Rotterdam…
Ask if they’ll take Arne back? 
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I’ve been told that Rotterdam is a nice place. All I have ever seen of it is a giant oil refinery, with a container port attached, connected by a traffic jam. Oh, I did stay at a hotel there once which one of my colleagues called the Rottendump.
Lots of the Netherlands is lovely, but I’ve never really been taken with Holland.
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Not interested at all to see the kind of football we have been served with in the last times. There is absolutely no sign that this game will be different from the previous ones, so I’ll swerve it as I’ve better things to do with my time. If that makes me a plastic fan, then so be it.
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You’ve been having the same daydreams, heh? 
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Yep! I just want a neat bow to be wrapped on this dog turd of a season so we can draw a line under it and move on, with renewed hope under a new manager.
If it is a long drawn out thing and Slot starts next season in the hot seat, my concern is he won’t get the reset he needs from fans, who will have all the ‘previous’ of the last twelve months or so. So the pressure will intensify, and any bad result or iffy display will be magnified … giving us an unpleasant few months and a sacking by Christmas.
Or he gets a reprieve and kicks on, challenging strongly for the biggest prizes next term. It would demonstrate that this season was an anomaly, due to lots of mitigating circumstances, and show that Slot’s bosses are in fact serious professionals who very much made the right call, even in the face of a lot of pressure to do otherwise.
I know which scenario looks more likely. Hence I’m hoping for a clean break very soon. I don’t want to see another season go by the wayside, when we can regroup and go again under a new man.
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Spent a week there once in one of those tall buildings in the city centre that some Irish lads were squatting. I can honestly say that it’s one of the dodgiest places I’ve ever been to. Much worse than Amsterdam.
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I can see a copy of the last four so a loss here and draw at home final day.
Might be not enough.
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Was probably the best we played in the Prem League, especially over 90 minutes
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Well, it’s Thursday afternoon, so time to get ready for Villa tomorrow. Shall we start with a few rondos?
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Here’s the details from Slot’s press conference:
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Ibrahima Konate is available, while Mohamed Salah has trained with the squad and “will be available for a few minutes” against Villa.
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Florian Wirtz has had a stomach infection and is on antibiotics so Slot does not yet know whether he will recover in time.
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Goalkeeper Alisson will be assessed on Friday to see “whether he is ready, or has to wait one more week” to return.
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On Alisson’s future and fans wanting clarity on whether to give him a “big send-off”: “Our fans need to support Alisson, no matter if it is his last game or if it was his first game - that is what they have always done. If he is in goal tomorrow or next week, our fans will support him. The same goes for next season.”
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Slot said Liverpool have “dropped far too many points in away games” this campaign and that’s “one of the reasons” why they have not yet qualified for the Champions League.
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On why he thinks their away form has been poor: “It has mainly happened while playing in Europe and in games Liverpool are usually able to win. The first challenge is to be fitter and more ready to play after Europe and I think we have progressed in that.”
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He added they have “many times” been “in a good place after 70, 80 minutes, but dropped points in the last phase of the game,” so that needs to improve next season.
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In response to whether he will be head coach of the Reds next term: “I don’t think I am deciding that alone, but I have every reason to believe I’m the Liverpool manager next season.”
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On long-term plans: “We know where we go on tour. Plans have been made and talks have been ongoing between the club and new players, and I am involved in that.”
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He said he has “the most respect” for his players because they have had a “difficult season, physically and mentally” but have “have been constantly available.”
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I hope he doesn’t actually think that.
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Hopefully as little as possible. He has already done enough damage as it stands.
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Assuming that the team are down in Birmingham already and it’s looking like we aren’t losing any further players prior to kick-off?
Wirtz missed the last match so not available again, yet 3 additional players available in Becker, Konate and Salah. Can only be seen as improvement just on the increase of numbers alone.
Villa look full strength, so if any player really wants it tomorrow, then it’s time to stand and be counted.
Gonna go with a team I would pick 
Becker
Gomez/Konate/VVD/Kerkez
Grab/Mac/Szoboszlai
Salah/Isak/Chiesa 
Salah is avaiable for a few minutes and you start him 
At home they recently lost against Spurs and Chelsa. We got this 
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A few minutes of the full 90, what’s the difference haha
Villa have probably been as woeful as Chelsea and Spurs and us recently. You have to remember they were comfortably 3rd and are now somehow behind us also a draw against Burnley hardly suggests a team in form. Evidently too much of an eye on the Europe I guess.
So like last week it’s two teams out of sorts.
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I heard…
The whole place is pickled
The people are pickled for sure..
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So is he going to be putting on lucky red underwear for tonight’s match?