Dr. Gonzo

Honestly mental if they are considering it's not that long ago they won 9 titles in a row.

I think it's psycho to pretend either side in this are "the good guys" - it's a bunch of horrific people with a load of innocent people put in harms way because they're horrific. I don't think this is true, by the way. They'd have to get it from Iran and Iran only got it in 2022 - it's probably the best air defense system Iran has, so they'll be needing that to protect from invasion (even though their air defenses are terrible). Hezbollah's got some of Iran's more sophisticated offensive weaponry in their rockets, which is Iran's real strong point in terms of their military industry complex, but I imagine their air defenses would mostly be very out of date shit. Hezbollah is armed to the teeth by Iran for offensive capabilities, because that is Iran's main way of deterring outright war with Israel - keeping the threat of a serious offensive force on Israel's border - but defensively in terms of modern military capability... they're very vulnerable. I don't know how anybody can defend Israeli settlers actions in the West Bank and the Israeli government deserves so much condemnation for their support in these illegal settlements that do nothing for making Israel any safer (if anything, it increases hostility towards Israelis)... it is just stealing land from Palestinians in violation of international law in the name of Judaism. This analogy falls flat on it's face though when you remember this conflict didn't start last year. In 1948, Palestinians were violently ethnically cleansed and forcibly removed from land they had called home for centuries. World powers either knew and supported this or sat by and did nothing - despite what recent history in Europe had taught world powers about ethnic cleansing. A closer analogy would probably be the US's treatment of natives in America of the 1800s. In modern times, that sort of behavior is rightly condemned. Particularly after 1945. And I think one of the most disturbing things about the Nakba is the Holocaust should have been very fresh in every Israelis mind... so what does it say about the lessons Israel learned from the holocaust? I think saying "never forget" in relation to the holocaust is a very important thing - it's not something anyone should ever forget, regardless of their religion or ethnicity. So why is the Nakba so easily forgotten by Israel? Israelis need to reconcile the darkness in their history, rather than pretend they are simply just responding to Palestinian/Arab/Islamic oppression. They need to realise that Netanyahu is a liar only concerned with personal power and that his disregard for Palestinian life for the last several decades has only served to make Israel less safe for Israelis - and has done more to damage Israel's standing in the west... and they need to look back to the prime minister that Netanyahu encouraged a deranged lunatic to assassinate. They need to look back to a time when Israel had leadership that was actually interested in making peace with the neighbors they fucked over when they moved back into the neighborhood. Israelis and Palestinians both generally have low opinions of any two-state solution... and I think the international community really ought to tell both of them "fuck you both, come up with a two state solution or we'll come up with one for you." But Israelis live in a democracy, they have the close ties with the international community... they aren't living under murderous dictators or their thuggish gangs. The onus is on the Israeli people to start demanding more of their government if they don't want to be treated like international pariahs. They are the ones with the power to make demands of the Israeli government and get results. Israel has the position of power and agency, that is more that can be said of your average Palestinian civilian. If Israelis truly want peace and security, they've got to demand a better government. One that doesn't have power craven murderers like Netanyahu anywhere near power, one that doesn't have a hateful and unrepentant racist in charge of its security apparatus... but instead one that is genuinely serious about peace and security.

I still think this is weird, if Alisson's being truthful about wanting to stay here for many more years to come.

Wasn’t Mane in the last year of his contract when we sold him for about 3 times the price? Granted we sold Mane on the back of a really good season

I saw that, that’s pretty decent. Why do Juve want barely any money for him?

He was brilliant a few years ago in that one tournament, one bad injury and a couple smaller ones and it's a bit mental to see how far his stock has fallen. I wonder if he's now too injury prone to have that bright future it looked like he would have. For £15m though... he's worth a punt. Can probably have a bit of a Shaqiri effect for us off the bench and gives us a bit of cover for Salah.

I was going to say "really, isn't he fucking shit?" and then I realised I'd confused Neto with Jose Sa

I think a lot of clubs have switched to taking trains when it's convenient too so they can claim they're "going green" and having "minimal carbon footprint" - but I think coaches are still used when there's not a convenient way by train. There's other clubs, though, who don't give a fuck about the optics of sustainability and just fly private to every match lol.

I really liked Sven and I think the media was way too harsh on him in the final days. And what he achieved in Italy before being the England manager is legendary tbh. I didn’t realise he’d die so soon after releasing his “goodbye” video last week… but I guess with hindsight, that’s probably why he made it. Rest in peace.

I just think it’s funny that coked out 40something thinks that doing that’ll make them play any better. Moshiri’s era of Everton has led to their fan base defaulting to toxic as fuck 90% of the time, which to an extent is understandable because Moshiri’s run the club so hilariously poorly that it’s reasonable to question if he’s a Liverpool fan. Weirdly, the thing that sort of snapped the toxicity and got the fans united with the players was points deductions. Everton need Moshiri gone and you’ll stop seeing the fans be so fucking angry all the time. But no sense in being super toxic to these players and the management: Everton are probably going to be shit for as long as Moshiri owns them. The squad is crap & you’ve got a manager who’s specialty is ugly football with the hopes of staying up. Dyche and the blueshite players aren’t the blueshites enemy, the owners are.

