PhilM

An Interpol watch list injury?

Didn't Evertony Gordon have it as his number plate on his G Wagen as well?

This was done last week. He was doing promo videos at Anfield the same time as Mo was.

Everybody talk about pop music!

No, but those two players specifically did turn out to be problematic. Benzema did obviously go on to win the Balon D'Or, so swings and roundabouts I suppose!

To be fair, both of those players were pretty troublesome, weren't they? Benzema blackmailed a teammate with a pornographic video.

*Ahem*

They're filming it at Anfield, not the docks.

Imagine if he did. I'd be so confused that I'd frown my eyebrows down into my beard.

Feels like an "I prefer..."

It wasn't intended to do us a disservice at all. We've been really good, but we're afforded the luxury of playing badly with a load of players looking shattered because we played really well earlier in the season AND because Arsenal didn't. Or did and didn't convert it into points. If they were three points behind us, we'd quite rightly be very nervous right now.

This is entirely subjective though. Just for example, if Tsimikas had played against Fulham, would he have engaged in that double act of bumbaclartery that Robbo did for their second goal? Because if not, we likely would have been at least a point better off. It's fine margins all over the shop. Slot has done brilliantly, but we definitely could have done better if we'd managed the squad better and played players who weren't blowing out of their a*** with nearly a quarter of the league season to go. We've done as well as we needed to, but we'd be having a different conversation if City or Arsenal had got their s*** together.

At least Real have Trent coming in to help tighten them up at the back.

Not sure that a strong league position is an argument for not strengthening. We're absolutely floundering on the pitch at the moment and we've seen the impetus that some new energy like Diaz, Gakpo, or those two players that Macca mentioned can have. It can be a pick me up to the players around them.

Although Burnley have been pretty incredible defensively this season.