Billy Talbot

Yeah, I’m a big fan of Bradley. Vaguely reminiscent of a young Gareth Bale.

A lot more relaxed at 2-0.

I’m on holiday in Tenerife. I watched some of the Bayern/Leverkusen game in the hotel bar with a few German Leverkusen fans. They were very disbelieving of my assertion that Xabi would be coming to Liverpool. But they said they’d be happy to take Klopp in exchange.

Beerfister?

Tbf I hope he’s right.

Yeah, I thought they should have had a pen.

Not really, but then we didn’t try to play an offside trap in their half either.

He’s good stuff

The romano thing would have more legs if I didn’t think he was a complete snake. like they all are. i think it’s come out because someone has talked to someone about it, who has suggested that it must become public before things can progress. Ie, a candidate who doesn’t want to discuss it, or appear to discuss it behind Klopp’s back.

He was interviewed on SSN earlier. What he was saying was, if he'd been backed properly over his tenure, then maybe he wouldn't be so exhausted now. It's a fair point to be honest.

Was one of my first thoughts. I’m struggling to think of positives.

Seeing as we don’t have a thread for this and I don’t think the klopp one is a good place for it… https://www.footballtransfers.com/us/transfer-news/uk-premier-league/2023/10/release-clause-xabi-alonso-jurgen-klopp-liverpool-us

I once had a chat with Peter Duncan and he had no idea what I meant when I asked him to "spare me the madness!". Like, he had no idea. I knew he'd be there. A mate of mine was in a play with him. I joked (not really!!!) with him how frustrated I was that I hadn't brought my Flash Gordon DVD with me for him to sign. It was like he wasn't even in it. What an actor. I didn't buy him a drink. His loss. I do look at that DVD when I see it though and think what it could have been.

Ffs

Made lovely noise that.

Did this happen too? I used to drink far too much.

I seem to remember I was pretty good at it. However, I was about 15 pints in, so reality might have been somewhat different. I don't remember him being that much better than us. We were miles better than his mates though. And to be fair, he had played 90 mins for Liverpool that day.

I played Three and In using a flattened Coke can with Robbie Fowler outside the Moat House at god knows what time in the morning once. Was one of those wake up in the morning and think, "did that really happen?" moments.

I’d gladly swap you for a bin bag.

Yeah, we’re not signing anyone.

TBF, one of our goals was a oggy and Diaz's finish was rather good.

I thought the point of xG was to show how likely, on average, goals would be scored from a certain position. As such, the notion that some players are better than others at finishing, or there's an R in the month or whatever is irrelevant. It's misused and misunderstood as being how likely a team was or is to score. That's not what it is. It's just a total, or a stat of a particular chance showing on average how many goals have been scored within the dataset used, from what are deemed by the algorithm as similar chances. It's more useful as a measure of how good teams or players are, or have been in a game at finishing than anything else.

Yeah, I had a good laugh at that. A few moments later when they showed the replay of them hitting the bar he said "they could have scored 2 or 3 there".

K9 treated like a dog.