Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2019

brinty · 17-02-2019 3:57pm

ebbsy wrote:

Is there a more underwhelming competition than the FA cup.

Didn't you all celebrate it like it was the greatest competition ever the year you won your league cup,fa cup and uefa cup treble.... Wasn't there claims it was as good as the United treble of 99... And how that Liverpool team would destroy Uniteds 98/99 team

dmigsy · 17-02-2019 4:04pm

brinty wrote: »

Didn't you all celebrate it like it was the greatest competition ever the year you won your league cup,fa cup and uefa cup treble.... Wasn't there claims it was as good as the United treble of 99... And how that Liverpool team would destroy Uniteds 98/99 team

This the most tedious **** in the world. Get a life.

17-02-2019 4:05pm

Small time....

Hows our injured players getting on?

Turtyturd · 17-02-2019 4:07pm

Didn’t United celebrate the Charity Shield like crazy when they won their treble a few seasons ago?

Potential Underachiever · 17-02-2019 4:18pm

Harry Palmr · 17-02-2019 4:20pm

Herbie Kane is starting on the Cup game for Doncaster v Palace

jayo26 · 17-02-2019 4:22pm

ERG89 wrote: »

The fact every year the station/s who have the TV rights try to defend its relevance says it all. Its only important to those who win it but for the love of god unless your a small club don't do an open top bus parade with the trophy

Your dead right!!!! So it's only irrelevant since pool last won it.

dmigsy · 17-02-2019 4:23pm

De Ligt linked in the rags today. Likely nothing in it but what a CB partnership that would be. Barca first in line by the sounds of it. Playing beside VVD for club and country might be attractive though.

Selling Lovren is the dream - watched the highlights from the Roma there earlier. Good god, he is such a liability.

charolais0153 · 17-02-2019 4:25pm

Turtyturd wrote: »

Then every time someone suggests dropping Firmino for Sturridge we’d only have to go back to the last fa cup game to see why it’s not a good idea.

Changing one player vs the whole team. Big difference but your tunnel vision fails to notice that:pac:

jayo26 · 17-02-2019 4:25pm

dmigsy wrote: »

De Ligt linked in the rags today. Likely nothing in it but what a CB partnership that would be. Barca first in line by the sounds of it. Playing beside VVD for club and country might be attractive though.

Selling Lovren is the dream - watched the highlights from the Roma there earlier. Good god, he is such a liability.

De ligt beside vvd would be an awesome defensive two great mix of youth and experience.

Harry Palmr · 17-02-2019 4:26pm

Sturridge is strictly a 3-0 with 20 to go sub player now. I briefly had hope of a revival based on the summer games but clearly he's still as luxury as ever.

charolais0153 · 17-02-2019 4:29pm

jayo26 wrote: »

De ligt beside vvd would be an awesome defensive two great mix of youth and experience.

Double dutch for opposing attackers

noodler · 17-02-2019 4:34pm

giveitholly wrote: »

We did play them and we got knocked out!!

OK then, more than once a season.

I'd like an opportunity to play our fringe players more than once a season.

Harry Palmr · 17-02-2019 4:38pm

noodler wrote: »

OK then, more than once a season.

I'd like an opportunity to play our fringe players more than once a season.

Well when Liverpool get the kind of handy 3rd round draw that City and Utd get then it may happen! Klopp clearly has no interest in the FA Cup - as far as he is concerned it's a lunacy that the second Cup competition begins in January as the league is at it's most intense. He is not wrong either - if starting from scratch no one would structure the season as it now is.

noodler · 17-02-2019 4:42pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Well when Liverpool get the kind of handy 3rd round draw that City and Utd get then it may happen! Klopp clearly has no interest in the FA Cup - as far as he is concerned it's a lunacy that the second Cup competition begins in January as the league is at it's most intense. He is not wrong either - if starting from scratch no one would structure the season as it now is.

Most other teams have found a way to cope.

gimli2112 · 17-02-2019 4:42pm

noodler wrote: »

OK then, more than once a season.

I'd like an opportunity to play our fringe players more than once a season.

We do, 3rd round of the FA cup and whatever round we start in the Caribou cup.

noodler · 17-02-2019 4:44pm

gimli2112 wrote: »

We do, 3rd round of the FA cup and whatever round we start in the Caribou cup.

More than once per competition?

God we are awfully pedantic today.

Are fellow Liverpool fans really finding a way to get defensive over somebody feeling the FA Cup is a worthy competition that would have been useful to be still in?

Harry Palmr · 17-02-2019 4:46pm

noodler wrote: »

Most other teams have found a way to cope.

League Cup v Chelsea 2-1 defeat, perfectly decent performance narrow defeat.
FA Cup v Wolves. Weakened defence and protecting the main men while top of the league - perfectly fair tactic. 2-1 defeat.

martyos121 · 17-02-2019 4:49pm

Wouldn’t just be incredible for us to have VVD and MDL together as the centre back partnership, it’d also probably do wonders for the Dutch national team in defence. Having the pair of them play pretty much every game beside each other for club and country would benefit both parties greatly as the two lads would develop an incredible understanding of one another’s game. Anyone who’s watched them play together late last year for Holland has seen how well they already work together.

I don’t see the transfer happening, I think De Ligt goes to one of the few bigger clubs than us, but anyone with a bit of clout in the Dutch FA should be putting words in his ear about Liverpool. It’s very much in their best interests to try and persuade him, even though he’d probably choose Juve or Barca over us if given the option.

noodler · 17-02-2019 4:49pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

League Cup v Chelsea 2-1 defeat, perfectly decent performance narrow defeat.
FA Cup v Wolves. Weakened defence and protecting the main men while top of the league - perfectly fair tactic. 2-1 defeat.

