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Larry Lloyd

Sad news that Larry Lloyd has died today aged 75. He's probably more associated with Forest in the eyes of many, but he made his name as a key component of Shankly's second great team. In his first full season in the first team he was part of a defence that conceded only 24 league goals (in a 42 game season) and reached the cup final. He won the league and the UEFA cup in 1973 before injuries and a change of playing style saw him move to Forest, where he won the league and two European Cups.

Brighton (H) - Sun 14:00

Might feel like i'm going early on this, but we are under a week away and I couldn't wait to fire this up.

Sunday could be a huge day for us in the title race, but we need to hold up our end of the bargain first and put the pressure onto Arsenal & City by taking home three points,

It feels to me that our team picks itself, but I suppose the left back slot is up for grabs if Klopp isn't 100% sure on starting Robbo yet.

For me the team is easy:

Kelleher

Bradley
Konate
Virgil
Robbo

Endo
Szobo
Mac Allister

Salah
Nunez
Diaz

Expect some new names back on the bench in Jones and possibly Trent. Gravy will likely be fit enough to feature. Elliot might be challenging Szobo for a spot out there. Gakpo unlikely to challenge to start but at least he's showing good productivity for Netherlands.

I also wonder if we'd see Jota make the bench, if he's rumoured to be available for the United game on 7th.

I don't think rotation is too important in this, we need that statement win to kick off a new run of results. We then have Sheffield United at home in the midweek before we travel to Old Trafford. I expect us to manage some minutes in that game, to give us an upper hand. That Man United game is huge, but they have away trips to Brentford and Chelsea ahead of our visit so let's give ourselves every advantage.

It feels rare to get 3 PL games in a row, without the interruption of some cup. Three wins please, starting here.

Best FWs to wear a Liverpool Shirt

1. Ian Rush
2. John Barnes
3. Salah
4. Suarez
5. Fowler
6. Torres
7. Aldridge

(nb I did not witness King Kenny, Keegan or Toshack etc) so couldn't comment what place they'd be. The list does not have to be 7. You can make it short or as long as you like

"I don't claim to be a deity." -God


View: https://youtu.be/G_G5wn134D0?si=kLtVdyolYpiGqw78

It humbled Robbie to see himself with a halo. I mean, it genuinely did. He looks in awe of himself. He actually does, I'm not joking it's just hard to square, were you to read a transcript. It really was humbling.

"If anything involves you, you always think it's the best anyway." God 4:43

Ok, ok, that one seems a bit much, but it really wasn't like that...

Statements like this could seem arrogant, without the tone. You have to put passages in context sometimes. You can't take the text so literally. He does go on to mention mortals, I mean other people, and their judgements, or whatever.

This is the shit that gakpo needs to get on, sniff a whole line of it, like he's chewing grass. There's only one God for strikers.

Thiago Alcantara

Its his last season, the rare instances where he has been available, more often than not he was good to very good? You could say the year we nearly did the quad, he was very much at the heart of our play.
He wasn't an expensive signing but was taking £10-12m in wages a year. With hindsight, how do you view his signing?

Rape-inho

Former Brazil international Robinho arrested to serve rape sentence​

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Robinho of Brasil looks on during the International Friendly match between Republic of Ireland and Brazil played at Emirates Stadium on March 2, 2010 in London, England.
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By Leonardo Rocha
Americas Editor

Former Brazil international football player Robinho has been arrested to serve a nine-year prison sentence for rape.
He was convicted two years ago in Italy for his part in the gang rape of an Albanian woman at a night club in Milan in 2013.
Robinho, 40, was arrested at his flat in his home city of Santos.
The Italian government had requested that he serve his sentence in Brazil after failing to get him extradited.
On Wednesday, a court in Brazil upheld the decision and also ruled that he should serve his time behind bars instead of under house arrest.
Earlier on Thursday, a Supreme Court judge rejected a request to halt his detention.
The decisive action taken by Brazil's justice system has been praised by many on local media, who feared that Robinho would evade justice thanks to his fame and his wealth.
The former Brazil international, who has 100 caps for his country, was playing for AC Milan at the time of the crime. After being found guilty, he lost an appeal in 2020 before Italy's highest court upheld his sentence in 2022.
Italian prosecutors then issued an international arrest warrant for him.
The footballer, who spent two years with Manchester City, told a Brazilian network on Sunday that the sex had been "consensual".

