Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 12/13

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nerrad1983 wrote: »

Another new sponsorship deal

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/lfc-secure-two-new-partnership-deals?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

I'm shocked! What has gambling got to do with football?

wobblyknees

hefferboi wrote: »

Sahin will be the best midfielder, attacking wise, at the club. He's better than Allen and Gerrard imo. Personally my starting 3 would be

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Lucas

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Gerrard---

And Gerrard won't be able for too many games so himself and Allen will swap with Allen dropping in beside Lucas. No chance of Sahin coming here and not starting most games. He'd be a regular for Arsenal, Spurs and United if he went to any of them. He's that good.

Alternatively Gerrard can go up top but I reckon it would fcuk up Rodgers' system as he likes the front 3 to swap around regularly and Stevie would probably play a free role with only Borini and Suarez staying up top. We'd have no width whatsoever if this happens.

You think Lucas is going to play in the #10 position? Seriously?

G.K.

wobblyknees wrote: »

You think Lucas is going to play in the #10 position? Seriously?

He's just got the formation the other way up.

smileyj1987

If we get Sahin in , I think our first 11 will look like this

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Reina

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Agger

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Skrtle

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Johnson

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Enrique----

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Lucas

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Stevie/Sahin

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Allen

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Suarez

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Borini

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Downing

Enrique and Johnson will provide the width with the front 3 switching places regularly . I would say Stevie / Sahin will be given licence to get forward . Our midfield anchor will be Lucas and he will also have the job of filling in the gaps in our defence if we are caught with a counter attack .

gaelicred

Leiva wrote: »

Hopefully Twitter crap but it's seems Levy is trying to negotiate Sahin in the Modric deal

Sahin already said that he wont go to spurs

basillarkin

hefferboi wrote: »

If/when Sahin comes he's a guaranteed starter. Gerrard and Allen will be rotated imo.

You seem to think Sahin is unreal? I would love to know what you are basing this on?

Kess73

basillarkin wrote: »

You seem to think Sahin is unreal? I would love to know what you are basing this on?

Probably on his time with Dortmund where he was an outstanding performer in a team that had many.

gafferino

smileyj1987 wrote: »

If we get Sahin in , I think our first 11 will look like this

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Reina

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Agger

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Skrtle

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Johnson

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Enrique----

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Lucas

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Stevie/Sahin

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Allen

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Suarez

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Borini

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Downing

Enrique and Johnson will provide the width with the front 3 switching places regularly . I would say Stevie / Sahin will be given licence to get forward . Our midfield anchor will be Lucas and he will also have the job of filling in the gaps in our defence if we are caught with a counter attack .

I doubt this will be the case if Stevie is fit. Downing/Borini to make way.

Dickerty

smileyj1987 wrote: »

If we get Sahin in , I think our first 11 will look like this

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Reina

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Agger

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Skrtle

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Johnson

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Enrique----

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Lucas

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Stevie/Sahin

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Allen

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Suarez

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Borini

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Downing

Enrique and Johnson will provide the width with the front 3 switching places regularly . I would say Stevie / Sahin will be given licence to get forward . Our midfield anchor will be Lucas and he will also have the job of filling in the gaps in our defence if we are caught with a counter attack .

Stevie is the only player that gets rotated? I wouldn't expect Bonini to start every game, and Downing is in that team until we get Dempsey...

amiable

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19287115

Knex*

basillarkin wrote: »

You seem to think Sahin is unreal? I would love to know what you are basing this on?

The fact that he was a quality performer for the league winning Dortmund team the year before last, at the age of 21-22, might have something to do with it.

A bad injury at the start of last season really disrupted him at Real and when he came back he couldn't force his way into what was a fairly settled Madrid side, and a top class one to boot.

Make no mistake, Sahin would instantly become one of our top players, and one of our genuine CL quality players if he is to join.

MyBrokenKnees

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Reina

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Agger

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Skrtel

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Johnson

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Enrique----

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Lucas

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Gerrard

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Allen

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Suarez

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Borini

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Downing


I think that will be Saturday's starting line up. Not a bad starting 11 to kick the season off with really all things considered.

Kess73

smileyj1987 wrote: »

If we get Sahin in , I think our first 11 will look like this

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Reina

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Agger

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Skrtle

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Johnson

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Enrique----

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Lucas

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Stevie/Sahin

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Allen

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Suarez

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Borini

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Downing

Enrique and Johnson will provide the width with the front 3 switching places regularly . I would say Stevie / Sahin will be given licence to get forward . Our midfield anchor will be Lucas and he will also have the job of filling in the gaps in our defence if we are caught with a counter attack .

Borini will be in the left sided slot more often than not. Rodgers has already confirmed that, along with Suarez being in the central attacking role.

That leaves the right sided attacking slot open for Gerrard and Downing.

gaelicred

More from Marca
Eziz Allamov ‏@Ezizallamov
Real Madrid's board have agreed with Nuri Şahin that he can join Liverpool. (Marca)
That was today

Kess73

Dickerty wrote: »

Stevie is the only player that gets rotated? I wouldn't expect Bonini to start every game, and Downing is in that team until we get Dempsey...

