Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/2014

Slimity

So that's Wanyama, Capoue and Medel who have all gone for affordable sums and imo would improve our midfield.

Not sure what the strategy is for this window, but I'm not really enamoured with it so far.

SlickRic

still no sign of signings.

I know it's only one pre-season, and the only one lost, but today showed some of the same deficiencies from last season.

we couldn't score despite plenty of chances.
we got done by a target-man type scorer.

ugh.

please may I just be a paranoid eejit.

Vanolder

Did we play our best 11 for the 90?

LuckyLloyd

Celtic are comfortably the best opposition faced in preseason. And they would be relegated from the premiership

Lennonist

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Celtic are comfortably the best opposition faced in preseason. And they would be relegated from the premiership

:pac:

Pilsbury Doughboy

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Celtic are comfortably the best opposition faced in preseason. And they would be relegated from the premiership

I guess Liverpool will be relegated so.

Strongbow10

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Celtic are comfortably the best opposition faced in preseason. And they would be relegated from the premiership

Celtic reserves I might add

Coutinho is really an exceptional talent. It will be a long hard season for us with no Suarez on form i'm afraid.

Celtic walked through our midfield a few times aswell. Central defence were also bullied on occasion.

One striking thing about our team is our inability to win clean possession

messinkiapina

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/rodgers-demands-suarez-apology-603298.html

Rodgers expects Suarez to apologise. Bit in there too about Henry being unhappy with the FPP situation. I reckon he knows FSG's only hope of making us a success is if that is strongly enforced.

“I knew well about the financial problems football has when I took over Liverpool.

“It does not look like FFP works. I am very unhappy that they have not taken seriously the rules, and it’s also frustrating that UEFA have not done so. They need to address the problem. It should have worked better.”

jaykay74

Pilsbury Doughboy wrote: »

I guess Liverpool will be relegated so.

Yes, thats exactly how you interpret the result of one off matches..

Slimity

messinkiapina wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/rodgers-demands-suarez-apology-603298.html

Rodgers expects Suarez to apologise. Bit in there too about Henry being unhappy with the FPP situation. I reckon he knows FSG's only hope of making us a success is if that is strongly enforced.

FFP is too easy to circumvent, sponsorships and merchandising are easily manipulated by mega-rich owners.

Wouldn't surprise me to see FSG sell up citing inadequacy of FFP as reason.

muff03

Well lads, sorry if it was already asked/said but could one of ye answer what the clapping at the 81st today was for?

daithijjj

muff03 wrote: »

Well lads, sorry if it was already asked/said but could one of ye answer what the clapping at the 81st today was for?

Think it was or singing 'Justice for the 96' by everyone but that's second hand info, i missed portions of the game.

djPSB

Allen not good enough for the position he played today. I think he should be kept as a back up option to Gerrard. Then there's Henderson, who I would also consider back up to Gerrard. Don't think there's need for both Henderson and Allen in the squad. They both offer much the same without offering enough to considered for a first team place.

I'll get sick if I see Downing starting next week.

Lennonist

jaykay74 wrote: »

Yes, thats exactly how you interpret the result of one off matches..

Makes about as much sense as what lloyd said there. Isn't it amazing how little some people know about something they spend a lot of time looking at and talking about:pac:.

aramush

Wisdom looked tired out there, surprised to see him wait on for the 90. Sturridge looked sharp, going by the current market looks like a steal at 12m. As for Coutinho, no words needed. Aspas had a bad day but has showed enough in pre-season to be optimistic. Overall happy with the performance (and pre season in general) just a shame we couldn't get that goal.

Onwards and upwards

Pilsbury Doughboy

For the record I believe we will escape relegation, dunno if people mis-interpreted my post or what..

ThunbergsAreGo

At TAW why would you pay 15 to talk amongst yourselves, so annoying

sorry venting :-/

retalivity

I wouldn't hurt us to try and pick up someone off the conveyer belt of ridiculous belgian talent, like Zakaria Bakkali

17 yrs old and scored that goal for his hattrick today...bloody hell.

messinkiapina

retalivity wrote: »

I wouldn't hurt us to try and pick up someone off the conveyer belt of ridiculous belgian talent, like Zakaria Bakkali

17 yrs old and scored that goal for his hattrick today...bloody hell.

He's absolutely savage in the handheld version of Football Manager anyway :pac:

mosstin

naughtb4 wrote: »

At TAW why would you pay 15 to talk amongst yourselves, so annoying

sorry venting :-/

Or use your phone post to an online forum whilst there. Some people eh?

LuckyLloyd

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Celtic are comfortably the best opposition faced in preseason. And they would be relegated from the premiership

Yeah a team who did quite well in the champions league last year would be relegated :rolleyes:

I wonder about people sometimes.

Nuri Sahin

Ian Ayre spent his Ryanair flight to Dublin being urged to sell the disillusioned and disaffected striker by supporters. (Guardian)

Ayre, and Michael Owen, flew over with the great unwashed on Ryanair and received a gruelling interrogation from the rows behind. (Guardian)

billy2012

I have never thought Enrique was good enough for us...after seeing him today in person I'm convinced!!

billy2012

billy2012 wrote: »

I have never thought Enrique was good enough for us...after seeing him today in person I'm convinced!!

