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As the President and founding member of the Joe Gomez fan club, I'd certainly admit that Matip has certainly played superbly and done nothing to lose his spot. That being said, the exact same could be said of Gomez the first part of last season as well. Assuming he plays at a similar level, and there is no reason to belielve he wouldn't, how would that "suck"? Suck would be replacing Firmino with Bentecke, heck even having Adrian in for Alisson hasn't sucked.

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Champions of Europe, seven wins out of seven games, and a five point lead and we’re complaining about our mid-table players. Proof people will complain no matter the situation.

Late notice and may be old news, but NBCSports is doing an hour on Mo at 8am tomorrow. Think it will likely be available online as well.

OK, more math. If we get £30M guaranteed and 20% of sales over that, I'm not sure that's a great deal and in some ways it's scary especially if that's what NB has matched. Let's take manu at £75M/year, that would leave us with ~£40M to make up each year. My math tells me that' we need to sell £225M of Nike merchandise each year. That would be ~3.2M jerseys (assuming nothing else). According to the earlier links we were (two seasons ago) ~1.8M vs. the top pf manu at ~3.2M. Of course that doesn't include any other Nike merchandise that we would have sold, but still seems like a reach to get to what manu has guaranteed. Of course, I'm a dummy and only reading this stuff from articles and it's these guys' business, but something seems off.

Reading this, the first thing that comes to mind is Ricky Williams' first contract.

Regarding the Nike deal according to Paul Joyce: Liverpool’s proposed new kit deal with Nike is only worth a guaranteed £30 million per year, according to High Court papers seen by The Times. On top of that agreement, there is a commitment from the American sportswear manufacturers to pay the club a 20 per cent royalty on net sales of Liverpool Football Club products and promote the club through stars like tennis player Serena Williams and musician Drake. The base figure is surprising and less than the present £45 million-a-year deal with New Balance, which has commenced legal proceedings against the Anfield club claiming it can match Nike’s terms. It is also below the £50 million-plus-a-year deals negotiated by Premier League rivals Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur with Nike, and also the £71 million-a-year agreement Nike struck with Paris Saint-Germain in the summer. However, Liverpool believe Nike can “deliver far greater total revenue for the club than has been generated by the present deal with New Balance, because of the royalties that will be generated by Nike’s extensive distribution network.” The Anfield hierarchy is essentially backing the success manager Jürgen Klopp is driving on the pitch in transforming the club into Champions League winners, and Premier League leaders, to continue. Shirt sales increase with on-field success. The battle to manufacture Liverpool’s kit from 2020-21 is to be settled by a High Court judge next month after New Balance said it can replicate the “material, measurable and matchable terms of the Nike” deal. It alleges Liverpool are in breach of a matching clause agreement allowing it to extend its contract to manufacture the kit. Papers served to the commercial court of the High Court reveal the £30 million figure and also that Nike would plan to market Liverpool through initiatives which feature not less than three “non-football global superstar athletes and influencers of the calibre of” Williams, Drake and LeBron James. James, who plays basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers, is a minor shareholder in Liverpool. The court papers outline that Liverpool’s desire to ditch New Balance and switch to Nike is linked to distribution of the new kit. Liverpool entered into exclusive negotiations with New Balance in 2018 with regard to an extension of the existing contract, which focused on New Balance’s ability to “improve its global distribution network.” The club commissioned an independent review into New Balance by Deloitte which concluded Nike could “super charge distribution in a way challenger brands [like New Balance] are not able to do.” Nike has said it will distribute a new kit through “6,000 global doors” with New Balance having not exceeded “3,000 global doors.” However, New Balance insists it can match the same deal as Nike and believe it has proved it can meet demand when the club is thriving on the pitch, having delivered two of the biggest selling home kits for Liverpool fans. In a statement at the start of the week, a spokesman for New Balance added it would “continue to match the ambition and achievements of the club as it grows from strength to strength.” A three-day trial has been listed from October 18.

Good news on Alisson(from the Echo). Now he is expected to start training again with the first team on Sunday, although the continued impressive performances of Adrian as deputy mean Jurgen Klopp is under no pressure to rush his first-choice shot-stopper back into action. “Ali is in a good way,” said the Reds boss on Friday, speaking ahead of Saturday's Premier League trip to Sheffield United. “He had a full session with the goalkeeping coaches yesterday. He is getting closer and closer. “Ali isn't in contention for tomorrow, but it looks like maybe he can train with the team from Sunday on. Don't know 100%, but it's really close.” Alisson, as Klopp stated earlier this month, remains on track to be back in first-team contention after the next international break, which begins following the home game against Leicester City on Saturday week. And Klopp added: “It was serious, obviously. In the last two weeks he had progressed really, really well, so credit to the medical department. "They did a good job with him and waited long enough before they started proper training with him and then he can take step by step.”

