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

martyos121

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Just reading Firmino started his career as a defensive midfielder how long before Brendan plays him there.

And Lucas started his career as an attacking midfielder.

The real question is, how long before he switches them? :pac:

Kimbot

martyos121 wrote: »

And Lucas started his career as an attacking midfielder.

The real question is, how long before he switches them? :pac:

HE will also bring back carra and play him up front :pac:

Talisman

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Barry Glendenning chipped in with word from someone, who he says is clued up and said that the owners had indicated that after the West Ham debacle, Rodgers had to get 7 points from the next 9 which sounds like hooey (and Honigstein wondered about it) but Bazza was adamant that this fella was well connected.

I wouldn't believe that to be true - he lost the game after West Ham so the most he could possibly achieve now is 6/9. The performance against Man Utd was the tamest yet and never likely to achieve a result of significance.

Potential Underachiever

I heard Coutinho played in nets once, well techically it was fly keeper in a street match when he was 7, I wonder if BR might try him there.

ricero

I hope the 433 is never seen again for some time. either we go back to the diamond on sunday or 3 5 2.

Jesus Wept

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Just reading Firmino started his career as a defensive midfielder how long before Brendan plays him there.

monkeys and typewritters

jcsoulinger

ricero wrote: »

I hope the 433 is never seen again for some time. either we go back to the diamond on sunday or 3 5 2.

3 at the back is madness imo, It invites the other team on to our defense which isnt great at the moment, Need to play on the front foot especially at home to Norwich.

Kimbot

ricero wrote: »

I hope the 433 is never seen again for some time. either we go back to the diamond on sunday or 3 5 2.

Im hoping for this team:

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Migs

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Skittles-Gomez-Sakho

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Clyne

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Moreno

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Can

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Milner

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Coutinho

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Benteke

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Ings

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Agent Coulson

Je suis Mario wrote: »

monkeys and typewritters

Sh1te and Walls

michael999999

Norwich are going to beat us, aren't they?

5starpool

I don't want to see 433 or 352, but it's 99.6% likely to be one of those.

martyos121

michael999999 wrote: »

Norwich are going to beat us, aren't they?

If they score more goals then us, then yeah, probably.

Daemonic

michael999999 wrote: »

Norwich are going to beat us, aren't they?

"If we don't play well, we have less chance of winning."

shamrock55

352 is a disaster if moreno is playing as a wb

Tipsy McSwagger

shamrock55 wrote: »

352 is a disaster if moreno is playing as a wb

But but but Moreno is brilliant

Kimbot

shamrock55 wrote: »

352 is a disaster if moreno is playing as a wb

No moreno was solid last year when Sakho was playing inside him, hes useless there when Lovren is played in the CB slot beside him IMO.

Magico Gonzalez

jcsoulinger wrote: »

3 at the back is madness imo, It invites the other team on to our defense which isnt great at the moment, Need to play on the front foot especially at home to Norwich.

it was poorly executed last night, but if both wb's know what they are at and play agressively up and down the line it can be decent. I don't have a problem adding some extra bodies in defence if it allows us not to be so stupidly dogmatic with zone marking. If it frees up say Skrtel to be the free man and go close down the danger then I'm ok with it.

Last night was more like a 3-4-2-1 at times as we never really got bodies up to support the striker. Ings showed a bit of promise, I'd like to see him play up with Benteke.

ThunbergsAreGo

We never seem to get bodies up to support the striker though

Magico Gonzalez

naughtb4 wrote: »

We never seem to get bodies up to support the striker though

That looked deliberate to me last night, but if Ings was told to go play up top with Benteke he'd relish it. I think Clyne and Moreno would revel in having 2 targets up there too. The width would stretch out the Norwich defense and leave space for coutinho to operate in.

Nerdlingr

jonny24ie wrote: »

No moreno was solid last year when Sakho was playing inside him, hes useless there when Lovren is played in the CB slot beside him IMO.

Moreno was average last season no matter who was playing centre back. I know Lovren is public enemy number one at the moment but he cannot be blamed for Moreno's defesive shortcomings.

ThunbergsAreGo

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

That looked deliberate to me last night, but if Ings was told to go play up top with Benteke he'd relish it. I think Clyne and Moreno would revel in having 2 targets up there too. The width would stretch out the Norwich defense and leave space for coutinho to operate in.

And for the other 5 games this year?

Our main striker has been horribly isolated all year (and most of last)

Buford T. Justice XIX

Potential Underachiever wrote: »

I heard Coutinho played in nets once, well techically it was fly keeper in a street match when he was 7, I wonder if BR might try him there.

He's good, like, but he's no Doni.

Magico Gonzalez

naughtb4 wrote: »

And for the other 5 games this year?

Our main striker has been horribly isolated all year (and most of last)

I'm not disagreeing with you?

K-9

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I'd really wonder at that tbh, and I'd hope they're smarter than that anyway. I mean, we could get 6 points but see a dramatic shift in basic performance levels and cohesion. Or we could get 9 from 9 through sheer luck and 0 from 9 the next three games.

The correct assessment here is really around how we're generally doing; are we generally on course in our competitions and how do we project going forward to the competitive conclusions of season's end.

I don't know if there's any truth in a specific target like that but an initial points objective may have been set in the Summer.

That would be 14 points from a possible 24 which given the tough away games is about right, I'm assuming Everton is in that list.

Rodgers getting support and financial backing doesn't mean he wouldn't be closely watched. FSG will want to be on target for 4th and another season of catch up isn't going to do it this time imo.

It all seems we are one more poor performance away from FSG approaching seriously an alternative. Everton in Goodison will tell a lot.

Magico Gonzalez

I wonder how much influence the backroom staff have at all, last year's went under the bus and this years have come in without much of a change in playing style or noticeable improvement in problem areas like set piece defending etc.

I wonder how much input Rodgers lets them have.

Agent Coulson

Some good news.

https://twitter.com/tonybarrettimes/status/644870812575617024

SlickRic

michael999999 wrote: »

Norwich are going to beat us, aren't they?

Rodgers' inevitable demise will be accelerated if we do.

SlickRic

Sakho knows something we don't know. surely there's no other reason he'd be signing up until 2020.

rob316

Great news that.

Hopefully it was just Rodgers giving Lovren one last chance and that was it. Still idiotic considering the dog on the street knows who's the better defender.

I'd like to believe he is signing because Rodgers is on his way out but he has no idea if the he will be in favour with the next manager either so its not a factor.

K-9

SlickRic wrote: »

Sakho knows something we don't know. surely there's no other reason he'd be signing up until 2020.

Yep, plenty of painting work in the Anfield redevelopment.

Its an odd one, you'd have to think the Lovren experiment is up now but I've been saying that since pre season.