Liverpool Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 *mod warning linked in OP 26/07*

djPSB

Raif Severance wrote: »

I'll admit, I've only seen this Guy on a couple of EL Games. But judging from his Youtube Vid, he does play similarly to Lallana.

We must be Buying all the Lallanas in the World.

Lallanas in Pyjamas.

You thinking what I'm thinking L2.

doc_17

Is the 100k per week Lallana figure correct for his wages?

LiamoSail

He'll stand a far greater chance of having his ban reduced if he goes to Barca. Not saying there's an anti-Liverpool thing, just that Barca tend to be looked on more favourably in these sort of things.

Don't want to see Suarez go, but if he does, it needs to be for Sanchez plus cash. At least then when/if we waste half the cash on flops, we'll still be left with at least one decent player

Augmerson

doc_17 wrote: »

Is the 100k per week Lallana figure correct for his wages?

Yah I believe so.

Grayditch

He better be good or I'll slag him off for not being good.

joe123

Augmerson wrote: »

Yah I believe so.

Hes hardly on those wages!?

Augmerson

Grayditch wrote: »

He better be good or I'll slag him off for not being good.

Shake harder boy.jpg

billy2012

Doubt he will be on 100k a week.

Also, I'd be shocked if the ban is not reduced!!

machiavellianme

djPSB wrote: »

Lallanas in Pyjamas.

You thinking what I'm thinking L2.

I dunno, what are you thinking L1?

Augmerson

joe123 wrote: »

Hes hardly on those wages!?

Think so, might have read it off of Sky Sports or somewhere.

OwaynOTT

BenThere wrote: »

That's a completely naive comment. Sponsors want to be associated with positive role models and don't want to be associated with negative role models. They are building and protecting brands not trying to devalue their brands by having disgusting behaviour associated with them.

Ben

But Suarez has hardly became a 'negative role model' over night? And up until now, these brands seem to be pay with his behavior.

OwaynOTT

Lallanallanlana is hardly on those wages, is he?

Suarez came in on very small wages, Henderson is on small wages, Allen is on small wages and a lot of the squad are similar.
I'm beginning to not like this deal.

djPSB

machiavellianme wrote: »

I dunno, what are you thinking L1?

Same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world.

djPSB

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Lallanallanlana is hardly on those wages, is he?

Suarez came in on very small wages, Henderson is on small wages, Allen is on small wages and a lot of the squad are similar.
I'm beginning to not like this deal.

Don't believe everything you read

Not a chance that he'll be on 100k.

OwaynOTT

djPSB wrote: »

Don't believe everything you read

Not a chance that he'll be on 100k.

Well, I was skeptical.

TitianGerm

Ok don't know if it's been mentioned before but does anyone remember Defoe biting Mascharano when he was with West Ham ?
Can any of you remember what sort of coverage it got in the media or any ban ?

gafferino

emmetkenny wrote: »

Ok don't know if it's been mentioned before but does anyone remember Defoe biting Mascharano when he was with West Ham ?
Can any of you remember what sort of coverage it got in the media or any ban ?

The fact your not even sure yourself is the answer to the question.

OwaynOTT

emmetkenny wrote: »

Ok don't know if it's been mentioned before but does anyone remember Defoe biting Mascharano when he was with West Ham ?
Can any of you remember what sort of coverage it got in the media or any ban ?

Massive coverage by the media and everyone was outraged and calling for his head. He got a ten game ban as well and has been seen as a blight on English football and now on American soccer.
Loads of threads and comments, it was chaos.

TitianGerm

gafferino wrote: »

The fact your not even sure yourself is the answer to the question.

I had forgotten all about it until I saw a post on Facebook about it !!

Edit: it's a tweet from Suarez himself I think

mightyreds

A comical nibble is what it was described as in the media

TitianGerm

mightyreds wrote: »

A comical nibble is what it was described as in the media

I know it was Suarez third time but the first time in England he was slaughtered in the media yet Defoe got off very lightly

Nuri Sahin

One or two hilarious posts I see.

emmetkenny wrote: »

Ok don't know if it's been mentioned before but does anyone remember Defoe biting Mascharano when he was with West Ham ?
Can any of you remember what sort of coverage it got in the media or any ban ?

It was mentioned for a short while post Spurs vs West Ham game in which the incident happened in. I remember Sky Sports News making light of it.

It was brushed under the carpet once the FA commented on the incident.

“We are unable to take any action because the referee has already dealt with the incident.”

“Fifa regulations prevent us from taking retrospective action.”

citytillidie

emmetkenny wrote: »

I know it was Suarez third time but the first time in England he was slaughtered in the media yet Defoe got off very lightly

The perks of being English

OwaynOTT

citytillidie wrote: »

The perks of being English

Or just not being Suarez.:pac:

TitianGerm

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

One or two hilarious posts I see.



It was mentioned for a short while post Spurs vs West Ham game in which the incident happened in. I remember Sky Sports News making light of it.

It was brushed under the carpet once the FA commented on the incident.

Seems there were two very different standards for both players. And even the way both the media and Spurs commented on the incident towards the reaction Suarez got.

