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Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2015/16 (*EVERYONE READ MOD POST in OP)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,316 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    NukaCola wrote: »
    I've lost all confidence in BR at this point, he looks lost at the moment but the revision of history in here the past few months has been really head scratching. He had us playing the best attacking football I have ever seen us play, yes Suarez was a big part of that but BR also had a big part in it. Some would have you believe he was in his office googling articles about himself while Suarez took the training and tactics.

    Fraud, charlatan etc

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    5starpool wrote: »
    Making swingeing changes to the first XI won't likely introduce more cohesion and fluidity when it's a group of players who have played little or nothing this season and not together. The first team is playing crap anyhow so it probably can't be much worse, but if we lose it'll clearly be another stick to beat him with.
    And if we win, it too will be another stick to beat him with that his 'reserve' players being shown to be better than his starting players.

    It's tough being the boss.


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,891 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    And if we win, it too will be another stick to beat him with that his 'reserve' players being shown to be better than his starting players.

    It's tough being the boss.

    I want him to take this as serious as if it were the CL. If he made 2/3 changes to address some recent shortcomings but was clearly fielding a strong side he'd at least be doing that. He amy still do it, but making 7+ changes helps little.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,796 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    His haplessness in Europe thus far is a very serious concern with his reign. It would behove him to perform well in the EL this season imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,205 ✭✭✭✭Utopia Parkway


    LuckyLloyd wrote: »
    Yep. I don't remember any real explanation for that being posted here by those who follow the loanees closely. Surely a huge red flag would be my thinking.

    He was played out on the left wing for most of the season on maybe the most dour defensive team in the league. I actually think that was mentioned numerous times on here.

    I believe his stats were almost identical to Martial's despite playing in a much worse side that primarily wanted to defend. For what it's worth.

    Doesn't matter much now anyway. Depends on how he does here when he gets a chance.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    5starpool wrote: »
    I want him to take this as serious as if it were the CL. If he made 2/3 changes to address some recent shortcomings but was clearly fielding a strong side he'd at least be doing that. He amy still do it, but making 7+ changes helps little.
    It will help if we win and forces him to play the better players.

    I never thought I would see the day that a Liverpool manager plays inferior players just to make a point about how brilliant he is.

    For me anyway, every match that Nervol plays is another nail in Rodgers career coffin which he is hammering in himself

    Just play the best team available, no matter who has bought them, for pitys sake!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,696 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    brevity wrote: »

    Good article, agree wholeheartedly with the points raised.

    I'm genuinely pissed off Markovic was loaned out. He looks to me like he will be a class player. Why not keep him and have competition between him and Ibe for RWF/ RW? FFS!

    What will he learn at Fenerbache?

    Edit:
    There is a poll at the end of the article 'should Rodgers be sacked?'... 90% have said yes :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,205 ✭✭✭✭Utopia Parkway


    J Mysterio wrote: »
    Good article, agree wholeheartedly with the points raised.

    I'm genuinely pissed off Markovic was loaned out. He looks to me like he will be a class player. Why not keep him and have competition between him and Ibe for RWF/ RW? FFS!

    What will he learn at Fenerbache?

    Markovic would probably have played at United had he been kept. Not to mention the Europa and League Cup games. He wouldn't have played every week but he would have gotten games.

    Then again the way Rodgers is putting players in odd positions on the field who knows?


  • Posts: 17,925 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    brevity wrote: »

    Randall & Brannagan has joined Jordan Rossiter to make the trip to France. Dan Cleary is another believed to have made the trip. (Echo) #LFC

    Anyone hoping for a good run in the EL is going to be let down IMO.

    I wouldn't be against Rossiter starting or coming on for 2nd half, with Henderson & Allen injured I don't think Lucas, Can & Milner playing 3 games/week is an option, someone needs to come in for lots of minutes, if it's Rossiter tomorrow and in the cup next week so be it.

    Cleary, Randall & Brannagan are travelling for the experience I reckon, I would be surprised if one of them got over 15 minutes on the pitch even if we were winning by two clear goals or so ( :eek: imagine us winning ).

    If they are impressing at training though getting them travelling with the first team squad makes sense, one or two light sessions pre match etc, get them accustomed to first team.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,035 ✭✭✭brevity



    Then again the way Rodgers is putting players in odd positions on the field who knows?

    Either he isn't sure how to use them the best way or it's some passive aggressive protest against the transfer committee.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,035 ✭✭✭brevity


    Augeo wrote: »
    I wouldn't be against Rossiter starting or coming on for 2nd half, with Henderson & Allen injured I don't think Lucas, Can & Milner playing 3 games/week is an option, someone needs to come in for lots of minutes, if it's Rossiter tomorrow and in the cup next week so be it.

    Cleary, Randall & Brannagan are travelling for the experience I reckon, I would be surprised if one of them got over 15 minutes on the pitch even if we were winning by two clear goals or so ( :eek: imagine us winning ).

    If they are impressing at training though getting them travelling with the first team squad makes sense, one or two light sessions pre match etc, get them accustomed to first team.

    I'm OK with Rossiter as we are down a player in midfield but I think we should travel with a full strength squad.

