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Endo’s been fabulous. My only slight qualm today was Nunez going off with 20 minutes still to go. Yes I know he’s coming back and had played on Thursday. But in a game as big as that, you surely leave him on? Gakpo can be quite good in the box, but I think Gary Neville asked the question in a recent commentary whether he struggles with the speed of our attacks sometimes.

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I actually agree with Carra’s take on it when he said he agreed with Klopp that it would have been a foul anywhere else on the pitch – but Carra then said that there’s an unwritten rule in football that for it to warrant a penalty if it’s in the box – there has to be more than that. In other words, for me anywhere else on the pitch the reason that gets punished is to deter dangerous play rather than giving the opposition a free kick. If the ref had given a yellow card in the box to deter dangerous play he’d also have to have given the penalty. Thats where the grey area is in between.

There was a debate some time ago on here about whether fouls in the box deserve a penalty particularly if they’re not obvious goal scoring chances being denied. And I think this is linked to why some fouls aren’t given in the box when they would be given elsewhere on the pitch.

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Draw not disastrous but you really need to be winning these games. Thought Nunez should have stayed on.

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I just think you have to win these games, particularly when things are so tight. And also for psychological reasons.

Both sides are closely matched, but I don’t think either team are quite at the heights they were a few seasons ago. Indeed comparing goal differences to a few seasons back, both sides are a bit more leaky and not quite as prolific up top. I think City are a bit more dependent on the De Bruyne/Haaland link up (with Foden obviously contributing well). I think Endo has been crucial to Liverpool being more solid and they’ve really missed him when he’s not been unavailable. Salah has obviously been important too. I think for Liverpool a lot depends on the progress of Nunez. He’s obviously been in good form recently but he needs to show this in the big games now in the big moments.

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Sheffield Utd are done and have been for some time.

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Who are you backing for the Utd job CM?

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And yet Mourinho is the closest manager you had over the last decade to getting back to the top. He rightly points to his second place that year being one of his best achievements. And let’s not forget the European trophy he won you. And Van Gaal at least won you the FA Cup too. Not really much of note since then.

As for Tuchel himself, I get the concerns of the reported fallouts he’s had with people. But even if you only got a couple of years out of him and then found someone more suited so be it. I think he’d probably work better at a club with bigger resources so he might not be the best fit for Liverpool for me.

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The only names on the current odds list I would look at for Utd would be Tuchel or possibly Amorim (but he’s not really made waves in European competitions with Sporting Lisbon).

I think people are unfair on Tuchel. I think he unfairly lost his job at Chelsea. I think PSG seem to go through managers quickly. And as for Bayern, I don’t really follow German football but there’s talk they need a rebuild and is he being made scapegoat, I don’t know? But he’s a proven manager at the highest level who won the CL with Chelsea & got PSG to the final. Instead all you Utd fans seem to want to keep throwing in completely unproven managers into one of the biggest jobs in football and play this long term developing youngsters pipe dream game. If you want to keep doing that and stay in the doldrums that’s fine by me 🙂

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Ten Hag may have had success in year one at Utd in terms of top 4 & league cup. But I wasn’t particularly impressed with them and I think a deeper analysis of them examining things like goal difference where they were way off the teams around them last season (as they are this season) shows they’ve not got what it takes. Rodgers may not be the best manager in the world but when he took over at Liverpool, even though his first season showed no obvious achievements, he got the team scoring a hell of a lot more goals. And the next season he missed out on the title by 2 points.

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I think Poch has walked into a very difficult situation at Chelsea. There are so many players that have come in so recently and such young ones at that, there is little of an established core to build something around. Conor Gallagher is arguably one of the few established players in terms of someone who has been at the club for a long time (being in the academy). And he’s just 24 and been on loan a lot. It’s ridiculous really.

Poch has managed in several leagues. He got Spurs consistently into the top 4 & into a CL final on not the biggest budget. He may struggle to get teams over the line, but he’s clearly a competent manager who has proven experience in the league.

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As for Poch, wasn’t he the one that knocked Ten Hag’s Ajax out of the CL that season with Spurs? Actually think Utd would have been better with Poch. They’d have at least been harder to beat imo.

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The right manager at Utd has to deliver progress quickly to manage the expectations on them and also make their job easier to offload any bad apples which in turn cements their authority. It starts with the right manager at a club with the right personality and authority and then the structure develops around that. Trying to put the structure in place first is like putting the cart before the horse for me.

In any case is the right structure/recruitment really rocket science? I think Utd made some panic signings over the years to try and make a statement but with little thought. Without the well admired Michael Edwards Liverpool have still generally bought well without him this season.

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Thought he was the wrong appointment from day one. You have to have the personality and man management skills to manage a club like Utd. This idea he was going to coach a load of kids total football and develop them to be stars was for the birds and pie in the sky thinking. Reality at a big club doesn’t work like that. You still have to bring in some ready made top quality and then manage it all and deliver quickly.

As for players and poor recruitment, this has no doubt been an issue. But as I’ve said before, get the right manager in place who will lift everything, and it tends to concentrate minds in the backroom staff to get the signings right and players will also want to come and play for the right manager.

I’d throw in someone like Tuchel.

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Utd got deeper and deeper as the game went on. And the inevitable happened.

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Foden is scoring the extra goals Sterling used to score for City.

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Big win, surprised Danns didn’t feature from the start with his confidence flying high. More players to hopefully come back.

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Tuchel back in the Premier league next season?

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Absolutely fabulous performance from the boys today. Brilliant.

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F*ckng get in!

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Boy, for all the money Chelsea have spent on their kids I think I prefer our kids.

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