ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"
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That's Rodgers fault though.
I don't know about it being the worst, but I had to gave the subtitles on the other night when I was watching the Spike Island filum.
AndyC
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Born and raised a Manc, well Salford actually... and I dislike the accent too.
helpimonfire
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It's old, but very true.
They are miserable at the moment
They finally lost a Cup Final on penalties, while we've got some new investment
Whose bitter now Kopites?!?!?
Pricks
They finally lost a Cup Final on penalties, while we've got some new investment
Whose bitter now Kopites?!?!?
Pricks
helpimonfire
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But!! But!! 5 times lad, best in der league laar, gonna win it next year kidda...I,I, I am a dalek.
SpurtingLesbian
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpools-defeat-doesnt-matter-jurgen-7460958
Liverpool's defeat doesn't matter - Jurgen Klopp has imprinted his formidable spirit on this team
That this poor Liverpool team managed to take this final to penalties shows what spirit the German has given them
Team spirit: Jurgen Klopp talks to the playersIf hiring a German manager is supposed to guarantee one thing, it is the winning of penalty shoot-outs.
Yet while it was a choker for the Red Army, losing on spot-kicks didn’t actually matter all that much to Jurgen Klopp’s long-term prospects as Liverpool boss. Because winning the League Cup never really matters to any manager’s job prospects.
Kenny Dalglish was sacked months after winning it for Liverpool four years ago. In the past decade, that same fate has befallen League Cup-winning bosses Jose Mourinho (twice), Michael Laudrup and Juande Ramos, while Alex McLeish also left Birmingham after relegation.
Manchester City, always forward-thinking, announced they were dispensing with Manuel Pellegrini before he’d even won this season’s final.
No true judgements will be made on Klopp’s Anfield reign until deep into next season after the German has overseen a major overhaul of a lop-sided Liverpool squad which lacks sufficient quality in all except forward areas.
Irrelevant: Manuel Pellegrini has won the cup, but is off in the summerAnd then, nobody will be looking back on whether or not Klopp won the League Cup.
What Sunday did prove was that Klopp has engendered enough spirit into his inherited squad for Liverpool to go the full distance with a vastly superior City team.
Adam Lallana, very much a man of peace before Klopp’s arrival, ended up calling out the mountainous Yaya Toure for an extra-time street brawl.
The Reds finished with two midfielders and a virtual pensioner in a makeshift back four and yet somehow dragged City into a shoot-out.
And this final proved again that, despite all the Banana Splits smiles and the pratting about, Klopp is a deeply serious and decisive operator – always capable of making calls which are neither popular nor obvious.
Within 25 minutes Klopp was volubly ordering off Mamadou Sakho, with apparent concussion after a clash of heads with team-mate Emre Can.
Scuffle: Adam Lallana clashes with Yaya ToureThe big defender, a cult hero on The Kop, chucked an almighty tantrum, kicking over a bottle on the touchline and burying his head beneath a coat when he returned to the dugout.
But Klopp wasn’t doing sentiment and he sent on ancient warrior Kolo Toure in his place – he and ‘little’ brother Yaya becoming the first siblings to contest a major Wembley cup final on opposite sides.
Klopp is also adamant that Liverpool’s £32.5million striker Christian Benteke is not for him, even in extra-time in a Cup final.
And the Liverpool manager was hard-headed enough to insist on playing Simon Mignolet, ahead of the previous ‘Cup keeper’ Adam Bogdan – a call which was hardly an unqualified success with the Belgian allowing Fernandinho’s opener to pass straight through him.
Klopp has dodgy goalkeepers, average defenders and unremarkable midfielders. Only in attacking areas do Liverpool look anything like Champions League contenders, yet even there, Klopp faces question marks – with Daniel Sturridge’s physical frailties leaving him unable to take a spot-kick.
Sturridge was the first offender in a string of cynical dives which infested the first hour – Nicolas Otamendi and Philippe Coutinho were also guilty and so too was Sergio Aguero, even though the majority of football sages who want ‘dangling a leg’ classified as a capital offence, would have awarded the City striker a penalty for his tangle with Alberto Moreno.
