Liverpool Rumours And General Discussion 2007/2008

Mr Alan

Des- why would you want to see me cry?

Utd won the league yesterday podge! did ya not hear? Arsenal dropped points, Utd on top, its all over now!

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Mr Alan wrote: »

Des- why would you want to see me cry?

I think it would be funny.

Mr Alan

nasty des, nasty

el dude

PHB wrote: »

I don't think Liverpool can compete with the other 4 over the league, by which I mean that I don't think that theres any chance they can come first. They can defo beat one or two of the teams if they have a bad season, but in terms of coming first in the league, they aren't good enough to compete.
In a cup competition, they can compete with all of them.

And what? That can never change?

Zapp Brannigan

Hope everyone had a good Christmas!

Got the euro strip from santy but I'm debating what name to get on the back of it, I've got Torres on the away strip so I dunno who to get on this one. Don't really want Gerrard so it might be Carragher. Any suggestions?

As for the result, very disappointed with the performance but still we won and the 3 points are all that matters. Citeh will be a tough game on Sunday but we should be able to beat them, seeing as how our away form is great this year (apart from Reading).

Mr Alan

Lucas!

Tusky

Mascherano or Alonso.

Unearthly

Riise

Mr Alan

Heinze

Guy:Incognito

Liddell

Unearthly

Mr Alan wrote: »

Heinze

well played

Zapp Brannigan

Ooh Masche or Lucas, like those!

Anyone know of any sports shops in Dublin/Blanchardstown do the Euro printing?

~Rebel~

Keep in mind Lucas has Leiva on the back of his i think!


Ste, thats funny, i was chattin with someone about Liddell the other day. I've never seen him play, but from what i've read about him he seemed like a real hero of a man. Real shame he came just before the real period of success.

Tusky

~Rebel~ wrote: »

Keep in mind Lucas has Leiva on the back of his i think!


Ste, thats funny, i was chattin with someone about Liddell the other day. I've never seen him play, but from what i've read about him he seemed like a real hero of a man. Real shame he came just before the real period of success.

Im pretty sure he has Lucas on the back.

Malice

According to the online shop Lucas 21 is his number. Personally I'd go for Agger 5 or Dalglish 7 .

d22ontour

Nobody mentioning Sissoko ?

Guy:Incognito

d22ontour wrote: »

Nobody mentioning Sissoko ?

SSSSH Rafa might hear you.

ShiverinEskimo

Aldridge

~Rebel~

Tusky wrote: »

Im pretty sure he has Lucas on the back.

oops, my mistake!

Dub13

Lets hope someone comes in with a big money offer for Sissoko in Jan.....!!!

PiE

I'm sure if we had a whip-around we could table an acceptable bid.

Say about £500.

Come on lads, it's for a good cause.

RustySpoon

Another promising youngster added to the ranks:

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Ross County winger Alex Cooper has signed for English Premiership club Liverpool.

The 16-year-old, son of Aberdeen's Gothenburg Great Neale Cooper, has been tracked by several leading clubs, including Celtic.



But he has opted to join Rafa Benitez's club on a three-and-a-half year deal, following former County prospect Gary Mackay Steven who moved to Merseyside in a £100,000 deal this year.

County will receive a similar fee for Cooper and director of football George Adams said: "It was always a question of when and not if Alex would get a move to a big club and I am delighted he has got his chance after doing so well for us.

"He is a terrific young lad who comes from a great football family and he has worked really hard to get his move. He is a left-sided player who is quick and aggressive and the fact he was called up for Scotland under-17s while he was playing for a Second Division club shows his quality."

County goalkeeper Mark Ridgers joined Hearts in a £40,000 deal in May and Adams believes the conveyor belt of young talent in the Highlands will continue.

He said: "The length of contract Liverpool have given Alex shows how highly they rate him.

"We have a tremendous relationship with Liverpool and it is great for the young players at Ross County to see what can be achieved with hard work and dedication.

"I also think it is a feather in the cap for us that while we are working towards getting out of the Second Division this season, we are still producing young players who are interesting some of the biggest clubs in the world."

