The OFFICIAL Liverpool FC thread - #DankeJürgen

[ballinaman]

You would like to think the club and fans will rally round Karius the same way as they did with Suarez.

[laoislad]

No problems personally with the idea of losing to Real, but the manner of the defeat will take a while for them to get over. Wouldn't wish what happened to Karius on any person on any team. Maybe Ramos's thuggery right before the first had something to do with it, maybe it was nerves. Hopefully for the lad he can recover from it - I can only imagine what he is going through after making those mistakes in that stage, no doubt with all his family there to watch with pride as he played on the biggest stage in club football.

Chickens came home to roost with the squad, which has been threatening for a while. Once Salah went off, the game changed completely, with no replacement even close to his level available. Hopefully the owners will keep building out the squad to give them a decent chance of making it back to the latter stages on a regular basis and even putting in a serious challenge to City. I don't give a f**k what the village idiots of the gaa board say, sympathy for Karius on a personal level aside, I think this has been an excellent season for Liverpool, with Klopp building an exciting team while making serious progress on the challenging front. Liverpool are in a good spot for the future.

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[J70]

You would like to think the club and fans will rally round Karius the same way as they did with Suarez.

Rally around yes, but they probably need to upgrade. Can you rely on Karius in high pressure situations? Can they afford to take the chance that he will get stronger? He was poor enough against Roma as well.

[Captain Obvious]

Ever since hammering moneybags Manchester City it was Champions league title to lose for Liverpool. They got ideal opposition in the final in Real Madrid who aren't in the form of recent years and was lucky to reach this years final and where their main player wasn't match fit. Liverpool did lose the title however and that was mainly down to goal keeper errors some of the worse errors ever seen in a major final and while Sane really took the fight to Madrid I think if Salah was on the field for 90 minutes he would have scored a goal or two against that ropey Real Madrid defence.

Hard to know when Liverpool will reach another Champions league final again or get a opportunity to win it as good as that again however they certainly provided plenty of entertainment on route to this final.  Klopp with a few signings in the summer probably needs to take the form from this cup competition and bring it into the League and challenge the two Manchester clubs for the title next season he has won league titles in German and is well capable of doing the same in England.

[Tony Baloney]

You would like to think the club and fans will rally round Karius the same way as they did with Suarez.

Rally around yes, but they probably need to upgrade. Can you rely on Karius in high pressure situations? Can they afford to take the chance that he will get stronger? He was poor enough against Roma as well.

Let's face it, we all knew Karius was capable of this sort of stuff but I don't think anyone expected 2 clangers in one match. Klopp hasn't dealt with what we all know is a weak link.

[manfromdelmonte]

Clearly Salah was at it too
A one man team.
Real won easily, despite Ronaldo being muck

[blewuporstuffed]

No problems personally with the idea of losing to Real, but the manner of the defeat will take a while for them to get over. Wouldn't wish what happened to Karius on any person on any team. Maybe Ramos's thuggery right before the first had something to do with it, maybe it was nerves. Hopefully for the lad he can recover from it - I can only imagine what he is going through after making those mistakes in that stage, no doubt with all his family there to watch with pride as he played on the biggest stage in club football.

Chickens came home to roost with the squad, which has been threatening for a while. Once Salah went off, the game changed completely, with no replacement even close to his level available. Hopefully the owners will keep building out the squad to give them a decent chance of making it back to the latter stages on a regular basis and even putting in a serious challenge to City. I don't give a f**k what the village idiots of the gaa board say, sympathy for Karius on a personal level aside, I think this has been an excellent season for Liverpool, with Klopp building an exciting team while making serious progress on the challenging front. Liverpool are in a good spot for the future.

Yeah agree with all that

Yeah well summed up

[J70]

Clearly Salah was at it too
A one man team.
Real won easily, despite Ronaldo being muck

Nothing clear about that photo at all. Salah was on the way to ground. Where would YOUR arm be in that instance if Ramos had hold of it?

[Milltown Row2]

He could have fallen a thousand different ways and it would have been a different outcome! Up to that point I though he was we'll marshalled.. had  Alexander's effort went in then who knows! I fancied Liverpool but they went missing bar Mane  and Lovern who was excellent..

As for The banter that's all it is, chill out take it on the chin and don't bite! It would be exactly the same either way

[Insane Bolt]

Liverpool's season has been rock and roll entertainment.....United's more like Leonard Cohen😜

[From the Bunker]

A one man team.

That's one thing Liverpool have in Common with Manchester United - (DeGea)!

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Delmontes everton. A no-man team 

[Over the Bar]

Death threats from fans and his team shun him virtually to a man?  You'll never walk alone eh?
https://twitter.com/_dantheman10/status/1000650888644526080?s=19

[StGallsGAA]

Death threats from fans and his team shun him virtually to a man?  You'll never walk alone eh?
https://twitter.com/_dantheman10/status/1000650888644526080?s=19

LOL @ the excuses below the tweet.  "Karius asked the players to leave him on his own so he could accept responsibility to the fans...."  The DUP press office could give apologists like that in a job...

[laoislad]

Would rather have got hammered than lose like that.  Were doing great up until the Salah injury, albeit without getting a goal.  The game changed after that.  Maybe Real would have found their feet and grown more in the game anyway, who knows.  Madrid mix the sublime with the dark arts well. 

The way Ramos dealt with Salah reminded me of Meath on Canavan in the 96 AI semi.  Ramos was going to do Salah one way or the other it seems.  Pulling an opponent down like that and landing with your full weight on him is reckless and inviting serious injury, and i suspect he knew exactly what he was at.  Much more 'incidental' rather a high tackle.  This is Ramos ffs, the same guy we've seen at shite for years in big matches but more often than not it pays off for him.  There's also the small matter of him sticking the elbow in Karius's head just 2 minutes before the first goal, which was missed by the officials too. Liverpool players didn't have the nous to at least crowd the ref and put pressure on him to watch out for Ramos.  In the days of Souness a Ramos wouldn't have lasted the match after that.  Liverpool don't have that winning mentality in the current set up to deal with these things.

Mixed feelings on Karius. Wouldn't wish that on anyone and it's a burden he will have to carry a long time.  I hope he can deal with it.  But he shouldn't have been in the spotlight in a massive game like that. Klopp should have had the goalkeeping situation sorted by now.  Ultimately he has done Karius no favours.

Missed this post earlier. What with all the kids posting their nonsense sometimes it's easy miss the good posts.
Some good points there. Didn't see that Ramos incident where he elbowed Karius until today. A dirty piece of work is Ramos.
They just have to buy a new keeper. I really feel for Karius but we all knew he was capable of such errors.  There is no way Liverpool can challenge for honours with him in goal.

Despite the disappointment last night I really enjoyed the season. Some of the football has been breathtaking. Like I said in a post before the game I felt last night was a step to far and so it was. We'll never know what might have been if Salah had stayed on but the game changed completely after he went off. They were controlling the game up to that point

Honestly believe this transfer window is the most important in many a year for Liverpool. Keita is a good start though.