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20 Sep 2026 20:13:02
Why all the negativity. Not sure what some on here were expecting at the beginning of a new season with a new manager in charge.
Some positives to build on (imo):
Undefeated so far in all competitions.
Team has shown character to come back and get a result when behind.
Isak is scoring goals again.
3 clean sheets in a row in league and defence looking more solid.
Team showing more energy.
Youth getting a chance again.
Slot, Hughes & Edwards gone.
Yes there are things to improve and AI needs time and at least 2 more transfer windows, but can see direction of tactics under AI, similar to when Klopp started.
Wirtz is main concern as is center of midfield. RB & RW need to be addressed too but AI finding temporary solutions.
Maybe time to try Wirtz at RW?
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20 Sep 2026 20:33:11
Take the points and get out of dodge for now.
Overall I'm happy with the points total we have and the fact the squad is happy and in relative good health.
At least we know that Iraola won't be in Ibiza for the next 3 weeks and will be actually working out how to improve the balance with the tools he has.
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20 Sep 2026 21:27:47
"Why all the negativity."
Cos it's what certain people do on here. They say we are so easy to play against yet B'mouth couldn't lay a glove on us overall and they same people say, "We have a porous defence" after the B'mouth game.
Last week, people almost quit on the team after the Fulham game and today being a marked improvement in a tough away game, winning with a clean sheet, the knives are still out.
Again for certain people, it's what they do.
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20 Sep 2026 22:22:12
Cheers Oli. I'm sorry if I disappoint you.
20 Sep 2026 19:32:05
City home Prem 11/10
Lask away UCL 14/10
Brentford away Prem 17/10
Villarreal home UCL 20/10
Brighton home prem 25/10
Chelsea home EFL cup 28/10
October's fixtures.
4/6 at home as well so less travelling meaning less tiredness I'd hope.
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20 Sep 2026 19:40:17
Tough run in prem league, probably the 3 in form teams in a row.
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20 Sep 2026 19:54:42
Great tests. Bring it on.
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20 Sep 2026 20:05:23
Win them all except Villarreal we draw.
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20 Sep 2026 21:29:58
Indeed, Lfcfan. You can either go hide behind the sofa with these opps.
Or you can stand tall, stick your chest out and welcome all the smoke with grit and desire to give your absolute best.
20 Sep 2026 17:59:23
So easy part of the season is over and we have 9 points out of 15
Next 7 epl games are
City (h)
Brentford (a)
Brighton (h)
Arsenal (h)
Palace (a)
United (h)
Everton (a)
We have a break and if we don't sort things in this break its long to be a long winter.
Make or break this international break.
Currently we are just somewhat pushing through. Good thing is with araujo and jacquet our defense looks pretty good. Ali and vvd seems back to their usual self
But boy that's about it for the good things. Porus midfield. Wayward attack.
To be honest am scared of Brentford and Brighton as those games are sandwiched between the CL nights.
3 weeks of training to get things right that's all we got and if not it could get very difficult.
Hopefully AI turns it around and win all 7!
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20 Sep 2026 18:04:53
How much actual training time with the first team players will Ai get in this extended international window though?
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20 Sep 2026 18:14:32
It was always gong to be a long winter, Iraola can't work miracles, and real work takes time.
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20 Sep 2026 18:17:51
"Make or break"? We have a new manager and look much better than last season already. The players are still adjusting to Iraola's tactics and intensity. Why is everyone so quick to hit the panic button on a new manager?
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20 Sep 2026 18:25:18
Doom mongering. Take the win and look forward to seeing our team develop further and succeed.
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{Ed666's Note - I can get behind this but won’t stop calling out players who can’t do the basics
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20 Sep 2026 18:30:22
None of those teams are ready for Jeremy Jacquet.
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20 Sep 2026 18:33:07
Easy part of the season 🤣
I'm with you elnino, it's crazy!
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20 Sep 2026 18:49:49
I don't think anyone is hitting the panic button on the manager.
I think a lot of us are genuinely concerned that he has not been given the right tools to implement his tactics properly.
Given time and the right profile of player, I have no doubt he will be successful.
Unfortunately we have signed players on huge transfer fees and given huge contracts to players, who at the MOMENT do not appear to suit his style and tactics.
It is very early doors and I really hope these players can adapt and adjust to what AI wants and needs.
Time will tell.
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{Ed666's Note - I think you’ll find there will be some high profile departures in the summer. At the very least urgency should be elementary.
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20 Sep 2026 19:11:35
Bournemouth haven't lost at home for a long time.
Win the game, clean sheet, no suspensions.
The team will continue to improve I'm not fussed about any of those opponents, I think we'll gub city.
