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What if Dortmund said they'd be interested in Elliott as part of a Sancho deal?

To be fair, getting into the stadium is decent work. It doesn't seem like they were too organized though. You need a plan with some kind of objective beyond wandering around or kicking off on everyone. Playing a game of footy and sticking down some jumpers for goalposts would have been OK.

Maybe he'd just walk away. You might be right but I don't get the feeling he'd particularly be looking for one of the top clubs next anyway. And he might even fancy taking on the German team in difficult circumstances. I wouldn't be surprised if today he just gives a 'let's see where it leads first' answer but maybe he'll be more forthcoming.

He's hardly been able to play at what he was bought for. He started with everyone purring over what we'd got ourselves and then the whole lot came crashing down. I'll be very surprised that if we have our proper backline and midfield back he's anything less than outstanding. Durability and sustainability means he might need rotating in and out but he'd have been an absolute joy to have in any of our last 2 or 3 seasons.

Yes, that may well be true. Italy even more so. That's why there are big decisions coming up. If we want to move one of our lads on for big money and refresh, we'll presumably try and keep the one we think has the fitness levels and legs to go on longest. Mo or Sadio? If it's going to be this summer, they must thinking along these lines already?

Suarez is a good comparison, look at him this season. If Mo avoids any kind of serious injury, I'd expect him to be doing the same. His game's not going to change much and as long as he stays fit, he'll have defenders on their toes for a few years yet.

Forgave him years ago. Best midfielder I've ever seen in the red shirt. And he really does love us.

I'd go something like this. Maybe Ray Kennedy in the 442 but it would lose some balance. There's a few lads playing for a place in the first team though. Ridiculous the players available to us in All Time teams.

Sad news. You could tell he loved every minute he was with us. I was at West Ham for that hat-trick. Also remember him making a nuisance of himself and scoring against us a couple of times in the early 80s when we struggled to away draws down at Brighton. RIP

Their fans really like us. We met loads of Flamengo who'd come over for the Champions League finals in Kiev and Madrid and were on our side. It surprised us when we first got talking to one group in Kiev because we thought they'd be there for Real. In Madrid, there were quite a few around in Plaza Mayor having a drink and enjoying the singing.

Filipino for water buffalo.

19 April 1980 Arsenal Kop Starting Line Up: Clemence, Neal, Irwin, Thompson ©, Kennedy, Hansen, Dalglish, Fairclough, Johnson, Lee, Souness Sub: Heighway 1-1 Dalglish / Talbot Interesting defence, I hadn't remembered Colin Irwin playing. I guess he was left-back, though I seem to remember him usually stepping in at centre-back.

I'd just like to bring this sad event to the forum's attention, especially as Flamengo fans have a big soft spot for the Reds. At the final in Kiev, we kept seeing small groups walking round with a shirt and badge we couldn't work out. In the end we stopped some and asked who they were and they told us Flamengo. We assumed Brazilians would be over for Madrid but they told us they'd travelled over to Kiev to watch Liverpool. Flamengo are big Liverpool fans since they beat us in the World Club Championship in 1981, the biggest year in their history. Thoughts, sadness and best wishes with them today. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/feb/08/fire-flamengo-football-traning-centre-brazilian-club

Would depend if he was meant to let in 3 goals or the game was meant to end a draw?

Slow motion one is great too. Origi even dived for a penalty in case in didn't go in!

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And if we'd got a second it would have been fair enough. If Salah had caught the one in the 2nd half just right it could have been. True, we squeaked by but to be fair we could have squeaked it by more than one.

Big 'if' though with the rest of Europe still open. It is getting a bit desperate for those English clubs that haven't done their business yet.

He's longan style but has he got the juice to back it up?

I think he started off with a little gig on Koptalk. And then got shafted by Dunc obviously.

Nigel Spackman

RIP