I disagree, he has his bad days but when he is on his game he is excellent. Remember that spell last season, he was unstoppable!

NukaCola

Briana Strong Leader wrote: »

Yeah a team who did quite well in the champions league last year would be relegated :rolleyes:

I wonder about people sometimes.

Not with that starting 11.......

RasTa

Odd quote on Ryanair's passengers

Vicxas

Was at the game today.


We seemed very toothless and careless on the ball. Gerard was non existent at times

billy2012

Briana Strong Leader wrote: »

I disagree, he has his bad days but when he is on his game he is excellent. Remember that spell last season, he was unstoppable!

Are you for real??

Pilsbury Doughboy

Clutching at straws here but maybe they were all just a bit half assed in fear of getting an injury before the start of the season!

I hope that at Anfield next week with the crowd up for we will see a far higher tempo and higher quality display.

Grayditch

Has anyone been looking at the way Hughes has Stoke playing over the summer?

Nuri Sahin

Enrique is such an odd ball. I've made reference to this before in relation to the interest in Cissokho the other day, but Enrique is totally incapable of both defending and attacking. He can do one or the other. His crossing for a full back is simply atrocious.

michael999999

Grayditch wrote: »

Has anyone been looking at the way Hughes has Stoke playing over the summer?

Christ no!

Its depressing enough following Liverpool!!

Nuri Sahin

Grayditch wrote: »

Has anyone been looking at the way Hughes has Stoke playing over the summer?

Nope, but I've read a few different people say they're passing it a lot more along the ground than they were under Pulis, which wouldn't hard to do really.

osnola ibax

You see this forum is held in a bit of a vacuum, a vacuum where kess and a few other are king. I don't believe that players that sign for Swansea but salivated over on this forum are good enough for Liverpool. I am impressed with Rodgers this pre season.

He has identified players, and probably has a top three of players he wants for the positions he feels need strengthening but he is not panic buying because they are not available. He is waiting for the next opportunity. We signed two great players in the January window last year and that might need to be the case this year. Let's not forget Suarez was also signed in the January window.

I'm also impressed with how he is falling dealing with the Suarez situation. If he scored no goals for us next season and rots on the bench at least that's 30 less goals for arsenal.

That all said, we are weaker on the pitch than I would have liked but we are staying true to ourselves and not allowing players (suarez) and other clubs(arsenal) to back us in to a corner.

Im all for discussing the details of our affairs, it's good for fans to know the ins and outs of modern football but I believe in the new manager and place my confidence in his superior knowledge of the situation as it stands

Grayditch

I'm wondering are they set up as solidy for defence, cause I'd worry about getting through if we were going to play like today. I'm probably reading too much into today. Not as much as some Celtic fans, though

mike65

Vicxas wrote: »

Was at the game today.


We seemed very toothless and careless on the ball. Gerard was non existent at times

Its not really been discussed by others but its been clear to me that he has walked through pre-season. He'd probably just say its a question of pacing himself.

monkey9

An absolutely awful match.

El Inho

I wouldn't read into losing a pre-season match again Celtic that much lads.

Knee-jerk is the term which defines the majority of this thread :P

billy2012

billy2012 wrote: »

Are you for real??

I'm being totally serious do you not remember how good he was during that spell last season? Defending well, getting assists and scoring goals!

Sea Sharp

We lost because Rodgers has made Liverpool adopt the tika-taka style and Celtic/ Lennon had quite a lot of preparation for defending against this style playing against Barcelona in the CL earlier this year.
The jest of how to suppress it is "close them down quickly and without hesitation."
Made us keep making crappy passes under pressure.

mike65

Runs and hides

bad2dabone

mike65 wrote: »

Runs and hides

apparently they're also buying miralem pjanic too. Spurs are just buying everyone it seems.
I don't think so.
15m for those two seems awfully low.

messinkiapina

mike65 wrote: »

Runs and hides

We can forget about 4th if that's true. Not that it's likely even as it is.

billy2012

mike65 wrote: »

Runs and hides

Honestly doesn't surprise me at all.

2 very good players that we genuinely had a good chance of getting, relatively cheap, wouldn't command HUGE wages and an upgrade on the starting XI....AND both would suit the way we play perfectly.

I thought Rodgers would of been keen, and earlier in the window I thought we were going to make a move for them.

Both players often talked about Liverpool aswel.

I shall wait till the end of the window and see what happens.

niallo27

It's all very well saying that other clubs can buy players on the cheap, but when clubs like liverpool come in for them all of sudden the prices rise by 5 or 10 million.

Nuri Sahin

There is no way they're going for £15M combined. No way.

Why are we waiting until the end of the window though? It doesn't make sense

There's 9 points to play for before that and after last season we should have learned a valuable lesson.

mike65

Oh the story and the prices certainly are almost definitely BS but you just kinda fear Spurs are still looking to buy people even though the Bale chat has died right down (which in turn might be good for getting shot of Suarez at a fair price)

Mirror also going with Will Hughes to Liverpool.

bad2dabone

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

There is no way they're going for £15M combined. No way.

absolutely agree. no chance.

Vicxas

bad2dabone wrote: »

absolutely agree. no chance.

If anything it's a push for us to show our hand