Premier League 2019–?

[shelfboy68]

Imagine if we actually showed ambition in summer 2017. That's what really hurts. The roles could easily be reversed right now.

This is not something that we will ever experience but yes another opportunity lost.

 

[shelfboy68]

If that had been us we'd have been loving it. Normal behavior is out the window, common sense left the building ages ago, if 500,000 people can descend on Dorset, with a large swathe of them ending up clogging Bournemouth's beaches, then you have to accept this will happen.

Might be an age thing, but I've always been treated very well by Scousers on my travels there over the decades, and even in Madrid last year the ones I ran into were very decent. New fans, the younger generation, are wanky, but that goes for most clubs sadly.
They deserved it and I have a lot of time for Klopp.
I cannot believe we lost our bottle when it came to Pochettino though. On June 2nd we should've been giving that man everything he wanted, should've been doing it for the year prior. Instead we let it rot. Until last season, we were better than them. It was ours to lose.

And lose we did, the one thing the club is consistent about.

 

[Spartan Spurs]

I don't care about Liverpool's fans.

What it comes down to is this: their board had a plan.
They brought in Klopp.
Backed him with strategic buys.
Those players listened & believed in Klopp & he essentially took them to the promised land.

Terrific style of play & totally outclassed everyone else on the field.
Won the league with multiple games still to be played.

Well done.

 

[spursfan77]

I hope they celebrate so hard tonight they riot and burn anfield down like the fucking retards they are so we can deduct points and ban them from the league.

Also, coronavirus outbreak waiting to happen. Dumbasses. God i detest that club and their fucking delusional fans.

They’ll be the first to complain when there’s a spike there. Won’t be their fault obviously...

 

[spursfan77]

If that had been us we'd have been loving it. Normal behavior is out the window, common sense left the building ages ago, if 500,000 people can descend on Dorset, with a large swathe of them ending up clogging Bournemouth's beaches, then you have to accept this will happen.

Might be an age thing, but I've always been treated very well by Scousers on my travels there over the decades, and even in Madrid last year the ones I ran into were very decent. New fans, the younger generation, are wanky, but that goes for most clubs sadly.
They deserved it and I have a lot of time for Klopp.
I cannot believe we lost our bottle when it came to Pochettino though. On June 2nd we should've been giving that man everything he wanted, should've been doing it for the year prior. Instead we let it rot. Until last season, we were better than them. It was ours to lose.

They were fine in Madrid but had they lost they wouldn’t of been. It’s the social media generation and all the ex pros and people on tv who are an utter pain in the arse. Plus lots of my mates are Liverpool fans because of our age and them being good when we were kids. Despite them probably only having watched Liverpool live a handful of times in those 30 years!

 

[Deleted member 27995]

Months of listening to people explain why this is so good ...

Pass.

 

[sparx100]

This game exemplifies the fact that Chelsea are the biggest fcking trolls in the league. Slippy G, Battle of the Bridge and now this. If they can’t have it no one can. Pathetic club.

Agreed they are a pathetic club but actually when you look at the team, it's a pretty useful outfit so beating city at home is not so ridiculous.

 

[sparx100]

Chelsea will finish third

But am I crazy for thinking we can finish above Leicester? They’re 10 points above us + have better goal difference but they’re not playing that good atm and are dropping a lot of points and we still have to play them.
They also have to play Everton away, Arsenal away (LOL I know), Sheffield United and United in the last game

Hopefully somehow they, United and Wolves drop points and we somehow win all games bar maybe 1

Yes you are crazy.

 

[sparx100]

We spent £60m each on two different players last summer, and that's without managing to bring in any significant income from sales. I don't think £70m is remotely out of the question once football's recovered from Covid.

That was also without really doing any transfer business for quite a while prior. Also we probably need a few of those 70m+ purchases just to be competitive for the top 4 again.

 

[teok]

Imagine if we actually showed ambition in summer 2017. That's what really hurts. The roles could easily be reversed right now.

