Dulis: Some Great Christian Hip-Hop from 2018

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Though it’s not really a regular beat for us, I do like to reflect on good songs I’ve discovered through the year — and in this here 2018, the list is a little different. As a believer in Jesus (“Yehoshua” if you just transliterate it once), you want to center your day on him, to keep him and his commands in your mind at all times. Music is a great tool for that — and while much of today’s contemporary Christian music is theologically solid, that overproduced Nashville sound is a real dealbreaker for me, and the Instagram-EatPrayLove-LivingMyBestLife lyrical imagery just doesn’t connect with most men.

At the same time, “secular” music succumbs more and more to the curse of mumble rap (one of the year’s most popular songs was a diss track of a retired porn actress in response to a fake tweet screenshot) punctuated mostly by old-timers who have sorely degenerated, now focusing more on memes and gossip/personal drama than any real issues. Whereas “Christian rap” used to be known for its corniness, Christian hip-hop now is the space where vital indie artists are flourishing. Most of them can’t make music their primary source of income; they release these songs even in the pennies-per-thousand-streams era for the sake of the Great Commission. They are speaking to America’s problems with real solutions. They are puncturing the monotony of paint-by-numbers radio beats. And they’re making great art as they do so.

These are a few (please attribute any omission to lack of exposure rather than disrespect) of the Christian hip-hop albums and songs that have inspired, encouraged, rent my heart, or blew my mind in 2018.

Timothy Brindle: The Unfolding

A whole-Bible commentary as a rap album. Like the debut LP of the Danielson Famile, The Unfolding appears to be a concept album grad-school project — but Brindle is an experienced emcee, and there is no schoolboy awkwardness here. This thorough exploration of God’s plan of salvation — revealed throughout the Tanach, and not just in a few messianic prophecies — is both accessible and deep. It is an easy starting point for anyone who questions the relevance of the “Old Testament” or wants to revitalize their Bible reading in general. Though Brindle’s voice is an acquired taste, the beats are terrific — lasting much longer than your typical 3-5 minute songs yet still not wearing out their welcome — and the teaching, with its companion book, is a wonderful initiation into the practice of exegesis and a jumping-off point for individual study.

Jackie Hill Perry: Crescendo

Jackie Hill Perry, a poet-turned-rapper who has sparked outrage for her maintaining that her former lesbianism was a sin, put out a solid sophomore album this year. Crescendo, she has said, is about continuing to grow in the Spirit rather than reverting back to our own desires. The songs are concise, the production is economical, her delivery is on par with some of the most acclaimed stars in the world, and the record is peppered with sweet vignettes of gospel music. Of particular interest for parents, her anthem to womanhood cuts through the confusion of modern gender expectations and encourages women to build their identity on the rock that is our God.

Jeremiah Bligen: Fighting Stance EP

No disrespect to K-Love, but you’re not going to hear such a clear articulation of Biblical ethics on their airwaves anytime soon. Jeremiah Bligen, often singing hooks on other artist’s songs, shines in the spotlight here with some truly weird and wild beats from producer Mach-Wun. Recalling his struggles with poverty in the deep south as both a child and a father, Bligen thanks God for instructing him through hard times and affirms his commitment to a daily “stance” of plowing (work), prayer, and praise. When was the last time you got pumped for… humility? Well, that’s exactly what you’ll get from these songs.

Alert312: Joy King Supreme

I was today years old when a rap song first made the hair on my neck stand up with… a chord change. That is the level of artistry on display in Joy King Supreme, this fall offering from Chicago’s Alert312. Esteban Shedd and Aaron Lopez, who also run the Streetlights audio Bible project (if you’re looking for a free audio Bible, get the app), express plenty of angst about the city’s corruption and violence but return again and again to the reality of the Kingdom of Heaven and its worthy ruler as their source of hope. This is the kind of jazz-heavy hip-hop you’d hear from a producer like Karriem Riggins — seamless use of both acoustic and electronic instruments, boasting much more complex structures than a typical one-loop song.

