Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2018 Mod warning post 9350 and 9421

citytillidie

So last team to beat Real Madrid in a European Cup Final are

Turtyturd

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Turty, I can't see that at all, too far away or something.

Touch site Harry.

citytillidie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqUqtwAQnC0

Super-Rush

We've never conquered Europe
We're never gonna start

From Goodison down to Wrexham
Our team is worlds apart

Joe Royle and David Moyesy
Our teams a laughing stock.

All thats in our trophy room's
A ****in cuckoo clock

Allez Allez Allez

FACT OF THE DAY - Both Manchester City and Everton have never lost a European Cup final.

ricero

Salzburg seem to have an abundance of young talent in their team that we could poach this summer

martyos121

RoboKlopp wrote: »

FACT OF THE DAY - Both Manchester City and Everton have never lost a European Cup final.

We’ve never lost a Copa del Rey final. How bout that?

martyos121

ricero wrote: »

Salzburg seem to have an abundance of young talent in their team that we could poach this summer

They have to go through Leipzig first, our soon-to-be German Southampton.

LiamoSail

Gerrard to be confirmed by Rangers tomorrow apparently.

Turns out he was a right winger all along...

Harry Palmr

FSG should buy Salzburg

Seriously though they should find a medium sized EL friendly club in Portugal or the Netherlands and use it to incubate talent.

martyos121

Harry Palmr wrote: »

FSG should buy Salzburg

Seriously though they should find a medium sized EL friendly club in Portugal or the Netherlands and use it to incubate talent.

It’s the easiest way to be hated by every team in your country, and on the continent, like Leipzig have done.

Let’s bloody do it!

Agent Coulson

Who was the last or has any team gotten to a champions league final after coming out of the qualifiers?

MightyMandarin

ricero wrote: »

Salzburg seem to have an abundance of young talent in their team that we could poach this summer

Just get Sadio to ring up a few friends and we'll get the van ready.

TitianGerm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Who was the last or has any team gotten to a champions league final after coming out of the qualifiers?

No other team has made it to the final after going through the qualifiers.

Edit: I'm wrong and Martyos is right. No way did I think Barca or Bayern had to enter at a qualifying round when I was trying to think of finalists over the years.

martyos121

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Who was the last or has any team gotten to a champions league final after coming out of the qualifiers?

Bayern in 2012. They lost the final to Chelsea though.

EDIT: last team to win it after coming through the qualifiers is Barcelona in 2009.

~Rebel~

ricero wrote: »

Salzburg seem to have an abundance of young talent in their team that we could poach this summer

Love to get our hands on Haidara for midfield. Looks a great young player. Though I suspect Leipzig will have him earmarked to take over for Keita.

jasonb

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Who was the last or has any team gotten to a champions league final after coming out of the qualifiers?

Sure, we've already done it the other way, when we won it, and then went into the qualifiers. Might as well do it this way too...

Actually, just realised, we came through the qualifiers in 2004/05 and won it. So we basically went from qualifiers to Champions and back to first round qualifiers!

Harry Palmr

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Who was the last or has any team gotten to a champions league final after coming out of the qualifiers?

TitianGerm wrote: »

No other team has made it to the final after going through the qualifiers.

All time records set or equalled this season

46 - Champions League goals this season - with the chance to add to that
20 - away goals joint top.
9 - Assists from one player again the chance to add one or two more
0-7 joint biggest away win in CL
4 goals or more - Liverpool have scored that in more games than any other side - Hoffenheim/Maribor/Spartak/Porto/Roma (Real Madrid next?)
10 goals each - Firmino and Salah join Messi and Neymar as being the only attackers in the same side to reach double figures. If Mane scores then it's an outright record for a given sides attack.

Not sure if there are any others.

Fromvert

Tell the lads if you want to win leagues, champions leagues and other cups you need to play big games back to back and win in April and May (Not that we won last night but we won the tie). You're much better than Chelsea, go and stuff them and you have three weeks to rest and prepare before the biggest game of your lives. I'm full of confidence we win on Sunday and in three weeks.