Former County manager Cooper is delighted with the move. He said: "All his family are delighted Alex has been given the opportunity to sign for Liverpool.

"He could have gone to one or two other clubs but he just loved the way he was treated by Liverpool when he was there.

"They've invited the whole family to go and see the set-up for ourselves early in the new year, something we're all looking forward to."



Comments below from a Ross County site

Given everything I've heard abvout Alex Cooper's ability 100k could be an absolute bargain for Liverpool (For whom 100k is a drop in the ocean of course).

Link3

Tusky

That was a good couple of days for Liverpool. We won while Arsenal, Chelsea, Portsmout & Man City drew so we gained a few points. If we can beat City on Sunday it would be a massive boost.

Dub13

By the way anybody at a lose end tonight we have a gig on in The Tram on James Street,its a Q&A night with ALAN KENNEDY DAVID FAIRCLOUGH AND THE EUROPEAN CUP...and its the real Cup.

If anybody is interested PM me or log onto Irishkop.com as I will be off line in a while for the day.

Malice

Tusky wrote: »

That was a good couple of days for Liverpool. We won while Arsenal, Chelsea, Portsmout & Man City drew so we gained a few points. If we can beat City on Sunday it would be a massive boost.

Fingers crossed the team can do the business! It's an away match so it'll be tough. Even more so given our current defensive frailty.

Tusky

malice_ wrote: »

Fingers crossed the team can do the business! It's an away match so it'll be tough. Even more so given our current defensive frailty.

We have the best away record in the league!

Pighead

Tusky wrote: »

We have the best away record in the league!

Its been a pretty easy away list for your lads though.

They've won 6 away from home and those 6 have been: Wigan, Derby, Sunderland, Newcastle, Villa(last minute goal), Everton(last minute goal)


United have beaten Sunderland, Liverpool, Villa, Birmingham and Everton and were a minute away from beating Arsenal.

Its all about context!

Malice

Pighead wrote: »

Its been a pretty easy away list for your lads though.

They've won 6 away from home and those 6 have been: Wigan, Derby, Sunderland, Newcastle, Villa(last minute goal), Everton(last minute goal)


United have beaten Sunderland, Liverpool, Villa, Birmingham and Everton and were a minute away from beating Arsenal.

Its all about context!

Derby was a last minute goal too . We might have the best away record in the league but I always like to be playing at home. Maybe it's just the ghosts of seasons past when we used to play teams like Man City (the Stuart Pearce version) on their home patch and not just lose but lose while playing really badly.

Tusky

Pighead wrote: »

Its been a pretty easy away list for your lads though.

They've won 6 away from home and those 6 have been: Wigan, Derby, Sunderland, Newcastle, Villa(last minute goal), Everton(last minute goal)


United have beaten Sunderland, Liverpool, Villa, Birmingham and Everton and were a minute away from beating Arsenal.

Its all about context!

Eh...what? Do games in which you score with a last minute goal count for less ? Or do games in which you almost win count for more ?

My original point (that we have the best away record) stands.

Pighead

Tusky wrote: »

Eh...what? Do games in which you score with a last minute goal count for less ? Or do games in which you almost win count for more ?

My original point (that we have the best away record) stands.

Keep your knickers on buddy! I never questioned your original point. Was just highlighting the fact that although Liverpool have the best away record thus far , that stat doesn't look quite so good when you see who they've beaten.

Zapp Brannigan

Tusky wrote: »

We have the best away record in the league!

He means the fact that Hyppia and Agger are out. Leaving Hobbs to step in, wouldn't be too confident in him, yet, to step into a big game like this.

Tusky

Pighead wrote: »

Keep your knickers on buddy! I never questioned your original point. Was just highlighting the fact that although Liverpool have the best away record thus far , that stat doesn't look quite so good when you see who they've beaten.

My knickers were never off. Eh, I mean, boxers. My secrets out

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

He means the fact that Hyppia and Agger are out. Leaving Hobbs to step in, wouldn't be too confident in him, yet, to step into a big game like this.

Could go for something like this -

Finnan--Arbeloa--Carragher--Riise/Aurelio

I think Arbeloa has the flu so may not be able to play.

