UNLESS you’ve been living under a rock these past few days, you’ll be well aware by now of some of the major stories doing the rounds. Britain has decided to leave the EU. England have been knocked out of the Euros in humiliating fashion by a nation with a population the size of Leicester. At long last, Roy Hodgson is now widely recognised as a national disgrace and has immediately resigned from a job he was never suitable for. The country is in full-on meltdown.
In and among all this mass hysteria, Liverpool have just signed a new player for £30million. And, yes, he will arrive from Southampton.
You can reel out all the same, boring jokes once again. The club that gave us Dejan Lovren, Adam Lallana and Nathaniel Clyne (Rickie Lambert, too, but let’s ignore that one). It’s a track record that is really not that bad when you look at it — although legitimate questions can be asked about how we go about identifying these talents earlier, before having to pay a premium price for them.
Welcome to Liverpool then, Sadio Mane.
Before anyone tries to tell you he’s already a flop before he’s even kicked a ball for the Reds, let’s be clear: Mane scored more goals in the Premier League than any Liverpool player last season. He may not be the most exciting signing in the world, but what he brings is blistering pace and end product, in abundance, from wide areas — something Liverpool lacked all of last season.
The price tag is a major concern for plenty of fans, it seems. There’s no avoiding it — a reported £34million (potentially rising to £36m according to the BBC) is a lot of money and makes Mane the second (and maybe later, the) most expensive Liverpool player of all time.
But with the new Premier League TV deal, and the cash it means is floating around clubs’ coffers, this is a hugely inflated transfer market. A transfer market in which the reigning Premier League champions are bidding £25m for Troy Deeney. Maybe £30m is the new £20m (although Manchester United were reportedly quoted a similar price when they enquired after Mane in January). Also, ask yourself how many other players are out there that are attainable and of a similar profile to Mane for a considerably cheaper price.
There aren’t too many I can think of.
None of this should really matter, though. What matters is that Jürgen Klopp who remember said he has “the first word and the last word” on players wants Mane and FSG have backed him in the transfer market.
That’s good enough for me, and maybe it should be good enough for you. Had we signed Mane under Brendan Rodgers, there might be more grounds for scepticism — but this isn’t Rodgers. This is Klopp. It’s a new era for Liverpool under a top-class manager with a track record of making good players better. Let’s trust his judgement.
Mane’s biggest weakness is arguably his inconsistency. Unplayable when at his best, but with a tendency to go through dry spells without influencing games. Despite scoring 15 goals last season (including four against the Reds), he went 19 Premier League appearances without finding the back of the net before ending the season in superb form. This is a legitimate concern, but if Mane was performing at his maximum level week in, week out, he’d most likely be at Bayern Munich by now, not at Southampton.
Indeed, I can’t help but think that if Mane had come from a foreign club — let’s say Schalke, for the sake of argument — the reaction among Liverpool fans to his arrival would be far more positive. Still only 24, there is plenty of time for Klopp to work with Mane, iron out his inconsistency and nurture his considerable potential to become an even better player. That’s how Klopp likes to operate.
It might feel underwhelming to sign Mane when many of us expected Mario Gotze to be arriving at Liverpool this summer but the truth is that Gotze has been totally abject for Germany at the Euros. He has been told, in no uncertain terms, that he is not a part of Carlo Ancelotti’s plans at Bayern Munich. And yet, he seems adamant he wants to stay. We must ask ourselves — do we really want a player who is content to sit on the bench every week on higher wages, rather than jumping at the chance to resurrect his career under Klopp?
Mane, in contrast, clearly wants to play for Liverpool — that’s the mentality Klopp will want all his signings to have. His numbers are impressive too: 21 goals and nine assists in 67 Premier League appearances for Southampton. That’s more or less one goal involvement every other game.
For Red Bull Salzburg, he tallied up an impressive 31 goals in 63 league appearances.
These are strong returns for a player who predominantly operates out wide. For Liverpool, it looks as if Mane will slot into a right midfield position, most likely taking Adam Lallana’s starting spot — although it is worth noting that Lallana will continue to be an important player for Klopp. Strong competition for places can only be healthy.
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Mane can be seen as an expensive but necessary missing piece in Klopp’s jigsaw. While Philippe Coutinho, Roberto Firmino and Lallana are all technically excellent, creative players, Mane will bring contrast and balance to Liverpool’s attack. His raw pace and strength, allied to willingness to break the lines with direct runs in behind opposition defences will add a whole new element to Liverpool’s forward line next season.