Where does Klopp rank against all time league greats? If at all.

So @Fabio believes he isn’t a great outside of LFC.

What say you?

I’d say it’s

Ferguson
Wenger
Jose
Klopp

Richard Hughes Confirmed

‘Incredibly proud’: Richard Hughes confirmed as Liverpool sporting director​

  • Bournemouth technical director will join in summer
  • ‘Good decisions enhance prospects of having a team that wins’

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Wed 20 Mar 2024 13.11 GMT


Liverpool have confirmed the appointment of Richard Hughes as their new sporting director. Hughes, who announced this month he would leave his role as Bournemouth’s technical director at the end of the season, will officially take up his new role on 1 June.
Michael Edwards, recently installed as Fenway Sports Group’s chief executive of football, has had a longstanding desire to work with Hughes and they have a professional and personal relationship spanning more than 20 years having worked together during Hughes’s playing career at Portsmouth.


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It is understood when Julian Ward left his role as Liverpool’s sporting director last summer Edwards was surprised Hughes was not one of the candidates to be interviewed by club owners FSG.
“I am incredibly proud to be offered this opportunity. Liverpool FC is a unique club and I’m grateful to be given a chance to serve it in this capacity,” Hughes told the club’s website. “People rightly talk about the rich history this organisation can boast, but it is the present and future which really excites me.
“It will be my job, working with Michael and leading the football operations team already in place, plus the wider staff at the AXA Training Centre, to make good decisions. That’s really what the job entails: you have to make the kind of good decisions which enhance the prospects of having a team that wins and excites the supporters. It is what Liverpool have done well for a very long time and the benefits are there for everyone to see.”
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Michael Edwards is confident that Richard Hughes’s arrival will help the club deal with the departure of Jürgen Klopp. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Edwards and Hughes will be key figures as the club transitions from the departure of Jürgen Klopp at the end of the season. Hughes was the driving force behind the appointment of Andoni Iraola as Bournemouth head coach last summer, with Iraola saying they had a “very good connection”.
Iraola shares the same agency as the Bayer Leverkusen manager, Xabi Alonso, the former Liverpool midfielder who is the bookmakers’ favourite to succeed Klopp. In his time at Bournemouth, Hughes would have secured the appointment of Roberto De Zerbi, another being linked with Liverpool, had there not been a delay due to a change of the club’s ownership that allowed Brighton to secure the Italian.
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Edwards is confident Hughes’s arrival is the first step in building the post-Klopp era. “It is clear to everyone that Jürgen will leave a legacy to build upon and in Richard we have the right person to make the key decisions and offer the leadership to take us forward into a bright future,” Edwards told the club’s website.
“As one very successful chapter will come to a close for Liverpool in the summer, the objective of everyone here is for another one to begin – and with Richard I am confident we have the right person in position for us to achieve this aim.”

Google DeepMind unveils AI football tactics coach honed with Liverpool


View: https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1770121564085707082


Google DeepMind has developed a prototype artificial intelligence football tactician in collaboration with Premier League club Liverpool, in the latest push to use the technology to master the ebb and flow of big-money sports.

The computerised coach’s suggested improvements to players’ positions at corner kicks — a large potential source of goals — mostly won approval from human experts, according to a paper published in Nature Communications on Tuesday.

DeepMind, which has previously used its algorithms to crack difficult board games such as Go, said patterns seen on sports fields could also offer lessons on how to apply AI in other areas such as robotics and traffic co-ordination.


