he would have been much more Saul than Thiago for us.
Thiago Alc*ntara | Retires
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Never heard so much hype about a performance. The guy was playing against Lingard and Matic. Even the Norwich midfield ran the show against them.
We all know Utd are wank, but that was the Utd reserves out their! At least Fred and Mctomminy would have wiped that smile off his face!
We all know Utd are wank, but that was the Utd reserves out their! At least Fred and Mctomminy would have wiped that smile off his face!
It's natural that the media and pundits measure Liverpool against Manchester United, but they are doing so against the name of the club and it's history and not the actual team that we currently have.
Liverpool should be more concerned that for about 20 minutes after half time, the worst united side in living memory actually started causing them a few problems. People will scoff at this comment, but a more clinical team would likely have got that game back to 2-1 or even 2-2 during that spell. We put Rashford in a couple of times and he really should have made it 2-1 at least.
They are a brilliant team and are light years better than us, but this is a united side wo are utterly on the floor / beach and clearly just want the season to end. Liveropool's win wasn't some masterclass where they destroyed one of the world's greatest teams.
To put myself back on thread topic - Thiago is a cnut and someone should have booted him right up in the air for showboating.
Liverpool should be more concerned that for about 20 minutes after half time, the worst united side in living memory actually started causing them a few problems. People will scoff at this comment, but a more clinical team would likely have got that game back to 2-1 or even 2-2 during that spell. We put Rashford in a couple of times and he really should have made it 2-1 at least.
They are a brilliant team and are light years better than us, but this is a united side wo are utterly on the floor / beach and clearly just want the season to end. Liveropool's win wasn't some masterclass where they destroyed one of the world's greatest teams.
To put myself back on thread topic - Thiago is a cnut and someone should have booted him right up in the air for showboating.
You're right on this one.
Rashford should score though for 2-1 in what was our only vaguely decent 15 minutes of the match. I think your players actually took their foot off the gas at the start of the half because I saw Robertson and Henderson trying to gee the rest of them up after that Rashford chance. They could see you hadn't started well enough.
Lucky for you, this is the worst united side most of us have ever seen, so it didn't harm you.
You won't be so lucky at the weekend when you have to face... checks notes.... your bitter rivals Everton who always show up and give you a game at Anfield..... oh wait
Fred could look like Xavi with the amount of time and space Thiago was given. It was like a fuking training game for the guy.
I expect Klopp to go with his usual contemptuous selection against Everton and field all the second stringers for a casual 3-0 victory.
Going by that logic the game should've been out of reach for you at that point. It just doesn't work that way.
Agreed. Was the only one who really got a hold of possession and moved it with purpose.
My biggest annoyance in all this is that you lot had some fecking awful sides during your 30 years without a title and never once did you not give us a game. Only that 4-0 in 2003 springs to mind as probably our easiest victory and that's heavily caveated because you went down to 10 men really early on. So many times we'd have to fight tooth and nail for anything. Fast forward to the current jokers and they don't even give one of yours the mighty boot out of frustration at being so much worse than your lot.
Hannibal came on and did what none of them were brave enough to do. Had we spent the 90 minutes doing an Atletico on you and lost 1-0, that would have been so much better than what we actually did.
Also, Thiago is a cnut
you scored 4 goals from 5 shots on target. How should it have been out of reach for us at 2-1? It would have been out of reach for us because we're fecking awful and have a bunch of pathetic heartless twats in the team, but not based upon chances created at that point.
To be honest, the fact that a kid like that gets so much praise for coming on and committing three fouls before being told by the ref to use his head not get sent off with three minutes left kinda speaks volumes of how rudderless both club and fanbase is atm. Remember Keane's reaction to Ferguson's praise "covering every blade of grass" against juventus?
“Stuff like that almost insults me,” Keane said. “What am I supposed to do? Give up? Not cover every blade of grass? Not do my best for my teammates? Not do my best for my club?
“To be honest, I actually get offended when people throw quotes like that at me as if I’m supposed to be honoured by it.
“It’s like praising the postman for delivering your letters. He’s supposed to, isn’t he? That’s his job.
“My job is to try and win football matches for Man United."
Reckon he'd rather have been praised for his qualities besides putting in an effort.
Not sure what the obsession with insulting Thiago is on here. Immense player, remember Fergie has lined him up to join after he left. Only for Moyes to veto it and sign Fellani for £30m. Then some top reds tried to defend Fellani, despite him from being as far from a MUFC player as imaginable. Now we have a squad fall of them. The start of the rot that leads us right to where we are today. Stupid managerial appointments and then allowing said managers to make stupid signings.
Exactly. People were creaming themselves over a very good footballer who was put under about as much pressure as he would face playing in an under 10s game with his kids. I take that back, the kids would at least have chased him and tried to tackle him.
Liverpool were decent against us but dear god Stoke would have looked like league winners against us with the way we players. The first half was utterly abject.
