£185k per week.

Carra made a good point about Sturridge, that he always has to be 100% fit in his mind and body before going onto the pitch. Like Carra says, we all have pains and knocks that hurt, but we just play though it, you have to. Henderson is a good example of that just now, he is playing with foot pain, and goes as long as he can before having to be subbed - but he plays non the less.

Maybe Sturridge has foolishly been reading the fans and pundits comments on him, and feels unloved? What's the betting if he does leave he will be playing up a storm for someone else within 6 months?

To me it does matter. If a club say they won't sell to us for less than 53m and then they sell him for 35m the following week, that's unfair.

If we'd offered 35m, would they have accepted it? No.

Let's hope we don't try to do business with Shaktar again.

The abuse Sturridge gets on his own social media from his own fans can't help. The wannabe doctors feel like they need to abuse him whenever he has a setback.

Doesn't seem like Jack Wilshere gets that kind of treatment @ Arsenal.

Sturridge being injured sux it really does but I fail to believe his not really injured.

But to be fair, sturridge does seem to think at its "Gods plan" to have him watch the game from the stands.

He clearly has issues beyond science based medicine.

Even if we'd met the price, would/should we pay those sort of wages?
Reckon not.
Wondering if we could sell Sturridge to the Chinese.

Chinese medicine might be the saving of him.

To be serious though, I would hate to lose the player and the talent that he has, but the man has issues we know nothing about - just rumour. Like I said before, I'll stick by him as long as he belongs to the club.

The thing with Chinese football is that, after you have watched a game, you want to watch another game an hour later.

And you feel really thirsty

I think he might've already gone. My prawn balls tasted a bit off last night.

The asians have never been so quick to cook a dog for dinner.

The Sturridge Story? What a load of tripe! http://www.thisisanfield.com/

Klopp has put this one to bed firmly, never trust anything that comes from the DM.

Liverpool not backing down on their hike in prices.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35506569


Maybe not great timing considering Klopp has asked for full and vocal support throughout the games but if people are being priced out of going to Anfield will that happen?

I suppose if people pay those prices they won't mind - we all complain about prices at our various clubs but still go...

Don't know too much about this but it's been reported that only 200 seats will be priced at £77

You cannot pick a fight with the fans. There will only be one winner.

SSN

Quote:
A source at the Premier League side has told SSNHQ that although City are proud to be the only English side still competing in all four competitions and have always respected them all, manager Manuel Pellegrini will have no choice but to reluctantly field a weakened team at Chelsea.

No they damwell aren't, we are still in 4 competitions as well!

What's the 4th?

Read that Rafa is being linked with a return to Valencia. It's Guillem Balague though so could be crap.

Could be a decent move, for both sides, if Neville has to go.

PL - still not out of this, yet!
Euro
FA Cup
League Cup

What winning it ? Blimey your an optimist

wow!

you cant be serious about the premier league.

I'm not really! - but, we are still taking part in the competition and playing matches - just the same as City are. For them to say they are the only club competing in all 4 competitions is wrong.
All clubs are competing in the PL, even if they can't win it.

Ticket prices and matchday walkouts, Sturridge wanting to runaway ( ironic considering the usual state of his legs) and a nail in the coffin over the Teixeira deal.... it's been a contentious few days in the media for us and not exactly the ideal way to set-up for a home match we should, and in a way still need to, win.

Teixeira: I never though he was worth £35-40m and obviously neither did Klopp or the club; I'm not particularly irked we didn't get him and I don't view it as 'missing out' . There may have been one or two more low profile strikers available that would have offered more value, but maybe the manager doesn't want to spend money on short-term options. We'll need to wait and see what the summer brings.

Sturridge: Yes, the papers are probably hyping up the story into something more dramatic than it should be. But I can't help wondering where it all came from and why now? Liverpool were lucky to get Sturridge, I'm sure he would have had a choice of offers. Likewise, Sturridge was lucky to get Liverpool. We gave him regular PL starts, playing him in his preferred central role, gave him the opportunity to play alongside a genuine world class striker and then rewarded him with a big long-term contract that only a relatively few clubs could afford. And since then we've hardly seen him for two seasons, and our team slowly slips back down the league. He's a highly paid professional, he must understand that might bring some criticism ( even if it is not his fault ) . If he has a good attitude, he'll get back into the team and prove people wrong. Even if he does want to move, he still needs to get back and prove himself or how on earth does he expect to get a decent deal with another club?

Ticket prices & walkouts: This one's an essay on it's own, but I'll be brief. I'm really disappointed the club has dropped a bollock on this one straight away. At a time when they are bringing in the new stand ( and in some ways a new era for old Anfield) they should have been doing everything in their power to dress it up with as much positive PR as possible. Instead, for what amounts to a petty couple of million quid, and that in a time of bumper TV deals, they have upset the more loyal and committed fans, and given the media hawks an opportunity to keep turning out horror stories.
As for the walkout, I'm also disappointed that's how they've chosen to react at this time. It's still early February and a couple of weeks writing letters to the club and media and doing demos outside the ground would have been a preferred first step before going inside the ground and potentially taking action that could affect the team and possibly the match result.
It's going to be embarrassing, it's going to get messy and I don't know how it will end. I hope the club do amend their ticket costs, but I doubt they will give up their chase for more income and will look to get that cash back on the books with increases elsewhere.

Jurgen Klopp will miss Liverpool’s Premier League match against Sunderland at Anfield after suffering a suspected bout of appendicitis.

First team duties will be over-seen by the remaining members of the coaching staff, including Zelkjo Buvac, Peter Krawietz, Pepijn Lijnders and John Achterberg.

I like it how the club promote the cuts in some ticket prices as a percentage of total tickets rather than an actual cost. "Cutting" a large number of tickets by a very small amount (season tickets by a few quid) whilst increasing a smaller volume of tickets by much move is what's reallying happening and Ayre is an idiot to think fans will fall for this financial slight of hand. Why not just be honest and say they need to finance the ground improvements (even if tie maths foot add up there either, it's a better option than trying to hoodwink your own fans).

Yikes! I gore for his sake if they have to whip it out he doesn't get an infection - that's not pleasant I can tell you - but I guess he'll go private and won't be thrown out the donor soon as they sew things up again!

But don't they say avoiding Black Cats is good luck?