Are Liverpool speedrunning Manchester United’s descent into a banter club? They have spent a lot of money to get this rubbish.
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Are Liverpool copying Manchester United again?
Long-time United fan, long-time Liverpool hater. And nothing pleases me more than to see the downfall of Liverpool this season for which they adapted the exact playbook United used for their downfall, but over just a few months rather than a few seasons.
ep 1: Give 350-400k contracts to old players who will be a burden to the club long term. Liverpool saw United throw 350-400k at Rashford, De Gea, Sanchez, Sancho, Pogba & other contracts to Jones, Lingard etc and thought, let’s do that and wasted that money with stupid 350-400k contracts for Salah, Isak, Wirtz & VVD.
Step 2: Pay 3x the value of a player, just cos. United with Antony, Maguire etc. Liverpool with Wirtz & Isak. They aren’t worth a 100m combined, and never were. Predicted at the start of the season Wirtz will flop and Salah is finished, and have not been proven wrong yet.
Step 3: Back the wrong manager. Arne Slot if David Moyes with extra steps. Was able to ride Klopp’s team for a year to win the league, but now we reset to the mean, and Slot is showing his full capabilities as a manager, which is a worse version of ETH.
Step 4: Sell off your players and replace them with crap. On current form, TAA, Diaz & Nunez are all MILES better than Frimpong/Kerkez, Wirtz, Isak etc. Spent 400m and downgraded the team. That is a Manchester United special.
Thanks for ruining everything that Klopp worked so hard to build. Love to see it. So yeah, looks like the good old days are over for Liverpool, and terrible decision after terrible decision has led them to where they truly belong, below Manchester United :D.
Liverpool fan saw this coming in August
It is November 12th as I write this today; three months ago on 12 August I sent the following to the mailbox:
“I swear this is not disingenuous sandbagging to alleviate pressure from a big spend (or potential ridicule from rival clubs’ supporters), it’s only an honest assessment from what I see taking place, and what I think will happen. And that is, simply, that I don’t believe Liverpool are title favorites. Don’t get me wrong, we’re absolutely in with a shout and I reckon we’re built now (with pieces presumably still to come, in this or future windows) to contend for many, many seasons to come. I just don’t know if I truly believe 2025-26 is our year to instantly gel and win it again at first time of asking. I say “first time of asking” because I don’t ever recall being title favorites in the prem era, full stop.”
I’m not prescient nor do I have a crystal ball, but I’m a pretty sensible supporter (even if I’m not always a sensible human being). And I do believe there are a lot of other sensible Liverpool supporters out there (sorry, not you Darren, even though we half-share certain thoughts on expectations for this season).
I believe we’ll still get to 21 in the top flight well before any other club(s) will, it just won’t be happening this year. We’ve still a crispy gold lion on the shirt sleeve despite the stumbles. We’ll go again.
Eric, Los Angeles CA (To the Icelandic Liverpool fan I met in Hong Kong the day after Palace knocked us out the Carabao, we did say we’d take two from the next three (with Villa, Madrid and City to come). Well we’ve gone and done that haven’t we. Chin up. And good luck to Iceland for your WC qualies.)Liverpool fans need to take it too…
Really interesting mail from Gofezo, who is, I believe, a very old head here. And it shows.
Whilst I disagree with some of what he says, he says it in a reasoned and reasonable way. Also interesting, and relevant I feel, was some mope from The West Country screaming down the phone on t’wireless earlier this morning – the usual PGMOL conspiracy nonsense, expressed in the usual baseless and confrontational fashion so beloved of the majority of Liverpool “fans”. He followed a Scouse guy whose view was much more reasonable, and expressed more reasonably. Adds credence to my views on people who have f**k all to do with the location of the team they support if nothing else. But I digress.
The central point here is something that has eluded the vast majority of people who have selected Liverpool FC as the star to which they have hitched their (Cornish) wagon. Namely: if you act like insufferable pr*cks when your team is doing well, expect to get the boot put in hard when things go awry (that’s if you have the balls to show up in the comments at all – comments that you’ve been ever-present, and unpleasant, in through the whole of last season and the start of this).
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