A PICTURE of two Premier League footballers holding (legal) shisha pipes about six months ago pockets you £3,000. Especially when you play one tabloid newspaper off against another. So now you know.
In other news, Mario Balotelli — a player Brendan Rodgers wants out of Anfield — has been linked with a move back to Italy after comments emerging from Genoa. The comments in question suggest Sampdoria want the £16m striker on the cheap though…
“He’s lost his hunger,” Sampdoria president Massimo Ferrero said. “He’s earning too much. If he was only on bread and water, he’d be a champion again.
“I would take him — he’d be the real Balotelli again here. He wouldn’t have too much pressure here in Genoa.”
Balotelli, on £80,000 a week at Liverpool, might want a bit more than bread and water to be fair. Nice try, though.
Skills…
Even Gary Neville was bigging up Philippe Coutinho on live coverage of Liverpool’s match with Newcastle last night.
Neville told Sky Sports: “Sometimes when a player comes for £8 million you think there must be something wrong with him. Why would a club like Inter Milan let him [Coutinho] go for £8million, if he was the real deal?
“From Coutinho’s point of view, he’s getting to a lot higher level now. He looks like a £25-£30m player rather than an £8m player.”
We’re going to Wembley
SOS told by Met Police that Chiltern, Virgin and London Midland trains will have an alcohol ban from 5.30pm after the semi final this Sunday
— Spirit of Shankly (@spiritofshankly) April 14, 2015
More information for fans travelling to Wembley at the weekend here. Pubs-wise, Liverpool have been allocated boozers on the east side of Wembley, namely: The Torch, Crock of Gold, Moore Spice, Watkins Folly, The Crystal Club (Silverspoon), Blue Check Cafe, The Parish, First Class Sports Bar, The Wembley Tavern and Flyers Last Stand.
Liverpool to take action against fan who branded prayers ‘a disgrace’
The Liverpool Echo says the club will take action against Stephen Dodds who tweeted a picture of solicitors Asif Bodi and Abubakar Bhula worshipping during the half-time break when Liverpool played Blackburn Rovers at Anfield on March 8.
Ghana star was ‘childhood Liverpool fan’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gIZogfsorU
Ah, that old chestnut. Ghana star Andre Ayew admits that it would be an ‘honour’ to move to the Premier League — then revealed that he has been a Liverpool fan since he was a boy.
The 25-year-old Marseille forward has been linked with a string of clubs across Europe but he said: “All my life I have been a Liverpool fan. When I was young I was watching the Liverpool games.
“Steven Gerrard is my favourite player. It will not be easy to see him leave in the summer, but we all need a new challenge.”
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Haha, funny that.
I didn’t read the Sterling articles this week. I saw headlines and photo’s on Twitter and assumed they were from this week. The fact they’re old makes them even more irrelevant.
Wembley looks like it’s gonna be a right laugh, Jesus! Surprised it didn’t say no singing too. Said it all to me, no big flags but bands and instruments welcome. In truth though, I love moaning about how shit Wembley is (and it is, as a stadium, to be fair and I definitely don’t agree with having semi’s there ) but I friggin love a Wembley day out. I really hope it’s sunny.
Well, well, well. Here’s some interesting news:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/jurgen-klopp-asks-leave-borussia-dortmund#comments
I’ve no real desire to get rid of Brendan but we could all get around this fella couldn’t we? Good attacking play, check. Improves players, check. Signs young players, check. Used to working with a continental structure, check. Wins things, check.
10th in the league – check.
Multiple winner? ….check!
Like Hodgson? – check.
Don’t be daft Brownie. The Bundesliga’s a competitive league and Hodge never reached a CL final whilst having to sell his best players every season.
He certainly did have to sell his best players when at Xamax and Malmo. And he did great stuff with Switzerland, getting them to both the USA 94 and UK 96 after a 30 year tournament hiatus. He even took the Swiss to 3rd in the FIFA world rankings.
Yet I agree, he was crap at Liverpool.
See, my point is not that Klopp is inferior to Hodgson – I’d bet money he isn’t – rather it’s that you should be careful what you wish for. I know Klopp had a bunch of injuries to contend with this season, but so do most managers at one time or another. Didn’t we once have a run of more than 30 games when we couldn’t get Sturridge, Suarez and Gerrard on the pitch together, and another of even longer length when we couldn’t get Alonso, Gerrard and Torres on the same park? BVB still have a bloody good squad and by any criteria – injuries notwithstanding – they have dramatically underperformed this season. Don’t take my word for it, read what Klopp has had to say today.
I just find it somewhat ironic – and I’m not including you in this particularly – that some of the people on this site who criticize Rodgers the most and seem unprepared to cut him any slack given he’s had to do without his main striker all season, fall over themselves to makes excuses for Klopp’s underperformance at Dortmund. Funny that.
For the hard of understanding:
Klopp = good manager
Grass # always greener
Far away fields are always greener aren’t they!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d be behind that move all the way, who wouldn’t?
Brownie, it seems.
Yes, I’m the only person who doesn’t want Rodgers removed to make way for the German manager who wouldn’t look at us twice.
Good grief!
“wouldnt look at us twice” – you know this for a fact. If there is one thing FSG are good at is selling Liverpool. The project they could sell to Klopp would be very very enticing to him and he produces the style of football most LFC supporters would want to see.
Also the Hodgson comparator is asinine. Its so below like for like as to be laughable but hey you carry on.
And as said in the History podcast, most people wanted Hodgson in, though I do love the whole revisionism going on now with everyone clamouring to say they did’nt and that they always hated him.
“Also the Hodgson comparator is asinine”
You write than and then in the paragraph demonstrate that it isn’t.
Yes, most LFC fans were happy enough when Hodgson arrived, and for reasons not dissimilar to why many now would like Klopp. Hodgson’s record was one of working with clubs that weren’t always the dominant force in their respective countries – or in the case of Switzerland on the national stage – and getting them to punch well above their weight, including from time to time in Europe. Given we’re in an era when to win the EPL Liverpool have to out-perform 4 of the top seven richest clubs in the world, many thought a manager with that pedigree was well worth a punt. We are never going to be able to out-spend our rivals, so we need a manager capable of bridging that gap by getting an extra 10-15% from the players he has available.
I think it’s fair to say that both Klopp and Hodgson (at one point at least) fall into that category of manager
The fact Hodgson’s stint at LFC turned out to be disastrous should be giving people more pause for thought re Klopp than it seems is the case. That is all.
I think there’s more chance of Lord Lucan rolling up and getting the job.
BTW, am I the only person who finds it impossible to comment on the TAW Player shows? Seems to be a problem with the onClick in the pop-up. The ‘post’ button is non-clickable. I haven’t been able to try on anything other than my work laptop that is locked down to IE11, so it’s possibly fine in FireFox and Safari.
Hiya mate. The issue with the TAW player pages (on laptops and PC’s) can be improved by making the window full screen. That will stop the issue of not being able to place your cursor in the lower half of the box. It also enables a thin strip at the top of the post comment box to be active.
P.s you need to tell your work we’re not in 1995. Using IE? Even Microsoft are embarrassed of it. It’s a piece of shit. They’ll cease support for it soon. They’ve got a new browser for Windows 10 – part of the Project Spartan and they want to distance themselves from it. It’s easy to update the applications to run in Chrome. It has to be done so might as well do it now.
Thanks mate.
Yep, it’s a bizarre situation. I’ve come from a work environment where I had my TorrentStream client installed for all the Wiziwig stuff to one where I can’t even use FF. The security is nuts. Anyone would think the stuff we produce wasn’t shit.
:-)