this ia true, tho i don't think lfc has destroyed locker rooms like the spaniards have with countless teams. for the most part lfc has purchased players and made them superstars.
That's unfortunately how the world works, eat and not be eaten. It's just on an incredibly absurd level in soccer. Players tend to come in earlier by now with 16-18 and start to retire at 32-38. They want to win the most and biggest titles and earn maximum money. The only way to stop the BIG 2 Spaniards is to go and get them by law, if they bribe or do something ilegally, you can at least have them relegate/and subtract their point score. (What happened in Italy to Juve) They will lose the players for 1 or 2 years. But would not do it to the Barca fans.
I forgot about Suarez who was already a star with Ajax Amsterdam, Mo Salah is similar, nobody is watching Italian football smaller clubs or at least Roma anymore. Salah was the poster kid of the Italian league for 2-3 years beforehand. Mostly 15 goals and 10+ assists per season regularly. But I thought they said he was the quickest kid around, but it's very deceptive. He is also thiCC. In Hair. Spoiler
i think suarez was a clear star, but i don't remember huge clubs clamoring over him. maybe it was the character issues, rightfully so. i think he bit someone there as well. didn't know about salah. i thought he was a failure at chelsea. but i don't think we disrupted locker rooms to get these players. the few players i can think of was virgil van dijk (which i think is mediocre and not worth the trouble) and naby keita. but i think mostly those players just wanted to leave their club, instead of lfc causing disruption.
Sure, no doubt, LFC is a Top 4 team nationally and I think they play arguably in the best league in the world. Huge tradition and having won CL already. Then of course there are clubs with more money or more winning tradition. So of course it puts already good players on the map of stars. You got to probably fight Chelsea, City, United for players from Shaktar Donetsk, French, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish and Russian clubs. If not for Suarez, I am sure, they could have gotten after the likes of Cavani, Aubameyang themselves.
If LFC can keep the team together and improve on defense, they're the team to beat in the EPL next season. I think they can do what City is doing this year. They just need a little more consistency in the defensive 1/3. I also think they're going to make a run at Christian Pulisic. Klopp is the one that brought him up and he seems to be losing time at Dortmund. Might be time for him to move on.
Nothing realistic, just in theory. I'd think they could get another big shot if Suarez went to let's say Tottenham or whatever club instead of Pool. I'd probably only rank City, United and arguably Chelsea ahead of them in terms of secks appeal.
oh you mean if suarez never went to lfc. but that would be disastrous! wasn't that around the time when nobody wanted to come to liverpool, and we'd have to settle for mediocres from small teams? and i think tottenham was taking all of lfc's targets. what a horrible time, outside of the suarez signing.
You got a good Fernando Torres, and some national talents Raheem Sterling, Sturridge. Dirk Kuyt, Milan Baros..... yeah Balotelli and Benteke never clicked though. But they were superstar names in the past.
They are exactly like that. Sensational press with no moral standards. Don't believe a single word from Bild. International break now, annoying as usual. Germany plays high caliber opponents in Spain and Brazil, but I probably won't watch.
They clearly have souces and get a lot of inside news, resulting in them leaking a lot of news before the club. But sometimes they seem to make **** up, so you never know what u get.
Not to nitpick but just wanted to point that out cos that's the kind of crap the English media is quick to throw at various players that don't adjust immediately or at least in their first season. Salah was alright at Chelsea. He didn't shine everytime and he wasn't crap. They just let him go too quickly..as they did under a certain manager. Question for the German brehs. (1) Do your sports journalists act like the English journos in being quick to label players that don't adjust to the BL immediately as failures? (2) Are they as harsh on goalkeepers and their mistakes as the English journalists are?
didn't follow chelsea during salah's stint with them. i assume a player like salah won't fit under a mourinho system and hiddink's short time as a substitute manager did him no favors either.
In general I dun like the media.......they can lift one dude to stardome and send him to hell the next moment. Usually side with the player, the club. Dun read German papers enough, at times I read the English version of Marca or Italian papers. I can imagine the Top 4-5 leagues having cray cray journalists eager to jump the gun. The English/Italians took it to the next level IMO.
I'm not sure anyone fits under Mourinho's system any more. I've been a United fan for roughly 30 years. It's waning right now. This bland, no-style style that he plays is winning some games but it's not enjoyable to watch. He's taking world class play makers and squeezing the life and soul out of their abilities. I wasn't crazy about his signing to begin with but I was willing to ignore the past if it meant winning again. Yeah, they're in 2nd place, but it's just so passionless and not enjoyable football. It seems like any moment of creativity is in spite of the manager and that sucks to play under and watch. I really enjoy watching Liverpool right now. If they were to sign Pulisic this summer while keeping the rest of that team together, I might just come on over...at least temporarily. Out of all of the United rivals, they're the ones I've never had a problem with. Mostly because I was a big Ian Rush fan back in the day.
