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

Knex. wrote: »

We have yet to really get a transfer budjet from our new owners though haven't we? I mean, dragging up the ol net spend argument again I know, but most of the money spent was made in the transfer market through either player sales or cutting the wage bill as far as I could gather.

In my eyes we'd have been lucky to get 30m in the two windows combined. Anything reduced on that and we can say goodbye to CL football tbh. Way too much needs to be strentghened and if last summer is anything to go by, 30m is definitely not enough.

Net spend is a fair point in fairness though when you consider Torres sale and the others made up a large proportion of our sales cost.

This window is a make or break window for our new American owners as we do need around 40-50 million for 3 new players.

Whether we get the funds or not, I think Kenny is more reliable with smaller fees.
Adam, Enrique, Bellamy, Coates, Rush and Barnes :P were all successful signings for less than 10 million each.

G.K. wrote: »

adams? Successful?

I's thinks thats mays haves beens tongues ins cheeks.

Leiva wrote: »

On a serious note but ...

Has anyone else (like me) totally forgot about Charlie Adam ?

The Blackpool player?

Leiva wrote: »

Carra couldn't make it - he was washing his hair

He was actually washing his wife's hair ... with good ole, honest to goodness English shampoo ... none of that foreign rubbish that you can't undertand the directions on the bottle :pac:

The Chessplayer wrote: »

This is just loopy stuff, Kess, absolutely loopy stuff!

The bootroom philosophy was that of the common man. From Shankly right up to Evans it was all about having a guy at the helm who discussed tactics over a cup of tea in the bootroom. It's a different type of hero, a working class hero and a man that the supporters could identify with. Kenny has the quality of being "one of us" and I welcome that type of manager to the club.

"One of my usual Rafa rants" - that's a bit petty. I'm not about to engage in a slagging match. You're happy to have a pop at me for my fairly reasonable opinions yet you expect others to that you seriously with your almost daily incredulous scouting reports about players from various obscure leagues around Europe. You may indeed know more about the positional play of a winger in the Turkish 2nd division and I applaud you for this. I simply do not have the time or interest to follow every single football league in the world.

You would see it's not an anti-Rafa rant if you took the time to consider my points without throwing a wobbler simply because I took you to task on a few issues. The Rafa comments are addressed at the general clamour for his return which another poster had mentioned. I think the call for Rafa to return is misguided.

I'm not comparing Stan & Robbo to Paisley and Dalglish. My point was simply that the buck stops with the manager. Of course Stan was a complete eejit. Bob Paisley wasn't giving the team talks. In your imagination, perhaps Paisley had a much bigger role, but in reality Kenny's success was unprecedented and you're kind of being unfair to the man for somehow excusing that success.

Kess - the sniping little Carragher comment is just daft, and deserving of contempt. I don't think Jamie Carragher has any management potential at all, nor do I think he should be in the first team.

Showing your total lack of knowledge about the club you claim to support. Must be in Kenny's imagination as well as in one of his books he states that Bob was a presence in the changing room at the start of Kenny's term as manager, and that Bob did deal with a lot of the media stuff as well as getting involved with the transfer side of things with Kenny. Ah shure Kenny must be spoofing about what Bob did as well.:D

And the Carragher comment is deserving of contempt? Behave you stirrer. There are a few posts from not too long back where you were praising Carragher to the heavens and saying he was a far better player for Liverpool than Sami ever was, and that Carragher had the better footballing mind for reading and understanding the game. Now you are calling for Sami to come back and manage the club. Classic you :D:D


As for taking time to consider your points. No need as you change them on a regular basis to suit whatever spoof you try to pass off as that week's opinion. Bit like earlier today how you tried to make fun of the idea of Deschamps as Liverpool manager, 43 year old Deschamps, and then went off talking about how young managers should be given a chance to manage Liverpool and used two examples of young managers that were in their 50's.

But keep on telling me about the bootroom and the Liverpool way. It is always great craic when I get an Irish lad telling me about how things were at the club in that city I grew up in. Maybe next you can tell me what it was like to go to games at Anfield in the 70's and 80's or at least what some Sky pundit said about it.

Must be about time for you to start your Why isn't Flanagan playing for Ireland routine again, after all you have not done that for a few months now

opr wrote: »

amiable wrote: »

Rumours that Kenny is gone come Monday

Just twitter stuff? Sorry I usually don't ask but wouldn't mind getting a few quid on if it was in anyway reliable.

Opr

Its just twitter. Im on my phone otherwise id post some of the stuff being said.

Supposedly Kenny is stepping aside/upstairs according to these rumours.

Ballague stirring **** on twitter too tonight about Rafa.

Kess73 wrote: »

G.K. wrote: »

He was only ok because of Lucas. None of LFC's other CM's are good enough to cover his deficiencies.

That's my view anyway, you guys'll have seen more of him than me.

Doubt if anyone will argue with you. This season showed that other than Lucas, Liverpool have no CM with a bit of steel in their play.

Last summer I was desperate for the club to sign a player to dictate a game from the middle. You agreed IIRC. Still stand by it and Im confident they will attempt to solve that this summer

Id keep my money in my pocket OPR.

I would guess it started with someone speculating hoping to look clever if it comes true

opr wrote: »

rarnes1 wrote: »

Rafa back in the hotseat?

Guillem Balague (@GuillemBalague)

I hear lots of rumours about Rafa and LFC. I havent heard nothing at all on that. But it is amazing the amount of people who want RB back

That's all he said.

Opr

And Paul Edwards called him up on it

amiable wrote: »

And Paul Edwards called him up on it

Why was he trying to imply we're crazy to want him back? I thought him and Rafa got on?

Opr

opr wrote: »

amiable wrote: »

And Paul Edwards called him up on it

Why was he trying to imply we're crazy to want him back? I thought him and Rafa got on?

Opr

he just said there has been no contact between Rafa and Liverpool and said if thats what Rafa wants he should contact the club.

Ballague also retweeted lots of replies.
Hes trying to stir