Liverpool dreamers are torn in between composing this off as a transition period and seeing this tripe as the start of the end for Arne Slot.
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Inauguration wearing panenkas
Enzo Le Fée’s attempted Panenka versus Brentford yesterday is entitled to to be filed under “lessons never learned”.
Trailing it, I promptly visualised Ademola Lookman’s infamous Panenka versus West Pork, still, for me, the gold traditional of how not to thieve a penalty. Same soft touch, same unabbreviated quantity lack of camouflage, same keeper barely necessitating to react.
The Panenka is visualized to dilute the goalkeeper. As comfortably as it fails, it aloof ever before embarrasses the taker and Le Fée juggled to render it kind simply as unproductive as Lookman’s did five years previously.
The aloof frustration is whether Le Fée has utterly persuaded for the title of worst Panenka ever before, or whether Lookman’s project remains delightfully untouchable.
Gaptoothfreak, Man. Utd., Brand name-new York (Plot twist: I attempted it in Fifa/ EA FC 26 last night and gazed simply a indiscreet)
What is Arne Slot trying to solicit at Liverpool?
Frustratingly, job obtained in the methodology of my capacity to respond to Minty’s email on Tuesday. Tripe.
Principally yet, I concur wearing him that Slot could be acquiring capitalize of his youth players more, wearing both Danns and Rio the prime instance. Danns gazed genuinely nice once we saw him last period, and even if Slot is he is not 100% sure of him being a long-term initially-team player. Not surprisingly, dabbling a player who is combatting to formulate himself is much closer than not acquiring a readjust, or dabbling a player who understands he will clearly aloof ever before be tiny fragment portion.
That being asserted, I can see why Slot has waited. For every Rio and Danns purpose, you will clearly solicit a gallery where they are frivolous due to their inexperience.
Yet, wearing the picks of Elliott I simply execute not know. Did Harvey hit on, or trousers one of Slot’s family entrants? This coldness shoulder is peculiar pondering the criterion for readjust that we presently have at the nightclub. Elliott is a Liverpool supporter and would formulate on his unanimously every day for the team.
The overexerting horseshoe “U” philosophy that we are obstacle wearing is slower than ketchup from a bottle that has simply come from the fridge. And also without fantasy, direct running or any kind of kind of hoax, we will clearly, as has been disclosed, battle to rating.
Has Slot come to be a poverty-stricken manager, or has he been handed fifty percent a team’s well worth of brand-new players by “Princely Hughes”, who have been incapable to gel? As I asserted in my last article, Liverpool solicited players that fitted Klopp’s gizmo. Be it peak draw – VVD and Allison, core banding – Hair and Salah or relegated – Robertson and Gini.
Yet, a frustration must be queried: What is Slot trying for in 25/26. Last period it was a more controlled Klopp kind. Yet over the training course of this period, it has regressed to ruining shite.
I execute feel that he criteria to be ranked until the end of the period, due to the quantity of adjusts that has been compelled upon him. If he render earns capitalize of CL football, he criterion to solicit next period. Yet, if this insipid tripe lingers into 26/27 I don’t reckon he will clearly last as well long.
Ideal pertains to.
Ian H
This IS a Liverpool transition period, genuinely
To my dearest Keith Reilly,
2 letters in 2 days posted unanimously about clubs you don’t guidance! – are you ok cohort?
Your letter displaying your obsession wearing Liverpool is a infinite instance of arguing wearing a disparity of reality you have acquired and then congratulating yourself for swatting it down.
Liverpool dreamers are not belying behind the word transition, zero one is acquiring make capitalize of of it to define away results, Liverpool have been inconsistent and at times poverty-stricken and most dreamers will clearly cheerfully say that, terming this a transition is not an condone, it is a summary, the recommendation that dreamers are quickly pulling away into it presently exists only in your super own head.
You go over scrutiny changing to Slot (as yet this is a brand-new furtherance!) as if that affirms something, but you doubtlessly recklessness the most paramount tiny fragment of context, Slot is the reigning Premier League champion, he was there last period as well (did you fail to remember?), he solicited a Klopp constructed side, lended super couple of adjusts and won the league, 25-26 is not his initially period, it is his second, last year was toughness (while winning the real league a task aloof complemented by one extramarital relationships nightclub in days gone by 9 years!), this year is where the real transition has started the team is reshaped into something unalike wearing colorful players, place for the next 5-10 years.
