The one thing that Trump may have misdiagnosed is that the American people aren't going into another war unless they are directly attacked and even then it has to beg significant. The young aren't. Anyone under 30 or 35 have grown up since childhood with America continuously at war in Afghanistan and Iraq. No one is going for it I'm guessing. The country is tired of it.

I can't recall where I heard it. I think a pundit on the TV was saying that, at 27, you are not going to improve Mustafi. It is very unlikely he is not going to improve.He's been on good teams and had defensive training by fine coaches. He is what he is. So, its best to get rid of even if you have to take a loss.

Santa asked if I'm naughty or nice during the festive season. There, you found out the truth
No wonder I didn't get my Christmas goodies from Santa

PS: Baited (I'm also urging for a Pool loss )

Hi Kiwi, shouldn't you be out there saving the whales that beached in NZ?

Is Trump diverting attention from his impeachment?

Its that obvious, huh? lol. Two things. That and he is obsessive about Obama. He's spent his administration trying to unravel anything Obama has done, even if he agrees with it. The other reason is Obama got Osama bin Laden and Trump can't top that. So, he's getting as close as he can. Israel wants us to start a war with Iran as well. I think that's three things.

This time around, no one is going for it. Our military age youth have literally lived with two wars for their entire lives. Two unpopular wars and they'll be damned if they are going to be used as cannon fodder for someone who backed out of the war he was supposed to go to.

As far as the impeachment trial he'll not be convicted. He has too many votes. However, its widely said that if the votes were done in secret he'd be out of office easily. Too many Republican senators are from states that support him.

Would have been top of my list if I'd known about it G7 ... I never watch TV .

Pilot whale beaching ; is quite a common ocurrence in NZ , lots of times refloated and shepherded out to sea the dopey bludgers try and re beach themselves .

Ahhh but that is written in there .... blokes saying the house is the wife's domain out here I'm the boss .

I don't need to get away from the wife .... I just like shagging around making things .

got me stumped with that one ... big laughter + Laurel and Hardy ....

A room in our house is now known as the shed.

When younger my sons called the room Dad’s shed after the amount of time that I spent in there on the computer and the like. The name stuck.

Seems we are linked to Hakim Ziyech. Ajax has had some good players lately. I don't mind a play maker but only 1. if we are getting rid of someone with a similar role and skill set. and 2. We don't pass on quality defenders first.

I miss Ramsey, he'd have flourished under Mikel.

Both yours and Greeny's can work ... a little spot of you own decorated with your own little creature comforts . The English don't put such a high priority on a shed / garage .

We bought an end of terrace in Kent , all the garages were clumped together in a communal block about thirty metres from the house ; by NZ standards very strange

Of course having your designated room within the house itself means you miss out on those really manly excercises like arc welding , grinding , gas cutting , starting up a 6 litre engine .

That's the bugger - cheers.

that's better I've put the American tossbag on foe .... brilliant ... I don't have to look at avalanche of copy and paste .

Warrior any chance I could take over the admin when you go on holiday ..... just run me through the routine for banning people .

The Arsenal today in 1953 with a letter signed by Bob Wall. Not a very interesting letter, but a lovely letterhead.

AG has been on here for years. I very much doubt he's a plastic
If you don't like his posts ignore them.

Pffft - Holiday ?

The ban button is burned out from overuse anyway ....

If you’ve blocked him maybe you know as I’ve never blocked anyone, so perhaps can tell me this?

When someone you haven’t blocked replies to and quotes the post of another member you have blocked, would you see the copies in yellow of the original post by the person you have blocked as well as the one by the individual you haven’t blocked?

For example, if our friend friend from across the Atlantic hasn’t blocked Gunfire, who just did a post responding to and quoting one by Greeny who he presumably has blocked, would he be able to read the quoted post by Greeny as well as Gunfire’s?

Thanks Greeny.

That was his plan ... post something incoherent for you to ponder

I think he's an Arsenal fan living in the Midlands. Either he wrote one long letter that needed a few replies or he spent Christmas writing to everyone at Arsenal because here's another reply he received. As for whether he got the programme (or indeed what programme he was after), I'm afraid we may never know that one.

Don't really care much if Liverpool wins their FA Cup tie. Yeah, we win, we may have to face them but in reality we are very unlikely to do well unless some big names lose Which has happened but I'd rather us do well in the Europa and be firmly top half of table in the league.

Kane being injured is a major blow for Mourinho. He's still got people who can score at any time (Delli, Son, etc) but Kane is obviously his biggest threat. This season, Man Utd, Chelsea, Tottenham and us have all been playing badly the top 4 is there for the taking. Happy for Leicester for taking advantage. I hope they get top 4. Talk about punching above your weight.

If Liverpool can just lose in the league. Wouildn't care if they got a treble. Stick it to the Man Utd fans who called their 3 trophy haul 'Mickey mouse treble' many years ago. But just don't go unbeaten.