    After 2 losses on the trot, a way to put those behind us would be a strong performance and win by a couple of goals.

    If he doesn't get this right, Anfield will start to get fairly frosty towards him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,861 ✭✭✭Mr.H


    It will help if we win and forces him to play the better players.

    I never thought I would see the day that a Liverpool manager plays inferior players just to make a point about how brilliant he is.

    For me anyway, every match that Nervol plays is another nail in Rodgers career coffin which he is hammering in himself

    Just play the best team available, no matter who has bought them, for pitys sake!

    We still pretending that's the issue?? :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,696 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    brevity wrote: »
    I'm OK with Rossiter as we are down a player in midfield but I think we should travel with a full strength squad.

    After 2 losses on the trot, a way to put those behind us would be a strong performance and win by a couple of goals.

    If he doesn't get this right, Anfield will start to get fairly frosty towards him.

    I prefer that he's not travelling with 'a full strength squad' (or what he would consider to be full strength.

    I want all the players on the fringes to get a fcking OPPORTUNITY(!!!!) to show something. Put a fckin question in Rodgers mind for when he's picking teams in the coming weeks.

    I want Moreno, Sakho, Origi, Ings, Ibe and Firmino etc. to all play.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    Randall & Brannagan sounds like either a fancy Dublin law firm or a hipster organic grocers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,351 ✭✭✭✭Cartman78


    Randall & Brannagan sounds like either a fancy Dublin law firm or a hipster organic grocers.

    Or bespoke artisan crisps that would cost €5.99 per bag


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,385 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Cartman78 wrote: »
    Or bespoke artisan crisps that would cost €5.99 per bag



    Jaysus I miss those bastards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,366 ✭✭✭Crash Bang Wall


    Good to see Rodgers is abandoning any thoughts of European progress to focus on Premier League points. Staying in the top flight has to be the priority.

    By leaving Lovren and Skrtel at home, I reckon he is going all out to win the EL


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭JohnDaniels


    I presume Teixeira has travelled and is the running for a start?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Dickerty


    I presume Teixeira has travelled and is the running for a start?

    A start - I don't think so. He needs to give starts to Coutinho, Origi and Ibe before looking further down the list. Teixeira is best when acting as playmaker, this game would be a bridge too far for him IMO.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


    Dickerty wrote: »
    A start - I don't think so. He needs to give starts to Coutinho, Origi and Ibe before looking further down the list. Teixeira is best when acting as playmaker, this game would be a bridge too far for him IMO.

    I didnt think he was even in the squad?


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,891 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Texeira wasn't registered to play in the EL at all and is too old to not need to be named. I've no idea why he is still at the club even.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭JohnDaniels


    Dickerty wrote: »
    A start - I don't think so. He needs to give starts to Coutinho, Origi and Ibe before looking further down the list. Teixeira is best when acting as playmaker, this game would be a bridge too far for him IMO.

    We have all sorts of problems in midfield without Henderson that some kind of solutions need to be found. At his age I don't know what he is doing in the squad if we can't trust him in a game like this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    It's not just Markovic, Rodgers doesn't seem to like wingers in general look back to when he first came he used Downing as a wingback fullback he never used Assaidi Sterling was used more as a striker wingback & 10 than as a winger Ibe is used as a wingback Moses was given a couple of minutes at the end of games usually when we were chasing them.


    The players Rodgers has played out wide are players who should be played centrally and are not natural wingers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭JohnDaniels


    I've just been chuckling away to myself thinking about how all of Rodgers rejects, loans and guys just frozen out would get on against the first eleven Rodgers picks. I think a first eleven with the likes of Ilori, Sakho, Balo, Moreno, Markovic would give them a good run for their money. Liverpool football club should organise this death match to decide if he stays or goes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Looks like Sakho won't be playing in the league unless Lovren or Skrtel are injured or suspended.
    Boss Brendan Rodgers has decided to rest Christian Benteke, James Milner, Lucas Leiva, Dejan Lovren, Nathaniel Clyne and Martin Skrtel with one eye on Sunday’s Premier League clash with Norwich City at Anfield.

    http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-fc-team-news-philippe-10067984


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    If he goes with 433 I see something like this starting.

    Bogdan

    Gomez--Toure--Sakho--Moreno


    ----Can---Coutinho---Rossiter--


    ---Ings
    Firmino
    Origi---


  • Posts: 17,925 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Who do ye reckon will start alongside Sakho tomorrow? With Dejan Lovren, Nathaniel Clyne and Martin Skrtel rested presumably Gomez will be either CB or LB?

    Who are the other two coming in? Is Enrique EL registered? Toure?

    lol, forgot about Moreno


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭ush


    Augeo wrote: »
    Who do ye reckon will start alongside Sakho tomorrow?

    Daniel Cleary


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,022 ✭✭✭✭Iused2likebusts


    Augeo wrote: »
    Who do ye reckon will start alongside Sakho tomorrow? With Dejan Lovren, Nathaniel Clyne and Martin Skrtel rested presumably Gomez will be either CB or LB?

    Who are the other two coming in? Is Enrique EL registered? Toure?

    lol, forgot about Moreno

    Gomez toure sakho moreno will probably be the back 4.


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