Their model has for a long time been accepting of spending a lot more of their income on wages than any other of 'The Big 6'. They've been spending 70% on a pretty regular basis which would suggest that they see incomes increasing significantly on an ongoing basis and have gambled on getting back into the CL, raising their profile and are starting to fire themselves up as a commercial entity. We've been earning £100m a year less than them and spending a fair bit of our income on the stadium over the last decade. So, their spend has been massively greater than ours for a number of reasons. That they've won exactly what we've won [1 League Cup in that time] and finished beneath us in 7 of the last 8 seasons shows that an awful lot of it has been wasted. I wouldn't trust the owners not to **** it up again, if Klopp left, so they need him to retain belief in the project.
Salah plays for media darlings Liverpool, so it won`t get a second mention, if that was Dele Alli aiming a punch at an opponent it would be plastered all over the media in a matter of minutes.
Dermot Gallagher: http://www.skysports.com/football/n...runo-martins-indi-clash-says-dermot-gallagher He tried to punch him, but it's not a red. Yep.
So : 1. you actually have to MAKE CONTACT, seen or unseen at the time, to get punished 2. INTENT is irrelevant (luck of the draw for the intended recipient)
But the rule was quoted, you don't actually have to make contact, the intent is the important thing. As you say, it is the luck of the draw if you make contact. In this case the player managed a nifty duck out of the way. I don't think the rules should change because Martins-Indi has good reflexes! We actually know the main reason for the rules change is who the "offender" is.
I want the ban for two reasons. 1. To show there are no herd / media favourites when it comes to post-match citing of this stuff. 2. Although IMHO Salah will finish top scorer come season end, for the sheer comedy value of a potential Mouser meltdown (more so if Kane repeats his exploits of exactly 12 months ago) .
That’s two weeks running that someone has clearly threw a punch and two weeks running they’ve got away with it. Wait for Dele to get clearly wiped out tonight but the media will go mad and call him a diver.
Congratulations to eleven players for wasting their time by joining the club with the worst youth policy in the Premier League
He is effective. Giroud saved countless games for the Gooners with late headers. I thought that we'd bought Llorente to do the same thing and was all for it. Unfortunately we expected him to play like Pele.
Was he much of a player. Just can't imagine him actually playing the game, but IIRC he was pretty decent. Just looks too feeble.
Conte? As a player he was somewhere between Gennaro Gattuso and Steven Gerrard - which, given the Italian defending he was going up against, made him anything but feeble.
