I must say, it was difficult hearing the hurt in Gary Neville's voice at the end of that game, so I turned up the volume on the TV and could hear it much better.
@GraceOnFootball Growing up, maybe the corruption of the Greek league opened the door. But will never forget watching the Istanbul final with my father as an 8 yr old and seeing the miracles Liverpool is capable of. Also, Gerrard keeping me engaged during the difficult times of the early 10s.
People said the same thing when we spent £440,000 on Kenny Dalglish, then £40M on Mohamed Salah. While both Dalglish and Salah hit the ground running and went on to become club legends, others took a while, but also became if not club legends, certainly iconic. I’ve seen everyone on this list play, and they’re all legends to me.
Ian Rush: We spent £300k in 1980, which at the time was a British record fee for a teenager and it took him a season to settle in.
Terry McDermott cost us £170k in 1974 and at that time, our record fee was £180k. It took him a couple of seasons to hit his stride.
Ray Kennedy: The club record I referred to above of £180k was paid for him in 1974 and it took him over a season to hit his stride.
Steve Nicol: We paid a daft £300k for a part-timer from Ayr United for a 19 year old. Took him almost two years to find his feet. He didn’t turn out too shabby did he?
Jordan Henderson: My captain. £16M or so to Sunderland for a 20 year old with only one PL season behind him. It took him almost three seasons to get into his stride. Remember? And he ended up one of our greatest captains of all time.
Bobby Firmino. £29M made him our second most expensive signing after Andy Carroll at that time. Took him most of the first few months to get going but that was because Rigers didn’t know how to use him. Anyway. He didn’t turn out too bad either.
Patience. Support. Belief.
And if they don’t work out we let them go with grace and dignity. Unless they screw us over then it’s open season of course. But we reds have big hearts. Let’s prove it.
Bill Simmons just opened his show by saying he didn’t have an immediate reaction pod to Jaylen Brown because he got a colonoscopy yesterday and thought he died when he heard the news, best to ever do it
Arne Slot deserves respect on his way out of #LFC. Won the league and dealt with the tragedy of losing Jota brilliantly. Ultimately the right decision from FSG, but thank you Arne. Will always be the man who brought number 20 to Anfield
Football data editor at Opta, @michael_reid11: "We obviously have data for all the Premier League era, so from 1992-93 onwards, but Salah's records were so ridiculous that we realised we had to go beyond that. The amount of times we were doing stats and you'd try to put other players up on a leaderboard but Salah would be just there ahead of them. It would be just impossible to get a table where Salah wasn't above this player because he was so multifaceted. What we tried to do was get maybe two or three Salah records or stats lined up before every game. He got to a point where every time he gets a goal or assist, there's some sort of record he's breaking."