Match Day Thread Proper football is almost here! PRESEASON TIME!

LFC fixture list:

Saturday, July 7 - Chester v Liverpool (3pm)

Wednesday, July 11 - Tranmere Rovers v Liverpool (7.30pm)

Saturday, July 14 - Bury v Liverpool (3pm)

Thursday, July 19 - Blackburn Rovers v Liverpool (7.45pm)

Sunday, July 22 - Liverpool v Borussia Dortmund - Charlotte, NC, USA / Bank of America Stadium.

Wednesday, July 25 - Manchester City v Liverpool - New York Metro, USA / Metlife Stadium.

Saturday, July 28 - Manchester United v Liverpool - Ann Arbor, MI, USA / Michigan Stadium.

Saturday, August 4 - Liverpool v Napoli (7pm) - Dublin, Ireland / Aviva Stadium.

Tuesday, August 7 - Liverpool vs Torino (7.30pm) - Anfield.


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We get one single home Friendly this year. Apparently work is ongoing again on the pitch.

We are less than a week away form offically signing fabinho and Kieta and them starting preseason along with the likes of the mighty Harry wilson, Lazar Markovic and of course Loris Karius.

 

Not bored. I've amused myself with a Coverage World Cup, featuring the commentators, presenters, pundits and roving reporters. Screw their player rater, let's see how they like it. Here's how the draw looks to decide who is the Campeón de Coverage Mondial.

GROUP A
Simon Brotherton vs. Guy Mowbray
David Stowell vs. Kelly Cates
Cesc Fabregas vs. Glenn Hoddle
Leon Mann vs. Mark Chapman

GROUP B
Alan Shearer vs. Gary Neville
Frank Lampard vs. Ian Wright
Clive Tyldesley vs. Sam Matterface
Kevin Kilbane vs. Danny Murphy

GROUP C
Ryan Giggs vs. Matthew Upson
Dan Walker vs. Jacqui Oatley
Jermaine Jenas vs. Patrice Evra
Roy Keane vs. Mark Lawrenson

GROUP D
Vicki Sparks vs. Ian Dennis
Lee Dixon vs. Ali McCoist
Martin O’Neill vs. Jurgen Klinsmann
Mark Pougatch vs. Gary Lineker

GROUP E
Alan Green vs. Jon Champion
Rio Ferdinand vs. Slaven Bilic
Seema Jaswal vs. Jason Mohammad
Alex Scott vs. Eni Oluko

GROUP F
Gabby Logan vs.Gabriel Clarke
Martin Keown vs. Iain Dowie
Pablo Zabaleta vs.Phil Neville
Didier Drogba vs. Henrik Larsson

Who will progress, who's on the plane home and just how big a twat is Gabriel Clarke?

There's a tasty match-up in Group C between the Masters of Misery, Keane and Lawrenson. It'll be raining and VAR will be broken.

 

Saturday, July 7 - Chester v Liverpool (3pm) Naby Keita to play his first game for Liverpool

 

Great, a summer of moaning about Karius. Cannot wait.

More hated than Gabriel Clarke.

 

Karius is a dead man walking.

 

I think he will stay and be our number 2 personally.

Who will be our main keeper who knows.

If we will pay the fee it will be Allison.

 

Karius

 

You dont think we will get another in then?

Migs off maybe. So another young keeper with potential as number 2 or ward step up.

 

Yeah, if Migs is off we will replace but I think Klopp will have faith in Karius. Despite the CL final I think he is a good keeper

 

More fun than buboes.

Well, almost.

 

Super excited for game 1.

The team will barely be together and the game is actually a rest for them from the hell of klopp and kornmayer.

Wilson, ings, sturridge, origi will all be vying for a kick about up top.

Milner windy and a few kids will want to prove that Keita and fabinho are not the only options in midfield

Matip, klavan, Moreno, clyne and gomez will be hoping vvd saves their blushes again.

And of course our boy karius deserves our love and support.


So plenty of stars will be on show for a 45min cameo.

Karius
Clyne gomez klavan Moreno
Kieta fabinho milner
Wilson ings origi

Can't wait for some real footy.

Plus I can't wait to see close ups of the girls in the crowd.

 

Why are we only playing small teams in our warm up games. The highlight is Borussia Dortmund

 

Karius will be first choice keeper and he is also number 2.

A big pile of steaming number 2

 

Come 1 September, Karius will be our first choice keeper. Called it weeks ago

 

As soon as the CL final was over, the price of any GK we might have been interested in shot up 50%. Basically Karius has priced us out of replacing him by being bad.

Should have got Rui Patricio before Wolves and sold Migs, used the money elsewhere and gone back for a GK next summer.

 

And before the CL final, confidence in Karius was growing so it was looking less likely we'd even be in for a new keeper

 

Would love to play Everton in pre-season.

 

Mignolet can go. He's on too high a wage for his contribution.

I suppose after De Gea's error for Spain, he'll be sold by Utd. And Caballero will be on the market, too. A few more keeper errors in the WC and the market will be swamped with terrible keepers, then we won't be able to buy a good one, because everybody who sold their terrible keeper will have snapped the good ones up.

Iran's keeper looked useful. Didn't seem to make any errors and saved a penalty, which is almost as many as Karius has saved.

And in other news, results are in and the second round of the Coverage World Cup has been announced. Now it's no longer commentator vs. commentator, pundit vs. pundit. It's about to get tasty.

Glenn Hoddle vs. Gabby Logan
Mark Chapman vs. Martin Keown
Ian Wright vs. Alex Scott
Clive Tyldesley vs. Slaven Bilic
Jermaine Jenas vs. Vicki Sparks
Roy Keane vs. Ali McCoist

 

Is the first game in Wales or England?

 

That's group C