I think that was a once in a generation opportunity unfortunately. The stars aligning with players + manager.

 

[Stamford]

They were fine in Madrid but had they lost they wouldn’t of been. It’s the social media generation and all the ex pros and people on tv who are an utter pain in the arse. Plus lots of my mates are Liverpool fans because of our age and them being good when we were kids. Despite them probably only having watched Liverpool live a handful of times in those 30 years!

Hated them in Madrid. The whole Liverpool and spurs fans getting on felt like a media narrative. The ones I met were twats especially the day after

 

[vAs]

So annoying watching them winning AND the league. Its even worse when you know we will never win a trophy... and we were in better shape as club just 2-3 years ago. Anyway, congrats to them...

 

[thelak]

Liverpool winning it rather than e.g. City goes to show that we can. January 2018 is when things changed - before that we were much the better team, in the CL while they struggled to make the EL, and had just destroyed them at Wembley. Since then our net spend has been £131.33M - theirs' has only been £63.46M. They haven't spent more than us, far from it. But they've bought smarter, prioritising the defensive positions and spending whatever it took to fill them as well as they could. And they've sold smarter to fund it, selling Coutinho at his peak for more than he was worth rather than us being unwilling to listen to offers until a player had started to decline. In addition they've had much fewer issues with fitness and injury, whether that's because of better staff or because of their transfer policy. There is absolutely nothing about Liverpool's success we're not capable of replicating.

ultimately with Liverpool it was funding Alison and VVD with Coutinho, the emergence of TAA and v smart buy of Robertson, on top of a world class front line and no real flops elsewhere running through walls for Klopp

key is Klopp got his no 1 signings not his 3rd choice because the owners didn’t want to pay an agents fee or salary demands were too high

this didn’t just happen in 2018 though. They had high net spend before that. We were building a stadium.We were put competed for Mane and Wijnaldum directly before that.

our squad hard that momentum in 16/17 but we never had a marquee player that didn’t quite fit to sell -we could have got good money for Eriksen, Dier, Toby, Rose at one point but they all seemed like key players and declined as did Dembele. The only major sale was Walker and the money was badly reinvested in Serge

our scouting for players has been abysmal too. Lots of relatively affordable emerging gems we passed up on or were never even close to at other PL teams like Wolves and Leicester that have now caught up to us

lots of compounding issues that have led to such a wide gulf

in my view it’s very hard for us with this team to close the gap now especially with the way Levy is running the club and with our lack of flair and creativity in the scouting / recruitment side

 

[yankspurs]

I think that was a once in a generation opportunity unfortunately. The stars aligning with players + manager.

Yep. Too bad it was the right players, right manager, wrong chairman, wrong owner and wrong time. Dear Leader wouldnt know an opportunity if it slapped him in the face. He doesnt have the fortitude to take a risk and do what it takes to win. Lewis doesnt have it either. We’ll never win with these 2 at the helm.

***Im so bitter ive reported about 20 tweets wanking off liverpool for abuse.

 

[noiseboy55]

Does any other club have so many grown men decorating their houses like an 8 year olds bedroom?

 

[Deleted member 27995]

People in here congratulating Liverpool?

 

[Gassin's finest]

Ugh, this is going to be insufferable, isn't it?

 

[spursfan77]

People in here congratulating Liverpool?

There was a tweet from the club even doing it ffs. The world is so soft nowadays. Completely unnecessary. They wouldn’t do the same thing.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

There was a tweet from the club even doing it ffs. The world is so soft nowadays. Completely unnecessary. They wouldn’t do the same thing.

I find it all pathetic.

Our own fans giving them props when their fan base is as it is ... Mugs.

 

[Spartan Spurs]

I find it all pathetic.

Our own fans giving them props when their fan base is as it is ... Mugs.

Why?

They've dominated the league.
They're solid defensively & are exciting going forward.
They're strong across the pitch having invested well & bringing through their young players.

If you're a fan of the game & the way it is played, I believe they should be applauded.