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

amiable

Rumours Newcastle are interested in Joe Allen too

DrumSteve

Goal.com says we've had a 13.5mil bid accepted for Allen (pillar of salt not included)

Grayditch

amiable wrote: »

Rumours Newcastle are interested in Joe Allen too

Of course they are, sure we are.

djPSB

Gbear wrote: »

It does probably mean that we'd need yet another midfielder.


We'll have Gerrard, Lucas, Allen, Spearing, Adam and Henderson, in a 3 man midfield.

We'd probably have the numbers but Gerrard is probably going to miss half the season and in terms of filling his role as the more advanced of the 3, only adam really fits the bill. Henderson will probably be rotated in for Lucas and Allen and Spearing should be kept in reserve if we're really stuck.

If nobody gets injured at all then grand. But they will and then our midfield wont be up to much.

Last season, we had Gerrard, Shelvey (who spent some time on loan), Henderson, Adam, Spearing, Lucas and we were short in that position. And we only played two in centre midfield.

opr

Reserves currently playing Chester. Currently 2-2 at half time. Ngoo with both Liverpool goals.

Team - belford; baio sokolik jones maguire; coady roddan pelosi; ngoo bijev peterson

Teixeira is on the bench.

Updates here - https://twitter.com/M_Sweeting

Opr

BorneTobyWilde

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2178888/Swansea-disappointed-Liverpool-Brendan-Rodgers-Joe-Allen-pursuit.html

Leiva

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2178888/Swansea-disappointed-Liverpool-Brendan-Rodgers-Joe-Allen-pursuit.html

Honestly it's getting embarrassing now . Another cock-up in our transfer dealings.

G.K.

who's negotiating transfers? Ayre?

Milkers

Is it possible for Gerrard to be used as one of the front three instead of the midfield three?

Sir Gallagher

G.K. wrote: »

who's negotiating transfers? Ayre?

An inanimate carbon rod is looking after all scouting, transfers and negotiations.

dr ro

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

An inanimate carbon rod is looking after all scouting, transfers and negotiations.

doubt it. He's a great track record.

Jesus Wept

Is there a match on tonight? Any idea what time?

Knex*

Andy Carroll wrote: »

Is there a match on tonight? Any idea what time?

Half 6 over here so half 11 Irish time. Playing Roma in Fenway Park I think.

Keith186

Andy Carroll wrote: »

Is there a match on tonight? Any idea what time?

KO 11.30 on ESPN , POOL VS ROMA

BorneTobyWilde

G.K. wrote: »

who's negotiating transfers? Ayre?

Jesus Wept

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

He'd be an improvement.

Leiva

Phoenix Park

amiable wrote: »

Rumours Newcastle are interested in Joe Allen too

Here's an idea. Newcastle buy him from Swansea for £4million, flip him on to us the following day for £15million and in return they get Carroll from us for £12million. Wonder would Newcastle go for that or would they try and bargain us down in the media instead.

donfers

Phoenix Park wrote: »

Here's an idea. Newcastle buy him from Swansea for £4million, flip him on to us the following day for £15million and in return they get Carroll from us for £12million. Wonder would Newcastle go for that or would they try and bargain us down in the media instead.

so effectively we would be paying £15 million for allen as well as offering newcastle an 8 million discount on our valuation of carroll on top of them making an immediate £11 million profit on allen (so they'd basically be getting carroll for 1 million while we paid 23 million for allen)

Damien, is that you?

Phoenix Park

donfers wrote: »

so effectively we would be paying £15 million for allen as well as offering newcastle an 8 million discount on our valuation of carroll on top of them making an immediate £11 million profit on allen (so they'd basically be getting carroll for 1 million while we paid 23 million for allen)

Damien, is that you?

That sarcasm detector is just faulty mate...

No harm.

Chucky the tree

Why is Ian Ayre considered to be bad at negotiating transfers?

Grayditch

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Why is Ian Ayre considered to be bad at negotiating transfers?

'Cause he sweats when he's nervous.

whatawaster

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Why is Ian Ayre considered to be bad at negotiating transfers?

Good point. Borini appears to be his only one so far and we got a fair price for him imo

GBX

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Why is Ian Ayre considered to be bad at negotiating transfers?

Andy Carroll, Steward Downing probably

Chucky the tree

GBX wrote: »

Andy Carroll, Steward Downing probably

He wasn't involved in those.

whatawaster

GBX wrote: »

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Why is Ian Ayre considered to be bad at negotiating transfers?

Andy Carroll, Steward Downing probably

Damien Comolli

Luckycharms_74

G.K. wrote: »

who's negotiating transfers? Ayre?

Oh but of course :P

GBX

Chucky the tree wrote: »

He wasn't involved in those.

Whoops .. :pac:

Podge2k7

Any idea on what the team is tonight?

opr

Reserves won 3-2 with Nacho bagging the third goal. Teixeira came on early in the second half and suppose to have looked very good.