Chardee MacDennis

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

Got the euro strip from santy but I'm debating what name to get on the back of it, I've got Torres on the away strip so I dunno who to get on this one. Don't really want Gerrard so it might be Carragher. Any suggestions?

my next jersey will have either Gerrard, Torres or Agger, so i would recommend any of them!

Guy:Incognito

*** Totally useless observation alert**** Just spotted a bit of lazy journalismon Soccer AM (lazy journalism on sky? I hear you say. I know, I'm as shocked as you) They have a stat of the year section that said some Chelsea kid hasnt the highest squad number and then showed Robinson and said he isthe joint lowest with 19 other Premier keppers (no 1 obviously) but we havent had a no1 since Dudek left:). ****Totally useless observation alert******

mike65

I'm not sure which is most shocking, that you were watching Soccer AM and admitted it, or that you noticed the above factoid error.

Mike.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Or that you thought that we would be in any way interested

Guy:Incognito

mike65 wrote: »

I'm not sure which is most shocking, that you were watching Soccer AM and admitted it, or that you noticed the above factoid error.

Mike.

Hey, Brucie Grobbelaar is on.

mike65

Much more important is that Tom Hicks has, yet again not helped anyone by opening his mouth about the spat, but this time he's added salt but criticising Liverpools performance against Man Utd. Had Liverpool won that game it would have been with the same performance, so would it then have been good?

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/29122007/58/premier-league-hicks-knocks-pouting-benitez.html

Mike.

el rabitos

we played "tight" ....oh. i'm glad we have the american with 6 or so football matches viewed under his belt to guide us.

hicks for RTE

Tusky

mike65 wrote: »

Much more important is that Tom Hicks has, yet again not helped anyone by opening his mouth about the spat, but this time he's added salt but criticising Liverpools performance against Man Utd. Had Liverpool won that game it would have been with the same performance, so would it then have been good?

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/29122007/58/premier-league-hicks-knocks-pouting-benitez.html

Mike.

Dont think he said anything wrong there to be honest. I'm a big fan of Benitez but what he did in the Press conference wasn't on. He was sulking, publicly throwing his toys out of the pram. If anything, what Hicks says is reassuring as he says all the stuff about Rafas job being on the line was made up.

purple'n'gold

When is Liverpool's game in hand due to be played?

~Rebel~

purplengold wrote: »

When is Liverpool's game in hand due to be played?

just had a quick scan through skysports fixture list and didn't spot Liverpool V West Ham so i'd say it mightn't have been re-penciled in yet. Didn't look too hard so could be wrong though!

Tusky

You arent wrong, no date has been set. Id like to get it played asap to get a truer representation of the table. It could potentially look like this...

1 Man. Utd. 19 14 3 2 45
2 Arsenal 19 13 5 1 44
4 Liverpool 19 11 6 2 39
3 Chelsea 19 11 5 3 38

Im going to be flying to London while the match tomorrow is on. Does anyone know when its going to be shown on LFCtv ?

Drag00n79

SPORT: The Match
On: Liverpool FC TV (448)
Date: Monday 31st December 2007
Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm (2 hours long)
Manchester City v Liverpool (30.12.07), All 90 minutes of Liverpool's Premier League game against Manchester City plus reaction and analysis.

They're showing again later on Monday 5pm - 7pm.

*EDIT*
After today's results the City match is becoming more and more important for us. C'mon the 'Pool!

jesus_thats_gre

Things are looking alot closer now:

 	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Man Utd	20	9	1	0	22	3	5	2	3	15	8	26	45
2	Arsenal	19	9	1	0	23	7	4	4	1	13	8	21	44
3	Chelsea	20	6	4	0	20	8	6	1	3	11	7	16	41
4	L'pool	18	4	4	1	20	6	6	2	1	13	6	21	36

Have to push on tomorrow though

Thanx 4 The Fish

Very true piggy, very true.

Dub13

This is turning out to be a great day.

Lets hope the lads can kick on tomorrow and win.

Drag00n79

C'mon the Toffees!

There, I've said it!

Mr Alan

cant believe you've said that

thinking a draw would suit fine.

mike65

Prefer a draw myself (plus several red cards)

Mike.