They won't need to because they have recently bought the best player in the Championship.
ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3
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Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
And even if you don't have City's money, that's still no excuse to concede a disadvantage to them. Leicester, West Ham and us are all above Liverpool and we've all spent less money. In fact, without delving into it, I wouldn't be surprised if any of City, United or Chelsea had paid out more or less than rs.
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
No thanks, he's crocked.
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Liv,I'm of a certain age.
Erp,
Ool
Liverpool FC.
Don't they call it an earworm, I can't stop singing it now
yes I’d agree; but I think they are the last two on the list. Ben Davies (I think) is the only centre half left
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Special Dispensation Club would be handed a place in the Europa by virtue of an algorithm of sorts.
Rook
Player Valuation: £80m
its all VVD, VVD, VVD w/ the fans. VVD, who is yes very good, looks better than he is because he replaced the equlivalent of Alcaraz. Salah has been their best player they've had over the past 20-25 years and I don't think they realize that. He makes their entire club better. He's the only one that clubs fear.
Sky and the rest of football have forgotten that Everton are the 4th most successful team in English football.
What a whopperFrom RAWK! lollollollol
I’m old but there is no experience to fall back on with regards to a season behind closed doors or 5 ‘home’ defeats on the bounce or fill in blanks for the madness of this season.
This isn’t football as anybody knows it, or wants it to be, it’s all about money and business and entertainment and marketing and something to fill in time, the opiate of the masses indeed, but it’s not football.
The statisticians are having a field day but its largely irrelevant because this is a one off season with one off results. Its hard to keep that in perspective but it makes the unbearable a bit more bearable if you do.
If you wanted to derail us its fair to say you’d:
1.Take away home advantage by removing the 12th man.
This is a bit more than just the roar of a crowd. This is an institution that has prided itself on making a difference, sucking the ball into the net. Its also a club that picks players that respond to that adrenaline rush or want to be part of that community, who excel in that environment and who’s tactics and intensity need that environment to be at their best. The team have just not been able to recreate the intensity that they need to achieve the impossible standards they have set over the previous two years. Who were the most passionate and intense team in world football…
2. Make the season shorter meaning the hardest working team in the league has no recovery time.
a team based on heavy metal football on running harder and longer than other teams, on forcing the opposition to make mistakes, to use that roar or the crowd to fuel the adrenaline, unsettle teams, make them nervous, its just not possible in the current sterile environment in which football is being played. This is not the fault of the players you cannot recreate that intensity having lived through it, it’s not Sunday league with a crowd of a couple of hundred being the big day or giving your all every time you go out on the pitch, it is just not the same. It’s not even the same watching the bloody thing let alone playing in it.
3. Provide no pre-season to protect against injury and fatigue.
Take a team that has run itself into the ground for two years and tell them they have to work even harder.
Run the few players that remain fit into the ground and into a deep pit of despair as results grind away on confidence creating the ever decreasing spiral of quick sand…
4. Injure VVD. Take out the best defender in the league, not only disrupting the Liverpool defence but giving confidence to every other team in the league.
5. Spot the weak link in the team being a shortage of centre backs and then Injure every centre half in the club and anybody capable of stepping in.
6. If there are any signs of recovery or fighting spirit take out the captain and the heart beat of the team.
7. Ensure that injuries occur regularly, so the same players, play week in and week out and get mentally fatigued and unable to perform at their best.
8. Give the biggest advantage to the highest spending clubs with the largest squads and allow them to grow through the season further demoralising any opposition. I really don’t think it’s a coincidence that as Liverpool derailed, City’s season took off, I think the burden of being second best was lifted from them and they started believing in themselves, and their squad strength came through. The lack of crowds has also allowed the players in their squad who’s mentality was questionable last season to gain in confidence and perform like it’s a reserve game. The same is true for United, a bang average team that would have been crucified by their own support but without that expectation can get by.
9. Restrict any ability to rectify squad shortages by ensuring a world wide pandemic means nobody really wants to go anywhere in January.
10. take 2 years to figure out the best way to nullify Liverpool and then get every team in the league to follow that model whilst crippling the key element of the Liverpool tactic of a high defensive line and provide no chance for a break in order to train the team in a different approach during the season.
I don’t really find it difficult to understand why Liverpool’s season has imploded, I find it a lot harder to understand how Liverpool were top at Christmas.
Klopp looks to be a little lost and hurting at the moment and for many understandable reasons. I think his key mistake is trying to play real football in a season which is fake. It’s the only thing I think Guardiola has done well this season, adapting the City style and using players to suit the unreality of the current season. He has all of the advantages, money, squad size, media and he has as usual used those advantages. I still wouldn’t swap him for Klopp, he’s basically a flat track bully. Klopp turned also rans into champions both here and in Germany. He is the normal one but we are in unusual times, normal isn’t really suited to the nonsense being called football this season. It would be very apt if the richest club in the world buy the quadruple in a season that is all about football as a business and nothing to do with the football I grew up loving.
rochdaleblue
Player Valuation: £50m
Pre 1992 doesn’t count though.
I said it the other week that when he played against us it was if he was a fan who’d won a competition to come on for them - deer in the headlights esque.
Davies and Phillips both fit and available for Sunday.
I expect he'll pick Fabinho and Salah as centre back for this game.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Worst thing that could happen this summer is some idiot club like Barca gives them a £150m windfall from buying the likes of Salah or Mane off them. That squad they have is finished, burnt out, and missing out on Champions League will mean they won’t have the money to go out and rebuild. I still worry they could find themselves in the unbelievably fortunate position they did when they sold Coutinho and ended up improving from it.
Everton1654
Player Valuation: £8m
Barca and Real Madrid are skint
Pabbers
Player Valuation: £60m
You can see him making the Germany NT even better, and maybe undeatable.
Short bursts every couple of years.
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