Opr

BorneTobyWilde

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Why is Ian Ayre considered to be bad at negotiating transfers?

He Gets confused, Suppose to start low and meet in the middle
He starts in the middle, Which seller thinks is the low, So seller creates the middle :P ,Which ends up the original asking price
Its the lil things,

BorneTobyWilde

Podge2k7 wrote: »

Any idea on what the team is tonight?

Bunch of over paid footballers, so i hear

CL7

Leiva wrote: »

Honestly it's getting embarrassing now . Another cock-up in our transfer dealings.

How is it another cock-up? Swansea want £15M and we offered £12M. We broke the agreement. So what? They are just using it to get an inflated price for Allen anyway.

amiable

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Bunch of over paid footballers, so i hear

Who pissed in your cornflakes?

Lawrence1895

CL7 wrote: »

How is it another cock-up? Swansea want £15M and we offered £12M. We broke the agreement. So what? They are just using it to get an inflated price for Allen anyway.

That's bit over the limit methinks. Why can't we just step up the efforts to keep Bellamy instead?

Washington Irving

amiable wrote: »

Who pissed in your cornflakes?

Overpaid footballers, it seems

Chucky the tree

Lars1916 wrote: »

That's bit over the limit methinks. Why can't we just step up the efforts to keep Bellamy instead?

Because he's not very good?

amiable

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Because he's not very good?

The irony of this post with your avatar

~Rebel~

Lars1916 wrote: »

That's bit over the limit methinks. Why can't we just step up the efforts to keep Bellamy instead?

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Because he's not very good?

In fairness, Bellamy was one of our better players last season. I'd love to keep him for one more year as an impact player. Especially as we've already lost Maxi and Kuyt.

Though stepping up efforts to keep Bellamy should have nothing to do with efforts to sign Joe Allen, they're completely different players in different positions with essentially nothing in common (aside from being Welsh). No reason not to try to have both.

murpho999

GBX wrote: »

Andy Carroll, Steward Downing probably

I find it amazing how people get criticised here through misinformation.

I don't understand the dislike for Ayre as the club has made improvements in all areas except the pitch during his tenure.

BorneTobyWilde

amiable wrote: »

Who pissed in your cornflakes?

Joe cole, Missed the toilet by such a distance, ending up in kitchen
Bit like that free kick,that ended up in car park

Lawrence1895

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Because he's not very good?

He has all qualities, a striker needs, imo. He is always a threat, is determined, fights from start to the end. How can he bet 'not very good'?

5starpool

Liverpool: Gulacsi, McLaughlin, Skrtel, Carragher, Enrique, Spearing, Shelvey, Aquilani, Cole, Eccleston, Sterling.

Subs: Jones, Agger, Flanagan, Adam, Suso, Morgan, Pacheco, Sama, Wilson, Lucas, Adorjan, Ward, Smith, Wisdom, Ibe.

GBX

murpho999 wrote: »

I find it amazing how people get criticised here through misinformation.

I don't understand the dislike for Ayre as the club has made improvements in all areas except the pitch during his tenure.

Ive no dislike for Ayre, I answered a question based on my opinion of why Ayre is disliked - hence the "probably" in my quote :rolleyes:

klose

Hmmmm boards just broke there for a while!

Anyways kinda raged seeing cole on the sheet but whatever, pre-season and all! Looking forward now just an hour to go

Chucky the tree

~Rebel~ wrote: »

In fairness, Bellamy was one of our better players last season. I'd love to keep him for one more year as an impact player. Especially as we've already lost Maxi and Kuyt.

Though stepping up efforts to keep Bellamy should have nothing to do with efforts to sign Joe Allen, they're completely different players in different positions with essentially nothing in common (aside from being Welsh). No reason not to try to have both.

Just because he was one of our better players does not mean he was good. He was average.

Lars1916 wrote: »

He has all qualities, a striker needs, imo. He is always a threat, is determined, fights from start to the end. How can he bet 'not very good'?

He doesn't have all the qualities of a striker because he isn't one. If he had all the qualities of a striker you'd think teams would actually play him there and he'd score at a decent rate.

5starpool

Same squad as the last day + Agger it seems. I was hoping a few of the recent join ups would get a few mins at least although I knew they weren't slated to. Hopefully a few will get a run out on Saturday.

Lawrence1895

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Just because he was one of our better players does not mean he was good. He was average.




He doesn't have all the qualities of a striker because he isn't one. If he had all the qualities of a striker you'd think teams would actually play him there and he'd score at a decent rate.

He might not be a nominated striker, but I would play him upfront. What else can go wrong?

klose

Apparently its a sell out tonight, should be a good atmosphere

Big Knox

Line up is very meh, would have liked to see Suso and Dani starting at least.

Will catch the highlights!