Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2015 Mod Note in OP 9/4

Dickerty

D'Agger wrote: »

My question for the day, if you were choosing what English player to blow a small fortune on would you choose Bolsaise or Berahino?

Can I choose John Stones?

Harry Palmr

D'Agger wrote: »

My question for the day, if you were choosing what English player to blow a small fortune on would you choose Bolsaise or Berahino?

Neither just neither. I'd sooner pay more for Harry Kane as he would be a much better buy while weakening a direct rival (until March when they pack it in)

LuckyLloyd

5starpool wrote: »

Silly season going into early overdrive it seems.

Following twitter rumours is such a waste of time and energy. Either they end up holding the jersey or they don't and summary articles will appear that recap alleged reasons a deal broke down. I don't need to know a few hours before it pops up on lfc.tv tbh.

djPSB

D'Agger wrote: »

My question for the day, if you were choosing what English player to blow a small fortune on would you choose Bolsaise or Berahino?

Hookers and Coke.

x43r0

D'Agger wrote: »

My question for the day, if you were choosing what English player to blow a small fortune on would you choose Bolsaise or Berahino?

Bolasie isn't English but ignoring that I'd take Bolasie

Knex*

kfallon wrote: »

Did you mean Palace or am I just not getting the West Brom part?

Yes. Yes I did. :pac:

Fitz*

Bloasie is 26 in May. 26. He is not a young English talent coming through. He has scored in 2 games this season.

Come on guys. Stop talking about signing him please.

5starpool

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Following twitter rumours is such a waste of time and energy. Either they end up holding the jersey or they don't and summary articles will appear that recap alleged reasons a deal broke down. I don't need to know a few hours before it pops up on lfc.tv tbh.

I agree entirely, except for the fact that reading here or even twitter stops me thinking about work for a while, and that has to be a good thing.

LuckyLloyd

5starpool wrote: »

I agree entirely, except for the fact that reading here or even twitter stops me thinking about work for a while, and that has to be a good thing.

Cheer up Dom. Love your life or change it...or some bollocks I read on someone's social media profile that I blocked immediately after reading same.

Dickerty

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Cheer up Dom. Love your life or change it...or some bollocks I read on someone's social media profile that I blocked immediately after reading same.

And here, have some Linseed on your Organic Granola and a Loganberry Tea...

5starpool

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Cheer up Dom. Love your life or change it...or some bollocks I read on someone's social media profile that I blocked immediately after reading same.

Necessary evil Lloyd. It's the least worst option after crunching the numbers. It still doesn't mean I have to like the least worst option.

klose

https://twitter.com/lfc/status/591194977558011904

Yay!

Agent Coulson

D'Agger wrote: »

My question for the day, if you were choosing what English player to blow a small fortune on would you choose Bolsaise or Berahino?

Berahino has the same agent as Sterling and has already caused crap this season over a pay rise or transfer so if we sign how long till he does a Sterling with us looking for £750k or an is doing an interview with the BBC saying he does want any of that.

Nether i would hope.

Agent Coulson

FitzShane wrote: »

Bloasie is 26 in May. 26. He is not a young English talent coming through. He has scored in 2 games this season.

Come on guys. Stop talking about signing him please.

But all I hear is we can't sign top players so maybe he is the best we can sign

noodler

klose wrote: »

https://twitter.com/lfc/status/591194977558011904

Yay!

Ah here, they're just leaning on purpose now.

RasTa

Considering Henderson is getting 100k a week.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/23/jordan-henderson-five-year-liverpool-contract

How much should Sterling accept?

120k?

noodler

RasTa wrote: »

Considering Henderson is getting 100k a week.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/23/jordan-henderson-five-year-liverpool-contract

How much should Sterling accept?

120k?

Henderson is better so 90k...

marklazarcovic

Leaning from the knees so he is,some skill that

Fitz*

Centre midfielder comparison. taken from @reverse_ball

DVDM93

noodler wrote: »

Henderson is better so 90k...

80k considering he's being a bold pup about it.

brevity

http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/22/liverpool-free-to-complete-29million-radja-nainggolan-transfer-from-roma-5162125/

Nainggolan.

