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21 Mar 2024 16:22:04
Hi Ed001. Hope all is going ok mate with your living arrangement upheavals? Just wondered what you think on the 10 game "shoot-out" for the Premier League title? The run-ins are all pretty similar really. Personally, I hope City and Arsenal both make it the Champs League semis and then have a grueling battle over 2 games - that can only bode well for us in the run in. Will be interesting to see how many points are needed - maybe 25? Just hope we can stay injury free for the last 2 months and have a 2nd Prem for JK . and the Europa League Cup of course! :-)

{Ed001's Note - do you not think losing now would be better for Arsenal and City? Dent their confidence?}

21 Mar 2024 16:46:15
It's a good point - but just think the extra games take their toll. Look at us against Man U - the games eventually catch up with you don't they? Just so want that Prem Title and am just looking for anything that gives us an edge!

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21 Mar 2024 18:14:39
Best case scenario we win the treble and city and Arsenal get knocked out of the CL.

Worst case scenario we go out of Europa Arsenal win the league and city win back to back CL.

I’d happily sell my soul for Scenario 1.

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22 Mar 2024 05:19:12
Games won’t take their toll on Arsenal this season. They were out the domestic cups so early that they’ll play a maximum of 53 games in any case. Though Arteta has had the luxury of choosing his best 11 for the vast majority of the season, something he hasn’t hesitated to do, a physical toll won’t impact Arsenal’s season unless they pick up injuries.
A loss in the Champions League and another likely trophy-less season, however, would probably ruin their title challenge. These are serious times for Arteta - he’s been in charge four and a half years, won almost nothing, and cannot continue to spend like Man City for much longer. He needs to win one of the two big prizes this season.

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22 Mar 2024 07:14:51
Only 2 games I can see possiblity of city dropping points is arsenal+ spurs, rest they will win handy I think. arsenal will draw a blank in some game they would expect to win, also they have city, utd and spurs all away. we have tough run in of away games at end, west ham+everton (possibly) +fulham all away in a week. everton looks like it going to be that week. V hard to look beyond city unfortunately.

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22 Mar 2024 09:25:35
LoweLFC, I disagree slightly here. The games will now come back to back to back for Arsenal and it could take it's toll on them physically mainly becos Arteta does NOT rotate almost at all. Saka plays 90 mins every game, Jesus can't stay fit, Nketiah never plays and Zinchenko is injury prone. And the likes of Elneny, Cedric, Reece Williams (all like Nketiah) never see the pitch either and Partey just came back from a long lay off. Same with Timber. That's a lot, mate.

For me and most importantly with that brutal schedule they have in their final 10 games (City, Spurs, Utd, Wolves, Brighton away with Chelsea and Villa at home), there are going to be some seriously trying times for them with the calendar they have coming up. We shall see how they handle it.

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22 Mar 2024 10:09:28
Yeh Digger but if they DO drop points in them games they could be six points behind us. That happens we win the league.

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22 Mar 2024 10:26:45
Olired - It’s certainly possible they hit a wall and don’t have the energy to pull themselves over. I just think that, for a top 6 club, 50-odd games can be considered a pretty standard season - should they make it to the CL final it won’t be their 63rd game of the season like it was for us.
(You’re right about Arteta - he doesn’t rotate and has been quite fortunate with injuries for two seasons. )
I just think a loss in the CL/ PL would be a lot more damaging to them than tiredness.

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22 Mar 2024 10:35:43
Only results the squad can affect are our own.

Aim to win every game we have left is all we can do. If Arsenal do the same then it’s down to goal difference.

None of us predicted losing last Sunday and I think all 3 teams will drop points in the last 10 games. It’s just a case of us picking up more points than the other two.

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22 Mar 2024 10:50:48
I think loosing would work for arsenal but not city mate. they would just be more motivated. arsenal are like a balloon waiting to be popped.

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22 Mar 2024 12:32:13
Aye JK I agree, just need to focus on our own games - win every one and we win the league I think, to make life easier for us supporters they could smash a few teams as well and sort out any goal difference worries lol

That's the thing though Digger, we look at the games against Arsenal, Chelsea etc as potential banana skins for City but they can win those easy enough and then drop points to Wolves etc - hard to judge where a team drop points tbh this season or last, especially City, as they have a tendency to win those 'banana skin' type games but drop points then against teams we thought they'd smash

Definitely an interesting run in - more for neutrals than us lol, but I just really hope we can win all of our remaining matches - be great for Klopp to leave with another League title.

