The FA Not Investigating Liverpool. I Wonder Why
There has been nothing but silence from the Premier League
since Liverpool’s grovelling apology over their pursuit of Virgil van
Dijk. Then the most respected and well
placed Saints man in the media, Jeremy Wilson, wrote that because Saints had
not offered any more evidence and accepted the apology, the Premier League
deemed the matter closed and no action would be taken against Liverpool. The article didn’t really provide any new
information in the form of quotes so we can only hope it’s not true and Liverpool
get the transfer ban that they deserve.
It would not be remotely surprising though if it was true
and Liverpool were let off for breaking every rule in the book regarding
transfers. History will probably be
re-written and the whole episode will be remembered as being Saints fault
somehow. The justification for this will
be the time honoured ‘everybody does it’ approach and Liverpool will play the
victim – they’re good at that after all.
There still has been no word from Klopp which is surprising considering
the main stream sports media all gather for a group wank whenever there’s any
reason to get Klopp’s face on the TV.
However, they can’t possibly ask him any difficult questions.
So the moral of the story is – break as many rules as you
like, as many times as you like and if you get caught, apologise and you’ll be
allowed to get away with and repeat time and time again. I hope that we try the apology approach if we
give a penalty away next season and then the referees will let us off and give
us a free kick instead.
Meanwhile, there has been no word from Virgil, just rumours
of a move to Chelsea though I guess this may change soon with players back in
for training. Two players who I guess
won’t be back straight away are JWP and Nathan Redmond who played prominent
roles for England U21’s in their run to the semi-finals of the European
Championships where we predictably lost to Germany on penalties in the
semi-final. JWP was class throughout the
tournament and put his penalty in the top bin. Nathan was decent in the group games but
unfortunately was the fall guy, missing the vital penalty. He’d missed it in the walk-up where he looked
absolutely terrified. Jack Stephens and
Matt Targett didn’t make it onto the pitch in the whole tournament which was
tough on Targett in particular who had to watch the abysmally bad Ben Chilwell
of Leicester play in his position.
Jan Gets Sent Off.... Straight to Southampton
Last seen getting sent off against England was Jan Bednarek
of Poland and he’s since joined us for a fee of about £5million from Legia
Warsaw. He looked raw as you like in the
games I saw so I feel that this is one or the future and is a bit of a no lose
gamble. He does however look like Toby
Alderweireld’s long lost brother so if he plays anything like our ex-loanee
then brilliant. I imagine though that
he’ll be 4th choice behind Jack Stephens, Maya Yoshida and Virgil,
if he stays.
Sam Gallagher signed a new deal which shows that he’s going
to be in and around the first team this season after a good season on loan at
Blackburn. He wouold have been useful
this season just gone with the way we played.
At least then we may have had someone with a bit of physical presence in
the box when we threw all those hopeful crosses into the box. Also signing on for another 5 years is Jack
Stephens who proved he potentially has what it takes at the end of last
season. As I’ve said before, I feel that
his performances were somewhat over-hyped in Saints desperation to find
something positive to say about the second half of the season and whilst he had
some very good games, there were some real shockers in there and plenty of
mistakes. Going into the season with
Jack and Maya as our first choice partnership is not something I want to think
about too much.
Going out the door was Jay Rodriguez and I have no reason to
disagree with the commonly held view that this is the best thing for all
parties. His Saints career died at the
Etihad 3 years ago when his knee went. A
year and a half of recovery, a new injury and a stop-start season last year and
it’s time to move on. He was a player
that you always wanted to do well but in the end I think it became obvious that
he was never going to get back to where he was or be the sort of player who
would ever become a first team regular again.
The extra yard of pace that made him different and able to play in wide
areas was gone and though he’d beefed up to cope with the demands on his body,
he never looked comfortable as an out and out striker. The odd flash of the old Jay like Bournemouth
away was mixed in with performances where he looked like player with a
hangover, not sharp in the slightest and somewhat lacking in determination.
He’s joined West Brom which will be interesting. Tony Pulis is a huge fan of his but it’s hard
to see where he fits into a Pulis team.
