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2 minutes ago, Dan said:

Yeah got to admit I saw your line up today and my immediate thought was "relegation candidates".

What do you think you need? I thought you'd have done more business than you have.

Striker, full-backs, central midfielder and another centre-back. 

We will always be well organised under Rafa but I don't think we've got enough quality going the other way. Saying this, there's about 10 teams that could go down and nobody would be surprised.

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3 minutes ago, Toony said:

Striker, full-backs, central midfielder and another centre-back. 

We will always be well organised under Rafa but I don't think we've got enough quality going the other way. Saying this, there's about 10 teams that could go down and nobody would be surprised.

To need 5 players after the season kicks off is absolutely horrendous on Newcastle's part. Should be 2 absolute maximum by now I think. Just reeks of poor organisation.

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2 hours ago, Toony said:

Absolutely nothing going forward either, Atsu was good but Gayle won't do anything in this league. Shelvey runs the team and losing him will be massive.

These next three games are ones we could be getting points from too, let's see if we can get any bodies in this next week or so.

Gayle was pulling out today in my opinion. Playing frightened to get injured.

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1 hour ago, Dan said:

To need 5 players after the season kicks off is absolutely horrendous on Newcastle's part. Should be 2 absolute maximum by now I think. Just reeks of poor organisation.

I think we only need 2.

I don't buy into the idea that we need any new defenders for this season. In the future yes. Now, no.

Guillem Ballague says Joselu is joining for £5m

We need an attacking centre mid on top of that and I would say are good to go til January.

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Apart from Barton being a big mouth imbecile...  Both Shelvey and Barton have various things in common on the pitch.

In saying this...  I personally thought the sending off was harsh.  There was some serious play-acting going in in the game.  Like I said on Friday...  La Liga has started a week early. :ph34r:

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15 minutes ago, SirBalon said:

Apart from Barton being a big mouth imbecile...  Both Shelvey and Barton have various things in common on the pitch.

In saying this...  I personally thought the sending off was harsh.  There was some serious play-acting going in in the game.  Like I said on Friday...  La Liga has started a week early. :ph34r:

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8 hours ago, HoneyNUFC said:

I think we only need 2.

I don't buy into the idea that we need any new defenders for this season. In the future yes. Now, no.

Guillem Ballague says Joselu is joining for £5m

We need an attacking centre mid on top of that and I would say are good to go til January.

I'm not convinced Joselu is the answer either.

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all kick-offs 15.00 unless stated

Saturday 19th August, 2017
Bournemouth vs Watford
Burnley vs West Brom
Leicester vs Brighton
Liverpool vs Crystal Palace
Southampton vs West Ham
Stoke vs Arsenal, 17.30
Swansea vs Man Utd, 12.30

Sunday 20th August, 2017
Huddersfield vs Newcastle, 13.30
Tottenham vs Chelsea, 16.00

Monday 21st August, 2017
Man City vs Everton 20.00

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Well it takes a lot for us not to win at Anfield but playing Luka at center back, still having Hennessey in goal, playing Townsend as a full back, and still having to rely on woe such and Chung-Yong Lee and Bakary Sako to replace Wilfried Zaha will probably do it. 3-0 Liverpool. 

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28 minutes ago, Aaroncpfc said:

Well it takes a lot for us not to win at Anfield but playing Luka at center back, still having Hennessey in goal, playing Townsend as a full back, and still having to rely on woe such and Chung-Yong Lee and Bakary Sako to replace Wilfried Zaha will probably do it. 3-0 Liverpool. 

We've got Sturridge, Clyne, Lallana & Coutinho all missing and no doubt Klopp will rest a few with the CL qualifier a few days later in mind, so we are going into this seriously under strength. 

Wouldnt surprise me at all if you at least got a point. 

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Wouldn't surprise me if we got something at City because they've always seemed to struggle against us but I'm not expecting anything unless we're absolutely amazing against Split tonight and finally look like a proper team. 

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We usually bounce back from a bad performance/defeat, but we will find ourselves in deep water on Sunday. With injuries suspensions, Conte will struggle to create a starting 11.

I think we will go with:

Azpi -Christensen-Rudiger

Moses-Luiz-Kante-Alonso

Willian-Morata-Pedro(if fit)

The backline is shaky, not in quality but they never played before together. 

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Hope Pep plays a proper formation for this instead of the strange player selections he made last week, good to see Gundogan playing again and Mendy should be fit also

 

Ederson

Walker - Kompany - Stones - Danilo

Sterling - Bernardo - De Bruyne - Silva - Sane

Jesus

BENCH:-Bravo, Mendy, Gundogan, Nasri, Roberts, Fernadinho, Aguero

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Can't see anything but a draw or loss for us at home on this one. Too much will be riding on the midweek game for Klopp to put a strong squad out. I'd even go so far as to say we might actually lose this game.

Does anyone know why Robertson hasn't started yet?

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23 minutes ago, Mel81x said:

Can't see anything but a draw or loss for us at home on this one. Too much will be riding on the midweek game for Klopp to put a strong squad out. I'd even go so far as to say we might actually lose this game.

Does anyone know why Robertson hasn't started yet?

Yes, Klopp says he's not adapted to the system yet, as embarrassing as that is. Apparently he's so far behind he's not even been deemed ready for a place in any of the match day squads. 

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1 hour ago, LFCMadLad said:

Yes, Klopp says he's not adapted to the system yet, as embarrassing as that is. Apparently he's so far behind he's not even been deemed ready for a place in any of the match day squads. 

Surely can't be worse than Moreno?

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12 minutes ago, Mel81x said:

Surely can't be worse than Moreno?

Well you'd think that after 4 transfer windows Klopp and his recruitment team would have identified a LB that could have come and slotted straight in. Last season Moreno wasn't deemed good enough, so much so that a midfielder took the position yet here we are the season after with a new LB that can't even make the squad and Moreno re-instated. 

As I said, it's embarrassing.

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