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Yeh. We'll be fifth by tomorrow week and well off the pace.....

That may change shortly. I understand Senegal have been knocked out of the Africa cup by Cameroon andMane may be back with us by Tuesday. Knowing Klopp he won't play him for another week and give him a rest....

Easy peasy. Teams know how to play us now. Two lines of four and five players and let us play tippy tappy outside the area and we have no idea what to do except to pass back or sideways. Wolves goalie didn't have to make a save until 60 minutes. Mane will come back mid-Feb to find us halfway downthe league. When was the last time we lost three at home - if it hadn't been for Origi's miskick it would have been three games at home without scoring a goal and I don't think that's happened since we were relegated in 1953. Don't know what Klopp was thinking of playing a complete reserve backline. One of the few bright spots was Woodburn and it tells you something when Moreno was one of our better players.

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Think Klopp will rest half the team for the game against Swansea because of the game next week.

Have you got concrete evidence of that....?

in which case we should get in quick. VVD is determined to go in the summer and we could use Sakho as a bargaining counter. He could bed in at Soton rest of the season and praps we could offer them the Estonian as well, seeing as Gomes is finally fit.

Think you are wrong on two of those. Lucas is injured. Wouldn't be surprised if Sturridge is made Captain.

Snap him up! Looks tailor-made for us.....

Am I missing something here? He told them Sept 2015 he wanted to retire from international football and the Cameroon excluded him from their Cup squad. That's like Lampard telling the England manager he was retiring from playing for England and they picked accordingly and then they ban him from playing for Chelski until England are out of the Euros.

Henderson, Matip and Coutinho on the bench..........

Today's match is vital, imo. Think we are losing a bit of strength - haven 't seen much "gegen-pressing" the last few games.

That's exactly it. Southampton have made an enquiry about Sakho but have jibbed at the price. Enquiry is because van Dijk wants away. Have Liverpool thought of proposing a swap along with small cash sweetener to push the deal through? No? Thought not.....

Probably more of a commuter than you are. It was reported last week and no, it wasn't the Mail, nor the Metro , but one of Klopp's staff.

We definitely need a top midfielder and Klopp is supposed to have 40 mln quid to spend during this month. However, I don't think he'll buy anyone in January, even if we were at the start of a slump.

you've left out Milner.

I read that Mane could be missing until mid-Feb

West Ham here he comes..........

Er....you were saying? The only thing we can say with certainty is that we really miss Coutinho. The number of times we tip-tapped into their area and tried to walk the ball through..... Forget the Premiership and concentrate on keeping in the top four. Chelski are now six points clear of us and they've already had their bad patch...... The next two games are even more important - away to Middlesbro and Everton - bearing in mind who we have at Christmas. If we are still in the same position when 2017 dawns the future should look rosier.

Think it'll a draw,especially if Carroll is swanning around our Pen area. however, if Matip is definitely playing we should squeeze through.

We have a reputation for that.....

Funnily enough Souness turned down the opportunity to have schmeichel years ago and plumped for James instead so the goalie problem isn't new for us.

The game changed with Mane going off. We weren't very good in the last third of the field anyway, despite our goals. How many shots did their goalie have to save?? Tiptapping around their penalty area and losing the ball put pressure on our defence. We must hope to God Matip is around next week, Lucas versus Carroll doesn't bear thinking about. And there will be more displays like this one before Coutinho comes back as well. Get used to it.

It's going to be a draw.