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Chelsea vs Liverpool (PL) Sun 4th May 16:30 GMT

Yeah that may well happen, though I thought the deadline was April 30th. No news has come through about that so am guessing we did not do so.
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This came up last season too with United and City. Both Girona and Man City qualified for the Champions League, which are owned by The City Football Group and INEOS owned Nice and part of United. From what I understood at the time is that they were only allowed to own below 30% of shares, or put all of their shares into a blind trust that UEFA would oversee.

I think both The City Football Group and INEOS chose to transfer their shares into a blind trust. It's actually a pretty simple rule to get around, because all shares get transferred back at the end of the season.

 
Other than improving out Champions League chances, I think winning against a top side is a big thing for this group. They've been coming up short every time until now.

 
Had we not lost those 5 points to Ipswich, we would have been home and dry for the Champions League. I hope we can make it.

Very happy with the performance today. Very impressed with Noni as well today.

 
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Carrier pigeon has just arrived with these pictures.

 
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A nice win and while I was expecting a point at least, 3 points was more than I hoped for and hopefully gives us some momentum in the remaining games. Liverpool were more or less on the beach TBH, while our players at least put the effort in to remain with a chance of CL football...Nico on the other hand; well one game decent and the next his brain's gone missing in all aspects of the game. He is pretty much being carried at times and while he may appear to put an effort in with all the running, he 's running into the wrong space at the wrong time carrying two left fee. He needs to go back to the classroom and understand what his role is as a centre forward, perhaps a few video's of Didier might help. And while this game papers over the cracks for Maresca, IMO he has to go in the summer because he is suppressing these young players with his negative possession based football....at least Sanchez today was kicking the ball long and appearing to ignore this nonsense of playing out from the back to negate the Liverpool press.

 
Brilliant performance overall. Liverpool were thankfully on the beach which made it easier. Conceding at the end was frustrating but the team responded well.

Defence and Midfield were both great.

The attack could have been a bit sharper and killed the game earlier though.

 
I know people think that Liverpool were on the beach but, we were on to them from kick off and never let them off. And, we played really good, fast football, with few side or backward passes. We were relentless and progressive. To me that’s something to praise our players for, for the first or second time time this season too. I think that today it’s more on our team playing good football than Liverpool being on the beach. Playing like that, we’d have beaten them anyway.

 
Over at Strasbourg they appear to be talking about the ownership/management change as if it were a formality, that the board would be replaced by an independently appointed group by UEFA. There are comments suggesting that any European football would be a positive be it Conference, Europa or CL.

 
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We got Liverpool at the right time amid their title celebrations, so good to take advantage of that.

First win over them since March 2021, so it's been long overdue.

 
I know people think that Liverpool were on the beach but, we were on to them from kick off and never let them off. And, we played really good, fast football, with few side or backward passes. We were relentless and progressive. To me that’s something to praise our players for, for the first or second time time this season too. I think that today it’s more on our team playing good football than Liverpool being on the beach. Playing like that, we’d have beaten them anyway.
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Pool were not only on the beach, they rotated half of their first 11.

 
Pool were not only on the beach, they rotated half of their first 11.
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I think their women's team would have beaten us a few weeks ago... thankfully we've got that Lavia back and Cole back in position.

 
They had to!
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The performance was good but to say that we would have beaten them if pool took the game seriously is an overstatement.

It was quite clear that not only they are on beach mode and have been drinking they rotated half of their team.

 
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