Oh my this post is bad with the exception of one thing. You said it yourself, Liverpool looked really good when Salah was playing. RM was practically ****ting their pants, I was getting pretty excited, I did not expect to see RM on the back foot like that. Salah is still going to be playing and Liverpool can raise his wages as much as is necessary. As long as he's there, they will be an extremely strong team, and when they add even more quality (because with Keita they already have), even better.
Liverpool already spent 48 million on a midfielder and is talking about spending 60 million on an attacker. They have spent practically nothing in three years. The chairman literally just said they are going to spend and create depth for the squad.
You can't see them beating City when Liverpool's beaten City four times since Pep got there? WTF? I can't believe you would possibly say something so dumb. If anything Pep needs to prove that he can surpass Liverpool in the Champions League. This season was a dream run that happened before they even spent the money they had for transfers. It would have been a miracle to win a CL with Klopp having spent basically nothing in terms of net spend. They still made the final. The idea that Liverpool won't get close again is pretty ludicrous, they had the youngest starting squad since Dortmund made the final. Unlike Dortmund, they have the ability to keep raising their players wages, however far that it needs to go. There will be more finals and more league chances, I have no doubt. It would be different if there were a bunch of old players on this team, but we don't have any. We have gotten very lucky to be in this position, I have no doubt about that either.
I am not going to say that RM was ****ting their pants, they were absolutely bending yet they did not break. I would be more concerned if I was a Red fan and saw how bad Liverpool responded when Salah was subbed off. True, that he's your best player and is probably the best player in form for the past three months in the world. But still, that was quite a pathetic response for the rest of your players. Firmino in particular was just brutal, he had that nice chance which went millimeters over his head, but nothing after that. Even a Viagra-less Benzema who's looked bad all season outplayed Firmino in the final game.
Beating City four times is the absolute worst case that could happen to you guys. Pep is too good of a manager to have this happen to him again, beating him so much will make him prepare extra amount this time in video and sending scouts. You're the guys who beat their undefeated season, they're going to have a lot of beef to settle for next season. Just because you might've matched up well with them this year doesn't mean anything for next season.
They do need Fekir though, you gave the reason yourself. Look who they had to bring in when Salah was injured. A player who didn't play basically all season. Lallana is a really good player but he just blew his thigh, played a few minutes, then has to play for 60 minutes in the CL Final. The game could have went differently if Ox was playing as well, because he brought something from midfield they no longer had today. If Liverpool has two players like let's just say Fekir and Bailey it means they can choose who to play in these games or not worry about injuries. They also definitely have the money to buy those players now. Some of the ones on big wages will have to depart, like Lallana, but such is life.
Honestly, any team can use Fekir ranging from Notts County to Bayern so I don't disagree that Liverpool can really use Fekir. The problem though is that there is only one other team in ALL of football who can have a bench as good as Real Madrid and that team is Barcelona. These two teams have the aura in any single young footballer's heart where there's a special place for them. Enough that they would want to play from the bench as we've seen great players wasted away coming as subs. Liverpool might realistically get Fekir, but I guarantee that the player he replaces will be gone from the squad within a year. They will never ever have a bench where a player like Bale comes on or even Asensio for that matter. That isn't a negative to Liverpool, but as I mentioned there are only two teams who can have squads that deep. One might be joining them in Man City, but we'll see a couple years from now.
Didn't Switzerland upset multiple teams this year?
See, I don't think Barca would have beaten Liverpool. Not in the form they were in then vs. Liverpool's form.
Bayern have been crushed by Madrid 3 times in 5 years and I don't like the direction they're going in.
We'll see about Tuchel's PSG. On paper, they can compete with Madrid.
True Suisse did upset Canada and Finland, but they still lost meaning there was always one more powerhouse team in their way. I wasn't really talking about 2018's, but the last one where Suisse randomly made the finals and just got crushed by Sweden. That isn't even mentioning that Liverpool almost lost it to Roma on the second leg as well. If they were facing Barca and played like they did at Anfield, they would have gotten annihilated. Barca, Bayern, and PSG can all beat Liverpool based upon the teams in the paper game. Furthermore, Allergi's Juve of two years ago before they had that lockerroom fight would have shutdown this Pool.
You don't know football at all, so basically everything you say is totally irrelevant. Mind telling me what Roma paid for Alisson and Atletico paid for Oblak?
Strakosha or Sergio Rico would cost no more than 20m. Kepa and Lafont maybe a little more. The keeper who just won the CL is worse than all those guys. With wisdom like what you said about Salah, I'm surprised you'd try to be an expert about anything related to transfers.
It doesn't matter what Roma or Atletico paid for those goalkeepers, it is what they're going to get which is all that matters. We see it all the time in Evilo's post about all these mid-table to bottom-table clubs randomly finding superstars to sell them for 60 million pounds later. For example, even though they're on the upper portion of the table, Monaco is perfect at this game as well as a lot of Serie A clubs. Even though I slightly disagree with Edo in terms that goalkeepers are not inflated in price compared to players, someone like Oblak will go for more than 50 million pounds. De Gea should go for the upper 60's and honestly both are worth the prices for me.
Klopp can´t drop Karius now. What kind of signal would that send? The first mistake is completely random - got very little to do with his goalkeeping abilities. I know some will talk about mental strength, but all you need to do then is to watch Baresi take that penalty in 94. So if Klopp drops him he will indirectly tell all his players mistakes are not allowed. Only fools believe that good football players do not make mistakes - not even Mourinho believes that.
If he keeps making mistakes of course......
Karius was NEVER Liverpool's long term solution or plan, he was a stopgap since Mignolet lost the starting job.
Gerrard slip was worse. Liverpool have not won EPL in a long long time. Karius mistake was terrible but Liverpool was already down 2-1 with less then 10 minutes left in the game.
Not even close, the Champion's League trophy is the third most important event after the World Cup and Euros. If Liverpool won, they would be joining a legendary group entirely composed of the best footballers ever to play the game since the beginning of the tournament (except Chelsea, that was still beyond fluke). Since they lost and in a hilarious fashion, Karius' mistake is simply the worst.
LOL, amazing banter here.
Weird to say Salah initiated contact. Ramos came to play the ball and threw his elbow in front of Salah (not touching him) and over his arm. Then arms tangled and Ramos made sure Salah's extended arm was pulled towards the right (Salah's I mean) and of course, he made sure the landing was rough.
As I said, Ramos wanted to play Salah tough. Didn't mean to injure him, but made sure he would feel it. Card and foul should be called.
Don't get me wrong that Ramos is a thug, but I don't think he meant to injury him nor was it a red card. Salah saw he was running towards him and tried to protect the ball with his body in which he brought his arms high. Ramos not knowing any better since he's always played as a thug, kept going with his momentum like a thug getting tangled up and eventually dislocating Salah's arm. Don't have too much sympathy since Salah went down easily at least five times by my recollection before he was actually injured.