Also capable of playing centrally as well as out wide, Mane offers the versatility to slot into a variety of systems — something Klopp values highly.
This isn’t to say we should all be going out and getting Mane on the back of our shirts for next season (if you’re into that). It’s not the most exciting signing we’ve ever made but it’s certainly one I can get behind. The prospect of an attacking midfield trio of Coutinho, Firmino and Mane interchanging behind Daniel Sturridge is a tantalising one.
So often in recent transfer windows the club have spent too long ‘monitoring’ targets before failing to pay the asking price, then missing out. It is refreshing to see Klopp pinpoint a target and the owners paying up to get the deal done and dusted. Mane will now be able to take full part in pre-season under Klopp — benefiting from crucial preparation and instruction for the season ahead.
Following in the not so prestigious footsteps of compatriots Salif Diao and El-Hadji Diouf, Mane is already the best Senegalese player we’ve ever had, which is nice. Liverpool have also repeated their notorious trick of signing a player who always has the game of his life against them, so there’s that, too.
Are you convinced yet? I hope you are. Either way, he’s ours now, so we get right behind him. Sadio Mane is a Red.
I like the player but £36mil is A LOT of money for a player who never scored for over 3 months.
Crystal palace have just agreed a fee of
32 million with Marseille for the Belgian lad that plays up top for them,
Batshuyi or something,
Summer will see some crazy prices.
Can we please stop this? Either people moan because Liverpool are too stingy and won’t pay up, or people will moan because Liverpool pay too much.
As much as I hate the saying, “it is what it is”. It’s not your money, or my money, and it’s not going to affect ticket prices, so why should you care? It’s not your job to keep the books at Liverpool, and you shouldn’t worry about it unless the club was in financial trouble, which they aren’t.
And another thing, can we please judge a player on their performances, not on how much was paid for them? It’s not healthy. I fear the he doesn’t have 8 goals and 5 assists by October, there are some fans that will be on his back, and that’s not good for anyone.
Also, compare our forays into the £30mil+ market to the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, Utd.
We tend not to do too well.
It’s a different market now though due to the inflation created by the TV deal isn’t it,
Troy Deeney = 30 million ??
He’s decent an all but f*ck me,
In the transfer committee shows,
Pace was constantly referred to as something Liverpool needed,
Mane ticks that box.
It’s the value for money I’m talking about Derek.
We’ve spent over £30mil on Carrol, Benteke and now Mané.
Arsenal on Sanchez, Ozil and Xhaka.
Chelsea on Costa, Luiz, Willian, Hazzard
Utd on Bailly, Martial, Di Maria, Mata, Berbatov
No signing is guaranteed to work out but other clubs seems to have a better strike rate.
I don’t FSG is that stingy like some do I just don’t think our strike rate with big money signings had been great.
This summer I think we’re gonna see some silly money paid for players though due to the new tv deal.
“None of this should really matter, though. What matters is that Jürgen Klopp who remember said he has “the first word and the last word” on players wants Mane and FSG have backed him in the transfer market.”
His first words were “Leroy Sane” his second words were “Ousmane Dembele” and once again you’ve been forced to sign what is left once clubs with intentions of actually winning something have had their pick – FSG have not ‘backed him’ at all.
It’s unlikely that three separate managers all suffered from the same delusion.
The players you mention wanted to come to Liverpool did they? A fairly crucial part of any negotiation. If the owners deserve criticism they deserve criticism and that’s sound. But when it’s on the basis of basically joining the dots, what’s the point?
“The players you mention wanted to come to Liverpool did they?”
Why might they not want to come here?
I mean the owners bought the #1 ranked club in Europe and spent, what? Almost £350m in the last four years?
What could possibly be the problem?
Sadio Mane has better numbers than either of those players. They are both young yet highly rated prospect. I did miss where Klopp said he wanted them-was it on twitter?
Indeed, I can’t help but think that if Mane had come from a foreign club the reaction among Liverpool fans to his arrival would be far more positive >>> Like that Texieria chap for instance? people were falling off walls when we tried to sign him
And most sources are sticking to the 30m fee line at the moment, so I’m gonna stick with that for now.
Cant we just bung the Soton Chief Scout £3m a year to come and work for us? It would save us a Kings Ransom long term.
means we’d end up with Nathan Redmond 2 years ahead of schedule though.
