chrisbonnie

He broke into the league of ireland team, shamrock rovers when he was only 16, keeping out ex northern Irish international Alan mannus in the process. In fairness to mannus, even he admitted he'd never seen a 16 year old goalkeeper as good in his life. We're blessed with Good keepers in Ireland, I'd imagine it's the gaelic background.

I heard he was on closer to 300k. Aren't all the utd players on extortionate wages

id have Rashford in a heartbeat. but not at half the wages he's on at Utd. Klopp would turn him into a superstar

I think it's his work ethic I love most. It's rear you get players to work like he does. In fairness, I don't think you could ever say any of our players lack effort.

if true, then im with you. but lets not forget we have no true idea how well, or unwell these negotiations are going at the minute. For all we know the club offered him X amount on Friday, and today he's probably talking to his wife and family, we really dont know. plus factor in the human level, his children may be unhappy in school, his wife not overly happy living in the UK, or on the flipside, everything is rosey and his wife doesnt fancy moving, there's so many things we dont know that could be going on in the background. so for the time being, lets leave the negotiations where they belong, behind closed doors with the suits, and we can just enjoy the football

I just read someone else's post here or twitter... Pretty much there's only 4 or 5 clubs in world football that can afford bigger wages than us, two at Spanish clubs which are in serious debt, the others are owned by oligarchs or oil states. If that's what you need to afford salah, then I'm ok letting him go.

That's unfortunate for sanchez, he did get the ball first to be fair

i missed the first half, but while driving i was listening to the game on Irish radio. its funny, they made out like that challenge was a blatant dive and in no way a foul. Its as obvious as the nose on the end of your face. I do often think alot of the real "marquee" players get pissed off with the treatment by officials, opposing fans and media in England and thats one of the reasons they end up f***ing off to Spain. Because lets be honest here, if Salah was in Spainhe'd have won the Ballon d'or by now, and he wounded be accused as being a diver, which he is labelled as over in the UK

it is on a dodgy box

Just glancing at their game with napoli while minding they kids. Are they really playing 3 centre halves and using perisic as a wing back? If so, that's kamikaze s*** against us. We'll absolutely tear them apart if thats their normal set up. OK, they pack the midfield, but it's not all that.

i fully expect us to obliterate them over the 2 legs. but no denying they're a decent outfit. they're also not use to losing so thats always a danger as well. they do have a tough game today though. Napoli are no slouches, which could well play into our hands, recovery wise

i had change from a bag of chips earlier and was tempted to put a bet on the bookies for us to win 4-0, i bloody should have, that line up is scary!!!

I think he's clearly a decent manager, but is he similar to Mourinho in that he gets a reaction fairly quick, the players buy into him. But after hearing the same drivel and bulls*** for 2 years they just stop listening? I could be wrong mind, but it does kind of seem like that

Babb never lived up the heights expected of him. But im just shocked we paid so much for a centre half that didn't even have an international cap to his name. I was at a game in landsdowne years ago, and babb was embarrassingly poor. I'll never forget the bunch of fans around us actually laughing at how s*** he was. Granted, it was near tug end of his career. But he was atrocious

I was only about 12/13 when we signed scales and Phil babb. Being Irish, I remember babb had an excellent 94 world cup, and everyone thought he was the new Paul mcgrath, so the fee was some what justified. But John scales was a British transfer record as well? f*** me, did he ever even get an England cap?? Talk about wasting money, crazy

its a big country you know

ffs, spanish and portugese is pretty the same thing, he'll be grand. nothing a finger point and arm wave wont sort out

We'll get him for a tenner, spread out over the length of his contract

Why wouldn't you want salah or mane to win the whole thing? It's not like they'll miss any extra games over it.

i reckon he'll have more fun checking the balance of his current account on his phone while sitting in a hotel room as opposed to packing his bags in portugal. But i do see your point

so is he cup tied then, or does them going out early mean he's clear to play for us?

he came across brilliantly to be fair, just an all round good guy. And what he does for the homeless people of Stoke now is absolutely magnificent.

i listened to podcast with Lou Macari recently and he went into detail on how he ended up going to the mancs. Really funny actually. He basically fell out with Jock Stein because he wanted more money as his father had just passed away and his wife was pregnant. after being a few weeks on the outside Stein rang him out of the blue one Saturday morning and told him to get ready as a car was bringing him down to England to sign for someone. He hadnt a clue who though. He eventually turns up at Anfield and talks to Bill Shankly in the directors box before our game. However during the game a scout from Utd was there scouting the other team as they where playing them the following week. Low and behold he got chatting to the scout who then tells him not to sing for Liverpool as Utd will give him the same money, plus he'd play because Bobby Charlton and Law where coming to the end while we had Toshack and Keegan who where young and he wouldnt be guaranteed first team football.

He's a bit slow though isn't he. I watch a bit of serie a and I'm not some sky/premiership nut hugger, but if you get caught dilly dallying in Italy, you'd be f***ing slaughtered in the England

Shocking penalty, I'll take it obviously, but no way was that a foul.