Stephen the Levite: The Verse of the Month

Rather than putting together a whole album to release at once, Lamp Mode’s Stephen the Levite released a string of singles over 11 months with food-themed titles — some of them more half-baked than others, built on a crate digger’s dream of vintage loops. He’s one of the industry’s most technically skilled performers, constantly pushing himself with complex meters and fearlessly taking on American cultural mores, particularly sexual ethics. You might not find something to like in every track, but it’s worth taking the time to evaluate it all.

IV Conerly: Don’t Just Listen

A former gang affiliate turned “theology nerd,” IV Conerly alludes to James 1:22 in the title of his latest album, Don’t Just Listen. His thoroughly West-Coast sound and deep understanding of Scripture come together for a compelling sermon to the SoCal communities that shaped him. “We could take dominion over the hood,” he implores his audience, conceding that he’s willing to look “soft” by submitting to the Lord and end the cycle of gang violence. Along the way, there are apologetics targeting challenges from Black Hebrew Israelites or the 42 Laws of Maat crowd, plus one very tender tribute to his wife’s battle with breast cancer.

Jered Sanders: Hurry Up & Wait

For the kids whose parents bought them Christian pop/rock CDs — e.g., the O.C. Supertones instead of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones — now you may be at the age where you can buy your kids a this, not that Christian album, like Jered Sanders’ Hurry Up & Wait. More than anything else on this list, Sanders would fit in easily on a playlist of pop artists like J. Cole or Kendrick Lamar. That’s not a diss; it’s very hard to pull off this very modern strain of introspective, emotional concept album, and HU&W never sounds like it’s setting out to imitate what’s trendy — it’s just simply in the same league. This LP explores an episode in Sanders’ life when he lost his job with a baby on the way — and in contrast to Jeremiah Bligen’s positive instruction, Hurry is a raw interior monologue. Sins get confessed, complaints get aired, yet God keeps appearing to bestow comfort, even as Sanders idly channel surfs.

Braille: Set the Table

Bryan “Braille” Winchester, one-third of the supergroup Beautiful Eulogy, reflects on a turning point in his life as he is now a pastor as well as a performer, a father, and a producer/exec at Humble Beast Records. With great pathos, he relates this very specific struggle to anyone who’s weary in their life or in their work, concluding that Jesus is the reason to keep moving forward in hope. When that cello swells up…

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MEPs pass robotics report with key changes

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MEPs pass robotics report with key changes

Parliament rejected demands for a basic income for workers who lose their jobs and a tax on robots.

The European Parliament Thursday passed a controversial report on robotics, but deleted the demands for a basic income for workers who lose their jobs and a tax on robots.

The MEPs, however, supported a European agency for robotics and artificial intelligence, as well as a supplementary fund for victims in accidents in self-driving vehicles.

Mady Delvaux, the Socialists & Democrats member in the Legal Affairs Committee, drafted the document and was disappointed with the outcome.

“Although I am pleased that the plenary adopted my report on robotics, I am also disappointed that the right-wing coalition of ALDE, EPP and ECR refused to take account of possible negative consequences on the job market,” she said in a statement.

The report passed 396-to-123, with 85 abstentions.

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‘Alaba could play for any club in the world’ – Former Bayern boss Kovac talks up change for Austrian

A versatile defender linked with the likes of Arsenal and Manchester United in the past may be tempted to leave Germany, says his former manager

David Alaba could “play anywhere in the world”, says former Bayern Munich boss Niko Kovac, with the Austrian seemingly set to weigh up his options at the end of the season.

With the 27-year-old’s current contract only tying him to the Bundesliga champions until 2021, it has been suggested that a change of scenery on the cards.

Alaba has admitted that he may be tempted to take on a challenge outside of Germany, telling The Times: “We’ll see [what happens in the future].

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“I know the Premier League very well because I followed it a lot when I was younger. I supported Arsenal. Patrick Vieira was one of my favourite players.

“At the moment I don’t think too much about it, but I can imagine playing somewhere else.”

Arsenal have been linked with Alaba in the past, along with domestic rivals Manchester United.

Real Madrid are another long-standing suitor and Kovac, who worked with Alaba during a spell in charge of Bayern, believes a versatile performer could grace any squad in the world.

He told ServusTV: “David can play anywhere in the world. But he ultimately has to make that decision himself.

“I can only say from my own experience that if you go somewhere else, you can achieve another boost.”

