Liverpool Football Club

It needs the big clubs to act like big clubs.

It needs Liverpool to make better decisions.

It need, needs Manchester City to make better decisions.

It needs Chelsea to be better run and make better decisions.

It has been slow progression And it's not that they've actually gotten a whole lot better over the years, just those around them have gotten worse.

I suppose they've been consistent, is how best to frame it.

Liverpool have been up and down.

City have been up and down, although mostly down.

I don't think there's any other way around it.

If he loses, if he loses heavily to Chelsea and Liverpool, he's toast, and he doesn't.

And then he really showed from the Man City game on, "I can change it." And then again this summer I think he's shown a bit of versatility as well.

But I do, I do agree.

You know, but eventually you wanna get to that stage.

[laughs] And you put up managers in that situation as well.

Ariola will have that at Liverpool now as well.

So anyway, before I wrap up, Andrea-

You're very welcome along to Friday evening's Anfield Agenda news roundup.

As well as taking you through some of the comments from Andoni Iraola's pre-Fulham press conference, we're going to be talking about a return date for Hugo Ekatike and a Chelsea player who signed a new deal and ruled out a future move to the likes of Liverpool and anybody else in the medium to short term.

So, ladies and gents, we do have a lot to go through.

Just want to give you a quick reminder to say the preview for the Fulham game will be out tonight at about half past eight or so.

He's seen the good stuff.

He's seen the stuff he wants to improve and he's communicating it.

You have to say as Liverpool manager so far or as Liverpool's head coach, he hasn't really put a foot wrong.

And I've loved his honesty.

Um, Neto as well, like I thought, I thought he was gonna go, genuinely.

Whether it was Spurs, Liverpool, City, Al-Hilal, all these teams that were interested.

Uh, and we'd make a big profit.

I thought he was gonna go, genuinely.

After finding out they were interested in him.

Neto, of course, also had interest in Saudi Arabia.

He also had interest from Liverpool and Spurs.

You know, lots and lots of Premier League elite interest.

Okay.

Um, I don't know where, T- Tony, have Fulham got the potential to be this season's Wolves? They go to Liverpool tomorrow.

Liverpool, very interesting that Alexis Mac Allister sort of played out his frustrations publicly and then got a brilliant goal in the Champions League the other night against Atlético Madrid.

What's going on-

Yeah

Well, first of all, Matt, he didn't play well enough last year.

You know, uh, he didn't.

He wasn't a standout player for Liverpool, and there were others that did, and it was a poor year for Liverpool.

I'm gonna go back to those, uh, Paul Carr guys real quick, back to the, uh, other ones.

He's also on Liverpool-Fulham over three and a half goals plus 115.

Arsenal win the nil at plus 115 as well.

A three-pack.

Buffalo-FIU under 47 and a half.

Duke-Illinois under 51 and a half.

Liverpool-Fulham, both teams to score yes minus 170, so there will not be a nil in the final score.

And then finally, uh, oh, Dr.

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Hanging out at the pool is great, relaxing and playing Vegas-style games on my phone at the same time.

Net, if you actually look at where a lot of that money came from, it was the newly promoted teams, freshly minted from Premier League money going into the system, or owner-related funding, like Tottenham.

Liverpool, slight... difference where maybe a little bit of owner funding but equally they've just had significant amount of wages drop off their wage bill so it's probably a little bit of kind of cash flow management there to the question i think the the economics of it is a little bit strange it's very circular and It insulates the Premier League from the rest of the market in so much that the Premier League's competitive advantage versus other leagues is the amount of TV revenue it generates.

They've kind of kept it in-house.

Not too much of that has actually left the league.

Interesting with the Premier League, you talked about owner financing.

So I think Spurs owners put 300 million or something in their last block of owner financing.

Liverpool had a big investment.

We talked about last time, although I don't know that there's a cash injection there yet.

Real Madrid have offered Artagula a six-year contract.

Why on earth? Liverpool were interested in Marco Palestri but were hampered by needing to strengthen other areas.

That is horseshit.

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