According to everyone at the club and the stats that say he helped us win every trophy possible in his 7 years compared to 2 trophies in the previous 10 years. But you’re right, maybe klopp and all the players who have nothing but good to say about him are wrong and he was pure lucky to be in a world class team and he was a passenger. He joined in 2015 And helped us win first league title in 30 years. 1 European cup. 1 club World Cup. 1 fa cup. 1 league cup. 1 uefa super cup. 1 community shield. Before he joined we had 1 league cup and community shield since 2005… Believe (may be mistaken) that he was the only player who had won a league title before when we won ours as well. City didn’t want to lose him. Klopp sounds like didn’t want to lose him. But yeah, guy is a serial loser and brought the club down. Better off if he never joined
It's interesting that he didn't really raise any standards when he joined because we were still sh*t. I suppose the winning attitude coincides when we actually signed quality players who raised the standard on the pitch. It's funny how the same players struggled last year and Milner's 'winning' attitude didn't have much of any impact ... Klopp didn't want to lose Bobby or Mane, or any other player. He's very loyal. To his detriment. And if City really wanted him, they would have kept him. No doubt he was a fantastic professional.
Aberdeen have announced that Liverpool midfielder Leighton Clarkson has signed for the club on a permanent transfer on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
So it’s Milners fault that Salah/TAA/vvd were all poor last year? It’s interesting that despite all these quality players that were signed, Milner still played more than most of them throughout the last 7 years. You don’t like him. You don’t think team morale, professionalism, inspiration off the pitch is a thing in football. It’s all data driven and personality doesn’t go into making a successful team. However the guy was a mainstay in the team over the last 7 years which coincided with our best trophy haul and football played so what ever impact he did didn’t have, he’ll go down as a far greater lfc player than Keita or coutinho etc
Wouldn't say he was a mainstay .. he was a squad player. And I agree that he made more of an impact than Keith and Coutinho. Our best players were poor last year and guess what ... the team suffered. So for all the talk that Milner (and Hendo) are these great leaders who would never let standards slip is just nonsense. You want to give the so called leaders the credit for our success but then say nothing when the chips were down... Anyways, you should be happy because it looks like Thuram is close. Please be happy.
Stewart is not a great athlete imo, he's also not a great talent. quansah is a cb not a midfield but has been at the club since age 5. mabaya is from Preston and has been coming to the club since age 6 to train. he's also a winger not a cm. reminds me of amoo honestly. if we look through the longer list of lads like Clarkson, morton, Woodburn etc there's a common theme of lads who can pass long and short all day every day but are just not athletic.
Ah my mistake, I wasn't focussing on midfielders. You're right to an extent that we don't have any homegrown units in the academy in any position other than goalkeepers actually. Koumetio fits the bill but he's French and while he looked really promising, hasn't kicked on. I can't think of any big, strong, athletic academy players in general for any team?
There's two ways to break FFP. 1) Be sneaky about it. Do things like be your own shirt and stadium sponsor. Have affiliated companies pay your wages for you. The City/PSG model. Then there is 2) Be completely open about how much youre spending and when you get called out on it just make up some excuse why you're special and deserve to break the rules... Chelsea and Everton are both number twos. Ironically, they're both **** too.
Obviously, but that's not going to happen before the summer is over so won't affect the Mount negotiations
West Ham has rejected £80m bid from Arsenal for Rice. They want £120m. English players are too expensive.
**** from West Ham; Rice wanted to go last year, persuaded him to give one more season and now pricing him out of a move
