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

martyos121

Just saw the footage of Balotelli swapping shirts at half-time.
He is an utter waste of space and if Voronin and Aspas had a son together, I would sooner play him up front.

noodler

Didi- Mario doesn't care about the club.


Yup. We have enough problems without Mario pulling us down.

Utopia Parkway

Dunphy talking some scutter on RTE. Nearly has Liverpool being relegated into League one. Calm down Eamon.

brevity

Didi not happy with Ballotelli...saying he swapped shirts and half time with Pepe deliberately to wind people up..

kfallon

Dangelo Stocky Rage wrote: »

The treatment of Balotelli by the RTE panel is nothing short of a disgrace.

They're all clueless at this stage, I wouldn't worry about it!
Didi Hamann is the worst football tipster the Racing Post ever employed

noodler

Dangelo Stocky Rage wrote: »

The treatment of Balotelli by the RTE panel is nothing short of a disgrace.

Nah, you are delusional if you think that.

murpho999

Dangelo Stocky Rage wrote: »

The treatment of Balotelli by the RTE panel is nothing short of a disgrace.

WHy?

I find it hard to argue with what he says.

Either way Balotelli won't see it or be affected by it.

mav79

Concentrating on Balotelli and the defence gets away with very little criticism.

murpho999

kfallon wrote: »

They're all clueless at this stage, I wouldn't worry about it!
Didi Hamann is the worst football tipster the Racing Post ever employed

Racing Post employing an ex German footballer for horse tips. Whose fault is that?

Frogdog

Can anyone tell me why we've changed formation from last year? Last year, we played 4-4-2, with Suarez and Sturridge as the two forwards. Sturridge was the striker and Suarez played of him. This year we're playing 4-5-1, with Ballotelli up front on his own. Ballotelli has said before he's not an out and out striker, rather someone that plays of the striker. That's clear to see.

1. Someone is going to tell me that we've changed formation because we sold Suarez. We shouldn't change formation because one player left. The attacking system that brought us success last year should be carried forward.
2. If it's because Sturridge is injured, well we should replace him with another striker - Lambert or Borini, keeping the same system and letting Ballotelli play in his correct position.

whatawaster

Mr Alan wrote: »

About the fact that our team is getting significantly worse & showing zero real signs of being able to turn it around?

I think we are flatlining rather than getting worse. We aren't getting near the heights of last season, we aren't playing well, but aren't doing too badly in the league, are we?

I'm fairly confident our form will pick up, that's not to say we don't have serious problems.

kingshankly

Mario wasn't too bad but his awareness is shocking
A few minutes in he should have played sterling in down the left
He is constantly shooting
Swapping a jersey at half time well that's not gonna help his cause

noodler

noodler wrote: »

Nah, you are delusional if you think that.

Your posts are a disgrace also on the topic and I would have mainly agreed with your posts in the past.

I don't get what's wrong with you and some others. He played well tonight and gets this abuse, some fans ye are.

darced

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kingshankly

murpho999 wrote: »

Racing Post employing an ex German footballer for horse tips. Whose fault is that?

He doesn't tip horses

rob316

I thought it was a much improved performance but just not good enough. I didn't need tonight to show me we are miles behind the creme of Europe.
We sold a once in a lifetime striker who the club knew was off yet didn't replace him with even a striker that fits our philosophy. It has cost us atleast 5 points in the league imo.

A top class striker in January is an absolute must.

K4t

It shows an incredible lack of respect towards your teammates to swap your jersey at half time after being substituted, and even worse to an opposition player who is still in the game.

ben.schlomo

~Rebel~ wrote: »

Actually thought Balotelli had a pretty decent first half...passing should have been better on a few occasions, but much more involved than other games.

As usual, defense was our undoing.

As far as the night goes though, Ludo winning was effectively as good a points swing as we could hope for - us and Basle being on equal footing after 3 games.

Agreed. Very balanced and reasoned post, not what i was expecting here after that.

Devilman40k

Dangelo Stocky Rage wrote: »

The treatment of Balotelli by the RTE panel is nothing short of a disgrace.

Why? It's not wrong! Balotelli has been awful for 2 months.

redzerdrog

Was mario playing centre half tonight?

murpho999

mav79 wrote: »

Concentrating on Balotelli and the defence gets away with very little criticism.

They are analysing defence now so give them a chance.

What's wrong with people, Liverpool took a hammering tonight and it's a damaging result and people are analysing pundits who are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things?

redzerdrog

Was mario playing centre half tonight?

Agent Coulson

Balotelli has now become the story.

Not the defence!! Not the manager!!

Gbear

T-K-O wrote: »

It's far from ideal but considering our performances this year and the fact that QPR battered us on Sunday, there was some improvement in certain aspects.

Maybe marginally but it's not the fundamental change we need.

We're not a matter of percentages off. We're completely arseways up front.

Turtyturd

Skrtel actually ducked for the 3rd goal.

noodler

Dangelo Stocky Rage wrote: »

Your posts are also a disgrace also on the topic and I would have mainly agrees with your posts in the past.

I don't get what's wrong with you and some others. He played well tonight and gets this abuse, some fans ye are.

If you want to support someone who so obviously doesn't care then go ahead.

Not just not care though, but not even try, argue with younger teammates on the pitch for his own mistakes and then actually do something like the shirt swap in full view of the fans. For what possible reason? He is a disgrace. An ineffective joke that even city could barely accommodate.

Do you just want Liverpool fans to support him regardless?

Utopia Parkway

Ballotelli was far from the worst player during the first half by the way. The constant drama surrounding him though means I can't see him lasting very long at the club.

Harry Palmr

0-3 defeat nearly feels like a victory, yes yes they eased off but what was notable to me was not that Real won by 3-0 and comfortable but how they won the game and but also how Liverpool played in attack without their most potent weapon and with Balotelli

I actually think Liverpool will take something positive out of this rather than it being a chastening experience which is what Ronnie Wheelan opined at the end, we actually saw pressing and quick thinking early on before the Real Madrid machine (over 600 CL caps in that starting 11) cranked fully into life. If the kind of application displayed can be shown in the Prem week in week out then its not all bad. Roll on Sturridge. The defence remains a mess of course but we knew that.

As regards tonights performances - Sterling and Coutinho were the most positives Mignolet, Balo the worst. If the latter doesn't click with Sturridge very quickly once he is back then he'll be on the bench and out the door in January.

slingerz

Balotelli has the wrong attitude. Has all the ability but lacks that vital ingredient

Coutinho played well, Can did ok when he came on thought he stood next to Gerrard a lot rather than getting into space, Allen was busy

Further investment still needed in terms of defence and striking options

Can't understand what Borini has done out of the way either

martyos121

Just backed Higuain to sign for Liverpool at 8/1.
Should be free money if there's any bit of logic in the world.