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{Ed666's Note - I think the city game will be a fantastic barometer to where we are at. What does gub mean?
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20 Sep 2026 19:14:57
Totally agree Ed666.
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20 Sep 2026 19:35:42
Your fear has nothing to do with the rest of us, mate. Just saying.
Also, miss me with the whole "doom and gloom" nonsense esp. after we won a tougher at Bournemouth. Also, you say we had a "porous midfield". Yeah, so porous Bournemouth couldn't create a chance and couldn't lay a glove on us (bar once with ALi saving) all game.
"Easy part of the season"? Really, was it easy for Arsenal who should have gotten 7 put past them at Brighton? Not saying we will challenge, but no games are easy in the PL.
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20 Sep 2026 19:49:10
I agree about City being a barometer, Ed. Hopefully we will be bang up for it. No excuses not to be.
Personally, I don't think we look much better than last season. Where we do look better is in defence, where Jacquet looks a diamond in the making, and Araujo has added a bit of security at right back.
Wirtz continues to prove me right and I think even his die hard supporters are running out of excuses. I'll give him a rest and move on to Isak. I know he scored and that's what he gets paid to do, but Newcastle did well out of us when we signed him. I watch him and he doesn't look a 40 million pound player, let alone what we paid for him. Back to Wirtz (I know I said I'd give him a rest), I'm struggling to think of another player, pound for pound, who looks a bigger waste of money at this moment in time. He looks completely out of his depth in this league.
I await being labelled entitled, blah blah. I couldn't give a flying fish.
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{Ed666's Note - you’re entitled to your opinion mate. If you think Wirtz and Isak are duds then that’s your perogative. I think both are playing well below their level right now and they deserve pelters but I still think both will come good after IA has had some more time with them and most importantly we make a couple of signings in January
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20 Sep 2026 21:08:09
😁 sorry Ed666 :
Gub - to defeat someone utterly in a contest
👍.
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{Ed666's Note - thanks mate 👍
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20 Sep 2026 21:01:33
As the late, great Keegan said, Ed, I would love it, absolutely love it, if they both shut me up, mate. I don't take any pleasure from being a miserable, moaning git.
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{Ed666's Note - you speak your truth brother and let’s hope they can prove you wrong after the international break. 3 weeks with any prem football 🥲
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20 Sep 2026 21:39:01
Indeed, Ed666. I fully agree with you and the players like Isak and Wirtz really needing to step up and be leaders on the team esp. in attack.
And yeah, we get it. Wirtz is this. Isak is that. Getting a bit tedious and boring right now.
Diehard fans? Speak for yourself, mate. Not all diehard fans are anywhere near the same nor engage in the same things others do.
Our guys did the job today and won a tough game at B'mouth. We move on and get ready for City.
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{Ed666's Note - I have to say one thing that isak celebration with his thumb used to piss me off when he played for Newcastle I love it now 🤣
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20 Sep 2026 22:18:19
Team were dire today, good result but terrible performance. These happen in a season, but take reminders from last season when we started the season well results wise but everyone who knew football knew it wouldn't last.
This season our results have been worse against worse opposition. I'm with Rome on this I can't think of a worse player that we've bought pound for pound than Wirtz, the only others that have failed this badly like Cisse got major injuries.
20 Sep 2026 17:39:39
The team has far too many laid back players. Some don't have the character to become what's needed.
This team mainly as a whole is not performing to what andoni would demand. We're labouring results again.
What will be concerning is if these performances continue November, December time. That's when you know something's gone really wrong. If andoni can't get these players playing, no one can.
This "coach" Not manager was appointed by dumb and dumber to be a yes man and get a tune out of a very sus squad.
By sus, I mean players being found out now with no one else to hide behind.
I was correct on Gravenberch too. Andoni doesn't rate him and who'd blame him.
No point mentioning the obvious. Ok intrigued how he can get a lot of these player's performing a lot better, quicker and sharper.
BTW, imagine if we had let gakpo go?!
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20 Sep 2026 17:53:08
Totally agree Ron. Munoz is the type we need. Humble yet hard working.
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20 Sep 2026 17:57:50
If there were an award for the most active poster of the month, you'd probably win it by a landslide. Nobody else even stood a chance.
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20 Sep 2026 18:03:10
Yes RF, you were right the whole time. Why doesn't the club listen to you more often?
I feel we are beginning to improve defensively. The structure looks much better compared to what it was against Newcastle. Yes the attack lacks spark right now, but once we get even better off the ball, we will improve on the ball too. I reckon most of the training time right now goes into pressing structures, as AI's pressing style is very complicated. I have no doubt we will get there. I will not make hasty judgements, and would rather wait and see how we are in December. We all knew AI will need time, and five matches in I have no reason to not let him have it. Oh also, we are still unbeaten, and there have been a couple of good performances (Athletico, Ipswich) too.
