Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Warning in OP, 10/12

googled eyes

Good old Robbie.

MLSMVP

https://vine.co/v/OrJOtpwDqIq

Love the dude behind in a woolie hat and safety goggles

pmy.murphy

Turtyturd wrote: »

Balotelli, Markovic, Lallana, Can, Assaidi, Sahin, Aspas.

His unhappiness would hold more weight with me if his chosen ones had performed any better.

Really?? I thought Markovic and Lallana were Brendans signings?

googled eyes

pmy.murphy wrote: »

Really?? I thought Markovic and Lallana were Brendans signings?

When it comes to signings I believe very little of what I hear. BR is just trying to cover his own ass by blaming "other people's" signings

Agent Coulson

The only player this summer that might not be a Rodgers signing for me would be Balotelli.

~Rebel~

googled eyes wrote: »

When it comes to signings I believe very little of what I hear. BR is just trying to cover his own ass by blaming "other people's" signings

I've never seen him at any point say any of the players there were someone else's signings.

Every mention i've heard of this has come from a 'less-than-reliable' third party.

The closest he's come to it is Balotelli, where he quite clearly still had been part of the decision to buy him, but that he'd have preferred another option.

garra

googled eyes wrote: »

Good old Robbie.

MLSMVP

https://vine.co/v/OrJOtpwDqIq

Love the dude behind in a woolie hat and safety goggles

Health & Safety gone mad.

Fair play Robbie boy, the MLS aint all that but you still need to play at a decent level to have scored and assisted like a beast this season

Pilsbury Doughboy

pmy.murphy wrote: »

Really?? I thought Markovic and Lallana were Brendans signings?

He knows as much as anyone outside the club, diddly squat, you can pick names at random yourself and bandy them around as fact too.

Turtyturd

pmy.murphy wrote: »

Really?? I thought Markovic and Lallana were Brendans signings?

Lallana had all the hallmarks of being one but the treatment of him since he came in makes me think he's not.

Knex*

Augmerson wrote: »

Sterling is the father.

Hijacking my thanks whoring, ya little bollocks.

:pac:

Outstanding contribution nonetheless!

Turtyturd

Knex. wrote: »

Outstanding contribution nonetheless!

I don't like the way he threw it out there as a fact.

pmy.murphy

Turtyturd wrote: »

Lallana had all the hallmarks of being one but the treatment of him since he came in makes me think he's not.

I agree

Washington Irving

Away to AFC Wimbledon in FA Cup

googled eyes

Is there a no flags protest planned for the Kop tomorrow ? Good idea to protest the price of tickets BUT
I think a make or break Champions League match when you need the place buzzing could be the wrong time to hold said protest

Kerrigooney

Washington Irving wrote: »

Away to AFC Wimbledon in FA Cup

The crazy gang? Yeah.

EDIT:It's not the crazy gang,is it? That's MK Dons. I got confused...nothing to see here...move along.

daithijjj

AFC Wimbledon away in the cup, one of them seasons huh? :pac:

Skrtel v ...



:cool:

Augmerson

Kerrigooney wrote: »

The crazy gang? Yeah.

EDIT:It's not the crazy gang,is it? That's MK Dons. I got confused...nothing to see here...move along.

No you're right. AFC Wimbledon is the crazy gang. MK Dons are the franchise/giant killers.

Francie Barrett

That Mike Bernard fella is a total spoofer.

Mike Bernard @mikebernard_fsg · Jun 1
I can go on record and say one signing is a genuine world class marquee player who will certainly cost a large amount of money.

Mike Bernard @mikebernard_fsg · Jun 5
It is quite feasible for the club to break the club transfer record this summer and it seems more likely as the window goes on (5)

Mike Bernard @mikebernard_fsg · Jul 27
After the collapse of the Loic Remy deal, LFC will now target ONE of Bony/Lacazette who will cost £19m or £16m respectively.

