Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Note in OP, 1/09

noodler

Suarez out!

LuckyLloyd

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Have I done that thus far this season? I think I've been pretty reserved all told.

This is now six poor performances on the trot. Forget about results for a second. Six subpar performances. I think six bad games in a row and only one really useful performance thus far this season is a reasonable point to start asking questions. This isn't 'Lloyd is a dick' time imo.

1 good game in 10.


A team that almost won the title last year.

It's 2002-2003 / 2009-2010 all over again.

slingerz

mosstin wrote: »

It's the scattergun criticism which baffles me. Sterling sees lots of the ball, let down by a poor touch, sure, therefore he's ****. Ridiculous stuff. He was the only player for us tonight who looked like doing anything. The fact that he didn't doesn't mean that he was ****.

Sterling was ****e tonight??

Fescue

darced

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Soft Falling Rain

mosstin wrote: »

It was just you. None was offered so none was refused.

Fair enough, I thought Rodgers motioned for a handshake and Coutinho didn't even look at him. I'm probably just reading too much into it, but it's the last thing we need if the players are beginning to dissent (Sakho being first).

mosstin

slingerz wrote: »

Sterling was ****e tonight??

Best of a very bad lot for me. Who was better?

Francie Barrett

Francie Barrett wrote: »

He's also nearly a year older than Sterling.

and?

He's 20 and played 5 games for the club.

Players out there with a lot of top level games under their belts that are performing as bad/worse

dogbert27

Balotelli kept coming deep to pick up the ball which is fine if he can turn and run at a defence with it but he can't.

Numerous times Coutinho was looking to play a central pass where you know Sturridge would have been but Balotelli was nowhere near.

After a number of 1 on 1 sessions in training he's still not getting it!

NukaCola

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Have I done that thus far this season? I think I've been pretty reserved all told.

This is now six poor performances on the trot. Forget about results for a second. Six subpar performances. I think six bad games in a row and only one really useful performance thus far this season is a reasonable point to start asking questions. This isn't 'Lloyd is a dick' time imo.

Its completely reasonable to ask questions. This has been going on for weeks now though after the first poor result, some people couldn't wait to get started truth be told.

Also, with regards my comment on people being negative all the time wasn't directed at you, but coming from a negative point of view ie wanting to be proved wrong by players and the manager definitely was as i am sure you'll agree.

Fescue

mosstin wrote: »

Best of a very bad lot for me. Who was better?

Sterling was shockingly poor.

mosstin

Fescue wrote: »

Sterling was shockingly poor.

As were every last one of them. Sterling ran at them, lost the ball lots, sure, but got himself into several dangerous positions and never stopped trying. Who was better?

Fescue

It is really bad though this malaise the team finds itself in. I don't think you can underestimate it.

If we don't start grinding out some results shortly, the season will be done and dusted by Christmas.

rob316

Rodgers just said Gerrard was outstanding??? I give up.

Charlie19

Highlights again on sky sports 5 now'

hadepsx

BR talking ****e on rte 2

Soups123

rob316 wrote: »

Rodgers just said Gerrard was outstanding??? I give up.

I didn't see the game but followed through the match thread, I thought that very odd.

He really has his head up Gerard's hole.

NukaCola

rob316 wrote: »

Rodgers just said Gerrard was outstanding??? I give up.

The club captain was ****e. Thats what we needed him to say. FFS BR get a clue will ya.

Fescue

mosstin wrote: »

As were every last one of them. Sterling ran at them, lost the ball lots, sure, but got himself into several dangerous positions and never stopped trying. Who was better?

I don't think its a case of who was better, Sterling was really poor tonight. The worst I have seen him play in a year.

Fescue

Soups123 wrote: »

I didn't see the game but followed through the match thread, I thought that very odd.

He really has his head up Gerard's hole.

He is just protecting his players but I have no doubt he will rip into them. He defended Sterling and Balotelli on Sky but you could tell from his face he was disgusted with them.

mosstin

Fescue wrote: »

I don't think its a case of who was better, Sterling was really poor tonight. The worst I have seen him play in a year.

It's a perfectly reasonable question. Plenty of people throwing brickbats in his direction yet he was the only player out there in a team with no direction and no spirit who wanted to get on the ball and make things happen. The fact that they didn't said as much about the apathy surrounding him than Sterling himself. There wasn't anyone out there better than him tonight which, alas, doesn't say much but he doesn't deserve the criticism.

rob316

NukaCola wrote: »

The club captain was ****e. Thats what we needed him to say. FFS BR get a clue will ya.

Just say nothing about him as that's what he had a nothing performance.
All he is doing is making it harder to drop him.

Our best midfielder is babysitting him and in turn rendering himself useless.

Soups123

Fescue wrote: »

He is just protecting his players but I have no doubt he will rip into them. He defended Sterling and Balotelli on Sky but you could tell from his face he was disgusted with them.

That's usually fair enough but he could have been a little more passive, he offered the feedback on Gerard he wasn't asked. TBH I didn't watch the game but describing him as outstanding tonight seemed odd given the talk here

Red Pepper

Season is effectively over. Money for Suarez wasted for the most part.

14th in premier league. 7 points from 6 games. 9 points behind the leaders.
Let in more goals than scored.
Outclassed in Europe.

MR NINE

For once im delighted theres an international break around the corner

SuperTortoise

He's hardly going to go on tv and say Gerrard was ****e is he!

I'd hope privately he gives the lot of them a kick up the hole.

Utopia Parkway

Worst I've ever seen Sterling play. That said he still kept getting into good positions but was unusually hesitant and indecisive and ended up miscontrolling the ball. At the top of his game he could have scored 2 or 3 tonight.

Soft Falling Rain

Soups123 wrote: »

I didn't see the game but followed through the match thread, I thought that very odd.

He really has his head up Gerard's hole.

The man's in a difficult position right now so he's hardly going to start dropping truth bombs and alienating his captain.

murpho999

MD1990 wrote: »

You just contradicted yourself there.

How have I contradicted myself?

I said that Suarez was world class and Rodgers maximised that. He didn't make him a better player.

Soups123

SuperTortoise wrote: »

He's hardly going to go on tv and say Gerrard was ****e is he!

I'd hope privately he gives the lot of them a kick up the hole.

That's fair enough if asked about him but he singled out Gerrard himself and offered the feedback