The rip-off and derived time nonsense did not come from Liverpool dreamers, it came from unmodified reactionary alcoves that constantly finish the minute a team drops times, the reality that you treat that outcry as intentional analysis says more about the say of your proficiency and realizing on reality than it executes about Liverpool.
Your investing argument is where it genuinely falls unconcerned, ephemeral on Van Dijk and Salah a resurgence on specification they was already on is not tossing facetious dollar money about, it is paying the going price for 2 of the ideal players in earth football, permitting both go would have been footballing carelessness and unmodified human being criticising presently would have been yelling about lack of purpose if it took place.
The complete ago objection is simply lazy, Frimpong is a serial title winner solicited for his convenience and attacking output (and to permeate 3 positions as a team player) and then missed months wearing injury, Kerkez was genuinely in the Premier League team of the year before finalizing up wearing, he did battle early, partially because he was botched and partially because Robertson conceivably criterion to have started the period (in my point of perceive), he is addressing presently and dabbling much much closer, but hers up composing both off as players who cannot safeguard this is outcry spruced up as point of perceive (which you entirely outfit up as reality).
After that we solicit to spunking 2 hundred million on strikers, which truthfully tells us more about your nostalgic say than Liverpool’s employment, Ekitike has been one of the 2 or 3 ideal finalizings in the league this period and has been colorful, Isak was in the team of the year last period and ached by every elite nightclub in Europe, this finalizing has not started flawlessly at unanimously I’d concur, simply once it appeared the team wearing Isak in it was start to thieve carve he harmed his leg and has been out. Unless your employment methodology requires psychic powers, this time is senseless, and truthfully if anything Liverpool conceivably criterion to have invested more on muggers as we solicited 2 but thrown away 3 Diaz, Nenez and Jota.
What you in renovation fail to reference only is the context of heartfelt obstacle, the death of Diogo Jota and the loss of Matt Beard are not footnotes, they are human festivities that authority condiment gaps, nightclub team, emphasis and momentum, acquiring assume football exists in some vacuum where grief has zero authority (or simply overlooking it entirely) could render for a neater argument (in your warped earth) but it executes not render it true.
You say Liverpool untreated more nagging criteria and then never problem to say what they are? – I reckon centre ago deepness could have been boosted, and Guehi would have lended sense, but that is one player, (I reckon this is what Keith is referring to but who understands?) – I in renovation reckon another evil one criterion to have been channelled in but then it would have visualized more spunking in Keith’s warped earth.
Liverpool in renovation accepted Leoni as a long-term heir to Van Dijk and he promptly did his ACL in his initially gallery (where he was immaculate), this follows every period to most clubs, it is football, not proof of some grandiose strategic lack of capacity, we in renovation have Joe Gomez shell both centre ago and proper ago, something you could cramp to recognize before claiming the team unhitched.
What you exceptionally exceptionally judiciously recklessness is the scope of readjust, Klopp gone after fundamentally a decade, Alexander Arnold sold, Diaz sold, Nunez sold, etc, etc – multiple initially team finalizings in one summer season, a record finalizing ruled out wearing a gone versus leg, another young protector out for the period wearing an ACL, tactical adjusts being executed in real time, and the real death of a long tolerating initially team player and in spite of unanimously of that Liverpool are fourth, not mid table, still finishing while acclimating.
That is specifically what transition appearances pick at an elite nightclub, it executes not traditional collapse, it behaviors turbulence while trying to drifter without ditching out of opinion.
Zero one is belying, zero one is acquiring assume this period has visited methodology, but prompting this is not a transition simply because Liverpool invested dollar money and lingered expenditure-sound is wilful stupidness.
Lee, formerly of Blue
PGMOL: An apology
I have created in most times to remark on the inexperience of match police officers and VAR’s. I have in renovation commented on the hilarious mental gymnastics executed by the PGMOL and the picks of Dermot Gallagher in an project to pardon bizarre judgments.