DVDM93

brevity wrote: »

http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/22/liverpool-free-to-complete-29million-radja-nainggolan-transfer-from-roma-5162125/

Nainggolan.

That's German for 'no goals'. Not interested.

DVDM93

Rafa in for a bit of pre season training?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/23/rafael-benitez-slim-sampdoria-massimo-ferrero

smileyj1987

D'Agger

klose wrote: »

We are not signing depay lads, just thought I'd get it out there.

You're the new FutureGuy

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Neither just neither. I'd sooner pay more for Harry Kane as he would be a much better buy while weakening a direct rival (until March when they pack it in)

Harry Kane would be 80mill sure

djPSB wrote: »

Hookers and Coke.

The dynamic duo could be just what we need :pac:

x43r0 wrote: »

Bolasie isn't English but ignoring that I'd take Bolasie

My bad on that count - would take Berahino first tbh - him, Sterling, Ibe as a front 3 would have enough pace to cause serious problems & Berahino is well able to put them away

MD1990

Some Rodgers quotes from the press conference

Rodgers on Klopp talk: "When you are at a club like Liverpool, will be lots of names mentioned. It goes with being at a big club."

Rodgers: "If take emotion out of last weekend, this is a team who over achieved last season. It had a world class striker & nearly won title

Rodgers: "Our ambition is to be better and plan forward, that means bringing in players in the summer. Plans to do that are well underway

Rodgers says that being fifth and getting to two semi finals is "on par" to where Liverpool are at right now.

Rodgers on transfer committee: "There's no need to clarify. There's a group of people who will identify and recruit players just like at most clubs."

Rodgers says three months ago he was a "tactical genius" - he doesn't get carried away when they win.
Rodgers: "I don't think there's anyone better (to manage #LFC). I have a strong relationship with the owners."

Rodgers should have hust said the season has been disapointing. Don't understand how it can be on par.

Jon Stark

Using a word like overachieving won't do him any favours with the fanbase.

Sappy404

https://twitter.com/RobGutmann/status/591239271903797248

galwaylad14

MD1990 wrote: »

Rodgers should have hust said the season has been disapointing. Don't understand how it can be on par.

Well just be logical, there's 4 teams above Liverpool, which of those teams do you genuinely feel you have better players than? IMO the 4 teams above Liverpool have better players than them (and probably higher wage bills to go with it) and so they should be expecting to finish above Liverpool.

And 2 cup semi finals equates to 2 very good cup runs, obviously a disappointment not to win either or at east reach a final but a semi final is still a bloody good cup run.

I'm not a fan of Liverpool but to me anyway I think the issue is they've just spent so much money on players that were no better than what they had already in a lot of cases. Like say they gave the guts of 50m (and probably about another 10m in wages to the 3 players already this season) to Southampton and have any of those 3 really improved things? Not really I'd say, Lallana has had his moments but for 25m you'd expect a lot better.

They've sort of done what Spurs did after they sold Bale, and basically sold 1 world class player and tried to replace him with 4 or 5 decent ones and it just hasn't worked out. It's just so hard to replace a real top class player as both teams have discovered.


But it's easy to say to go out and buy the real top players and pay whatever it takes etc but these guys are in very low supply and very high demand which makes them very hard to get.

And as we've seen from United this season even going out and buying those world class players is no guarantee they'll be a success, Falcao has been horrific and Di Maria has been very good in patches but very inconsistent.

5starpool

It's not like we have 5th locked up either.

Knex*

Fabregas, 7th on the list, and out of the league for three years :pac:

Knex*

Rodgers says that being fifth and getting to two semi finals is "on par" to where Liverpool are at right now

I wouldn't disagree with that, tbh.

Harry Palmr

5starpool wrote: »

It's not like we have 5th locked up either.

If there is a chance of 8th I think Liverpool need to at least try for it.

Tipsy McSwagger

"If take emotion out of last weekend, this is a team who over achieved last season. It had a world class striker & nearly won title"

Funnily enough BR agrees with me that Suarez is the main reason why LFC nearly one the title last season. I actually feel a bit sorry for him that he's gonna get the bullet.