Mike Bernard @mikebernard_fsg · Aug 15
Samuel Eto'o is a very distant target. He is seen as an absolute last resort should the club fail to bring in Bony this month (7)

Mike Bernard @mikebernard_fsg · Aug 25
Mario Balotelli, Adam Lallana and Lazar Markovic will improve us offensively. A very exciting new offense to look forward to at the club.

Just so much bull$hit.

citytillidie

Washington Irving wrote: »

Away to AFC Wimbledon in FA Cup

Prepare for lots of clips from the 88 Cup Final were everyone does not mention the perfectly good goal that was disallowed for Liverpool when it was still 0-0:D:pac:

galwaylad14

Was the Bony to Liverpool transfer ever a serious runner? I know it's easy in hindsight but it looks like he'd have been a much better investment than a lot of the players they bought.

Top scorer in the premiership in 2014. A real modern number 9 who's strong, quick and good in the air. I suppose whether he'd make the step up to the bigger club is another question. I think he'd be a good signing though.

cj maxx

galwaylad14 wrote: »

Was the Bony to Liverpool transfer ever a serious runner? I know it's easy in hindsight but it looks like he'd have been a much better investment than a lot of the players they bought.

Top scorer in the premiership in 2014. A real modern number 9 who's strong, quick and good in the air. I suppose whether he'd make the step up to the bigger club is another question. I think he'd be a good signing though.

Would love him nd was surprised in ended up in swansea ( no dissrepect)
Watching utd and southhsmpton and neither look brilliant, uts shocking liverpool are soo far off the pace

gafferino

What are the chances of getting tickets to the Wimbledon game? Will be in London that week.

PhiloCypher

Watching RvP's goal against Southampton. Can't help but feel that if the last man back had slid in he may have been able to hook it off the line. Far too many defenders seem unwilling to risk an own goal on their jacket in an effort to stop a goal.

mav79

I'd have Bony at the club in a heartbeat, he's a beast of a forward. Bullies defenders and has a powerful shot. But I still don't understand why the club seem to be looking at players that are so different to the style we played last year. Why are we not looking at players that play on defenders shoulders looking to make runs in behind constantly, and have high a workrate.

klose

gafferino wrote: »

What are the chances of getting tickets to the Wimbledon game? Will be in London that week.

Stadium is only 2,265 seated apparently!

Kerrigooney

Utd are awful...we're awful...Sunday could be brutal.

rob316

United play as bad as I've seen them play but they show the importance of having a top striker who can win games out of nothing. That's what we had last season and made us so hard to beat.
It's not too late for this to be a successful season but a top striker needs to be bought in January.

Ardent

PhiloCypher wrote: »

Watching RvP's goal against Southampton. Can't help but feel that if the last man back had slid in he may have been able to hook it off the line. Far too many defenders seem unwilling to risk an own goal on their jacket in an effort to stop a goal.

Dunno, but two soft soft goals. Liverpool-style performance from Southampton at the back.

MD1990

Doesn't Bony still have the 19m release clause? If so we have to try & get rod of Borini & get Bony in.

Milkers

Having real quality up front covers up for so much.

Utopia Parkway

rob316 wrote: »

United play as bad as I've seen them play but they show the importance of having a top striker who can win games out of nothing. That's what we had last season and made us so hard to beat.
It's not too late for this to be a successful season but a top striker needs to be bought in January.

United have won 5 on the trot and I think they probably deserved to win only 2 of those games. At a push. As you said even if you are playing like muck, good strikers can win you games you don't deserve to win. Happened for us occasionally last season, especially during the first half of the season when we nicked some wins. Of course being handed gifts also helps.

United are not good but they are winning games. We are not good but we're not winning. I'd prefer to be the former than the latter at the moment.

Agent Coulson

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

This could mean anything but if there's another injury setback I'll cry.

He is in L.A. rehabbing.

https://twitter.com/D_Sturridge/status/542013372527427584

https://twitter.com/D_Sturridge/status/542013684197752832

https://twitter.com/D_Sturridge/status/542013508582256640

rob316

Milkers wrote: »

Having real quality up front covers up for so much.

Yep.

