The Official Liverpool FC Thread [Vol 16]

[m3sye]

Wolves playing more like the wolves everyone knows this half

[type-r]

desolate said:

I'm hanging fire before taking the piss.

I'm not.

I love VAR!

[SydneyBridge]

So, only two teams with max points after two games

And we play each other next....

[ChocolateFrog]

We're also close to our longest winning run I think.

We'll do well to keep Aubameyang and Lacazette from scoring, might be an end to end 3:2 kind of affair.

ETA PL winning run.

[m3sye]

ChocolateFrog said:

We're also close to our longest winning run I think.

We'll do well to keep Aubameyang and Lacazette from scoring, might be an end to end 3:2 kind of affair.

ETA PL winning run.

Pretty sure we're on it already 11 games, sat would be 12

[ferrisbueller]

jammy-git said:

I thought he was on around 300k a week but maybe that was after tax?

13.5m Euro a year according to Marca.

https://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2019/0...

[type-r]

m3sye said:

type-r said:

Cheap loan:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49392631

I think it works out it will cost them about 32m for 1 year

Irrespective of his wages, £7.78m loan fee vs the transfer £142m Barca paid - Bayern have done a stunning bit of business in my view.

Just imagine a world where Barca didn't buy him last season; if I told you Bayern would pay us £7.78m to borrow Coutinho for a year, you'd have asked me what am I smoking.

[m3sye]

we wonder why Keita is injured now

The Guinea Football Federation has placed a life ban on former Guinea coach Paul Put

Feguifoot's ethics commission ruled that both Put and Diaby had allegedly breached the institution's code of ethics and its code of discipline.

This included playing injured players.

[type-r]

Trabzonspor?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49374199

[m3sye]

type-r said:

Trabzonspor?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49374199

Beggers can't be choosers

[ChocolateFrog]

Wonder if his wage demands were too high for a bottom half PL team. Still only 29 and with lots of PL experience I would have thought he'd be worth a gamble.

Newcastle for example, they're crying out for a striker.

[ferrisbueller]

I think his injury issues are widely known and it seems he can't deal with the rigour of a full premier League season. Massive shame for such a talented player. Not sure why it would be a cause for amusement. I'd thought a move to MLS might be on given his home in LA.

[Chris Stott]

Real shame for DS. He had one great season for us, but the injuries ruined him.

I thought he’d go to the US too.

[ChocolateFrog]

ferrisbueller said:

I think his injury issues are widely known and it seems he can't deal with the rigour of a full premier League season. Massive shame for such a talented player. Not sure why it would be a cause for amusement. I'd thought a move to MLS might be on given his home in LA.

Only amusing because Turkey is a st country with a league one notch above the scottish league.

[ferrisbueller]

Interesting bit on "tactical fouling" on the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49371002

Certainly some room for creativity around the stats but if Man City are deliberately doing it significantly more than other sides, the stat that demonstrates that hasn't been weeded out.

[Chris Stott]

I read that... to be fair, stats don’t support the claim... or if they do, we are as bad

[ChocolateFrog]

Dortmund aren't daft. They've just given Sancho a new contract worth £190,000 a week. Wonder if they've added a massive buyout clause too.

[ChocolateFrog]

ferrisbueller said:

Interesting bit on "tactical fouling" on the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49371002

Certainly some room for creativity around the stats but if Man City are deliberately doing it significantly more than other sides, the stat that demonstrates that hasn't been weeded out.

The stats look pretty meaningless to me. A second or 3 between the top and bottom teams, or a few percent here and there.

I'd be quite happy for the refs to clamp down on the clearly cynical fouls and to be fair some do. Sterling's tug back in the spurs game got him a yellow.

[m3sye]

Totqllybagree son under rated by many, he is as important to us as any player we have
Big game player, his stats in big games is ridiculous

https://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2019/08/mane-liverp...

[m3sye]

Bobby to score sat?
8 games 8 goals v Arsenal