AmericanGooner has posted this for informational purposes only (assuming the US government is reading this )

Morning Bernard ...... exactly as Greeny explains ..... if only Warrior would refine the system so that there is no notification that your foe has even posted at all .... now that would be nice

Don't think it is planned but he does manage that on most ocassions .

Liverpool’s teenagers beat full strength Everton 1-0. Deserved as well.

Selling Walcott for £20m was one of the better decisions we’ve made in the transfer market recently. I’ve not seen him have a good game since he left us.

Didn't watch the match but I am a little surprised at the result considering its a derby and Liverpool got clobbered playing youth in the league cup. They apparently made adjustments.

In hindsight the sale of Walcott was a good idea. If he was able to stay healthy, I think he could have had a role in an Arteta side with his pace down the wings but in the end, it was a good decision.

Walcott doesn’t look as quick as he once was either. No big shock I guess as he is approaching his 31st birthday. Without pace, even at his peak Theo would arguably have been a Brighton and Hove Albion level player. So it’s probably not too surprising if he hasn’t done that well at Everton.

Fabregas, van Persie, Ramsey and Gnabry are the 4 players I regret losing the most. I had very little doubt Gnabry was going to be a big. Had we gotten 2 or 3 years more of a healthy van Persie, I think we would have gotten back into the CL.

Wenger being petty and not taking Fabregas back is the one of the things I disliked about him the most. We could have had Anelka back for a few years as well were it not for Wenger being petty and vindictive.

We likely still could be using Fabregas now. One of the big reasons I wanted Wenger out. Him trying to seem dispassionate but really has a mean streak in him.

That's completely unfair. As you know I've always rated Walcott and...nah...can't keep that up even for a gag.

He had everything needed to be a great footballer except for any understanding of how to play football so he just did everything by numbers. I felt you could always see it in his crossing - so often he'd cross with lovely contact and perfect body shape but to a completely different point to where it was needed. But he looked good and his supporters complained no one was there.

I did used to think there was something deliberate and almost snidey in him and his playing up to the fans but I think it more likely he's just been doing absolutely everything by numbers.

Hi Rich,

Very annoying the giant strides Liverpool have made on and off the pitch in recent years. They are now an elite club again with an elite manager, elite squad and an elite mentality.

They have bought and sold incredibly well, have a well defined system of play and whilst they have been fortunate with the timing of some of their sales and purchases they have developed and integrated their purchases spectacularly well into their system.

They also have a conveyer belt of promising young talent coming through their youth academies.

Hopefully the Arteta era will be seen as the beginning of our climb back to the top once again.

Then again United have tried everything to get back again and are struggling to do so which just shows that even arguably the biggest team in the world can fall away and find it incredibly difficult to regain that lost ground if poor decisions are made on and off the pitch.

Thanks.

If City or Chelsea were in the same position as Liverpool right now in the table, etc, it would be convenient and easy to blame it on the money that billionaires infused into the club. But with Liverpool the American owners that took over several years ago bought a club in debt.

Their value at the time was below ours on those rankings of valuable clubs. The sale of Suarez was forced. They had a few big stars they were forced to sell but what they have done is replace them. Suarez is better than Salah but Saleh has done very, very well for them. He didn't have to be as good as Suarez. Along with other buys.

Liverpool has removed the 'money' , 'financially doped' excuse. The American owners they have gave them the tools to succeed, primarily money. They opened the check book. That's the biggest thing an owner can do as well as getting the right management in place that is hungry for success.

We have the wrong owner. Arteta is going to get to a point where even if he is successful, we will need money to get to the next level. We may need to spend 70 mil on a defender. It's why I have always said, if we achieve great success it will be despite our ownership, not because of.

Every now and them I check whether I should be impressed/respectful/entertained by them, but no, turns out they’re undeserving swine and I’m entitled, nay, justified in hating it all with a burning passion.

Imagine being United though, first City then Liverpool!

No I still hate it.

For approximately 2 hours I will be the biggest Tottenham fan on Saturday. And like most of their fans will end up cursing them by the end of the match.

That Clarkson is a real laugh isn’t he. It’s sad when people totally lose their way in life.

Thankfully there are genuine people like OMOH who posted the other day about the fires.

Enough said on that. Let us hope the revival continues against Leeds. I think it will be a bloody difficult game but I hope we just put the effort in from the first minute.

Morning Soc,
This website is great for the instant review of all transfers a club has made
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-live ... /verein/31
Everyone knows about the huge amount Countinho sale bought in and what it allowed Liverpool to do but even more impressive for me (as it is more sustainable rather than the 1 off one in a generation sale) has been their ability to move on squad players for fantastic sums
£20m for Ings, £19m for Solanke, £12m for Danny Ward, £16m Ibe, £13m Joe Allen, £25m Benteke, £25m Sahko, £10m Borini even getting a £5m loan fee for Origi. All that is more than the £140m they got for Coutinho

Milivojevic is suspended for our trip to Palace - he's scored a few pens against us recently. Palace have a raft of injuries as well. Couldn't ask for a better time to play them next saturday

Rumor is Man Utd are after Zaha. Weren't they after him a few years ago?