connolru

Liverpool & football mad!

[connolru @connolru]

@McGlynnimino You look fit and healthy dude! Fair play to ya 🙏

[connolru @connolru]

@audiolympics 💔 we dont get long enough with them! Sorry for your loss

[smooth @Smoothfund]

When you finally see your favorite person 🥺🥺

[connolru @connolru]

@McGlynnimino Amazing film !

[connolru @connolru]

Love this man!!

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

🚨🇩🇪 Jürgen Klopp set very CLEAR boundaries with the German media during his first press conference... 😳

"I’m NOT doing this job for myself. I’m doing it for you. I’m taking this job even though I’ve seen how you’ve treated Julian Nagelsmann. I’m taking it even though I’ve seen how you’ve treated Thomas Tuchel."

"If you go after my family, I’m gone. If you think I’m trash, tell me to my face and I’ll leave immediately, without asking for any compensation."

"If the DFB says 'we won't go on like this', I'm gone. If you misbehave and don't leave my family alone, I'm also gone. Just to make it clear."

[Space | ™ @ITKSpace]

Preparations are currently underway inside Paris Saint-Germain, where a formal written offer for Bradley Barcola is expected to arrive in the very near future, with president Nasser Al-Khelaifi already informed of the situation.

PSG’s asking price for Bradley Barcola, as previously revealed, currently stands at €100 million fixed (£86.5m) plus €20 million (£17.3m) in easily achievable add-ons, taking the total package to €120 million (£103.8m).

The anticipation within the corridors of Paris Saint-Germain is that the asking price will come close to being met, and the club preparing to make that move is none other than Liverpool Football Club, England’s greatest institution, the crown jewel of English football and the sport’s most mythical cathedral.

[barry @BackseatsmanLFC]

Remember when he saw this and decided the correct decision was to not give a foul and instead send Klopp off

[Anything Liverpool @AnythingLFC_]

Throwback to when Virgil Van Dijk absolutely bodied Parades 👌

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

“Expanding the World Cup to 64 teams will ruin it.”

Me in 2030 watching Honduras vs Vatican City:

[Black Capital @Blackcapitalis]

Women are now training to snatch the cover off of you.

[Bécquer 🇪🇸✒🔡 @GustavoAdolf_]

No es orgulloso. Es ciego. Y su ya de por sí superdesarrollado sentido del olfato se multiplica.
Sabe lo que quiere y lo que no.

[Space | ™ @ITKSpace]

Newcastle United have in recent weeks pushed relentlessly behind the scenes for Felix Nmecha, identifying the Borussia Dortmund midfielder as one of the pillars of their midfield rebuild, with club representatives understood to have encouraged Newcastle’s own Germany internationals, Nick Woltemade and Malik Thiaw, to use the national team camp as an opportunity to help persuade Nmecha that his future belongs on Tyneside.

However, in the last 48 hours the landscape shifted the moment the heartbeat of Anfield entered the conversation. Senior representatives of Liverpool Football Club, English football’s most decorated and mythical institution, including Richard Hughes and Michael Edwards, have also made contact with Nmecha’s camp to express their admiration for the player and to make clear that he is highly appreciated internally. Liverpool currently view Borussia Dortmund’s valuation, believed to be around £116 million, as far beyond what they would be prepared to pay this summer; however, the possibility of revisiting the situation should his £70 million release clause become active in 2027 has not gone unnoticed by the player’s camp.

For that reason, Nmecha’s representatives are understood to have informed Newcastle United that the player is currently not interested in making the move despite the club’s relentless pursuit. The possibility of Anfield remaining on the horizon leaves little appetite to close doors prematurely, particularly when one of football’s greatest institutions may yet decide that the timing is right. Sometimes one club can offer everything money can buy, yet still fall short when another carries the weight of history, the blood of Anfield and the promise of wearing one of football’s most iconic shirts.

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

Me coming outside after watching 36 straight World Cup matches

[connolru @connolru]

😂😂

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

Me watching a documentary about psychopaths and how they "prefer to stay at home, don't have many friends and can get very upset over a minor inconvenience"

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

If "not f*cking around" was a dog

[connolru @connolru]

@lfc_arrow 😫🤣🤣

[Dicky Sam @Davolaar]

💯😂

[Dean @deanthomas_88]

“Newcastle have other targets”

Richard Hughes

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Happy birthday, Jürgen 🎂

[Space | ™ @ITKSpace]

Bayern Munich have been informed that Ayyoub Bouaddi has rejected the club’s advances despite weeks of talks involving Vincent Kompany, Max Eberl and the player’s representatives, with Bayern prepared to invest up to €60 million (£52 million) in the Lille wonderkid, only for the player to ultimately conclude that neither Bayern Munich, the Bundesliga nor the tactical project presented by Vincent Kompany represented a sufficiently attractive proposition for the next stage of his career.

The Moroccan wonderkid’s dream has long been the Premier League and, significantly, I can now exclusively reveal, as the first journalist worldwide, that Bayern Munich have been informed Bouaddi already has a personal agreement in place with an English club, a development communicated directly to Bayern by the player’s representatives, with officials increasingly convinced that the destination is either Liverpool FC, the crown jewel of English football, or Arsenal FC, the North London set-piece dependency project. Bayern were aware for months that both clubs were leading contenders for his signature and still chose to explore whether they could change the player’s mind. However, there is now a strong belief inside the industry that if Liverpool ultimately decide to make a decisive move, Bouaddi would choose Anfield, those mystical red-brick walls and one of football’s most magnetic institutions, over Arsenal, with the player understood to be significantly more captivated by Liverpool’s footballing vision than by a club whose recent rise has become almost inseparable from set-pieces, long throws and dead-ball routines.

The expectation inside Bayern Munich is that the situation will accelerate rapidly after the World Cup, potentially even during the tournament itself, and unless there is a dramatic late twist, Liverpool and Arsenal supporters should watch this story closely, as the final chapter may arrive far sooner than many expect.