Here's a link to a BBC article on the Defoe one

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/6076094.stm

I reckon if Suarez's bite the other day had been his first he'd have gotten away with a very light punishment. His other 2 played heavily in the ban handed out

Nuri Sahin

MD1990 wrote: »

I think Markovic from the litte I have seen in the Europa League for 25m is too much.
I would proven if we signed Shaqiri & Sanchez.

Rather Kono at 15M than Markovic. A more polished consistent player is what we need.

TitianGerm

rarnes1 wrote: »

I reckon if Suarez's bite the other day had been his first he'd have gotten away with a very light punishment. His other 2 played heavily in the ban handed out

Oh your right I just thought the reaction of Spurs was odd to the Defoe one. At least Liverpool condemned Suarez bite

NukaCola

Lallana for those wages and price is ridiculous. Almost stupid. No value in that transfer at all.

citytillidie

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Or just not being Suarez.:pac:

Nah sure if you're English you also get away with kicking another player in the head

Fowler87

Hope we're in for a CDM soon with all the links to these attacking players. Badly needed

BMJD

LiamoSail wrote: »

He'll stand a far greater chance of having his ban reduced if he goes to Barca. Not saying there's an anti-Liverpool thing, just that Barca tend to be looked on more favourably in these sort of things.

Don't want to see Suarez go, but if he does, it needs to be for Sanchez plus cash. At least then when/if we waste half the cash on flops, we'll still be left with at least one decent player

I reckon that there'll be a deal done with Barca; they'll lobby FIFA to water down the ban and buy him at a reduced price, hopefully with Sanchez coming our way. Probably reduce the ban to 2 months or 10 weeks but keeping the international ban. They need to revisit the training and football activities thing because that is horse****e in all honesty.

NukaCola

Alan Shearer on Suarez.

"I would give him a worldwide ban for as long as i could". Of course he is entitled to his opinion. But it is a bit hypocritical.

Below we see him clearly kicking Neil Lennon in the face



Shearer of course did not receive a ban for that. This was the same year he broke Spurs defender Ramon Vega's nose when he threw an elbow in his face.

Not that i have anything against Shearer just highlighting the hypocrisy of several pundits over Suarez.

5live

NukaCola wrote: »

Lallana for those wages and price is ridiculous. Almost stupid. No value in that transfer at all.

I'm assuming the price being quoted is the total fee including bonuses for appearances, caps, trophies won etc.

The basic fee is probably in the £16-18m region i imagine.

On Mike65, sad news that Mike has left. He will be missed. Hopefully he is just gone on walkabout to find his shangri-la gif-less internet.

But i look forward to Mike65 2.0 appearing soon.

BMJD

NukaCola wrote: »

Alan Shearer

yeah I stopped reading at that point.....

emmetkenny

emmetkenny wrote: »

Oh your right I just thought the reaction of Spurs was odd to the Defoe one. At least Liverpool condemned Suarez bite

If Defoe had bitten someone at his previous club I'm sure more would have been made of it.

Remember biting is just so weird. It's obviously in the news alot thanks to our number 9 but I'd hardly ever heard of it until Suarez one in Holland. Even then it got little coverage over here

Benimar

rarnes1 wrote: »

If Defoe had bitten someone at his previous club I'm sure more would have been made of it.

Remember biting is just so weird. It's obviously in the news alot thanks to our number 9 but I'd hardly ever heard of it until Suarez one in Holland. Even then it got little coverage over here

Our number 9?? What has Aspas done now??

Benimar

Benimar wrote: »

Our number 9?? What has Aspas done now??

Lol, wooops!

Sorry, Aspas.



How the hell he got the number 9 is another thing. Trying hard to deflect...

TitianGerm

rarnes1 wrote: »

If Defoe had bitten someone at his previous club I'm sure more would have been made of it.

Remember biting is just so weird. It's obviously in the news alot thanks to our number 9 but I'd hardly ever heard of it until Suarez one in Holland. Even then it got little coverage over here

That toe rag Aspas

OwaynOTT

Benimar wrote: »

Our number 9?? What has Aspas done now??

He did headbutt someone in Spain before. I was kinda of disappointed when he turned out not to be a Suarez-lite.

mada999

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Guess I am the only one worried about Lallana. £50M in wages and transfer fees just strikes me as too much money. If he bombs, were going to take a hell of a bath (again).

he seems a tidy player, and should fit into the system.... i'll reserve judgement until i see him in a good few Liverpool games

Soft Falling Rain

NukaCola wrote: »

Alan Shearer on Suarez.

"I would give him a worldwide ban for as long as i could". Of course he is entitled to his opinion. But it is a bit hypocritical.

Below we see him clearly kicking Neil Lennon in the face



Shearer of course did not receive a ban for that. This was the same year he broke Spurs defender Ramon Vega's nose when he threw an elbow in his face.

Not that i have anything against Shearer just highlighting the hypocrisy of several pundits over Suarez.

Wow, that is some knackery stuff.

Tipsy McSwagger

Soft Falling Rain wrote: »

Wow, that is some knackery stuff.