While City thoroughly deserved their lead, there was a resilience about Liverpool and a profligacy about Raheem Sterling’s finishing, which fuelled believe the Final was still alive.
And when Coutinho equalised seven minutes from full-time, thumping home after Lallana had struck the post from a Sturridge cross, half of Wembley was euphoric and engulfed in the red smoke of warning flares.
They are a wonderfully contrary lot, Liverpool’s supporters. They boo God Save The Queen and sing the praises of Igor Biscan, years on from his undistinguished Anfield service.
Predictably they gave dog’s abuse to ‘greedy b*****d’ Sterling, who flopped after a lively start.
Sterling, like the cramped-up Sturridge, was absent when it came to the penalties – and Willy Caballero, City’s performing seal of a keeper, was the unlikely hero for Pellegrini.
Having cajoled and roused his players in animated fashion before the shoot-out, Klopp retired to the dugout watch the decisive action impassively and in glorious isolation.
He is rarely predictable, Klopp. And his unpredictability will improve Liverpool, just as soon as he has some better players.
Liverpool's defeat doesn't matter - Jurgen Klopp has imprinted his formidable spirit on this team
That this poor Liverpool team managed to take this final to penalties shows what spirit the German has given them
Team spirit: Jurgen Klopp talks to the players
Yet while it was a choker for the Red Army, losing on spot-kicks didn’t actually matter all that much to Jurgen Klopp’s long-term prospects as Liverpool boss. Because winning the League Cup never really matters to any manager’s job prospects.
Kenny Dalglish was sacked months after winning it for Liverpool four years ago. In the past decade, that same fate has befallen League Cup-winning bosses Jose Mourinho (twice), Michael Laudrup and Juande Ramos, while Alex McLeish also left Birmingham after relegation.
Manchester City, always forward-thinking, announced they were dispensing with Manuel Pellegrini before he’d even won this season’s final.
No true judgements will be made on Klopp’s Anfield reign until deep into next season after the German has overseen a major overhaul of a lop-sided Liverpool squad which lacks sufficient quality in all except forward areas.
Irrelevant: Manuel Pellegrini has won the cup, but is off in the summer
What Sunday did prove was that Klopp has engendered enough spirit into his inherited squad for Liverpool to go the full distance with a vastly superior City team.
Adam Lallana, very much a man of peace before Klopp’s arrival, ended up calling out the mountainous Yaya Toure for an extra-time street brawl.
The Reds finished with two midfielders and a virtual pensioner in a makeshift back four and yet somehow dragged City into a shoot-out.
And this final proved again that, despite all the Banana Splits smiles and the pratting about, Klopp is a deeply serious and decisive operator – always capable of making calls which are neither popular nor obvious.
Within 25 minutes Klopp was volubly ordering off Mamadou Sakho, with apparent concussion after a clash of heads with team-mate Emre Can.
Scuffle: Adam Lallana clashes with Yaya Toure
But Klopp wasn’t doing sentiment and he sent on ancient warrior Kolo Toure in his place – he and ‘little’ brother Yaya becoming the first siblings to contest a major Wembley cup final on opposite sides.
Klopp is also adamant that Liverpool’s £32.5million striker Christian Benteke is not for him, even in extra-time in a Cup final.
And the Liverpool manager was hard-headed enough to insist on playing Simon Mignolet, ahead of the previous ‘Cup keeper’ Adam Bogdan – a call which was hardly an unqualified success with the Belgian allowing Fernandinho’s opener to pass straight through him.
Klopp has dodgy goalkeepers, average defenders and unremarkable midfielders. Only in attacking areas do Liverpool look anything like Champions League contenders, yet even there, Klopp faces question marks – with Daniel Sturridge’s physical frailties leaving him unable to take a spot-kick.
Sturridge was the first offender in a string of cynical dives which infested the first hour – Nicolas Otamendi and Philippe Coutinho were also guilty and so too was Sergio Aguero, even though the majority of football sages who want ‘dangling a leg’ classified as a capital offence, would have awarded the City striker a penalty for his tangle with Alberto Moreno.
