Look at this shit. I don’t get how he gets away with such blatant cheating.
https://x.com/dubs_lfc/status/2051773197423443995?s=61&t=VxX1vHU3NOwwNhlbyICG-g
https://x.com/arneysreds/status/2051765449709301840?s=61&t=VxX1vHU3NOwwNhlbyICG-g
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I do hope Bayern or PSG win it, they entertained the world last week and even if they grind out a 0-0 tomorrow that’s still better than tonight’s.
And I wouldn’t mind so much and some will site 2005 however they did this against Lisbon and Ath Madrid not Chelsea and Inter Milan who were two of the best sides at that time.
Juve and AC Milan were the two Italian teams we beat and both were of a much higher calibre than anyone Arsenal have faced in the knockouts
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I had to endure watching the 2018 final by myself in the Tollington Arms around the corner from the Emirates. Its an Arsenal pub and was the most convenient place to watch it.
Every single Madrid goal was celebrated by the entire pub. Salah coming off injured was laughed at. I wanted a hole to appear beneath me and swallow me up.
I for one hope they get smashed to pieces in the final.
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The route they’ve had to the final has been laughably easy. Would sacrifice my first born for us to get as lucky a draw next season.
Not sure why I thought it was Inter.
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I wouldn’t considering us currently.
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I see that everywhere, the Diaz-Kane-Oliseh trio is lauded as the currently best attacking force in Europe…
Remind me again, why did we let Diaz go last summer? 
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Gakpo’s new and improved contract wasn’t going to pay for itself!!
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Massive massive miscalculation. Whatever he asked for, he was worth it. Absolutely world class right now and improving. Should have instead sold Gakpo and use that money to up Diaz’ pay and use Rio as a sub for him.
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It didnt matter what he was asking for either, he was under contract so we didnt NEED to do anything.
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That’s even worse 
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We reportedly looked to swap him the season before so presumably it was part of a longer term plan?
Article here Lifted from the Daily Telegraph
Story by Dominic King
This is why Liverpool allowed Bayern Munich superstar Luis Diaz to leave
Nothing of what they saw came as a surprise. When two attacking tridents collided in Paris last week, everyone watching on Merseyside knew there would be talk about the headline act they once had.
How could there not be discussion about Luis Díaz? He is the football equivalent of a dodgem car, always going forward and ploughing through the bumps. For 3½ years, he did as much as anyone to keep Liverpool on the front foot, his fingerprints visible on an array of silverware.
When Liverpool were crowned champions 12 months ago, Mohamed Salah was all over the headlines, Virgil van Dijk’s leadership was lauded and recognition of Ryan Gravenberch’s development was enormous. But the one who kept doing it week after week was Díaz, a wiry figure of perpetual motion.
Why, then, was he allowed to join Bayern Munich? Look at what he did against Paris St-Germain at Parc des Princes during the Champions League semi-final first leg, when he crowned a fabulous performance with a goal that could have been hung in the Louvre: Harry Kane found him with a glorious pass, Díaz fired in his shot with beautiful brutality.
https://twitter.com/i/status/2049239925120205071
What a difference he would have made to Liverpool this season. The first time he trained with the squad after joining them from Porto in January 2022, there were disbelieving looks about his intensity levels.
It was commonly accepted that new arrivals under Jürgen Klopp would need a period of adjustment to take in new methods, but Díaz was like a sprinter in the Olympic 100 metres final, out of the blocks on the “b” of the bang, and hard-to-impress new colleagues were instantly raving.
“Lucho finds it easy to adapt to the needs of the team,” Lainoell Polo, Díaz’s former coach at Colombian team Barranquilla, told me when I visited the club in May 2022. “Aside from his incredible individual talent, he was able to strike up a good relationship with his team-mates.
“It explains why he has been able to adapt so quickly to Liverpool. It’s part of his personality – to get on with the players around him. His talent is clear for everyone to see. You must take into account his genetics, his biology. The fact he’s a natural athlete. On top of that, he has strong family values.”
Liverpool’s £27m profit on Díaz in line with FSG model
All this explains why he has been such an integral figure for Bayern Munich. The Díaz-Kane-Michael Olise frontline has scored 100 goals already and those within the club talk highly of how the 29-year-old has integrated into life in Bavaria, a man with traits that chime perfectly with the club.
Díaz is the third most expensive signing in Bayern’s history, after Kane and Lucas Hernández, at £67.5m but there are grounds to say they got him on the cheap. It is not quite like when Barcelona signed Javier Mascherano from Liverpool for £20m in 2010 but they certainly did not overpay.
Liverpool will counter that they did well on all counts financially. When they signed him from Porto, for £37.5m, they stole in ahead of Tottenham and Manchester United at the last minute – they had agreed potential add-ons of £12.5m but paid just over £3m.
The fact that they were able to clear almost £27m of profit was firmly in line with Fenway Sport Group’s business model. His wages on arriving from Porto were not excessive but he believed from an early stage that he could command significantly more.
Manchester City sniffed around signing him, Barcelona wanted to take him away in the summer after Klopp departed, but Liverpool were able to keep him for another 12 months. They made attempts to offer him a new deal but he had no interest in signing and was determined to leave.
‘No limit to how far Lucho can go’
That is why it was all so challenging last summer. Liverpool initially made it clear that they had a valuation of €100m (£86.6m) in mind for Díaz – they felt well within their rights to quote that, given Bruno Fernandes had been the subject of nine-figure interest from Saudi Arabia.
Díaz is a similar age to Fernandes and, like the Portuguese, was showing no signs of slowing down. But, with two years left on his contract, the decision was obvious: keep a restless player whose valuation was going to plummet or cash in and use the fee to replenish their squad.
As we know, they went with the former and Díaz became Liverpool’s third-biggest sale, after Philippe Coutinho and Luis Suárez. Never at any stage, though, did they think they were selling Bayern a player whose tank was starting to empty.
“There is no limit to how far Lucho can go,” Arturo Reyes, the coach who gave Díaz his first Colombia cap in 2018, told me that morning in Barranquilla. “When he plays out on the left and he is right on the chalk line, he has to improve his crossing with his left foot, he has to improve his finishing. He can still get better at those things, always.”
There was no question that he improved at Liverpool and, what was obvious from a spectacular night in Paris, is that he is still getting better. Vincent Kompany promised there will be more to come in the second leg – nobody, as they will tell you at Anfield, will embody that approach more than Díaz.
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This is the crucial bit of that article.
Liverpool made attempts to offer him a new deal but he had no interest in signing and was determined to leave.
He lived about 100 yards from me and I heard locally that his wife had not settled so that might have been a factor. It often is.
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I think it depends on when the club offered him the new deal. There was definitely reports that he was looking for a much higher wage than we were willing to pay because of his age.
Also, he was apparently willing to move to Man City the year before when a deal for Alvarez was being discussed between the clubs. But ever since he arrived there had been noises about moving to one of the big Spanish clubs.
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Slightly going around in circles her as we’ve mentioned the mistake of not replacing him. But to add to that, what he brought to the team on the ball and maybe even more importantly off the ball has been HUGELY underestimated. Gakpo + Rio can’t even hold the candle-holder to him, never mind a candle. We missed him big time when he was hurt by Partey in Klopp’s last season. He pulled us out of the fire in the CL semis away in his first season.
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That was easy
1-0 Paris
No love for PSG of course, but watching them bum Arsenal should be pretty funny.
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Bayern copying how we start games
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