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its not like hes played in the past year possibly 2, if he played recently they might have a point, useless fifa

Anyone seen the BBC team of the week? When you go to select your own, Wayne Rooney is an option. Really?

Mighty Mig is in goal in team of the week

Arguably one of his best games in a LFC shirt.

Yeah Mig didn't really put a foot wrong yesterday.

A bit slow to close down Ibrahimovic after Lovrens poor backpass but that was the only thing he didn't do well.

Competition seems to be driving both keepers on and hopefully that continues.

So looks like FIFA have told us to go home and the'll call us when they can be asked regarding Matip according to James Pearce. No time-frame given.

First of all who are we employing to chase this case up? Incompetence of the highest order. I said it before and say it again I doubt United or Chelsea would have taken this lying down like we have.

Yeah but the club can never do anything right in your eyes.

Have you ever looked at anything in a positive light?

comment by (Kash) I'm the Mané, I'm the Mané - Justice4Gaza (U1108)
posted 22 minutes ago
So looks like FIFA have told us to go home and the'll call us when they can be asked regarding Matip according to James Pearce. No time-frame given.

First of all who are we employing to chase this case up? Incompetence of the highest order. I said it before and say it again I doubt United or Chelsea would have taken this lying down like we have.
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Calm down Dorothy.

Chelsea and united wouldnt have a choice if fifa refused to respond like they have with us

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/01/16/liverpool-may-defy-fifa-play-joel-matip-fa-cup/

Interesting , but what if we progress to only find ourselves chucked out for fielding ineligible players...

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I completely disagree, the club have asked a question, fifa have failed to give a clear answer, whats the solution, ask them at gunpoint?

If klopp thought someone at the club had facked up i dont think he'd blame fifa

comment by Adam 'The Interview' Lallana (U20650)
posted 3 minutes ago
I completely disagree, the club have asked a question, fifa have failed to give a clear answer, whats the solution, ask them at gunpoint?
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I like the gun point idea, plenty of them cvnts want shooting!

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Someone should get a gun and hold FIFA execs hostage until they give us a decision. What else can the club do?

The question should have been asked a long time ago. Someone within the club will be employed to ensure that something like this doesn't happen. We know we have Matip. We know the ACON is on this season and we know that he isn't playing for them. This whole situation isn't a new thing (regarding players knowing they can be in trouble if they no show an international whilst playing club football). Somebody somewhere should have laid out what the situation is over this time, and what we needed to get from FIFA to ensure that Matip can play for us. This could have been done months ago. Like I said, this is a billion pound business and this isn't a situation that couldn't have been foreseen.

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I'm sure the question was asked when we were signing him. I'm sure someone within the club is employed to handle these but this did come out of left field. Its new because Matip's position was established. They didn't even attempt to call him up for qualifiers then a week before the ACON they want to say something.

Cameroon's are not motivated by virtue here, that's something people miss. Matip had a bad falling out with them. They know the rules and waited for the opportunity to back him into a corner.

FIFA on the other hand will be loathe to be seen as encouraging the dereliction of national duty. Its hard for them because a precedent will be established if the officially back Matip. This will be seen as damaging to international tournaments.

IMO FIFA will keep off. If we play Matip they won't do anything unless someone officially complains. If a complaint is made then they will proceed to penalise our pants off so as to further impress upon players that national duty must be observed.

"Somebody somewhere should have laid out what the situation is over this time, and what we needed to get from FIFA to ensure that Matip can play for us"

The rules on this are a little ambiguous and Cameroon are exploiting said ambiguity. The ambiguous nature of the rules is the very reason we are seeking clarification.

Why would we seek clarification months ago when it hadn't been an issue?

Should we be asking FIFA what happens if Ben Woodburn doesn't want to play for Wales, just in case it happens in 5 years time?

comment by selbstgerechtein (U7048)
posted 4 minutes ago
Why would we seek clarification months ago when it hadn't been an issue?

Should we be asking FIFA what happens if Ben Woodburn doesn't want to play for Wales, just in case it happens in 5 years time?
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Not really because he can switch up until he plays a full competitive international, the rules are clear on that.

I honestly think that Cameroon wouldn't have a leg to stand on with Matip!

He hasn't played for Cameroon for 18 months and has continually told them he doesn't want to, that's the difference between him and Nyom from WBA. Who played all through the qualifiers.

Wonder if we'll just wing it, case seems strongly in our favour (not that i know how it actually works)

We are playing wages for a player who retired for Cameroon. This was clear back in October. Cameroon then start diccking about November time and we allow the situation to drag so much that we might as well have told him to go to AFCOM.

We tried to be sly and make Matip fake a injury but Cameroon saw that coming.

We should have got the lawyers out immediately and got this issue resolved. Corporate clubs like United and Chelsea would not have allowed this to drag.

The same situation happened with Sakho. Found a dodgy sample. This again became a legal matter but the club decide to remove Sakho from the first team and it backfired big time on us and the player when he was innocent.

Yeah remember when Utd withdrew from the FA Cup, that was all settled in a matter of minutes as I recall because of their well oiled corporate machine

Remember when Chelsea paid a child abuse victim to keep his story quiet too? Text book corporate brilliance that was.

The United example is from the late 90s or early noughties. Believe it or not but football has moved on since then

Child abuse case has nothing to do with football. When they recieved a transfer ban they didn't roll over and take it lying down.