The fall in the pound to the dollar means that this cost FSG $40m rather than what would have been $45m last week! :-P
See what happens – but we bought Firminio from Hoffenheim last year – who had finished 8th in the Bundesliga the year before.
Lets just get behind the team
The transfer would have been in GBP..money only flows out of the club to FSG as the club runs at a profit
it was a joke hence the :-P face
Feels like deja vu and its a transfer that follows FSG policy that has so far won us nothing and sees us cemented in the middle of the table.
To go from first choice striker in a smaller club to competing for a place in a slightly larger club whose fans have expectations of winning the league is a transition that experience tells us is difficult.
An underwhelming signing. Summer is panning out as expected.
Give it a break, FSG have provided the funds and it’s not there fault some signings haven’t worked out,
Can’t believe you’re questioning Klopps eye for a player and what he needs to make us stronger ??
If you were a Dortmund fan I’m sure you’d be posting similar stuff,
Who the fu*k is this Lewandoski nob ??
Etc.
The club runs at a profit, so its likely FSG have provided nothing, so you give it a break with your FSG brown nosing.
I cant believe you assume anything has changed and Klopp has had the final say.
You actually believe that Klopp doesn’t have the final say on transfers ?
Not buying that Rubbish.
Klopp ” I have always felt he could be a good signing for the club”
Hardly a ringing endorsement of a purchase is it?
The signing fits the mould of previous committee signings.
The owners are the same.
The transfer policy is the same.
The committee, appointed by the owners, is likely the same.
If you thought Klopp was going to change the way FSG run their franchise, you are, frankly, deluded.
This is business. LFC is a profit centre.
Why not post the whole quote? Because it doesn’t fit your ridiculous narrative. Love a good cry don’t you?
“Since I came here I have spoken to the staff a lot about him and have always felt he could be a very good signing for us. He has a lot of quality, works hard and has a very good goalscoring record.” …Klopp
Yep sounds like a “committee signing”.
Ok, it’s ridiculous to suggest we have never signed by committee, and even though Rodgers stated he had ” the final say” on signings he was telling pork pies when he later admitted signings were actually made by commitee. It’s also ridiculous to suggest a manager from Dortmund is going to completely change the way a global sports holding runs its franchise. That it has turned profitable. Ridiculous. Are you fucking serious?
The Mane signing makes a lot more sense in this squad than a more reputable, but less suitable, player like Goetze. The money is ridiculous, even with the Premier League windfall taken into consideration, but that’s done now. Mane fits the profile of what this team actually needed in order to improve. Hopefully Mane can hit the ground running and make us stop talking about the transfer fee too much.
On a positive note, this signing does ease the pressure on the likes of Ibe and Ojo and allow them to come through at a more appropriate pace, so theoretically this is a signing that could enhance the squad in both the short and the long term.
How do they expect us to get behind the team when they buy these uninspiring players. Why can’t they buy a player that will have us lining up to buy their shirts. The excitement i had for next season is already fading.
Name your players.
Couldn’t agree more mate, all I want is the chance to duff a chunk of dough on a great shirt, who cares about the betterment of the team.
I’m calling for Beck to come out of retirement, imagine the line to buy those shirts, both for wearing and burning.
Love the sarcasm but can’t help wondering who Beck is ?
Alt rock multi-instrumentalist and scientologist. He’d defo give us something different going forward.
Ha ha, but he’s a loser baby !!
I don’t know, maybe because you know your a supporter.
I despair of twats like this. Excitement is fading…. fucking hell
ITS CUNTING JUNE
I despair of the fucking owners.
You know full well there is every chance this is our marquee signing, possibly the last signing of the summer.
Seriously shroom,
You need to lighten up.
Seriously, you need to look at what has been spent in previous windows, before telling people what to seriously do.
Seriously.
I think we need to give up worrying about transfer fees now. The whole market is mental, and this season is set to be even more. At the end of the day, it’s not like it’s our money.
My simplistic view of transfer fee’s if this…if the club set out to buy a certain number of players to improve us in various positions, then they can pay what they want to get there, providing they don’t overpay on one which results in them not being able to afford another.
I also agree with the article above in that, this is Klopp, we are lucky to have him. He knows more about the football than we do, so lets just leave him to it, he’s going to win us the league you know!!