Fromvert

We do need Lallana, Clyne, Gomez and Can (that's a hopeful one!) to be as fit as they can be in three weeks because they're the only four we could potentially have that offer us anything to help win a Champions League in the last 15/20 minutes. Klavan, Solanke, Ings, Moreno get a no thanks from me.

Would not be shocked to see Clyne start against Chelsea and Brighton and push to get a start with TAA offering us an option further forward/midfield late on.

And I'm calling it now, Andy Robertson gets one in the final.

Charlie19

Another cracker from Milner..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ClsvBmXM8

Knex*

Harry Palmr wrote: »

All time records set or equalled this season

46 - Champions League goals this season - with the chance to add to that
20 - away goals joint top.
9 - Assists from one player again the chance to add one or two more
0-7 joint biggest away win in CL
4 goals or more - Liverpool have scored that in more games than any other side - Hoffenheim/Maribor/Spartak/Porto/Roma (Real Madrid next?)
10 goals each - Firmino and Salah join Messi and Neymar as being the only attackers in the same side to reach double figures. If Mane scores then it's an outright record for a given sides attack.

Not sure if there are any others.

61 - Number of fouls without a card - James Milner vs Porto.

OwaynOTT

Harry Palmr wrote: »

All time records set or equalled this season

46 - Champions League goals this season - with the chance to add to that
20 - away goals joint top.
9 - Assists from one player again the chance to add one or two more
0-7 joint biggest away win in CL
4 goals or more - Liverpool have scored that in more games than any other side - Hoffenheim/Maribor/Spartak/Porto/Roma (Real Madrid next?)
10 goals each - Firmino and Salah join Messi and Neymar as being the only attackers in the same side to reach double figures. If Mane scores then it's an outright record for a given sides attack.

Not sure if there are any others.

Most luckiest ever record

Agent Coulson

If we lose the final I’m blaming the new female Doctor Who.

murpho999

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNGhNLvb9jc

The celebration scenes that RTE didn't show last night.

Grayditch

It's still absolutely surreal that we're in the final of the Champions League.

citytillidie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpPfjb8xW60

robwen

Fromvert wrote: »

And I'm calling it now, Andy Robertson gets one in the final.

Great Scott!

DrPhilG

United fan here - I come in peace!

I'm going to be in Liverpool the weekend of the final. Heading over with a mate who is a Pool fan to watch the UFC on the Sunday night.

Do any of you guys have any info on how to get tickets for the screening of the final at Anfield?

Cheers

ush

Real Madrid should fear Liverpool in Champions League final, says Lovren
One-nil down already.

x43r0

ush wrote: »

Real Madrid should fear Liverpool in Champions League final, says Lovren
One-nil down already.

Don't even need to read that

Dickerty

ush wrote: »

Real Madrid should fear Liverpool in Champions League final, says Lovren
One-nil down already.

Nonsense. You think any of our players will read that and think "He's right, we should take it easy!"

Just like Real wearing t-shirts after the semi means nothing.

The only motivation to win it is to FECKIN WIN IT!

Gbear

Spanish police at it again last night assaulting Arsenal fans. Not sure why the club gets fined when people start letting off fireworks outside the stadium or a few people chuck some cans at a bus, but the police attacking every group of away supporters that enter a country and nothing's done about it.

All UEFA games played in Spain should be played behind closed doors until such a time as they can start policing these events properly.

spockety

Gerrard to Rangers is a done deal. Absolutely nuts.

https://news.sky.com/story/steven-gerrard-agrees-deal-to-become-rangers-manager-11357815

gimli2112

I don't follow Scottish football and not heavily invested in the Celtic / Rangers thing but anything I've seen of Rangers over the last few years indicates they're a toxic outfit.

Vicxas

I have a feeling that Gerrard will Gary Neville the hell out of that job.

He's not ready

MonkeyTennis

Terrible terrible idea.

murpho999

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

Terrible terrible idea.

Why is it a terrible idea?

