Jase

So from having no money to sign Werner, Liverpool will now sign Thiago and Jota...

With respect. Fuck off Please chill. Please chill...

We might well lose to them again but I don't get the full on negativity here. We competed well against them last season in all 4 games and would have gotten results against them were it not for our stupid defending or defensive mistakes in the league games and that's without the likes of Werner, Havertz and even Pulisic to an extent. If (I guess it's a big if) we can make fewer mistakes this time around or better, next to zero, there's every chance for us to pick up a result. Moreover, they have hardly been dominant ever since February. They have lost quite a number of games and conceded way more goals than usual. And given it's still early in the season where no side have really settled or are full fit yet, there's all the more chance of us getting a result.

Lampard said Pulisic and Chilwell are not fit for the game. He hopes they progress in training over the next week. Same story with Ziyech. Werner is fit and available. Silva has been training with the team in the last 3-4 days but still not ready for this game.

Chat shit, get corrected.

The problem with Jorginho isn't just the lack of pace. It's also the fact that he's very unathletic and not the most physical of players. Two years on after joining us and he still looks like a bamboo stick. Rice may not be the quickest of players around (he's hardly a snail either like Alonso) but am sure that he is much more physical than Jorginho. Moreover in the DM position that Rice plays in, the lack of pace is fine as long as it is compensated with intelligence and positioning to cover defensively. Makelele or Mikel, for instance, were hardly the quickest around, but their intelligence and defensive positioning were largely spot on.

And who in the club is having the doubts? The scouts, Marina, Cech? Apart from maybe questioning the cost, not sure the club have much to stand on when they are also the ones who recommended/bought the likes of Drinkwater, Zappacosta, Bakayoko, Kepa etc in past years. And of course, who could forget arguably the biggest blunder of all when they sold De Bruyne because the manager deemed him to be bad after 2-3 bad games.

We have beaten Klopp's Liverpool in the Premier League... https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43939016

Banter club.

Judge for yourself...

Guess Liverpool want to win and win now but that's another old player in their books. Thiago is already 29 and doesn't have the cleanest of injury record. They are gonna have a big rebuilding job to do soon enough.

Don't have the full list and don't know what the exact state that season was but here's something from November 2018... https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/stat-shows-how-injuries-bitten-2235677

Not writing him off just yet because of obvious reasons but at the same time, think it's fair to ask how long should we wait for him to rediscover his form and/or fulfill his potential? He is already 24 years old, not 18 or 19 anymore and TBH, apart from the run he had under Sarri, he's never really shown any consistency in his career so far. He's only showed flashes of brilliance here and there and that is not good enough. It's fair that he should be given a bit more time but again at the same time, he also needs to do more to justify that. Okay, he didn't play in his best position on Monday but he was so bad at doing what's supposed to be the basics - e.g. passing the ball, making the right choices, tracking back. And then there's also the question whether Loftus-Cheek is basically a system player, someone who only fits into 4-3-3 and nothing else. If that is the case, then that is a potential issue as well.

This happened in the Europa League tonight...

If we get past Barnsley, we'll face either Leyton Orient or Spurs AWAY in the fourth round.

It might become (auxiliary) full back soon!

O.o

New contract until 2025 and loan deal to West Brom confirmed...

Pretty sure that was a few weeks ago.

Were they bad or..? Imagine the meltdown from Mourinho if they had lost the game! Their schedule is seriously crazy though - they play Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday again this coming week.