Loving being back on the Perch S6 E40

Welcome dear listener to the podcast of Premier League Champions. I’m Paul and I am joined by Enrique and Daz. The season is over - well unless you ignore Gianni Infantino’s narcissistic monstrosity taking pace here in the US in the next few months. We are going to do one of our look backs at the season, Being Champions, The Big Red Weekend, and maybe we’ll start to look ahead as Liverpool seek to defend their title..

Part One: Season highlights:

• Arne Slot - 26 games unbeaten

• Win over City in November - Guardiola’s 6 fingers after we beat them 2-0 - yes we have won that many European cups

• Kelleher appeared in a ton of games October through December - Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City and Newcastle - Liverpool had no injuries

• Week 17 - Spurs 3, Liverpool 6 - 8 points clear with a game in hand

• United home - the conditions were really awful.

• Matchweek 26 - Performance at City away - Mo:). Had not lost against us in 8 at the Emptihad before that.

• 12 points ahead with 9 to play - loss to PSG and Newcastle. Team started playing with some fear.

• …..until Mac Allister scored against Spurs!! That day was joyous…

• Final game and the parade. Last time we 3 spoke, we’d just lost to Chelsea

Part Two - Liverpool as Champions and the chasing pack

• ‘Nobody expected this’. Well they got 82 points with a team decimated by injuries and handling the Jurgen emotion.

• VVD - imperious for the most part - more strikers trying to pressure him now

• Mo Salah - 29 Premier League goals plus 18 assists

• 186 goals, one behind Andy Cole which will put him 4th early next season

• 245 for Liverpool - 40 behind Roger Hunt in second place

• Arsenal’s over-reliance on set-pieces, and their inability to defend them was quite a feature. Complete inability to find resilience - the complaints had to have an effect didn’t they?

• ‘The level we play is so high, but something is missing’ Arteta said after dropped points against Villa at home

• Overplaying their hand with the 5-1 win over Man City

• Did you see the decision to disallow the Villa goal - leads to 2 oli state teams in the Champions League….

• FOOTNOTE - Oliver refereed the United home game, Forest at home and Everton away. 

• He refereed 3 of the 9 games before we won the title where we dropped points

• His record is 6-8-6 for us - interesting?

Part Three - Looking ahead:

• Transfers

• Club World Cup impact?

• Style next season?

• They are back in early July - lots of time for them to work on new stuff

We will be back with more reflections before we are done with the 2024-25 season. Thanks to Daz and Enrique for joining me, Paul. And most of all, thank you dear listener for joining us. 
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