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Winks wasn't brought in for his mental resilience he was brought in because no other player available to a championship club could control a game like that and dictate play to such an elite standard. He was ****ing phenomenal last year and has barely had a chance to kick a ball this.

Some of our fans are legit trash. Dude has a bad day. Ffs. It happens.

At the risk of being "I told you so", definitely stand by what I said earlier. Goals for Justin and Mavididi and eve Faes, really good for the collective confidence. I'd take that over a few token minutes for a youth player that still will barely get played this season after today.

I know there'll be a meltdown that he hasn't played the kids but I think this is spot on. Play our strongest team and build some confidence, form and momentum. I've got no issue with this.

He's a straight up actual pirate it's ridiculous. The Premier League cares not from where the cash flows.

Equally, I can't believe anyone would want us to give a four or five year contract to more dead wood we won't be able to shift. I would honestly rather we get relegated playing Hamza at right back then just fill the squad up with more bargain basement muck.

Don't think he'd be great in the Championship tbh.

How on earth do you score in the third percentile for tackles as a full back

I'm sure that'll be informative.

She designed them pal she'll be chuffed

"We ****ed up, so Brighton will" is a poor argument really. There's myriad obstacles in the way stopping a club outside of the "big six" from breaking that group. Villa, Newcastle, Everton and Leicester have very much experienced, to different degrees, the challenges of trying to spend your way in to their club. You could argue that even Man City are under pressure for being "new money." Forest will be the next ones up to the chopping blocky, having had an early skirmish already. But the rules being harsh on ambitious clubs and the club being badly or well run isn't mutually exclusive. Yes, the game is rigged against us but we're still also a poorly run club with some good departments. Yes, we've got commendable facilities and a scouting team capable of finding gems but we didn't just fail PSR and wind up here because the rules are unfair, we're here because the squad was very badly mismanaged. There's absolutely no reason that Brighton, Bournemouth, Fulham or Brentford will follow us here. Brighton and Brentford in particular are two very, very well run sporting institutions. Yeah, they'll experience some of the same challenges we did and yeah, we're also good at some of the things they are. But the collective sum of their parts is much better than ours because they're run by smarter businessmen in the context of sporting success and their clubs are set up intelligently with the right type and calibre of staff for the Premier League while we've got massive holes.

For RVN to speak so publicly and with such strong wording, I can't imagine he's already off. Obviously not suggesting he won't still leave but I'd highly doubt it's a 100% done deal if our first team head coach is talking about his pathway to the first team and how important we see him if he knows he's 99% gone.

Wayne Rooney is vastly more wealthy and I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Plymouth were probably not paying him Premier League money. He also went by "mutual consent" meaning he probably took a pay off, just a reduced one. Staying was also doing irreparable damage to whatever shreds of a coaching career Rooney has left. Ruud will almost certainly be walking away from millions if he quits. He's also not harming his reputation at all being here because the narrative outside the club is very much that Leicester is a shit show and whatever happens isn't his fault. But mostly, it's unbelievably insulting to his intelligence for any of you to imply he'd be thick enough to not realise the situation coming in. The idea that he COULD be lied to by the club at this stage is just silly. The evidence has been there for the whole footballing world to see and he had inside knowledge via Enzo.

I don't mean to absolve the club of genuine mistakes they've made because there've been plenty, in particular we've wasted a hideous amount of money on signings that Rodgers and Cooper wanted because we don't have a strong DoF. But surely you can see that the two things you've just mentioned are out of the control of our owners? The footballing laws in this country are an absolute disgrace that aren't fit for purpose. Rules meant to "protect" smaller clubs financially just absolutely hamstring them. It's near impossible to "break" the big six because they can hideously outspend us with no consequence and they can freely come and poach our young players without any significant cost. It should have been straight up impossible for Nyoni and Monga to be poached the way they were and yet here we are. What exactly did you want our owners or even DoF to do about that?

Not having that. Liverpool have the luxury of being able to throw kids on surrounded by elite footballers in the odd one off game, particularly given they openly disrespect the domestic cups. How many of their own acadaemy products actually make it in to their senior squad properly, long term? It's basically just Trent and Jones, isn't it? For years? Pretty sure, statistically, you have a better chance making it at this club as an academy graduate than you do at Liverpool.

We know where @Miquel The Work Geordie was, he was making the profiles @sexybabe1k5 and @sexygirlsnearme

The article linking us to Sekine being the same article that said we're interested in £50m Man City target and European goal scoring sensation Omar Marmoush?

So, according to some people, the club lied nefariously to Enzo Maresca. Ruud Van Nistelrooy, a friend of Enzo Maresca, has openly stated that he spoke to his friend - our previous manager - before accepting the job. And yet these same people think we managed to successfully sell the same nefarious lie to Ruud? Grow up. He's a football manager with a very limited CV who left his last permanent job under a cloud and for whom the LCFC job was an absolute god send. He's not going on anywhere, his other offer on the table was in the German second division (at a club infinitely more financially batshit than us, who isn't just handcuffed by legislation but actually has had major financial problems.) Even if he was pissed off, managers don't quit. Enzo left when he got a brilliant job earning more, Rodgers milked it til he was sacked with an enormous payout. There's no incentive for Ruud to just casually walk away at the first sign of difficulty, it would torpedo both his career and his bank balance. Seriously. This hysteria is getting stupid, some of you need to go touch grass.

Atleti. Pick one.

Still, if it makes anyone feel better, Adam Hlozek is in a relegation scrap with Hoffenheim and has managed less goals this year so far than Jordan Ayew.

We're not that daft mate.

We don't need him and we've got other priorities. Nothing in this.

They've spent eye watering money and broke the rules, it's hardly a fairy story. Would be impressive management from Nuno if he gets them top four. They can't win the league. That's not even about condescending them, either, Liverpool are just too good for everyone.

Struggling to comply with completely arbitrary rules designed to make sure "we don't have too many Leicester Citys" is not the same as struggling financially. Doesn't matter how much money Top or the club has if you aren't allowed to spend it.