It remains to be seen whether Alaba will be on the move in the near future, but Kovac is hoping that he will be.

The former Croatia international has been out of work since leaving Bayern in November 2019 and is eager to return to the dugout.

He said: “I assume that there will be something again in the summer, so I’m preparing for it.”

Kovac added when asked if another international post would appeal, having previously spent two years in charge of the Croatian national side: “National coaching is certainly a nice job, but daily work is a lot more fun.

“I am ready to go where I feel valued and where I feel that something can happen.”

Kovac was relieved of his duties at the Allianz Arena after overseeing a slow start to the 2019-20 campaign, but successor Hansi Flick has Bayern back at the Bundesliga summit and preparing for a Champions League last-16 showdown with Chelsea.

Does FIFA 20 have VAR?

There is plenty about EA Sports’ flagship football game that can frustrate fans, but does it have the sport’s newest divisive technology?

FIFA 20 is EA Sports’ latest offering in their massively popular football video game series and it is unrivalled when it comes to recreating the reality of the sport.

From mimicking players’ physical appearances and stadium atmospheres, to fine-tuning the in-game physics when it comes to movement – particularly that of the ball – EA Sports’ FIFA games have few rivals.

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But what about VAR? Does the most controversial technological inclusion in football feature in FIFA 20?

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Does FIFA 20 have VAR?

VAR is not a feature in FIFA 20 despite its rollout across the top competitions in the world, such as the World Cup, Premier League and the Bundesliga.

The question of whether EA Sports would include VAR in its popular football games has persisted since the launch of FIFA 19, but it has not been included in any titles yet.

If VAR was to be included in FIFA, it would be strictly aesthetic, considering that the AI (artificial intelligence) of the computer officials when it comes to decisions such as offside is practically flawless.

As EA Sports’ creative director for FIFA, Matt Prior has suggested, there is no real need to include VAR in the game as there is no chance of an offside goal being given or a legitimate penalty not being awarded.

“We technically have VAR in the game because we know the pinpoint location of everything,” Prior said in an interview with Eurogamer ahead of the launch of FIFA 19.

FIFA 20, which was released in September 2019, followed the same path as its predecessor by leaving VAR out of the game altogether.

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Will VAR be included in the next FIFA game?

It is likely that EA Sports will include VAR in FIFA 21 considering how central the technology has become to the game, for better or worse.

FIFA’s creative director Matt Prior has previously expressed an openness to the idea of including VAR in future titles, citing the need for “authenticity” in their product.

He told Eurogamer: “If it becomes part of the footballing fabric to the point where it feels weird that it isn’t in a regular game, even if we don’t need it, then it’s something we can look at introducing.”

The number of competitions across the world now actively using VAR has grown significantly and it can be reasonably argued that it has become “part of the footballing fabric”.

It remains to be seen how VAR would be incorporated into FIFA games, but one possibility is the insertion of occasional cut-off scenes or short delays during games after goals to allow a ‘decision’ to be made.

Of course, if the real-world response is anything to go by, that sort of pursuit of authenticity may not be to the liking of some VAR-skeptic FIFA aficionados.

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What is VAR?

VAR, meaning Video Assistant Referee, is a match official (or team of officials) who monitors and reviews decisions made by the referee in a football match in order to ensure the correct decision has been reached.

It exists to deal with contentious decisions relating to ‘game-changing incidents such as goals, the awarding of penalties, the issuing of red cards and of mistaken identity’.

Initially trialled in 2017, VAR officially became part of FIFA’s Laws of the Game in 2018 and has since been embedded within a host of the most prestigious competitions in world football.

The World Cup, Champions League, Premier League and Serie A are just some of the tournaments using VAR, which is now in place in the top leagues of countries across five continents.

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Coca-Cola to Air 'Diversity and Inclusion' Super Bowl Ad Before the National Anthem

Coca-Cola is abandoning it’s eleven-year run of airing an ad during the Super Bowl this year, opting instead to run a commercial promoting “unity” as “our nation feels divided” just before the National Anthem.

At up to $5.3 million per sixty-second spot, the soda giant has pulled out of airing an ad during the most expensive TV time of the year, but is not snubbing the game entirely, according to Variety.

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Coke-Cola will run an ad focusing on “diversity” in the half hour before kickoff.

