@seanward94@AnfieldSector Prior to the 30s rule you used to get players going down injured to time waste with little added time from refs. People forget that when Neville moans about it on Sky. There are to be some false positive it is what it is
Thank you Arne Slot for your service to the club, in particular the huge victory last year in winning the premiership so comprehensively. Although it didn’t work out this season the way hoped for, I wish you every success in the future.
feel a bit like the arl fellas when they say they fall out of love with modern footy the way I've seen this season. Watched every game but coming on here reading all the abuse like I don't want half these cunts to derive any joy from LFC they don't deserve it
Disgraceful from Liverpool fans as a whole, mainly the online base who will never set foot in Liverpool. Slot deserved much more grace following unprecedented circumstances and instead suffered needless abuse week in week out. I hate what I've seen from the fanbase this season
@2147mill Christ so you're finally coming round to what the people actually know a thing or two have been telling you for months? Unbelievable how you speak with such authority.
All that matted this season was getting through it together. Pity out fan base can't see this. We all should be together no matter what. But a high percentage of our fan base cant see the wood for the trees
Bars from @OllieHolt22. Great brain underneath a great head of hair.
I’m sure the inevitable echo chamber will volley abuse at him, but if anything, he’s shown the clarity of thought to understand how mental this season is.
One guy you’ll never see me dig out is Virgil Van Dijk.
Guy has CARRIED our defence all season. He’s conceded pens & made mistakes because of the incompetence around him. 34 yo, playing every minute of every game.
Let’s not forget the mental toll the man is carrying. As captain, he won a title & then buried Jota within weeks. Yet he fronts up to the media and takes all the responsibility, every week.
Proud he’s our captain and gutted he’s fought alone for too much of this season. #LFC
These saves where the ball bounces off the bar afterwards always gets weirdly overrated. Happened also with an Alison save Vs Newcastle. This is straight down pickfords throat, in the middle of the goal. I'd be disappointed if my keeper didn't stop it. Great theatrics though.
Martin - you say that @KemiBadenoch's proposal to cut Plan 2 student loan interest is "too late for most" - that because most graduates never clear their loans, reducing the interest rate won't change what they actually repay. I think you're right on the maths. But I think your alternative - raising the repayment threshold to £40,000 - solves the wrong problem.
The graduates who never clear their loans are not the victims of this system. They're its beneficiaries. A low earner who borrows £53,000 and repays £25,000 over 30 years before the rest is written off has, effectively, received a £28,000 education grant from the taxpayer. That's not an injustice. That's literally a subsidy.
You seem to want to give these graduates even more relief by raising the threshold, which amounts to a targeted tax cut for people who are already net recipients of public money. While it is a progressive cost-of-living relief measure, it has nothing to do with actually fixing student loans.
The actual injustice sits with middle earners. A graduate on £45,000 who ends up repaying £132,000 on a £53,000 loan - that's where compound interest does real damage. These are teachers, engineers, mid-career NHS staff. Not rich. Just earning enough for the interest to snowball, but not enough to escape quickly. They repay two and a half times what they borrowed. That is the scam.
Kemi's proposal targets exactly this group. Capping interest at RPI means these graduates clear their loans years earlier and save £40,000-£50,000 in lifetime repayments. On the other hand, your threshold increase proposal would redirect the same budget toward people who were never going to repay in full anyway.
Basically, the choice is between fixing a genuine structural penalty on aspirational, middle-earning graduates, or handing a broader but shallower subsidy to people the system already treats generously.
I think @KemiBadenoch has the better instinct here. The loans that "feel like a scam" are the ones where you pay back far more than you borrowed - not the ones where the taxpayer quietly absorbs the loss for you.
@CaffreyDale What cos you see a few fans from Africa and shit on x saying they want him sacked any match going fan is level headed and knows the stuff we’ve been through this season.
In the days and weeks after the Jota tragedy I (and plenty of others) said I'd basically forgive them anything in the coming season, and I have not done that. Probably worth reflecting on.
@JimmyMcGonagill@MiguelDelaney Everyone said this and conveniently and quickly forgot. The online fanbase have been disgusting to a manager who has had to manage 20 lads who lost a mate they see 5+ days a week.
@maaverix Total return is what matters because I'd you reinvest everything, it's this that will compound. You'll see attractive high yields offset with NAV erosion, bringing the total return down to a normal level. At which point you have to decide "is the risk of this portfolio worth TR?"
@maaverix Also think, if 44% yield was sustainable, wouldn't everyone do it? there's a reason they don't, and if they did those returns would come down as pricing would reflect.
Alongside 44% yield here, you'll see the price of the index fall. What actually matters is "Total Return".