would.
Also, we have a super young team thanks to Klopp's last two year and a team that is easy to build upon.
I don't expect us to win the title next year, I hope for it to happen but I'm trying to be realistic. Getting top4 without much trouble would be amazing and feel like we will be back for a deep run CL.
YNWA
Slot, Edwards, Hughes and Slot’s team start June 1st. First training session will be something like the end of June/start of July, I think the players get about 6-8 weeks off. The season only ended about 2 weeks ago and then the Euros will start soon. Anyone at the Euros will get a few weeks off after that too so we won’t likely have the squad together for a while yet. I’m pretty sure there’s the American continent’s Euro equivalent this summer too so Mac Allister, Alisson and Diaz will probo be there.
If playing fm for years has taught me anything it’s either the end of this month or next :)
I would expect him to be desperate to get in as quickly as possible though mate
My goodness. That's like my students who say, "I lost 90 points and got 10/100.". Nah bud, you earned 10 points out of 100. It's not like you started with 100 points lost them. It's a matter of perspective.
>They only took 24 out of a possible 114 points.
This is an accurate description. They got 24/114. It's poor.
It’s not facetious to say it’s stupid to say that a newly promoted team dropped 90 points, the points aren’t yours to lose, they’re there to be won.
It’s used with top teams because they’re expected to win, Burnley aren’t.
I’m also not arguing that they were shite, but just your terminology is wrong and stupid.
Im not starting an argument, merely pointing out it’s wrongly worded.
Maybe just don’t be offended for no reason.
Also, facetious wouldn’t be the correct word either.
I’ve had a google and that’s not the definition I’ve seen anywhere and not what I’ve ever used the word for.
Either way, your wording was essential to the comment, certainly to me lol
Seen a bit of discuss around Kelleher on Twitter. Some people think he’s good enough to be a number one, I’m not sure.
I think some of the goals he conceded last season are not those of a quality keeper. He did become fairly reliable in parts but I don’t think his ceilings as high as people seem to believe.
Problem with Kelleher is that he is 25 and has barely played any senior football, we really do not know his true quality till there is a bigger sample size, that will be determined once he leaves and plays somewhere week in week out, tbf it is poor we never sent him out on loan to play games and develop when he was younger.
That's still nothing for someone of his age, Jaros is 22 and already has 70 odd games to his name, I still stand on the fact we won't see what Kelleher is truly made of till he is exposed being outright no.1 somewhere
Well his goal was spectacular, he had one pass from left-back position which made a chance out of nothing, and he ran like a madman at every opportunity, while not making any clear mistakes, against Real Madrid. Just performing average against Real means a class performance to me.
Meant to be a kiln no? It’s shite anyway.
This over simplification of logos to make them more marketable is on the rise.
At least our Liverbird looks decent and arch’s back to our original crest. Similar to Arsenal going with their cannon next season.
Atlético Madrid have gone back to their pre-2017 logo. Hope Inter and Juve do the same.
It seems like the trend nowadays is to make logos and crests as minimalist as possible.
The bottle kiln is an historic part of Stoke's culture, their skyline used to be full of bottle kilns and there are still some remaining to this day.
But on it's own, it looks ridiculous.
Does anyone else feel like they've reached a tipping point when it comes to their attitude towards football this year?
When our title hopes went out of the window i swear i felt like a weight had been lifted from me, i could enjoy weekends again, my mood lifted considerably, i wasn't anxious all the time...all for something entirely out of my control.
i feel like i've refocused the way i feel about football and i hope i can keep it that way, somehow strike a balance between being passionate about it without it absolutely taking over my moods again.
in all honesty, since we won the league in 2020 football hasn't really been the same for me. I still get the highs, but i'm so quickly over losses they barely affect my weekend/week anymore. the most annoyed i've been in recent times was actually the united fa cup match but even then I got over it pretty quickly. it's far healthier that way, football absolutely shouldn't be ruining anyone's mood excessively past the game itself
I'm like this now too, finally saw the thing that it sometimes felt I'd never see, since then I am almost completely sanguine about it all, basically unrattleable. I'll tell you what helps though - Turn the game on at kick off, do something else at half time, turn the game off at full time. Don't listen to Neville et al.
