Jim Boardman

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Meanwhile the thuggish actions from Martinelli, throwing the ball at him and trying to push him off the pitch as he lay in agony on the turf, will not be retrospectively punished.

Screenshot from LFC official website with photo of Conor Bradley. Headline: “Conor Bradley injury update”

As we all feared, now confirmed by the club, Conor Bradley has “sustained a significant knee injury” and “will undergo surgery in the coming days and then begin a period of rehabilitation at the AXA Training Centre. No timeframe is being placed on his return to playing at this stage of the process.”

Screenshot from official Liverpool FC website. On whether he spoke towards Salah as part of the group in training... Yes. I communicated towards him that he wasn't travelling.

You can read it on the official club website:

It shouldn’t be preferential treatment. It should happen with any player who crosses such a line. It doesn’t mean it goes unpunished, but it means they get their grievances heard - and hear some back. Doesn’t mean it justifies the action, but makes it easier to fix the underlying issues.

Slot admits he’s only spoken to Mo once since, in front of the other players, to tell him he’s not travelling.

Did it really not cross his mind, instead of guessing, to have a chat with a key player from the title win and ask why he felt the need to go public?

Rhetorical question.

Mo Salah says he’s been thrown under the bus, that his relationship with Arne Slot has broken down.

Two days later, Slot says it’s “difficult” for him to know what Salah meant or who he was talking about, that he’d “have to guess a little bit”.

Disgraceful selective editing by Sky Sports News of the answers Alisson gave in the press conference to questions about Mo Salah.

The clamour to demonise a player, without a single thought for the human being behind the words, is shameful.

Sacking the manager is never the only solution to problems like this. Clubs who believe that just end up doing the same thing again months later. Repeatedly.

So Liverpool need to take a proper look at what else went wrong, an honest look, and sort that out too.

Sooner rather than later.

I do think the manager has taken Liverpool as far as he can. Sometimes that just happens. You hit a wall and you won’t get past it.

Maybe it was a touch too early for him to take this job, maybe he needed to experience more highs and lows elsewhere first.

He’s done his best but that’s not enough.

That doesn’t have to be done with malice, it can be done with kindness, and in time they’ll probably look back and agree that it was time.

I don’t personally think Mo is finished yet, he’s certainly not our worst performing forward, but that day will come one day and we’ll all know it’s time.

Liverpool fans arguing with each other won’t help this crisis, spewing hate to individuals you want to blame won’t help.

Nobody at the club will deliberately be giving less than their best.

But the way the club has always worked is that when somebody’s best isn’t good enough it’s time to move on.

As I said, you don’t keep your place because of what you did last year, it’s what you do now. For both.

Mo is maybe the only player who will speak out like this, but I doubt he’s the only player who feels like this.

The Liverpool manager should be able to manage Liverpool players.

Salah: I sit on the bench. For 90 minutes. I think that’s the third time I’ve been on the bench. I think it’s my first time in my career. So... I’m very disappointed. I’m very, very disappointed. With... I have done so much for this club. Everybody has seen that during the years and especially last season. Sitting on the bench... I don't know why. Uh, seems like the club is throwing me under the bus. That's how I feel it. How I feel it. Uh... I think it's very clear that someone wants me to take all the blame. The club promised me in the summer for a lot of promises and nothing... so far I’m on the bench three games. So I can say that they... they keep the promise. And as I said many times before, I had a good relationship with the manager. And out of the sudden... we don’t have any relationship. I don’t know why. Um... seems... seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn’t want me in the club. But again, this club I will always support it. My kids will always support it. I love the club so much. And I will always do. Now I’m having... I called my mum yesterday. Because I knew… you guys didn’t know if I’m gonna start or not, but I knew. I called my mum and dad yesterday, I told them come to Brighton game. It doesn't matter if I play or not, I’m gonna enjoy it. We see what’s gonna happen but... in my head I’m going to enjoy that game if I play or not. If I’m on the bench or not because I don’t know what’s gonna happen now. So... that’s gonna be in Anfield. Say goodbye to the fans... go to Africa Cup... because I don't know what's gonna happen when I'm back. Reporter: What do you do with the situation now? Salah: It’s not accepted for me to be treated like... I don’t know why that happened always to me. I don’t get it. I think if I’m somewhere else, every club would protect this player. I don't know why I'm in this situation now. But again, it's... how I see it now is like... it's like you throw Mo under the bus because he is the problem in the team now. But I don't…

