Here he is, already thinking about strengthening in January.

Haha! Messi can't even look him in the eye he's that enamoured with him.

Aye, Big Sam is doing what he does, isn't he? Thing is, like at West Ham it'll be the same situation. Nice lovely relationship, then as time goes on the dull games begin to grate etc. etc.
It'll be interesting to see what the board decide after the season is over.

In other news, all is forgotten from Liverpool's two drab draws where they couldn't break down defences. Now Klopp is a genius again and the team are world beaters. It's actually incredible how short peoples memories are.

In a way you'd be better off him keeping you safe but no more, in case the board are tempted to extend his contract. He'll hopefully do a job for you but you don't wanna see him start to build a team in his image.

As for Liverpool, yeah. They're obviously great going forward but that defence will always let them down in the big games.

Anyway, Everton Swansea in a minute. You should get past them.

thats what i said! ��

I don't see anyone making outrageous claims about Pep. Right now he has MC playing really well. Of course injuries to key players would have an impact and of course no success is indefinite. And we know that sometimes his eccentricities can back-fire. I disagree about there being some kind of pattern to him being found out, though, or any kind of inevitability to it. It's not like his ideas are a secret. His overall record, though, shows that knowing what he does and stopping it are usually two different things. Sure, weaker teams can park the proverbial bus and hope for the best, and sometimes it'll work, or they might simply face a better team, with better individual players. But isn't that just how the game works? Right now he probably has the best crop of players in the Prem but maybe not when you look at the top end of Europe, where they may still come unstuck. We'll have to see. In the meantime, just enjoy them for what they're doing.

So the Guardian's doing its annual top 100 thingy

100-11 so far

https://www.theguardian.com/football...17-interactive

The usual silliness. I mean everyone loves Buffon but a better keeper in 2017 than De Gea? And who's actually watching these players if David Silva can rank lower than Dele Alli?

Ha! I've not even bothered looking cos I know they're picking them out of a hat.

The top ten will be interesting that's for sure.

Top 10 finally revealed:

1. Messi
2. Ronaldo
3. Neymar
4. De Bruyne
5. Kane
6. Modric
7. Lewandowski
8. Mbappe
9. Kroos
10. Hazard

The usual suspects. Really hoping this year is the end of the Ronaldo/Messi duopoly.

All ready for the MEGA intense premier league Christmas? I do wonder what it must be like for players coming from Germany when they get to Christmas. "Wanting a Christmas holiday? No chance. You're gonna work EVEN HARDER!"

FUUUUUUUUKKK instead of quote and reply i edited my original email!

now i can’t reconstruct what i said

im fucking drunk ha ha ha

i mean my original post. o well. there’s that.

i need sleep

And again last night. Deja vu all over again.

Last night's game was nuts. Two weirdly dysfunctional teams in a weird dysfunctionality pissing contest.

Also, something that really irritates me about West Ham fans. I watch a lot of fan podcasts and they were all really down on Moyes in the week for obviously prioritising today's league game against Newcastle over the Arsenal cup game in the week. This obsession with cup runs, which I appreciate have been the clubs only route to any glory in the past, and probably ever. Thing is, even after some really encouraging results/performances, they're still in a relegation battle and probably will be till the end of the season. Moyes wasn't brought in to get us trophies, but to keep us in the prem, end of. West Ham fans can be amongst the most deluded out there sometimes.

As today has shown.

Thing is, present company excepted, I fucking hate West Ham fans for that exact reason. I mean, the way you hear some of them talk you'd think they're meant to be in the Champions League every year without fail.

So Barca battered Real today. Zidane really should have left after the last Champions League win knowing he'd never be able to top that. Now the problem is that there's an ageing squad there that needs a massive overhaul.

I dunno about the CL bit, but yeah, it doesn't take much for some to start deluding themselves. Saying that, the majority I know, who aren't talking on these fancasts, or to the media, have a far more realistic view of the situation. Essentially WH are club that's probably a bit too good for the Championship but can never really get a firm foothold in the Prem. Hence the regular yo-yoing between the two divisions.

There you have it. Van Dijk goes for £70mill to Liverpool and monopoly money gets even more ridiculous. Absolutely mental. I reckon you could buy BOTH Bonnuci and Thiago Silva for that money. The funny thing is (if the rumours are to believed) that they're having to sell Coutinho to do it. Good thinking there.

Dude, just what in all that is F was up with Rafa Benítez's "strategy" vs Manchester City yesterday. Anti-fútbol that shit was. Lock him up.

ha ha. just read. bilardismo lives!

pincharratas of the world unite xD

The price is obviously inflated but I think he'll improve Liverpool and, if he does, the money will become irrelevant. But he isn't a 1 man solution. They'll need further reinforcements if they're to become real title challengers. It's a step in the right direction, though.

We'll have to see how the transfer reflects more generally on prices. Personally I accept that top players now go for silly money but what I hate is when average players go for a fortune, too. Van Dijk isn't worth 75m but I can understand why a team like Liverpool would pay it. West Ham are looking at Swansea defender Alfie Mawson, who's being priced at 40m. That's just obscene.

Suarez back to Anfield? :eek: !?!

He can compare racist insults with Firminho.

Seriously though, I'd fucking love seeing him back in the Prem.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/fo...ransfer-gossip

ha ha ha!

klopp 4 guardiola 3

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(of course i couldn’t see it so joke’s on me)