Liverpool vs Man City

I said Irons, not Iron. The devil is in the detail

 

Play in Claret and blue? Check
Bit of a rough hole? Check
Don't really win much? Check

What's your point caller?

 

Id say its pretty much forgone now....City are still the top dogs.

 

Liverpool fans will tell you they have the best GK, best RB, best LB, best CB, best DM and best FWs in the world. Not forgetting the best manager....

3 finals. 0 goals and just 2 minor trophies won via penalties. Doesnt scream best to me!!!

 

I think you'll find they've been deemed the greatest team of all time by the BT Sport punditry team (of former LIverpool players).

Truly the only honour that counts.

 

Haaland signed up and now looking at Cucarella and Phillips. Bids submitted apparently.

That's 3 extremely good signings for Peps men if he pulls them off. He will be under immense pressure to deliver the Champions League now.

PS - Not forgetting the young Argie striker Alvarez he has signed. Certainly gives them another option up top. He looks a player.

 

They've got a tough opening game mind

 

Pool, City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs all looking busy this window. Players signed, others incoming.

Man Utd lost about 10 players and done absolutely nothing so far. They look utterly hopeless. Currently haggling over an extra £10m for De Jong. Will go on forever that one.

 

Bissouma for £25M is a great signing for Spurs. Especially where you compare it to 70 or 80 million for De Jong.

 

Price is the price. Barcelona prepared to cash in but only at that price and stated not open to negotiation. Pay it or move on to other targets!!

Dutch lad at Ajax has turned them down too. Fears over playing time. They need better people in charge who can get stuff done like those at Pool and City.

 

Man Utd needed a full clear out. Players existing on their own self hype. They were awful last season. It will take a few transfer windows to put that club right.

 

Dont disagree. Just thought they may have already had 1 or 2 in by now though. They are getting left behind yet again...

 

A lack of bloody desire and poor attitude. Issues beyond the pitch

 

Sounds familiar on a smaller scale, can take years to get it right.

 

Read that Henderson, Wan Bisakka, Tuanzebe, Bailly, Jones, Matic, Pogba, Periera, Mata, Lingard, Cavani, Martial will all be gone/going.

A lot to replace there. None be missed mind...

 

I see Lukaku is going back to Inter Milan on loan. £100m for 8 goals and returning to the team who sold him but with £100 in the bank.

 

When this question was asked at the back end of last season it was touch and go to which of the two sides were the better team. Liverpool narrowly missed out to Man City in the league and both teams were dumped out of the Champions League by the eventual champions.

Man City scored 99 goals in the league last season without an out and out striker and it was clear that a missing a proper goalscorer was the reason the tie against Real Madrid wasn't put to bed in the first leg.

Now they have that proper goalscorer in Haaland who already has 10 goals in 6 premier league games (Last seasons golden boot had 23 all season) and 2 goals in the their champions league game, he appears to be the missing piece in their quest for the champions league.

Watching the game last night Haaland was a constant threat and scored another goal from inside the 6 yard box and then was on hand to knock in a rebound that last year would probably have seen no Man City player pouncing on.

Barring injury I just can't see how any team will compete with Man City over the course of this season. As for personal goalscoring records, that is probably down to how much Pep decides to allow him to play. Last night and previously he has taken him off with ample time for Haaland to score a hat-trick without batting an eyelid.

Beyond that Liverpool are struggling in midfield where they are playing Milner a player deemed surplus to requirements at Man City years ago, where as Man City are bring on KDB and Mahrez when they are 5 nil up to see out games, Phillips even got some game time last night to see out the win in Seville such is the depth of their bench.

 

Liverpool could fall off a cliff, just like Dortmund did in Klopps last year.

 

Absolutely hammered by Napoli last night.

 

A midfield of Elliott, Fabinho and Milner isn't even midtable premier league.

The Newcastle result they got a few weeks back papered over so many cracks.

Man City started with KDB, Rodri and Bernardo Silva, they ended the game with Phillips, Gundogan and Mahrez.

At the moment Liverpool look so exposed after a few injuries and Salah like Son for Spurs look a shadow of the players they were last year.