Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread [mod warning #11145, #32140 (see OP)]

therecklessone

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Liverpool Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread Aug 1st 2009

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therecklessone

Since there are no changes to the basic superthread rules you may as well work away on this new one while I put the finishing touches to amended charter.

Welcome to the new season!

Mr Alan

first in!

take that Mike!

Eire-Dearg

The Crest

The Captain

The Kid



The Quest

Good luck to the 09/10 Season

Mr Alan

You forgot....
==============THE BOSS==================


and

=============THE CHOIR==============

Eire-Dearg

I was going for a C/K/Q effect - you didn't notice? :pac:

bUILDERtHEbOB

Rafa out?

GBX

New season, new thread ... heres to more fun and games and hopefully silverware

Eire-Dearg

Mr Alan wrote: »

You forgot....

"The Choir" is a good one ... you sly editor :P

mike65

I don't believe it! :mad:

Mr Alan

that'll teach ya not to be online Mike!

Eire-Dearg

mike65 wrote: »

I don't believe it! :mad:

My post deserved first post tbh.

eZe^

If Alonso leaves and isn't adequately replaced I think you can kiss that 'quest' goodbye!

Mr Alan

I have faith in Rafa having the ability to replace Alonso with the quids we'd be getting for him. Rafa excels in buying central players.

Eire-Dearg

eZe^ wrote: »

If Alonso leaves and isn't adequately replaced I think you can kiss that 'quest' goodbye!

"The Cattermole"

Mental Mickey

Mr Alan wrote: »

I have faith in Rafa having the ability to replace Alonso with the quids we'd be getting for him. Rafa excels in buying central players.

There's talk about us buying Lee Cattermole?????

Mr Alan

I don't think Catermole would be the Alonso replacement & if he was i wouldn't be happy & it'd be a big risk, , but i'd love us to get him tbh, gonna be a quality player over the next few years, more in the mascherano role though.

eZe^

Acquilani would be a fcuking QUALITY signing, I can actually see him being better for ye than Alonso.

Holsten

Xabi must stay!

I wub Alonso!

raven136

If Liverpool lose Alonso,Arbeloa and Dossena but gain Johnson,Acquliani and Silva can an argument be made we are a better team.

All ifs and buts at the minute mind.

mayordenis

raven136 wrote: »

If Liverpool lose Alonso,Arbeloa and Dossena but gain Johnson,Acquliani and Silva can an argument be made we are a better team.

All ifs and buts at the minute mind.

yes it can absolutely be argued that - Arbeloa would of been great cover but not 1st choice, same for dossena.

so you're talking about losing 1 definite started Alonso and bringing in 3.

dannydiamond

22 posts and not one composed by boggles.

May this be the start of something beautiful.

Eire-Dearg

raven136 wrote: »

If Liverpool lose Alonso,Arbeloa and Dossena but gain Johnson,Acquliani and Silva can an argument be made we are a better team.

All ifs and buts at the minute mind.

Silva, tbh, won't be coming - didn't he pledge his future to Valencia recently?

Johnson - IMO - is a good buy. He'll compliment Kuyt no-end. That'll be the best right sided pairing in the PL. And Kuyt was doing alright with just Arbeloa, who offered far less going forward.

Dossena - no loss. Insua is, finally, a top class youngster to break the first team. He'll be left back next year, far better than Dossena.

Arbeloa - He would've been good for cover all across the back, and I think the £3.5m value was well under his price tag.

Acquilani - Have never seen him - so can't comment.

Cattermole - I'd take him along with the above, just for good measure. I think he's a great little player.

Turner - Another good, and English, centre half who we need atm. Real promise from this lad.

Eire-Dearg

dannydiamond wrote: »

22 posts and not one composed by boggles.

May this be the start of something beautiful.

Oh he'll be back - like Mike knows, you can't be online all the time.

Karmafaerie

Ahhhhhhm.......



The King.

Karmafaerie

And may I just say.....


.....God, Rafa looks like somebody I know from IK in that photo!:eek:

Mr Alan

and of course,

GOD

Eire-Dearg

We could do this all day, such is the amount of legends associated with the club.

Happy Monday

eZe^ wrote: »

If Alonso leaves and isn't adequately replaced I think you can kiss that 'quest' goodbye!

Completely correct!

Alonso will leave - Masch will agitate for a move next season for sure and Torres and Reina will move on in their mid 20s.

As Ronaldo has done at Man U.

Latins view playing for Madrid and Barca as the pinnacle of their careers.:(

Eire-Dearg

Happy Monday wrote: »

Latins view playing for Madrid and Barca as the pinnacle of their careers.:(

Report to Mr Alan's sig - STAT.

Happy Monday

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Report to Mr Alan's sig - STAT.

?

deadhead13

The number of appearances Aquilani has managed for Roma over the past 3 seasons would be a bit of a worry.

2006-07 .... 22
2007-08 .... 31
2008-09 .... 20

GBX

Happy Monday wrote: »

?

Mr Alans sig ....
""The white shirt is a huge privilege for players, but for me the biggest privilege in Europe is the red shirt of Liverpool"-Fernando Torres"

Karmafaerie

Happy Monday wrote: »

Latins view playing for Madrid and Barca as the pinnacle of their careers.:(

Profile much?