While City thoroughly deserved their lead, there was a resilience about Liverpool and a profligacy about Raheem Sterling’s finishing, which fuelled believe the Final was still alive.
And when Coutinho equalised seven minutes from full-time, thumping home after Lallana had struck the post from a Sturridge cross, half of Wembley was euphoric and engulfed in the red smoke of warning flares.
They are a wonderfully contrary lot, Liverpool’s supporters. They boo God Save The Queen and sing the praises of Igor Biscan, years on from his undistinguished Anfield service.
Predictably they gave dog’s abuse to ‘greedy b*****d’ Sterling, who flopped after a lively start.
Sterling, like the cramped-up Sturridge, was absent when it came to the penalties – and Willy Caballero, City’s performing seal of a keeper, was the unlikely hero for Pellegrini.
Having cajoled and roused his players in animated fashion before the shoot-out, Klopp retired to the dugout watch the decisive action impassively and in glorious isolation.
He is rarely predictable, Klopp. And his unpredictability will improve Liverpool, just as soon as he has some better players.
If Man United knock them out of the Europa, it'll be bleach and razorblades time for them
Hopefully Rooney or Fellaini score the winner, just to make it even worse for them
helpimonfire
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lol
helpimonfire
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From Rawk
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« Reply #19034 on: Today at 01:13:14 PM »
Quote from: EstonianRed on Today at 12:59:06 PM
I thought their biggest game was already 2 days ago on Sunday at Wembley? Surely they celebrated it like a victory.
You know what the sad thing is? I know blues who actually did.
They went out drinking to celebrate, drinking blue moon all night and celebrating.
Hhhhmmmnnn. Well,let me tell you a story. The pricks that live in the house behind me had a party in 2009 on FA cup final day. They are reds and they wore Chelsea shirts and hung up Chelsea flags. They did that from the early morning and ran around screaming when Chelsea won. The party went on into the evening when they could be heard singing Chelsea songs. Just after Toure slotted home the winneron Sunday they closed their curtains and all was silent. Not seen them since. I guess they will be moving soon.
Sad nobs making out they never cheer on our defeats..of course they do the bitter twisted skint plebs.
Re: Farvel Steiner. Incestious Topic. Caution may contain n̶u̶t̶s Everton.
« Reply #19034 on: Today at 01:13:14 PM »
Quote from: EstonianRed on Today at 12:59:06 PM
I thought their biggest game was already 2 days ago on Sunday at Wembley? Surely they celebrated it like a victory.
You know what the sad thing is? I know blues who actually did.
They went out drinking to celebrate, drinking blue moon all night and celebrating.
Hhhhmmmnnn. Well,let me tell you a story. The pricks that live in the house behind me had a party in 2009 on FA cup final day. They are reds and they wore Chelsea shirts and hung up Chelsea flags. They did that from the early morning and ran around screaming when Chelsea won. The party went on into the evening when they could be heard singing Chelsea songs. Just after Toure slotted home the winneron Sunday they closed their curtains and all was silent. Not seen them since. I guess they will be moving soon.
Sad nobs making out they never cheer on our defeats..of course they do the bitter twisted skint plebs.
helpimonfire
Player Valuation: £35m
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpools-defeat-doesnt-matter-jurgen-7460958
Liverpool's defeat doesn't matter - Jurgen Klopp has imprinted his formidable spirit on this team
That this poor Liverpool team managed to take this final to penalties shows what spirit the German has given them
If hiring a German manager is supposed to guarantee one thing, it is the winning of penalty shoot-outs.
Team spirit: Jurgen Klopp talks to the players
Yet while it was a choker for the Red Army, losing on spot-kicks didn’t actually matter all that much to Jurgen Klopp’s long-term prospects as Liverpool boss. Because winning the League Cup never really matters to any manager’s job prospects.
Kenny Dalglish was sacked months after winning it for Liverpool four years ago. In the past decade, that same fate has befallen League Cup-winning bosses Jose Mourinho (twice), Michael Laudrup and Juande Ramos, while Alex McLeish also left Birmingham after relegation.