MonkeyTennis

Yes... BR agreed with you.

DVDM93

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

"If take emotion out of last weekend, this is a team who over achieved last season. It had a world class striker & nearly won title"

Funnily enough BR agrees with me that Suarez is the main reason why LFC nearly one the title last season. I actually feel a bit sorry for him that he's gonna get the bullet.

Will you be our next manager please?

Rayne Wooney

Knex. wrote: »

I wouldn't disagree with that, tbh.

Not sure how any sane person could disagree with that, in fact 5th place and two semis is probably a good-ish season when you look at the bigger picture of financials and stuff

Delusions of grandeur from some Liverpool fans aren't helping the current situation at all

noodler

What do we need a particular manager for if 5th is where we are going to end up regardless?

Absolute cop-out talk. He wasn't saying stuff like that at the start of the season to the best of my knowledge.

An absolute peach of a run to an FA Cup final pissed away - but its okay as a semi-final appearance is "on par".


If we finish 6th or 7th, can we hold him to his words and get him to admit he has been a failure because we didn't reach the "par" of 5th?

Jon Stark

Jon Stark wrote: »

Using a word like overachieving won't do him any favours with the fanbase.

Those of the fanbase with some brain cells knew last year was an overachievment.

brevity

"If you spend more than £100 million, you expect to be challenging for the league."

Changed his tune hasn't he.

citytillidie

All i can say is this place is getting worse

rob316

citytillidie wrote: »

All i can say is this place is getting worse

It says it all when a ****ing United fan posts sense.

klose

citytillidie wrote: »

All i can say is this place is getting worse

Yeah, I'm leaving and going to rawk for a more level headed, non bias level of conversation.

RasTa

Jan 2015

“The reality was, with so many changes, we were not going to win the league this season. I believe we will be ready to challenge for the title next year,” said Rodgers.

Jon Stark

Augeo wrote: »

Those of the fanbase with some brain cells knew last year was an overachievment.

I don't disagree with you but that kind of bullishness won't do him any favours when he's already under pressure.

rob316

Blame the manager all you want but some poster refuse to believe that the FSG transfer policy is an even bigger issue.

I don't care how good of a manger you are, if you aren't given a few players to coach of a skillset on par or better than the rest of the top 4 then you cant compete. You would struggle to choose many players in the Liverpool squad who would start in any of the Top 4 squads. That is the reality and we will be surpassed further this summer if recruitment doesn't improve.

rossie1977

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Not sure how any sane person could disagree with that, in fact 5th place and two semis is probably a good-ish season when you look at the bigger picture of financials and stuff

Delusions of grandeur from some Liverpool fans aren't helping the current situation at all

the audacity of certain liverpool fans thinking they should be more than a point ahead of southampton having spent more than everyone in the league this past 3 years under rodgers bar man utd and chelsea...

whatawaster

4th isn't over until it's over.

I cannot see us winning 6 matches in a row the way we are playing, but stranger things have happened.

If we do, we finish on 75 points and then either
- United lose two (I'm looking at you Everton (a) and Arsenal (h)
- City lose on and draw one (Spurs and Southampton)


Clutching at straws to say the least. West Brom to put me out of my misery at the weekend.

D'Agger

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Funnily enough BR agrees with me that Suarez is the main reason why LFC nearly one the title last season. I actually feel a bit sorry for him that he's gonna get the bullet.

Oh you!

LuckyLloyd

rob316 wrote: »

Blame the manager all you want but some poster refuse to believe that the FSG transfer policy is an even bigger issue.

I don't care how good of a manger you are, if you aren't given a few players to coach of a skillset on par or better than the rest of the top 4 then you cant compete. You would struggle to choose many players in the Liverpool squad who would start in any of the Top 4 squads. That is the reality and we will be surpassed further this summer if recruitment doesn't improve.

Every aspect has its part to play. If you believe some of those aspects can be upgraded my belief is that you should pull the trigger - even if other aspects remain less than acceptable.