angelman

It's not important to AL if he plays....just being around Klopp is much more important.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/692246/Hull-City-Steve-Bruce-leaves-manager-England-job gone apparently

Presumably he still can. Arsenal haven't signed a forward have they?

I thought after South Africa we might have learned a lesson, but same old, same old. There have been so many false dawns, that in all honesty, while I hope BFS is going to be different, I fully expect the same old carp to be served up.

Well paid bench-warmer

1st January

I'm not sure Everton are going to be relegated.

WTF is Les up to the incompetent two hat.

Everton or Juve?? Hmm, not sure that the dugouts would swing it, and the Old Lady would take it for me.

FFS how many people is Klopp going to sign?

Liverpool spend a lorra lorra money with very little to show for it.

"Serb Dusan Tadic from Southampton FC is simply unaffordable for Schalke" - if they get €50m for Sane then I am sure Tadic would be affordable.

From the ever reliable Express: http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/691554/Liverpool-Schalke-join-race-Lazar-Markovic-transfer-news-gossip

Not quite. His first game was the 1-1 draw away to Liaoning with Shandong's goal scored by Montillo

Agree something should be done. Penalties would be ridiculous as there would be 15 a game, but I guess that that would soon drop. The other thing that it possibly could be brought under is "impeding the progression of an opponent" which is an indirect free kick. But save for some GK misdemeanours, refs seem reluctant to ever give indirect free kicks in the box.

Leo-arg, why do you think that the club are incapable of doing their job?

Didn't they bring in the 10 yard rule for speaking back to the ref? Was it ever used and is it still in existence?

Pogba apparently agree £220k a week after tax, so about £310k a week pre tax.

I believe JWP will be the leagues top scoring mid fielder next season.

Maybe, maybe not. I exchanged very pleasant PM with him this time last year. Maybe trying to be polite might elicit similar responses which might explain where he is coming from a bit and then you can make a judgement as to the veracity of what is posted. Now that is not to say that he is ITK, nor is it saying that he isn't. I sort of see it that it might happen, but then again, in football who the hell knows what is going to happen. People can be all set to move somewhere, and just as it is about to cross the line, things unexpectedly change. Therefore I just wait until things are announced by the club.

Life used to be so much better when they didn't do a table until 4 or 5 games in.

Well that's wrong for a start. Stoke were in for Cedric before Fonte told him to join us. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/stoke-city/11653958/Stoke-City-make-3.5m-bid-for-Sporting-Lisbon-defender-Cedric-Soares-and-eye-Yehven-Konoplyanka-deal.html http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/stoke-city-cedric-soares-pursuit-doomed-start/story-26724101-detail/story.html

True, but that can work both ways. Wasn't that always a concern with Shaw and that there were concerns that his body, post spurt, might not be a top athlete's one? (Plus obviously £30m helps make your mind up).

Aren't Marseille in financial trouble, or is it just an unwilling owner with no one wanting to buy the club? Is this a fire sale? Not bad fees for players who finished 13th in the league last season, with a mere half the number of points as PSG 48 vs 96!

The sad thing is though, Man U can afford it when Leeds couldn't. If I was his agent, got €25m for the signing on fee and, if you say 15-25% of earnings, then I would have one client and retire when he stopped being a cash cow.