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@LenovoGuru @ReasoningWthRao What a pile of AI slop

Big up @ReasoningWthRao for his Sept 2025 piece. Got loads right. rilewawrites.com/liverpools-sta… Here’s mine. Black Swan: A 25/26 Tale. A black swan event is rare, unexpected, disruptive. It only makes sense in hindsight. First, it sounds like noise. Later, you realise it was shaping everything underneath. In Sept 2025, Rao spotted the pattern early. Six from six, five by one goal, most decided late. Games stayed alive too long. He nailed the risk. If matches keep drifting into the final phase, superiority drops, variance takes over. Not getting out of second gear yet was prophetic. Hindsight gives you the layer underneath. This wasn’t style but constraint. Physical, tactical, psychological. The base never fully formed. What he saw was real. This explains why it kept repeating. The root sits in pre-season. Not just disruption, something more serious. A shock in the squad changes everything. Training optional, preparation secondary. Not an excuse, a black swan event. It matters, because that is the exact window where the base is built. If the block is compromised, it doesn’t stay in July. It carries through the season. It wasn’t the cause of everything. But it disrupted the phase where everything is built. Physically, you end up managing load instead of building it. Injuries to Leoni, Frimpong, Bradley and Isak. Ongoing issues for Wirtz and Ekitike don’t just reduce availability, they force a team to pull intensity back. More rest, less continuity, lower ceiling. You play and get through 90. You can’t repeat high-intensity actions to control games. That’s why you saw the same pattern. Game after game. Week after week. Tactically, the issue is timing. Liverpool needed to put games away earlier. That’s outcome, not mechanism. The real question is could they force the game to break early? But if the first progressive action lands late, the opponent resets, everything slows. Your best players face set blocks instead of moving ones. That’s why the series of cup matches line holds up. It was a team that couldn’t make league-game control stick. Psychologically, it starts to rot. Early nail biters get called mentality. There’s truth in that. But living in those margins constantly drains. Jeopardy becomes default. And you keep seeing it. Spurs. Wolves. Leeds. Fulham. Burnley. Bournemouth. Man City. Wolves again. Spurs again. That’s why his piece reads even better now. It was right, it just didn’t have the full picture yet. In September you could only see output. Tight games, late winners, thin margins. Summer gave way to an autumn of pain, to a winter of discontent, to an uneasy spring. Through it, the loop kept repeating. Injuries, volatility, a team reacting instead of imposing. The postmortem is clean. The pattern was identified early. The season confirmed it. Hindsight adds the why. This wasn’t a team choosing chaos. It was a team pushed into it by a base that never settled, a structure that couldn’t land early control, and an environment shaped by constantly playing games that should have been done but were not. So the start being both encouraging and discouraging wasn’t about aesthetics, but the first sign of a team that could still win moments, yet couldn’t control games enough to see it through. Once that repeats enough times, it’s not a blip. It’s the season. One last thing, because this keeps getting repeated (not by Rao, but by the wider commentariat). This is not a continuation of 24/25. 24/25 tailed off because of fatigue. Small squad, heavy minutes, legs going late. The base was there, it just got depleted over time. That’s why performances held for most of the year and dropped off late. But they won. This season is different. The base was never properly built in the first place. That’s deficit, not depletion. The symptoms can look similar. Tight games, drop-offs, lack of control. But they don’t come from the same root. If you treat them as the same problem, you’ll keep coming to the wrong conclusion. Don’t.

Wirtz is shit because he hasn’t got any goals or assists yet. Salah isn’t that good because he just gets goals and assists. Can someone make this make sense?

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He’s fucking incredible man give Chelsea another £0

The Reds spending 6,717,588,000 Turkish Lira on a player is mad, especially when Man City are buying a lad for 368 BitCoin.

@MattHDGamer Why the hehe on 4411? Is that the next tactic people get bullied for after 4213?

What tactics are you liking the most right now in FC 25? 442? 4222? 4411? 😅

@ScouseRed0151 Stevie said 'Fuck it, I'll do it myself'

Steven Gerrard: “Usually that far out I’d try and set the play out wide, to try and get a cross in and think about the team but I was that tired I just thought I’ll gamble”

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@nocontextfm1 Won World Cup with Ukraine today

What's the most RIDICULOUS thing that has ever happened to you in Football Manager?

@alexhammerstone Hammerstone casually burning daily calorie count of an adult 😁

Rest day off weights means the long cardio session. 70 minutes of intervals on stairs.

The heart and the soul Of the team that is red Vice-captain James Milner Will play when you're dead

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@AIWORLDSGAMES I don't reload, I just quit after a bad roll

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