Any pub will be OK if you aren't a dickhead. I have both worked and lived in or around Liverpool for almost 35 years and have always found most Scousers to be a very affable bunch (there are always a few pricks). I will be going to the Royal Oak before the game with a bunch of bitter...
I think there will more emphasis on working hard to retain what we already have. Tross, Mac, Caicedo, Mitoma are surely on the radar of more affluent clubs.
If you want sedation the NHS cannot deny it to you. They will always try to make you have the procedure without sedation as it is cheaper and there is less risk to the patient.
It's the same players that have been mostly excellent since the start of the season so I see no reason why that should change as long as RDZ is as tactically astute as GP. 3-2 to the Albion.