Compare his finishing with that of Sterling and he went for 50mil! This boy will score goals and he can head the ball (Raheem please note)
I agree with some folks on here, this is pathetic from LFC and FSG. We should have dug our heels in for a lower price on Mane, like Man City did with Sterling. And a player that would have us lining up to buy their shirts is what was needed, as Man Utd did when they acquired the likes of Di Maria, Depay and Falcao. Besides, the fact that Gotze doesn’t seem interested in moving to Anfield is a figment of people’s imagination.
Those United players you mention were absolute flops who cost huge money,
Getting 50 mill for Sterling was shrewd from Liverpool and I doubt very much that City got any knockdown on price,
Gotze obviously doesn’t seem interested in coming as Klopp has enquired about his old protege and nothing bloody happened,
Who really gives a toss about shirt sales as long as they perform on the pitch,
I doubt Origi sells many shirts but i would have him over Gotze all day.
But Dude, I want to buy an awesome shirt!
If we had bought him for 20 mil from Red Bull everyone would have been made up. You win some you lose some with transfer fees, the only important thing is spending sustainably and having the right team at the start of the season. A free for Matip and 4.7 for Karius put us well ahead of the ledger even before you consider the inflated prices going around this season.
exactly – we’ve got 4 lads in for around 40m quid and who cares how that’s split on each player.
I couldn’t care less. Transfer fees make absolutely no sense apart from whether you have money in the bank to spend. No point trying to reason with them, compare them, or argue about them.
But but that’s Mushroom’s marquee signing for the year!
What’s not to love? We’ve spent £30andwhatevermillion on goals and those goals are less than 1 in 3 in this league for Southampton. It’s a load of money on a player that sees us likely finish around where we just have rather than someone who’s gonna help us kick on and have us challenging. Sorry but it’s another mediocre, unambitious signing. We’ll never learn.
How about if we got him from the Dutch league? or the German league? Imagine the fume on twitter when we bought Aldo & Houghton from Oxford Utd!
I’d still be skeptical if we were signing him from another league based on his record and what we’re paying out for him. Also he wouldn’t be costing us anywhere near as much if we weren’t signing him from our own league as we’ve discovered year on year without ever looking like we’re gonna learn our lesson.
Goes without saying times have changed beyond recognition transfer wise since 1987. Kenny tried to repeat the ‘domestic players who played well against us last season’ trick in 2011. Only Henderson is still around (has Enrique retired yet?) The rest were all awful buys.
and John Barnes from Watford. Keegan -Scunthorpe and that Dalglish bloke was from Scotland!!!!!!!! Do they even play football their!!!!! oh the shame of it all.
I’m going to back Klopps judgement over any negative posters all the same Tom,
He’s nailed a keeper, pacy centre half and winger plus a punt on a young midfielder for 40 mill,
I’m sure Dortmund fans didn’t fancy a lot of his signings also,
Maybe we can all just give it a chance before lobbing the grenades,
Just a thought.
No, fair enough like. Just giving my opinion. In terms of style he suits Klopp so it’s not like Benteke last year when everyone knew he’d struggle to fit in. I honestly think he’ll be a decent Liverpool player like Lallana’s been decent who I like.
But alls I’m saying is spending on someone to come in and be a decent Liverpool player doesn’t get you to jump from 8th to 1st-2nd. It gets you to jump to – what do you reckon? – like, 5th-6th? Maybe even 4th? I couldn’t give two shits about these types of league finishes but that’s just me. That’s why from my perspective I think it’s unambitious and mediocre as the big summer signing.
Fair enough Tom and you’re entitled to your opinion of course, but (and I know it’s a big but) after Leicester winning it last year I’ve literally given up on the hope of “big names”
I think we are witnessing Klopp doing something similar to Rafa once he had a look at the Prem and identified areas we needed strengthening in,
New keeper & more pace at centre half, pace out wide and then hopefully a left back and maybe one more body to join the young Serb in centre mid ?
Look at Italy at these Euros,
Few would have there individual players over other leading nations players but they are a “Team” in every sense of the word,
Klopp builds teams and help players improve on the training ground, Gotze would have most everyone hysterical but in my eyes he’d be a disaster as he just isn’t what we need right now, he’s looked off the pace at the Euros which is understandable but do we really wanna wait 6 months till he finds his legs ???
Studge, big Div and Ings (plus Tekkers bless him if he stays)
Firmino, Lallanna, Couthino and now Mane !!
Not to shabby.
