Either pathetic and incompetent, or completely disingenuous acting in bad faith. Or both things.
This should be helpful to get a better informed idea of what will be the output required to win the league in 2025-2026. If Liverpool manage to deliver on the promise of the current squad, chances of winning the league increase dramatically if you reach a 9% of the league's total goals. You may even get the chance to win the title with just above 8%, but then you will most likely struggle to fend off MCFC or AFC.
This is in line with my earlier healthily optimistic estimate.
- Liverpool burnt their chance this window to bring in a new CB.
- Guéhi was ready to move, had his exit lined up, now stuck and upset.
- Palace kept him short-term but lost £35m and gained an unhappy captain.
- Glasner alone got exactly what he wanted: Guéhi stays, his authority grows, and he’s even being linked in Germany. He may leave a mess behind for others to clean up.
Forcing through Guéhi’s stay, killing Liverpool’s deal, and then entertaining links to Germany — all while leaving Palace with no fee and an unhappy captain — does paint Glasner as someone acting purely in his own interest. Hard not to read that as terrible character.
It looks to me like Glasner only wanted to leave himself, looking for any pretext to resign, then grounded Guehi and wrecked Liverpool's deal instead. Terrible character.
Now he may be off to Leverkusen leaving a mess behind him, which benefits neither Crystal Palace, nor Liverpool. Much less Marc Guehi. Only Glasner.
- Liverpool burnt their chance this window to bring in a new CB.
- Guéhi was ready to move, had his exit lined up, now stuck and upset.
- Palace kept him short-term but lost £35m and gained an unhappy captain.
- Glasner alone got exactly what he wanted: Guéhi stays, his authority grows, and he’s even being linked in Germany. He may leave a mess behind for others to clean up.
It looks to me like Glasner only wanted to leave himself, looking for any pretext to resign, then grounded Guehi and wrecked Liverpool's deal instead. Terrible character.
Now he may be off to Leverkusen leaving a mess behind him, which benefits neither Crystal Palace, nor Liverpool. Much less Marc Guehi. Only Glasner.
Marc Guehi is probably more unhappy than we are about his failed transfer, and rightly so. Imagine a professional player being treated like that and watching videos of Isak wearing Red the next day. He's a top professional, too good for Oliver Glasner.
Which probably means Guehi and Liverpool will only have to wait until January to reunite. He can still give us a boost towards the second half of the season, which is usually when we need that most.
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Full of it. I know the head-chopping monarchs of Saudi Arabia need journalists who can produce some face saving for them, but the truth is that NUFC managed the situation abysmally. Alexander Isak is not a slave, he doesn't have to tolerate the whims of irrational monarchs.
Don't use our hashtag for Saudi head choppers propaganda.
Not even a thank you for the first trophy in their history.
Head choppers. Misery guts.
@vruz It’s just a matter of time before we get him at a discounted price in January or free next year. He’ll get more game time staying with them. I’m disappointed and I’m sure he is too.
@telred17
Probably true. I'm just disgusted at those pretend businesspeople. Completely unserious, incompetent, and a total liability to engage with.
@vruz the really great teams don't think they will win, they know they will win
Think of Fergie time
Real Madrid in euro football
There's been a few teams in various sports in Ireland who have this too
I remember one of the players from the 84 team that beat Roma, talking about Joe Fans last line as they went out
Yeah they have good players
But you're better than them
@ColmDonoghue
Great teams know it's only a matter of how and when. So they prepare for the how and when.
Magic talk is runner-up talk.
@richardinsandy
Dunk says Craig Hope is being considered a surrogate spokesman for Newcastle. They keep trying to exonerate their management from the fact that they're still unable to sign the two strikers they need.
Meanwhile their stance towards LFC appears to to have softened somewhat, which may be a sign that they're preparing their own fans for the inevitable, making their club look like the wronged party, and making it look like the mess they made is all Isak's responsibilty.
@richardinsandy (which obviously makes it impossible for NUFC to sign very top strikers in arrangements convenient to them, from here on, with everybody watching and saying "This smear campaign could be against me the next time")
Opta, the leading football data analytics provider, confirmed that the ball was in play for just 40.8% of the match at St James Park, the lowest such figure in a Premier League fixture since February 2010.
Newcastle were really out to kick Redmen shins.
The ball was in play for just 43 minutes and 9 seconds—one of the lowest totals in recent memory. Only a Leeds vs. West Ham match had less (42m 12s) this season.
And for the people who were too quick to blame Liverpool for the low playtime numbers, the Times details how Liverpool are among the fastest teams at restarting play, averaging just 25.9 seconds per restart—well below the league average of 28.4 seconds
We should be having none of the counterfactual non-analysis based on vibes and feels.
@SkySports_Keith Fuck the gay-persecuting, journalist-killing, women-oppressing, dissenter head-chopping, monstrous and lawless monarchs of Saudi Arabia.
Eddie Howe, an honourable man, has confirmed that Isak did communicate to him his desire to leave his club two weeks before the end of the past season.
Maybe the abominable British sports press should stop smearing Alexander Isak on behalf of the head-chopping monarchs of Saudi Arabia.
It's a great start of the season so far, and Pep Lijnders keeps adding to it. 🤣
