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Scouseinthehouse said:
Our manager. Our mate. Our hero.

Once Madrid is out of the way, I'm fully expecting L'pool's biggest signing this summer to be an extension for the best man in football we could possibly have leading/ representing this great club/ City.
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Karius?
 
Topical for the summer transfer window:

If anyone's wondering just how L'pool turned their transfer dealings around to lead the way over the last couple of years, this is a superb piece from the NY Times that should be essential reading for all football fans interested in the way the games evolved as a whole far beyond the traditional methods-

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/magazine/soccer-data-liverpool.html

It just adds to another real informative piece that was in the Financial Times a few months back-

'Liverpool are the world leaders in football not only because of their results and quality on the pitch but also when it comes to data analytics. That's according to the report by Athletic Bilbao director of football and professor at the London School of Economics Ignacio Palacios-Huerta. The reports was published in the Financial Times.

Mr Palacios-Huerta has claimed Liverpool have a group of PhDs who are specialising in data analysis which helps the Reds acquire the best players. The professor insists our club are the world leaders in this area.

"There is clear leadership by one club: Liverpool. They have a group of four or five PhDs in maths and physics, and they know football," the report says.

While most of the report is dedicated to Barcelona and their approach to analytics, Liverpool are namechecked as the benchmark example'


We really are leading from the front in all aspects of the game right now.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
Topical for the summer transfer window:

If anyone's wondering just how L'pool turned their transfer dealings around to lead the way over the last couple of years, this is a superb piece from the NY Times that should be essential reading for all football fans interested in the way the games evolved as a whole far beyond the traditional methods-

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/magazine/soccer-data-liverpool.html

It just adds to another real informative piece that was in the Financial Times a few months back-

'Liverpool are the world leaders in football not only because of their results and quality on the pitch but also when it comes to data analytics. That's according to the report by Athletic Bilbao director of football and professor at the London School of Economics Ignacio Palacios-Huerta. The reports was published in the Financial Times.

Mr Palacios-Huerta has claimed Liverpool have a group of PhDs who are specialising in data analysis which helps the Reds acquire the best players. The professor insists our club are the world leaders in this area.

"There is clear leadership by one club: Liverpool. They have a group of four or five PhDs in maths and physics, and they know football," the report says.

While most of the report is dedicated to Barcelona and their approach to analytics, Liverpool are namechecked as the benchmark example'


We really are leading from the front in all aspects of the game right now.
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You've also got a good base with the University nearby which has a great name for sport sciences!
 
This time next week we'll be on the eve of playing for the biggest prize in football. Again.

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It's gonna' be a LONG week's wait.
 
kitchin75 said:
how many did kenny win as boss just the 84 1?
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None mate sadly. He took over after Heysel in '85 and subsequently the ban. No doubt in my mind we'd be on 7 or 8 European Cups now had it not been for that with some of his sides his first go-around. My one massive regret is Kenny's great '88 side and the next few years never got to play Sacchi's great Milan side of the three Dutch masters. That would have been a purists wet dream and then some.

But alas, it was never to be. Can't tell you how much pride it elicited when van Basten, my all time favourite non-red, said a few years ago they were always conscious, through their dynasty domination of Europe, of never having to face L'pool. Top respect.

I think the only time Kenny has managed the European Cup was at Newcastle.

Paisley was in charge the first 3. Fagan in '84. And Rafa Istanbul.
 
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Scouseinthehouse said:
None mate sadly. He took over after Heysel in '85 and subsequently the ban. No doubt in my mind we'd be on 7 or 8 European Cups now had it not been for that with some of his sides his first go-around. My one massive regret is Kenny's great '88 side and the next few years never got to play Sacchi's great Milan side of the three Dutch masters. That would have been a purists wet dream and then some.

But alas, it was never to be. Can't tell you how much pride it elicited when van Basten, my all time favourite non-red, said a few years ago they were always conscious, through their dynasty domination of Europe, of never having to face L'pool. Top respect.

I think the only time Kenny has managed the European Cup was at Newcastle.

Paisley was in charge the first 3. Fagan in '84. And Rafa Istanbul.
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that milan team was off the chain awsome
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
None mate sadly. He took over after Heysel in '85 and subsequently the ban. No doubt in my mind we'd be on 7 or 8 European Cups now had it not been for that with some of his sides his first go-around. My one massive regret is Kenny's great '88 side and the next few years never got to play Sacchi's great Milan side of the three Dutch masters. That would have been a purists wet dream and then some.

But alas, it was never to be. Can't tell you how much pride it elicited when van Basten, my all time favourite non-red, said a few years ago they were always conscious, through their dynasty domination of Europe, of never having to face L'pool. Top respect.

I think the only time Kenny has managed the European Cup was at Newcastle.

Paisley was in charge the first 3. Fagan in '84. And Rafa Istanbul.
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so shankly never won 1
 
kitchin75 said:
that milan team was off the chain awsome
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Defo. Completely revolutionised Italian football and dragged it into the 20th Century.

But then there wasn't a player on the planet that could touch Johnny Barnes those first two or three years. Maradona, Platini, Gullit et all in Italy excepted.

Wouldn't like to venture who'd have won if those L'pool and Milan sides had met.