And of course the FA found him not guilty of deliberately kicking Lennon in the face, this verdict came after Shearer threatened to pull out of the England WC squad if found guilty.

Fescue

mada999 wrote: »

he seems a tidy player, and should fit into the system.... i'll reserve judgement until i see him in a good few Liverpool games

Lallana may well be expensive but I don't think Liverpool would have paid that fee unless they felt he was going to be an integral part of the team.

I think it may well be the work Lallana does without the ball that made Liverpool push so strongly for him. His pressing fits with the philosophy of the team.

The team is now brimming with quick, energetic and technically good players. Next season I expect Liverpool to play with great intensity. When we do, we roll teams over.

Agent Coulson

Soft Falling Rain wrote: »

Wow, that is some knackery stuff.

He got away with because he threatened to retire from Internationl football just before the '98 World Cup he was also the England captain at ther time.

Stargate

5live wrote: »

I'm assuming the price being quoted is the total fee including bonuses for appearances, caps, trophies won etc.

The basic fee is probably in the £16-18m region i imagine.

On Mike65, sad news that Mike has left. He will be missed. Hopefully he is just gone on walkabout to find his shangri-la gif-less internet.

But i look forward to Mike65 2.0 appearing soon.

I see the After Hours-mike65 thread was closed , As i said there , I joined at the same time as mike and will miss him and his posts, Whatever your doing mike hope your doing ok and stay safe mate !!

Augmerson

So let's take stock of how the club is doing so far this summer.

In

Lambert FW
Can MF
Lallana Yet to be confirmed MF

With the possibility still of:

Sanchez [Pending a sale of Suarez]
Shakira Shaqiri [Not dependent on sale of Suarez]
Lovren
Markovic
Moreno [Seemingly stalled, bigger offer needed]

I may not be keeping up with all of the transfer gossip but it's mostly players upfront, in midfield or strikers, who we've been linked with or signed with the odd one out being Moreno and Lovren. Moreno is probably not going to happen unless BR is really interested and we go back in with a bigger bid. I think we might as Enrique was injured for much of last season. I don't think Lovren will happen either. I can't see Southampton selling us 3 players in 1 window.

I can't comment too much about Markovic. I just don't know enough.

Back from Loan

Reina
Borini
Ilori
Assaidi
Teixeira

Back from Injury

Enrique


I'd say the club would like to sell Reina but who is buying? For the foreseeable future he is with us. Not the worst back up for Mignolet. I'm happy Belgium are progressing in the WC, great experience for him.

Borini too will be a good option from the bench. I hope we don't sell him. I'd like to see him get another go. Assaidi will probably be sold, disappointing he didn't get much of a chance.

Ilori is needed back. I'd like to see himself and Coates get more chances this season, Coates will probably be sold though. Teixeira likewise needs more game time in the league.

Out [Possible]

Suarez
Coates
Borini
Assaidi
Agger
Reina
Suso

If Suarez does go, we need Sanchez in. Also a large wad of money upfront. We should then go in for Shaqiri and I'd like it if we resumed interest in Konoplyanka but that seems dead.

Anything I've missed?

Francie Barrett

Shearer is a pretty vile individual to be fair.

Riesen_Meal

We need moar defenders, I don't think BrenDog has any faith in Agger and Co anymore....

Fescue

Augmerson wrote: »

So let's take stock of how the club is doing so far this summer.

In

Lambert FW
Can MF
Lallana Yet to be confirmed MF

With the possibility still of:

Sanchez [Pending a sale of Suarez]
Shakira Shaqiri [Not dependent on sale of Suarez]
Lovren
Markovic
Moreno [Seemingly stalled, bigger offer needed]

I may not be keeping up with all of the transfer gossip but it's mostly players upfront, in midfield or strikers, who we've been linked with or signed with the odd one out being Moreno and Lovren. Moreno is probably not going to happen unless BR is really interested and we go back in with a bigger bid. I think we might as Enrique was injured for much of last season. I don't think Lovren will happen either. I can't see Southampton selling us 3 players in 1 window.

I can't comment too much about Markovic. I just don't know enough.

Back from Loan

Reina
Borini
Ilori
Assaidi
Teixeira

Back from Injury

Enrique


I'd say the club would like to sell Reina but who is buying? For the foreseeable future he is with us. Not the worst back up for Mignolet. I'm happy Belgium are progressing in the WC, great experience for him.

Borini too will be a good option from the bench. I hope we don't sell him. I'd like to see him get another go. Assaidi will probably be sold, disappointing he didn't get much of a chance.

Ilori is needed back. I'd like to see himself and Coates get more chances this season, Coates will probably be sold though. Teixeira likewise needs more game time in the league.

Out [Possible]

Suarez
Coates
Borini
Assaidi
Agger
Reina
Suso

If Suarez does go, we need Sanchez in. Also a large wad of money upfront. We should then go in for Shaqiri and I'd like it if we resumed interest in Konoplyanka but that seems dead.

Anything I've missed?

Wisdom is back from loan, might offer Johnson competition at right back.