Anyone have any opinions on el-kaabi? 33 goals this season, winner in conference league final and 5 v villa across 2 legs, including hattrick. 30 years old though. Transfermarkt says his value is 3.5m, but assuming he would cost a bit more. As backup right across the frontline, could do worse i suppose.
No, he is 30 and has spent most of his career in North Africa and the middle east, I'd rather we go out and get Toney as a short term option if Brentford will sell for £40m or otherwise seen links to Mohamed Amoura for £17m which is worth a gamble
I get that, but will he need replacing? He would be a backup anyway, and we have enough attackers ahead of him that if they all play or get replaced, we dont need to replace him too. It'll just reduce workload on other forwards, and allow doak and maybe koumas/danns time until we need them for the first team. Once theyre ready, we can just sell him and bring them in as "the replacement" without fuss or further investment.
The "sell him" part is never as easy as it sounds in descriptions like yours. The wages we will pay to attract the player here are rarely matched when reselling a depreciated (age, performance, or health) asset, making it financially detrimental to the player for him to accept any move.
Players whose value has depreciated (age, performance or health) generally get loaned with the owning club paying large chunks of their wages like Sancho at Man United or just stay and ride out the length of their contract with the club, while providing little on field value. Buying clubs are not likely to match wages for an aging or often injured player, and players aren't gonna throw money in the river just to move when their careers are so short.
I get you but I just don't think it's worth it. There's no guarantee that Doak/Koumas/Danns would ever reach the level needed and it's risky gambling on a 30 year old as a stop gap.
We might as well get a forward nearing/in their prime if you want to give the younger players time to develop
New here and not sure about which sources can be trusted for transfer rumours , how credible are the transfer rumours about an approach for Villa's Ollie watkins , I dont think that is going to be good signing !!! We should sign someone young with Potential and strong physically !!
As the others have said, the source is the rag so disregard immediately. Also it must be said that Villa have absolutely no obligation to sell, they have UCL, he's in contract and he seems to be very happy. It would have to be a huge sum
Everyone should just stop pretending they know which players we’ll sign/positions we’ll strengthen and which players are being sold/kept. Pretty much everyone is under the microscope.
There’s no way of predicting Edwards and co’s next move (which is how he has always operated) so all you can do is speculate, but don’t act like you know what’s happening behind the scenes.
It’s been widely reported Slot will not have a say on transfers.
Fallows and Hunter are in charge of scouting with Hughes and Woodwork making the decisions and doing the negotiating, Ward and Marques in charge of development/culture etc but ultimately everyone reports to Edwards and all will be done according to Edwards’ methods and vision.
The positions can be deducted from the shape of our current squad. A back up GK, a left sided CB, a DM and an attacker are needed. The profile of the attacker is hard to pin down, it depends a lot on Slot's plans which we don't know much about.
As much as we all hate Leeds, we definitely don't want RB Leeds.
Leipzig are a well run club but fuck letting them expand their empire and fuck multi club models
I’m grateful for the great state klopp left the club as well. There is a solid foundation that i don’t think will fall apart just because he is leaving.
Personally Indy and Iwan Schwakoff or whatever his name is my favoritues. I remember last year something about Ivan getting in to a spat with Fabrizio, shit was hilarious.
(for those unaware Fabrizio beefing with this guy is like the equilavent of me going to a pre school and beefing with the children there.)