With your five shots on target?
Can't remember DDG making many saves to be fair despite the outpouring of cum from the pundits.
Norwich hammered us the game before, we are shite and have given up.
Just thought it was weird that he suggested that a better team could've taken something from the game or would've tied the game up during the 10' in which we were not in complete control. We went into first gear after the 2-0 so you can't really look at games that way, is all I was trying to say.
Like to have seen how he fared against Keano and Scholes after a few of their chalenges.
He saw Keite get away with a red card offence and figured he was safe to clatter a few too. If you can't beat em, boot em. Him kicking that fake hard man Henderson was brilliant. He almost started crying.
That'a not a good retort when you lose 4-0.
Just pointing it out in the hysteria of the hammering of our out of form / on the beach reserve team the other night.
These threads tend to get very odd very fast.
Would take him back.
This guy is such a class act. I think he struggled last season having to play different roles in midfield with our CB injury issues but he's been incredible this season. He compliments Fabinho really well and we haven't had a player like him before under Klopp. His passing stats are ridiculous.
One of those was against City as well. It's only really his injury record that causes some issues. I doubt he'll be in the PL team of the season but he's not far off.
One of those was against City as well. It's only really his injury record that causes some issues. I doubt he'll be in the PL team of the season but he's not far off.
to be fair to the prick he’s been a joy to watch the past few games. it’s not like all the passes are 5 foot sideways anymore either.
He's peaked at the right time too
Ugh
Ugh
Hes dead to me.
Was exactly the type of player we need.
Was exactly the type of player we need.
To match Thiago and Fabinho we would need to get players like Neves, Tchouameni, Rice and Frankie and hope that they get gelled in quickly and start performing.
Thats roughly £200m
Tchouameni is supposedly going to Liverpool, Rice is out of reach money wise, Frenkie would be great and Neves will go to a CL team imo. We should go for Frenkie and Bellingham imo.
Started slowly but turned out to be another genius purchase for peanuts by the Scouse.
Its hard to know, I think it'll be between him or Bernardo beside KDB with Fabinho as the 6. And it truth its hard to seperate them.
I think Bernardo might get it based purely on goals and assists. He has 13 goals and 5 assists (8 and 3 in the PL) vs Thiago who has 2 goals and 3 assists (1 and 2 in the PL).
KDB and Fabinho are shoe ins.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see 10 Pool and City players with Son. Theres only really a case for Rudiger and Kane outside of that.
For me
-------------------Alisson---------------------
TAA-----Laporte------VVD---Cancelo
-------------------Fabinho---------------------
-----------KDB----------------Silva-----------
Salah------------Kane----------------Son (could easily be two Liverpool but Kane has more g&a than Mane or Jota.)
Red cafe might be the only place in the internet which doesn't rate Thaigo
Red cafe might be the only place in the internet which doesn't rate Thaigo
Our problem is that he is their c*nt and not our c*nt.
And the multi-million question is: Why is he their c*nt and not our c*nt?
Because we have idiots in the board. We could have had Thiago and Kroos in the midfield, instead we got trash. We could have a defense of Van Dijk and Varane managed by Klopp but instead well let's forget it.
And nah it isn't just him being a cnut, which he is, almost everyone associated with that shtihole club is, but forum also seems to hates him as a player, seems like the early 2008-2011 vibes, when people used to call Xavi and Iniesta side pass merchants
.Thats roughly £200m
Tchouameni is supposedly going to Liverpool, Rice is out of reach money wise, Frenkie would be great and Neves will go to a CL team imo. We should go for Frenkie and Bellingham imo.
I meant any 2 of these 4. Personally I would love us to get Tchouameni and Neves.
My kingdom for a Verratti/Modric/Thiago style conductor. 
feck off Moysey.
For some reason I had Dias down as the one having the better season between him and Laporte. Would you say Laporte has been better?
There are a few players who will miss out but have had very good seasons (Thiago being one of them). Kovacic was having a very good season and Thiago Silva has been very good as well for Chelsea. Matip's been excellent and Robertson is sadly up against Cancelo. I actually think De Gea has been very good as well.
It'll mostly be City and Liverpool players though.
Hannibal is our only hope of developing one internally. Otherwise we'll need a huge purchase, or genius scouting.My kingdom for a Verratti/Modric/Thiago style conductor.
Mad stat. That’s 93 passes per game, there. It’s exactly this sort of midfield robot passer we’re missing and I really want us to target. Forget these guys like Laimer, Phillips etc. we absolutely need a midfielder who can pass the football around like this.
If a player gets that much praise despite scoring almost nothing at all in modern football, you know he's fecking ace
Love watching him. Might be my favorite footballer in the world right now. So happy I can finally enjoy him performing well
Love watching him. Might be my favorite footballer in the world right now. So happy I can finally enjoy him performing well