Name me a signing that has single-handedly jumped a team from 8th to 1st. The only one that I can think of that comes close is Suarez and players like him don’t come around very often, especially not with the necessary baggage that enabled a 7-8th placed team (with a big name admittedly) to buy him.
It is much more likely that we kick on up the table by covering the weak links in our squad and allowing Klopp the time to establish a strong team ethic and style of play like he did at Dortmund rather than relying on our fading name to attract a big name signings.
Fuck me he was from the Dutch league!!!!!!!!!!!!! These FSG clowns have no fucking idea. Who the fuck wants that name on a shirt? He’s Uruguayan not even a proper fucking South American.
Take your pick from Leicesters lot.
Speaking of the love of Mane and Money, the “Chant merchants” in the Kop should come up with a chant for him using the O’Jays “for the love of money” esp using the first verse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDilW50jf50
Mane Mane Mane…….. Mane…Mane Mane Mane…..Mane!!
‘Indeed, I can’t help but think that if Mane had come from a foreign club — let’s say Schalke, for the sake of argument — the reaction among Liverpool fans to his arrival would be far more positive.’
Nothing more needs to be said in terms of our fans’ reaction to the Mane signing. There is an outright obsession with ‘marquee’ names, as though they are the only way in which a club has ever achieved success.
I categorically do not want Gotze. He doesn’t want to join and therefore should not be pined after.
Mane is dynamite and absolutely savaged our defence and others last season. With a bit of refinement and the consistency that will likely come with age, we have done well here. As for the fee, anyone would think our fans were being asked to pay it out of their own pockets.
Agree with all this Dan.
Spot on mate with everything.
We’ve never really bought marquee signings or the finished product.
Our best players signed have tended to be on an upwards trajectory and then peaked while with us. I’m thinking Suarez, Torres etc.
I can’t think of anyone right now that we’ve bought while they were at their peak and continued that form with us.
I’m sure there must be 1 or 2.
Forget the money and just focus on the signing I say. Let’s not end up like Arsenal. You’ve got to splash the cash nowadays and I think £36 million is about par anyway.
I tend to see expensive signings by how much competition was there to justify the fee. I don’t recall Southampton beating suitors off with a stick so why pay so much for Mane? Surely any competent negotiator would have got him for less that the ridiculous £34m or whatever figure it was.
I am hoping that Klopp turns this guy into somebody who is envied by top clubs and the fee will seem a bargain.
That logic is flawed on so many levels. You sign the players you need at any given time, other clubs be damned.
I don’t remember Leicester fighting off the big boys for Kante, or West Ham for Payet. Anyway, how do we know who wanted else Mane?
It’s increasingly clear that signing players no one else wants is a policy that comes from the owners – as I said above, there’s no way three managers all suffer with the same brand of stupidity.
United wanted him in Jan which is why he got the hump and was dropped for a time afterwards ?
It’s utter Rubbish to say that the club only go after players nobody else wants,
Don’t rem a big scramble for Mahrez, Kante, Payet and they’ve done ok.
This deal reminds me a lot of when we bought John Barnes in 87. At the time lots of fans (me included) weren’t sure if he could fulfill his clear potential given his reputation for being a bit inconsistent – 65 goals in 233 league games didn’t shout out future superstar. And, like Mane, there wasn’t a long queue of clubs in for him. At just under a million smackers quite a few thought we’d overpaid.
Now I’m not saying he’s the next Digger, but there’s no doubt he has something about him that could make him special.
I’m sticking my neck out now saying that by the end of the season nobody will be talking about the fee or the fact that he came from Soton.
“This deal reminds me a lot of when we bought John Barnes in 87.”
It’s called availability bias – you remember the handful of times something worked and disregard all the times it didn’t.
For instance – recalling the 20 players Klopp developed into something noteworthy at Dortmund, using them as an excuse for behaviour we already know doesn’t work and disregarding the other 60 he signed for them who did nothing and that we’ve never heard of.
An easy way to lose a lot of money.
Fair comment. For every John Barnes there’s a Ryan Babbel. I’ll settle for a quicker version of Dirk Kuyt.
Putting all that aside, I think there’s something more to this lad than we’ve seen so far.
Only time will tell us though……
Carra is adamant that Mane’s fee is £30m, a hefty chunk of which will be recouped when Big Ben goes. If Ibe and Little Joe also go for decent fees I wouldn’t be surprised to see another big money purchase come in.