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20 Sep 2026 18:56:52
With these comments after a game we fought hard to win, you would think we lost.
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20 Sep 2026 18:57:14
Enjoy the result for a day at least.
Relish the fact that £100m Rayan didn't get a look in today versus our terrible left-back Kerkez.
Enjoy Isak scoring while running himself into the ground.
If you cannot do that, why bother watching at all?
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20 Sep 2026 19:17:06
We've had a handful of games Ron, these things take time.
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20 Sep 2026 19:28:06
Arsenal and Chelsea both got battered away this weekend, winning away from home is exceptionally hard these days. Shouldn't expect us to dominate Bournemouth away.
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20 Sep 2026 21:46:56
@Fifth for some on here, none of the standards you just described applies to us. We have people here giving the team pelters for a hard-fought win in a tough place.
Whereas prolly these same people, were the ones almost quiting on the team/season after the team pulled a stinker vs Fulham. We actually won and you would think we didn't if you didn't watch.
I mean apart from Chelsea and Arsenal, even City got their bells rung vs Sunderland at home but it seems people just enjoy being negative, imo.
20 Sep 2026 16:17:54
I know we won and its a shame to be negative but I can't hide my frustration at watching Wirtz this game. This experiment playing him at 10 can not carry on any longer.
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20 Sep 2026 16:26:13
Isak gets a pass for being lazy whilst he's scoring and getting in the right positions to score. unfortunately Wirtz has messed up our midfield and so far isn't proving that's worth it.
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20 Sep 2026 16:36:12
Isak covered the 5th most distance of Liverpool players and 4th most sprints. A
Hard to justify the lazy tag today in my opinion.
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20 Sep 2026 16:45:41
I don't judge players on 1 game JK23, Isak did well today, was getting into good positions, one time if he could have walked quickly out of the box he might have been onside from a Jacquet ball back in, but overall he was trying to press and make runs. I thought Wirtz looked good against Forest and was coming good but not so good against Ipswich and today (I didn't watch the Fulham game).
And he makes Szob's game less effective so it's one of them in the team now for me now if we want to win something this season and at the moment its Szob.
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{Ed666's Note - Was there two Isak’s on the pitch because the one I saw did none of what you suggest.
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20 Sep 2026 16:52:52
Josh king looks miles ahead of wirtz.
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20 Sep 2026 16:59:19
Warmachine that's fair enough. I think lazy is a bit ott though.
Isak today in 81 mins covered 10.1km and made 20 sprints.
Koumas on tues night in 85 mins covered 9.9km and made 21 sprints where his work rate got high accolades.
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20 Sep 2026 17:47:15
JK, maybe it is because when Koumas presses, he is within 10–20 meters of the player who has the ball or the one he is supposed to press, but when Isak presses, he is 80–90 meters away from the player he is supposed to press.
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20 Sep 2026 18:00:28
Mfahmee - yet Koumas failed to convert a chance that Isak would have buried.
I would much rather have a goal scorer who is learning his new role than a pressing machine that does not score.
Goals and clean sheets win matches, favouritism and ideals win nothing.
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{Ed666's Note - Or isak could just learn to press and score goals
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20 Sep 2026 18:20:45
Isak does most of his miles walking; counting the number of sprints means sfa when you're only covering 10 yards every time.
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20 Sep 2026 18:28:56
Yeah fair point. I would have taken 11 yard sprints over his goal today.
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20 Sep 2026 18:59:40
Isak scores, they complain about what he is not doing.
Isak does not score nor get into positions to score, they still complain.
Man can't win for losing. Or lose for winning.
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{Ed666's Note - He stands around doing nothing and then Wirtz gets the blame. His job is to make runs I don’t see him do that. His job is to make defenders life a nightmare with his movement I don’t see him do that. His job is to score goals and he’s doing that I suppose. There is nothing wrong with asking a British transfer record player to do his job. Haaland does all of the above very well.
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20 Sep 2026 19:10:11
That would put Isak in his own 18 yard box or behind Alison a lot of the times then if true.
I've told you 73 billion times before to stop over exaggerating 🤣.
In fairness I love Koumas energy. The fact Ai continues to pick Isak over him might mean Ai either disagrees or is the problem.
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20 Sep 2026 21:32:49
Seems like we are getting carried away about players pressing more so than scoring goals. Isak 4 goals in 5 PL games this season.