Unless he plays off a big lump of a striker then he’s going to be out
wide which as discussed, is not his strength any more. If he does get regular games then maybe he
will get back to his best but that was very unlikely to happen here so good
luck to the lad. Maybe he’ll reinvent
himself as a centre back as Pulis tends to have at last four on the pitch at
any one time. I really hope he does well
though because in a world of shithouses, Jay stands out as a genuine good guy and in that respect, it's shame that he's going.
Training restarted with Mauricio meeting the players for the
first time. Virgil was present and
correct which prompted another round of delusion from Red Bastard Scouse
Land. ‘He’s only there to hand in his
transfer request’ and ‘he should be on strike’ etc etc. A more spectacular shower of wankers you will
struggle to find anywhere in the football world. His birthday seemed to trigger some more
rubbish as an article was re-hashed which basically said he only wanted to join
Liverpool and no one else. It had no new
quotes or anything factual so fake news I guess but it’s focussed my mind on
what I think about all this.
The fact is that our captain is a shithouse. He could put all this to bed at a stroke by
giving an interview, apologising (even if it’s insincere) and pledging to get
his head down. The fact he’s done none
of this suggests that shithousery is still the order of the day and it also
makes me think that Liverpool are still hanging on in there. I don’t see how he could join Liverpool and
them not get charged and found guilty of tapping up. As far as we’re concerned it’s the Fonte
situation from last summer. Captain
wants out, sulks like a spoilt little prince, is the proverbial bad apple, gets
his way in the end. I think most could
deal with him moving. Personally I don’t
give a shit either way but we can’t sell him to Liverpool, even if they’re the
only team in for him. It would be too
much of a climbdown and why the fuck should Virgil and Liverpool, the two parties
who have behaved with a lack of class, a lack of respect and a lack of decency
throughout, get what they want. The
Premier League have a lot to answer for – they could have laid down a marker
for the good of the game but they chose not to.
Personally, if I was Les Reed I’d wait for one more tiny squeak out of a
Liverpool source and then go in all guns blazing with another complaint.
So, our last three captains on the field have been Virgil,
Fonte and Lallana. We thought all three
were stand-up characters but they’ve all shot that out of the sky. I think a bit more care needs to be taken
over the next choice. I would argue that
it needs to be someone who is not likely to be chased by a big club so that
kind of rules out Oriol Romeu who would be a fantastic choice based on leading
by example and being a solid character. We could go safe with Steven Davis or
we could think long term with JWP who is obviously earmarked for the role at
some point. He’s still only 22 but why
not? I have a feeling that he’d become a
better player with the responsibility.
We’ll be getting our first taste of a Pellegrino team in
action in the next few days out in Austria.
Nothing will be gleaned from it in terms of preferred personnel but
there may be the odd thing of interest like if Virgil plays or maybe a player
playing in a slightly different position – Boufal further forward or Gabbiadini
on the pitch at the same time as Austin perhaps. The only thing that is sure is that there
will be more and more Liverpool connected wankers speaking in the media as they
get closer and closer to the season starting and them still having Lovren in
their defence.
As time has gone by and Liverpool, neutered by their own actions
and grovelling apology, have relied on an army of ex-players and Scousers in
the media to keep their pursuit of Virgil in the limelight. Jamie Carragher, Steve
Nicol, Micky Quinn, Jamie Redknapp, Danny Murphy, Sami Hyypia and Steven
Gerrard have all felt the need or been told to pipe up about the issue and then
you have the biggest wanker of them all , John Aldridge. If it goes quiet for a day or so, then
another pipes up out of nowhere - Mark Lawrenson hasn't had a go yet so I'm sure he'll be next. Coincidentally, they’ve
all felt the need to do this despite the apology and silence from Official
Anfield. As I write I hear that Klopp
was actually questioned about it and said nothing, almost blaming the fact that
the media ruined it for them. You and
your club broke the rules pal and you got caught. That seems to be lost on anyone of a Red
Scouse persuasion.
I’ve just read this back and I apologise that a majority of
it seems to be about the Red Scouse Bastards.
Be vigilant, if you drop your guard for a second they’ll seep in like a
bad fucking smell.
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