LOL.... The Dark Turd hath spoken.
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LOL.... The Dark Turd hath spoken.
The premise is absolute nonsense.
Liverpool are worlds apart from EVERYBODY.
I could make a series of articles...
Liverpool and Man City Now Worlds Apart
Liverpool and Real Madrid Now Worlds Apart
Liverpool and PSG Now Worlds Apart
Liverpool and Barcelona Now Worlds Apart
Rinse and repeat.
Liverpool are worlds apart from EVERYBODY.
I could make a series of articles...
Liverpool and Man City Now Worlds Apart
Liverpool and Real Madrid Now Worlds Apart
Liverpool and PSG Now Worlds Apart
Liverpool and Barcelona Now Worlds Apart
Rinse and repeat.
.....And usually the richest kids have the best train set.
Liverpool clearly jumped a level when they signed Van Dijk in January 2018, prior to that we were better than them. We played them at Anfield later that season to that 2-2 thriller when Wanyama scored a rocket and Lamela shithoused his way to a penalty. We were pretty equal, maybe they were better than us by this point, but we even finished ahead of them in 17-18.
The summer of 2018 is when they jumped a level over us and really fixed all their weaknesses, and they have moved even further ahead as they have developed chemistry and gotten familiar with Klopp. They signed Alisson and Van Dijk when they needed a Keeper and CB. Keita has looked great when he’s been fit this season. We signed Aurier and (no one) when we needed a RB and DM. That’s the difference.
The summer of 2018 is when they jumped a level over us and really fixed all their weaknesses, and they have moved even further ahead as they have developed chemistry and gotten familiar with Klopp. They signed Alisson and Van Dijk when they needed a Keeper and CB. Keita has looked great when he’s been fit this season. We signed Aurier and (no one) when we needed a RB and DM. That’s the difference.
He’s actually not very good. If someone was stupid enough to pay 70M for Kepa, it doesn’t make him world class either.
He was better than Mingolet and that blond prick which isn’t a big task, and we didn’t need a keeper in 2018 so not sure how them signing Allison left us behind.
He spent most of the year making Lloris look composed.
No - if that was the case then we would have bridged in the gap in the summer of 2019 given that they brought no one in and we spent £130 million.
The actual gap is in the quality of recruitment - that’s been the case for nearly five years. Their scouting committee is well above ours at present.
We have only added one real first team quality talent in the time and that was Son in 2015. They in comparison bought Salah for £34, Mane for £35, Robertson for £8, Fabinho for £40 million.
Our recruitment under Poch was shambolic.
Yes one of my few gripes with Poch but how much of that was his fault I don’t know. If you look back at my post above, Klopp spent significantly more but on fewer players but those players all made big impacts on their team. The same cannot be said for us. Quality over quantity every time.
United still outspent most teams. Don't think you can say they didn't invest much yet won a lot. They could buy the likes of Rio, Rooney etc off poorer premiership teams. & give them much higher wages.
Really it's just the 1 off Leicester season.
Yep - but they only bought the odd player here and there - we ‘won’ the transfer window with the Bale money; we spent (or promised to spend) 140m this summer - Liverpool plugged gaps with ‘better’ players.
the issue, as I suspect we’ll get into a circular argument about, is that there aren’t that many ‘better’ players that can be bought in for most positions at an acceptable price. (And this will now be the same for most clubs - can’t see Chelsea spending big on replacing their ageing players this window even though Frank’s said they will do). EPL standard is basically all internationals and so it’s a marginal improvement at best for 50-60m.
the problem we have is that we need to plug several gaps at once as players have grown old or left - and that is the fault of Poch or the scouts - can’t place it at Levy’s door - he’s always spent on players if asked (albeit Saha, Nelsen and Gallas!). A window of no movement is not Levy, but the manager and the high quality of the team in place.
Based on this logic - we may see a bit of movement this month, but that will depend on moving in Eriksen, Rose etcetera. As contracts expire, more movement come the summer, I expect.
Yeah it's a very illogical argument. Why don't we just spend 500m this summer & than none the following summer. Then say we won without spending in s whole summer. This us the reason for our success, not the massive spending spree the summer before.This forum becomes more of an apology shop by the day.
Liverpool, get within an inch of winning the title after losing just 1 game and actually win the fucking Champions League. They sign nobody this Summer and have the Leagie title pretty muched wrapped up by Xmas.
Somehow this makes us, who had actually won nothing, ducking out of 2 successive transfer windows and starting the rotten corpse of a squad we're seeing today, all Ok.
It was a masterstroke by Levy all along!
Just like pretending wages have no impact. The half a billion more Liverpool have spent. In which case we should just offer 500k per week to the best players around & say wages don't count so we have barely spent.
Ederson is probably the most overrated keeper to me. He’s good with the ball at his feet but constantly takes odd angles and makes mistakes.
Preach brother preach.
Sick to the back teeth of this gas lighting that they are so far above. What’s happened to us as a fanbase? Yesterday everyone myself included, crossing various body parts not to get trollied by these cunts.
If the roles were reversed we’d only be discussing the throw in that was a bad call and VAR officials on their tea break while Robertson went about destroying shins and ankles.
You need luck but their level of jamminess is unheralded. The so called handball in the first minute of the CL final imagine if that was awarded to RM vs them, the city would be on fire. They spent a year denigrating Kane for a dive but Mane going over Aurier is ok, and us the cunts were actually slamming Serge instead of lighting our torches for that cheating prick Mane, that foul on Son in the final seconds is unforgivable. Cheating cunts, the match officials included.
We sing the songs but don’t take in the words WE ARE SUPER TOTTENHAM FROM THE LANE, start fucking believing. Like most of you I’ve invested a substantial part of my life and income into this club.
Stop bitching about ENIC and Levy they’ve set us up for the next century.
Poch down tools, I once worshipped the ground he walked on but he stopped believing so adios
Eriksen once my favourite but fuck him, he stopped playing for us. Farvel wanker
Same argument I use to explain why Pep or Klopp are not the second-coming, tbf. Point being, good coaching of similar quality makes a substantial difference. It’s also well-establishes that the earlier that high-quality resourcing snd coaching is introduced, the bigger the impact - hence the obsession with academies and youth scouting. Can’t remember the research, but it’s why there was a bias towards Winter-born (I think) players vs summer-born - turns out it was to do with kids being more physically developed / older when the scouts came - nothing to do with talent but just being older.OK, I'll give you Orients first 11 , go coach them and win the Premier league
just luck, and opportunity, really. (But no-one really likes that answer, we like a narrative to adhere to).
Liverpool spent 75M on a 27yr old CB with 3 international caps
Spurs spent 1bn on a new ground
I wonder which investment will still be valid in two years
Spurs spent 1bn on a new ground
I wonder which investment will still be valid in two years
We are losers. The end. If there is any way we can balls it up and fuck ourselves over, we will.
Yep. Oh and add to this list their cheerleaders in the media.
It's all very nauseating.
Also, I think they're very good BUT the standard of the PL this season is very poor. It's not a vintage year, even Citeh have struggled.
I'm looking forward to seeing Atletico knock them out of the CL. That will be nice.
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Poch would've demotivated Salah with his constant belittling of the club and the mission in the press. Salah would've been pushing for a move whereas he would run through brick walls for Klopp.