Manchester City, always forward-thinking, announced they were dispensing with Manuel Pellegrini before he’d even won this season’s final.
No true judgements will be made on Klopp’s Anfield reign until deep into next season after the German has overseen a major overhaul of a lop-sided Liverpool squad which lacks sufficient quality in all except forward areas.
And then, nobody will be looking back on whether or not Klopp won the League Cup.
Irrelevant: Manuel Pellegrini has won the cup, but is off in the summer
What Sunday did prove was that Klopp has engendered enough spirit into his inherited squad for Liverpool to go the full distance with a vastly superior City team.
Adam Lallana, very much a man of peace before Klopp’s arrival, ended up calling out the mountainous Yaya Toure for an extra-time street brawl.
The Reds finished with two midfielders and a virtual pensioner in a makeshift back four and yet somehow dragged City into a shoot-out.
And this final proved again that, despite all the Banana Splits smiles and the pratting about, Klopp is a deeply serious and decisive operator – always capable of making calls which are neither popular nor obvious.
Within 25 minutes Klopp was volubly ordering off Mamadou Sakho, with apparent concussion after a clash of heads with team-mate Emre Can.
The big defender, a cult hero on The Kop, chucked an almighty tantrum, kicking over a bottle on the touchline and burying his head beneath a coat when he returned to the dugout.
Scuffle: Adam Lallana clashes with Yaya Toure
But Klopp wasn’t doing sentiment and he sent on ancient warrior Kolo Toure in his place – he and ‘little’ brother Yaya becoming the first siblings to contest a major Wembley cup final on opposite sides.
Klopp is also adamant that Liverpool’s £32.5million striker Christian Benteke is not for him, even in extra-time in a Cup final.
And the Liverpool manager was hard-headed enough to insist on playing Simon Mignolet, ahead of the previous ‘Cup keeper’ Adam Bogdan – a call which was hardly an unqualified success with the Belgian allowing Fernandinho’s opener to pass straight through him.
Klopp has dodgy goalkeepers, average defenders and unremarkable midfielders. Only in attacking areas do Liverpool look anything like Champions League contenders, yet even there, Klopp faces question marks – with Daniel Sturridge’s physical frailties leaving him unable to take a spot-kick.
Sturridge was the first offender in a string of cynical dives which infested the first hour – Nicolas Otamendi and Philippe Coutinho were also guilty and so too was Sergio Aguero, even though the majority of football sages who want ‘dangling a leg’ classified as a capital offence, would have awarded the City striker a penalty for his tangle with Alberto Moreno.
While City thoroughly deserved their lead, there was a resilience about Liverpool and a profligacy about Raheem Sterling’s finishing, which fuelled believe the Final was still alive.
And when Coutinho equalised seven minutes from full-time, thumping home after Lallana had struck the post from a Sturridge cross, half of Wembley was euphoric and engulfed in the red smoke of warning flares.
They are a wonderfully contrary lot, Liverpool’s supporters. They boo God Save The Queen and sing the praises of Igor Biscan, years on from his undistinguished Anfield service.
Predictably they gave dog’s abuse to ‘greedy b*****d’ Sterling, who flopped after a lively start.
Sterling, like the cramped-up Sturridge, was absent when it came to the penalties – and Willy Caballero, City’s performing seal of a keeper, was the unlikely hero for Pellegrini.
Having cajoled and roused his players in animated fashion before the shoot-out, Klopp retired to the dugout watch the decisive action impassively and in glorious isolation.
He is rarely predictable, Klopp. And his unpredictability will improve Liverpool, just as soon as he has some better players.
Classic ha ha
Long may Klopp rule lol
SpurtingLesbian
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Brenda's 'Character' - Klopp's 'Spirit'
Gwladysstreetlad
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Tbf all accents are horrible when taken to extremes.
helpimonfire
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The construction of the new stand will cost £75m with associated costs taking the overall total to £115m. The loan, made available from FSG’s cash reserves, will be repaid over the next five-and-a-half years.
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