According to a statement, Coke celebrated its history of “unity and positivity.”

“We have a long history of using the country’s biggest advertising stage to share a message of unity and positivity, especially at times when our nation feels divided,” said Stuart Kronauge, senior vice president of marketing for Coca-Cola North America and president of Coke’s sparkling beverages business unit. “This year, we decided to place our ad just before the national anthem as Americans come together in their living rooms to remind everyone that ‘together is beautiful.”

Coke has plied the “diversity” theme before. Last year, for instance, the company’s ad included images of all races and genders as well as disabled people with a voice-over saying, “We all have different looks and loves likes and dislikes, too. But there’s a Coke for we and us and there’s a Coke for you.” And in 2014, Coke’s ad featured the song “America the Beautiful” being sung in different languages. Some of the singers were Muslims in hijabs and a same-sex couple.

The pre-game ad will be an animated spot inspired by a 1975 Andy Warhol quote and will end saying, “We all have different hearts and hands; heads holding various views. Don’t you see? Different is beautiful. And, together is beautiful, too.”

This is not the first time Coke has avoided advertising during the Super Bowl. The beverage company did not air any Super Bowl ads from 1998 to 2006.

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Article 50 author Lord Kerr: I didn’t have UK in mind

The man who wrote Article 50 did not imagine his own country would be the one to use it.

Veteran British diplomat John Kerr — now Lord Kerr of Kinlochard — drafted the text that sets out the procedure for leaving the European Union as part of an effort to draw up an EU constitutional treaty in the early 2000s.

That initiative was scuppered by referendum defeats in France and the Netherlands but some elements ended up in the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, which came into force in 2009.

One of the sections pasted across became Article 50, which will be invoked by Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday when she notifies the EU that Britain intends to depart after more than 40 years of membership.

“I don’t feel guilty about inventing the mechanism. I feel very sad about the U.K. using it,” Kerr told POLITICO. “I didn’t think that the United Kingdom would use it.”

After a high-flying career in the Foreign Office that included assignments as Britain’s ambassador to Washington and to the EU, Kerr drew up the text as secretary-general of the European Convention, which was charged with writing the constitutional treaty in 2002 and 2003.

At that time, the rise of Austrian far-right leader Jörg Haider was a big worry for mainstream EU leaders and some southern European EU members had returned to democracy only in recent decades. Kerr imagined that the exit procedure might be triggered after an authoritarian leader took power in a member country and the EU responded by suspending that country’s right to vote on EU decisions.

“It seemed to me very likely that a dictatorial regime would then, in high dudgeon, want to storm out. And to have a procedure for storming out seemed to be quite a sensible thing to do — to avoid the legal chaos of going with no agreement,” Kerr said.

Although he retired from the Foreign Office a decade and a half ago, Kerr remains active in public life. He spoke out against Brexit during last year’s referendum campaign and contributes to debates in the House of Lords.

He has argued publicly — and controversially — that Article 50 is not irrevocable. In other words, during the two-year negotiating period set out in the text, Britain could decide not to leave after all and simply remain an EU member. However, he says he cannot imagine how politics in Britain would allow such a U-turn.

Speaking by telephone from London, Kerr, a Scot in his mid-70s, displayed a sharp mind and dry wit. At one point, he correctly predicted his interviewer’s next question and he joked about his “beautiful prose” in Article 50 — a strictly colorless collection of about 260 words, split into five small sections.

Targeting Euroskeptics

Kerr took up the role as secretary-general to the European Convention, a body chaired by former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, after retiring from the Foreign Office as its top civil servant.

He took a small flat in the picturesque Petit Sablon area of Brussels and set to work in an office at the back of the European Council’s Justus Lipsius building, leading two-dozen staff supporting the convention.

Kerr said he had favored setting out a formal departure procedure partly to undermine an argument made by British opponents of EU membership — even though, he said, their logic didn’t stack up.

“In Britain there was, among Euroskeptics, the theory that one was tied to one’s oar with no escape and rowing to the unknown destination of ever-closer union,” he said. “That Euroskeptic theory was always nonsense because you don’t need a secession article to secede. If you stop paying your subscription, stop attending the meetings, people would notice that you’d left.”