Would be surprised if he does not play in the majority of games this season. The guy has genuine talent but also has an engine and workrate to rival that of Kuyt.

I expect to see him covering a lot of ground this season, and him putting pressure on the other team's full back and wideman will be a regular sight when we are defending.

Dickerty

Kess73 wrote: »

Probably on his time with Dortmund where he was an outstanding performer in a team that had many.

Ah, he was only league player of the year in 2010/11 - got lucky I'd say.

smileyj1987

Dickerty wrote: »

Stevie is the only player that gets rotated? I wouldn't expect Bonini to start every game, and Downing is in that team until we get Dempsey...

Yes because its time to start using him more efficiently and I think Rodgers knows that too . I would prefer to have stevie starting all the big games this season then missing them because of small injuries .

Dickerty

Kess73 wrote: »

Would be surprised if he does not play in the majority of games this season. The guy has genuine talent but also has an engine and workrate to rival that of Kuyt.

I think there will be occasions when Carroll starts, or Downing/Dempsey, and he may be the one to make way. He'll take a little while to get with Stevie and Luis, and he's not got a huge number of first team games under his belt, so it's a big step up to start 50 odd games...only made 24 appearances last season.

gaelicred

http://www.marca.com/2012/08/16/en/football/real_madrid/1345106455.html

basillarkin

Knex. wrote: »

The fact that he was a quality performer for the league winning Dortmund team the year before last, at the age of 21-22, might have something to do with it.

A bad injury at the start of last season really disrupted him at Real and when he came back he couldn't force his way into what was a fairly settled Madrid side, and a top class one to boot.

Make no mistake, Sahin would instantly become one of our top players, and one of our genuine CL quality players if he is to join.

I have noticed that he does not score many goals 13 in 135 league games, his assists are 1 in every 4.5 games, Is there many watchers of German football here? He could be another Aquiallini.

amiable

Rory Smith says Arsenal still think they will sign Nuri Sahin.

Dickerty

smileyj1987 wrote: »

Yes because its time to start using him more efficiently and I think Rodgers knows that too . I would prefer to have stevie starting all the big games this season then missing them because of small injuries .

You could say the same about Agger, Johnson and even Lucas, given the injury last year. Fact is that Stevie is part of our normal starting XI, as is Sahin, on a normal big game...

Sappy404

amiable wrote: »

Rory Smith says Arsenal still think they will sign Nuri Sahin.

@RorySmithTimes

What I do know is #LFC are confident they're getting him, but there are people at Arsenal just as confident they are. Time will tell.

Ah jayyyyyysus.....

Dickerty

amiable wrote: »

Rory Smith says Arsenal still think they will sign Nuri Sahin.

Kess73

basillarkin wrote: »

I have noticed that he does not score many goals 13 in 135 league games, his assists are 1 in every 4.5 games, Is there many watchers of German football here? He could be another Aquiallini.

In what way?

sweetie

basillarkin wrote: »

I have noticed that he does not score many goals 13 in 135 league games, his assists are 1 in every 4.5 games, Is there many watchers of German football here? He could be another Aquiallini.

go back through the thread, he's the best thing since sliced hazard!

smileyj1987

Dickerty wrote: »

You could say the same about Agger, Johnson and even Lucas, given the injury last year. Fact is that Stevie is part of our normal starting XI, as is Sahin, on a normal big game...

Well they are all younger players and hopefully they don't have as many injuries as last season but for us to get the best out of stevie now it could mean bringing him on when players are tired and letting him do damage . I just think its time to start giving him abit of protection .

amiable

Sky sources: ''Agger will stay''

Bray Header

smileyj1987 wrote: »

If we get Sahin in , I think our first 11 will look like this

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Reina

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Agger

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Skrtle

---

Johnson

---

Enrique----

---

Lucas

---

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Stevie/Sahin

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Allen

---

Suarez

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Borini

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Downing

Enrique and Johnson will provide the width with the front 3 switching places regularly . I would say Stevie / Sahin will be given licence to get forward . Our midfield anchor will be Lucas and he will also have the job of filling in the gaps in our defence if we are caught with a counter attack .

Allen Plays with 2 anchors, which will prob be Allen and Lucas. This is called the Double Pivot

amiable

Taken from Liverpool's official twitter

Exclusive Ltd Time offer from Paddy Power Suarez @ 3/1 to score over 15 league goals

Knex*

I actually have no idea why Real would sign Modric for 30m or so and then let Sahin go on loan, with a possible option for permanent transfer.

Even if we say to sign him it would cost 15-20m, there is no way Modric is worth that much more than him, imo, when you take into account age as well as ability.

Knex*

amiable wrote: »

Taken from Liverpool's official twitter

That's a fairly solid bet when you consider Rodgers seems to be planning on having him as the main front man all season.

