There are loads of teams with positive cases. It’s not arsenals fault that the club didn’t plan appropriately for AFCON.
So regardless of the rules in place, which have apparently been followed, you feel Liverpool simply couldn't play tomorrow?
The story is that we have less than 10 first team squad players available as things stand.
These were the rules that were outlined...
There's another point about teams not being able to train as well, or if training is unable to go ahead etc.
I can't remember a game getting called off before because a team couldn't have a training session.
If we qualify for a postponement, why would we make it difficult on ourselves and try to play anyway? To suit your schedule or please the neutral fans? Feck no, every team acts in their own best interests, as they should. If we didn’t qualify I’d also have said tough luck, find a solution. Rules are there to be followed even if they are (or some people think they are) rubbish or don’t make much sense.
The last thing you want during a Covid outbreak is all the negative players who’ve been in contact with the positive ones in the same place during the few days after the positive tests. It’s not so much not finding an alternative training ground as it is isolation and damage control I think.
This is from earlier today regarding the training ground.
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I agree with you, that makes sense. Just strange they didn't use that logic for other clubs.
Thats a list of players in their peak. The player worth worrying about now is Milner, who plays a bit part anyway. The rest have at least 4 seasons at the top in them.Looks like they've a fair bit more minimizing to do on that front.
As for my thoughts I thought I conveyed pretty clearly in my lasts posts in the other thread but perhaps not it seems. Maybe third time will be the charm, now I'm not really one for bullet point presentations so I'll try a more visual medium this time.
Milner - 35
Henderson - 31
Van Dijk - 30
Matip (30)
Thiago - 30
Salah - 29
Mane - 29
Firminho - 29
Oxlade-Chamberlain - 28
Becker - 28
Fabinho - 27
Robertson - 27
Now most of those players are far from finished but that's 70-80% of their first team at or approaching 30.
So you agree with me then. Rules don't make sense and Liverpool took advantage.
That's how they think - says it all.
The unconfirmed number is 17 positive cases in the squad apparently.
That would be a wild number and certainly more than adequate grounds for postponement!
first team does not mean shit. We played with all our strikers out and three kids called up. If you don’t see you are getting preferential treatment, then you are wearing rose colored glasses.
Do you think Leeds got preferential treatment when they requested their league game against us on Boxing Day be postponed?
i don’t know the numbers behind Leeds? I know we requested postponement when we had a lot of injuries and covid and got denied and had to give three youth players their first starts.
I think the EFL rules are clear about the later rounds and Covid/player availability. It's not preferential treatment and if Chelsea had as many cases as we apparently do (and your training ground was closed), you would've been able to postpone today. I think some people hate Liverpool so much that their heads explode when we get something go our way.
You wouldn't say!
I explicitly asked you how we were bending rules or how we were getting preferential treatment yet you simply ignored my question.
The rules set up by the FA/EFL have changed in the last 12 months. They also made us play a youth team in a League Cup tie two years ago against Villa because we were in Qatar doing that World Club Cup thing.
Mostly I am poking you with a stick, but if your club is going to whine that they don't have players when they clearly do, that is your deal. Brentford, I understand, they don’t have an academy.
Never said different to be fair mate. They could all play another 2, 3 or 4 seasons at a high level who knows. But my original point was unless they start replacing a few most of their first team will all be going over the hill at the same time.
You're avoiding my question because you don't have an answer, glad we got it out of the way that we didn't get preferential treatment compared to any other club then.
Because it’s Liverpool, and because arsenal fans have kicked up a stink on social media. On here it’s obviously a bias thing. United fans wouldn’t care a jot if it was any other club.
This another Chelsea fan jumping on the post about Liverpool bandwagon to points score.
You clearly have enough players. We started three academy kids to cover injury and covid issues.
Once again: this. does. not. matter. for. postponing. games.
Yes it does.
I think that we'll likely play our FA Cup game as well but I'm fairly certain that's to do with EFL restrictions around players you can use in the Carabao Cup vs who you can use in the FA Cup.
Just in time for their annual visit from peps doctor...