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22 Mar 2024 16:59:24
"I just think a loss in the CL/ PL would be a lot more damaging to them than tiredness. "


Fullu agree, LoweLFC. That can also happen. Let me put it this way: There is a world where all of these scenarios happen and others where one of each of them happens. Either way, that schedule they have is brutal and trust me, it will be a hard ask, IMO.

As for us, we recognise the assignment. We win all our games, we win the title cos Arsenal ain't winning all 10 of their game. Not with that schedule, IMO. If it happens then, hats off to them. It's in our hands still, me thinks.

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22 Mar 2024 21:49:51
Am I right in thinking it’s 20 years since Arsenal last won the league? It’s getting over the line that their issue which is a mental one rather than a physical one. Whilst it’s been 4 for us a number of players remain from then. I still think City will win it but in my view we should be happy with our season, as done really well with a lot of positives - nearly all signings have done well, some fantastic emerging talent that have hugely stepped up, with pick of the bunch in Bradley.

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23 Mar 2024 10:25:36
HessleRedTom1980, I agree BUT we need to aim higher than this cos when the facts change, the objectives should change as well which they have cos Klopp himself said we were going for everything right after his departure announcement.

Let's give it our absolute best, aim to win every game from here on out and then well, hope for the best outcome, IMO.

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21 Mar 2024 15:41:34
I see that Bayern's President - Uli Hoeness - is trying to destabilize Leverkusen and Alonso again - check the article on the BBC Sport website.

Clinging on to the hope that Bayern could still win the league this year!

21 Mar 2024 18:19:47
Zed, they run this gambit all the time when they know they won't win the title. They did it when Klopp rinsed them to win back to back titles. They're so full of it and desperate, it's hilarious.

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21 Mar 2024 20:54:44
Well, it seems to work, in the end. See their number of titles won in recent decades. Not to mention the fact that they always get their choice of players and managers from both the local and European leagues.

Surprising that they have a convicted criminal in charge (yes, he did his time and paid his dues) but the stain remains for ever. Unless you're Bayern Munich.

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22 Mar 2024 05:17:15
Bayern President tries to undermine major rival in Bundesliga. Imagine that, it’d never happen in England.

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22 Mar 2024 09:30:37
ArAy1969, such stunts only work IF you allow it to get into your head, mat. There's a reason why it has only worked cos the other teams bottle it like Leverkusen and Schalke did in 00/ 01 and 01/ 02 respectively and you can add the biggest bottle job in Dortmund of last season into the mix.

The only team it did not work for (or against) was you guessed it: Klopp's teams who won it back to back. Hmmm, I wonder why? Could it be that Klopp's boys were made of a lot more than these other teams and had the mentality to win and never allowed Bayern get into their heads? I guess we'll never know.

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21 Mar 2024 13:52:25
Looking forward to this summer. once Klopps received the send off he so rightfully deserves, when the dust settles and we get to see who the new manager will be, how the team sets up, who the new recruits will be and who will depart. Exciting new era. the team Is already strong but with a few additions man this team will be scary. FSG prove time and again they know what they’re doing. Who does everyone want to see the club sign this summer?

21 Mar 2024 14:28:20
I have a sneaky feeling that Salah will move on in the summer so another forward would be a must if that happens.

If Salah, Thiago and Matip all leave in the summer the reduction in our wage bill would probably excite some fans more than any quadruple would.

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21 Mar 2024 15:44:26
Not as much as net transfer spend JK, that's enough to get the juices flowing.

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21 Mar 2024 15:58:46
Now we’re talking Stuie. I just had a twitch reading that 🤣.

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21 Mar 2024 18:55:14
Apparently itts Between xa and J n well that’s what I’ve heard.

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21 Mar 2024 20:00:26
Can only buy home growners too.

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21 Mar 2024 11:31:36
Tbh lads, I see our opponents players go down at the drop of a hat all game and get a free kick. Yet it seems our players need to be chopped in half to even get a foul given. The reluctance to give Liverpool correct decisions is clear as day. I know all teams get bad referees, but it seems they attempt to be bad whilst refereeing our games. I think this is why what we have achieved is so impressive. I even think the players know this and have given up trying to argue with referees performances.

22 Mar 2024 17:07:03
Fully agree. In the Forest game, Paul Tierney gave Bradley a yellow card on an incident where Hudson Odoi blatantly dived to win the free kick. Klopp nearly lost it but had to calm down for obvious reasons. Can you imagine if Bradley had gotten a second booking for an actual bookable offence? He would have been sent off and we and Klopp, would have all lost our ship and people would have told us to "get over it and move on" with our title chances in near tatters.