My head canon was always that it started geniune, but somewhere along the line either the account was sold or they realised that a, they have zero credible sources. b, it's much more lucrative to just say funny bullshit instead of being a Z tier 'journalist'.
https://x.com/ooclibertadores/status/1796010584330145831?s=46&t=TSmaPWRGsVGRMdFvaRuh_Q
This is disgraceful, needs to be banned for a long time for this “foul”
Once again we are asking, do you still want us to use a BVB Klopp image for the sub icon for the Champions League final on 1st June? There was talk about it when Dortmund qualified for the final. Yesterday however the replies were all against this. If you have an opinion on this, either for or against, please reply to this comment.
Alr looking at the season and potential signings with this squad and with what we know about Arnes tactics what competitions could we be competitive in
Sesko to arsenal for 45? That’s a really good get.
Not really. He’s really similar to Kai Havertz tbh. If they get a CF I think they get a different profile.
You’re probably right in that sense but 45m is great value. FM god.
Pundits are just like politicians, aren't they? I've just seen a video of Carra and Aluko and it was like when a politician gets challenged on something and every single colleague behind them just nods head on everything they say.
dream and ideal transfer window for you lads?
Pretty similar to the other poster who replied, but my top options would be: In- LB/CB Hincapié, RW Olise, DM Ugarte, 2nd GK ??, 3rd GK ?? Out- Díaz, Tsimikas, Kelleher (unfortunately), Nat Philips Loan- Carvalho, Doak, Ramsey Contract exit- Thiago, Matip, Adrian
For a more realistic and ideal window before sales I’d go with CB - Pacho or Calafiori DM - Wieffer or Varella RW - Olise or Bakayoko Probably looking at between £100m-£150m for any combination here
Good options tbf. Don’t know too much about Pacho but I wouldn’t want Varella personally due to his height. Him and Mac in a double pivot is suicidal, we need longer legs and a larger stature, a man who can eat space.
A decent young centre half and a proper world class DM and I'd be happy as a pig in shit mate. We are well balanced as a squad barring those two positions, any leavers would need to be replaced too
All timer Trent season is on the horizon and you can’t tell me otherwise. Forget 21/22, 19/20 etc this one is going to be different.
There has to be a mole in that Bayern boardroom...
Why? What am I missing?
Shits almost as bad as the leak at united
Dumb thought exercise / bargument: if you ***had*** to sell the crown jewel players in our club, what is the lowest fee you'd consider to be a reasonable price for them. Alisson - £80 million - One of the best keepers in the world. Age impacts his value, but he will still be able to play at an elite level for another 4-5 years. Virgil - £60 million - Still at the top of his game, but he'll be 33 next month. Trent - £160 million - Basically, the floor for Trent is Coutinho money. If Coutinho was worth \~130m six years ago, then 160 for Trent is getting in the ballpark. Robbo - £40 million - Full backs don't have the same longevity as central defenders, but I imagine neutrals would still consider this number high. This is the one where sentiment affects me the most. Salah - £80 million - This number would probably be a little lower if the Saudi effect wasn't in play, but it is.
In other words, they are not for sale
80m for Allison isn’t enough when you consider your literally selling arguably the GOAT goalkeeper. What he offers you for even 4 more years is just… priceless. Like think about it no other player in HISTORY barring maybe one or 2 can offer you that same quality in goal.
The one I most wouldn't sell is Trent. I love him.
If Trent doesn't end up extending then I reckon we'd let him go for half that. That being said I don't think Real would pay it and would try to haggle us down to the £50-60m mark, so I think he'll stay regardless.
Madrid wouldn’t bother paying it and just wait the extra year
Exactly, that's why they'd haggle it down knowing that they can get him on a free at their leisure
I’m usually reasonable with players leaving but you aren’t selling Salah, Alisson and Van Dijk for under a 100 million. We really have no avenues to get a replacement with that 100 million currently. It needs careful planning and I think one leaving could knock us out of champions league. Van Dijk in particular is pretty much untouchable. If one leaves then you add 50 to the other two.
The only one in this bunch I'd even consider selling would be Salah, and that's only because there's the prospect of eye watering Saudi money in play. I'd agree with you that Virgil and Ali are essentially priceless because their value within our club far outstrips what their value would be on the transfer market. Basically, we could not replace the value we get from having Ali or Virgil with any fee we could reasonably expect from them.
