Liverpool acted like a ‘one-dimensional toddler’, rejecting the title

Ern Slott might want to consider that other managers can play against Liverpool as they wish. It’s his job to coach against that.

Liverpool still dominate the mailbox but please look and write to Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest or Crystal Palace.

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This Liverpool season is exciting

As a Liverpool fan, four defeats on the bounce has clearly soured my melons, but as a football fan, I’m really enjoying the soap opera that is football.

I love the absurdity of all the absolute weapons (surprisingly entitled, every one of them) demanding a slot head, and of course, we’ve all come to expect modern football fans hitting the knee-jerk panic button at the drop of a hat.

I love the intrigue of the fact that Liverpool, despite the odd purchase, were quite conservative in the transfer market compared to their direct rivals (and Manchester United). Now they are breaking records and the manager is clearly some way from knowing what his best XI is, but Salah and Isak have no place in it yet.

The Wirtz Conundrum is interesting, and it’s not surprising that he did well in Germany against a German team, and is clearly struggling with the pace of football in England. Kerkes is trying very hard. Isaac struggles with his looks, the summer circus, and the burdens of the small country that costs him.

Liverpool will not win the title this year. I don’t believe a team can lose three on the bounce and be champions. They’ll progress over the course of the season, and there’s still silverware, but by the time they start clicking, the title will be out of sight. And that’s fine, if not what was wanted at the start of the season. But we’ve won two titles in three decades – it’s not a disaster if we don’t add to it yet, no matter how much we’ve spent.

And I agree – reluctantly – that we need to stop citing Jota’s death as a factor here. It was a tragedy, but bad things happen and people die unexpectedly. I’m at a point in my life that means I’m living in sniper’s alley – I’ve seen so many lovely, good people turn this mortal coil over the years and I know for an absolute fact that I’m going to lose people I love, in the next few years, taken before their time. And when that happens (assuming I’m not one of them), I’ll be grieving, rearranging my life, and not having the privilege of making hundreds of thousands every week to make me suffer from the stress of life.

I like the idea that the under siege Amorim did a number on Liverpool at Anfield, and now we have all the Amorim Out Brigade not knowing which way to turn. I think OLBW was probably upset that they won. Win again this weekend, and they’ll knock into the top four – who would have thought that would happen a month ago?

I love that Arsenal fans are starting to believe that this could, finally, be their year, and I absolutely think this is their best chance. But now, of course, a city team that was largely written off is suddenly starting to put together a run. Or are they? Do they just rely too heavily on the cheat code that is Holland? What happens if he gets injured?

Crystal Palace. Bournemouth. Brighton. All affecting the status quo despite regularly selling off their best assets. Villa is starting to click. Everton revived. It’s all interesting.

Spurs are still Spurs though – some things never change.
Mat (loves the fact that Pacho disappeared and no one noticed)

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Arnslot is acting like a toddler

“The biggest takeaway for me from the other games today was the style of play of our opponent. We got some energy from the moments we pressed them, the ones we played, we weren’t able to press the opponent because the ball wasn’t on the ground, it was in the air.”

“But we weren’t expecting 5-2-3 and that’s what they did. The good thing is it’s quite familiar to us because (Crystal) Palace play it, (Manchester) United play it, Burnley play it.”

Fair play to Salah for dropping, and then beating Eintracht Savvy, but you want to start acting like a big club boss rather than a one-dimensional toddler in the pressers. Big teams that have a squad that costs obscene amounts of money are supposed to be able to handle more than one style of ern.
rht/ts x

Campaign to stop Ford writing about Liverpool

May I suggest that it might not be a good idea for Ford to write articles about Liverpool now.

I’m sure he’s a human UTD fan – I can’t find the article but I believe he wrote an article before the start of last season that Man UTD’s signing of Yanni Loro was a huge coup before he even played for the team, which doesn’t look like a good forecast in the barrier, and I’m not just talking about injuries.

For centuries.No, not a man UTD fan – EdJeez

Today he already has three articles published aimed at discrediting Eintracht Frankfurt’s narrow away win at UCL.

First, an article has a title ‘Liverpool’s crisis continues as Isak flops, Wertz stat pad and greedy Salah returns’ In which he argues that Liverpool have only won because Frankfurt are rubbish and ‘Liverpool won 5-1 and yet the same doubts remain, with Eintracht being the most agreeable of the patsies in Frankfurt, it is nevertheless a media invention due to any sane Liverpool and is not understood. Halftime’ without acknowledging that he was injured and that ‘any improvements, including those assists for Wirtz, have to be taken with a big pinch of salt’ because, yes, Frankfurt is shit.

Secondly, in an article entitled ‘Arn Slott reveals Liverpool star’ ‘double Reds injury blow’ for a few weeks Instead of an objective report on Slott’s comments about the injuries he takes another shot saying ‘questions remain over Slott’s side despite the victory as the Bundesliga side represented incredibly soft opposition’.

And the third is an article titled ‘Salah causes storm in tunnel’ as Liverpool hero takes small social media action’ “There was a general acceptance that the original post was offensive and after the game he indicated his disappointment that he had to send some kind of message by changing his profile picture and changing some of the pictures, not to send a message to an adult or not,” Daily Mail reporter Lewis Steele said on X. Only sending a message and not sending a message and not sending a message. Bench in the last UCL game against Galatasaray.

It seems to me that this is no longer objective writing and seems to be influenced by bias. It may be the case that Wilford was the only one at the time, but even if that was the case, someone needs to have a word with him or get him out of writing about Liverpool in the same fashion referees can’t be allocated for certain games where there might be some perceived interest or personal bias that I think affects their performance.
A, LFC, Montreal

… So Liverpool needed a win to stop their “crisis”.

*Liverpool win 5-1*

“No, not that kind of win, I meant another kind”

Absolutely ridiculous.
Andy H, Swansea

… After reading Wilford’s match report on Liverpool’s performance last night in *checknote* the winner *checknote*, I understand how United fans feel when their positive results run counter to the pre-existing crisis narrative.
Josh, Johannesburg

But Rashford was Slower on slower

I was surprised to read it Your article Claiming that Rashford’s current form proved his laziness at Man United was somehow “outrageous” to you.

The last time Rashford was in good form was before his last contract was renewed and here we are again playing with his future. I mean good luck to him but it really shows that his effort for recent years has been quite a mess and it was most obvious!

I remember a few years ago when he gave up possession in a game which led to us conceding a goal too early. It was another poor piece of business from him and Rashford, as usual, put in little effort and didn’t run back to win the ball. Straight after the goal Maguire, then the captain, strolled the edge of the 18 yard box and gave him a dressing down for his poor effort and Rashford’s response was to pull his face and tell him to take it off! A player who was one of the top earners and wore the number 10 shirt for the club FFS, he didn’t give a shit after playing a key role in conceding our goal.

So if you’re wondering why people who love the club might be a little offended by this, it’s the kind of thing that’s hard to forgive. To suggest, as the article states at one point, that we should take the view that it’s all the clubs fault and that he’s playing well now that he’s finally out of our grip is just plain ridiculous IMO. Well, we certainly have our issues, but one of our biggest issues has also been our players not taking accountability and responsibility for their poor performance and the comments that tear them down, which is frustrating when you see it.
Jimmy D