Kerr highlighted two key elements of Article 50 which could play a big role in the negotiations to come.

The process outlined in the text is, he noted, “about divorce … about paying the bills, settling one’s commitments, dealing with acquired rights, thinking about the pensions. It’s not an article about the future relationship.”

However, the article also states that the divorce deal should take account of the “framework” of the future relationship between the EU and the departing country. Kerr said a full agreement covering trade and all other aspects of relations between Britain and the EU could not possibly be concluded in two years but a framework would have to be negotiated.

“Don’t ask me what that framework looks like. Is that another treaty? Is it a European Council Conclusions text? I don’t know what the framework will be but … unless it exists, then the divorce settlement, if there is one, is legally vulnerable — because in order to be ‘taken into account,’ it has to exist,” he said.

That meant, Kerr said, that discussions about the divorce and about the outline of the future relationship would have to take place in parallel.

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“I don’t believe that it will be possible for the Commission to insist — and I’m not convinced that they will try to insist — that the money has to be all tied up before one can talk about anything else,” he said. “If I were the British negotiators, I would go clutching this article in my hand and say ‘But hang on, we have to have a framework.’”

Rules of the game

Article 50 has been the subject of fierce debate since the Brexit referendum, including in the U.K. Supreme Court. But Kerr said it caused little fuss when it was discussed as part of the European Convention.

“There were plenty of articles which caused tremendous debate. This was not one of them,” he said.

In the Supreme Court case over whether the U.K. parliament had to give its approval before the government could invoke Article 50, both the government and their opponents contended that this notification could not be withdrawn. But Kerr said the view was different on the Continent.

“I think if you ask an EU lawyer, he will tell you straight away that of course it’s not irrevocable,” he said. “And if the issue was decided in a court, it would be decided in the European Court of Justice and it would be found that it is not irrevocable.”

He added: “The rules of the game in the EU are that you can change your mind. Many a member state has changed its mind during a legislative procedure because it’s had a general election back home and the left has thrown out the right or the right has thrown out the left and it’s stood on its head in the [European] Council — and that’s accepted.”

He said he could not see the British government deciding to reverse course. “But there is no doubt that if they did go in that direction — if the deal looked so bad that the government was thrown out or decided that it could not recommend it — then it would be perfectly possible to carry on,” he said.

Although there would be no legal price to pay under that scenario, Kerr said, other EU members would probably extract some kind of political concession from Britain — but it might not be too severe. He said they would not be able to touch Britain’s legally enshrined rebate from the EU budget, for example.

Kerr said he would be “pontificating in the Lords” on Wednesday when May sends her notification to the EU. His days on the diplomatic front lines may be behind him but he would relish one last big mission — heading back to Brussels with a note from the British government saying it had decided not to go ahead with Brexit, bolstered by his own handiwork in the form of Article 50.

“This is a little unlikely,” he said, pausing for a brief chuckle, “but I would love to be the British negotiator who came with the second letter saying ‘actually we’ve changed our mind’ because I would come surrounded by lawyers and every time somebody raised a price that I would have to pay, I would say ‘please consult your lawyer, I don’t have to pay any price, I’m here by right.’”

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Neville: Salah is using Liverpool as a ‘stepping stone’ to the top

Mohamed Salah is using Liverpool as a “stepping stone” as he looks to reach the “pinnacle” of football at Real Madrid or Barcelona, according to Gary Neville.

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The Egyptian has scored 90 goals in 140 appearances since joining Liverpool from Roma back in 2017.

Liverpool are defending Champions League title holders, while they have blazed a 22-point lead at the top of the Premier League but Neville reckons Salah still wants to another “big move”.

“It’s never easy to replace a player like that,” Neville said on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football.

“I said 18 months ago I thought Mo Salah would leave Liverpool.

“I think it’s a little bit more simple in the sense of why Liverpool fans maybe don’t demonstrate that love for Salah, and it’s affinity and loyalty.

“I think there’s a feeling that he wants to go and play at Real Madrid, he’ll go to Barcelona, he’ll take the big move.

“That’s not a criticism of Mo Salah. I played with David Beckham, I played with Ruud van Nistelrooy, played with Cristiano Ronaldo – they wanted to aspire to win the Ballon d’Or, they wanted to be at Real Madrid, they wanted to be up in lights and play at the biggest clubs in the world.