There's is alot of ifs or buts but we could easily have a few more wins if we had Sturridge fit. He is a special player and can win games out of nothing.

Players get injured all the time and Sturridge has had a torrid time of it. The criminal thing is after spending 110m we still don't have a player to come in and replace him who is half as good.

Lord Trollington

A decent striker will drag you through tough game and bad patches of form.

Lambert will go down with you and drag you under to make sure like a 20stone man who can't swim

Lambert has done more than most expected, I reckon there's more to come too, hopefully in the next two games.

Vicxas

Sunday could be a real bore fest.

Knex*

On a positive outlook... Three points gained on Southampton!

(Potentially)

djPSB

SlickRic wrote: »

Bolasie shouldn't even be in the club's thinking if it's actually serious about competing.

give me a break.

he's done fúck all to merit a big move.

Exactly, maybe if he's banging in 15 goals a season but until then not a chance.

Kerrigooney

Just been reading the Southampton V Utd match thread and safe to say I'll be avoiding Sundays one like the plague.

5starpool

Knex. wrote: »

On a positive outlook... Three points gained on Southampton!

(Potentially)

How do you work that one out?

Either way finishing ahead of Southampton shouldn't be our aim at any point as they will finish 7th at very best.

citytillidie

Kerrigooney wrote: »

Just been reading the Southampton V Utd match thread and safe to say I'll be avoiding Sundays one like the plague.

One for tomorrow will be a car crash if Liverpool don't get a positive result

Knex*

5starpool wrote: »

How do you work that one out?

Either way finishing ahead of Southampton shouldn't be our aim at any point as they will finish 7th at very best.

Got it a little wrong, but I wasn't being very serious anyhow.

2 points gained on Southampton would be correct. And of course that's not our goal for the year, as they won't be 4th or 5th come the season's end.

Kerrigooney

Kerrigooney wrote: »

Just been reading the Southampton V Utd match thread and safe to say I'll be avoiding Sundays one like the plague.

In fairness it was fairly tame.
Actually I will give props to lord troll I was surprised at what I was reading

brevity

The match thread is up!

J Mysterio

Should have bought Shane Long. He's the one of the only premiership players who worked as hard up front as Luis Suarez in harrassing and pressuring defenders.

Rickie Lambert :pac:

~Rebel~

We're not scoring goals, and some of the suggestions to fix our problems from today are:
Jermaine Defoe
Robbie Keane
Shane Long.

J Mysterio

Funny there lad but one of our problems is that last season we caused havok by presurising from the front - that allowed players like Coutinho and Sterling to find space to kill.

Suarez was an incredibly incisive player, but one of his best assets wad that he never stopped working, never gave the opposition defence time to rest.

Tell me - what current premiership strikers do that?

Long does do that. He may not be super brilliant but he would have worked in our team. Better than Lambert anyway and definitely better suited to us than Balotelli.

J Mysterio

Also, you may think 'ah you like him cos he's Irish' but Koeman bought him for £12 million.

Blatter

J Mysterio wrote: »

Also, you may think 'ah you like him cos he's Irish' but Koeman bought him for £12 million.

Might not have necessarily been a Koeman signing going on the way lots of clubs operate these days.

In fact I doubt Koeman knew too much about him as a player before he signed.

J Mysterio

Might have to start looking at dates and such. I'm sure Koeman gave approval at the very least.

Nonetheless, any team would like a Shane Long available.

Doesn't matter, my point is regards Liverpool and its valid. £12 for Long, £16 for Balotelli?

Charlie19

J Mysterio wrote: »

Should have bought Shane Long. He's the one of the only premiership players who worked as hard up front as Luis Suarez in harrassing and pressuring defenders.

Rickie Lambert :pac:

Seriously... Shane Long.
Really....You're not comparing him to Suarez.
Luis was a born fighter.
He was a very determined player with an incredible work rate,
but he also could play, the skill he showed last season with the different
type of goals he produced, will probably never be witnessed again.

Tevez, Sanchez and Rooney are players that I might compare with Suarez but not Shane Long.