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Love our new contigent of French Lads at the club

Unreal signings. Just additional decent ones with some depth would’ve made an immense impact and let these guys even more loose. YNWA

I remember that some time ago, Liverpool FC itself was also the featured article.

On the latest player ratings, there were quite a few comments about how a few players seemed to have harsh ratings, so I'll let you guys see how the distribution for those players were.

I'll start with Alisson (6.26) as a control group because, well, there's not really any agenda for him. There were 224 ratings, with the majority of those being a 6 or lower. Most of the ratings were between 4 and 8.

Kerkez (4.05) was the most talked about rating being too low, and "it seems like many people are still basing their opinions of him on the first half of last season". The majority of his ratings were below a 4, generally between 2 and 6, but a substantial amount of people gave him 0s and 1s. It's one of the only ones where the distribution has a tail to the left.

Gakpo (6.82) was another talked about rating, and even if you take away the 1 person who gave him a 0, he would then be at 6.85, but it seems like most people agreed he was a 7 or better. More people just gave him 5-6s than 8-9s, though I think 5 is pretty harsh on him. Definitely more positive than last season's, though I'd argue his performances were even better than this.

Mac Allister (5.63), removing the few who gave him 3s or lower, would be at 5.75... which is still pretty low. The majority gave him a 6 or lower, with more 5s than 7s or higher. He had quite a wide distribution.

Van Dijk (6.09) seemed fair to me, but someone thought it was harsh.

Isak (5.75) had a very interesting distribution, with multiple people on both ends of the spectrum giving extreme ratings.

Muñoz (7.78) had someone wondering why he won MOTM, so here's his distribution.

And Wirtz's (7.42). Notice how some people gave Wirtz lower scores compared to Muñoz, who no one gave less than a 6 to.

So, there you go. Hope this sheds some light on what some people have been doing. I can't do this every game, (because I've got other things to do) but if there's another ratings post where multiple people are wondering how some players got unfair ratings, I can make another installment.

We got a big guy in our hands lads 🇫🇷❤️

Between what he's been through personally and how unfairly some supporters tend to talk about him, many people need to be better. You can criticise without attacking

Tuesday, September 1st
7:45 PM - HEBC 0 - 2 Dortmund
^{Janek Wrede 33' \}OG], Daniel Svensson 36')
7:45 PM - Accrington 0 - 2 Grimsby
7:45 PM - Crewe 0 - 0 Walsall
7:45 PM - Tranmere 1 - 0 Rotherham
7:45 PM - West Ham 1 - 0 Wolves

Wednesday, September 2nd
7:45 PM - Osnabrück vs Bayern

Or just talk about the Championship, whatever. See how other teams did transfer business.