Honestly my opinion is the team that's most fit and most on it will win in this current campaign. It's simply the case Southampton made changes and needed to react while arsenal were a bit flat. We had a week off before Watford and still just played poor then a couple days later see off Leicester as the players reacted to the loss and manager reading the riot act. Yes the next game can be the start of a run but more often than not teams just float along until something has to change.
City and Arsenal should be bankers for top 4, maybe even top 3. Leicester are certainly good enough but could suffer from injuries in the later half of the season. Spurs have a very good squad but are still not far from 5th place. Like I said earlier, any team in the top 10 that puts a winning run together could get up there, the second half of the season will be very interesting.
Yeah but..... Everton ain't in the top 10! I think personally stoke west ham palace and Watford are irrelevant in this discussion as done will make a run so the reality is Spurs have 4th now, a keeper a good cb partnership and a striker to depend on... utd are 5 points off and in mini crisis mode. Lfc are 8 points off and that's frankly a mountain. Sure anyone can go on a run... anyone but so can spurs who might actually go for top spot as they are closer to first than fifth! I reckon the most consistent teams are gapping the rest and I thought utd would be one of those but they imploded in last few games and they have work to go do to get back to just being hard to beat.
#LFC must decide whether to keep Enrique until the end of the season or pay up the final months of his £65,000 per week contract. (Pearce)
Jose Enrique will be able to sign a pre-contract agreement with another club from January 1. #lfc (James Pearce)
I think we should just keep him as paying him up will just cost is in a lump sum. You might even get a game out of him
What's the point in paying him off? If it's going to cost the same amount then why not keep him just in case?
If he's being a bad influence then we should be looking to cut him free without having to pay him off. Tell him to find a new club and we'll pay the difference on his wages for the rest of the season
Aren't buyout clauses supposed to be less than just continuing to pay the wages? Not sure - but sooner he's gone the better.
I think he's been picture having a laugh and joke round training so I'm sure someone is trying hard to show him being fit somewhere in the club. The ideal is someone desperate in January offers us a button and a peanut and he moves cos a move now is better than a hoped for move in summer to a guy who's not kicked a ball in 2 years. 65k for 25 weeks v say 40K (barely average or below average) plus signing on fee.... If he gets a prem offer he should go. In summer he will be lucky to get anyone in Spain to look at him. Let's hope someone actually pays 200k or something for him.
Perhaps it being a lump sum saves on tax or national insurance costs or something, or just the cost of having him insured to train at Melwood or whatever
Surely form is your previous 1 game. How can form be something that hasn't happened yet? Form shows I'm going to win the lottery tonight.
How are Man Utd going to throw away last month's results? Oh yeah, by not sacking Van Gaal for them #form
Gamblers study the form... Therefore form guides are predictors of future performance based on past performance. Ergo lfc are away therefore away form is relevant as is form v sunderland last year in same fixture. Also our games v allardyce teams. Our home form is not so relevant really. Benteke's form v sunderland has been mentioned by sky as has milner goals v sunderland are either or both relevant?
None of these have any relevance at all, what happened last year has no bearing on this year, different players, different managers, different weather, how can you compare them? Your games v Alardyce teams? do they include Sunderland, was Klopp your manager for them all? How have Benteke and Milner fared for you against Sunderland?
