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Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 11/12 (End of March 2012 onwards)

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Turtyturd

amiable wrote: »

Ben Smith @BenSmithBBC

Oooooh....who's getting fired?

amiable

Turtyturd wrote: »

Oooooh....who's getting fired?

Apparently the bloke that fires people is next for the chop

Sappy404

It's been said before but Victor Moses would be a great shout in the summer. I wonder does the 'English tax' apply to players who are English but who've declared for other countries.

opr

Happy Birthday Rafa. Hope you enjoyed the weekend as much as I did

Opr

Nuri Sahin

Turtyturd wrote: »

Oooooh....who's getting fired?

Wonder if he does it Vinnie Mac style..

amiable

Sappy404 wrote: »

It's been said before but Victor Moses would be a great shout in the summer. I wonder does the 'English tax' apply to players who are English but who've declared for other countries.

Do you think he could be the real deal or just a flash in the pan?

Phoenix Park

Wigan play some good stuff these days. Knock it around...just don't shoot enough /create enough clear chances, and haven't all season. Martinez is destined for bigger things in management. Wonder how he'd do at a big club, maybe even how'd he'd do at the biggest club (not that there is much doubt about Kenny being there for another year at this stage with two cup finals). Bit early for a club like ourselves perhaps but I'd say after Wigan he'd get a top job in Spain outside the big 2. I think with money he'd put a very good side together.

Sir Gallagher

Sappy404 wrote: »

It's been said before but Victor Moses would be a great shout in the summer. I wonder does the 'English tax' apply to players who are English but who've declared for other countries.

Anytime i've seen him he creates decent chances but makes a complete balls of them, we've enough of that in our team, no thanks.

5starpool

amiable wrote: »

Apparently the bloke that fires people is next for the chop

Just like the film

Up In The Air

Sappy404 wrote: »

It's been said before but Victor Moses would be a great shout in the summer. I wonder does the 'English tax' apply to players who are English but who've declared for other countries.

He's fast but nowhere near composed enough in front of goal for me.

Nuri Sahin

Moses is a stronger Walcott in simple terms. Pace in abundance, quite athletic and obviously built like a brick wall but he lacks composure as shown by his finish earlier which was very poor and should have killed the game off. Might be a decent squad player for a club aspiring for CL next season at best.

whatawaster

James McCarthy is the player we need from that Wigan team imo.

What Johnny Giles would call a "proper midfield player." Exactly what we need. He's clever and disciplined in his positioning. He is naturally an attacking player, but he's really had to curb that for Wigan this season, playing a DM role most of the time and he's been a great team player. He's just a very good all round player. He works hard, tackles well, tracks back, is composed on the ball and has good intelligence and vision.

And will only get better.

Sir Gallagher

whatawaster wrote: »

James McCarthy is the player we need from that Wigan team imo.

What Johnny Giles would call a "proper midfield player." Exactly what we need. He's clever and disciplined in his positioning. He is naturally an attacking player, but he's really had to curb that for Wigan this season, playing a DM role most of the time and he's been a great team player. He's just a very good all round player. He works hard, tackles well, tracks back, is composed on the ball and has good intelligence and vision.

And will only get better.

He's no Paul Green though.

Bowlardo

whatawaster wrote: »

James McCarthy is the player we need from that Wigan team imo.

What Johnny Giles would call a "proper midfield player." Exactly what we need. He's clever and disciplined in his positioning. He is naturally an attacking player, but he's really had to curb that for Wigan this season, playing a DM role most of the time and he's been a great team player. He's just a very good all round player. He works hard, tackles well, tracks back, is composed on the ball and has good intelligence and vision.

And will only get better.

Couldn't agree more

opr

Sorry if posted but didn't come across it reading over the last few pages. Kenny's 20m+ interview with his daughter before the semi.

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/video_audio/146312.html

Opr

djPSB

whatawaster wrote: »

James McCarthy is the player we need from that Wigan team imo.

What Johnny Giles would call a "proper midfield player." Exactly what we need. He's clever and disciplined in his positioning. He is naturally an attacking player, but he's really had to curb that for Wigan this season, playing a DM role most of the time and he's been a great team player. He's just a very good all round player. He works hard, tackles well, tracks back, is composed on the ball and has good intelligence and vision.

