Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

It suggests he's 99% but they decided not to risk him and he'd being saved to do a job on Modric and Kroos.

I bought something B4 Xmas, for around 40 quid, and I wasn't charged anything extra.

Now Falk is saying the Mane story is true guess he was p1ssed someone else beat him to the story when he called the story a lie earlier in the week.

The FA Cup.

2006 was the 125th time the comp was held, the 150th this year is the anniversary of the first one… the two world wars are the reason for the discrepancy.

No there was no cancelled FA Cup final during Covid.

The first FA Cup was a 150 years ago in 1872.

The 125th FA Cup Final was in 2006 due to the two world wars and not in 1997 which would have been the 125th Final if there was no break for the world wars.

This FA Cup Final 2022 is the is the 142nd FA Cup Final.

So Haaland got a release clause in his City contract, still holding out for his dream move I see.

Ah I get you. Thanks for clearing that up for me. It's the wording that caught me.

Edit: now that I think about it its not even 26 years between 2006 and 2022!! 😅 I'm such a dope!

What is with Guardiola and Tuchel and the inferiority complex they have with us? We have not won more than any of these teams since Klopp arrived and yet they keep moaning about us. We have not spent as much as these teams and yet they wonder why other fans may find us more likeable compared to their clubs? And lets be honest, its not that other teams fans want us to win, but they would rather not City or Chelsea win again. If we win consistently in the next couple of years the opinion will turn against us.

"Thomas Tuchel has backed Pep Guardiola’s claim that everybody supports Liverpool and insisted that his Chelsea “bad guys” want the FA Cup trophy, not “the sympathy of the country” on Saturday.

And Tuchel has insisted that Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, who he affectionately referred to as “Kloppo”, is the master of turning his teams into the underdogs to win the public’s affection.

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“You know Kloppo is the master of being the underdog. He can talk you into being the underdog against Villareal and against Benfica, and it’s a miracle, miracle how they even draw against them. He can talk you into it and he does it all the time, he does it a lot of times. That’s part of it, that’s also from where the sympathy comes.

“There’s nothing to be jealous of from my side, Kloppo is a fantastic guy, a funny guy, one of very, very best coaches in the world and that’s what he does. When he trained Dortmund, the whole country loved Dortmund. So now he trains Liverpool and you have the feeling the whole country loves Liverpool.

“It’s big, big, big credit to him and this is what you deal with when you play a team against him, it’s always like this, but it’s always the fun part and so if we are the bad guys on Saturday, then no problem. We take that role, we don’t want to have the sympathy of the country, we want to have the trophy.”"

I also never saw Klopp talked us as being underdogs against Villareal or Benfica. He was paying respect to those teams which others seemingly did not do. He would never talk us down but would pay respect to the opposition to not give them material as motivation. Seems we live rent free in both Tuchel and Guardiola's heads. Maybe it would help their club's image if they did not have their type of owners and that they spend without worrying about where the money comes from.

I see Newcastle away jersey/3rd jersey next year is purported to be almost exactly like Saudi Arabia's away jersey. Thank goodness the Premier League had legal guarantees that the Saudi Government would not be in charge of the club.

I think Guardiola and Tuchel are being lazy and inaccurate with their words.

People are obsessed with Liverpool. Some love, loads absolutely hate and others just accept Liverpool as important.

Rory Smith spoke about it on the Anfield Wrap. He works for the NYT. He'll get more clicks for a negative article on Liverpool or Man U than pretty much any other topic in football including positive articles about those teams or any type of article about city, Chelsea etc.

All it really means is that humans are d*cks.

I kind of hope Pep wins manager of the year so I won't have to listen to him moan about how we won something else that he deserves

I've been thinking about this Saudi sport washing and have reached a conclusion eventually. Either the West completely breaks off all international diplomatic, cultural and economic ties with Saudi or else everything is on the table. You can't have 1 foot in, 1foot out stances.

Golfers are going there, should they be banned from then playing the European tour? Should we not sell them our butter because they like a mass beheading? If so, then cut ALL ties or be a hypocrite and do the hokey pokey with 1 foot in / out. European owned energy companies buying Saudi oil? No way pal, they're barred like the Russians now.

I don't want to hear anything else about sport washing unless you have a magic formula to not look like the biggest hypocrite since Jeffrey Donaldson.

This is obviously not the forum for such discussions but will just say this.. the Saudis already do big business with all of the EU, with massive trade in each direction. Clamping down on sports and marketing but retaining 99 percent of the overall trade is just hypocrisy and placatory to guardian readers and twitter evangelistas.

Cup final day. We need our midfield trio in prime form today, we're better than them so let's show it today lads. Come on ye red mennnnn!

BBC do a great cup final day.

Team

Lukaku starting for Chelsea.

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Rather Matip was starting. JK probably giving him this one and CL to Matip

Jaysus I'm a mess..can't imagine what I'm going to like in two weeks. Even at my age it still gets you games like these. Fear, excitement, what ifs..can we not just win 4-0 to save the torture..

Let's go redmen, YNWA

i know people are unhappy with city/psg/toon/..lesser extent chelsea,and their fake income etc,sportswashing etc...but how do we feel about those clubs buying our clubs players for huge sums,over the odds money,and we benefit because of it?

can we celebrate our good business done?

The fact they’re rich isn’t the problem. As you said, that’s nothing new. It’s that they are inherently political entities, coming into sport with inherently political motivations, and on top of that, are fond of oppressing and killing people on a national/international scale.

Need to get something soon for all the pressure we are putting onm them

Really should be 1 up here. Been all Liverpool first 10 minutes.

What a ball from Trent to Diaz!