Manchester City (A) build-up

[Bender]

Aguero is due back for this one, luckily he usually takes a few games to get up to speed.

Considering the amount of injuries we have he won't need a few games

[SB]

Considering the amount of injuries we have he won't need a few games

Just Lovren playing is all he needs

[frank the tank]

nah...... Dejan will be man of the match for this game. He will be a colossus at the back and we will come away with a 2-0 win. We will all be happy ****ers and the optimism meter will go off the scale. Dickheads like myself will come on here pointing out how we have all of our hard away games out of the way and that Klopp can do something special in the new year and you never know, even challenge for the title.

Then the day before the Swansea City game, Lovren will give an interview to James Pearce in the Liverpool Echo with a headline akin to "I am now ready to lead LFC's defense" and it will all go tits-up from there. He will do his stupid stepovers on the half way line again and it will be truly disgusting.

Swansea will beat us 3-1 and all 3 goals will have been down to Lovren (although Skrtel will have focked up as well). It will all be doom and gloom and there will also be people pointing out that although we let in 3, we still had **** loads of chances to score more goals and that we just need Sturridge back.....

[DannyMan2006]

Dejan has done okay so far under Klopp. I suppose it's just that we give everyone a clean slate under the new boss. I think his Liverpool career will be decided over the next couple of months. I think if he doesn't perform he will be on borrowed time & be gone in the summer.

Huge pressure on him but that's what you get at a top club. I remember he was doing okay for a spell under Rodgers, then Brendog gave him a bit of praise and he ****ed up the game after. Doesn't help playing next to Moreno whose defensive choices are comical at times, but Sakho had the same problems and coped admirably.

I'm not sure Lovren will ever displace Sakho and be first choice, but if he could prove himself to be an able deputy then that's better than nothing. No way we recoup anything like what we paid for him. At this stage we'd get about £8m tops.

[DannyMan2006]

Player interviews where they are bragging after a few good games do my head in. Start patting yourself on the back when you've either won something or performed well for a season.

[Shaggy]

Liverpool FC @LFC
Goals from Philippe Coutinho (2) and Roberto Firmino helped #LFC beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-2 in a friendly at Melwood this afternoon.

[kev776]

Managed to concede 2 in a friendly

[Shaggy]

This was the team:

George, Alexander-Arnold, Toure, Lovren, Moreno, Lucas, Allan, Teixeira, Coutinho, Firmino, Sinclair (Smedley 89)

[Pablo]

Ken Smedley

[Shaggy]

Got his annual 1 minute run out

[kev776]

Ken is actually the Groundsman, this is his Christmas present, a run out with the team.

[McDermotX]

Managed to concede 2 in a friendly

This was the team:

George, Alexander-Arnold, Toure, Lovren, Moreno, Lucas, Allan, Teixeira, Coutinho, Firmino, Sinclair (Smedley 89)

[Bender]

Reckon Sturridge will make the subs bench now

[Bender]

Klopp Man City Press Con: When you see Daniel in training and he does something, you say 'ooh, nice'."He's as good as he can be after the long break. He's not 100% yet. His qualities are outstanding."For 4 and a half weeks he didn't train, but within a few secs of him being back could see the quality. We have to find the balance."I will decide this tomorrow. He has been out for 5 weeks and hasn't trained much."

"Man City are pretty good, very experienced. We will be prepared. I played them with Dortmund and never lost.Klopp: “I don’t care about if they’re the best team in the league. All I care about is if Liverpool are the best team in the league.”

"We only had 8 players here (during international break). Jose Enrique trained for the first time since I've been here,"Ibe is back, Milner back, Rossiter will start training Sunday, Henderson maybe part training next week."

Klopp on Henderson: maybe next week we will see some parts but he is in a really good way."

Sakho update
Klopp: “Sakho is good news. It’s not that serious, not like we first thought. We don’t want to give you a time. It won’t be Christmas 2016, so that’s good.”

[Bender]

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