I can think of a few reasons why most fans in the league want Liverpool. Among them City's money.

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Liverpool fans: Liverpool 100% - 0% Manchester City

Manchester City fans: Liverpool 0% - 100% Manchester City

Tottenham fans: Liverpool 53% - 47% Manchester City

Arsenal fans: Liverpool 53% - 47% Manchester City

Chelsea fans: Liverpool 47% - 53% Manchester City

Manchester United fans: Liverpool 36% - 64% Manchester City

Everton fans: Liverpool 33% - 67% Manchester City

Watford fans: Liverpool 56% - 44% Manchester City

Leicester fans: Liverpool 60% - 40% Manchester City

Wolves fans: Liverpool 72% - 28% Manchester City

West Ham fans: Liverpool 71% - 29% Manchester City

Crystal Palace fans: Liverpool 62% - 38% Manchester City

Newcastle fans: Liverpool 64% - 36% Manchester City

Bournemouth fans: Liverpool 72% - 28% Manchester City

Burnley fans: Liverpool 50% - 50% Manchester City

Southampton fans: Liverpool 48% - 52% Manchester City

Brighton fans: Liverpool 52% - 48% Manchester City

Cardiff fans: Liverpool 59% - 41% Manchester City

Fulham fans: Liverpool 73% - 27% Manchester City

Huddersfield Town fans: Liverpool 75% - 25% Manchester City

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Spurs score very very late, surely going to beat Brighton 1-0 now.

Just knew they would... their luck seemingly never runs out.

Argghh! Thought Brighton could hold on with some luck. The fact it went this late for sperz to win is surprising given the opposition.

Sperz aren't who we are competing against anyway. I've pretty much conceded 3rd to them. Its Man Utd and Chelsea we have to worry about.

Late goals are the signs of very good teams, but you can’t keep relying on them. Both spurs and Liverpool have won lots of games very late this year.

The way we are playing, should we see a draw as a good result?

Had we beaten Palace yes but now we really need a win.

Thanks for that Old Man. What a player and what a career. Top player and top man.822 games for Celtic and played every minute .…never ever substituted Part of the brilliant Celtic team that did actually do the quadruple. Love the incredible statistic that 10 of the team who won the European Cup were born within 10 miles of the ground(Bobby Lennox was born 30 miles !). I can still remember seeing Tommy Gemmell’s rocket shot in the final.
Travel well Billy.

Wow, a quadruple!

Do you really think we can win at Wolves in the form we are in...and they are in? They have been giant killers. I am hoping the squad surprises me but I'm not confident. They need to play this match like that overused adage 'a cup final'.

The most concerning headline I have read today is Emery defending Mustafi and describing him as a very good defender; still young and still improving. FFS there is no evidential basis of that at all.
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I understand his need to deflect the heat from Mustafi but if he truly believes any of this I am very concerned that he intends to keep him. It is more of the Wenger era of making players not accountable at all.

Look at Man U after the Everton debacle. Players having to get on social media and apologise and acknowledgements their efforts were not good enough. They lost 4-0 not 8-2. A result from which never once did Wenger, the players or the club apologise. Or did I miss a full blown apology.

The Wolves game is really d-day for the club and in particular our defence but Mustafi in particular.

Sokratis back for tonight. Emery has been playing back 4’s away from home at times. But he’s also gone ultra conservative with only 3 attacking players recently.

No doubt in my mind that no matter who we are playing now we have to be playing attacking line ups:
If that is 5 at the back or 4 at the back we must be both strikers

Only 56,251 people at spurs home game last night. There were more at West Ham’s home game this week!

Tottenham's fan base isn't as big as Arsenal's, not by a long way. Who's that wind-up presenter on Talksport associated with being anti-Arsenal even though his wife supports us and he buys her season ticket? I remember, Adrian Durham. Even he said it a few months ago. Most of the Tottenham fans I know admit it.

I wonder how well their corporate side of things will do. It was rumoured that a fully filled club level and boxes at the emirates takes more money per game that the whole of Highbury.
Anyway, how many of the corporate types who like to take clients to games are going to want to consistently trek up to Tottenham, the area isn’t great and the public transport is awful.

Ok, so here’s my take on who could go and what should come in. Özil and Mkhitaryan are in there based on the need to shift high wages off the book and neither seemingly being Emery men.

Obviously the list is high fantasy and no way can I see this much of a turnaround this summer but you’d have to think at least 8-9 or so of the out list are really on their way. 9 of the ones listed have contributed enough to this season to need to be replaced in the first team

Chambers £20m
Özil £25m
Mustafi £20m
Mkhitaryan £20m
Elneny £10m
Ospina £4m
Bennacer £3m (sell on fee we are due)
Jenkinson £0
Monreal £0
Lichtsteiner £0
Čech £0
Ramsey £0
Welbeck £0
£102m

New back up gk £10m
New LB £20m
New CB £30m
New Ramsey replacement £40m
New left wing £40m
New right wing Nelson £0m
New young striker/wide man £10m
Promote Willock to replace Elneny
£150m

Is that because not enough people wanted to go or was the capacity slightly limited.