That’s great you taught her how to start fire, but imo the better tool was to discuss what you tell this group about the trip to the island. Didn’t even touch in that(on camera).

We host Arsenal on 10/28. I'd go with the same lineup.

Here's the description from the Echo: Elliott hits the bar again!! As we enter the first of three added minutes, the 17-year-old cut inside from the left and curled a beauty with his weaker right foot which slammed against the bar and away to safety. So unlucky for the youngster who can be proud of his first senior game for Liverpool and deserved a goal to show for it.

Wish Elliott would have gotten that one. Sweet move and shot.

Anyone know when the next round draw is? Assuming it's not a big boy, and even if it is, I don't see any reason not to go with the same lineup.

Looked at the full roster and Klopp dind't bring anyone he's not using. If this game goes south, it just goes south, no vets to come in and save the day. Substitutes 22Lonergan 46Lewis 55Kane 68Chirivella 72van den Berg 75Longstaff 84Clarkson

Yeah, Elliot looking like a player. Feel bad for that keeper(just a little).

I'm interested in him, Harvey Elliot and would like to see Keita/Ox have good appearances as well.

Wasn;t that far off Kelleher Hoever Gomez Lovren Milner Keita Lallana Milner Oxlade Chamberlain Brewster Jones Elliot

In 2019, Liverpool with NB were the top selling shirt in the UK. https://www.givemesport.com/1500508-premier-league-and-football-league-clubs-ranked-by-their-201920-jersey-sales In 2018, LIverpool were # behind three Adidas (#1 manu, #2 RM, and #3 BM) and one Nike (#4 Barca) kit manufacturer. City was #10 on the list with Nike, but switched to Puma. https://www.footyheadlines.com/2019/04/2018-top-10-best-selling-football-kits.html I get Nike is a bigger brand, but I'm a fan. The amount of incremental money received by clubs for kit sales in relatively small. This is an article talking about jersey sales not compensating for transfer fees, using the example of Zlatan at manu, but the numbers translate I think. Let’s also assume that united’s royalty kicks in after three million shirts are sold, and the club receive a 15% royalty on each subsequent shirt sold. Assuming a price of £70 per shirt, that’s an additional £21m in gross sales from 300,000 shirts. manchester united’s cut of that would be just over £3m. Now, £3m is not an insignificant amount, but it offsets less than 20% of what Ibrahimovic will likely cost the club this season (wages, agent fee, signing bonus, image rights deal). So, at best, united are likely to see around £3m in additional revenue. While certainly not a paltry sum, it doesn’t come close to covering his costs, let alone help United earn an additional £50m. Put simply, there’s a reason why Adidas has earned more in the last six months than manchester united, one of the highest-earning football clubs in the world, has earned in its 138-year existence. https://www.theguardian.com/football/the-set-pieces-blog/2016/aug/24/transfer-window-market-myths Using the '17-'18 sales of 1.67M jersey, and not taking into account that that number certainly increased last season, and further assuming (which is almost certainly not possible) that Nike's global distribution network nearly doubled our sales to united's of 3.25M, our net increase in revenue is ~£16.5M. Clearly our sales number is higher w/NB last season, obviously we are not going to sell the same number as manu in year 1, and I think it's safe to say no one would attribute our ~doubling jersey sales to being with Nike opposed to NB, and the yearly amount of money in the craziest scenario is ~£16.5M. Taking those factors, I'd say the increase would likely be closer to ~£4-£5M/year and the guess as how much is due to better distribution is up for debate. In the end, as I've said all along, go with the better money. All of that even, give me NB.

Eintracht Frankfurt is the big team there and appears they are playing the following home games in October: 10/6 - Werder Bremen (US player Josh Sargent) 10/18 - Bayer Leverkusen 10/24 - Standard Liege (Europa League game) This is a link for tickets. No clue what if any are available. https://www.eintracht.de/en/tickets/

Let me admit, I'm not certain what the distribution network means, assuming more stores, correct? Access to athletes? Have we not signed someone becuase of our kit sponsor? That sounds more like a sound bite to me than a true issue but would certainly like to see the impact. I think I did read that those players who represent Nike might receive less because of a club deal, but that or I could be wrong.