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{Ed666's Note - Ian rush scored millions of goals for Liverpool didn’t stop greats managers like Paisley, Fagan and Dalglish forcing him to press.
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20 Sep 2026 21:56:18
Ed666, let me take you up on your own argument. When Darwin was here, tons of fans did not care how much running, pressing, movement he did because all they cared about was his goal scoring ability which wasn't good. In fact, the line was always, "Darwin should be scoring goals because that is his job".
Now, we have Isak who I agree is not the hardworking; ppresser, physical animal who can run for days like Darwing could. However, Darwin wasn't the goalscorer Isak is. However, you and others on here are now saying the running, the pressing are sak's job now.
Whereas when Darwin was doing these same things, people pooped all over it because he was you know, "Not doing his job" which was scoring goals consistently.
I say all the above, to say that at the end of the day, a striker's job seems to differ depending on people's opnions, as none of that is defined.
You think Isak should be doing the stuff Darwin was good at (which I get) while others would prefer Isak to score goals first and do those things as a compliment.
My opinion is that a striker's job esp. in a pressing system is somewhere in-between.
Cos as much as Darwin was a monser in running, pressing etc., he simply could not score goals consistently.
Cheers, man.
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{Ed666's Note - I’m not expecting Isak to press like Darwin but I want Isak to hone his all round play to make the team better and to learn press is part of doing that. Every member of this squad needs to step up at the moment apart from maybe JJ.
20 Sep 2026 16:08:07
3pts - on the road against a good team, I'll take that.
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20 Sep 2026 18:01:36
Bournemouth have been horrible this season and their midweek exploits have them at mercy. Still win is a win. But we were largely pedestrian at best.
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20 Sep 2026 18:21:39
Doenst matter their form, they're physical, press like demons and a lot fitter than we are, it was always going to be a tough win.
20 Sep 2026 15:56:57
Jacquet really is some player. Fair play to Ron Keague who said he's going to be great before the season kicked off.
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20 Sep 2026 16:03:26
And we got to give some credit to the scouting and transfer team but yeah mostly Ron.
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20 Sep 2026 16:07:21
Ron did you see him before Liverpool?
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20 Sep 2026 16:10:12
Ron is the scout JK23.
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20 Sep 2026 16:11:59
Major upgrade on Konate. Complete opposite of Ibou.
Composed, Strong, Timing is bang on, he can pass, and he doesn't look like he's going to fall over when he's got the ball 😂.
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20 Sep 2026 16:18:22
Brilliant work by Richard Hughes.
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20 Sep 2026 16:37:24
Exactly Rome. Only really Chiesa who's been a flop from his dealings and the Jury is out on Mamadasvilli.
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20 Sep 2026 16:52:43
Big hairy, I think the jury is still out on Wirtz, Kerkez, Barcola to mention three. Meanwhile, Frimpong has been a flop so far.
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20 Sep 2026 17:58:22
Nigerred, the jury is still out on Wirtz, but the foreman of the jury is about to give his/her verdict.
Frimpong has already been sentenced. Kerkez is on remand and is tagged.
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20 Sep 2026 18:06:05
I presume that's irony from hairy. We've bought more duds over the last three years than we've bought good uns. The best two have been the loan Araujo (who we're led to believe was an Iraola pushed buy), and Jacquet. That's not a good hit ratio. The rest have either been found wanting completely, or look ill suited to us.
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20 Sep 2026 21:13:46
I watched him only a few times Barry, looked like he had a lot of quality, quick, physical, good passer.
He looked like he was going to be ideal for an Iraola team so once we got Andoni I was pretty sure he would do well.
Still early days but I'm pleased for the lad. Keep him fit and he should become a fixture in the team.
20 Sep 2026 14:48:30
Michael Oliver doing his best to disrupt us as always.
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20 Sep 2026 14:56:08
I think we are doing a pretty good job of that ourselves.
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20 Sep 2026 15:00:21
Oliver is about as good as we are.
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20 Sep 2026 16:00:34
Tough away game, as they played hard and pressed hard. We go home with 3 points and a clean sheet.
We fought to the end, didn't switch off and the two young lads got valuable minutes late on. Much more experience earned than coming on when we are 3-0 up.
Iraola swerves the 'manager going back to his old club' curse.
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20 Sep 2026 16:04:06
Don't care that Isak scored he needs to press more and cause more chaos whilst creating space.
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20 Sep 2026 16:10:52
Jk23 😂😂😂😂😂.
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20 Sep 2026 19:02:39
@Right, Oliver for the first time in a while, did a decent job.
{Ed666's Note - I can get behind this but won’t stop calling out players who can’t do the basics