“I think there’s a feeling, affinity, loyalty, ‘will he leave us?’, I think he could.

“I think he is ultimately using Liverpool potentially as a stepping stone for his career.

“He has aspirations to be [higher]. Let’s be honest, Real Madrid and Barcelona for a lot of players are the pinnacle.

“When a player maybe doesn’t celebrate other players’ goals or is popular in the team, when a player looks selfish and doesn’t pass to his team-mates when you’ve got a spirit like Liverpool have got, again those things just erode a little bit of confidence in the fans.

“Some players just aren’t naturally as popular as others purely because of the fact they are a little bit more selfish.

“Salah would be upset I think if a team won 2-0 and he missed two chances and didn’t score.”

 

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Carra, Neville drool over ‘out of this world’ Liverpool player

Trent Alexander-Arnold has been likened to Kevin de Bruyne playing at right-back as Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville lauded the Liverpool defender.

The England international grabbed another two assists on Monday night as Liverpool came from 2-1 down to beat West Ham 3-2 and maintain their unbeaten record in the Premier League.

Alexander-Arnold has now contributed 12 Premier League assists this season and 24 since the beginning of last term.

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And Carragher and Neville joined together to pile praise on the 21-year-old.

“What makes him special is it is like having De Bruyne at right back, like a midfielder at right back,” Carragher told Sky Sports.

“People talk about his defending, but what he is doing – like Beckham at wing-back under Hoddle because of his quality – Alexander-Arnold is like a wing-back with the positions he plays.”

Neville added: “What staggers me is they don’t have two big strikers to hit with loads of headers, but Mane and Salah score headers because the quality is that good.

“If the quality is that good and the speed of the run, you are going to get chances, the quality is out of this world.”

 

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‘Liverpool would consider £130m bid for underappreciated Salah’

Liverpool would consider a bid of £130m for “underappreciated” Mohamed Salah, according to former defender Jamie Carragher.

The Egyptian has 19 goals and eight assists in all competitions for Liverpool this season with another goal coming last night as Jurgen Klopp’s men came from behind to beat West Ham 3-2.

However, Carragher thinks Liverpool would sell Salah before the other five of their “six world-class players”.

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“I think Mo Salah is seen as world-class by those on the outside but with Liverpool fans, I think he is a little bit underappreciated,” Carragher told Sky Sports.

“Certainly going from that first season to what he is doing now, there has been a bit of a dip. But he was never going to score another 47 goals in a season.

“Speaking to Liverpool fans and looking at social media, I think Liverpool have got six world-class players. I think they have the goalkeeper, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Salah.

“I think if you asked Liverpool fans whether they would take big money for the other five, they would all say no, no matter what the money.

“There is no way they would sell Alisson or Van Dijk. But if you offered them £130m for Salah, they would think about it. That is why I say he is underappreciated.”

 

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Sherwood hits out at Mourinho over ‘absolutely disgusting’ Spurs

Tim Sherwood has called Tottenham’s “negative approach” in their 2-1 loss to Chelsea on Sunday “absolutely disgusting”.

Goals either side of the half time break from Olivier Giroud and Marcos Alonso were enough to secure a Premier League double for Frank Lampard over his former manager.

Chelsea fully deserved their victory – despite Mourinho insisting his side were “in complete control” – having 17 shots in comparison to Tottenham’s five.

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And Sherwood thinks Spurs needed to show a lot more “attacking intent” as they lost their second game in a row.

“Tottenham were absolutely disgusting,” Sherwood told Premier League Productions.

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“They were so bad. The negative approach. Yes they have injuries to Son and to Kane, Mourinho keeps reminding us of that.

“But they’ve got Bergwijn there who can run in behind, they’ve got Moura who has pace. If they’ve got anything they’ve got pace. They both got 15 goals last season which is not the end of the world.

“You have to find a different way. As a coach sometimes you can’t say ‘oh we don’t have a striker’ and throw the towel in.

“If you said to Jose beforehand: ‘Would you take a 0-0?’ he would have taken your arms off. It’s not about that, it’s a London derby! It’s for all of those fans, you need to show more of an attacking intent.”

 

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