I vaguely recall somebody's new stadium operating at slightly below capacity for the first few games as some sort of security measure or something.

Players out of contract as of 30/06/19:

Welbeck, Saurez (on loan), Monreal, Jenkinson and Lichsteiner.

Čech retiring and Ramsey is off to pastures new.

Koscielny is the only player out of contract as of 30/06/20

We are stuck with Elneny until 30/06/22 but would imagine he's moved on by then.

If we lose both Özil and Mkitaryan, we'll need a new creative player as well as a Ramsey replacement. Unless Guendouzi, who despite his recent loss of form I still consider a brilliant prospect, can fill either role, that will be expensive.

But we're only 4 points behind them with a game in hand. And the squeaked a home win against Brighton. Their form is worse than ours so why the defeatist attitude????

There's every chance we will beat Wolves tonight, if we get a decent side on the pitch we show some purpose and the ball bounces the right way for us. Of course we could easily draw or lose too. Its football.

Possibly, but I think they got 60,000for one game, 2.5k under capacity. It would be strange to cap capacity on a 62,500 stadium to 60,000 for safety measures. Quite a small percentage.

But after spurs made such a fuss of having a stadium with more capacity than ours it will be interesting to see if they actually ever beat our capacity at any point

Fair comment. Perhaps my £40m left wing can be the versatile creative player who can drift to the wing - we used to have loads of those at one point. There are rumours around a brazilian kid called Martinelli who is left wing/striker for £10m. - or we could give Welbeck a 2 year deal....?

If Özil, Mkhitaryan and Ramsey all leave then we certainly do need some serious investment in those creative positions.

It would leave us with attacking players of Lacazette, Aubamayang, Iwobi, Nelson and youth team players.

I think one thing is for certain is that it should be a very busy summer for Arsenal. Last summer felt quite refreshing, 5 first team transfers and that was before Emery had had chance to assess the squad competitively. No one really knows the transfer budget either. Champions League will certainly bolster it and attract better players so it is absolutely vital we get it

I would guess if we did offload Özil and Mkhitryan then their save on wages could boost the transfer pot(?) It would save £28m in wages alone over 1 season. Theoretically that could add £18m to a transfer kitty and pay £100k per week to 2 new players

I think it would be exceptionally hard to sell Özil and mhikitaryan.

Özil is on 350k a week. There’s probably less than 14 clubs in europe or even globally who can pay a salary like that. Plus he’s 30

Henrik is 31 in January on a 170k a week contract plus the club would want a transfer fee for him as his contract has time to run.

I just can’t see anybody coming in and taking these 2 guys off our hands anytime soon. I’ll be shocked if they aren’t with us next year

This is kinda interesting to watch. Which nation's players has scored the most in the European cup/CL over the years. Hungary had a ton of goals in the 50s and 60s because of their great teams of that era and then the advent of Brazil later coming into Europe in numbers. Germany always up there though.

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I'm not going to slag off Emery for not slaughtering his own players in public. That's what Mourinho did at Manchester United, and it lost him the dressing room pretty damn quickly.

From what I’ve seen Emery hasn’t really had the chance to not play mustafi.
Early in the season Koscielny and Mavrapanos were both injured, and Monreal missed a few games.
Then Holding got injured.
Sokratis has missed games with injury and suspension.
I don’t think Emery trusts Mustafi in a back 4, especially when his partner is more junior- so he’s been playing him in the back 5.
Emery has traditionally always played a back 4.
A new CB with Mustafi sold might allow him to do that more next year

Yep. I think Mustafi is crap but I wouldn't want Emery to criticise any of his players in public. As you suggest, it benefits no one.

Aubameyang not in the squad tonight - injured or rested, I don't know.
Looks like a 4-2-3-1 formation with Kos and Sok at centre back and Mustafi on the bench. Özil behind Lacazette.

If Aubameyang is unavailable that’s the team I would have wanted to see.
Wolves play 3 at the back with their wing backs instrumental in all their attacking play. Neves and Moutinho like time on the ball and big switches of play to the wing backs. We must get on top of those two and not give them time to pick their passes. Going to need a big shift from the 5 mids behind Lacazette

The side looks well balanced on paper, I much prefer us with a back 4. But they've got to deliver a big performance as you suggest.

Loads of possession but not doing enough with it. No end product.

Exactly. Few chances to pull the trigger and nothing. Wolves break and have the first proper shot, decent chance

Typical.

1-0 Wolves

Wolves score a free kick. Foul that was more a tangle of legs immediately after Mkhitaryan was fouled at the other end

Monreal is a *%^@ defender these days.

Such a typical away performance. All the ball but no threat. Opposition score with first shot on target.

Can’t see us getting anything from this game. We simply do not win away games and nice we go behind.

Wolves are totally comfortable defending against us then they break with pace.

We just don't look like scoring, lots of pretty passes but no cutting edge.

Our build-up play is too slow.

Wolves are far more dynamic despite having less of the ball

Honestly our finishing at times is woeful. How often do we shoot with only a small chance of scoring but fail to even get it on target? What are we thinking? Hit them hard and on target, make the gk make a save and follow in or get a deflection. Ours always end up so high and wide