The Football Thread 2017-18

[Buffalo]

My dude!

[shadow202]

Wtf am I reading? Time to get rid of Klopp? Worst idea I've heard in a long time and who would you have us replace him with?. Of course we tapped up VVD, it may happen all the time but Southampton reported us and we went home with our tails between our legs.

[darksideby182]

Just laughed out loud in McDonald's in front of about 20 people.

Lmao


I fully await the leprechaun being replaced with Arsenal fan TV regulars.

[Saint of Killers]

Settle down man.

“Liverpool Football Club would like to put on record our regret over recent media speculation regarding Southampton Football Club and player transfers between the two clubs,” said the statement. “We apologise to the owner, board of directors and fans of Southampton for any misunderstanding regarding Virgil van Dijk. We respect Southampton’s position and can confirm we have ended any interest in the player.”

An arse covering manoeuvre cos Liverpool are under an actual investigation for tapping up a 13Yr old player. Statement appeases Saints and everyone can move on. No admission of talking directly to the player.

We could have pulled out the exact same card v Barca. Van Dijk just like Coutinho, shouldn't have signed a 5 year deal.

You're covering for them but then drop that line. (Which is begging to be Googled.)

Turns out tapping up is the least of what they did.

Exclusive: Liverpool accused of falsifying document at heart of tapped-up schoolboy case

The Liverpool tapping-up scandal was dramatically reignited on Tuesday after they were accused of submitting a “falsified” document to the Premier League when trying to lure a 12-year-old schoolboy from Stoke City.

The Anfield club are facing imminent legal action from the unnamed boy, now 13, and his family, having failed to make amends for leaving both him unable to play academy football and his parents in thousands of pounds of debt more than three months after Telegraph Sport first revealed their plight.

Compounding the litany of transgressions over which Liverpool became the first club to be punished under strict new Premier League rules - and the lengths to which they were allegedly prepared to go to conceal them - they have now been publicly accused of altering the date of a signature on his academy player registration application.

Father and son completed the document on September 2 last year, three days before the latter began the new school year at his private school, the fees for which Liverpool had agreed to pay until he was 16.

The club directed the pair not to date their signatures, an instruction the father ignored to ensure the moment was accurately recorded.

The next time the family saw the document - after it had been submitted to the Premier League - all the signatures on it were dated September 21, including the father’s, beneath which a ‘1’ had been inserted after his initial ‘2’.]

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/201 ... rt-tapped/

[Denster]

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[Photek]

I don't understand, Liverpool did tap up Van Dijk, I never argued otherwise, or 'covered' for them, whatever that means.

[Denster]

Another wonderful Photek backtrack.

Never gets old.

[Denster]

Liverpool didn't tap up Van Dijk anymore than other teams tap up players.

They were outright speaking to him , everyone else at least goes through the agent or family so they don't technically break the rules.

Funny that after the Premier League investigated it found no evidence to the alleged tapping up.

Hmmm makes you think.

Please link me the evidence my dude?

[Denster]

Well they probably would have got Van Dijk if they weren't so blatant with their agents in the media basically tapping him up.

Liverpool didn't tap up Van Dijk anymore than other teams tap up players. The Southampton line was just that, a line.

I thought players only had agents?

Coutinho got a great reception from the Barca Liverpool fans.

[Moggy]

I don't understand, Liverpool did tap up Van Dijk, I never argued otherwise, or 'covered' for them, whatever that means.

Funny that after the Premier League investigated it found no evidence to the alleged tapping up.

Hmmm makes you think.

Please link me the evidence my dude?

[Denster]

That's just from the previous page. Priceless.

[Saint of Killers]

I don't understand, Liverpool did tap up Van Dijk, I never argued otherwise, or 'covered' for them, whatever that means.

No, you were just severely downplaying what Liverpool got up to.

Well they probably would have got Van Dijk if they weren't so blatant with their agents in the media basically tapping him up.

Liverpool didn't tap up Van Dijk anymore than other teams tap up players. The Southampton line was just that, a line.

I thought players only had agents?

Coutinho got a great reception from the Barca Liverpool fans.

[Saint of Killers]

Liverpool didn't tap up Van Dijk anymore than other teams tap up players.

They were outright speaking to him , everyone else at least goes through the agent or family so they don't technically break the rules.

Funny that after the Premier League investigated it found no evidence to the alleged tapping up.

Hmmm makes you think.

Please link me the evidence my dude?

That's not what happened. The Premier League didn't investigate because Liverpool issued a formal statement apologising and withdrawing their interest in VVD and so Southampton didn't follow through with their threat of submitting the evidence they had.

As the matter was resolved between the clubs the PL didn't bother doing anything more.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.telegr ... -dijk/amp/

Or, all the clubs do it so it would open a can of worms. We're also ignoring Irene seemingly knowing Klopp was down the local with Virgil with no evidence..... at all....

Tapping up through unofficial means is clearly not what Liverpool got up to here or a) Southampton wouldn't have made a formal complaint and b) Liverpool wouldn't have made the public apology.

[Photek]

I don't understand, Liverpool did tap up Van Dijk, I never argued otherwise, or 'covered' for them, whatever that means.

Funny that after the Premier League investigated it found no evidence to the alleged tapping up.

Hmmm makes you think.

Please link me the evidence my dude?

Contextually different things, can't be arsed explaining.

[Saint of Killers]

Fake news has reached GR.

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[Moggy]

I don't understand, Liverpool did tap up Van Dijk, I never argued otherwise, or 'covered' for them, whatever that means.

Funny that after the Premier League investigated it found no evidence to the alleged tapping up.

Hmmm makes you think.

Please link me the evidence my dude?

Contextually different things, can't be arsed explaining.

[Denster]

[Corazon de Leon]

Uh, getting back on to football matters - is Rooney on a leave of absence for tonight's Europa game?

[The Watching Artist]

[<]:^D]

After the week we had. Nice one my dude.

this reads like Photek & Mafro had a lovely romantic week in the Cotswolds