Yet presently I come to be aware I owe them an apology as this is simply portion of an elaborate gallery they are dabbling wearing employers as to who can come up wearing the most facetious statement whilst peeking earnest and not overstepping into convulsions of laughter.
The police officers are presently on the ago foot cooperating wearing David Moyes’s article match interview, to paraphrase: “It was not a intentional solution (wtf? He obtained his hand knotted in the man’s hair”) It wasn’t a violent deportment, it clearly wasn’t”.
Yet the outright topping on the cake. “it simply behaviors that if you’ve obtained longer hair, there’s a chance you could solicit your hair attracted A LITTLE MORE OFTEN”.
Envision the team talk, “Correct chaps, Crystal Palace this week. We’ll have to come up wearing a methodology to vanquish Mateta as the hair yank is not obtainable to us”.
So anew, apologies to the PGMOL and kind ahead to them regaining the upper hand.
Howard (is it why Salah reduce his hair?} Jones
Are we in a golden era of Premier League CBs?
The objection of Sesko from Sherwood, melded wearing Gyokeres’ fights and genuinely brand-new CFs more around the world this period has me presuming, is this not in renovation protections gleaning much closer?
Most Premier League centre backs these days are not aloof physical monsters, but fairly nice on the sphere, active in the undertone, fast and exceptionally flawlessly pierced. Vividly my nightclub are befouled at the minute wearing Saliba and Gabriel who are certainly the ideal CBs Conglomeration have had in 20+ years, but presuming about it, could that not be unmodified for 90% of clubs in the PL proper presently/over the last pair of periods?
Off the peak of my head, Chelsea (Terry-Carvallo), Joined (Vidic-Ferdinand) and Spurs (Aldeirwald-Vertonghan) would say zero. I guess Villa could in renovation ranked some nightclub tales in their better past. Liverpool’s pair conceivably are (but this is the worst disparity of them) and unmodified wearing Urban. Yet most other subordinates? I feel undisputable they would say of training course.
Are we genuinely in a golden era of PL CBs? Regardless of most human being peeking ago to another time nostalgically as defenders being real guys.
Some of this is undeniably the monetary power and dollar money acquiring in filtering system from the Premier League. Bournemouth’s defence last period was super punchy – bought from throughout Europe and then sold to 3 of the 5 last CL victors. If I kind at some of the CBs throughout the Premier League’s ‘core edict’, (Guehi, Lacoix, Andersen, Murillo etc) there’s more talent there than I reckon I’ve experienced for my team, as an Conglomeration supporter, for most of my football shadowing debacle.
Trailing most Barclays defensive stresses is an exercise in shadowing some of the worst ephemeral, placement and attempts at takes on you’ll ever before see, maybe wearing a couple of crunching takes on thrown in you wouldn’t try presently (but as much imo because defenders are much closer at dabbling the space and nagging without having to render the thieve on).
Finally, the performances of English subordinates in Europe criterion to be accounted for – every team principally smashing wearing resistance then gleaning clogged out/undone by Brentford at the weekend. Conglomeration uncovered it much trickier to respite down Everton than Atletico.
So what execute human being reckon?
Tom (trying to slide the conversation past Amorim) Leyton
The Glazers were aloof passively running Man Utd into the headway
In solution to Ben observing the Glazers vs Ratcliffe, I would ask who would you instead be your honcho? The unobserving passive kind or the controlling, meddling kind who hasn’t a idea what they are executing but reckons they know ideal?
The Glazer are not nice vendors by any kind of stretch of the imaginative creativity. They cramp Joined to render them dollar money and have progressively abandoned them to decompose whilst assuring the dollar dollar money keeps rolling in. Ed was their avatar and as you say, he was a banker, but even he was smartly passive as much as poisons go.
Ratcliffe is difficult. That’s why most Joined dreamers were so satisfied to see him. Undisputable … but inexperienced (as much as football clubs are pertinent to). A much previously poisonous substance. He sees himself as the minds of the operation. Joined are adjusting much previously than they ever before did under the Glazers’ hand but most of those have been notably juggled adjusts, where had he simply kept his nose out, points would have been a number much closer.
