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Hugely important three points after beating City on the weekend. Keep the momentum going this weekend @ Forest and make our way up the table...

Any other No Dunks (formerly The Starters, Basketball Jones) fans out there? I've only been listening for a few years but it's my favorite general NBA podcast. One of the guys recently left the show, which is kind of a bummer, but overall the show is great and they put out an episode per day, available ad-free on The Athletic. Anyway, happy opening night to all who celebrate. Looks like another fun as hell NBA season.

Helluva showing and a nice reset to the season. Jomez was incredible. Virgil was back to his best. Alisson to Mo is such an incredible weapon. Klopp red card was awesome to see him so fired up and protecting his player after a bullshit no-call. But...Darwin. WTF dude? Could've played two assists but goes for glory himself on low-percentage shots. Jfc if that had cost us the three points. Really hope Jota is okay but that looked bad. Really hope it's not his Achilles but we'll be without him for at least a few weeks. He put in a Dirk Kuyt shift.

Diaz has been our best player this year. Absolutely brutal to lose him for an extended period of time.

Reports saying that Ox and Keita are due back in October. Not sure if that's 2023 or 2024 though.

Diaz is such a player. Just absolutely relentless. Didn't get a goal today but the header he won, leading to Jota's nice assist, was a perfect example of how hard he works for the team and what an impact that has. And Jota made almost as big a difference as Thiago. Really good to see him back.

lol owned Setting aside the blatant money-grab, the logistical nightmare, and the fact that exactly zero players will want to play in a dumbass all-star game, how fucking dumb would it be to have a North v South game when you could have a UK v World? That might actually be kinda fun.

The video of Klopp's reaction to Ted Lasso Todd Boehly is fucking hilarious: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/sep/14/the-fiver-todd-boehly-all-stars

Anyone thinking about an away day to Napoli should be required to watch "Gomorrah" in its entirety.

Sounds like we're in for either Douglas Luiz or Yuri Tielemans. Maybe Stevie wants to do us a favor before he gets sacked in like a week.

These two posts do not compute.

The season doesn't officially start until Bobby scores a no-look goal.

He cannot walk. (He'll pick up an injury.)

I have fond memories of the Father's Office burger but it's been 10 years since I lived in L.A. so that may be off. But I was excited at the idea of being within walking distance of a place that apparently has Hop Butcher IPA's on tap. Humble Potato sounds like exactly my type of spot. Thanks for the recommendation. Definitely very excited to be moving back to L.A. and living in/exploring a completely different part of town. Gonna be a lot different this time around with a family in-tow.

Quality forever

Just looked this up because we're moving to L.A. and we'll be about a block from the Culver City Father's Office location. I'm really annoyed to find out that no one under 21 is allowed, nor are dogs. Boo.

34 goals and 9 assists in 85 matches played for Liverpool. He hit a dry spell at the end of a long season, but for stretches he was basically scoring every game. Assuming the injury doesn't linger, he'll be a huge part of our squad this season.

I'm assuming that's Rhys Williams? Clarkson is a midfielder who got a start in the meaningless Champions League match against Mitjyland a couple seasons ago. Bobby Clark is a hot shit 17-year old forward who we poached from Newcastle about six months ago. The Magpies were apopleptic about it.

Good news for people who like CB depth.

Sounds like Neco is close to a move to Nottingham Forest for £16M. Not bad business at all and a good move for him.

Fantastic news and even with no more signings this was a pretty fantastic summer. I still want a midfielder but seems like we're putting our eggs in the Bellingham basket and are willing to wait until next summer if Dortmund are set on keeping him another season.

Brutal window for Everton fans. First they lose Richarlison and now it looks like they're going to extend Jordan Pickford's contract.

Modist is a great brewery and they open an hour before every Twins game, I believe.

With Minamino off to Monaco we look an attacker light. I can't imagine the plan is to play 17-year old Kaide Gordon in those minutes. A switch to a 4-2-3-1 seems almost inevitable. With Nunez, Jota, and Firmino, have three guys who can play the #9 in that formation, and Harvey and Carvalho are much more natural fits for the three attacking midfielder roles rather than as wide forwards. Jota and Nunez can also play in those wide attacking positions, providing depth for Mo and Diaz. Then we have Fabinho, Hendo, Keita, Thiago, and Milner (welp) for the double-pivot, and potentially Ox if he stays. The biggest question mark imo for that formation is who plays the #10. Harvey is the most natural fit but it would be putting an awful a lot of responsibility on him. Thiago would be interesting there, and it would mean less wear and tear on an older, injury-prone player but you'd be moving the best deep-lying playmaker in the world out of position and playing him in a role he's never really played before. Gonna be really interesting to see what Klopp does with our formation.

Yeah, in 20-21 he played more of a playmaker role for Benfica and racked up 10 assists. Hard to pin down a comp for him tbh, though I do think Torres is the closest one for me.