Now what did we hear instead? A manufactured controversy about LFC robbing Forest of a point due to a freaking "drop ball" being given to us instead of them. Essensially awarding us the equivalent of a throw-in instead of them, something nobody would have cried about had we lost or drawn the game. Us winning that game only made it sweeter. Darwin, you beauty.

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21 Mar 2024 09:40:27
Ed's and fellow reds, internet going into overdrive that de Zerbi is Liverpool's no.1 choice and Hughes is a big admirer of him, please for the love of god tell me it's not true and let me have a wonderful day, I bet even our naysayer VV would say the same thing and I'd definitely agree with him.

21 Mar 2024 12:29:45
Sid19, nobody knows anything about anything. There was a journalist who said at the time that LFC were not going to sign another midfielder after we signed Mac10 and what happened the next day? Right out of nowhere, the link to Szoboszlai caught fire and the day after that, we signed him.

The club knows what it's doing and these ITK's don't know anything cos LFC are a tight ship that let near NOTHING out. They didn't even know Klopp was leaving till he announced it. Now they suddenly know that DeZerbi is the no. target? Right after they said it was Amorim? Mate, chill out and allow the process to play out.

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21 Mar 2024 12:55:26
Idk I see leaked lineups that are one hundred percent correct hours before every game….

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21 Mar 2024 13:21:21
Have the club announced that they are in for Alonso or has that been leaked by the media.

I know the majority of the fan base have their hearts set on Alonso but this time last year we had our hearts set on Bellingham.

It’s a huge decision on who replaces Klopp because it’s pretty clear that whoever does come in has a squad that is capable of challenging for the title.

We have Vvd, Salah and Trent approaching the final 12 months of their contracts and I’d imagine them and a few of the older players wouldn’t find a season of rebuilding under a new manager appealing after the season we’re having this year.

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21 Mar 2024 13:56:21
Anything you read online right now is nonsense, trust me on that one. It's all utter bullshi*. It's a big deal for many fans so they're going to click bait us. It doesn't mean anything is true.

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21 Mar 2024 14:28:15
De zerbi is now the favorite (media) because Hughes wanted him at Bournemouth after Parker was sacked.

Agree1

21 Mar 2024 14:50:24
Zerbi will never manage Liverpool I doubt we are that silly.

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21 Mar 2024 15:45:48
Klopp to de Zerbi. Possibly the biggest drop off a cliff the clubs had since Suarez to Lambert.

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21 Mar 2024 16:23:01
Same here Bowser, wonder if we are in the same whatsapp group lol.

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21 Mar 2024 18:22:30
@gmil, so the media have just put2 &n 2 together to get 122, right? Sound.

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21 Mar 2024 21:56:30
That's what I meant.

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21 Mar 2024 06:58:48
Hello ed1 hope u well. Have u any update on jota time frame for returning from injury? I read somewhere that he had started light training, but dunno how accurate that is.

{Ed001's Note - last I heard he was likely to be back after the international break but how far away from fitness that is I have no idea. Fingers crossed though as he was playing really well and it would be good to have him back in that kind of form.}

21 Mar 2024 08:34:02
Jota is a constant goal threat. He can be having a bad day at the office then out of nothing he can have the ball in the net for the most vital of goals.
He's not everybody's cup of tea (I think he's ace! ) but he's probably our most instinctive goalscorer.
Fingers crossed he's back quickly after the break, I get the feeling we're going to need his fox in the box ability, especially late on in tight games.

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21 Mar 2024 08:50:28
Best natural finisher we have in the squad, IMO.

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21 Mar 2024 10:02:12
No doubt in my mind we would've beaten city if was playing. I heard while back it was the game at utd he was hoping to come back for but if he is in light training maybe Brighton realistic target.

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21 Mar 2024 13:08:34
Online opinions on Jota have done a 180 this season which is great to see.

Lads been fantastic for us and always plays with his heart on his sleeve. Good to see he’s getting the credit he deserves.

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20 Mar 2024 21:29:48
Hey Ed001 how’s it going mate. You’re still in the Middle East?

Anyway since it’s Torres’ birthday I’ve been seeing a few highlights reels on pop up. What a player he was for us. Absolutely brilliant. Reckon he’d fit in like a glove in the current team mate?

{Ed001's Note - not at the moment, but I am going to have to move back there. It is just too difficult to live here in the Philippines unless you marry a local.

Torres could fit in any team in those peak couple of seasons he had with us. I do think the way the current team plays would suit him best though. He would smash records for goals playing up front for us right now at his peak.}

20 Mar 2024 22:41:01
I see, well that’s a shame to hear mate. If you don’t mind sharing, what seems to be the problem there?

