@KM_243_ First half felt more like Iraola ball, second half reminded me of Slot again. Horrible, too slow when we needed to attack, backward passing and the deep chasm between our 1st team & 2nd.
@LFCTransferRoom Mukiele would be a great option. PL proven. Can play both RB & CB. Not sure if he shows up high enough on the Liverpool data models though.
The Bible was written on three continents.
Asia.
Africa.
Europe.
In three languages.
Hebrew.
Aramaic.
Greek.
By over 40 different men:
Shepherds.
Kings.
Prophets.
Fishermen.
A tax collector.
A doctor.
A tentmaker.
Written in palaces and prisons.
In deserts and cities.
In freedom and in exile.
Across roughly 1,500 years.
66 books.
One continuous story:
Creation.
Fall.
Redemption.
Christ.
Most of these writers never met.
No committee planned it.
No editor stitched it together.
Yet it opens in a garden with the Tree of Life
and closes in a garden with the Tree of Life.
Different writers.
Different centuries.
Different cultures.
One voice.
Because behind the human hands was a divine Author.
Men held the pens.
But God wrote the story.
Mohamed Salah once slept at the entrance gates of Al Mokawloon’s youth sector using his shoes as a pillow because the alternative accommodation was in… a cemetery.
When you get familiar with his journey and 22 years of sacrifice, you understand the man and his desire for his career to have greater meaning.
A shortened extract from Only Mo Salah: An intimate portrait of the Egyptian King. Published on August 13
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How Liverpool can win the league next season. The league is there for the taking and i believe if Liverpool do the following they can win that title for a 21st time.
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Cannot understand how Liverpool’s transfer window has been so quiet. So many glaring things to fix. Needs to be a big few weeks or some serious questions will be asked.
It's been 46 days since Munoz signed and Liverpool have done absolutely nothing since. It wasn't even a difficult deal it was a release clause. It's only 19 days until the season starts, we still need least four signings, and that's just not happening under Hughes' incompetence.
En octubre de 2011, Luis de la Fuente fue despedido del Deportivo Alavés después de nueve jornadas. Las llamadas dejaron de llegar. Pasó dieciocho meses sin trabajo.
Siguió yendo al mismo bar a desayunar. Siguió leyendo el periódico. Un día de 2013 encontró un anuncio pequeño en las páginas de deportes: la Real Federación Española de Fútbol buscaba entrenador para sus categorías inferiores. Llamó a Iñaki Sáez, antiguo seleccionador, que lo conocía. Mandó el currículum. Esperó.
La Federación le ofreció el puesto. El contrato duraba tres meses. La misión: clasificar a la sub-19 para el Europeo de Lituania. Sin garantías más allá de eso. De la Fuente firmó el 1 de mayo de 2013.
Lo que vino después fue un trabajo invisible. Campos juveniles, contratos cortos, categorías que nadie sigue. En 2015 ganó el Europeo sub-19 con un equipo que incluía a Rodri, Mikel Merino y Unai Simón. Luego la sub-21. Luego la absoluta. El 19 de julio de 2026, en el MetLife Stadium de Nueva York, levantó la Copa del Mundo.
Trece años después del anuncio en el periódico.
La carrera de De la Fuente no tiene la narrativa habitual del crack que triunfa: no dirigió al Madrid ni al Barça, no pasó por ningún gigante europeo, no tuvo un momento de revelación brillante que el mundo aplaudiera. Tuvo dieciocho meses sin llamadas, un anuncio pequeño, un contrato de tres meses y la decisión de presentarse.
“Tout le monde disait que cette équipe était la meilleure de l’histoire du Portugal, mais en quoi ? Qu’ont-ils gagné ? On rentre à la maison, la tête baissée. Le mieux, c’est que je m’arrête là, sinon je vais dire des choses que je vais regretter plus tard. »
— Ricardo Quaresma
@OptaJoe Looking for someone in the box. Ahem ahem. Checks again - thin air and a wall of defenders. Vacates space to run in to - teammates just stand there, receive the ball, and switch play with 10,000 passes only to go right back where they started.
Sterile 🤷♂️
@TouchlineX The story of this tournament, really : Portugal a beat too slow to see the gaps, a beat too slow to trust the movement up front. The run is there. The pass isn’t.
@MatthewHewitt@KayceeNyasha@cooliod00d@umirf1 Argentina are so good at dark arts themselves; wouldn’t have worked against them for sure . They are pro level at that for a team stacked with that much quality.
@KayceeNyasha@cooliod00d@umirf1 Fair,but exact CPV comparison isn’t the ask.Their “dark arts” went too far;more about hurting players than actually competing.FB’s & the mid pivot were there for the taking under pressure, but they never even tried.Ditch the barbaric approach & they might’ve actually done smth
@MysticalMartial@umirf1 Absolutely, they defended deep and I get that; the plan was working well up until then. But once they leaned into more than just the dark arts, they lost focus on the game altogether.