Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

I get it. But for me I figured that there's somethings I have direct influence over and there are many others I don't. So i figured there's little point in getting annoyed, angry, upset, frustrated over things I'm in no position to influence. And the transfer activities of Liverpool football club and their owners is definitely one of those things. Their match performances is another.

I can't influence either so I made a very conscious effort to stop letting them affect me negatively. Took a while but it was worth it.

Haha. A triplet of replies there in fully expected manner from all three. Wonderful. I get disappointed when we lose absolutely but I don't come on a message board or twitter crying about it after and moaning at the owners/club for not spending money because doing so achieves precisely nothing only than recking my own head since I can't make them do those things. That's it really. Same with a poor result. Its gone. Can't change it. Only Jurgen and the lads can. Occasionally I express that disappointment but I'm quick to move on from it.

You can choose to be my way or be your way but neither will effect anything of substance but one will definitely effect your own mental health and not for the better. Enjoy it though, it seems to make a lot of you happy. More so than when we win for some of you.

I see Phil is leaving Barcelona , would we be tempted for a 6 months loan deal ?

Could be back up to Mane out on the left, or am i getting to desperate for us to sign someone ,

In the last 8 transfer windows we have signed 9 players ,

5 of which are

Adrian (free) Elliot, Van de Berg , Kabak (loan),Davies (remember him)

That's not right, there were 12 signings.

21/22 - Konate

20/21 - Jota, Thiago, Tsimiskas, Davies, Kabak

19/20 - Minamino, Van Der Berg

18/19 - Alison, Naby, Fabhino, Shaq.

Unless I've counted wrong and you're trying to exclude one of the 18/19 windows?

Your right it must be the last 6 not 8 & its 10 players as Adrian & Elliot are missing from the list,

A window like 18/19 would be epic this summer

Yes. 100% it's an escape. But how much of an escape is it if you don't enjoy it. I enjoy the journey and that journey will have highs and lows. For example I know loads of reds from another message board I used to visit who couldn't enjoy 13-14 cos we might not win at the end, they were wound up like a spring every single game and even when we won the fretting that we might not win the next one began almost immediately. If the end is the only important part that's sad imo. 13-14 was a brilliantly enjoyable season for me despite ending it empty handed.

Discussion of things is fine if course, it is after all the whole point of the place and it's all I'm engaged in. I believe its pointless if it's the same discussion over and over and over when the facts are available for all to read if they want to (the miserys never do) and none of us can change any of it anyway.

Anyway I'll bow out now, people can "enjoy" "supporting" their club whatever way they like if it makes them happy. It just doesn't seem to.

Yep...in the same boat, in years gone by the losses/frustrating draws etc would have p1ssed my off for days on end but now I'm not quite as emotionally invested now and take a more philosophical approach.

This Liverpool team is something very special that we will probably only fully appreciate when things really go arseways at some point in the future.

Man City right now have a perfect blend of an exceptional manager, a sizeable and talented squad and pretty unlimited financial resources.

To paraphrase a journalist I heard on a recent podcast, just because we are failing to keep pace with Man City doesn't mean that this team is a failure.

To be fair I think he was referring to the fans that cant take any enjoyment from the game because they get so wound up by the eventual outcome. An example, a Liverpool fan I work it gets so wound up for Liverpool games he openly admits to not actually been able to sit down and enjoy watching them. He spends half the time flicking between the channels as he is a wreck and this is not for big Champions League semi finals or the likes. He’s like this for run of the mill Saturday afternoon games against Palace, Wolves etc...that cannot be a healthy way to enjoy football or life! I used to be a bit like this as a teenager as I wanted to avoid the Monday slagging's off my UTD supporting mates in school. But it is a bit sad to be in your late thirty's and be that emotionally invested in it.

This Arsenal game should be at a neutral venue with penalties after 90 mins. Two legged tie in a Pepsi Cola Cup, wtf.

Noting wrong with that, I love going to Anfield. Fingers crossed I'm there in two weeks for the Brentford match with the brother in law and nephew for his first trip. It will be my first time there is over 3 years with everything that has gone on and I'm like a child at xmas... Ill scream, shout, sing and roar during the game but win lose or draw we wont be letting the results get us down on what we hope will be a great weekend. Life is too short! Ill always follow Liverpool and with great intensity during the games but the day I'm hiding behind a couch because I'm afraid the opposition might score and Ill get a slagging off my mates went with my teenage years.

Could have to forfeit the tie

Forst leg has to be played before the second and there wont be time to re schedule both before the final

Am i wrong thinking there was some unusual semi final fixtures once. Like the two legs were 3 days apart.

I was really looking forward to the next3 games

Paul Joyce reporting now the game is in danger

I don't have the stats but it seems to be a new phenomenon that if the chasing team(s) draw a couple of games that the league is "over" with almost half the season left.

Because City hit 100 points, then 98 points , then Liverpool hit 99 points ,

That changed the landscape in regard to how many points you can drop ,

Even if City drop 10 points like they did in the first half of the season they will get 94 points(i can't see them dropping 10 )

If Liverpool have to win every game left to get 94 points ,

Benitez made a similar point in February 2009. 5 draws and 2 losses in the first 19 games had left no room for slip ups in the second half of this season. Unless Man City suffer a major collapse in form the league title is out of reach of both Chelsea and Liverpool.

I see Southampton have been taken over. I assume we've bought them?

imagine and he gets MoM