We lost alright.

Not sure what the history update is for.

It would be great to still be in the FA cup and have given our fringe players more opportunities.

gimli2112 · 17-02-2019 4:51pm

I don't think it's defensive.The league cup has been a poor competition for decades and the FA Cup largely lost it's appeal with the emergence of the Prem and CL.
I always think of Fergie's Utd going 1/2 way across the world to play a friendly (World Club) and fielded an under strength FA Cup side as proof this was the case. I didn't blame them at the time. It's even worse now.
No-one's saying they don't want to win it but let's call a spade a spade, you'd take 3 points over a cup win almost every time..

Agent Coulson · 17-02-2019 4:53pm

Napoli have supposedly put a €90m price tag on Koulibaly.

That's the signing I'd like to see.

rgace · 17-02-2019 5:01pm

The FA cup would be an unwelcome distraction for us at the moment, we need every little advantage we can get over City given their vastly superior resources.

Hopefully they get a half decent team in the next round, City have had very soft draws in all the cup competitions so far

Turtyturd · 17-02-2019 5:02pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Sturridge is strictly a 3-0 with 20 to go sub player now. I briefly had hope of a revival based on the summer games but clearly he's still as luxury as ever.

Get out of it with that tunnel vision. :pac:

Charlie19 · 17-02-2019 5:04pm

I like the FA cup, one of my fondest memories as child watching football is a 3-3 draw with Everton in the final.

Shakes fist at Stewart McCall.

Riesen_Meal · 17-02-2019 5:08pm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Napoli have supposedly put a €90m price tag on Koulibaly.

That's the signing I'd like to see.

Imagine him and big Dijk shoring up the back line?

Christ

Turtyturd · 17-02-2019 5:44pm

https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/ar8nra/here_is_why_gini_wijnaldum_has_been_liverpools/

Enjoyed watching this over on Reddit (great site).

Really is the most underrated player in the squad.

Riesen_Meal · 17-02-2019 5:47pm

Turtyturd wrote: »

https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/ar8nra/here_is_why_gini_wijnaldum_has_been_liverpools/

Enjoyed watching this over on Reddit (great site).

Really is the most underrated player in the squad.

Easily my most improved player this year, he's literally undroppable, wouldn't have said that last year at all, he's really upped his game....

eigrod · 17-02-2019 5:49pm

Charlie19 wrote: »

I like the FA cup, one of my fondest memories as child watching football is a 3-3 draw with Everton in the final.

Shakes fist at Stewart McCall.

Your fond memory is wrong as that game finished 3-2 aet.

Charlie19 · 17-02-2019 5:56pm

eigrod wrote: »

Your fond memory is wrong as that game finished 3-2 aet.

Haha you're right.

5starpool · 17-02-2019 6:02pm

Charlie19 wrote: »

I like the FA cup, one of my fondest memories as child watching football is a 3-3 draw with Everton in the final.

Shakes fist at Stewart McCall.

It can't be that fond a memory if you didn't even remember the result!

Agent Coulson · 17-02-2019 6:25pm

There might be some interesting posting next Sunday when we play Man U.

I wonder what will be seen as the bigger game next weekend.

Chelsea vs Manchester City or Man U vs Liverpool.

Charlie19 · 17-02-2019 6:41pm

5starpool wrote: »

It can't be that fond a memory if you didn't even remember the result!

For some reason I thought McCall leveled the game at 3-3 and we won the replay.

Charlie19 · 17-02-2019 6:54pm

Dissapointed in that Doncaster didn't give young Kane the number 53 jersey.

Agent Coulson · 17-02-2019 6:59pm

17-02-2019 8:39pm

C'mon lads you know the score at this stage. Easy to sort this stuff out.

Anyway, moving on. Massive game this week, would love to be going but had something else on

eigrod · 17-02-2019 8:50pm

RoboKlopp wrote: »

Anyway, moving on. Massive game this week, would love to be going but had something else on

It’s going to be a fantastic occassion again. A clean sheet would be huge as I thinkwe can score at least 1 out there. Love big European football ties.

17-02-2019 9:05pm

eigrod wrote: »

It’s going to be a fantastic occassion again. A clean sheet would be huge as I thinkwe can score at least 1 out there. Love big European football ties.

A win and clean sheet would be lovely if I'm greedy.

Think we'll concede though with no VVD

eigrod · 17-02-2019 9:15pm

RoboKlopp wrote: »

A win and clean sheet would be lovely if I'm greedy.

Think we'll concede though with no VVD

Hopefully Klopp’s knowledge of German football will stand to us. I think the front 3 will click and have an enjoyable night (well, I hope

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martyos121 · 17-02-2019 9:20pm

eigrod wrote: »

Hopefully Klopp’s knowledge of German football will stand to us. I think the front 3 will click and have an enjoyable night (well, I hope )

Will be looking for Fabinho and Matip to start our attacks from defence hopefully, could do very well getting a few long balls down the flanks for Mane and Salah to run onto. Worked a treat against Roma at Anfield last season, and their defence doesn’t have the pace to cope with us if they play a high line, especially with their ultra-attacking fullbacks. That’s assuming they come to play a bit of football, and I reckon they’ll try.

noodler · 17-02-2019 9:29pm

It's amazing that I've barely thiguht about Bayern at Anfield in the last 16 with all the baggage the baggage that brings for Klopp.

OT on Sunday has been all I can think about.

That'll change now.