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[Ollie @olliejustwanks]

Mad that Britain went hundreds of years without beheadings in the street, children stabbed at a dance class, blown to bits at a concert, people having a beer in London stabbed etc. Could go on for hours

It isn't racist to want this to stop, and the scum deported. Sick of it

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

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[Popettes @MrPopettes]

@TheBritLad

[Popettes @MrPopettes]

@LFCApproved Pretty easy answer, Don’t have 8 players in the box marking 5 opposition attackers?

Really is common knowledge.

At least one person should’ve been in range to at least make an attempt to close Reed down.
If he still manages to get a shot off and it ends up there, then GG

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🗣️𝗡𝗘𝗪: Thierry Henry on Mohamed Salah's comments: "I had problems with Wenger, with Guardiola… Have you ever heard me talk about it publicly? NEVER. I protected the club."

"When you play for a club, you must protect it at all costs. No matter what’s happening internally, you protect the club — your teammates, the manager, the staff."

"You can be angry, frustrated, disagree… but you don’t air dirty laundry in public, especially when the club is going through difficult moments."

"Instead, you wait, you sort things out internally, and then, if you want to leave or speak your mind, you do it at the right time."

"I understand the ego and Mo’s frustration... He scores 38 goals and ends up on the bench, but there comes a point where you must put the team before yourself.”

[- @AnfieldRd96]

People want to be negative for no reason. We’re playing Inter Milan at the San Siro, not fucking Grimsby. Solid away performance in Europe. Unbeaten in four games. We move.

[Popettes @MrPopettes]

@davelfc1984 @LFCLaurie Literally, gotta remember as well the confidence is at an all time low. We concede 1st then we’d get battered 3/4 nil.

Small building blocks.

[Popettes @MrPopettes]

@TheImmortalKop That one was all about the result. Confidence is at an all time low. Stay solid, nothing silly. Thankfully that was the case.

Small steps, get back to what we know.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Mo Salah. A very long read.

I think I know a little about LFC, its supporters and how they view their club. Shaped of course by Shankly then Paisley, Kenny, Jurgen and now now Slot.

One thing remains constant, perhaps more than any other English club, its always the club first and last, players and managers add their DNA to the club, but the club trumps the individual.

Now, Mo Salah has left plenty of winners DNA at Anfield and has taken his place in the pantheon of greats.

So it's interesting to see his interview, dropping a grenade into the club because if I know Liverpool and it's supporters at all (I think there may be even a generational difference in responses, younger supporting the grenade, older shaking their heads) then their first reaction will be..

Club, first and last, don't care who it is. Its a living and breathing mantra and one that even Mo Salah will find it difficult to duke it out against.

Now, could Arne Slot be less pally with players than Jurgen? Absolutely, he's a calm, relaxed, tad detached guy who ( if you remember) was unimpressed with Trent early doors and showed a nonchalant attitude in season one to "one of their own" who'd won everything there is to win. I think that's impressive, but not as impressive as winning the title in your first season. So he's earned his respect too.

The team are playing well in spurts, comedy defending and decision making at other times. That includes everyone, and if you ask 99.9% of players if they'd accept 2 or 3 games on the bench for not hitting levels, all will say yes. Only in the madness of 2025 modern football would the cult of personalities not only question a reasonable conclusion of "you're not playing well, here's a spell on the bench", but Mo maybe has almost tricked himself onto elevating himself to the untouchable status of Messi or Ronaldo, players who could, if they chose, literally do and say as they pleased in the last decade. Mo isn't them, and Liverpool as I said, isn't that club either.

I'm sure some of the youngsters will rant "he's right and Slot's to blame ", but without any evidence that Slot has deliberately ( managers NEED their star players to perform, not to be asked about them in every presser for the next 5 months....) ostracised anyone at the club other than do what every good manager has done since the invention of the game, namely leave someone out who's not playing well misses the point as every great club, team and manager have dropped great players at some stage. Some even when playing well!!

The solution to what is now a very open sore is simple (ish)

1. Player and manager talk privately.
2. Manager tells player what he wants from the player.
3. Player commits or tells manager he wants out.
4. If player wants out, make it happen quickly. If not, pick the player and let him be judged by his continued performances. If they're poor, manager can't lose, "I told you so". If they're great, manager can't lose. So Slot playing Mo is a very good starting point, especially as 2 very big signings have yet to make Mo " yesterday's man"

Arne Slot can help himself a little by using his natural openness to say " maybe I'm not Jurgen but I love my players and they couldn't have won a spectacular title last season without reacting to me and my methods a little too, but I hear Mo's comments and I can tell you all now, I love him to bits and he's ours to keep". That heads off any "seniors" with similar grenades to throw.

But one thing's for sure, I don't think there will ever be a Liverpool player past, present or future with valid gripes that would jeopardise the "club first and last" ethos of Liverpool, and those who've had legitimate concerns I'm sure aired them at an appropriate time, not a flash interview when emotions are high.

Liverpool FC have done as well for every player who's played for them as players have done for the club, so the institution has earned that private, rather than public critique. Whoever that's from.

[Popettes @MrPopettes]

@AnfieldA97 @30YearsRed As soon as Macca came on, his lack of pace was immediately exploited.

Just invited them on when those subs came on.

[Popettes @MrPopettes]

@LDC_LFC @AnfieldRd96 Yep. Simple as that. You have a player starting who’s either not arsed or completely shot for confidence making mistake after mistake.

And he still gets chosen.. not sure what Slot is expecting..

same can be said for starting Gakpo game after game with no output.

[Popettes @MrPopettes]

@AnfieldRd96 Yes, yes it is. Bringing on Macca when there were no problems in midfield is just fucking ridiculous. The lad came on and looked gassed immediately.

[Popettes @MrPopettes]

@LFC Time to go

[Laurie @LFCLaurie]

• Diaz is performing in a one team league and the fee was great.

• I was not watching Nunez for another season.

• Trent was out of our hands.

• Quansah, we negotiated a good deal with a buyback. It made sense.

• Morton needed to play.

• Kelleher wanted to be No. 1.

• Tsimikas? Be serious.

• We could not turn down £25m for Doak.

• Elliott wanted to go for minutes.

Stand by the fact that every sale or departure we sanctioned was the right choice.

[- @AnfieldRd96]

We went from Robertson and Manè to whatever the fuck I’m watching now 😂

[RegulateVPG @RegulateVPG]

📽️ CUT..

That’s another week over and what a week for the Regulate boys!

31 pts from a possible 42

Massive steps taken, but improvements still to be made.

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EA killed a game that had potential because of this…

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Tough result to end on, especially after our great defensive start and our excellent 2nd half comeback in the second game!

POTN @Keano2102 Dictated the midfield once again. Keep UP the quality work!

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