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Pep probably regrets signing an extension.

 

Way more money when he's sacked!

 

Shite flags.

 

VAR is wrecking football

 

Gordon and lsak taking turns in Salibas arse .....

 

Schlupp is a good signing for Celtic

 

That should be that now.

 

I was watching an interview with a guy who sat on the Celtic board with McCann & Keane in the 90s. Says in 1998 they were strongly considering buying Wimbledon and basically shutting the club down moving 'it' to glasgow & calling it Celtic. No rules against it at the time, except maybe the laws of karma. Alternate football dimensions. Probably one where Celtic have won a few champions leagues by now.

 

He'll certainly fill a hole til Tierney arrives

In broader terms tho our reliance on the English market right now is complete dysfunction. Our scouting system seems to be 'guys Rodgers remembers playing against in the most overpriced market on earth..... plus the odd european guy an agent the board is pally with recommends'

 

He has a mixed record at Liverpool. Coutinho and Firmino were huge acquisitions from abroad..... Sturridge was domestically sourced and inspired.

Mignolet was average to good.

Benteke, Ballotelli and that fucking full back Castillo or whatever his name was were some hot dirge as was that lad Lazar Markovic.

 

Makes no sense.

What made far more sense was shipping the entire affair to Dublin.

That didn't happen either.

You look at an outfit like Crystal Palace and you wonder why Wimbledon ever went burst.

Just one too many London clubs I suppose.

 

I'm guessing by this point Liverpool have a mission control team of spotty data nerds supporting a global scouting network who collab to produce a list of targets that Slot has some limited role in choosing between/rubber stamping. Like a proper, professionally run outfit. Celtic still operating on a manager as God model like it's 1997. 'Who should we try and sign, O' Gaffer?' Which kinda worked when you appoint a guy like Ange who knew 5 or 6 quality guys from bargain store leagues but on Celtic's budget shopping in england is like taking your giro money to waitrose: you're gonna end up hungry

 

I'm not sure which is better. Like Clough said, benevolent dictatorship remains the best form of government ever.

 

Makes no sense for Wimbledon! They cease to exist

It was just Celtic buying their English league place. Basically we murder them and steal their house.

Pretty hard to justify but apparently an idea they looked into seriously

 

Feel sorry for Postecoglu. Genuine attacking-football guy who is hopelessly under resourced at a club with no real philosophy.

His two best defensive players have been injured (Van Der Ven and the keeper) and his back up striker is also crocked.

Liverpool Vs Newcastle it is. Should be a really really good final. Both attacking-minded.

 

Womens football. Nobody gives a shit.

 

That 30-1 ratio is probably suppressed by the fact that the two million people who gave a shit were all watching it live elsewhere

 

I'm excited for Bayern on Wednesday. Obviously they're rightful favourites but I think we might be able to put the wind up them. We're 7 unbeaten at home in Europe and in the last defeat vs lazio we scored a harshly disallowed winner in the 89th only to lose a breakaway. We had yang & palma on the wings that night, Jota & Kuhn this week. One of those 7 games was a win over Feyenoord who beat Bayern 3-0 in rotterdam recently. Bayern probably win but the bookies have us 6 or 7/1 to scrape a win which I think is looonng (cue 5-0 defeat).

 

Yep. Plus 60k at the stadium. There were more women at Anfield than people watching the ladies game online,TV, etc .

Then there's this:

https://youtube.com/shorts/2d0c1ZkwTZU?si=WkXFO7-9s3b5YUlm

 

Best case scenario is some sort of home draw followed by some sort of asteroid destroys southern Germany soon after.

 

Lol. Nothing's impossible

Well except Celtic winning in Munich

 

I expect it to be a good final for you, but not for us. In order for us to win, you have to have an off-day and we need to be 100%. Liverpool are better than us right now. If the game were at St James, I'd give us a good chance (I'd have preferred yous in the semi over the final) but we couldn't turn up to beat a fucking terrible Man U side in 2023, so the likelihood of us doing this is much, much less than the 2-1 I've seen it's quoted at.

I hope I'm wrong, obvs.

MTF

 

Little known fact: when LFC played NUFC in the 74 cup final, both clubs had won precisely the same number of major honours. We were only five years past winning the UEFA/Fairs Cup. It was a meeting of equals, at least until the game started. Toshack and Keegan destroyed us, and since then...

This will be our sixth major cup final since then. If you add the twice we should have won the PL (96 & 97), this is the eighth chance to win a major honour since 1969. We have literally bottled every single one of them so far. The failure to win the league in 96 was unbelievable, really. Aye Taggart and his mob went on a ridiculous half season run, but we should have still had enough. I was at Wembley in 98 & 99 when the last fumes of Keegan's side rolled over for Arsenal and Man U. We were unlucky to run into a double and treble winning side, but we barely fired a shot in anger in either game.

The worst one was 23. We absolutely should have beaten that shit Man U side. We had better players all over the park. We played them in the league three weeks later and we won 2-0 in a game we should have scored seven. We've beaten them in all but one game since. They're shit. But we bottled it, again. Never turned up.

I don't believe in 'curses' but I do think that failure is now ingrained into the very foundations of NUFC. It's expected. Sometimes it's a close call failure - cup finals, ridiculous 4-3 losses in key games etc - but it's failure every time. I also honestly believe that one trophy, just one, will transform NUFC back into what they once were. If we can win one, we'll win plenty after.

I hope I'm wrong, but I expect the same again in March. Again we face an elite side. We've beaten 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the PL to get this far - a great run - but now we have to beat the Arsenal 98/Man U 99 of the day. It will take a miracle to do it. Just one fucking trophy ...

MTF

 

Klopp was the same. First cup trophy he eventually won was the biggest one. Eventually the dam breaks. Liverpool got a points total in 2019 that wins the EPL 24 seasons out of 26. Something daft like that.

I don't believe in curses either but I do believe in odds,form, repetition etc. You play the numbers game and just hope that when the time comes to fuck that your weeny is the hardest.

I'd gladly hand NUFC the cup now but it doesn't work that way. I can only say that if NUFC win that my only concern thereafter is that it doesn't affect the run in.

Liverpool, to keep the "form" going, will likely need to beat Newcastle. That's just how it works.

 

If you could pick at the time between England winning the Euro vs Newcastle winning the league what would you choose?

 

That's not even a choice. I'd pick NUFC winning the Conference League over Ingerland winning the World Cup.

MTF

 

How aboot Newcastle winning the Champions League vs the cure for cancer?

 

Not sure... which cancer are we taking about here?

MTF

 

Man City

 

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