PL: Liverpool vs Arsenal | December 29th | KO: 17:30 | BT Sport

[Stephen Tucker]

Positives:
Sp**s lost.

Negatives:
Everything else.

Even bloody then we've ended up with an even worse goal difference than them. A month ago we had a better GD than them

 

[Lakersgooner24]

Quite a few Liverpool fans on Twitter admitting their pens were soft BTW. Dunno what’s that counts for..... feck all I suspect.

Last thing we need is opposition fans feeling sorry for us. Only reason they say that is because it would have made fck all difference if they weren't given.

 

[TromsoGooner]

Liverpool didn`t need any help from Oliver to win but that was a disgraceful performance from him. First pen was very soft and the second was laughable.Gave them every 50/50 decision as well.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

They will hide behind Emery as some people here are already doing.

The fans won't be that stupid this time Kroenke either invest or sell the club to owner who cares

 

[2Smokeyy]

AFTV is going to be messy.

 

[HBL]

Leno - 5
Lich - 4
Mustafi - 4
Sokratis - 3
Kola - 5
Torreira - 5
Xhaka - 6
AMN - 6
Ramsey - 3
Iwobi - 7
Auba - 4

 

[celestis]

His handling of the Özil and Ramsey contract situations definitely put Emery in a tough situation.

I thought it was Ivan that sanctioned the Özil deal , makes more sense since Wenger was already on his way out .

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...y-epl-premier-league-unai-emery-a8692366.html

"but former manager Arsène Wenger is understood to have hugely resented sanctioning such a contract."

 

[Alkane]

We've got a huge sponsorship deal with Addidas kicking in shortly, we need to spend that additional income in advance and really invest in the squad.

I also don't understand why we have any cash reserves at all, every spare dollar we have in the bank is wasted. It should be reinvested in the first team and a revolving line of credit used to cover any shortfalls in Opex.

As someone who studies Finance it particularly triggers me we kept that money just sitting doing nothing. Even if we aren't big enough to retain our best players against interest of elite clubs, we could've made a significant amount of profit. Coutinho/ Suarez transfers brought in what about £200m for Liverpool to spend?

One that stands out in my memory was the Hazard situation where we refused to pay that little bit extra and settled for Gervinho instead. From £35m investment could've had a top player for a number of years then fetched £100m for him. The farce with Suarez which again could've had a top player and still sold him on for a profit few years down the line.

 

[CaseUteinberger]

Whatever let's move on, someone make the Fulham thread.

Good shout! Onwards and upwards!

 

[Gooner Zig]

At the time we had Wenger who was a massive draw and our style of play was also still fresh in many minds despite recent events. A new younger manager without Wenger's pulling power, little money and no stand out trait isn't going to cut it especially without CL football. Auba also wanted out. Any player in his position mow has at least five PL clubs better than ours to chose from.

This is why I wanted to get Allegri - to overcome that hurdle. That being said, we are still by far the biggest club in London, which is one of the top cities in the world, with a huge global fan base.

We still are a very attractive proposition. If the numbers are right we can still attract top quality.

 

[<<reed>>]

There’s a reason why Chelsea would loan us Cahill. Sarri doesn’t rate him as he’s ****.

They’ll be laughing when he ***** up and we miss out on CL football.

Sarri wants ball playing defenders, Cahill isn't one.

 

[Gooner Zig]

As someone who studies Finance it particularly triggers me we kept that money just sitting doing nothing. Even if we aren't big enough to retain our best players against interest of elite clubs, we could've made a significant amount of profit. Coutinho/ Suarez transfers brought in what about £200m for Liverpool to spend?

To put it bleakly, Arsenal would make a good corporate malfeasance case study the way its finances have been managed since 2013/14.

 

[Sanchez11]

Back to the drawing board. We only have Pap and Rob who can defend the rest are garbage. We have a serious problem defending, the ranch man needs to put his hand in his pocket.

 

[2Smokeyy]

Sarri wants ball playing defenders, Cahill isn't one.

Emery wants ball playing defenders. Cahill isn’t one.

 

[NieThePiet]

Nonsense. VVD was at Celtic for 2 years and Southampton for 3 years before Liverpool took the chance on him.
Emery has to find the right player and Kroenke needs to give him the money.

VVD class was already known for a long time and that's why clubs like City, Chelsea and Liverpool were interested.

I highly doubt, that he would have joined Liverpool without CL.

 

[GoonerJeeves]

At least Leeds lost at home to Hull.

 

[Manberg]

Holding was only getting into good form before he got injured. To single him out to be some sort of saving grace would be wrong if you ask me. We need proven top quality defenders. It doesn't stop there because our attack is far from perfect too and that ought to start with proper wingers.

 

[<<reed>>]

Emery wants ball playing defenders. Cahill isn’t one.

Emery wants any defenders, beggars can't be choosers.

 

[LG10]

Liverpool played in 2nd gear the whole match and still embarrassed us. Our cbs aren’t even mid table quality.

 

[Gooner_girl14]

Except Özil has injuries issues.

I don't get the narrative about how Emery is freezing Özil out when he's started more game than Mkhi Iwobi & Ramsey.

How many games Özil hasn't played when he was available?

I've wanted to believe that Özil missing games has been purely down to injuries too, but I think it's clear that there's something more going on. It looks like essentially he's fallen out of favour with the coach. i mean, why would you leave him out of any game or sub him for "tactical" reasons???