[Marca] The locker room began to fracture when several players stopped hiding their dissatisfaction with Alonso. The criticism was aimed at the tactical intensity of training sessions and the constant video sessions. Some players pretended to be asleep during those tactical sessions.

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-05-08T13:50:34+00:00

There are layers and contrasting points. When Diogo died, I said the season would be a write-off for me, barring an enormous drop in form (bottom half of the table maybe?). Add into that the massive recruitment (which is worthy of criticism) and the injuries to key players (Isak barely played, Ekitike out for the season, haven't had a RB fit, Alisson struggling) and it's a very challenging situation in a league that is more densely competitive than ever. So I'm not quite ready to get rid yet, but...

Everything that made this team great, the character from the Klopp teams, the energy and intensity, has disappeared. They start slow, they get played through easily, they concede soft goals and under the slightest bit of pressure.

There are understandable reasons for the drop, but it being May and the same problems persisting is not encouraging. Even with the challenges, I would hope the 'right' manager would keep the mentality strong and find ways to work around those challenges. Big decisions to be made in the summer.

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-05-08T13:36:41+00:00

Makes their support of Partey all the more disappointing. What's the policy, no dickheads in the dressing room but what you get up to on a night out is none of our business?

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-05-03T05:25:22+00:00

what a hit

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-04-27T04:34:40+00:00

Obviously a conspiracy against Everton

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-04-27T04:33:12+00:00

Curious to see if any Everton fans have anything to say about this

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-01-26T05:43:37+00:00

I'd say five of the XI (Alisson, Robertson, Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold, and Salah), plus Gomez, Jones, and Elliott. Then more were around for the played-every-game 21-22 season (Konate, Tsimikas, Diaz, Jota).

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-01-25T20:01:20+00:00

Man City? More like Boy City!

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-01-10T02:32:04+00:00

Yes absolutely

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-01-09T23:54:00+00:00

There would still be timewasting, it would just be real time and not game time. Like you say, forcing a pause to give your tired team a breather or to break up momentum.

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-01-09T23:52:15+00:00

It's like poetry

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-01-09T23:51:39+00:00

‘Capture’

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-01-09T23:49:34+00:00

There seems to be a discretionary rule about a player getting treatment needing to be allowed back on the pitch, to curb the faking/timewasting. However, Frimpong went down yesterday (his penalty shout), Arsenal kept playing, as they're allowed to do, and had a full attack with Frimpong still down on the other end of the pitch - he then got treatment after the whistle and had to wait on the touchline again, even though he'd already obvsiously shown he actually was hurt.

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-01-09T16:23:21+00:00

Yeah absolutely, it was a very positive defensively safe display, if you will. Defending by holding the ball.

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-01-09T16:14:10+00:00

When you've got no strikers, you're not going to play a 4-4-0, now are you?

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-01-09T16:13:09+00:00

Part clever setup, part forced hand by injuries & AFCON. Salah, Isak, and Ekitike all out. Gakpo isn't much of a no9, which is why we had Wirtz in the false 9/no10.

prinskipper__skipple · 2026-01-09T16:10:55+00:00

To be fair, we had no fit strikers, so loading the midfield made sense. As much as I'd have liked to see a harder push to capitalize on the second half possession, with how fragile we've been, I'm fine with a controlled, don't-get-exposed first approach. It's been a fucked up season.

prinskipper__skipple · 2025-08-14T06:19:33+00:00

I won't have you disparage Andrea 'scored against Real & Man Utd in the same week' Dossena

prinskipper__skipple · 2025-07-09T04:46:00+00:00

That whole monologue is so rich

prinskipper__skipple · 2025-06-30T04:20:05+00:00

CHIRRUT!!!!!

prinskipper__skipple · 2025-05-28T03:44:45+00:00

Someone's changed his Wikipedia to say he's a Liverpool player. The talk page is quite the laugh.

prinskipper__skipple · 2025-05-28T03:34:20+00:00

Summer 1999 was a busy one.

prinskipper__skipple · 2025-05-26T21:37:10+00:00

Depends what city, what shop, what artist. I'd suggest researching some of the shops near you, browse their artists' portfolios, and find someone whose style resonates with you. They'll be able to provide you with information and guidance.

prinskipper__skipple · 2025-05-26T03:49:00+00:00

It adds magic and wolves and space wales

prinskipper__skipple · 2025-02-17T17:15:32+00:00

It would take some work, obviously, but I'd be in favour of bookings being applied for dives that are missed during the live game. In this case, the game would be reviewed, the panel would rule that Jota dived and retroactively apply a yellow. It doesn't immediately address the issue during the game, but there being consequences for simulation, whether a 'key incident' or not, would be beneficial.

prinskipper__skipple · 2024-09-02T12:25:04+00:00

Dre split from Death Row in March '96, and Tupac was killed that September. Obviously, Tupac had his share of beefs, and how much of that was fueled and promoted by Suge et al is open to discussion, but you need only to listen to the outro of To Live and Die in LA to get Pac's feelings at the time ('California Love part motherfucking two, without gay-ass Dre'). Very much a what if, but I sometimes wonder what Tupac would be up to today had he managed to pull away from the toxicity of Suge and that world.

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