@HendrickD82@LFCApproved I feel like we have been missing this balance forever but the Fab/Virgil/Alisson spine and our pressing were so incredible that it didn’t matter. I’m not sure that’s possible again.
@HendrickD82@LFCApproved It also determines which FB attacks more and provides width, right? Feels like we have Kerkez for that on the left.
Diomande-Szobo-Wirtz makes more sense to me then.
Liverpool FC is top of the table, but not of a league to be proud of.
A 4-2 pasting at the hands of Aston Villa on Friday night affirmed the Reds’ mediocre season on the pitch. But, according to campaigners, Liverpool is number one in complicity in the Gaza genocide.
War on Want have published a league table of Premier League clubs’ ties to Israeli actions in Palestine.
Liverpool are ahead of north London rivals Arsenal and Spurs in joint second place.
Man United and Man City are tied in third place while the fourth spot is shared by Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton and Fulham.
The league table is part of a report entitled Red Card: English Premier League Complicity in Israel’s Atrocities Against the Palestinians. The report says at least 15 Premier League sponsors have connections to the military assault on Gaza, the construction of illegal settlements and the wider system of apartheid.
Liverpool’s shirt sponsor, Standard Chartered, provided $15.4bn (£11.5bn) to 24 complicit businesses between January and August 2025.
The Premier League itself is sponsored by Barclays bank, which the report says has provided billions to 49 complicit companies.
Neil Sammonds, senior campaigner on Palestine at War on Want, said: “These clubs speak proudly about equality, inclusion and community. Yet behind the branding, some are using ‘sportswashing’ to sanitise corporations connected to some of the gravest crimes and humanitarian catastrophes of our time.
“Palestinian footballers are being killed. Stadiums are turned into detention camps. Child players are buried beneath rubble.
“The Premier League has shown before that it can act when sponsorship becomes morally toxic. The question is why Palestinian lives appear to count for less.”
@illtiger1 … anyone else is going to do. It’s like they all showed up and met right before the match.
Slot has been a disaster. I knew something wasn’t right when he called out Dom towards the end of last season. The player that does all the running and is your 3rd most important…
@illtiger1 This season is worse than 2010-11 Hodgson and 2014-15 Rodgers. The players are so much better but the performances are just as bad.
The only reason we are even close to CL is because of luck and mid-season set pieces.
Everything is so slow because no one knows what …
I would leave it for offsides (as automated as possible), goal-line tech, and otherwise can be checked for 1 reason - the ref thinks they were unsighted and asks for VAR to check something (only started by ref and no communication with VAR before that). Reassess in 2 years.
I really hope there can be a sensible discussion about whether football moves away from VAR
It’s been a number of years now, these aren’t teething troubles anymore, this is an addition to the game that currently takes more away than it gives, with no prospect of that changing.
Yes, there’ll be more things missed, but things like spontaneity & flow contribute hugely to what makes football so great - the trade off, arguably, hasn’t been worth it.
We still get human error, and always will - it just takes a lot longer with VAR