It depends if we train or not - such a fine line…
Hope it helps Jürgen with our reinvention
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Gives us something to play for at least.
Most likely click bait, they the new Liverpool echo.
Just saw the official, that didnt age well.
No, can only fall as far as 14th and I’m not sure if that’s even possible with the other fixtures.
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Did I say that? No.
And I included the Champions League in that, we seriously needed some space to work with the team, by chance that has been handed to us, if we have to play two midweek fixtures further down the line I’m really not bothered if it gives us the opportunity to win the games.
If we continued like we did against Napoli I seriously doubt we would have won any of these three and we would have a further set of games after that until the World Cup break. Klopp’s been given a mini pre season with the players and little will have changed considering we were at home on the previous Saturday anyhow.
It’s worked perfectly and I’m not too bothered if we now have 3 midweeks free instead of 5, and to do what we did last year regardless is special.
That’s fair enough; it was that your earlier post made it look as though you had joined the increasing number of Liverpool fans who seem to think that only the league and Champions League matter.
And then they have the temerity to criticise supporters of some other clubs for being “entitled”.
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I’ve always enjoyed the FA Cup and I’m happy with the achievements of last season.
I can never see a season where we win cups and qualify for Europe as anything other than successful. I think the reaction by some was odd to claim it was only “ok”.
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Assume our Derby league cup game moves to that Wednesday.
Honestly can see Klopp putting a full reserve team out against Derby and even throw Pep in the dugout. Derby themselves basically have a squad full of teenagers + a semi retired player in Mcgoldrick.
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Idiot! If Todd’s reasoning is to give money to the lower leagues, just write them a cheque!
We have actual teams with long histories you dumb fuck, not franchises that hop to another city when it suits them
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To be fair, Kaka talks about the MLS all star game as one of his favorite career moments. There is no room for it, and currently little appetite, but the foreign players who have played in it in the US have typically spoke about it as a very cool experience.
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American sports need to introduce promotion/relegation.
See Todd, I can criticise your sports too.
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The MLS All Star game makes sense for MLS, which has tried to build profile by having past-it big names seed their teams. Gathering them in one place for a game just like the other US sports is a reasonable fit. But it is already being seen as problematic by MLS, for almost exactly the same reason as it being difficult for the EPL. Hockey, baseball, and basketball don’'t have other parallel or secondary competitions. As CONCACAF club competition grows in prestige (and it definitely is), scheduling is becoming more of a problem. Even US football has not been able to or willing to fit their all-star game into the season. English clubs can have up to three of those competitions, and fixture congestion is already a problem.
And then of course, there are the international breaks, which have no parallel in any US sports. Were the Dodgers to routinely have their ace reliever have to sit out two weeks in August because he came back knackered from the Dominican Republic’s qualifiers, he’d probably sing a different tune about taking a week out of the MLB schedule.
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Arsenal’s Europa league game has rather absurdly been rescheduled for the day after their league game against City in October, and so now that league game has to be rescheduled.
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There is no gap for it before so they have to re-arrange it. Happy for Man City to be dealt the same card as us.
I wonder if the premier league were more willing to allow this scenario precisely because it puts Liverpool and City in the same boat.
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The only possibly place would be to replace the community shield.
But there is no real point to it plus if a player got injured by a title rival imagine the reaction.
MLS have stuck to American traditions fair enough.