Dub13

Mr Alan wrote: »

=============THE CHOIR==============

I hate that pic big Irish flag....:mad::mad:

Karmafaerie

dannydiamond wrote: »

22 posts and not one composed by boggles.

May this be the start of something beautiful.

I like Boggles.

And now that the old thread is over, allow me to be the first to congratulate him on being a Utd fan, who was the fourth highest poster in the Liverpool thread for last season, which was in turn the highest posted in thread on the page.

Eire-Dearg

Dub13 wrote: »

I hate that pic big Irish flag....:mad::mad:

Why?

It's minute compared to the sea of Red.

Happy Monday

GBX wrote: »

Mr Alans sig ....
""The white shirt is a huge privilege for players, but for me the biggest privilege in Europe is the red shirt of Liverpool"-Fernando Torres"

Torres has also mentioned that he wants to play in Italy or Spain again in his career - you can be sure if he will look for a move to a warmer Latin nation at some point in his career.

The point I'm making is that British and Irish players on the whole - people like ourselves - would view playing for a top 4 PL team as the pinnacle of our careers and quite happily live in Liverpool, Manchester or London.

IMO Latins at the top level - Ronaldo and Fabregas included - along with our players who I greatly admire - don't have the same view.

The allure of Barca and Madrid is too great to resist - club, language, climate, home.

Happy Monday

Karmafaerie wrote: »

Profile much?

?

Dub13

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Why?

It's minute compared to the sea of Red.

You go to the Kop to support Liverpool not Ireland.

You will not see any Union Jacks on the Kop and rightly so.There is a campaign called Recalim the Kop campaign and its aims are to Keep Flags Scouse.

Karmafaerie

Dub13 wrote: »

I hate that pic big Irish flag....:mad::mad:

Always annoys me too.
Especially when you see flags like this.




Still not as bad as the guy at Anfield with "Up the Dubs" printed on the back of his jersey though!!!

Eire-Dearg

Karmafaerie wrote: »

Still not as bad as the guy at Anfield with "Up the Dubs" printed on the back of his jersey though!!!

Irish people probably feel they need to "represent".

And the pic above - that I can totally understand. The people of Liverpool have always felt secluded from England/London - as if they were a nation of their own.

Karmafaerie

Happy Monday wrote: »

?

There are thousands upon thousands of latin players, who come from dozens of countries.
You can't just paint them all withone brush IMO.

Dub13

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Irish people probably feel they need to "represent".

We have a lot of tools from Ireland who go over to Liverpool games,my views on this are well knowing on this board.That was one of my main reasons behind setting up Irishkop,nobody was doing anything about it so we try to educate people.

Eire-Dearg

Dub13 wrote: »

We have a lot of tools from Ireland who go over to Liverpool games

Tools for going over to support their club, and bringing an Irish flag?!

Karmafaerie

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Irish people probably feel they need to "represent".

Which is probably one of the reassons a lot of Irish fans have a bad reputation over in Liverpool.

When you see Irish fans walking towards Anfield with The Scum under their arms, and their Irish flags over the shoulders, it can rightly piss off
some fans.

When I go to Liverpool games I'm a Liverpool fan.
When I go to Ireland games, I'm an Ireland fan.

I don't think that being Irish has to be represented in my supporting of Liverpool.
I'd prefer to be thought of as a Liverpool fan in Anfield, than an Irish Liverpool fan in Anfield.

Happy Monday

Karmafaerie wrote: »

There are thousands upon thousands of latin players, who come from dozens of countries.
You can't just paint them all withone brush IMO.

The cream of whom there are so few - Reina, Torres, Masch, Alonso, Ronaldo, Fabregas - who have the option to join these top Spanish clubs - will look for the moves if and when tapped up - Madrid and Barca mean more than LFC or MUFC - that's my opinion.

elshambo

Dub13 wrote: »

I hate that pic big Irish flag....:mad::mad:

I laugh at the flag stuff myself, its just a lack of self confidence

still though
Irish fans of foreign teams giving out about irish people being at foreign events make me:)

Being there flag or no flag its all the same

Eire-Dearg

Happy Monday wrote: »

The cream of whom there are so few - Reina, Torres, Masch, Alonso, Ronaldo, Fabregas - who have the option to join these top Spanish clubs - will look for the moves if and when tapped up - Madrid and Barca mean more than LFC or MUFC - that's my opinion.

But Torres doesn't fall into that bracket whatsoever.

Karmafaerie

Happy Monday wrote: »

The cream of whom there are so few - Reina, Torres, Masch, Alonso, Ronaldo, Fabregas - who have the option to join these top Spanish clubs - will look for the moves if and when tapped up - Madrid and Barca mean more than LFC or MUFC - that's my opinion.

Latin players means players from all over South America too.

You've no Brazillian and only one Atgie in there mate.

I love Torres, Pepe and Masch (although this summer has dropped Javier down a bit in my estimation if all the stories are true), but they're not typical of all the best Latin players.

mayordenis

elshambo wrote: »

Irish fans of foreign teams givng out about irish people being at foreign events make me:)

Being there flag or no flag its all the same

take it to the thunderdome.