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I'd rather he didn't, if he's a disruptive influence right now. Virgil seemed much better as captain, much more vocal and shouting out instructions to everyone.

"I hope his dad and his family are in tears..." Bloody hell, didn't phrase that very well did he... It was touching, but i'll admit to being surprised the club did those tributes at half time. I thought the point of having the "all saints day" was so that they didn't have to risk looking insensitive by doing tributes for one person and not another.

Are there any proven goalscorers at struggling championship clubs this year? The only striker I've noticed that I wanted us to sign from there was Gayle, but he won't be cheap by any means...and he only just signed for Newcastle anyway. Sam Gallagher has 9 goals for struggling Blackburn...just saying.

Hopefully not as much rotation as normally but some is needed, especially given the shift they put in tonight. Forster Cedric Yoshida VvD McQueen Romeu Hojberg Davis Tadic Rodriguez Long Redmond and Bertrand were both f*cked in the last 10 minutes today.

This and the JPT my only two.

Not that simple though is it. Who's going to be selling a goalscorer in january for anything that isn't extortionate? We don't pay huge fees that can't be recouped.

Indeed. I think the FA should bring in officials from the NFL and rugby authorities and completely overhaul the system to be honest. Compared to most other sports the decisions you get in football are horrifically bad.

I'd written Rodriguez off after the first half of the season as a lost cause, but that Bournemouth game and being the first choice up top has completely reinvigorated him. He's holding the ball up well too which was never really his thing - he got battered tonight though and got no protection at all from the ref. Definitely Rodriguez first choice, but still a big fan of Long - think he has a big part to play for us for a few more years at least.

I thought Kelvin still wrote them? Admittedly haven't bought a programme this season.

I don't see much difference between him and Redmond to be honest.

Where's your source on the £100-£150million from the Prem? Also, we have spent the £230million we've received. Since 2013 we've spent a net total of £1million. Which means we've spent more than we've brought in.

Wages on players and staff. Let's take 25 players and include the manager in that. Would you say it's reasonable to say their average wage is £40,000 a week? Possibly even a conservative estimate given the amount of contract extensions last summer. That £40,000 a week times by 25 equals to £52million right off the bat. Add bonuses on top of that plus the fact we have a hell of a lot more staff than 25! Our wage bill across the entire club is probably over £60million a year. Isn't that what we received in TV money last season? EDIT: In fact, after a quick check our wage bill for just players was £80million last year, our TV revenue £84million. £114million turnover, £80million on wage bill leaving £34million...and we've spent at least £32million every summer since we got promoted. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/25/premier-league-finances-club-by-club-breakdown-david-conn

Except your conclusion is based off of what you want to believe rather than the evidence at hand. If the club have a policy of not giving in to transfer requests unless they're formal, I'm very much happy with that. It's the reason Lallana was so sh*t on by the club when he left, he never put in a formal transfer request and instead threatened to refuse to play.

Probably, but not a formal one which means he forfeits his loyalty bonus.

I think he's suffering from a dip in form that is across the team. I keep banging on about it, but at the start of the season we were playing fast, one touch passing football through the middle of the pitch and he was a big part of it, getting forward quite regularly. We haven't really seen that since Leicester away, even good performances away to Arsenal and Bournemouth saw us playing a different style. Not really sure what's changed or why. As for the big crowd-pleasing tackles/weaker parts of game etc, I think that's nonsense. Diving in for those tackles WAS the weakest part of his game, and he rarely does it anymore. What he does fantastically is intercepts the ball and keeps the ball under pressure.

Yep, but people refuse to believe it.

Yeah, but putting in a formal request and it being in the headlines is clearly taking it a step further. If he's gone that far it seems like he's had enough of waiting around.

Actually Fonte played in every round except for the last one, I believe.

They won't have given up on the title considering they're second in the league and only 5 points behind with almost half the season left...

Finish higher than 12th and get to the league cup final would be a great season. For me results haven't been the problem - it's performances. We're playing such negative football, never mind compared to last season, but even compared to the start of this season. Remember when we were lamenting the lack of a goalscorer because we were creating 15-20+ chances a game? The last time I saw us play the quick, one touch passing football through the middle that led us to creating those chances was Leicester away. Even games we have won - including Arsenal in the league cup - we didn't play as well as we did earlier in the season.

It's infuriating isn't it. I'd love to earn even what League One players are earning.

Most Liverpool fans I know hate the fact that he's labelled dodgy on the ball because they actually really rate his passing skill.

He left before we properly challenged to be fair, and our promotions happened so quickly that no-one had time to properly judge our players abilities. (Although he did sell Chamberlain at the first opportunity, don't forget).

​DARREN POWELL.

I'm quite happy for him to continue his fine form and get let down by the rest of his team, he's been looking better and better in recent games, going past people with such ease.