On the pitch, the company’s TacticAI system reflects both the possibilities and current limitations of intensive efforts to use AI to gain a sporting edge beyond that offered by existing data analysis methods.

The technology promises benefits in planning for situations with predictable starting points, such as corners. The wider task is to apply it to the richer variability of open play.

“What’s exciting about it from an AI perspective is that football is a very dynamic game with lots of unobserved factors that influence outcomes,” said Petar Veličković, a DeepMind researcher and co-author of the Nature paper. “It’s a really challenging problem.”

The DeepMind project is the product of three years of work with Liverpool on deploying AI, including in areas such as penalty kicks and predicting movements of players.

DeepMind’s latest model uses geometric deep learning on a data set comprising 7,176 corner kicks from the English Premier League between 2020 and 2023. Corner kicks represent a significant opportunity for attacking teams: along with other so-called set pieces, such as free kicks, they account for about 30 per cent of all goals.


How TacticAI suggests improved defences against corner kicks
The AI assistant's suggestions are based on data from more than 7,000 corners

TacticAI analysed outcomes from corner kicks with various configurations of players, using criteria such as who received the ball and whether they were able to shoot. It then suggested positional improvements and assessed their plausibility and usefulness in a blind case study by five experts at Liverpool: three data scientists, one video analyst and one coaching assistant.

The experts could not distinguish the AI-generated scenarios from actual match situations, the researchers said, favouring the TacticAI advice 90 per cent of the time over existing strategies. This showed the tool “readily provides useful, realistic and accurate” suggestions, the paper said.


Liverpool did not respond to a request for comment on whether it had implemented any of TacticAI’s suggested changes, as manager Jürgen Klopp strives to end his tenure on a high note with trophies this May.

The use of data analysis to improve outcomes in sport has grown ever more sophisticated since Michael Lewis brought it to wide attention with his 2003 book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Lewis recounted how the Oakland Athletics baseball team used novel measures of player attributes to compete against better-funded rivals.


AI’s growing capabilities have now stoked interest in its potential uses across sport. The US National Football League and Amazon Web Services have developed a player health tool known as the Digital Athlete, which they hope may in time be able to predict and prevent injuries.

Projects such as TacticAI give clues as to how AI in football might evolve, said Sudarshan Gopaladesikan, director of football intelligence at Italian top division team Atalanta.

“This is the way that AI can help us approach football in a chunked or categorical way — as opposed to thinking it’s just this one big continuous flow and we don’t know what’s going on,” he said.

March Internationals

Not far to travel for any of our lads bar Endo, and only Tsimikas and Endo play competitive matches :

Joe Gomez
has been recalled to the England fold for a pair of friendlies at Wembley, with the Three Lions to host Brazil on March 23 and Belgium three days later.

Kostas Tsimikas will link up with Greece as they aim to qualify for Euro 2024. They face Kazakhstan in the play-off semi-finals on March 21 and a win would set up a decider against Georgia or Luxembourg on March 26 for a ticket to the finals.

Reds teammates are set to face off when a Netherlands squad including Cody Gakpo and Virgil van Dijk host Andy Robertson’s Scotland on March 22 in Amsterdam.

The Dutch will then travel to Germany on March 26, while on the same date Scotland will host Conor Bradley’s Northern Ireland in Glasgow. Bradley and his nation will previously have visited Romania on March 22.

Dominik Szoboszlai will skipper Hungary in home friendlies versus Turkiye (March 22) and Kosovo (March 26), while Caoimhin Kelleher is with the Republic of Ireland for back-to-back Dublin games against Belgium (March 23) and Switzerland (March 26).

Ibrahima Konate has been named in the France squad for home matches with Germany on March 23 and Chile three days later.

There are two 2026 World Cup qualifiers for Wataru Endo’s Japan, each against Korea DPR – at home on March 21 and away on March 26.

Luis Diaz is with Colombia as they prepare to take on Spain in London on March 22 then meet Romania in Madrid on March 26.
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