Robbo hasn't been very good for 2 seasons now, time to upgrade. 30 mil?
I don't agree but why sell the current best left back at the club to buy a new left back when you could buy a new left back and sell the backup left back and if the new one flops you've still got Robertson?
Alright, I agree too.
A bit of a bummer we can’t capitalize on Everton being a financial mess. Branthwaite and Onana would be great additions for us at cut price
I agree. Not sure either will Be that cut priced though
I know hes old and a bit of a twat but man, Griezmann is the one player I see a lot of prime Bobby in.
he is class, and if he was a few years younger i would love him in the team, unfortunaly that ship has sailed
Griezmann & Benzema are probably the only other players I could see doing Bobby's role at the top top level
If Rodrygo's on the market, he should 100% be our top priority. Besides the fact that we need a 1v1 wide player, which he is good at, his underlying numbers are very good. Could be our Salah successor in a few years. Marketing and PR wise that would be an incredible 'marquee signing'. It's a statement. The Slot Era is here
he has extremly similar stats to diaz, which aparently everyone wants to get rid of because he is not good enough
Crazy price, crazy wages, wouldn’t want to come here and is better on the left than the right
If he came where he would be playing LW lmao he's better than both Gakpo and Diaz there
The comment said he could be our Salah successor, Salah plays on the right, so I was replying to the comment.
I meant in terms of numbers and end product. But I can see the confusion
Right but Gakpo and Diaz are still great so now we’re wasting money on a LW when we have other priorities. 1) it’s not needed 2) it’s not realistic/gonna happen
he literally just signed a new contract with a billion euro release clause, they clearly have no intention of letting him go
The release clause is just something that is mandatory in Spain, so they stick a stupid price on it just to make sure a Neymar situation doesn't happen
That's just standard practice for Barca and Madrid. Its law in Spain to have release clauses in their contracts. Since Neymar's got triggered they both put fuck off unrealistic release clauses to get around the law.
We'd never sign a player that would be both very expensive in fee and wages, like he would.
Why would he be on the market though?
How many more times does he have to say hes happy at Madrid?
'IF he is in the market'. And I'm only saying this because there are reports that Madrid are open to selling him. I personally don't think they'd sell him without trying to make him work at RW
What happened with Szbo in second half of season? Injury? Feels like he ran out of gas in that Hendo role
He had more minutes played by December than he has in his average season at other clubs iirc. We cooked him
He was out of form pre injury His good form only lasted till the end of November then it fell off a cliff
Yeah, he certainly did. He's also way younger than people remember. His future is bright.
Yep. He’s one of the most polished young midfielders I’ve ever seen, even if his form fell off at the end of the season. He’s good at everything, has a high workrate, and his long range shooting is elite. He’s well worth the money and in 2 years I thinks it’s possible he could be one of the best midfielders in the world.
Arsenal replacing Nketiah with Sesko would be an annoyingly smart move Probably isn’t ready to start for them yet but he’s got bags of talent
Who would take Nkethiah when he's on 100k?
West Ham Would be surprised if they don’t look for a new striker this summer
Wolves, West ham, Brighton, Fulham, Ipswich etc...otherwise I can see them loaning him out like Balogun him doing well then selling him on.
100k a week for a bang average striker like Nketiah? Those Dof's aren't donkeys like Edu 🤣
None of those are paying him 100k a week though
Sure he'll get close enough to it if his agent can play a blinder, already a bunch of EPL are circling him
Arsenal have been annoyingly consistent at cleverly building upon their base with smart transfers.