Even if he fails there, he'll gain experience.

Pressures of Glasgow derby is a good test.

No guarantee he'll make it as a manager anyway, but he'll learn more there than doing u18s with no pressure or crowds etc.

marklazarcovic

Be a few loanees in Scottish prem next year .. could be useful

AndyBoBandy

murpho999 wrote: »

Why is it a terrible idea.
Even if he fails there, he'll gain experience.
Pressures of Glasgow derby is a good test.
No guarantee he'll make it as a manager anyway, but he'll learn more there than doing u18s with no pressure or crowds etc.

Exactly, let him do whatever he wants, and prove he's got the metal for management. It's a surprisingly high level to be starting out at (If Celtic make a complete balls of it* next season, we could be talking about Gerrard the league winning manager!), so take the opportunity, and hopefully learn a lot from it, however long or short, good or bad it turns out to be!!

*a complete, and utter balls of it!!

Dickerty

marklazarcovic wrote: »

Be a few loanees in Scottish prem next year .. could be useful

This is how we should be looking at it. Solanke and Wilson on loan perhaps, and Danny Ward on a perm?

Dickerty

Dickerty wrote: »

This is how we should be looking at it. Solanke and Wilson on loan perhaps, and Danny Ward on a perm?

Why not sent them to League1?

Agent Coulson

I wouldn't be loaning any players to the Scottish league they would be better off in a competitive league like the Championship if we are loaning players out.

dogbert27

spockety wrote: »

Gerrard to Rangers is a done deal. Absolutely nuts.

https://news.sky.com/story/steven-gerrard-agrees-deal-to-become-rangers-manager-11357815

The new Graeme Souness!!

corwill

I'm at a loss as to what a profoundly awful idea this is for Gerrard, on every level. Happy to risk a card here by pointing out what a repellent outfit Rangers are, in so many ways. Their finances will hopefully take them off the football map soon enough, given the complete unsustainability of their business model, and their philosophical inability to cope with that reality. With luck, Gerrard will have gotten out of there before it all collapses without having lost all credibility in terms of a post-playing career.

corwill

Agent Coulson wrote: »

I wouldn't be loaning any players to the Scottish league they would be better off in a competitive league like the Championship if we are loaning players out.

I wouldn't let any young lad for whom I have responsibility within a donkey's roar of the sports & rec. division of sectarian, supremacist loyalobarbarism, but that's just me.

sideswipe

Think people may end up surprised by Gerrard to Rangers. Expectations are low, if he’s got some backing he’ll have a platform to have a real influence on a ‘big’ team in what is usually a high pressure job. Certainly a far bigger test of his managerial credentials than a youth coach where he doesn’t have to deal with the political side of club management. Not to mention dealing with senior players rather than kids. Hope it goes well for him, T’ill certainly put the Scottish league on my radar, really couldn’t have given a fup about it for years now.

citytillidie

Loanee's to Rangers and get a game in Europe, but just like John Barnes his management career could be over before it starts going to a club with no backing and fans expecting big things

Sofa Spud

citytillidie wrote: »

Loanee's to Rangers and get a game in Europe, but just like John Barnes his management career could be over before it starts going to a club with no backing and fans expecting big things

Christ - you'd have to assume, or hope, that he's gotten some kind of assurance that he'll have some funds available and I hope it works out for him now that he's taken the jump, but it does feel like a poison chalice.

He's now proven he has the balls and ego to take on a pressurised job, which is a pretty essential personality trait if he wants to be a top,top manager, so fair dues and good luck to him, but if he doesn't have what it takes, he'll find out soon enough and it'll be back to BT punditry... (or I assume he'll get to keep that nice little earner for now if Rangers can't manage to get out of EL qualification rounds)

spockety

I can only presume that his thought process is along the lines of that if he wants to manage Liverpool some day, he has to show that he can challenge and overcome clubs with deeper pockets and more resources (Celtic), in the same way that Rafa and Klopp both did in Spain and Germany.

He's getting himself into that kind of expectation zone.