Whatever you and the other clever ones who replied to my post think.
Amazing.But you can still go 'Lalala, can't hear you and lolz@dippers' if it makes you lot feel better, mind.
Incredibly frustrating for Liverpool fans...pipped by City by one point and pipped by Real by one goal. No quad this season, but they did give it a proper go.
That's a take I can understand even if I don't necessarily agree with it.Very few clubs win their domestic league and the CL at the same time. For me that is a basic requirement of a truly elite level manager, hence you're looking at:
A handful or two of managers who have done it once, and off the top of my head I can only think of Fergie, Pep and and Jose who've done it twice (I'm sure there are some pre-90s who I can't pluck out of the air sadly).
Pushing for it isn't enough. Football history outside of Liverpool FC won't remember it.
Thank you.Amazing.
It’s easy to almost win stuff. United were top of the table longer than Liverpool were this season. The pressures off when you’re chasing, no body expected them to chase down City. They came into 3 finals this season as the favourites and bottled each one with a shit performance and 0 goals. If you want to win trophies consistently you can’t keep pretending you’re the underdogIncredibly frustrating for Liverpool fans...pipped by City by one point and pipped by Real by one goal. No quad this season, but they did give it a proper go.
Serious question, why do you even care?Serious question, how old are you?
Whatever you and the other clever ones who replied to my post think.
It's been a great season for them by any standard and anyone who isn't blinded by tribal hate can see that. But you can still go 'Lalala, can't hear you and lolz@dippers' if it makes you lot feel better, mind.
'One of the best seasons I've ever seen', not the best. It's written in my original post isn't it? And no, I'm not a Liverpool fan in disguise. I just happen to support my club without the need of taking a dump on my club's rivals at every single turn, especially when mine is country miles away from their level.“the best season I’ve seen of any club”
Real just steamrolled to a league title and won the CL by eliminating PSG, Chelsea, City and Liverpool.
And you have the audacity to say that a team that neither won the league nor CL had the best season ever. Didn’t win a single game against top 4. Didn’t score in 3 finals (330 minutes). The route to the CL final was Porto, Atletico and Villarreal.
That is apparently your “best season ever by any club”. Pure and utter delusion.
Why are you even pretending to be a Leicester fans? The actual fans of that club have a far bigger claim in the “best season of any club” discussion than anything Liverpool managed to achieve this season.
So, 25ish then. Figures.Serious question, why do you even care?
'One of the best seasons I've ever seen', not the best. It's written in my original post isn't it? And no, I'm not a Liverpool fan in disguise. I just happen to support my club without the need of taking a dump on my club's rivals at every single turn, especially when mine is country miles away from their level.
5 years from now nobody but the Scousers will bleat on about ‘but we almost won the quadruple’.That's a take I can understand even if I don't necessarily agree with it.
For me, the standards set nowadays to win at least the double (PL/CL) in english league are downright absurd (in a good way) and don't allow any kind of slip-up or you're swiftly out of the race. Even if they didn't win everything, they've been up to the race until the very last minutes of every competition they were in. You might be right, but I personally don't think that history will dismiss what they've achieved this season even if they ultimately failed to win tonight what was on paper well within their reach.
His defensive lapses aren't as common as some make out. He gives us too much offensively for me to really care anyway.Trent is a accident waiting to happen, Real targeted him all night long.
I think we'll get another year out of Salah. Mane's gone imo and will be the big one who needs replacing.Rivalry and banter aside i don't think you were that far away; it's a very impressive squad. The lack of goals in three cup finals, two of which could have just as easily gone to Chelsea should be a concern and as I said in another thread, sometimes it seems that if you can hold strong after the inevitable early Liverpool onslaught good teams can have a chance at beating them.
Be interesting to see if Mane and Salah move along soon and who you replace them with.
I completely forgot we won the League Cup in 2009 .I suppose we'll see how history treats them but in 2009 Utd won the League and the League cup, lost the CL final and were knocked out on pens in the FA Cup semi final. Pretty damn close to a Quad ourselves you could argue.
That 2009 side never gets mentioned in lists of all time great sides or great seasons. So why should this Liverpool side, who ended up winning inferior trophies?
'One of the best seasons I've ever seen', not the best. It's written in my original post isn't it? And no, I'm not a Liverpool fan in disguise. I just happen to support my club without the need of taking a dump on my club's rivals at every single turn, especially when mine is country miles away from their level.
I completely forgot we won the League Cup in 2009 .
Man Utd have one less point vs the rest of the top 6 (Arsenal, Chelsea, City and Spurs) then Liverpool this season
There is no Salah funds. He is leaving for free next year. Mane would leave and unless Gnabry is coming other way, 30m isn't going to fetch a ready made replacement.This will be the 'interesting' thing with Klopp, does he keep the pair of them for another year and give it their best shot at winning the league / CL again, knowing deep down that even then they're normally second best still. Or does he start the rebuilding process with the Salah funds which could see them challenge again in 2 years time.
They've been exceptionally good/fortunate in the transfer market under Klopp, hopefully they make the wrong calls this time!
1 PL title & 1 CL triumph in 9 years mate.
Thought he did what he could on that. Diaz was always going to be the one taken off and Thiago wasn't 100% fit. Jota, Keita and Firmino were always going to be the ones brought on.Got his subs wrong today.
5 years from now nobody but the Scousers will bleat on about ‘but we almost won the quadruple’.
There are second bests who are remembered like Crujff’s Holland or Puskas’s Hungary, but in this day and age attention is too fleeting for Pool to leave a mark as best losers in the collective psyche of football fans.
Thought he did what he could on that. Diaz was always going to be the one taken off and Thiago wasn't 100% fit. Jota, Keita and Firmino were always going to be the ones brought on.
We were done by around 85 minutes though. We needed to score in the first half.
The one win was against a fellow English side and the two losses were against the same Spanish side, too.Very similar to our 2007 - 2012. 3 CL finals and 1 win. Ours was far superior domestically though.
To me it looked like Carvajal was handling Diaz fine and we clearly needed more numbers in the box. Jota can pop up with something. Probably right about Firmino for Thiago but Keita's pretty good normally when it comes to passing forward.Don’t agree. Diaz shouldn’t have came off. Firmino should have came on for Thiago.
See exactly?
That 2009 side was almost as close to the Quad as this Liverpool side and it's been pretty much completely forgotten about. And they actually won one of the big trophies.
So the idea a side that won the FA Cup and League Cup via penalties in both finals, has had one of the greatest ever seasons is madness.
The one win was against a fellow English side and the two losses were against the same Spanish side, too.
It wasn’t even as difficult as that. They played Benfica in the quarters. Inter in the last 16 maybe a little tougher than Porto.The route to the CL final was Porto, Atletico and Villarreal.