Indeed. Their book of excuses is the length of a Bible, and their narrative of being disadvantaged and eternal victims fits so perfectly.
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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 2
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Raino85
Player Valuation: £35m
The 'plucky underdog' status klopp uses can only run so far until you have to match up with the elite teams in europe who just have a completely different attitude to them.
That attitude liverpool used to have but years of regresion has gradually worn away at (a little bit like us over the last 20 years)
Klopp has run that 'we are fortunate to compete with der money clubz boom' narrative and that led to the fans being 'so proud' of the players after defeat in the CL final, and saying 'the journey was just as valuble as any trophy'
Do you honestly think the liverpool of the 70s and 80s would be happy with that? Hey even under benitez were they constantly stayed relative by winning plenty of domestic trophies and a european cup it was all 'win or nothing'
Klopp has fooled the fanbase and long may it continue
That attitude liverpool used to have but years of regresion has gradually worn away at (a little bit like us over the last 20 years)
Klopp has run that 'we are fortunate to compete with der money clubz boom' narrative and that led to the fans being 'so proud' of the players after defeat in the CL final, and saying 'the journey was just as valuble as any trophy'
Do you honestly think the liverpool of the 70s and 80s would be happy with that? Hey even under benitez were they constantly stayed relative by winning plenty of domestic trophies and a european cup it was all 'win or nothing'
Klopp has fooled the fanbase and long may it continue
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
When you break the world record fee for a position for two players in the same window then the under dog tag doesn’t wash anymore. He knows he he has to compete in the league and in Europe and he measured against the same yardstick that the real top teams are measured against. Everything’s just about being held together at the moment but if they hit a bump in the road the baying Wolves will be on him. These fans have been told time and time again that they have one of the best if not the best team in Europe with the best front three in the world playing the best football all led by the world’s best manager. That will not sit wel against 4 seasons of no trophies if Klopp finishes empty handed. Unfortunately for him he’s under pressure now to win out in the CL group and the top 5 in the league won’t hand it to them on a plate despite a good start aided by favourable refereeing.
goodisonopheliac
Player Valuation: £30m
Underdogs, my arse, they're one of the biggest teams in England and they're loaded. Their fans like to remind us of this.
Gwladysstreetlad
Player Valuation: £50m
Seathestars
Player Valuation: £60m
Made me LOL that
Just when you thought the annals, yes I said annals, of Kopite literature couldn't go any lower... Ladies and gentlemen
Amazon product ASIN B00AFWLPUM
A Mersey ‘Gone With the Wind’** that races like a high speed bullet train all the way from Rome 1977 to Istanbul 2005.”
25 May 1977
On the day of Liverpool’s first European Cup final in Rome, the destinies of two families become intertwined. The Tates and the McGuires; same neighbourhood, different sides of the track. The Tates are the notorious ones and twenty-year-old Eddie Tate is on the fast track to the top of the Merseyside underworld. At thirteen his youngest sister Lucy is beginning to realise what it means to have Tate as her second name. Frank McGuire is about to leave school for the growing dole queue and sees Eddie as his way out. So when Eddie needs a small lad to go through a chemist’s window, Frank press gangs his little brother Mickey for the job. What starts off as a simple burglary sets of a chain of events that span twenty-eight years and five European Cup Finals.
25 May 2005
Eddie Tate has become the undisputed king of the Liverpool drugs trade and Frank McGuire is his feared enforcer. Lucy Tate has left her family and past far behind to become a BBC reporter. Mickey McGuire’s life has been a story of endless decline and failure. He goes from underachieving pupil, to minor rock star, to drug addict, to prisoner to a hospital porter. Like his beloved Liverpool FC, it seems like he is all washed up. Then against all odds, he is offered one last chance to turn it all around. To take his chance he needs to make it to the Champions League Final in Turkey. To raise the cash he crosses Eddie Tate and as the great red crusade heads south, death waits round every corner on Mickey’s road to Istanbul . . .
** "Frankly my dear RS, I don't give a damn"
Amazon product ASIN B00AFWLPUM
A Mersey ‘Gone With the Wind’** that races like a high speed bullet train all the way from Rome 1977 to Istanbul 2005.”
25 May 1977
On the day of Liverpool’s first European Cup final in Rome, the destinies of two families become intertwined. The Tates and the McGuires; same neighbourhood, different sides of the track. The Tates are the notorious ones and twenty-year-old Eddie Tate is on the fast track to the top of the Merseyside underworld. At thirteen his youngest sister Lucy is beginning to realise what it means to have Tate as her second name. Frank McGuire is about to leave school for the growing dole queue and sees Eddie as his way out. So when Eddie needs a small lad to go through a chemist’s window, Frank press gangs his little brother Mickey for the job. What starts off as a simple burglary sets of a chain of events that span twenty-eight years and five European Cup Finals.
25 May 2005
Eddie Tate has become the undisputed king of the Liverpool drugs trade and Frank McGuire is his feared enforcer. Lucy Tate has left her family and past far behind to become a BBC reporter. Mickey McGuire’s life has been a story of endless decline and failure. He goes from underachieving pupil, to minor rock star, to drug addict, to prisoner to a hospital porter. Like his beloved Liverpool FC, it seems like he is all washed up. Then against all odds, he is offered one last chance to turn it all around. To take his chance he needs to make it to the Champions League Final in Turkey. To raise the cash he crosses Eddie Tate and as the great red crusade heads south, death waits round every corner on Mickey’s road to Istanbul . . .
** "Frankly my dear RS, I don't give a damn"
rylojr
Player Valuation: £8m
As rational Evertonians, it is our duty to ram the review section of Amazon with pithy piss-taking of the most savage degree.
I'm gonna be checking it regularly - Don't fail us.
rylojr
Player Valuation: £8m
Presumably death by paving slab and a mob of Chelsea?
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Can not wait for the sequel novel about Kiev. ‘How number 6 came home’ ‘the story of how we conquered all of Europe...again’ ‘before we knew it we were 3 up inside the first half, Real Madrid were being blown away, they’d not seen football like it’ etc. etc. Can sit in Waterstones next to ‘they made us dream’ and the 13/14 title win.
messymascot
Player Valuation: £35m
They actually played in 6 European Cup finals in that period appears one of them has been erased from history.
Obviously it's a murder mystery novel as well.....
Brendan Janus
Player Valuation: £40m
A minutes silence at Analfield at the weekend, The Burger seller outside The Arkles has sold up !!
Dobar dan to all our Serbian brethren travelling over to our great city this weekend. From my experience of working over there, they'll be a good laugh. Mad though!
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