Match Thread : PSG v Liverpool

**CCTV** · 16th March 2025, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by Steveo

1 Well it's good that the whole forum can see what smashingly lovely fella you really are.

2 Nobody shitted on the squad but many of us think that while the owners were making record profits and stiffing the manager we are short in a few areas while we also have 3 keys players able to walk in June. . And we are. 3) The fact both Grav and Macca - players in desperate need of a rest were used on Saturday at home to bottom of the table Southampton.. highlights that the fucking manager of the club feels the same way himself - you daft melt...!!

4) You posted what I said and guess what... it all made sense at the time and does still today.

5) None of us knew City would fall to bits this season or that Arsenal would fail to take advantage as we have... 6) I - along with many on this forum did not expect a title challenge never mind where we are. 7) Never hidden from it and happy to have been wrong.

8) What's eating you though mister? The girl you fancy not interested?

1) cry harder.

2) I've given direct quotes and your prediction for this post-Klopp season.

3) my position has been Slot has made poor selections over these last 3 games. I rested many v Southampton, Trent, Robbo, Grav & MacA in the your team v them thread. And started Jones v PSG over Sobozla, starting Nunez over Jota.

4) I've posted direct quotes of you blaming the owners for the squad at the start of the season, then recently crediting Klopp for the same squad that's winning a PL. You have no integrity.

5) in September I analysed how Arteta had wasted millions etc,
I've previously posted Klopp & Pep would both experience blip seasons, it's now 2 a piece.
Moot points in reply to rambling.

6) you and others were wrong and/or blindsided.

7) most others above are delighted, you are not, you're miserable

8) I like talking, analysing & football. If you had integrity, I wouldn't have to direct quote you.

**Steveo** · 16th March 2025, 12:05 PM

“cry harder”... Speaks volumes - highlights your level. A bit like your nation prostituting itself to the highest bidder - we have you shilling for your team… F$G. Unless there is some family connection..?

And I have consistently re stated myself that I predicted a drop off this season… ? Can’t you read? And the direct quotes from January are 100% solid - correct today - as they were at the time of posting. You don’t crow in January. And in most of the last 10 seasons the points we have managed since then would not see us top. So why on earth are trying to spin something so sound as otherwise?

As for PSG - well again - seemingly sound comments of mine you quoted. They battered us there - found themselves a goal behind… Then came to Anfield and again were the stronger side (check the stats) - and scored and Alisson was again at full tilt - and we couldn’t get a goal in 120 minutes - the last 30 of which we hung on to…for a penalty shoot out which we lost.

As for Arteta - who isn’t in Klopp’s class btw… you say he wasted millions..? It’s an opinion but one that makes a mockery of the situation since 2020. We are ahead of them this season - they have flopped majorly thus far only not as much as City. Excuses or not they absolutely have had a crisis of injuries though - similar - though at the other end - to us in 2021.

However as previously mentioned and as you continually run away from: Arteta’s team were a laughing stock in 2020.. finished up 43 - forty three points behind us & made a 60 point swing on us in just a few seasons - with Klopp in seasons 5 to 7 to twice finish above us. Explain where these millions were wasted…? If they were - What the fooooook happened to us?

Myself and others were wrong and/or blindsided? Maybe so… BUT maybe there have been some mitigating circumstances? Think 115 charge City - form off a cliff - and Arsenal well down on the last few seasons.. at the same time when United, Chelsea and Spurs have all been in total transition - either ownership change or management change or both.

Like myself - many are absolutely delighted we are “top of the league” because we have waited so long for number 20 - and that the title IS the most important prize of all.

BUT

We can also see how unlikely this is to manifest in much beyond a one season wonder. This is backed up by the debacle over 3 key players who are all out of contract… A lack of any succession planning for left back - no genuine rotation/cover at CB - minus any kind of recognised DM - (Geav isn’t one and Endo is a short CB) 1x sick note at CF and another who looks unable to make the grade (according to the manager) & certain to be sold.