Mane’s about the age Aubameyang was when Klopp took him to BD and has similar pace and athleticism.
I have full faith in Klopp’s Red revolution. Gonna be an exciting season.
I was thinking the same thing Ron. Who knew about Aubameyang before he started tearing up the Bundesliga? Klopp has proven that he can spot and nurture raw talent time and time again. We’re back to the recurring theme here – Do you trust Klopp’s judgement and abilities? Given that it is why we all wanted him here in the first place, I don’t understand why we’re having mickey-fits over a signing that ticks another box that we all spent last season bitching about. Pace, power, tracking back, heading, and finishing – including from out wide. Klopp says he’s been watching him for 4 years now. Can we just give him a chance to play a few games before tossing him in the flops drawer?
As others have said it’s impossible to please some fans. Spend money to close the deal because the manager wants him seemingly to have him secured before the crucial pre-season and criticism follows that we’ve overspent. FFS.
It’s not our money. No one who posts here has any exact idea of how the finances of LFC are run in actuality. There are people making their living from doing that. What are you worried about? What you’re going to say to your mates who support other teams.?
Grow up. Strap on a pair. And get behind our new Red. Or Fuck off and support the nouveau riche, let’s do the galactico thing, clubs elsewhere in the premiership.
Nouveaux Riche? We are a fucking American Burger franchise! You think there is pride in being the football equivalent of Burger King??
And at the same time the 10th richest club on earth and you sound like a West Brom supporter.
Pride ?? Pride in being a Red??
Mush – your comments are regularly amusing and we’re all used to your occasional Bellendery. But Do One mate.
I don’t see how this is anything other than a good signing for us. Forget the money, think about the goals. As a team, to make us a lot more competitive, we need to score more, and concede less. 15 of each should do nicely. This guy should be half of those in the for column, and Karius and Matip, could get us half of the against column.
Add a little bit of improvement from everyone else, and suddenly everything looks quite rosy from where I am. There’s no telling how other teams will do of course, but frankly, I couldn’t care less.
Can’t wait for the new season, actually, I personally can’t wait for the friendlies to start.
I’ve been thinking and I’ve now become rather concerned. I found out Mane played for a club called Red Bull Salzburg, which is obviously worrying because I cannot remember a single top class player that has ever come from a team named after an energy drink.
Additionally, he has already made a big error regarding his squad number, which hardly bodes well for his decision making does it?
Finally, he mentioned watching Istanbul but I can’t remember hearing or seeing anything from him at the time. Kind of makes me think he didn’t really even watch.
Great, just great. Bloody committee and stuff!
I suppose those who are sceptical and underwhelmed should forget the games in which Mane vanished last season and be blindly optimistic, despite certain players still vanishing in games under Klopp last season.
Best see if Messi is available then, as no-one else would make you happy.
He hasn’t even pulled a shirt on yet, give him a break.
Give a £36m player a break???
What planet are you on?
And you are right, as a mid table club, we don’t sign players who make me happy. How many other mid table clubs have supporters who are “happy” about their transfer business??
Never forget, we are a mid table club. Bona Fide.
What world class player can you sign for £30-34million currently?
Given your insistence and oft repeated assertion that we’re a mid table club. Shouldn’t you be happy we’re spending that kind of money? Granted you’ve already written the guy off, which seems a bit ridiculous, but I think he deserves a chance. Don’t you ?
Who would you suggest we go for?
Who would I suggest we go for? I am a supporter not a fucking scout or committee member. My role is to buy merchandise, eat pies and moan.
My point is I am not excited by the signing. The price is irrelevant, its not my money.
I don’t expect to be excited, by our transfer business. I don’t expect marquee signings. I don’t expect anything from the team or manager.
I don’t expect anything, I just get excited, disappointed, or a mixture of the two. When the season starts. In real time. When the whistle blows.
Unlike the superfans who supported Rodgers “philosophy” and “style of play” and thought Benteke was “astute” and slated anyone who didn’t blindly optimistically delude themselves, I just wait and watch. Which is how to support in the mid table.
It would be nice to competing at the top with the best players in the market, but we aren’t, and are not likely going to be with our current owners and Franchise model.
But you never know….
PS. I am not a fucking pundit either
It does beg the question, if you’re so disillusioned, why not just take a break and come back when you’re looking forward to the football instead of being so pissed off at with everyone and everything associated with the club?
Tis a glorious thing this football team in Red.