🟥 Farewell deserved better than this.
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Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson received the love their Liverpool careers demanded, emotional scenes at Anfield for two modern giants who helped restore this club to greatness. The applause for Jordan Henderson and Caoimhin Kelleher carried genuine warmth too. For a few moments, the bitterness of this dreadful season was set aside and Anfield remembered what pride once felt like.
Yet the football itself dragged everyone back into reality soon enough.
Another shapeless, spiritless afternoon from a Liverpool side that has spent most of the season looking confused by its own existence. Cody Gakpo led the line here and barely touched the ball. Last week it was Isak, before him Ekitike, disappearing into the fog of a system clueless how to deploy a central striker. Slow possession, sterile patterns, no incision, no authority. Mid-table football in everything but the bare minimum league position that had to be achieved, in other seasons 60 points doesn't get you a Champions League place, Liverpool have been lucky.
That 1-1 draw felt entirely fitting. Liverpool have been limping through months of mediocrity and the results merely mirror the performances. If this carries into next season under Arne Slot, mid-table is exactly where this club is heading.
The post-match farewells were moving, but there was a telling detail in the choreography. No microphone handed to Salah or Robertson on the pitch. Sensible perhaps. The risk of honesty hanging in the air was probably too great.
Then came more vague talk afterwards about evolution, style, injuries and patience, the same hail-Mary talk that has surrounded this team and Slot for months. More spin, more deflection, more attempts to persuade supporters not to trust their own eyes.
The hope now is simple. Let the media management end. Let the hierarchy make the only tangible decision that matters. Let this farewell be remembered as the final act of a glorious Liverpool era, the building block for the next one, and not the beginning of a long decline.
There is something unLiverpool about Liverpool at the moment.
If Klopp was manager he'd have been on the microphone with Robertson and Salah also saying their bit.
Instead we got Slot slumped in a chair and LFC afraid to give Salah a microphone in case he said something.
And where were John Henry and rest of FSG to show their gratitude to Robertson and Salah who helped make them 100s of millions by adding massive value to the club.
Also where was the football guru Michael Edwards, he is getting paid massive amounts of money by LFC and has been missing all season.
This is not how Liverpool are meant to be run.
UnLiverpool like 👍
@LFC Even Guardiola’s farewell was more heartfelt, emotional and affectionate than this one. As a Liverpool fan, I feel it wasn’t enough for these legends.
It’s obvious they didn’t want to make videos for Anfield honouring Mo and Robbo, because Jurgen appears in them rather than Slot
Solo ahí entenderán el malestar, tristeza y distancia por parte del hincha lila.
Deportes Concepción salió a flote contra viento y marea, y corresponde mantenerlo así, no de manera displicente.
Lo que realmente da rabia es saber que hubo tiempo para corregir, meses para reorganizar, y aun así estamos llegando a junio lamentándonos por no haber mejorado nada. La gerencia deportiva de Deportes Concepción sabe perfectamente eso.
Como dirigencia, es su deber generar ese sentimiento de pertenencia y representación; ya falló el proyecto anual, y no tiene argumentos técnico-deportivos que lo sostengan.
I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.
Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.
Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.
Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.
As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.
Ver la diferencia de calidad de WWE solamente comparado al año pasado y hoy me deja más triste y con menos interés que en cualquier otra mala época con Vince.
Vince habrá sido un enfermo -en muchos sentidos- pero cuidaba, al menos, el entretenimiento.
Lo de TKO es pura avaricia corporativa. El aspecto menos tóxico y notorio de Vince -que lo tenía- pero multiplicado x10 y con 0 interés en si aleja al seguidor del WRESTLING (y lo dijeron textualmente)
En tiempos de estrechez fiscal y aumento del costo de la vida, uno esperaba medidas que permitieran aumentar recaudación e ir en apoyo de las familias. Pero la agenda propuesta por el gobierno busca exactamente lo contrario, cuidar el bolsillo de quienes más tienen, disminuir la recaudación y traspasar el costo a las familias y municipios más pobres del país. Sin ofrecer ningún espacio de diálogo.
Esperamos poder tener instancias de trabajo y encuentro para una agenda de consenso, donde pongamos el foco en proteger a quienes menos tienen. Los alcaldes siempre estaremos disponibles.
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Liverpool FC is deeply saddened by the passing of former goalkeeper Alex Manninger at the age of 48.
The thoughts of everyone at LFC are with Alex's family and friends at this difficult time.