Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2016/2017

gimli2112

Vicxas wrote: »

I love fantasy football for the first few weeks, and then i get proper bored of it.

I stopped doing it a few years back when I realised I was happy Chelsea kept a clean sheet.

kfallon

gimli2112 wrote: »

I stopped doing it a few years back when I realised I was happy Chelsea kept a clean sheet.

This is the thing that annoys me with it, Liverpool lose 2-0 to Utd, all Pool fans should be sickened but there is always one twat who comes out with, "Ah well at least I had Rooney in my FF team so he got a goal and an assist, not all doom & gloom!"....just fúck off you tit :mad:

I hate the thing tbh!

Pyjamarama

Anyone interested in doing a draft on RotoPL? Basically the same as NFL ones. Set up a league and we draft on a specific date. Means nobody can have the same players. Much more fun.

TitianGerm

kfallon wrote: »

This is the thing that annoys me with it, Liverpool lose 2-0 to Utd, all Pool fans should be sickened but there is always one twat who comes out with, "Ah well at least I had Rooney in my FF team so he got a goal and an assist, not all doom & gloom!"....just fúck off you tit :mad:

I hate the thing tbh!

Who the hell in their right mind would put Rooney in their FF team

kfallon

emmetkenny wrote: »

Who the hell in their right mind would put Rooney in their FF team

You know what I mean.....

PaddyWilliams

emmetkenny wrote: »

Who the hell in their right mind would put Rooney in their FF team

Wayne Rooney and Wayne Rooney's missus.

mosstin

PaddyWilliams wrote: »

Wayne Rooney and Wayne Rooney's missus.

He scores more than he misses, in fairness.

NukaCola

Jose Enrique training hard to find a new club....

https://www.instagram.com/p/BI115XxBZE1/

NukaCola

All preseason goals.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDnqqYOK-9k

martyos121

NukaCola wrote: »

Jose Enrique training hard to find a new club....

https://www.instagram.com/p/BI115XxBZE1/

Reminds me of this video of the human wheelchair himself:

stesaurus

Pyjamarama wrote: »

Anyone interested in doing a draft on RotoPL? Basically the same as NFL ones. Set up a league and we draft on a specific date. Means nobody can have the same players. Much more fun.

Looks interesting. Maybe stick it up as its own thread and try get a cross section of boards users?

5starpool

kfallon wrote: »

This is the thing that annoys me with it, Liverpool lose 2-0 to Utd, all Pool fans should be sickened but there is always one twat who comes out with, "Ah well at least I had Rooney in my FF team so he got a goal and an assist, not all doom & gloom!"....just fúck off you tit :mad:

I hate the thing tbh!

This is the main reason I haven't done FF since about 2005. Really annoys me.

Laziness also plays a part as well.

Dickerty

+1

I see the email reminders every week and I couldn't be bothered. I have Diego Costa as captain this weekend, FFS!

Charlie19

I'd love to have a job were I'd have the time to play FF.

Knex*

Charlie19 wrote: »

I'd love to have a job were I'd have the time to play FF.

He says while posting on boards at midday

Bandana boy

Charlie19 wrote: »

I'd love to have a job were I'd have the time to play FF.

There is no rule you have to do it on work time !

Charlie19

Knex. wrote: »

He says while posting on boards at midday

Isn't boards classed as research...

BorneTobyWilde

http://www.thisisanfield.com/2016/08/sky-germany-launch-partnership-jurgen-klopp-liverpool/

Knex*

http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Champions-League/08-08-2016/champions-si-cambia-2018-italia-avra-4-posti-meriti-storici-le-big-160659992455.shtml

Header translation:

Starting 2018 Italy, Spain, Germany and England will all have 4 locked spots for "Historic Merit" [Italian] (gazzetta.it)

5starpool

The prospect of England losing a spot scared them.

Dickerty

5starpool wrote: »

The prospect of England losing a spot scared them.

I think with the shift of talent (playing and managing) to England is likely to see an improvement in their CL outcomes...

Talisman

K-9 wrote: »

Tbh 13/14 wasn't competitive, the top 4 were miles ahead of the rest. Last season was extra competitive, points got dropped everywhere by everybody.

13/14 was competitive because there were 4 clubs fighting it out for the title. The top 4 clubs finished within 7 points of each other, usually the margin between first and fourth is 15-20 points. The gap between the four has been as large as 34 points. The previous time the top 4 teams were 7 points apart was in Arsene Wenger's first season at Arsenal and 75 points was enough to win the league title.

1996/7 :

Pos  Team       Pts
1    Man Utd    75
2    Newcastle  68
3    Arsenal    68
4    Liverpool  68

The league was not as competitive back then, Man Utd clocked up titles at a canter until Wenger showed up at Arsenal. Wenger and Mourinho raised the level of what was required to win the league title and now doing so with less than 80 points is the exception rather than the rule. If you look at the points totals then last season (2015/16) the league stepped back 15 years in time.

Pos    00/01    15/16
1st     80       81
2nd     70       71
4th     68       66
5th     66       66
18th    34       37

This happened because for various reasons four of the 'big clubs' were out of the equation. In my opinion, the points totals for the 2012/13 and 2013/14 seasons are indicative of where the league is headed when the big clubs are competing with each other.

