Football (Soccer)
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Damn, it is really heartbreaking to see Liverpool not finish first after such an amazing season. Who would've thought that 97 points won't be enough?
As a life long fan of the team and supporter of the club, I’m strangely happy. It has been out of our hands for a few weeks now and I didn't really expect anything other than City winning their remaining games. I'm so pleased that we pressed them all the way though. That is impressive. At the end of the day, I'd also rather we finished second as LFC than finish first as Man City, if you see what I mean.
The CL final is great and I'm looking forward to it, but what makes me happiest is that I feel like we're back for real. Two CL finals on the trot, the best 2nd place finish ever and the ability to turn over Barcelona. Add to that a team spirit and a connection with the fans that harks back to the 80's (with all respect to Houllier and Rafa who were also wonderful managers), and the future is very bright indeed.
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United is a complete fucking disgrace right now. I don't even know where to begin….
watching the game last night was beyond embarassing…
I captained Rashford on fpl ::) thinking surely they want to go out on a high.
Still broke 2300 points for the season, finishing around 25k. Decent.
how the feck do you get 2300!! i barely got near 2000.. highest between mates is 2244 and i'm on 1931
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Liverpool and City should be an example to Man United on how to recruit properly. Don't just buy any player because your rivals are looking at them.
Bernado Silva for around 40m and Sadio Mane for 34m have to buy the top bargains of the decade.. especially when you consider Utd forked out 50m for Fred
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Black day for the Bayern hater. Of course the arrogant bastards won it (the German league championship) again, after having been second to Borussia Dortmund for most of the season. Seriously annoying.
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the whole game was overshadowed by political unrest. especially for miki and the fans… i don't think having it there brought out the best for arsenal..
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Good run-about, would have been a trophy and worth anything only if the other team won it, now the media will rightly consider it a pre-season friendly which it of course is. City should have been several goals up by the half time if not for some Sterling-esque finishing by Sterling and Sane's injury was an unfortunate early turn of events, still an ok effort considering no Aguero, no Laporte and no Ederson. City could use a real left back as well, this trick of playing wingers and midfielders there for 2 seasons now has sort of lost its novelty. I don't agree with Pep's policy of no substitutions when it was obvious the midfield was playing with no legs in the 2nd half but apparently he wanted to "build up their conditioning".
One (non-)trophy in the bag then, roll on next weekend and the real stuff.
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Thoughts on the upcoming season? @louisbosco
Is Harry Maguire worth 80m? Another United panic buy?
@neph93 Have Liverpool done enough in the transfer window?
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I’ll answer that when the window closes… and again when the season’s over. I think Liverpool have gotten back to doing business quietly, so it wouldn’t surprise me if one or two more show up over the next day or two. That being said, Klopp has always maintained it would be quiet this summer.
I wouldn’t say no to another back as support for TTA and Robbo, but a healthy Gomez/Milner/Fabinho can all do a job there. Nor would I say no to an attacking midfielder but we were without Ox and Lallana for most of last season and barely used Shaq, so it isn’t like we’re ribbed for choice as it stands.
I’ll chip in re Maguire, it’s a good signing but he isn’t VVD. He won’t rejuvenate a dodgy back line on his own and then there’s the rest of the squad. Still seems like Utd lack a unifying plan to me.