It is possible to be happy as Larry at the table but extremely concerned about the future. We are not all so dim that we can only hold one view without seeing the bigger picture.

You might like lots of things buster but you seem far more able to credit the owners
than you do the one manager who built virtually everything that has us top of the league.

**Kev0909** · 16th March 2025, 12:50 PM

you light up my world like noone else........ you don't know you're beautiful

**CCTV** · 16th March 2025, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by Steveo

“cry harder”... Speaks volumes - highlights your level. A bit like your nation prostituting itself to the highest bidder - we have you shilling for your team… F$G. Unless there is some family connection..?

And I have consistently re stated myself that I predicted a drop off this season… ? Can’t you read? And the direct quotes from January are 100% solid - correct today - as they were at the time of posting. You don’t crow in January. And in most of the last 10 seasons the points we have managed since then would not see us top. So why on earth are trying to spin something so sound as otherwise?

As for PSG - well again - seemingly sound comments of mine you quoted. They battered us there - found themselves a goal behind… Then came to Anfield and again were the stronger side (check the stats) - and scored and Alisson was again at full tilt - and we couldn’t get a goal in 120 minutes - the last 30 of which we hung on to…for a penalty shoot out which we lost.

As for Arteta - who isn’t in Klopp’s class btw… you say he wasted millions..? It’s an opinion but one that makes a mockery of the situation since 2020. We are ahead of them this season - they have flopped majorly thus far only not as much as City. Excuses or not they absolutely have had a crisis of injuries though - similar - though at the other end - to us in 2021.

However as previously mentioned and as you continually run away from: Arteta’s team were a laughing stock in 2020.. finished up 43 - forty three points behind us & made a 60 point swing on us in just a few seasons - with Klopp in seasons 5 to 7 to twice finish above us. Explain where these millions were wasted…? If they were - What the fooooook happened to us?

Myself and others were wrong and/or blindsided? Maybe so… BUT maybe there have been some mitigating circumstances? Think 115 charge City - form off a cliff - and Arsenal well down on the last few seasons.. at the same time when United, Chelsea and Spurs have all been in total transition - either ownership change or management change or both.

Like myself - many are absolutely delighted we are “top of the league” because we have waited so long for number 20 - and that the title IS the most important prize of all.

BUT

We can also see how unlikely this is to manifest in much beyond a one season wonder. This is backed up by the debacle over 3 key players who are all out of contract… A lack of any succession planning for left back - no genuine rotation/cover at CB - minus any kind of recognised DM - (Geav isn’t one and Endo is a short CB) 1x sick note at CF and another who looks unable to make the grade (according to the manager) & certain to be sold.

It is possible to be happy as Larry at the table but extremely concerned about the future. We are not all so dim that we can only hold one view without seeing the bigger picture.

You might like lots of things buster but you seem far more able to credit the owners
than you do the one manager who built virtually everything that has us top of the league.

I'm going to open a second thread on net spend etc as under the required purge, it was closed.
I've provided many answers to your same questions when you are pressed on what you have said. I have presented analysis and how to analyse spend. Klopps lesser net spending era better than his greater net spending era. Your g.nev opinion is addressed in 2015 Tomkin times article on what to expect under Klopp. Klopp proved you wrong, as have other well run clubs.

Here's what most other people have said in a similar situation to your doomer predictions.

1) it's great to be a LFC fan today, winning the league alone would make for a great season.
2) the squad is a lot better than what they thought. Many players playing better than last season, including players many had thought might exit were Klopp still in charge.

V PSG over 2 legs, Southampton in the PL in between and Newcastle today.
Slot treated Southampton at home as one of 3 cup finals. I opposite to this approach rested both fullback, MacA & Grav.
My way Sobozla (penalties) comes on for Jones, Jota on for Nunez likewise. Grav & Maca rested ready for 120. Kelleher a better penalty stopper than Ali a 5th sub.

I've only mentioned the owners by proxy of pointing out you blamed the owners for the squad in September 2024 before crediting Klopp in 2025 for the squad left to Slot last summer.