Pos    12/13    13/14
1st     89       86
2nd     78       84
4th     73       79
5th     72       72
18th    36       33

Twenty years ago 60 points would have secured a top 4 finish, as the top end of the league became more competitive it required higher points totals, now it looks like 72 might not be enough to guarantee it.

sword1

5starpool wrote: »

The prospect of England losing a spot scared them.

The prospect of pissing the bigger clubs off and another league being started up

Dickerty

Palace back in for Benteke, according to the Echo. Patience paying off, likely to get around £30M, which we cannot be disappointed with!

I still think we'll see one more signing in, and Alberto, Ilori and Balo all to go...

Vicxas

Dickerty wrote: »

Palace back in for Benteke, according to the Echo. Patience paying off, likely to get around £30M, which we cannot be disappointed with!

I still think we'll see one more signing in, and Alberto, Ilori and Balo all to go...

Im hoping it'll open the floodgates for the rest of the deadwood to float away.

Apparently we're also in for Oddegaard on loan.

K-9

@Talisman,yeah that's all true and well researched.

It'll be interesting to see if this season continues from last or goes back to the norm. Chelsea were shocking last year, United poor and City not great so it would be expected they'll all improve. Shows what Klopp is up against.

Dickerty

Vicxas wrote: »

Apparently we're also in for Oddegaard on loan.

Not sure about that one, only seems to be coming from Marca. I can't imagine we'd take him on loan unless a certain option to buy, why develop him for them?

sword1

Hopes for the season,finish ahead of Jose,time and time again he has shown himself to be an arrogant nasty individual and the hypocritical way he is being glorified is sickening.
Expectations, 5/6 ,mane to be MVP, sturridge to be injured alot ,coutiniho s last year at the club and klopp to make it a very entertaining season good or bad

Umaro

https://twitter.com/Galatasaray/status/763003368491126786

Galatasaray move closer to signing Lucas.

daithijjj

Vicxas wrote: »

I love fantasy football for the first few weeks, and then i get proper bored of it.

I only strated playing the thing when......



I was looking for an escape.

BullBlackNova

daithijjj wrote: »

I only strated playing the thing when......



I was looking for an escape.

Christ, none of them even look like professional athletes.

Dickerty

Umaro wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Galatasaray/status/763003368491126786

Galatasaray move closer to signing Lucas.

He has to know he's not going to play much, behind Can, Hendo, Grujic, Wijnaldum, Milner and Lallana, and Stewart has now leap-frogged him as well!

Agent Coulson

That's a great deal/partnership with Sky Germany having them show all games and behind the scenes doc's on Klopp's day to day's the fan base is sure to grow hugely in Germany/Austria and around Europe with this.


Just Jurgen no three envelopes please.

~Rebel~

Need to get LivingInKorea to provide us with subtitles!

Grayditch

BullBlackNova wrote: »

Christ, none of them even look like professional athletes.

If only we had someone to look into their eyes and tell us if they are players or not.

J Mysterio

Grayditch wrote: »

If only we had someone to look into their eyes and tell us if they are players or not.

Roy did it for us


These pwayers will save us fwom welegation.

daithijjj

daithijjj wrote: »

I only strated playing the thing when......



I was looking for an escape.

Dark days

marklazarcovic

Looks like the toffees are buying tekkers for palace

Vicxas

marklazarcovic wrote: »

Looks like the toffees are buying tekkers for palace

Was just gonna post that. 25 million for Bolaise is criminal.

Hoki

Milan Jovanovic, best player in the world he was.

Harry Palmr

Vicxas wrote: »

Was just gonna post that. 25 million for Bolaise is criminal.

Everton are going to extreme lengths to win a derby game! :pac:

Hoki

Hoki wrote: »

Milan Jovanovic, best player in the world he was.

Best pre season player in the world.

Utopia Parkway

Vicxas wrote: »

Was just gonna post that. 25 million for Bolaise is criminal.

One of those players that always seems to play well against us but when you look at his stats they are not that impressive.

5starpool

Hoki wrote: »

Milan Jovanovic, best player in the world he was.

[Neighbours clip here]

Couldn't be arsed to look it up, pretend it's there.

J Mysterio

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

One of those players that always seems to play well against us but when you look at his stats they are not that impressive.

Yeah, every time ive seen him ive been really impressed. Admittedly though, most of those games have been against us.

Knex*

5starpool wrote: »

[Neighbours clip here]

Couldn't be arsed to look it up, pretend it's there.

Its shit like this that keeps me logging into boards.

OwaynOTT

I'm lost

doc_17

Surely we'll sign someone else before the end of the window? Think we still need a central midfielder and two defenders if we want to challenge this year.

Harry Palmr

If Benteke is sold (along with Lucas who is apparently off tomorrow in all likelihood) then that'll be 33-35 million quid to play with, it would be folly not to spend a decent part of that on a left back and maybe an ankle biter who we have never even heard of from east Europe.

Readers will be thrilled to learn I'll be doing a loan watch for the season - but as there is a game for one not until tomorrow (Lloyd Jones at Swindon) I'll update then

livinginkorea

~Rebel~ wrote: »

Need to get LivingInKorea to provide us with subtitles!

My German is really bad. Germans love to speak English but walking on campus all casual with my LFC T-shirt today did get me some proper cool looks from members of staff (at least I think so, maybe they pity me).