The Mailbox hopes Arsenal fans will stop “complaining” about Newcastle’s goal last season after moot decisions in their win over Crystal Palace on Saturday. And they’re all responding to the email from Dave and the LFC. . .
Let us know what you theeditor@football365. com. . .
I just need to thank the editor for printing the letter from Dave, LFC this morning. I’m already in a good mood because it’s Friday, but this letter made me cry with laughter in the office.
From Trent’s games wherever he wants, to Liverpool, to Liverpool winning the PL and CL this year and next, and then the ‘bomb team’ lol. Absolutely hilarious.
Dave LFC explicitly asked me what I had to say now about his portrayal of the hybrid role of Trent, so let’s go:
1. What’s going on with this unwarranted mockery of my signature with a slot?(Should I call him “Dave (yes, we know you at the LFC, like a lot of people)”?)
2. Dave merges and confuses the 2021/22 2022/23 seasons into a single season. LFC didn’t spend any time in 21/22 ‘limping in the top four’ but won the FA Cup League Cup and reached the CL final. with 92 points. Dave claimed in April 2023 that the 2-2 draw against Arsenal was the first time he had been enthusiastic about LFC in 2 years. I’m not sure what’s going on here with the logic, it’s still very hard to follow.
3. Si Dave believes LFC can win the Champions League this year, he will be disappointed. In fact, a lack of “perception, awareness, or value. “
4. RE: Trent’s hybrid role, I’m not one of those who ever suggested that Trent belonged in a classic midfield. I didn’t express any skepticism or doubt about the hybrid role. I only pointed out that a single game opposed to Arsenal (which ended 2-2) there was no explanation for describing Trent as “an almost insignificant artistic force” and pointed out that new tactics take some time before they are reviewed by opposing coaches, after which at some point they become outspoken. It hasn’t happened yet. But we’re only 20 games into a 38-game season. I’m not sure it’s time for Dave to say, “I told you so. “
5. No mentioned this in my previous answer, but I don’t know why Dave (many others) behave like “a defender who gambles in midfield when he has ownership and returns to defense when he doesn’t. “Klopp’s concept tailor-made for Trent. Isn’t that the kind of thing Guardiola has been doing for more than 15 years at this point?This has already been done to varying degrees with groups and players, whether it’s Guardiola’s or others. There are also notable examples of the use of supposedly out-of-position players such as Kimmich, Lahm, Mascherano, Zinchenko, Mascherano and others. These examples are all the others and are not the best parallels with Trent, however, the general concept of employing players in other positions to have other roles when entering or exiting the property is not a new thing.
There’s a lot to analyse when it comes to Dave LFC (okay, Dave, we get it, you’re rooting for Liverpool. Relax, other people too) honestly, I don’t know where to start.
The central thesis of your letter, which essentially states that you’re so much smarter than anyone else in football because you can see things that other people can’t see in relation to Klopp, was shared on the (pretty excellent) Football Weekly podcast. I think of Johnathan Fudugba – the way Klopp uses his substitutes and builds a team of around 16 main players, where he rotates more, employing the five substitutes with the greatest effect to keep the players fresher and his pace higher. , the same podcast and pretty much the entire world of Anglocentric football have talked about the TAA and its hybrid role, and how it will gain advantages (or not) for it personally, Liverpool and England. Self-centeredly claims that you are the first to see this, and the only one who still sees it despite all ‘experienced’ footballers (without sources) wondering when Klopp will turn TAA into a true midfielder. Is this still happening?