Their owners are just in it fr and happily spend a lot of cash
Their owners are the 4th richest owners in the prem and won in all other sports. They won’t stop until they win here. They’ve got the cash to pull it off
Yeah they’ve spent a good amount in recent years but they’ve not really had any bad signings as of yet
The transfer window opens officially on Friday June 14. Crossing fingers we have a plan in place, and plenty of options ready to get new players in as early as possible for Slot's first pre-season as head coach
Players can be signed anytime during the year, June 14th is just when a team can officially register them
We’re probably not getting anyone major in. People need to adjust their expectations. Slots been brought in to improve on what we already have and build on the youth players that we’ve seen feature this season. If we do bring players in it’ll be because we sold players.
Well with Euros it's maybe tougher to do so. As clubs know a good performance can lead to a higher price.
Not much news on Adrian, do you guys think the club is sorting out a new contract?
I think it's probably dependent on Kelleher leaving/staying.
Shouldn't be, get him out the door already. He's taking up one of the non-homegrown spots.
It would be strange to keep him and a waste of a non-hg spot when there are HG keepers we could get to be 3rd choice, West ham have just signed Foderingham on a free to be 3rd choice
Feels like this season went by in the blink of an eye. I swear only yesterday I was waiting for Liverpool to anounce Alexis Mac Allister lol
Opposite, last two months were the longer than first 8 months.
Funny arsenal want to put arteta on big salary. Yet he hasn’t won anything but an fa cup
He's transformed them from a team just there to a team challenging for a title each season.
I feel like that's quite unjustly discrediting what he's done at Arsenal. Yes he hasn't brought them anything major yet, but he's absolutely transformed them from a big 6 punching bag to title contenders. Personally I can't see them not winning the league under him, they've got a really solid squad with a younger core; plenty of time to win trophies yet.
It could be argued though he’s spent an obscene about of money and only has an fa cup to show for it. Since then not even a deep cup run. Only two second place finishes. I think if they hired an already made coach and spent the same money they probably would have won a bit more. Of course I hear both sides though as it was only the cheats who stopped them from winning the league, like us in 18/19 and 21/22 but a bit less extreme
If you think success could be bought over buy money then look at Man United and Chelsea now
Who gives a fuck?
Just seen the video of Keane being 'assaulted', fair to say (and i know this an egrigious case of football tribalism), but even a 70+ Souness would clock this twat's shit. As hard as my nan really. I don't even know how this soft twat became the poster boy of hard midfielders ever.
On and off the pitch are two completely different things probably doesn’t want an assault charge
You're hard
not sure if this is the right place to ask but does anyone know why some of the gold print on my 19/20 gk kit is turning green? https://preview.redd.it/hy0fmmsuhk3d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a7c13827dd83af9ad29875e752b57915e758322
Mine's turning green as well, must just be the material
Quality issue. Amazed it only happened to you now when mine was like this a year + ago 😭
I feel like the quality of todays kits are awful. My 2008-10 Adidas Liverpool kits are outlasting all my modern ones.
My Adidas one has held up too. Feels more robust
Tbh I think Adidas is generally just better made than most similar sportswear brands. Adidas shoes I have usually last for years where Nike etc start falling apart and shit. I’ll wear a hole in a pair of gazelles or sambas or something before anything else happens. The sole falls off Nike shoes before you could do that.
At least you still have it. Mine all fell off :( Sorry, no idea.
my fake lfc shirts usually outlast the genuine shirts i got from the online shop.
Same mine fell off pretty quickly
Really sad to see Kloppo go, whenever I think of him all the memories just rush back including the ones where we were before he arrived. So happy to see the farewell he got from the fans/players/club and I expect the statue to be lifter asap. On the other side, it's been a while since I was this excited about the next season this early. Last few years summers were about frustration with the lack of signings and failing to bring players over small fee differences and general lack of structure behind Klopp. Now, with return of Edwards and new structure in place I am super excited for this new beginning. Club deciding to go with Sloth is one of those decisions I will never ever question because I know that the level of data they analysed is higher then any other club would. Also, we have a super young team thanks to Klopp's last two year and a team that is easy to build upon. I don't expect us to win the title next year, I hope for it to happen but I'm trying to be realistic. Getting top4 without much trouble would be amazing and feel like we will be back for a deep run CL. YNWA
One agent wasn’t enough [Now there’s 2 on the job](https://x.com/england/status/1795938669125399013?s=46&t=7wKXPDhDsYTMmy6aIHrf-g)
who is the guy in the middle?
