Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2016/2017

Sappy404 wrote: »

They'll beat Arsenal and they play Spurs in 2 weeks when the league will likely have been won. And Southampton aren't great. Once they're mathematically safe I doubt they'll be much cop.

Where's this optimism coming from, lads? Don't do this to yourselves.

Is the United Spurs game not the last home game at WHL before moving to Wembley? They will not want to loose that.

emmetkenny wrote: »

Is the United Spurs game not the last home game at WHL before moving to Wembley? They will not want to loose that.

Why would they want to lose it anyway?

Spurs are a much better team than Bore-inho's Utd.

murpho999 wrote: »

Why would they want to lose it anyway?

Spurs are a much better team than Bore-inho's Utd.

I'm not saying they'd want to loose it I'm saying Spurs will be even more up for the game seeing as it's the last game at WHL.

spockety wrote: »

They may also somehow still be fighting for the title...

They may be but it's hard to see Chelsea losing from here.

Charlie19 wrote: »

Just on the new home jersey.

Would it be too hard for the designers to keep the crest, sponsor and brand all the same color.

Either all gold or all white, they managed to get the keeper jersey right, why not the home jersey.

Just a little bug bear of mine.

It's a very nice jersey. Will probably buy it, and I haven't bought one in years.

I don't see why the crest needs to be the same colour? My bug bear is that they don't actually use the full crest! I find that very annoying.

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

If we don't get 4th now we don't deserve it. You would expect a champions league standard team to be able to take say 9/10 points from games against Watford, Southampton, West Ham & Middlesbrough, which I would think would be enough to finish ahead of United.

Fully agree.

It's just very difficult to be confident in Liverpool. We always screw up the games we should win.

J Mysterio wrote: »

It's a very nice jersey. Will probably buy it, and I haven't bought one in years.

I don't see why the crest needs to be the same colour? My bug bear is that they don't actually use the full crest! I find that very annoying.

I think the jersey crest is why nicer than the current club one which is too busy, tacky and dated whilst the Liverbird is timeless.

murpho999 wrote: »

We didn't screw up the two games before Palace.

Those were very difficult games on paper though. Palace had "win" written all over it, therefore we lost of course. It's the Liverpool way.

martyos121 wrote: »

Those were very difficult games on paper though. Palace had "win" written all over it, therefore we lost of course. It's the Liverpool way.

Palace game did not have win written all over it as Allardyce has them organised, playing well and winning games. Only lost 1-0 to a red hit Spurs too.

Combined with Benteke coming back I was pessimistic about Sunday.

J Mysterio wrote: »

I think we have blown 4th already if i'm honest. I think we had to beat Palace.

This has to be a wind up right?? If not it's such extremist nonsense!, which is the worst kind of nonsense imo. Hands up who honestly thought we would get 6 points from our two away games against Stoke and West Brom...nobody predicted that. With that in mind we are still in as good a spot right now as most would have thought we would be after Stoke away, West Brom away and Palace at home. Therefore if you thought we had any chance of top 4 before those fixtures it would stand to reason that we have as good a chance now. I don't see what's changed since then, Utd were always in with a good shout of getting 4 points from their home game against Chelsea and Man City away.

~Rebel~ wrote: »

I'm not sure that really follows... those tougher games are the types of ones we won too, like.

Really, it's a lot simpler - if Utd get top four and we don't, they deserve it more than us.

I'm not sure this is necessarily true when you takes many factors into account over the course of a long season. For example, is chelsea away a tougher fixture now or during the first month of the season? Was our away fixture against Leicester on Monday 27th of Feb under brand new manager Craig Shakespeare a tougher fixture than the one Utd faced away to Leicester a few weeks previously under their lame duck manager at the time Claudio Ranieri? Of course it was, so it stands to reason that some teams can actually and do face a softer 38 games in a season than another team in the same league. All this idealistic nonsense that so called experts and many others spout constantly about things like ref decisions and fixture toughness evening itself out over the course of a season is just that, idealist nonsense. That is simply not how variance works. You can in theory have more than your fair share of bad luck for decades, never mind the course of 1 season. In fact, when it comes to luck the one things you can be most sure about is that it will not have evened itself out completely over the course of 1 season!

I read this and that about United's games but like a previous poster said, I am more worried about our own games. I can see us falling apart and getting like 6 or 7 points. If we don't get too 4 after the position we were once in then it's an utter failure from klopp.

MarkY91 wrote: »

I read this and that about United's games but like a previous poster said, I am more worried about our own games. I can see us falling apart and getting like 6 or 7 points. If we don't get too 4 after the position we were once in then it's an utter failure from klopp.

Let us not forget that the same Klopp had us challenging for the league up until Christmas, playing the best football in the league, and having made a profit in transfers since he came to the club a year previous.

Injuries to key players have broken our season apart, no manager would have extended the squad with how little football we were due to play this year, instead he focused on quality of the first team and that has been a success, perhaps not buying anyone in January was a big risk but Klopp is'nt going to go out and spend money on players for the sake of it, anyone he buys he buys for the long term for the most part.
I would'nt change Klopp for any manager in world football at the moment.

https://twitter.com/LFC/status/857881770989060096

Not the best of timing announcing this deal.