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Set piece coaches

What is this new trend with high-profile set piece coaches who perform crazy antics on the touchline? Stop it already! No one cares about you!

What’s next: the physio or the kit man being shown on close up every time a player adjusts a sock?

I’ll just say it…

It’s a bit silly to let someone as good and well-fitting as Kelleher go elsewhere when Alli has rather persistent injury issues and Mamardashvili will probably need time to get used to the league. One could say that for all his quietly consistent contributions so far, Kelleher DESERVES to be given a chance to stake his claim at the #1 shirt at LFC - and since we’ve already made our choice to sign Mamardashvili, it’s Alli who might be the sacrificed, as crazy as it sounds. It’s not a straightforward case to make for selling the best GK in the world, but I think there is a case to be made:

1. Alli’s injury issues are not letting up and are likely to become worse with age. There is a significant risk when one of your most highly paid players is injury-prone, as we’ve learned with Thiago and others.

2. Financially, selling Alisson and removing his salary from the books makes more sense than selling Kelleher who is still weirdly undervalued by the league. In any other position, replacing an older star with an (almost) as good younger player is just the natural order of things and we’re lucky that in this case we don’t have to pay a premium for youth.

3. It’s possible that a straight competition between Mamardadhvili and Kelleher is the best way of integrating the former into the team and the league. Mamardashvili had this situation in Valencia (initially arriving as a back-up) and thrived - it will be much harder to get consistent playing time and improve his game when Alli is present.

4. Obviously Alli is an LFC legend and deserves all kinds of respect. But a new challenge might not be such a bad thing for him either. Bayern might be looking for a Neuer replacement soon or maybe Barca will want to replace Ter Stegen - there are lots of great clubs that will need him and appeal to him. It feels scary to think of a future without Alli, given how many shit GKs we’ve endured over the years, but it’s a lot less scary if we can keep Kelleher who we know is good enough even if for some reason Mamardashvili doesn’t work out.

Thoughts?

Be Humble - We have not played anyone yet

Just remember after winning games and doing well that we have played no one yet - well that's the narrative.

- We have only played Arsenal away which was our most difficult fixture and we only drew.
- Only played the German Champions - at home and did not score till the second half.
- All our tough games have been mainly at home - and in that list I only include Villa, Brighton, and Chelsea

Our first halves have been shit in general - so we are lucky to win the games we have won,
We don't deserve to be where we are with signing fuck all in the summer transfer window
It's only our new managers first season - and has yet to implement his style properly so we are lucky to be where we are.

Generally we are a shit team.

Let’s discuss the defence

9th clean sheet in 17 games.

I don’t think many of us saw this coming.

Many saw LB as needed urgent attention, everyone wanted another CB and Trent’s defensive problems are well documented.

However while City and Arsenal’s defences are struggling we seem to look very assured.

Sure we’ve rode our luck at times but with the current set of players, we are well positioned.

Queue them all getting killed on international duty.

While a lot of the improvement is done to our more controlled approach there is no doubt a few of the defenders have had marked improvements too.

Ali / Keller
Trent / Bradley
Virg / Gomez
Ibou / Quansah
Robbo / Tsimi

MOTM Aston Villa (H) 2-0 - Momo’s POTS awards

Liverpool, top of the league, Liverpool, Liverpool top of the league.

Pick your top three. Not five even though we are 5 points ahead of 2nd place.

Kelleher
Alexander-Arnold (Bradley 25’)
Konate
Van Dijk
Robertson
Gravenberch
Jones (Szoboszlai 65’)
Mac Allister (Endo 87’)
Salah
Nunez (Gakpo 65’)
Diaz

Aston Villa (H) Sat 9th Nov

2-0

Comfortable and going into the break 5 points clear and +6GD

Aston Villa (H) - Sat 9th Nov 20:00

Kelleher, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Virgil, Robertson, Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Jones, Salah, Nunez, Luis Diaz

Other PL games 9th - 10th Nov

Huge game that shall not be mentioned at 5:30pm.
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  • Sell Kelleher, bring Mamardashvili as Alli’s back-up

    Votes: 4 16.7%
  • Sell Alisson, let Kelleher and Mamardashvili compete for #1

    Votes: 10 41.7%
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    Votes: 9 37.5%
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