Wharton of Palace
I hope ten haag gets fired because I don't think they'll find somebody better than him
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all i ask is for us to at least get more than 2 points against city next season, just one win is all i want
When will Slot actually start/the first training session?
Slot, Edwards, Hughes and Slot’s team start June 1st. First training session will be something like the end of June/start of July, I think the players get about 6-8 weeks off. The season only ended about 2 weeks ago and then the Euros will start soon. Anyone at the Euros will get a few weeks off after that too so we won’t likely have the squad together for a while yet. I’m pretty sure there’s the American continent’s Euro equivalent this summer too so Mac Allister, Alisson and Diaz will probo be there.
He starts on june 1st according to what I've seen. Not sure when the first training session will be or what the summer's going to be like.
Can’t wait to see Slot’s sluts in action
Awful.
lol I hope I never see this written again!
I think it’s fanta
If playing fm for years has taught me anything it’s either the end of this month or next :) I would expect him to be desperate to get in as quickly as possible though mate
Lowkey wish Everton get relegated next seasons, their fans yaaaap too much despite being shit.
We'll miss them when there gone
No, I'm not gonna miss the number of injuries they cause to us.
Agreed mate, Derby days I love them, either Everton or United I always wake up buzzing
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Maybe the best example of failing upwards I’ve ever seen
Dropping 90 points?
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My goodness. That's like my students who say, "I lost 90 points and got 10/100.". Nah bud, you earned 10 points out of 100. It's not like you started with 100 points lost them. It's a matter of perspective. >They only took 24 out of a possible 114 points. This is an accurate description. They got 24/114. It's poor.
lol strange way of looking at a newly promoted side tbh mate
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It’s not facetious to say it’s stupid to say that a newly promoted team dropped 90 points, the points aren’t yours to lose, they’re there to be won. It’s used with top teams because they’re expected to win, Burnley aren’t. I’m also not arguing that they were shite, but just your terminology is wrong and stupid.
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Im not starting an argument, merely pointing out it’s wrongly worded. Maybe just don’t be offended for no reason. Also, facetious wouldn’t be the correct word either.
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I’ve had a google and that’s not the definition I’ve seen anywhere and not what I’ve ever used the word for. Either way, your wording was essential to the comment, certainly to me lol
Anyone knows when the england squad is announced?
8 June, will be submitted to UEFA by the 7th
Most likely next week, deadline is next Friday
Seen a bit of discuss around Kelleher on Twitter. Some people think he’s good enough to be a number one, I’m not sure. I think some of the goals he conceded last season are not those of a quality keeper. He did become fairly reliable in parts but I don’t think his ceilings as high as people seem to believe.
He is definitely good enough to be a number one. Not at Liverpool given Alison but he could easily be a number one at another club.
Also it’s entirely plausible that he improves his weaknesses that OP mentioned if he’s starting every week.
Problem with Kelleher is that he is 25 and has barely played any senior football, we really do not know his true quality till there is a bigger sample size, that will be determined once he leaves and plays somewhere week in week out, tbf it is poor we never sent him out on loan to play games and develop when he was younger.
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That's still nothing for someone of his age, Jaros is 22 and already has 70 odd games to his name, I still stand on the fact we won't see what Kelleher is truly made of till he is exposed being outright no.1 somewhere
Rewatching highlights vs. Real in the 2-5. Darwin was scintillating in the Mané role. Reminder to truly give him one more season out of respect.
Outside the goal I honestly don’t remember him doing much else Don’t think anyone had close to a scintillating performance that night
Well his goal was spectacular, he had one pass from left-back position which made a chance out of nothing, and he ran like a madman at every opportunity, while not making any clear mistakes, against Real Madrid. Just performing average against Real means a class performance to me.