Nobody has an automatic right to wear that Liverpool shirt, but nobody has the automatic right to the title of Liverpool manager. You have to earn it, and what you did before doesn’t change that. You have to keep on earning it if you want to keep it.

No LFC manager should let it come to this.

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Liverpool FC pays tribute to Matt Beard - Liverpool FC Liverpool Football Club is deeply shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of former LFC Women manager Matt Beard.

Sad, sad news.

He did so much for LFC Women, and for the Women’s game itself, everyone who knew him always spoke so warmly of him, about the person he was.

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But anyway, I’ll leave it there.

No need for any hate from there to here. The two cities have so much in common, we’ve had some amazing matches and we’ve shared a few heroes.

As gutted as I was at losing the final last year there wasn’t another team I’d have been happier to lose to. Good luck.

“It's a cruel game, these things happen. Hugely frustrated with that last action. Someone else needs to tell me whether we should have still been playing - I don't know.” Eddie Howe.

Wasn’t that hard to see that the ref had added an extra coupe of minutes on for a couple of minutes of time wasting.

When you use tactics designed to “frustrate the opposition” you can’t cry afterwards if they express their frustration. Miserable football.

That winner was for Liverpool. Howe was moaning afterwards because it came in time the ref, acting *within the laws of the game* added on for time wasting.

Has anyone gone on record and actually said Isak was in breach of his contract? Read back over the actual quotes. Has Howe said he’s refused to train or play? Did Isak send himself home from the Celtic friendly? Choose to train alone? Refuse to go on tour?

Words have been chosen carefully.

You seem to be the one with the gripe. I’m pretty sure it’s that law that allowed Newcastle to do deals with two English clubs today, where contracts were terminated early in return for payment.

I’ve never heard Liverpool fans boo a player for being a failed transfer target.

Howe’s made it clear recently that he has little say in contracts, signings, attempts to smooth things over with players, player fines etc.

Maybe he’d given the player some assurances, that he wrongly thought he had the authority to give - the player could easily see that as a broken promise.

I didn’t know you were there when the promise was made, you should have said. Is that how you know what was said, who by, and when? Take it you’re always with Isak too, so you know for sure nobody else said anything to reassure him at any point? Not even, say, the manager?

That says so much more about you, just you, than it does about him or about your fellow supporters. Well done.

Trent did honour his contract. The legal one, written by lawyers, not something the fans have any involvement in.

There’s no written contract between players and fans, it’s all on trust. Kissing the badge then announcing you’re leaving on a free is a breach of that trust. His choice though.

My argument is NUFC fans booing a player who turned them down for a more successful club, is sad.

With Liverpool fans it’s rare to boo ex-players. Sterling got booed, Trent will, most don’t.

But Ekitike wasn’t even your ex player!

Reds fans didn’t boo Caicedo for picking Chelsea! That’d be sad.

Who said he’d decided to send Isak home from a pre season game? Stopped him going on tour? Made him train alone? Quotes at the time point to Howe / the club. NUFC didn’t want a player they’d made unhappy wrecking morale. Apart from one time, much later, it wasn’t Isak sharing any of this with press.

Wrong. Newcastle can spend more than Liverpool if they can get their revenues to be more than Liverpool’s. But not from charity from a foreign govt. FSG took over a club in relegation form, at risk of administration. LFC’s revenue levels didn’t rise overnight. It’s taken time and patience.

That’s what your club’s owner wants you to think. Glad all that oil money never went to anyone’s heads or made them greedy or entitled or anything.

Did you have similar principles when you got relegated and got the parachute payments that stop the Championship from being too competitive?