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Yes it is a coincidence, because it coincided with a lot of first team players coming back from illness/injury and going straight back into the first team.

It’s not a question of who they replace in the first team, you don’t have to look far back to see the trouble injuries can cause - you need a squad of players and he must still want them in the squad. The bit in bold is the real point though. Your question is why weren’t they sent back and had the loans cancelled - I guess this is why. Smith is the one whose opinion matters, not ours.

Maybe, just maybe, we’ve kept them because Smith wants to keep them?

There is no universe where Brendan Rodgers can be considered more attractive than Guardiola or even Arteta. Is this voted for in association with guide dogs for the blind?

TBH we haven’t done enough winning with a settled first 11 to really say X player or Y player has made a difference. They’ve all been involved in losses, draws, wins, good performances and bad ones. The main difference has been Smith and the injuries/illness we have had. Whoever he puts out, in whatever formation, I’ll trust him that they are the ones he thinks are best for that game.

It only goes so far. Abuse doesn’t always have to be offensive or illegal to be hurtful and mentally harmful to players. The CCTV is only going to try to identify potentially criminal abuse like racist abuse, throwing things etc. If you are say Sargent, basically getting laughed at and called **** by thousands of people, well wouldn’t that be pretty mentally awful for him? Yet fans feel entitled to throw abuse at players because they pay their ticket money, or buy stuff from the shop or whatever.

It’s not either/or though is it? You can do both. It’s unlikely that Liverpool, or any club, can stop the abuse, so they do what they can to help players cope with it. Other authorities can try and stop as much of the abuse as they can, but some will always slip through. Once it’s been read then you can ban for the future but at that point the damage has been done.

I think if they have trouble keeping up with play and making decisions properly, it won’t take very many games for this to be noticed and then probably it’d be addressed.

Everton are surely the most catchable, I don’t see Ferguson being able to do much and actually apart from a couple, they don’t have a great squad.

Yes we do 👍🏻

I don’t care if it was intentional. I mean who really cares? In the end it was a cracking goal. The point is that in order to get the contact with the ball good enough to even go in the correct general direction takes a lot of skill. Great goals don’t have to be intentional, and it was a great goal, whether it was lucky, intended or not. Why do we have to try and put a negative slant on it?

I honestly do think it’s a worldie , there are plenty of players on that pitch who wouldn’t have scored it. To be fair, I think that’s the most skilful play I have seen from Sargent. The timing, meeting the ball well with the correct part of the foot from such an unusual leg position, directing the ball with power in the correct direction - all of that in an instant? It’s a brilliant goal, and that it’s instinctive doesn’t take away from the ability he needs to have to execute it properly.

I think this is what frustrates me. I understand both Farke and Smith saying what they have so far, because sometimes in order to preserve an employees private and personal information you cannot be completely honest. Yet Todd seems to throw that back at them on social media. Denying that he has any problems, that he’s fit to train and play (it’s clear he wasn’t), pictures of him out and about though he can’t go to training. Farke and Smith appear to be going to lengths to support and cover for him and be undoes it all on social media posting. Whatever the issues are, I am really sympathetic to him and problems he might be having as I’ve gone through hard times and know how hard even simple things can be. That said he should just keep his head down, which really only amounts to not being all over social media and working hard to get back to fitness. Not a big ask for a professional football player.

If he had a bad attitude/was trying to get away etc then I don’t see why he’d be in and around the team and taken to Watford last night. That said, I don’t see why he’s there anyway if they have no intention of playing him or putting him in the team, it shows he is fit and available. It’s all just weird contrary behaviour on all sides, which just creates more speculation rather than less.

Well they have to win/take points out of them and none of those teams have done an awful lot of that this season.

They are playing Blinded by the lights in the background at Watford 🤣🤣

3??? ****ing Hell

That can be his third for a hattrick.

Having that kid has really got Sargent going!

SARGENT!! What a goal as well.

Inaccurate to say, because it started before the substitution if we are honest.

People will talk about players but I honestly think this is the biggest difference.

God loves McLean, he makes it happen.

I just don’t get why everyone is now moaning about Arsenal doing it once when there’s teams been doing it since last year and Liverpool must have actually made up those false positives they used to call their game off, given the accuracy for the test on those is at 99%.

I have a little bit of sympathy for Arsenal here given that they played (and lost) their first few games after a Covid outbreak took out a lot of first team players. I think that now so many other teams seem to be playing the system, like Liverpool reporting all those very unlikely false positives, I get the impression that it’s now a case of “well if they are doing it so are we” not sure I can blame them. I wish Norwich had done it a bit more (though in fairness they may have tried).