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what was it that Bob Paisley used to say. "The quickest way to go backwards, is to stand still" wise words

watched them earlier, that new left winger/forward looks fantastic. if they play like they did tonight, and we play like we did today, we're getting beat

Fabinho is playing like a man that hasn't slept in 6 months. I know his missus is up the pole, but if he's this s*** now, how crap will he be when he has the nipper. Elliot has played, but we don't have any midfielders controlling games at the moment.

I wouldnt slate either our forwards or defenders until they have a midfield in front and behind them.

Hopefully the lad can get a good run without injuries now. He's always been an excellent partner to van dijk.

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same here, i had a subscription but i dont think i ever read a full article, the journalists must be paid per word, and if so ,they all must be multimillionaires to!!!

is it a typical Athletic article, as in, i'd need a spare week to read it all?

That other lad they've had on preseason, thing local lad, has seemed more than capable

people forget that, the 19/20 season, he was probably even better than Virg, he was absolutely outstanding. and even the seaosn he got the bad patella tendon rupture on England duty, he was outstanding in the few games he had pkayed after Virgs' ACL. the lad, when on form, is as good as any centre half in the world, he is that good.

Great news, if he can get the form back that he had when he started the season we won the league, then we really do a have a crazy amount of superb centre halves at the club.

is that the lad thats known to stay up all to hours playing computer games, misses training, is constantly injured and couldn't do any keepy uppies at his signing on media day?

You're not far wrong, doesn't he drive an opel insignia

few twitter rumblings on Nicola Barella from Inter. seems a near like for like with Wijnaldum, low centre of gravity, clean and tidy on the ball and very good in tight spaces. i wont deny id like a midfielder that scores 10-15 a year, but to be fair, is there any these days?

Good to hear, there was talk of villa being in for him. So much happier now he's getting a new deal. I can only imagine how hard his patella injury was to recover from. I've had patella tendonitis for 10 years now and can't shake it, granted he's getting much better care and physio than I am. But he had a full rupture, so this season, with a bit of luck he'll be back to his best.

Obviously hindsight is a great thing. But we really dodged a bullet on that one. But am I the only that thinks the players that come over from the bundesliga don't really hit the ground running in the Premiership? It's funny, the French and Portuguese leagues, in all honesty are fairly weak. But the players that come from both league never seem to have issues settling into the speed of the premiership. No idea why I might add.

Exactly, if this lad can score the "unpretty" goals. He'll bag himself 25 a season without breaking sweat I'm not going to pretend and say I've seen him loads. I saw him against us, and that was that, but in those two games he proved he knows how to finish, that's for sure

Probably more direct and a bit more of a poacher. I don't know about you, but ive often thought our conversion rate was poor at times. Hopefully this kid changes that

tough life, only 23 million, i winder how he survives

Do bayern really offer those kind of wages though?

our second choice players tend to do better, so im not worried in the slightest.

I wonder if klopp literally trying to clone van dijk with the signing on Konate. It's like the laptop boffins were given a mission of finding someone that's 6'4, quick as f***, strong as f***, and half decent on the ball. Klopp will simply work with him to make him van dijk 2.0

rest is rust

here here, that must be heartbreaking to say the least. I wouldnt wish that on my worst enemy.

Klopp does like him, i doubt he'll get rid of him.