To me it's the £ first and everything else second. I'm not a fan of the generic Nike kits. We can look just like Chelsea/Spurs/B&H. PLus the shoes are too narrow. If the money's the same, I'd prefer to be the big team opposed to another in the line.

LOVED that place, and took some friends there on a visit and tried to give them a heads up. One of my friends asked if they had mayonnaise, and the girl behind the counter gave her the best are you stupid look and asked "are you dumb?" and then just moved her plate down. I caught hell for that but the rest of us laughed.

I love this man. Great article. The beautiful thing about football is that you can’t do anything alone. Anything, believe me. Unfortunately, the most incredible moment in the history of the Champions League … I didn’t actually see it. Maybe this is a good metaphor for the life of a football manager, I don’t know. But I completely missed Trent Alexander-Arnold’s moment of pure genius. I saw the ball go out for a corner. I saw Trent walking over to take it. I saw Shaqiri following him. But then I turned my back because we were preparing to make a substitution. I was talking to my assistant, and … you know, I have goose bumps every time I think about it … I just heard the noise. I turned to the pitch and I saw the ball flying into the goal. I turned back to our bench and looked at Ben Woodburn, and he said, “What just happened?!” And I said, “I have no idea!” Anfield was going — boof — absolutely crazy. I could barely hear my assistant, and he was yelling, “So … do we still make the substitute?” Hahahaha! I will never forget him saying that! That will always be with me. Can you imagine? Eighteen years as a manager, millions of hours watching this game, and I missed the cheekiest thing that has ever happened on a football pitch. Since that night, I have probably watched the video of Divock’s goal 500,000 times. But in person, I only saw the ball hit the net. When I got to my little boot room after the match, I didn’t even have a sip of beer. I didn’t need it. I sat there with a bottle of water in silence, just smiling. It was a feeling that I cannot describe in words. When I got back home, my family and friends were all staying over at our house, and everyone was in a big party mood. But I was so emotionally exhausted that I went up to bed by myself. My body and mind were completely empty. I had the best sleep of my life. The best moment was waking up the next morning and realizing, “It’s still true. It really happened.” For me, football is the only thing more inspiring than the cinema. You wake up in the morning, and the magic was all real. You actually knocked down Drago. It really happened. I have been thinking about this since June, when we took the Champions League trophy around the streets of Liverpool. I have no words that can describe the emotions of that day. We were riding in the bus, and every time we thought the parade had to be over — that there could not possibly be any more people in the city of Liverpool — we would turn a corner and the parade would go on. Absolutely unreal. If you could’ve put all the emotions, all the excitement, all the love in the air that day and bottled it up, the world would be a better place. I have not been able to get the emotion of that day out of my head. Football has given me everything in my life. But I really want to do more to give back to the world. Easy for me to say, O.K. sure. But how do you actually make a difference? Over the past year, I’ve been really inspired by seeing Juan Mata, Mats Hummels, Megan Rapinoe, and so many other footballers join the Common Goal movement. If you don’t know about the work they’re doing, it’s incredible. More than 120 players have pledged 1% of their earnings to empower football NGOs around the world. They’ve already helped support youth football programs in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Cambodia, India, Colombia, the U.K., Germany and many other countries. This isn’t just something for the richest footballers in the world. An entire starting 11 from the Canadian women’s national team has joined the cause. Footballers have joined from Japan, Australia, Scotland, Kenya, Portugal, England, Ghana…. How can you not feel inspired by this? This is what football is all about. I just want to be a part of this. So I’m pledging 1% of my yearly salary to Common Goal, and I hope that many, many more people in the football world will join me. Let’s be honest, guys. We are extremely fortunate. It is our responsibility as privileged people to give something back to children all over the world who just need a chance in life. We should not forget what it was like when we had real problems. This bubble we live in is not the real world. I am sorry, but anything that happens on a football pitch is not a real problem. There should be a bigger purpose to this game than revenue and trophies, no? Just think what we could accomplish if we all came together and gave 1% of what we earn to make a positive difference in the world. Maybe I am naive. Maybe I am a crazy old dreamer. But who is this game for? We all know damn well that this game is for dreamers.

Go NB!

Kelleher Hoever Gomez Lovren Van der Berg Keita Lallana Milner Oxlade Chamberlain Brewster That's all I got.