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The internationals bore me tears so in the interest of talking about anything bar national teams.

Let’s say we do manage to hang onto our lead and win the title this season.

Where do you rank this title winning team amongst our other title winning or even other teams since the switch to the EPL?

There is a lot of talk about us winning the worst league in ever but I don’t see it that way at all.

Utd routinely won titles with low to mid 80 points totals.

I think this win would be right up just below Chelsea’s Jose’s debut win, Arsenals invincible and Utd’s treble.

So. Where are we.

2 weeks til we next play. Fun game. Title says it all. 3 players out, 3 players in. No other rules (out from say the most played 15/16 players). Assumes no other departures e.g. Trent, VVD, Mo and a sense of realism on incomings.


I think i'm going:

Out:
- Jota
- Tsimikas
- Nunez

In:
- Alvarez
- Zubimendi (or Baleba - but that might be least realistic)
- Kerkez


May come back later and revise but just trying to get things up & running on this boring break

I was going to reply to the transfer thread but figured why not create a new one.

RE: rotation, Slot should've rotated a bit more but I think the whole rotation thing has been a little bit overstated. The only players we're really talking about are Endo and Elliot.

Up front, Gakpo and Diaz have been well rotated. Unfortunately for us Gakpo got an injury at the wrong time. Nunez has had loads of chances and been shit in 90% of them. Jota, sick note as per usual. Chiesa spent what few minutes he got earlier in the season looking like he was running in boots made of cement.

In the midfield, Jones has had opportunities when fit and has been hit and miss. Elliot has been used very sparingly but unfortunately in the limited minutes he had earlier in the season, didn't impress. Endo absolutely should've been used more, no question and that points of a level of stubbornness and inflexibility.

In defence, Bradley looked pretty iffy at the start of the season. Ditto Quansah (who the jury is still out on). Gomez, unlucky with his injury yet again. Robertson and Tsimikas have been rotated reasonably I would say - neither option is super reliable.

So the reality is that the squad isn't as good / deep as some began to believe it was earlier in the season and once again, we can trace that back to the summer. Many thought we'd buy a defender in the summer, we didn't. Many thought or should I say desperately hoped that we'd buy an attacker in the summer, we didn't. We spent all summer trying to replace Endo and didn't. We're now seeing the very real consequences of some of those decisions.

Klopp and co laid a very decent foundation for the incoming manager but no doubt they were some pretty big shoes to fill. Given that I thought we'd collapse after Klopp left, can't really complain too much about how things gone.

There are points of concern - e.g. Fark's small time mentality observation, the weird contract stand-offs etc - but if we're all honest, we knew the squad needed work. We just have to hope that this summer the club will show the right level of ambition.

I take it it’s all around the world then as in even our South American players will be going. And no doubt wanting rest when they get back.

Just wondering how it will affect the starting line up against Everton who probably have nobody apart from their keeper playing

It’s probably more of a case of pick your top 3 subs.

Kelleher
Quansah
Konate (Jones)
Van Dijk
Robertson
Gravenberch (Chiesa)
Mac Allister (Gakpo)
Szoboszlai
Salah
Jota (Nunez)
Diaz (Elliott)

Liverpool XI: Kelleher, Quansah, Van Dijk, Konate, Robertson, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Gravenberch, Diaz, Salah, Jota

Subs: Alisson, Endo, Nunez, Chiesa, Jones, Gakpo, Elliott, Tsimikas, McConnell


Newcastle XI: Pope, Trippier, Schar, Burn, Livramento, Tonali, Guimaraes, Joelinton, Murphy, Barnes, Isak.

Subs: Dubravka, Krafth,Targett, Longstaff, Miley, Willock, Wilson, Osula, Neave.

Good game between City and Brighton finishes 2:2. Brighton looked a better team for some periods and I thought some key refereeing decisions went City’s way - what else is new? Still Brighton would have won it if Baleba knew how to shoot.

Bournemouth-Brentford should be good. Kerkez vs Mbeumo will be an interesting duel.

Well this just happened:


View: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1jaznch/england_squad_for_world_cup_qualifiers/

Happy for Jones and Q, but Walker, Hendo?

Time to move on from PSG, we have a trophy to win.

Worried about the accumulation of minutes in the legs for many but i just don’t see Slot rotating. I’m expecting same as yesterday except Quansah for Trent if he’s hurt.

Robbo and Gravy will be knackered. Diaz and Szobo ran themselves into the ground. It’s a huge ask now.

I think Slot will be more likely to roll early subs than rotate though.

Gakpo looked like he wasn’t ready to play which would be a big loss again. He was really looking the player we need on the left up until that knock.

Jota shouldn’t be in the pitch. I’d give Darwin redemption for the pen, as he showed 5 times the desire and intent last night that Jota who looks mentally checked out.