Summer 2019 Preseason
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I'd never heard of him but that was what I presumed.
He'll save a penalty to win us big ears for the 10th time in 2023
And Milner will score the winning penalty.
Hahaha what the fuck? He always seemed to look after himself at Chelsea, then he gets his dream move to Real and starts taking the piss like this? Something doesn't add up.
Not surprised. I'm still not sure what position he should play in. Wing, behind the striker, striker or midfield?
His chances at LFC are now somewhere between slim and none.
The Hazard story reminds me of a time during a rowing season I paid for a nutritionist. I had moved to a new club as I saw that an ex GB coach was moving there to become head coach and thought it would be a great experience. His training plan was killing me and i was getting dizzy spells so thought it must be my diet. Saw a nutritionist who gave me target macros (including a shit load of carbs, 750g a day on training days!!!) and i gained about 4-5kg in 2 weeks.
I got bollocked by the coach, who i then told about the nutritionist and that got me even more stick. I then couldn't drop the weight easily as training in a deficit to lose that weight would have killed me even more - i took maybe 2-3 months to slowly get back to the weight i was. Savage.
That white shirt isn't flattering to his gut.
I got bollocked by the coach, who i then told about the nutritionist and that got me even more stick. I then couldn't drop the weight easily as training in a deficit to lose that weight would have killed me even more - i took maybe 2-3 months to slowly get back to the weight i was. Savage.
That white shirt isn't flattering to his gut.
So it seems the massive amounts of cash we pay our food & nutrition staff is definitely worthwhile!
I'd say none
Whilst i'm annoyed at what feels like a missed opportunity to really test our back ups - i do completely trust Klopp and think people getting to him in such a big way is nuts. I think a portion of our fan base started to think we could afford to buy 50-70m players each window after watching the likes of VVD, Salah, Alisson, Keita come in without properly realising that so much of this was due to selling to buy. Klopp clearly believes in the squad, but it does feel that - just maybe - he is being too picky on a front player and praying that we can start >35 games of the season with Mane, Bobby & Mo.
All this talk about getting priced out of the market and we still managed to sign two highly rated teenagers.
So my question is, aren't there any highly talented left backs and wing forwards we can buy as well?
Also our "new" signing for next season is clearly Grujic.
So my question is, aren't there any highly talented left backs and wing forwards we can buy as well?
Also our "new" signing for next season is clearly Grujic.
TBF we saw glimpses of a highly talented LB who got assaulted by Sevilla. He had us all excited about his qualities for an unknown name straight away. Do we know how long he's out for - i can't remember how serious it was?
You mean Larouci?
Yep. Appreciate he is likely a LW in the future, but we were playing him at LB and had a lot of the attacking instincts of Robbo/TAA.
Yeah can't fault his attacking. A bit worried about the defensive side. We'll just have to wait and see.
In reality I'm only bothered about the lack of left back cover, and not adding additional support for the front three. Our midfield is more than good enough, centre backs are better than people give it credit for (Matip was immense in Gomez's absence), even for the two I mentioned at the beginning, we have Milner, Origi and Brewster. I guess a lot of this depends on how much faith you wanna place in Brewster to push the front three (Origi is a known quantity).
I suppose the question comes down to this, would you be happy if we lined up like this away against Norwich in January?
----------------Allison----------------
TAA------Matip---VVD-----Milner
-----------Gini----Hendo------------
-----------------Ox--------------------
Salah------Brewster-------Mane
Because likely thats the level of rotation we'll see, Gomez, Robbo, Keita, Fabinho, Firmino all not playing due to injury or fatigue, a random, but representative slice of our team out, and with them gone, do I still think that team could and should beat Norwich? 100%.
I get the missed opportunity shouts I do, but we are still in really good shape as a squad.
I suppose the question comes down to this, would you be happy if we lined up like this away against Norwich in January?
----------------Allison----------------
TAA------Matip---VVD-----Milner
-----------Gini----Hendo------------
-----------------Ox--------------------
Salah------Brewster-------Mane
Because likely thats the level of rotation we'll see, Gomez, Robbo, Keita, Fabinho, Firmino all not playing due to injury or fatigue, a random, but representative slice of our team out, and with them gone, do I still think that team could and should beat Norwich? 100%.
I get the missed opportunity shouts I do, but we are still in really good shape as a squad.
Doh!Didnt he say away to Norwich in January though?
I wasn't wearing my glasses, so didn't look too closely at the post
Very good point, even more options up top.
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