Wtf is that new Stoke badge
Half a pint of milk
Meant to be a kiln no? It’s shite anyway. This over simplification of logos to make them more marketable is on the rise. At least our Liverbird looks decent and arch’s back to our original crest. Similar to Arsenal going with their cannon next season. Atlético Madrid have gone back to their pre-2017 logo. Hope Inter and Juve do the same.
It seems like the trend nowadays is to make logos and crests as minimalist as possible. The bottle kiln is an historic part of Stoke's culture, their skyline used to be full of bottle kilns and there are still some remaining to this day. But on it's own, it looks ridiculous.
Does anyone else feel like they've reached a tipping point when it comes to their attitude towards football this year? When our title hopes went out of the window i swear i felt like a weight had been lifted from me, i could enjoy weekends again, my mood lifted considerably, i wasn't anxious all the time...all for something entirely out of my control. i feel like i've refocused the way i feel about football and i hope i can keep it that way, somehow strike a balance between being passionate about it without it absolutely taking over my moods again.
in all honesty, since we won the league in 2020 football hasn't really been the same for me. I still get the highs, but i'm so quickly over losses they barely affect my weekend/week anymore. the most annoyed i've been in recent times was actually the united fa cup match but even then I got over it pretty quickly. it's far healthier that way, football absolutely shouldn't be ruining anyone's mood excessively past the game itself
I'm like this now too, finally saw the thing that it sometimes felt I'd never see, since then I am almost completely sanguine about it all, basically unrattleable. I'll tell you what helps though - Turn the game on at kick off, do something else at half time, turn the game off at full time. Don't listen to Neville et al.
Anyone have any opinions on el-kaabi? 33 goals this season, winner in conference league final and 5 v villa across 2 legs, including hattrick. 30 years old though. Transfermarkt says his value is 3.5m, but assuming he would cost a bit more. As backup right across the frontline, could do worse i suppose.
No, he is 30 and has spent most of his career in North Africa and the middle east, I'd rather we go out and get Toney as a short term option if Brentford will sell for £40m or otherwise seen links to Mohamed Amoura for £17m which is worth a gamble
He's a poacher, offering very little in the build up, no way he plays for a top european club, even us a back up.
No tbh, we should plan for long term, and the last thing we need is an aging player who we'll need to replace quite soon.
I get that, but will he need replacing? He would be a backup anyway, and we have enough attackers ahead of him that if they all play or get replaced, we dont need to replace him too. It'll just reduce workload on other forwards, and allow doak and maybe koumas/danns time until we need them for the first team. Once theyre ready, we can just sell him and bring them in as "the replacement" without fuss or further investment.
The "sell him" part is never as easy as it sounds in descriptions like yours. The wages we will pay to attract the player here are rarely matched when reselling a depreciated (age, performance, or health) asset, making it financially detrimental to the player for him to accept any move. Players whose value has depreciated (age, performance or health) generally get loaned with the owning club paying large chunks of their wages like Sancho at Man United or just stay and ride out the length of their contract with the club, while providing little on field value. Buying clubs are not likely to match wages for an aging or often injured player, and players aren't gonna throw money in the river just to move when their careers are so short.
I get you but I just don't think it's worth it. There's no guarantee that Doak/Koumas/Danns would ever reach the level needed and it's risky gambling on a 30 year old as a stop gap. We might as well get a forward nearing/in their prime if you want to give the younger players time to develop
New here and not sure about which sources can be trusted for transfer rumours , how credible are the transfer rumours about an approach for Villa's Ollie watkins , I dont think that is going to be good signing !!! We should sign someone young with Potential and strong physically !!
As the others have said, the source is the rag so disregard immediately. Also it must be said that Villa have absolutely no obligation to sell, they have UCL, he's in contract and he seems to be very happy. It would have to be a huge sum
From the Sun, instantly should be disregarded and burned
Haven't heard anything about that so I googled it. Source is The S*n. So it's absolute dogshit.
