Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2019/2020

Potential Underachiever · 03-09-2019 02:07PM

Lee Bowyer!!

Iirc the fans stopped that one happening.

ERG89 · 03-09-2019 02:14PM

I remember praying Carlton Cole & Luke Young wouldn't have be signed when Hodgson was around

robwen · 03-09-2019 02:18PM

steve_r wrote: »

Michael Owen v Shearer on twitter! Getting serious!

https://twitter.com/themichaelowen/status/1168822808614526976?s=20

Shearer would have been an incredible signing

Wouldn't this have been 2004 so Shearer would have been around 34, well past his best, interesting tho he could of been part of the Istanbul folklore

davyboy1975 · 03-09-2019 02:31PM

Ronaldo and cantona were also nearly ours instead of that other lot.

Ones we didnt sign that am glad we didnt was heinze and the infamous gareth barry saga

8-10 · 03-09-2019 02:33PM

Dele Alli was another one we were talking to

Also there was the famous Jordan Henderson for Clint Dempsey swap!

Knex* · 03-09-2019 02:34PM

Gareth Barry would have been a great signing at the time.

Not at the expense of Alonso, but he was a good player.

gafferino · 03-09-2019 02:35PM

Knex. wrote: »

Gareth Barry would have been a great signing at the time.

Not at the expense of Alonso, but he was a good player.

Was only reading the other day he is still playing!

Widdensushi · 03-09-2019 02:38PM

mkhitaryan was a recent one, hard to know whether we dodged a bullet or could he have worked out.

Potential Underachiever · 03-09-2019 02:48PM

Widdensushi wrote: »

mkhitaryan was a recent one, hard to know whether we dodged a bullet or could he have worked out.

From what I've seen at Utd and Arsenal we definitely dodged a bullet, he doesn't have anywhere near the work rate that would be required , he's such a flaky looking player sort of a poor man's Ozil, seems to lack heart which I appreciate is hard to quantify but that's the impression I get from him.

garra · 03-09-2019 02:49PM

8-10 wrote: »

Dele Alli was another one we were talking to

Also there was the famous Jordan Henderson for Clint Dempsey swap!

Crikey I had forgotten that! Clint retired last year at 35 having spent the previous 5 seasons with "Seattle Sounders".

Jordan is 29 now and has 9 seasons with Liverpool, being valued and favored by all his managers and most fans (not looking at anyone in particular AC) and has lifted the CL trophy on behalf of his team.

And we were going to swap them! I know the past is a foreign country but we were being run like a cult community on acid back then.

MonkeyTennis · 03-09-2019 02:52PM

Simao

Agent Coulson · 03-09-2019 02:54PM

The next time Salah passes to Mane in a better position Mane better score

Agent Coulson · 03-09-2019 03:00PM

Of the players we did sign i loved morientes and litmanen

facehugger99 · 03-09-2019 03:01PM

I wonder if Mane's outburst will have an overall positive effect Salah's play.

He is certainly very greedy, which obviously all top strikers are to an extent, but he will routinely ignore a wide open player to try to dribble or shoot from a much more unfavorable position.

Contrasted with the unselfish play of Firmino, the optics are jarring and he can be a very frustrating player to watch.

In an idea world, Salah retains all his predatory instinct and huger for goals but adds a few more assists to his locker.

robwen · 03-09-2019 03:02PM

Kyriakos Papadopoulos & Alex Teixera another 2 who had the fans in a frenzy

gimli2112 · 03-09-2019 03:29PM

Salah scored about a billion goals since he signed if he passed all the time he'd be Bobby, we already have a Bobby. Mane's reaction was pretty alarming only in that you don't often see it but I'm sure players think that about each other all the time. I'd say they still get on.

There's plenty of examples of strikers who didn't get on Shearer & Owen, Sheringham & Cole, Balotelli & everybody else.

8-10 · 03-09-2019 03:31PM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Of the players we did sign i loved morientes and litmanen

Litmanen is probably my favourite player of all time. He was magic. Spent my childhood watching videos and games of his. Was the signing I was most excited about apart from Suarez and a real shame that it didn't work out. Square peg, round hole with the team and system we played at the time.

There were a few players like that where the Premier League wasn't yet right for players like him. You might laugh but I think Veron was another one, and arguably Forlan at United. Also Brian Laudrup never gave Chelsea a real go. It was a bit mad how players like that flopped where players like di Canio, Juninho, Zola etc did amazingly.

I think you take a prime Litmanen or Veron to the league after 2010 and they have a very different experience.

facehugger99 · 03-09-2019 03:48PM

The way it was reported at the time, we seemed to be very close to signing Lee Bowyer in 2002.

Lucky escape, he never did anything of note post-2001 and he seemed like a right scumbag to boot.

Osmosis Jones · 03-09-2019 04:03PM

Neither Salah nor Mane are off on international duty so they've plenty of time for couples counselling.

Harry Palmr · 03-09-2019 05:17PM

robwen wrote: »

Kyriakos Papadopoulos

Dot, in a quiet moment wondering what might have been

marklazarcovic · 03-09-2019 05:41PM

Fekir and Boyer even did medicals

mosstin · 03-09-2019 05:52PM

ERG89 wrote: »

I remember praying Carlton Cole & Luke Young wouldn't have be signed when Hodgson was around

davyboy1975 wrote: »

Ronaldo and cantona were also nearly ours instead of that other lot.

Ones we didnt sign that am glad we didnt was heinze and the infamous gareth barry saga

8-10 wrote: »

Dele Alli was another one we were talking to

Also there was the famous Jordan Henderson for Clint Dempsey swap!

Widdensushi wrote: »

mkhitaryan was a recent one, hard to know whether we dodged a bullet or could he have worked out.

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

Simao

Rideme Sideways was another one.

Harry Palmr · 03-09-2019 05:54PM

Did anyone mention Michael Laudrup?

Riesen_Meal · 03-09-2019 06:05PM

The Shearer and Owen thing is gas, a pair of oxygen thieves...

I don't know who I can't stand more tbh

And Shearer writes for The S*n

Please don't get me started on "Club ambassador ex United player" Owen...

Jesus Wept · 03-09-2019 06:59PM

Phil Laam is coming in the Jan window

Jesus Wept · 03-09-2019 07:00PM

Fieldog wrote: »

The Shearer and Owen thing is gas, a pair of oxygen thieves...

I don't know who I can't stand more tbh

And Shearer writes for The S*n

Please don't get me started on "Club ambassador ex United player" Owen...

No abuse please.

Jesus Wept · 03-09-2019 07:00PM

Three In a row

~Rebel~ · 03-09-2019 07:50PM

gimli2112 wrote: »

Salah scored about a billion goals since he signed if he passed all the time he'd be Bobby, we already have a Bobby.

There's a balance though... It's possible to score pretty much just as many goals, but assist even more. In the ratio of chance quality, i'm happy for Mo to go for it, even if he only has a 40% chance of scoring while the other person might have a 60% chance. So he can totally take his risks and pull off magic... but the two that happened on Saturday were more like 20% to 80%, with Salah having basically no chance of scoring in either case, while the other players were in dream positions that they'd be slotting away in their sleep.

You're never gonna get that balance perfect, but I think he could do with a very small switch towards the selfless. Can still afford to be much greedier than Bobby.

Osmosis Jones · 03-09-2019 08:20PM

Just saw our old pal Emre Can got left out of the Juve Champions League squad, no injury or anything.

fred funk }{ · 03-09-2019 08:28PM

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Just saw our old pal Emre Can got left out of the Juve Champions League squad, no injury or anything.

Whoops!

Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2019/2020

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