Dr. Gonzo

Bold call. But if I remember right, you've made some bold calls before and been right before... so I hope you're right again pal! I think Thiago's going to be one hell of a signing in our midfield though.

Yeah but never like this. And these new ones are the worst.

The worst thing about winning the league is the huge number of plastics that have flooded our subreddit.

I honestly can't explain how much I'm enjoying the re-mastered Tony Hawks 1 + 2. The nostalgia kick is unbelievable.

The original soundtrack is a part of the game. They added a lot of songs, which tbh... I don't really care for but all that shite from 20 years ago is still there. I played so much of it way back in the day - I've been feeling some insane nostalgia seeing all of the levels again. It definitely makes me feel like a very old man though.

It came out 10 days ago. I learned about it yesterday. Idk if it's on PC, but if it is... I really recommend it if you liked the original games

The remaster is much harder than I remember the originals being. But omg it's so fun and it's taken me back about 20 years, to much simpler times.

I mean I think Chelsea will always spend money, regardless of whether you've sold players or not - it's why Roman bought the club. I think him having a successful football team is just a happy byproduct of him being a billionaire using a football club for his primary purpose of being a laundromat for Russian oligarch money. I just think Well Fed Frank's being a bit hypersensitive about Klopp saying "hey we can't all spend like Chelsea this summer."

I'm playing Tony Hawks' Pro Skater 1 + 2.

Yeah and a transfer ban. But let's not pretend you're not owned by a Russian oil oligarch - it's the most obvious reason why Chelsea seems so much less fussed about pandemic spending than other clubs. Because they know their finances at the end of the day will be completely fine. Same with City as well.

The thing is Lampard seemed to get a bit offended at what Klopp said... but I think it was more of the reporter looking to cause offense with the way he worded what Klopp had said. Because if you look at what Klopp's said, he's said there's a pandemic and not all clubs can be spending like Chelsea can right now. Yeah that doesn't account for the fact that Chelsea didn't spend for a year because of their transfer ban - but he's not wrong, Chelsea are spending more than most clubs do during this pandemic and most clubs won't be coming anywhere close to that kind of spending. You also have to remember those "Coutinho situations" are essentially what allowed us to make those record signings - so I wouldn't necessarily expect us to always make signings like that.

Does anyone else really hate everyone who traveled with this virus around China’s lunar new year?

Willy Caballero is a shit gk, but everything else @RandoEFC said, I agree with

Honestly I think that match made it pretty clear we can’t rest on our laurels just because we were miles better than everyone else last year. The defenders need a squad player to challenge them at CB. Firmino’s a brilliant player and one of my favourite players, but his decision making in the final third has been questionable lately. He looks rusty and it makes me wonder if Minamino could fill in with him. Klopp probably won’t do this, but I’d be tempted to drop Joemez and Bobby for Villa.

Normally I’m lazy with pasta and I just buy sauce from a store. This time I made a sauce. Turned out good!

Last time back home I heard of a shitload of stabbings but not shootings

I think as we’re likely to experience some pretty rough times economically we’ll see more of this shit

Melissa Reddy says the priority is: keep Gini, sell “excess midfielders” (I think this might be Grujic/Harry Wilson), sign Thiago. I think she’s Klopp’s media voice until proven otherwise, so I think if Gini stays, this is encouraging.

It also causes lung fibrosis, which might not mean a whole lot to you or me if we lose 5% of our lung capacity (tbh, I will be gutted my lungs can't hold weed for as long tbh) - but the thin margins make all the difference to top athletes, which these silly fuckers are hoping to grow up to be.

FFS that's an absolute joke.

I just want us to keep upsetting the rest of the country by being good.

Some people think FSG are really just in this for the short term, to raise our profile back up to where we "ought to be" and then sell the club on for a massive profit compared to the pretty cheap price the world's greatest Chelsea fan, Christian Purslow (he should be knighted for getting rid of Gillett and Hicks, tbh, the absolute genius) authorising the sale at a very low price. I don't agree with that assessment of FSG though. They bought FSG because John Henry's from Boston and he wanted to own the side and "break their curse" - and it was a FSG employee & friend of his that convinced Henry that Liverpool were the "Red Sox of England" and they'd also need a cursebreaker owner. The way they operate with Red Sox and with us has been trying to be as "self-sustainable" as possible - I think with the impact of covid, our caution with the finances is a reflection of that self-sustainability.

I can understand being frustrated with the situation, believe me I am too. But the club doesn't want to take out loans to place debt onto the club... and given with what Gillett and Hicks did with us, you'd think a lot more LFC fans would be appreciative of us not taking these sort of financial risks. It's more annoying that they aren't looking to spend invest a bit of FSG's money - which they surely have as the Red Sox and Liverpool are two of the more profitable sports sides in the world. I think it's fair to say they've learned a bit from the Red Sox "World" Series win... and then the subsequent drop from that. One of the big issues there was the Red Sox didn't retain star players after winning. One thing we did after we made the CL final against Real Madrid was invest heavily in making sure our core group of very good players is tied down, for the most part, to pretty long deals. It seems out of all our key players, Wijnaldum's the only one that didn't get a bumper deal - and that might be because he was on pretty low wages and a long contract in the first place. If they hadn't done that, likely what would have happened after we won the CL and got 97 points was Barca, Real Madrid, PSG, City, etc... would start circling and throw cash at us to take our best players away. Look at Ajax and how big clubs circle like vultures every time they've looked like they've built a decent side since the 90s. The vultures circle and pick away at that good side. We don't have unlimited resources and managed to improve the side and get good players on big long contracts... all while we've expanded Anfield a bit and are looking to develop a new training centre. Yes, we've made a lot of money. But without taking out loans (which I'm not opposed to being adverse to getting massive loans while the financial circumstances in football are sort of up in the air), it's hard to see us progressing while spending so much on the club's long term infrastructure. Especially while the club isn't making anywhere near as much money as it would otherwise be making because they haven't been able to have fans in the stadium and clubs have been asked to reimburse broadcasters for broadcasting delays over covid (although apparently that's being spaced out over lots of seasons, to reduce this would cause for some clubs). I wholeheartedly agree that it's very frustrating, especially when we've got the best Liverpool squad in our lifetimes (well... unless you're older than me, then you can maybe argue it's not that good... but I'd argue it is because they got 99 points last season) and arguably the best manager in Europe. And as fans, we want to see him get a big warchest and improve on this already really impressive Liverpool. But we've seen before, that Klopp and Edwards aren't the kind of people who just spend for the sake of depth. Seems like if it's over a certain price... we only an effort to secure the player if there is a consensus that the player will improve us. Our most pressing signings right now are bringing in depth at CB and for the attack (Thiago's looking our most likely signing, but tbh if Gini isn't going anywhere... it's a bit of a luxury signing. I know Thiago's world class and better than Wijnaldum... but central midfield is certainly an area where we've got a lot of depth and quality). Normally, we've seen Klopp and Edwards act early in the transfer window when they've identified the players they want. But I'm not sure this is a normal transfer window. Selling clubs are setting prices like covid never happened, buying clubs (other than the English oil clubs, really) are the only buyers that are acting like the transfer market is normal. I suspect we'll make signings still during this window... I just think it'll be abnormal compared to how Klopp/Edwards like to operate because I think most of our business in transfer windows - in that they'll be working late into the window. Which we've only really ever seen once in Klopp's time with us - to secure Keita's signature (a year early before he joined us) and Virgil... which took us two transfer windows to get over the line.

One look at Foden’s face and seeing the news today just confirms how much more attractive money makes someone