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And yet, as always, the answer is Crystal Palace. One thing last night did was Arnie Slots' Liverpool a clean slate to start a new run of beating Everton. I think Klopp only ever won 2 games at Goodison in his entire tenure. Not sure nis record at Old Trafford was that good either.

Multiple things can be true at once

I don't think Salah is fully fit tbh I don't think Nunez helping him either. Whereas a few months ago they seemed like a great partnership. Still, this team wasn't expected to be where it is after having a terrible season last year. I had thought maybe the season might go down to the last day with three teams in it but I doubt that'll happen now. Liverpool have just punched themselves out.

Liverpool just look tired. Players peaked a month early or others just aren't fit. nice for Everton to win something once in a while I suppose

Klopp out

i just like to see them win games and see what happens Another factor with Salah is that he was coming back from injury during Ramadan. Fasting can't help him be at his best when he's also trying to get back to 100% match sharpness.

VVD smells so nice that it made Troy Deeney lose his mind

Virgil Van Dijk famously smells really nice and they do a lot of ads for Nivea and stuff so I imagine they do wash regularly

this feels like some kind of MLM rather than a football team

The injury earlier this year is probably still affecting him in some way Liverpool are in a place where there's a number of key players coming back from injury just a little too late and the second choice players are flagging

How many episodes of Tv could we get out of Graeme Souness managing in Turkey?

if only football didnt start in 1992. Then we could get something about Liverpool and Everton in the 1980s.

every time I hear/see his name I think of Carlton Palmer

Watch as they drop points next.

at the same time Liverpool are one of the highest scoring teams in Europe Can't be both bad at scoring goals and also score a lot of goals. But you can run out of steam a bit, have one too many players injured/coming back from injury and find yourself overly relying on players who weren't meant to be relied upon this much (Kelleher, Endo, Bradley, Quansah).

Up to recently, Liverpool's greatest strength had been their 2nd choice and youth players coming up with the goods. Now it seems that they've gone to that well one too many times and the first-team regulars who are coming back just aren't sharp enough themselves. It is a shame but at the same time, Liverpool were playing kids and relying on more inexperience than experience for weeks. That may be the league gone for Liverpool. It's not unlikely that City and Arsenal both have off days but it looks like Liverpool ran out of steam too early.

I didn't see the game but the most level headed comments I saw to the Liverpool result were that Atalanta were good, Liverpool weren't and the team selection was a risk that didn't pay off. Its unfortunate. But Jota is back, Trent was on the bench and it looks like Alisson is on his way back too. I'd prefer to have lost 3-0 away but last time Liverpool played Atalanta was in the champions league and they lost 2-0 at home but they won 5-0 away. The caveat being that it was 2020 but shows its not impossible for Liverpool to go there and score 3 at least.

I suppose its representative of the present field when it comes to available managers. I know next to nothing about him. It's probably a better option than Alonso or De Zerbi in that he's presently managing one of the biggest clubs in Portugal, in a city with two big clubs, and could very well go out having won them two league titles. I can't remember if it was Edwards or Julian Ward who were big into Portuguese football but it also tracks with Liverpool's recent frequent forays into buying from that league.

Liverpool weren't clinical enough for the second time in a month against United and it cost them.

particularly how other Brighton midfielders went for vs him Endo has been the real revelation.

But regular? You bet. Koalas poop 360 times a day - even in their sleep.

Last night I discovered that the Irish folk song Back Home In Derry by Christy Moore is musically just Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And Gordon Lightfoot didn't really care because folk music is full of people lifting tunes from other songs.

I bring up those names because there's a sense that you should never go home about them. Solskjear and Lampard shouldn't have been let near their former clubs as managers but they felt like good stories. But the fact it felt more like a good story than anything else made me wary of Alonso coming back to Liverpool as manager. Even if he's likely to be a better manager than any of them it still feels like the idea of it was the most attractive thing. Alonso is better off staying where he is a bit longer. At least an Amorim or a De Zerbi can come in and fail and it's not the ex-Liverpool player Xabi Alonso failing at Liverpool.

To me, it always felt a bit of a leap for him to go from his first season in his first top flight job to replacing Jürgen Klopp at Liverpool. It just gave me Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, and Ole Gunner Solskjaer vibes. Albeit, Alonso's managing at a higher level than any of those were before getting the managers job at their old clubs. Of course, it has worked out before and Liverpool did well in recruiting managers from ex players and coaches in the 70s and 80s. Not so much in the 90s though. It would also have been a crappy move to pull on Leverkusen.

and even at that, Man City is a different case relating to sponsorship revenue, not transfers. It's going to be easier to say "Nottingham Forest overspent when they signed Jonjo Shelvey and breached the spending rules" than sort 126 charges against Man City which is going to take years. In an ideal world, these cases will prove the testing ground for what eventually may happen to City.