On Torres, I think the years have sort of soften the blow of his move for me. I mean reading up his interview couple of years back, it did kinda make sense, where he was coming from to move. Still hurts though.

Was it all correct though mate, that he said the club broke promises and all that?

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20 Mar 2024 23:26:46
Where abouts in the Middle East are you thinking of moving to, Tris?

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{Ed001's Note - back to Dubai. My bank account etc are all still out there and my aunt and uncle are moving out there as well. Expensive to live but you can live cheaply if you know how. People get into the trap of living the Dubai nightlife and eating out every night etc. If you are not doing that, it is not so bad. Certainly no more expensive than some parts of England.}

21 Mar 2024 01:04:10
Hope the move goes well, Ed1 mate!

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{Ed001's Note - cheers mate. It will take a while but should be much easier than staying here! People are the friendliest but the country itself is such hard work. Everything requires hundreds of triplicate forms and I hate filling out forms.}

21 Mar 2024 07:04:03
If you're considering a place to relocate to Ed, I would recommend Malaysia. If I recall, they have a scheme (MM2H) that makes it easier for foreigners to relocate there so that should streamline the process. The cost of living is also much lower than Dubai and the infrastructure is better than in the Philippines.

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{Ed001's Note - I have everything in place in Dubai, and there is the possibility of extra work there as well.}

21 Mar 2024 08:32:24
Ahh, that's good to hear then Ed. Hope your move goes well :)

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{Ed001's Note - plus it is close enough for my dad to get out and visit. We think it will be good for him as he loves it there and might help him keep some of his faculties.}

21 Mar 2024 08:51:30
Nice one, Ed. Hope all is well with you and the whole fam. Peace and Love!

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{Ed001's Note - cheers Oli.}

21 Mar 2024 12:46:24
Enjoy the heat there Ed001! My mum loves it when she goes to Dubai as her health feels a lot better than here in the UK.

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{Ed001's Note - I love it there mate. Good for my knees in particular.}

21 Mar 2024 14:27:11
Hi Ed01, no chance of a retirement visa in the phillipines? Seems not that difficult to get. If I understand it correctly: you need to keep $10,000US in an approved retirement account and have a monthly retirement benefit of $1500US. Also only 35 years old.

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{Ed001's Note - no, it is not really the issue anyway. I need to be nearer my family, my dad is no longer himself. He needs something to look forward to and he loves visiting Dubai so it is good for him for me to be there.}

22 Mar 2024 02:58:50
You do right Ed1 mate, family first above all else. I will retire in a few years and I have no idea where I will go but it for damn sure won't be in this country. You're missing bugger all here mate, country is on it's knees.

Also, sorry to hear your dad is no longer himself, doesn't sound good mate but at least he has things to look forward to. Do you plan on moving back this year?

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{Ed001's Note - I defo don't want to go back to the UK. I was back for a few months and hated it, just wanted to get out again! Retirement is a tough one mate, you have to make sure you get it right, which is difficult to do. You never really know what a place is like until you have lived there for a while.

The plan was to look for a place next time I go back - end of May as I have to be there then for visa reasons and to sort out tax stuff. But because of all the mess last time, I will be having to complete the stuff that I should have done then instead. So it will be unlikely I will have time to find a place to live until later in the year. But you never know, I will have my friends looking for me in the meantime, so I might get lucky, fingers crossed.

How are things with you mate?}

22 Mar 2024 09:14:28
Completely agree Ed1 mate, I plan on doing a little travelling first and seeing what happens. I don't want to be in Europe but where? only time will tell. Was thinking about Japan but not checked it out enough yet to make a decision. I have a few places in mind but just need to do more research and visit them for a decent enough period to really understand the places before making the move. I've only ever done holidays for no more than 14 days so it's not enough.

Hope it all goes smooth sailing for you mate, I know these things take time, money and effort but it'll be worth it in the end once you get there again. Good thing is, you have a good support network by the sounds of things. If you don't mind me asking, how much on average is rent in Dubai per month?

I'm very good thank you mate, can't really complain unless it's about work which is almost none stop lol well, it is none stop because there's no such thing as a day off but aside from that health and everything else is good :) .

Hope you have a good day mate.

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{Ed001's Note - I don't actually know how much the average rent is, you can always haggle. The price has supposedly gone up, but I have seen the amount of places available compared to people. So I will not pay going rate as I know they would rather have someone in paying below market rate than having it empty.}

 


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