DanWM

Yep i'd been saying the same around 60, but the way he recovered might be the most encouraging part of his performance last night.

Think we all need to stop worrying about this, no one's doing the accent of where every other player is from. It's like that Limmy sketch of the newsreader pronouncing Kabul.

s***e. Get rid.

He's always in such a rush to get rid of the ball. Always going for the genius dink. Never mind that, get a grip on the game.

Midfield felt like good practice against a poor side, we're going to look open for a while yet until Iraola gets his plan in place.

I like Gakpo doing second striker moves from the left. Nice balance with Munoz doing winger things on the right.

I love those adverts for the thought of them being aired in the US where no one knows who he is. So there's two normal American guys then it cuts to massive mad looking German. Who is that guy?!

The way players are just moving around the same league, it's starting to feel like Serie A just before everyone else lost interest. Think they had similar PSR rules in place in fact. Reaches a point where every other league looking on will be thinking, "are these players even any good?"

Trying to put a positive spin on it, maybe the market in January will look a bit more sane. If the deal on the last day is Gakpo for Sarr, I'd rather we keep our powder dry and look again in January. I mean obviously they've massively f***ed it by this point, had 6 months to box a new RW.

We've done a Newcastle here, telling everyone he's going nowhere unless we get a top class replacement, then leaving it so late that we're scratching around for anything after we've told the player he can leave.

"Can't keep" after two weeks?

I think he'd make a good right back tbh, he just needs to swallow his ego.

So this thing about 'value at the end of the window' that meant we sat and did nothing for a month after Diomande fell through. Sarr was being linked with Galatasaray for £30m a few weeks ago. He's also not that good, hence Galatasaray.

It's an historic dismantling of a side that Klopp spent years turning into one of the world's best. Part of it comes back to when the club couldn't be arsed bringing in a DoF, so Klopp had to ask his mate to do it and contracts were forgotten about. But Hughes has taken a league winning side (only brought in chiesa that summer) and turned it into a squad with holes in almost every position, and downgraded on every position of the ones who've left. In two years! Decent going, Ricky. We should still sack him today before he gets to leave on his own terms.

I just don't think it matters if we haven't got a midfielder lined up. If £100m means we get Minteh and Wharton, okay. We've just already absolutely f***ed this window. I'd rather we spent £1m of the budget on firing Hughes out of a cannon and start thinking about what we can do in January.

Yeah if those are the options, with Minteh out til November, I'd rather we keep Gakpo and look at who's available in January. We might have an idea of where Ekitike is up to by that point too.

Haha, thought you were on top of these things Swipe

In November though. Is there any chance we can go for Rayan in January? There's talk of a release clause kicking in at some point isn't there?

Wonder if him getting a start on the right today will persuade him to stick around. With the options we're currently looking at, I'm swaying towards sticking with what we have on the wings and have another look in January.

As other people have said, we look like such a quiet group. Virgil looks like he hates all of them, Munoz looks like he might have never spoken to any of his teammates. I'd noticed in these photos from the first session back after Newcastle, if anyone can be bothered scrolling through. Might be reading too much into it, but they look like a bunch of strangers https://www.instagram.com/p/Dcd2yTtiBBz/?igsi=Z3Q1dWFnYTVqYjEx

It wasn't so much what he said, more that he seemed to be treading on eggshells. It just feels weird for a journalist to be so concerned about what they say being construed as criticism of the club.

Yeah the club are absolutely fine with feeding bulls*** lines to the likes of Pearce. Interesting thinking about the numbers that have come out when Mbaye and Sarr have been linked with other clubs, is there literally a 'Liverpool tax', or are we the ones briefing those mad valuations? There was a TAW interview with Dom King from the mail the other day, and it was crazy hearing how careful he was being about what he said. The club have really got those client journalists on a short leash.

Everyone's draw looks easy. Big waste of time.

What have I done? Am I in trouble?

There was a point with the Minteh noise where I'd thought we were maybe being quite canny in making PSG drop their price. But the latest news on Minteh f***s that entirely, in fact it probably gives PSG license to increase their asking price for Mbaye.