Ed wouldn’t hire a director of football, but he in renovation wouldn’t have paid a lot of money to solicit one in and then sack him at an even better expenditure because he didn’t trust fund asserted director of football at the initially plight. It’s bonkers. He in renovation wouldn’t have ensconced down headway concepts about the manager having to job to Joined’s tactical philosophy and then promptly hired an infamously rigorous manager that seminal an entire brand-new team constructed about his super own rogue methodologies.
I could go on about ETH’s brand-new covenant then sacking him etc but we’ve been wearing the blows. Just theorize what destruction he has executed in 2 years throughout the timescale of the Glazers and Ed’s era. He doesn’t show up pick the kind to yield even presently that he isn’t the proper user to call the vaccinations on footballing matters. He’ll feasible cramp to reparation it unanimously himself for his gratification’s purpose and it’s not pick he hasn’t had time to discern football nightclub capital at Nice.
Nick
Football clubs execute not have DNA
Another letter in the mail box today where presumably Man Joined were a cup team and presently are a cup team. Not to reference the overexerting discussion of the “DNA” of the nightclub. Joined are not a cup team and Joined are not an “attacking” team by nature. They are not an entity wearing their super own persona. They are the 2nd most well-off nightclub in the earth and the most well-off nightclub in the Premier League. They are in renovation dashed highly notably.
Man Urban are not genetically inclined to be a superb team. They simply have most dollar money, and crucially are dashed super flawlessly, so they have won most league titles freshly. They will clearly not loss ago to their “natural” say, unless they start being dashed notably, or vanquish investing dollar money.
Over the last 15 years Joined and Urban have principally invested unmodified quantity of dollar money, about £2.5b. Urban have won multiple league titles because they invested it super flawlessly. Joined refuge’t, because they reckon investing £350k p/w (or whatever it is) on Marcus Rashford or Casimiro was a nice recommendation.
And also to the attacking “nature” of Joined, it’s simply not true. They have had times where they racked up most purposes. And also times they didn’t. Between 1968–69 and 1982–83 they had one period where they racked up 70 purposes or more. And also that’s in a 42 gallery period. In the initially 8 years of Fergie, they had one period where they racked up 70 purposes or more. Compeling winning the league wearing a 67 purpose period (42 galleries), or 1.6 purposes a gallery. They won the league because they yielded 31 purposes, the ideal defence by some range.
It took until 1998–99 until Fergie’s Joined well uninfluenced more than a purpose per gallery in a period. They racked up most purposes for a while, then it trailed off anew. Between 2002–03 and 2008–09 they aloof had one period where they racked up more than a purpose a gallery, and that required periods of 64 and 58 purposes.
That’s not to reference the article Fergie years, where they have hit 70+ purposes simply as comfortably as, and had 6 periods wearing less than 60. That’s the proof that attacking football is not in the clubs DNA, because if somehow it was, they would be executing it unanimously the time.
Joined have had most periods where they have tinkered attacking football and racked up most purposes. They have had periods where they refuge’t. You can’t simply case the nice fragments are the nightclub’s “DNA” once it’s going flawlessly, but recklessness unanimously the other times. Sometimes Joined are nice, sporadically they are poverty-stricken. Yet that is simply only down to who is running the nightclub at the time.
Mike, LFC, Dubai
On that Burnley draw…
Commendable capability from Joined but at some point not placing away the most behaviors they had to rating, inexplicably resting ago after confiscating the lead, and consenting multiple purposes from the super couple of likelihoods the resistance juggled to construct. So, smartly unmodified to most our galleries this period.
In pounce Fletcher recognized to have the proper footed Cunha on the proper and the abandoned footed Dorgu on the abandoned, conceivably to formulate on us some width, but it didn’t job. Neither appeared anxious to pounce their fullback or drive into the box so Burnley had it pretty easy. Via Bruno in the 10 attribute wandering about it abandoned Sesko singly and tightly intentional in the core.
The readjust at fifty percent time obviously aided. Cunha wearing the core running at the defence acquired space for Sesko and wearing Bruno out wide there was presently some reputable delivery into the box. Also Dorgu juggled one reputable cross for Joined’s second.