Furthermore, since that Arsenal game, this “radical tactical shift” that you spotted above all else, was actually spoken about in comparison to the previous “radical tactical shift” which was carried out with John Stones. Guardiola popularised the “inverted fullback” and essentially, quite famously last season, created a hybrid midfield role for John Stones, which Klopp (amongst others) have tried to mimic to varying degrees of success. Sure, different clubs, systems, players and outcomes, they’re all different, until they’re all not. To really claim you have your head above the idiotic footballing clouds and can see what is really happening where others are too stupid to is ironically a walking example of the “general lack of intelligence of the average football man and the intense tribalism which surrounds our game”
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And of course, maybe you were satisfied with your (unoriginal) opinion, and it hurts you when someone disagrees (I’m pretty sure not everyone in football agrees on everything, it doesn’t matter, right?), but the percentage Oliver’s letter, and not yours. Array from over 6 months ago in an effort to make you laugh and have everyone read it as malicious nonsense. I don’t percentage his original opinion, so we have to take his word for what he originally said, and Oliver’s reaction letter is simply taken out of context, which never provides the full picture. Also, doesn’t it provide any additional evidence for the claims he makes about all the football idiots out there saying everything he claimed in his email today, that TAA is an intelligent midfielder and that Klopp doesn’t get enough credit? Sure, make claims, but what’s the point of only choosing what you get yourself? It undermines your entire argument. Also, everything you said has already been said (in Football Weekly, to cite a source) and you are simply repeating it here as your own ideas.
And finally, this glorious paragraph;
“And yes I was and always will be more excited about the possibility of Liverpool winning the premier league and champions league (which we now look like we can do this year and next) more than the FA cup and league cup while limping along outside the top 4 like we did most of that year, that is until the “radical change in tactics I had seen” had their effect”
Dave’s LFC letterbox is the reason I love Liverpool and their fans.
We understand football like no other fanbase does. We are not known as the ‘most knowledgeable fanbase’ in football for no reason. As a fanbase, it is clear to me that we appreciate tactical nuance much better than most of the football world, including fans and managers of other clubs like Arsenal.
One day they will have it, but that day is today, and until then, world football will have forgotten about them.
It’s only the Liverpool fanbase that could have appreciated Jurgen’s (or Jurgie) masterful playing of the violin. Any other fanbase would have been ignorant of his brilliance, they can’t see past how he looks like a tramp with too-white teeth.
It wasn’t. The reason I mentioned Spurs is threefold. 1. Sure, Spurs are probably our biggest rival over the past 20 years and we absolutely love the fact that, for all the bluster and prancing about from you guys, you are still a couple of decades away from your last trophy, whereas we won a bona fide major trophy this year (acknowledged by this site and every other publication, there is no argument even from my Spurs friends). And indeed from you Sir I think when you said “only the bitterest of Spurs fans could begrudge West Ham fans their celebrations tonight,”
2. Given the lack of WHU writers or participants in this (this is not F365’s fault, as I’ve already been told, they can only print what they get. On that note, please everyone, I, for one, would love to hear about your team wherever they are (unless it’s United or Liverpool. . . Enough is enough, please. ) The tougher, the more passionate, the more football-loving and the more dedicated, the better. They would all be gold compared to the same old Utd/Pool/non-crisis ravings. “
3. Dave, I don’t know your background and I think you’re a smart writer. I wish you all the best, especially if you write for this site that has been provided on the home screen for over 20 years. But as true constructive criticism, the Spurs’ rabid bias is evident in the first two sentences of all his writing. So, in critiquing and asking my own team after their article on WH temperament ratings, this was something I particularly sought to challenge him on.
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Your response was to say that the whole purpose of me writing in about Moyes-Out was because of Spurs. Err, get over yourself Spuds fans, not everything is about you.
The comment that “the screeching West Ham team who now proudly shout ‘European champions, you’ll never sing that’ in each and every game, adding up at City ?”
I should be too lazy and below you, my friend. To “shudder,” read “a large number of unwavering enthusiasts who travel in large numbers everywhere, who have been without a trophy for 40 years, celebrating that trophy as much as imaginable next. “year” (and more, I’m sure)). As for the “even do it in the city” comment, you’re aware of the irony and sense of humor, right?Almost every single fan of the club (honestly, with the exception of Spurs fans, apparently) has a very good dose of self-loathing on their surface. I Spurs. Es not strange to them. Anyway, yes, years since the last trophy = zero. Pretend you’re not exhausted, you just look silly. Especially if you intend to be a football editor.
I don’t have any very productive wishes for your long-term career yet, and if you manage to make this site even better than it already is, I’ll stick religiously to your writings, sir. But tone down the “single rating” articles. Ange Postecoglou has already done ridiculous things at Spurs. . . “There’s a very genuine sense that something special and serendipitous come together here. “Even my friends who have Spurs season tickets said they shuddered when they read this lengthy article. on potatoes.