Travesty they never got to compete in Europe but Thatcher was looking for an excuse to hit football and the horrific events at Heysel gave her that.

Dark times.
 
kitchin75 said:
so shankly never won 1
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No. He lost the Cup Winners Cup final in 1966 and won the UEFA Cup in '73. But never the European Cup. He should have like. We walloped Inter 3-1 at Anfield the semi in '65. And then had a disgraceful show of officiating the return. Ball kicked out of the goalies hands and an indirect free kick allowed to be taken direct leading to a 3-0 loss. The dishonest ref later admitted he'd been bribed. Inter were one of the worst at the time for buying off officials.

Would have been the first British side to win it which then went to Celtic.
 
Boss early morning watch from BT. (And kudos to them for making the final this Saturday free-to-air.).

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Been a superb run this.

Toughest group by far the opening round that lived up to that billing and went to the last game with three sides in contention to go through and the other still in play for the Europa League slot. For all the narking from many Reds through the groups, people forgot a group is just that and finishing first or second really doesn't matter save for getting the home leg the last 16 2nd. ALL that matters in the groups is qualifying. You get nottin extra for style and to progress with the mega rich nouveau riche Parisians, and a Napoli side that yet again were the clear second best side in Italy to Juve's millions just served notice, as if it needed serving after the barnstorming run to Kiev last year, that these Reds are FIRMLY back as one of European football's top sides again.

Then, in the first knock-out stage, you get drawn against the mighty Bayern Munich in a tie fit for the final. 10 European cups split equally between us. A Munich side who'd been to 6 straight semi-finals and, albeit ageing, are still a top outfit. (Treble winners yet again in Germany by the seasons end.), A Bayern side that came to Anfield with the sole intention of making sure the tie was alive for the return at their European fortress where home defeats are like rocking horse ____. But not for this gang of awesome Reds who sent further shockwaves reverberating around the Continent with one of the best European displays in our stored history. To go win 3-1 at the Allianz ...... WOW! By common consensus, that's in most everyones top 10, if not top 5, European away's. A boss few days in utterly brilliant Bavaria topped off with a stunning victory like that.

Next up the Champions of Portugal comfortably walloped. Again! They really must be sick of the site of us in that fantastic City by the Douro. Like Munich, they came to ours to not get beat. But didn't have the quality of Munich back there. Really went for it at home when the Reds had to dig in, ride the storm, then hit them on the counter in a classical European away display.

And then the semi against Barcelona. Which like the Munich game, doesn't get much bigger a European tie anywhere. Absolutely superb first leg showing that deserved SO much more ends with a 3-0 head-scratching defeat. Tie over. No away goal. The great Barcelona with the GOAT among their ranks. NO WAY they aren't scoring at Anfield. Already without Bobby, Mo get's concussed the game prior so L'pool are now without two of the best front three in all of Europe. Which worsened through the game when arguably the current best LB in European football, Andy Robbo, had to depart the scene. But this was Anfield. Under the European lights. In our competition ..... NO stage like it anywhere on the Continent and yet again, we made the impossible, POSSIBLE on well arguably the greatest of all Anfield European nights. (Side note- Just HOW many more times are we going to have to do this before people fully acknowledge the difference making power of Anfield in Europe? Still staggers me there's still folk out there who underestimate that arl place every year in Europe no matter hw many times we consistently prove everyone wrong.) I'd still have Chelsea '05 as the best atmosphere personally. But Barcelona wasn't far short and in terms of the game, and everything we had to overcome, that one tops the lot. And man have we an encyclopaedia of them. Still buzzing off that. One of the greatest nights in UEFA competition history. Leading to yet another European Cup final, our NINTH, that just cemented Jurgen's Reds as one of, if not the top team around right now on the Continent. I'm hesitant to put City above us in European terms as, until they start, yanno', actually winning games of European football and not sacking it off at the quarter final stage every season they can't be treated as any serious European power.

Absolutely superb run indeed that was FAR from easy with all the top sides and massive hurdles overcome to get to a second straight European Cup final.

That all feels somewhat anti-climatic given the finals against Tottenham and not the romance for the purists of Ajax- Liverpool. But it is what it is and even accounting for the 'meh' of an English opponent, the stupendous high of going to yet another European Cup final with the mighty boys in Red NEVER gets old. (My 6th with L'pool. SIX times going to the biggest game in the sport with my club. That's beyond mad. WHAT a F PHENOMENAL football club this is we're lucky and privileged to support.). Friday morning and starting the final leg of this epic journey that, the absolute moody **** hole that is Naples aside, has been brilliant right the way through with another slew of ridiculous memories can't come soon enough. With the added bonus, as much as it should be in the other, bigger ground over the other side of the City, a third new ground for myself in Europe this year after ticking two old and new cathedrals of football, Belgrade and Munich, off the bucket list already. Jut adds to the magic of Europe when you get to do something new.

Let's hope the final act is the best one yet and we end this stupendous season by having the best season of any side in Europe this year. Lifting the biggest prize in football. AGAIN!

5 more days.
 
Feels utterly mad to say this given the long standing 'dislike' we have with Derby, but all the best to Harry Wilson and everyone at County today.

Show you belong.
 
why the hate for derby? plus how in the **** do you get all the time off from work to go to finals
 
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