Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 15/16

NukaCola

NukaCola wrote: »

I'd be more critical to be honest, and argue hindsight wasn't needed. Wanyama/Mane came on at HT. ............

How do half time subs work?
Do each dressing room know the opposition are replacing x with y before they come out ?

martyos121

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

We'd have loads of clean sheets against Mexican teams anyway with the amount of walls he's planning to build.

I'd rather have the head of Luas operations.

Forget parking the bus, we're parking the tram and it won't move for weeks!

NukaCola

Augeo wrote: »

How do half time subs work?
Do each dressing room know the opposition are replacing x with y before they come out ?

My point was that Koeman seen how he lost the first half, made his changes at HT and for approx 20 minutes up to their first goal Klopp should have seen enough to react to those changes, but he didn't.......he had plenty of time to assess and failed to do so IMO......

NukaCola

NukaCola wrote: »

My point was that Koeman seen how he lost the first half, made his changes at HT and for approx 20 minutes up to their first goal Klopp should have seen enough to react to those changes, but he didn't.......he had plenty of time to assess and failed to do so IMO......

......... sorry

Was just wondering would Klopp have known Koeman's HT subs before/after he made his own and vice versa or are they blind them them.

I got your pt

Luckycharms_74

Harry Palmr wrote: »

More rumour mongering - Xhaka from Jonathan Northcroft in the Sunday Times and Bild going with Niklas Sule (he was mentioned a day or two ago wasn't he?).

He was on TAW today and referred to his article about Henderson being available.
Another point made and blindingly obvious to us all is that we have NEVER replaced Xabi .

NukaCola

Augeo wrote: »

......... sorry

Was just wondering would Klopp have known Koeman's HT subs before/after he made his own and vice versa or are they blind them them.

I got your pt

Oh right .....i would have said they'd be blind to them, but I never thought about it before now that you mention it......

martyos121

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

He was on TAW today and referred to his article about Henderson being available.
Another point made and blindingly obvious to us all is that we have NEVER replaced Xabi .

It was always going to be near impossible to replace Xabi, but the thing that annoys me is that we made absolutely no attempt to do so. Look at the midfielders we signed since he left:

Aquilani (poor fit)
Shelvey (just not good enough)
Meireles (bang average, had his moments)
Poulsen (LOL)
Henderson (good, nowhere close to Xabi though)
Adam (describing him isn't worth the yellow card)
Allen (closest we've come to Alonso stylistically but once again, not in the same league)
Coutinho (class, but totally different position)
Lallana (see above, minus some of the class)
Can (gorgeous, but a different type of midfielder to Xabi)
Milner (workhorse but lacking in quality)

That makes for pretty depressing reading in my opinion, we've been awful at signing midfielders for years. Without Gerrard, we'd have finished in the bottom half in 2010/11.

Milkers

jonny24ie wrote: »

Skrtel, the same lad that was solid as a rock when we nearly won the title and everyone raving about how much city would give to us at the time for him.

Are you having a laugh we conceded 50 goals in 13/14.

cj maxx

Milkers wrote: »

Are you having a laugh we conceded 50 goals in 13/14.

Wasn't skyrtl the only player to score against all the top four , icluding liverpool, that yeat ?

murpho999

cjmc wrote: »

Wasn't skyrtl the only player to score against all the top four , icluding liverpool, that yeat ?

Yes, but he was signed as a defender not a goalscorer.

Yakult

martyos121 wrote: »

It was always going to be near impossible to replace Xabi, but the thing that annoys me is that we made absolutely no attempt to do so. Look at the midfielders we signed since he left:

Aquilani (poor fit)
Shelvey (just not good enough)
Meireles (bang average, had his moments)
Poulsen (LOL)
Henderson (good, nowhere close to Xabi though)
Adam (describing him isn't worth the yellow card)
Allen (closest we've come to Alonso stylistically but once again, not in the same league)
Coutinho (class, but totally different position)
Lallana (see above, minus some of the class)
Can (gorgeous, but a different type of midfielder to Xabi)
Milner (workhorse but lacking in quality)

That makes for pretty depressing reading in my opinion, we've been awful at signing midfielders for years. Without Gerrard, we'd have finished in the bottom half in 2010/11.