I think with FSG you have to take the good with the bad. The good is: they do actually care about us being competitive generally. The bad is: they are very complacent and if we’ve had what can be considered a pretty decent season, they’re not too motivated to reinforce the first team. In previous seasons though, I think that’s led to us wasting seasons where we’ve had a genuinely world class manager with a couple genuinely world class players. My big fear with us having Salah, Trent, and Virgil all on expiring contracts is… they might just let all 3 walk. It’s been a HUGE complaint Boston Red Sox fans have had about FSG - letting top players leave. FSG aren’t too popular with them because FSG’s ambition doesn’t seem to be consistent year-in-year-out. For them it’s just business. For us it’s more important than that. It is what it is. It’d obviously be easier to take if we weren’t competing against a gulf state’s board of tourism budget. But we are.

This one’s genuinely funny. Joelington’s got a history of getting away with some absolute bullshit from the refs though, but none quite as egregious as this one.

Diaz playing really well today

Wtf is the point in signing him if Alisson plans to stay for years

He's just off the back of a pretty decent season in the Bundesliga with their current champions interested in him. I actually think it's mental that in a bidding war with Leverkusen, Brentford came out on top because Leverkusen would have to sell a defender before they could buy another one. Looking at our backline depth and the number of injury prone players we have, with the possibility of needing to replace our best defender at the end of the season, I do wonder if we're going to regret letting him go tbh. He never really truly got a fair shake with us so I've got no idea if he can make the step up to being a squad player/possible regular for us.

Did Edwards have a summer where we signed literally nobody, though? I think people generally like Edwards because he got his transfers done with relatively little background noise - very little in the way of media leaks and long drawn out sagas (other than the Virgil Van Dijk saga)... and most of his signings turned out to be really great. Keita's probably the only one that I think was a genuinely bad deal and even then, he had some big moments for us. Now he's not quite DOF, he's the DOF's boss - so I do think it's strange that with Hughes as DOF under him we had a mini-saga with Zubimendi that turned out to be a big throwback of our failure to land a big name midfielder last season (which is obviously going to disappoint people) & other than that we're apparently still making moves for that Valencia keeper that won't even play for us this season. I think it's understandably frustrating when last season was a good season, that probably could have been a great season, had we had a bit more depth... and now this season we're going into the season with mostly the same squad - but with fewer players. It doesn't fill me with great optimism if we're hoping to compete with City and Arsenal for the title. I fear we're just shooting for a top 4 finish... and the problem with that is if we miss our shot it's pretty bad for us. After last season, I'd argue FSG should be setting us up to shoot for going for the title all season long and not falling away at the end due to depth. That way if we miss, we can still have what could be considered a pretty decent season. If we miss top 4, I think all LFC fans will be pretty unhappy. I think it's a bold move to not back a new manager in their first window and to see how the current squad gels, while also trimming some of the depth we've got in the squad. If the plan is to let him assess the squad until January... it's a gamble but maybe it pays off, but the danger there is the January market is usually more expensive than the summer market. I can't really see FSG being too keen on any big signing in January unless one of Hughes' top targets is suddenly available. Couple that with basically no news on a new contract for Trent, Salah, and Virgil... and I think it's understandable that there's a lot of anxiety amongst the fans. Especially with regard to Trent's contract and the belief that Bellingham & Madrid are going to do all they can to lure him there once his contract is up.

Tbh she only really attached herself to "radical policies" (which for the US is slightly left leaning lol) while in the senate. It's actually interesting she's campaigning on more of a centrist platform compared to someone like Obama who campaigned as someone more left wing but when he actually became president was incredibly centrist. Same old story with America though since the 80s. The right comes in and makes a mess of everything, some democrat comes in to steady the ship and in the process has to compromise with the right because of how American politics is designed to be slow and gridlocked -while simultaneously pulling America's centrist party that likes to dress up like it's a left wing party further to the right. Then a republican idiot gets elected, makes a mess of everything... and the process repeats itself. The US, like the UK, is a more conservative country than I think a lot of people realise. The electorate gravitates towards the right and centre more often than not, anything that's actually left wing is painted as fringe and weird.

Hasn't she made hating trans people her identity over the past however many years? I wish she'd go back to telling us random things like "Well actually, Dumbledore is gay, Snape's got a tiny cock, and the Sorting Hat's favourite sex act is rimming" instead of being such a hateful twat.

Holy shit, thank god we got Coutinho over Paul Ince - aside from Coutinho at his best being far better than Ince, who at best I think looked like a decent prospect honestly, that money from the sale to Barca got us some massive signings that helped us win a title and CL.

I think getting rid of Gallagher for this guy was stupid

Sad it was basically canceled because people who didn’t watch it complained very loudly

Lol nah players have baited players into doing something stupid and overreacting to make sure the referee does something about the obvious red card for… literally for fucking ever. It’s not great sportsmanship, but players should be expected to work on keeping their cool and to avoid doing anything that was an obvious red card. I think it’s more scandalous the weirdo who fingered Gabriel Jesus didn’t see a red card.

The start of this second half is much better than the first

I’ll never forgive Guardiola/City and the refs for wearing Klopp down to where he left early

It’s kind of bittersweet. It’s good to plan for life after the best keeper I think I’ve ever see us have. But at 31 Alisson’s still young for a keeper - so it makes me think his time here won’t be much longer. Looks like it’s fallen through though, lol