We beat them 1-3 with Marc Falco scoring twice in 1981 I think it was so I'm clinging on to that. 8 is my number, Come On You Spurs.
Very vicious, calm down for goodness sake. Wishing someone dead because he's a football coach? Come on.
If we get to the final, its anyones game. If we get there it means we have had alot of great moments to take heart from also. As a club we should be hungrier than Liverpool, we would definately be underdogs and i prefer that. They have only beaten us by the odd goal in both games this season. If we get there its game on. Barca werent ready for the classic Premier League tempo...we are. My only concern is injuries. First things first though...tommorow is massive for our club.
I think Messi should move on to rescue his reputation. Playing alongside Sissoko might just help him.
Well done Liverpool. It needs to be said. Clearly the better team on the day. I hope that folks who claim that we have strength in depth are now looking at the Liverpool squad and realising the difference. This idea of not being able to get cover for Kane because, "He's so good!", needs to die a death. If we aren't buying someone, we need to be promoting someone. Liverpool have an embarrassment of goal scoring options in forward positions, and even have CMs that score. It seems that this is what you need to best compete at high levels, on top of a solid defence. If we manage to beat both Ajax and Liverpool in the CL, I'll be happy to eat these words, of course. Let's see….
Have you seen the Ajax team LockStock? Morale is sky high, 4 goals last week, hell, on paper it looks like a mauling. If we do win it it won't be with skill and form, it will be lady luck. Everything points to them doesn't it? Liverpool turned it round with Salah so let's hope we can without Kane. I'm hoping that qualification for the CL has boosted our morale and that we can give them a good game but even if we don't go through I'm very happy with what we've done in the CL this season. Well done but Come On You Spurs.
Okay pundits, does last night's result mean that Saltypool can safely sell Salah and reinvest in the squad without facing any issues whatsoever?
Liverpool Players Salaries 2018/19 Virgil Van Dijk 26 £180,000 Alisson Becker 25 £77,000 Simon Mignolet 29 £60,000 Loris Karius 24 £25,000 Joel Matip 26 £70,000 Dejan Lovren 28 £65,000 Joe Gomez 20 £10,000 Andrew Robertson 23 £50,000 Alberto Moreno 25 £40,000 Nathaniel Clyne 26 £70,000 Georginio Wijnaldum 26 £90,000 Naby Keita 23 120,000 Fabinho 24 130,000 Jordan Henderson 27 £100,000 James Milner 31 £120,000 Marko Grujic 21 £15,000 Adam Lallana 29 £65,000 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 24 £120,000 Sadio Mané 25 £90,000 Xherdan Shaqiri 26 £100,000 Mohamed Salah 25 £200,000 Roberto Firmino 25 £100,000 Daniel Sturridge 27 £120,000 Danny Ings 25 £60,000
Were Liverpool "lucky" last night? I'd argue they just outplayed Barcelona, who everything also pointed to. Are Liverpool a better team than Barcelona, on paper? I'm not sure really. I'd say, at this level, it can go in any direction depending on who actually shows up. I'd say we have a bigger chance against Ajax that Liverpool had against Barcelona. Let's just hope our team shows up with the right work rate and work ethic.
Neres is reportedly injured, Ziyech and Mazraoui are both fasting for Ramadan, and Salah wasn't on the pitch last night Berk.
Erm….. Not sure why exactly why this is a response to me, but I guess you're seeking to highlight the wage differences. Yep. I'm familiar with that difference. We've somehow managed to minimise the effect of that difference though, at least for now. The bigger difference for me is quality in positions and depth of those positions. Put the positions in that picture, then compare with Spurs and you'll notice where are squad is light in comparison. Sturridge and Origi have their critics, but they have managed to come into games as substitutes or cover and scored key match winning, point scoring, goals.
No, Liverpool weren't lucky last night but they did follow the tradition of scoring early to overcome a three goal deficit as has happened before. I'm still hoping Christian will score against his old team, one last flourish before he leaves us.
As have Llorente and Moura. Do you really think Origi, Sturridge and Shaquiri are lots better than Llorente, Moura and Lamela? Or that Lovren and Matip are better than Sanchez and Foyth? A game between our reserve teams would be hard to call. Just as a game between our first teams is. Man City have some non first choice players who might improve our first team but no-one else is really stronger in depth than we are.
No, I didn't say I'd sell him did I? I didn't come anywhere near it as he's probably off anyway or haven't you heard? The last flourish pertains to ex players scoring for their old clubs.
It's interesting to look at Liverpool's players involvement in last summer's WC... Alisson - came home early TAA - went hardly played; VvD- didn't qualify Matip - not selected Lovren - runner up. Robertson - didn't qualify Milner - retired from internationals Wijnaldum - didn't qualify Keita - didn't qualify Fabinho - not selected Mane - didn't qualify Firmino - came home early Salah - came home early Origi - hardly played Shaquiri - made KO rounds, home early. The majority of their squad had some rest this summer and a fair few got a pre-season. Our squad are running on fumes and regularly suffering injuries which is unsurprising. It makes a big difference, especially with recurring injuries to Lamela, Aurier, Davies, Winks and Wanyama who didn't go to Russia.
Add this to what I said on the PL board (that if the Poool had taken the domestic cups more seriously their PL pts tally would have been closer to 3rd-6th due to squad weakness - only Citeh can seriously contest for the quadruple) . Assuming the Inger-Spurs are brave enough to tell Southgate to eff off regarding summer international duty, we shall see what that + transfer activity does for Spurs next season.
That's an interesting concept so here are the teams as I see them and on paper the Liverpool XI does look stronger than ours particularly in midfield Gazza Foyth Sanchez Davies Aurier Wanyama Dier KWP Lamela Llorente Lucas Origi Sturridge Shaqiri Wijnaldum Lallana Oxlade-Chamberlain Moreno Lovren Gomez Hoever Mignolet