The readjust to 4-2-3-1 disclosed unmodified traditional team inconveniences that Amorim was having and better repudiations the recommendation that he had precise player criteria that would aloof job his gizmo. Joined criterion a super nice mobile phone defensive midfielder, conceivably 2 of them. They criterion colorful fullbacks (wingbacks), conceivably 2 of them, and a ago up demonstrator.
As for the Joined purpose that was ruled out. It render earns capitalize of more mental the more you watch it. You could render a instance that Martinez did nasty Pedestrian, not a super advising one but still. Yet the VAR replay affirms Paradise and Casemiro both being hosted and attracted by Burnley defenders at unmodified time, and Casemiro was being fouled as he retrieved the sphere. It’s a facetious verdict.
Past that farce Joined had 2 vaccinations eradicated off the nonsense up, compelled Dubravka into a number of reputable saves, and had 2 vaccinations hit the woodwork. They did sufficient to win the gallery and were largely somber. Over again yet not different from the previous gallery versus Burnley. That gallery in renovation had an super own purpose, Joined dominating then confiscating the lead to render it 2-1, and a 66th min Jaidon Anthony equaliser. The disagreement here being the lack of a 97th min penalty to case victory.
Dave, Manchester (Skies’s fifty percent time analysis opening wearing ‘its not the gizmo, it’s the players’ after a year of Amorim formation slamming has to have been intentional trolling)
Sherwood and Redknapp is frustration gasoline
I caught the last 25 mins of the Burnley vs. Joined gallery last night. Same spine unalike day for Joined, wearing the exception of Sesko. 2 nice finishings, a record number of vaccinations on target, dynamic flexibility, largely a considerable component in the gallery. Something to be hopeful about as a Joined supporter.
Trimmed to the Skies Sports workshop after complete time. Owning missed the intensification and initially hour+ of the gallery, I wasn’t aware of who the specialists in situ were. The initially one who came into filmed once I was shadowing was Jamie Redknapp, which made my normal sigh. He lended his normal nonsense, the substance of which was so forgettable that it leaves me already. I was amidst tuning out once the camera panned to Jamie’s cohort in scoundrel activity.
Tim. F**queen. Sherwood.
Whichever of the Skies wrongdoers was hosting, they were jumping out of their rind to ranked it to Tim that his fifty percent-time thieve of “Sesko criterion to never wear a Man Joined t shirt anew” important to be switched. Fair time I’d say, bearing in psyche what had transpired in the 45 mins promptly preceding.
Any kind of continual, proper-presuming user would have invested some of that time digesting simply how wildly erroneous they had been disclosed, and practicing the traditional mea culpa along the lines up of “he’s genuinely disclosed up in that second fifty percent and disclosed his well worth, this could be a changing time”. Humble. Confiscates about 6 seconds, job executed.
Yet endure Tim enhanced down, lended it the considerable ‘un. Stomached by his remarks, uncrowned Sesko as “not nice sufficient”, devalued the 2 purposes versus “a team who will clearly be relegated”. After that smirked and supplied some trite nonsense along the lines up of “I could ranked him in my fantasy team presently yet”.
In isolation, his behaviour is hilarious. The nude changeableness dribbling off him earns me smile. Yet then I remember that I commission a monthly fee to have this rubbish offered up to me, and every little thing goes dark.
Keith Reilly
Richarlison deluded
The cheek of Richarlison liking Romero’s social media article about whatever the f that was about. He missed a header from 3 yards and his exertion to cozy down Semenyo for the winner was frivolous. You’re the plight Richarlison. You’re dabbling sh*te.
Darren
Chelsea are exceeding themselves
If Liam Rosenior wants fast victories then he render earns capitalize of grasp of discipline and defensive capability. In the initially fifty percent of this period, we have
Tinkered 25% of our PL galleries wearing 10 guys, losing 10 times
Lost 15 times from winning positions in the league this year.
Just a 50% drifter in both reveres would have watched us 3rd wearing Villa. There’s misgivings about the methodology of group and the long term confidence of such a methodology. Yet in the short term we could still render CL as the league is past continual (or expenditure-sound) this period.
P. Didi Not