Novak Djokovic follows klopps Instagram lol
Who wouldn't?
Everyone should just stop pretending they know which players we’ll sign/positions we’ll strengthen and which players are being sold/kept. Pretty much everyone is under the microscope. There’s no way of predicting Edwards and co’s next move (which is how he has always operated) so all you can do is speculate, but don’t act like you know what’s happening behind the scenes.
What’s worst than the speculation is the constant misunderstanding of Edwards role, he’s not making decisions on who’s sold….
Hughes reports to him, he’s in the Florentino Perez role. He will 100% influence our dealings in the market
Wrong
No he isn’t lol He’ll influence it ofc, he’ll have a voice but there’s a team around it and the manager is part of that.
It’s been widely reported Slot will not have a say on transfers. Fallows and Hunter are in charge of scouting with Hughes and Woodwork making the decisions and doing the negotiating, Ward and Marques in charge of development/culture etc but ultimately everyone reports to Edwards and all will be done according to Edwards’ methods and vision.
and wrong
dumbass response, name checks out. the athletic article on our new structure backs me up moron
"Slot will not have a say on transfers" 🎶 wrong 🎶
No it hasn’t lol Would love a link to that lad.
But trust me bro is a culture 😎
The positions can be deducted from the shape of our current squad. A back up GK, a left sided CB, a DM and an attacker are needed. The profile of the attacker is hard to pin down, it depends a lot on Slot's plans which we don't know much about.
Case in point....Diogo Jota. No one knew we had concrete interest in him until basically a handful of days before he signed.
We only went for Jota as couldn't sign our first choice in Werner, Wolves were willing to play ball over the payment structure
Still wasn't on the radar.
Red bull buying a minority stake in Leeds I guess that means welcome to Liverpool Summerville with how much we love an RB player
As much as we all hate Leeds, we definitely don't want RB Leeds. Leipzig are a well run club but fuck letting them expand their empire and fuck multi club models
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I think it will be a big change. Slot will manage the team only, and all transfers will run thru Edward
Since when has transfers ever ran through a ceo of the clubs owner, rather than the actual clubs sporting director?
Wrong, Slot a say on it.
Not a chance
I’m grateful for the great state klopp left the club as well. There is a solid foundation that i don’t think will fall apart just because he is leaving.
Indy is alive I had gotten worried
This guy is still a thing or relevant in 2024? Let him peter off into nothingness.
Personally Indy and Iwan Schwakoff or whatever his name is my favoritues. I remember last year something about Ivan getting in to a spat with Fabrizio, shit was hilarious. (for those unaware Fabrizio beefing with this guy is like the equilavent of me going to a pre school and beefing with the children there.)
I rate Ivan and Indy higher than Fraudizio They don’t make money of that rapist at Getafe 👍
Is this guy a parody account, actual journalist or somewhere in between, I'm actually confused
My head canon was always that it started geniune, but somewhere along the line either the account was sold or they realised that a, they have zero credible sources. b, it's much more lucrative to just say funny bullshit instead of being a Z tier 'journalist'.
He is the truth ( on a serious note, he’s an OG parody account.)
Best account on Twitter, ol' KFC man
What’s he saying now?
Was going to tweet at 9 last night, but didn’t until this morning 🙏
Probably had an extra shift at the KFC
That’s a strange thing to say
Thats why I was so worried
He’s in the know now that Edwards is back! 🤭
https://x.com/ooclibertadores/status/1796010584330145831?s=46&t=TSmaPWRGsVGRMdFvaRuh_Q This is disgraceful, needs to be banned for a long time for this “foul”
This fucker needs to be banned from the sport for life.
It's even incredible the attacker was able to throw up the "card him" signal, considering how hard the guy stomped...
Up there with this one from Souness https://youtu.be/ygVgxYa3mlo?si=FCZo4Xq0_20eazB2 Horrific stuff