I'm way more convinced that Klopp will make better purchases all round and I hope I'm not proved wrong. But it seems like some players are bought just for the sake of it with no plan behind it, something I think Klopp will be better at than previous regimes

Umaro

Umaro wrote: »

We need to dispell with the fiction that Donald Trump is our manager.

This needs to be blown out of the water right now...

http://trumpdonald.org/

Agent Coulson

Sign Gundogan and I'd happily let Henderson go for £25m+

5starpool

I hate when we lose any game, but it is exacerbated when it's just before a stupid international break.

8-10

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Sign Gundogan and I'd happily let Henderson go for £25m+

What would people think of us trying to sign (and this isn't a joke) Nuri Sahin?

I think whoever it is (Ruben Neves another good option), Henderson should leave.

hefferboi

Skrtel's been here for 9 years and people are still getting his name wrong.

It's SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL

FCUK SAKE

Drives me up the wall

martyos121

hefferboi wrote: »

Skrtel's been here for 9 years and people are still getting his name wrong.

It's SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL

FCUK SAKE

Drives me up the wall

It's actually Škrtel, if you're going to be exact about it.

:pac:

BorneTobyWilde

hefferboi wrote: »

Skrtel's been here for 9 years and still drives me up the wall

SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL SKRTEL

FCUK SAKE

fyp

OwaynOTT

Get rid of Skrtel and bring back Aertel.

They'd be some match threads. Liverpool v Southampton kick off 1.30 live on Aertel page 230

martyos121

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Get rid of Skrtel and bring back Aertel.

They'd be some match threads. Liverpool v Southampton kick off 1.30 live on Aertel page 230

Goal for Liverpool!

15 minutes ago

hefferboi

martyos121 wrote: »

It's actually Škrtel, if you're going to be exact about it.

:pac:

That's too technical

martyos121

hefferboi wrote: »

That's too technical

Get a better keyboard then hęffërbøī!

K-9

martyos121 wrote: »

The thing is though, give the way the Manchester derby went, that wasn't a dead rubber of a match. If we'd have won that, we'd have been 4 points off 4th with a game in hand. That was a must win game IMO, and we didn't win it.

I'm hoping Lucas out and Henderson not himself just limited his options to try and change it.

Cartman78

martyos121 wrote: »

Goal for Liverpool!

15 minutes ago

Irish goalscorers in green...always loved that feature although it probably took 300 lines of code to execute

OwaynOTT

martyos121 wrote: »

Goal for Liverpool!

15 minutes ago

Wonder if it was a controversial decision, I don't think it was.

Utd/another team fan - possible a disgraceful decision, I'm fairly sure it might have been a dive, maybe he was looking for the contact?

MonkeyTennis

Liverpool to Play Barcelona in August in the Aviva. Dont know if thats a Liverpool 11.

I can hear the sound of LOI warriors heads popping as we speak

That_Guy

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

Liverpool to Play Barcelona in August in the Aviva. Dont know if thats a Liverpool 11.

I can hear the sound of LOI warriors heads popping as we speak

God help anybody who ends up sitting beside AndersonIsGod

Harry Palmr

The senior side are off touring the USA stadium circuit - I hear they are supporting Van Halen.

MonkeyTennis

That will really get the crowd jumping

Agent Coulson

But is it old school David Lee Roth, Van Halen or Sammy Hagar, Van Halen or new/old school David Lee Roth, Van Halen?


There really is only one right answer!!!

Old school David Lee Roth, Van Halen

MonkeyTennis

Gary Cherone ?

Agent Coulson

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

Gary Cherone ?

:eek: That is totally blanked from my memory forever:P

Harry Palmr

Agent Coulson wrote: »

But is it old school David Lee Roth, Van Halen or Sammy Hagar, Van Halen or new/old school David Lee Roth, Van Halen?