Leiva

Sappy404 wrote: »

@RorySmithTimes



Ah jayyyyyysus.....

Yea the whole vibe on a lot of sites is changing and we are not as assured of landing Sahin as we think .
Other clubs smell an oppertunity

amiable

Leiva wrote: »

Yea the whole vibe on a lot of sites is changing and we are not as assured of landing Sahin as we think .
Other clubs smell an oppertunity

I think Sahin will still sign. I think it's merely a few journos looking to cover all bases

gaelicred

Mourino said he wont let Sahin go to Arsenal because he does not want to strenghen a champions league team.I am still optomistic that we will get him

Sappy404

amiable wrote: »

Sky sources: ''Agger will stay''

I can hear Jim white now. August 31st, 10:42pm: "And... news just reaching us - this is incredible folks - Manchester City have announced they have a greed a fee with Liverpool for Daniel Agger! Let's go to Anfield now and speak to Craig Slater..."

amiable

gaelicred wrote: »

Mourino said he wont let Sahin go to Arsenal because he does not want to strenghen a champions league team.I am still optomistic that we will get him

Is there a link to this quote?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Sappy404 wrote: »

I can hear Jim white now. August 31st, 10:42pm: "And... news just reaching us - this is incredible folks - Manchester City have announced they have a greed a fee with Liverpool for Daniel Agger! Let's go to Anfield now and speak to Craig Slater..."

Followed, 7 minutes later, by Liverpool paying 20m to bring Paul Kosnchesky back to Liverpool as a repalcement!

gaelicred

amiable wrote: »

Is there a link to this quote?

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1135175/liverpool-may-sign-real-madrid's-nuri-sahin-on-loan-by-the-weekend?cc=5901

Sir Gallagher

Dickerty wrote: »

And I think that's fair enough. He is one player that gives us proper width, but is not just about crosses, he can play the ball on the ground as well.

As he rightly pointed out, he was slated for no assists last season, but made 50+ chances - hardly his fault that the strikers (Carroll in particular) didn't finish them.

Unfair singling Andy out considering himself and Downing didnt play together that much.

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Followed, 7 minutes later, by Liverpool paying 20m to bring Paul Kosnchesky back to Liverpool as a repalcement!

#bringkoncheskyhome

El Inho

Starting to lose a bit of faith in the Sahin deal. But then again BR apparently said two more signings. Hmmmm just want this to be over. I'm not as emotional an wreck as that sounds.

amiable

gaelicred wrote: »

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1135175/liverpool-may-sign-real-madrid's-nuri-sahin-on-loan-by-the-weekend?cc=5901

Is there a quote in there? I can't see it.

Dickerty

If Sahin was convinced before, what would change for him now? The fact that they just sold their best player? It seems that Real were already pushing towards us, so unless Arsenal have come in with a big cash deal...

Dickerty

El Spearo wrote: »

Starting to lose a bit of faith in the Sahin deal. But then again BR apparently said two more signings. Hmmmm just want this to be over. I'm not as emotional an wreck as that sounds.

Well, he said he's hoping to hear on 1 or 2, so he could equally hear bad news as good...

opr

amiable wrote: »

Taken from Liverpool's official twitter

Exclusive Ltd Time offer from Paddy Power Suarez @ 3/1 to score over 15 league goals

Is this gone already? He's even money on the site now.

Opr

amiable

opr wrote: »

Is this gone already? He's even money on the site now.

Opr

Try this


http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/lfc-enhanced-special/lfc-enhanced-special?ev_oc_grp_ids=781011&aff_id=10066606

billymitchell

gaelicred wrote: »

http://www.marca.com/2012/08/16/en/football/real_madrid/1345106455.html

For some reason, when I saw the URL, I thought it was bringing me to a site to do with "Macra"

#culchie

Knex*

amiable wrote: »

Try this


http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/lfc-enhanced-special/lfc-enhanced-special?ev_oc_grp_ids=781011&aff_id=10066606

I hope that's still up by the time I get home from work.

Thought I had backed Torres for 1st scorer in the Shield game the other day. He scores first, I'm delighted. Log in to PP only to find I had fecking clicked the wrong link and backed him for PL top scorer 2012/13. What a fecking numpty. :mad:

irishmotorist

Didn't see this mentioned before...

“For me there has been no big change. The first point is we don’t want to sell him,” said Rodgers.

“Secondly, I believe he will be a player who will thrive in this way of working and thirdly he doesn’t want to leave – which is a great help as well.

“He is a top player and I want to keep him here. Over the last couple of months we have been able to sell the project and vision to a number of senior players."

http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/soccer/rodgers-agger-wants-to-stay-563207.html

Luckycharms_74

amiable wrote: »

Taken from Liverpool's official twitter
Exclusive Ltd Time offer from Paddy Power Suarez @ 3/1 to score over 15 league goals

Max bet allowed is €13. I was set to put a ton on it. though it was great value