And will only get better.

Has played alot for Wigan this season and has 0 goals and 2 assists in the league. He has played alot as defensive midfielder though.

Good player but don't think he's LFC standard. Not yet anyway.

ShamoBuc

opr wrote: »

Sorry if posted but didn't come across it reading over the last few pages. Kenny's 20m+ interview with his daughter before the semi.

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/video_audio/146312.html

Opr

For some reason I thought he got paid 20m+ to do an interview with his daughter:pac:

whatawaster

djPSB wrote: »

Has played alot for Wigan this season and has 0 goals and 2 assists in the league. He has played alot as defensive midfielder though.

Meaningless stat given the role he plays for them

argosy2006

opr

djPSB wrote: »

Has played alot for Wigan this season and has 0 goals and 2 assists in the league. He has played alot as defensive midfielder though.

Good player but don't think he's LFC standard. Not yet anyway.

I don't think McCarthy has had a particularly great season but these stats have little bearing on a persons ability in the centre.

Opr

djPSB

whatawaster wrote: »

Meaningless stat given the role he plays for them

He's not a great defensive midfielder either.

Bit on the small side. Tough facker though.

I'd prefer someone like Sigurdsson who has 7 goals and 4 assists in half a season.

I don't think McCarthy would be much of an upgrade on Henderson.

Mr Alan

McCarthy is a good player. Potentially excellent. I'd be happy to have him in the same way I'm happy to have Henderson.

Chucky the tree

You'd think after Charlie Adam people would stop simply looking at stats.

Morzadec

djPSB wrote: »

He's not a great defensive midfielder either.

Bit on the small side. Tough facker though.

I'd prefer someone like Sigurdsson who has 7 goals and 4 assists in half a season.

I don't think McCarthy would be much of an upgrade on Henderson.

Sigurdsonn looks like an excellent prospect who already could be an upgrade in midfield. would be delighted if we went after him

djPSB

Chucky the tree wrote: »

You'd think after Charlie Adam people would stop simply looking at stats.

If you watch Sigurdsson for Swansea, you would see that he would be a good addition to our squad.

Not basing my opinion on stats alone.

djPSB

Mr Alan wrote: »

McCarthy is a good player. Potentially excellent. I'd be happy to have him in the same way I'm happy to have Henderson.

He is a good player but I can't see the point in having both in the squad.

Also, one of the reasons he can't make the Irish team is because he isn't very efficient in a two man midfield.

Chucky the tree

opr wrote: »

Sorry if posted but didn't come across it reading over the last few pages. Kenny's 20m+ interview with his daughter before the semi.

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/video_audio/146312.html

Opr

Excellent interview, nearly swayed me towards wanting him to have another season.

Interesting that he do the Suarez affair completely differently.

djPSB wrote: »

Also, one of the reasons he can't make the Irish team is because he isn't very efficient in a two man midfield.

Neither of the two planks we currently play in the Irish team can do it either.

djPSB

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Excellent interview, nearly swayed me towards wanting him to have another season. Interesting that he do the Suarez affair completely differently.

Neither of the two planks we currently play in the Irish team can do it either.

Chucky = The Eamonn Dunphy of the Liverpool Thread

opr

Henderson might grow into the role the more he plays but McCarthy would be light years ahead of him at the moment in terms of understanding of the role in the centre. Martinez also seems like someone he will have learnt loads from working under. He has been excellent as part of a two in recent games but I think he would excel as part of the two with Lucas in a 4-2-3-1. The fact the kid seems to have a great head on his shoulders turning down big money moves in the past including ourselves makes me like him even more. That said I think he will cost a fortune which begs the question of surely we can maybe find better value elsewhere?

Why is Sigurdsson even being compared to McCarthy? Doesn't he play in the attacking midfielder/hole role most of the time? I don't recall ever having seen him play in the centre for Swansea.

Opr

MD1990

i think Clint Dempsey would be a great player for us to get if we could
im sure the American owners would like us to sign him too

Chucky the tree

MD1990 wrote: »

i think Clint Dempsey would be a great player for us to get if we could
im sure the American owners would like us to sign him too

He's 29, to old.