There really is only one right answer!!!

Old school David Lee Roth, Van Halen

I'd like to have seen a five piece with Hagar mainly on guitar duties - him and Eddie would have been brilliant in tandem in the 70s when they were both at their freshest. Obviously one would have killed the other in no time, but still! :pac:

5starpool

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The senior side are off touring the USA stadium circuit - I hear they are supporting Van Halen.

I'm guessing the length of the tour will depend on whether we have to play EL qualifiers in July or not.

martyos121

5starpool wrote: »

I'm guessing the length of the tour will depend on whether we have to play EL qualifiers in July or not.

That's festival season mate, no chance they'll want to play two first round matches against FC Ramstadtnericki United CF when they could be drinking tins in a field somewhere in Europe.

Harry Palmr

5starpool wrote: »

I'm guessing the length of the tour will depend on whether we have to play EL qualifiers in July or not.

It remains to be seen if Liverpool will be in Europe at all. Could easily finish 8th and that won't be enough I'm sure.

Bandana boy

5starpool wrote: »

I'm guessing the length of the tour will depend on whether we have to play EL qualifiers in July or not.

As winners of Europa league we will go straight into the group stages of CL

MonkeyTennis

Damn straight

Harry Palmr

Is that the case though? I thought it would be the 3rd round qualifiers. Still won't happen either way.

MonkeyTennis

This Aviva thing is just rumour isnt ?

Looks like its all in USA

corwill

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

This Aviva thing is just rumour isnt ?

Looks like its all in USA

There's a European venue to be confirmed for the match with Barca.

OwaynOTT

corwill wrote: »

There's a European venue to be confirmed for the match with Barca.

The Point or vicar street?

Vicxas

Celtic V Barcelona was just announced in the Aviva.

corwill

OwaynOTT wrote: »

The Point or vicar street?

Thomas House. Defenders assemble!

citytillidie

Bandana boy wrote: »

As winners of Europa league we will go straight into the group stages of CL

Only if Man City win the Champions League and finish in the top 4, other wise it is the Play off round.

At the moment Liverpool are not in Europe for next season no matter what people think after the Capital One final loss.

As of right now since Man City are in 4th so get into the Champions League play off, 5th in the league goes into the group stage of the Europa League and 6th start in the 3rd round of the Europa League Qualification having to play in July.

citytillidie

corwill wrote: »

There's a European venue to be confirmed for the match with Barca.

Home V Barca to open the new stand :eek:

K-9

citytillidie wrote: »

Only if Man City win the Champions League and finish in the top 4, other wise it is the Play off round.

At the moment Liverpool are not in Europe for next season no matter what people think after the Capital One final loss.

As of right now since Man City are in 4th so get into the Champions League play off, 5th in the league goes into the group stage of the Europa League and 6th start in the 3rd round of the Europa League Qualification having to play in July.

How do you keep on top of all this stuff?

Ok, I'll go there, I'd prefer to be out of the Europa next season, concentrate on the league and get into the CL that way. Only problem is trying to give the squad enough games.

Harry Palmr

Every ****ty second rate clickbait football site is going with Benteke to West Ham right now.

martyos121

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Every ****ty second rate clickbait football site is going with Benteke to West Ham right now.

Benteke and Carroll in the same team, bumping into each outside of the penalty area when attacking crosses. That'll be funny.

Bandana boy

citytillidie wrote: »

Only if Man City win the Champions League and finish in the top 4, other wise it is the Play off round.

At the moment Liverpool are not in Europe for next season no matter what people think after the Capital One final loss.

As of right now since Man City are in 4th so get into the Champions League play off, 5th in the league goes into the group stage of the Europa League and 6th start in the 3rd round of the Europa League Qualification having to play in July.

Ok Fair enough

Just read up on it
Also in unlikely but dream scenarios

City win CL and finish 5th or lower
We win Europa League
4th placed team in Prem gets bumped to Europa

As Mr Keegan once said , "I would love it "