Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Warning in OP, 10/12

Pilsbury Doughboy

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Nathan Redmond for £10m on the back page of tomorrows Star.

No thanks.

pmy.murphy

Arek Milik scored again for Ajax tonight. The lad is a goal machine and could be bought for peanuts

marno21

pmy.murphy wrote: »

Arek Milik scored again for Ajax tonight. The lad is a goal machine and could be bought for peanuts

Wonder if Bayer Leverkusen would be willing to do business after the whole Emre Can thing

googled eyes

Why not play Rickaaaaaay and Borini BOTH up top.

WTF is BR's thing with playing a lone striker. Its not fcking working. He's ment to be able to adapt. That's what good managers do! Isn't it ?!

5starpool

ush wrote: »

I think Lambert could surprise you against a team like Crystal Palace.

He has been surprising me any time I've seen him so far for us with his complete lack of mobility on a football pitch. I knew he wasn't bought to be first choice except in a pinch, but he has looked so far away from what we need it's beyond funny.

I would seriously actually prefer Jerome Sinclair to start up front for us tomorrow ahead of him or Borini. I know he'd almost certainly be way out of his depth too but at least it would be an interesting and bold step.

I hope I'm eating my words tomorrow though. If we are to start with both Borini and Lambert up front (it will be Borini if we start only one I'd say) Sinclair could well be on the bench even. I reckon we will start with one up front.

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Mignolet

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Johnson

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Skrtel

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Lovren

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Moreno

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Gerrard

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Henderson----Coutinho----Allen

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Sterling

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Borini

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Some variation on the above I reckon we'll go for, with a 3 man midfield ahead of Gerrard and Sterling drifting in a free role behind Borini.

pmy.murphy

marno21 wrote: »

Wonder if Bayer Leverkusen would be willing to do business after the whole Emre Can thing

I dont really see why not. The only problem is Ajax have the option to make his loan deal permanent in January for 2.5 million euros so likelihood is we wont be signing him in January unless Ajax are foolish enough not to make it permanent. Next Summer the earliest we could go for him for relative peanuts still and we'd be dealing with Ajax rather than Leverkusen

~Rebel~

pmy.murphy wrote: »

I dont really see why not. The only problem is Ajax have the option to make his loan deal permanent in January for 2.5 million euros so likelihood is we wont be signing him in January unless Ajax are foolish enough not to make it permanent. Next Summer the earliest we could go for him for relative peanuts still and we'd be dealing with Ajax rather than Leverkusen

Offer a better sum to BL, offer a better deal to the player. He turns down Ajax, we get him, all is right with the world.

martyos121

Another prospect is precisely what we don't need. Forget the transfer strategy, we need the real deal. Nothing less than Jackson Martinez please, Higuain would be terrific though.

J Mysterio

If I could pick a striker it would be Benzema.

ebbsy

J Mysterio wrote: »

If I could pick a striker it would be Benzema.

Rodgers would buy him and then loan him out again.

mav79

I'm waiting for Dwight Gayle to score today, and then Rodgers buy him in January.:(

We are playing a team second from bottom with no wins in their last five and I'm not one bit optimistic. With CL on Wednesday I really hope Rodgers does not try and rest players.

Grayditch

Very slow accelleration. Decent handling, but woeful on corners. Gets into tight spaces, but ultimately ends up down a dead end.

I give you... the Lamborini.

Vicxas

Oh here.....

And the Reds are preparing a £10m bid to sign England Under-21 winger Nathan Redmond, 20, from Norwich in January

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/gossip/

SlickRic

I'm going to assume the Nathan Redmond rumour is complete bollocks.

I can't be getting that angry on a Sunday morning by assuming there's any truth to it.

Is Carlton Cole available?

joe123

How in gods name did the powers that be at the club allow such a situation that your two strikers are either Borini or Lambert.

Its mind boggling that it was allowed happen considering we had an entire summer to replace Suarez.

MD1990

Borini & Lambert looks more like a Crystal Palace frontline rather than a Liverpool one. We have Sterling & Ibe (who has more league goals than any other player) both very young. So Redmond would make no sense.

Francie Barrett

£10M for a Championship player? No thanks.

joe123

joe123 wrote: »

How in gods name did the powers that be at the club allow such a situation that your two strikers are either Borini or Lambert.

Its mind boggling that it was allowed happen considering we had an entire summer to replace Suarez.

Yeah it's nuts.

I'd imagine the manager presumed Ballotelli would have more league goals than zero at this stage. Also, I would say he didn't foresee Sturridge only playing 3 league games before January.

I definitely agree another top striker should have been in the squad though. Borini was nearly sold too remember!

Turtyturd

Mr_Red wrote: »

I thought you loved banter

Thanks for your interest but I see where you went wrong.

DaveSuarez

Mignolet, Manquillo, Lovren, Skrtel, Johnson, Gerrard, Allen, Lallana, Coutinho, Sterling, Lambert

sigh

J Mysterio

Why is Johnson at LB? Is Enrique not fit like?

Frogdog

DaveSuarez wrote: »

Mignolet, Manquillo, Lovren, Skrtel, Johnson, Gerrard, Allen, Lallana, Coutinho, Sterling, Lambert

sigh

4-5-1 yet again this season.

I'd love a return to the attacking 4-4-2 we played all last year.

Lat time Johnson played LB (v Swansea in the cup last month iirc), he had a good game. He stayed in position and rarely ventured past the halfway line. Manquillo was given licence to attack from RB.

marno21

Remember Glen Johnson's last performance against Palace. That should've been enough of a warning sign. But no, starts yet again today

Milkers

How on earth can Rodgers keep on picking Glen Johnson?

Agent Coulson

4-5-1

That tells me one thing the manager is afraid to lose packing a midfield against Palace.

I would rather lose trying to play the way we played last season even with players who are not as good.

NoelJ

Milkers wrote: »

How on earth can Rodgers keep on picking Glen Johnson?

He's a good player who's just been made a scapegoat.

martyos121

This is literally the worst league lineup I have seen since the Hodgson days.

If we lose this, and fail to beat Ludo, I'm not sure the yanks will have the patience or discipline to leave Brendan in charge any longer.

Just to be clear, no I do not want Rodgers sacked.

Agent Coulson

Agent Coulson wrote: »

4-5-1

That tells me one thing the manager is afraid to lose packing a midfield against Palace.

I would rather lose trying to play the way we played last season even with players who are not as good.

We haven't got the players to play the way we did last season.

That's been fairly obvious since August and one of the reasons we are in the mess we are in tbh.

I'd rather we just won games playing the worst football imaginable if necessary