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

koppy wrote: »

retards..? because they dont want rafa..?

no matter which manger we get If we're not in the top 4 at Christmas, retards will call for his head.
no matter which manger If we are in the top 4, retards will call for his head for not having us top of the league.

for me the retards are the ones that want him back, really dont understand wanting him back.

i agree
his football is horrible to watch too

Have we signed Lavezzi, Cavani, Hamsik and Sneidjer yet? Season is over a day already for God's sake.

darced wrote: »

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I know I used to hate the days when we played Champions League football. Dreadful, boring competition.

At least under Rafa we had a direction and a purpose on the pitch and each player knew his role.

Take the FA Cup final for example and tell me we either;

A. Played good exciting football
B. Looked like we even had a ****ing clue what we were doing until Carroll came on.

It just didn't happen.

We often played great football under Rafa and the myth around him being boring is just that. A myth.

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God I hope Rafa doesn't come back.

I remember us putting 4 past Madrid and United and five past Villa in consecutive games, and cringing at the way he had the team playing.

Awful stuff Ted.

Super-Rush wrote: »

God I hope Rafa doesn't come back.

I remember us putting 4 past Madrid and United and five past Villa in consecutive games, and cringing at the way he had the team playing.

Awful stuff Ted.

Yeah, and we only scored one in the Bernabeau when we beat Madrid and only two in the Nou Camp when we beat Barca!! Shocking stuff alright. Embarrassing nights.

Kerrigooney wrote: »

Oh dear...what I posted didn`t come across as I meant it to.

I was trying to be funny but it seems I`m about as funny as Adam Sandler:(

However his increasing paranoia and tetchiness (is that a word?) is getting very bloody annoying.

It`s not just the moronic questions that brings this out in him either,as someone else said...it`s every question these days.

I`m old enough to remember him as a player so I love the guy but I think it`s becoming obvious he can`t handle it any more. It`s time to step aside while he still has a bit of his dignity intact.

Don't worry, I'v e picked a few people up wrong on here over the last few days so sorry about that.

With some of these reporters it's not just the silly questions they ask Kenny though. There's a bit of background with some of these incidents.

ush wrote: »

FA cup semi-final was in April. The wheels came off in March, at the latest.

Have you forgotten Bolton away? That was in January. Sandwiched between cup ties, in the middle of the Suarez mess, the team didn't turn up for a league match. League aspirations were melting.

Was it "Andy Carroll" who said on here that Kenny's brief was to get top 4. He ignored his brief and concentrated on cups.

Now Kenny losing the faith of the squad is a more reasonable explanation than the squad only being good enough for 8th. I think the quality is there, especially when Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea are wobbling.

If you don't accept him losing the squad or think the squad isn't good enough, what are you left with by way of explanation? A team that was allowed to consistently put in woeful performances and didn't beat the teams they should have. That is a far more damning verdict on Kenny.

The wheels came off in March?? I don't exactly remember us blowing away the likes of Sunderland, Norwich, Swansea etc in the first part of the season!!

aaronh007 wrote: »

And the time we beat Inter in the San Siro, and at Anfield. Disgraceful performances

EDIT - Or was that a draw in the San Siro? Either way, terrible stuff

We beat Inter home and away that season. That was an embarrassing Champions League campaign though. I think we only reached the Semi finals that year!

campo wrote: »

Cant see them flying Kenny all the way to Boston to sack him sure they have more respect for the man then that, If they were to sack him I am sure Werner would fly into Liverpool to meet him just like he did for Comolli

Comolli was in the states the week before Werner and Henry came to Merseyside to part company with him, more then likely doing what Kenny & Clarke are doing, giving their end of season report.

I don't think they'll part company with kenny though, more problems structurally wrong with the club then the manager;

No CL
No Stadium Resolution
No Director of football
No Director of communications
No Commercial Director
No Head of Science & Fitness
A weak MD in Ian Ayre (his strengths are commercial & sponsorship)

It's a great shame Rafa can't be persuaded to take a DOF role, strategically thinking about a vision for the club, scouting, planning for the future through the academy. I know he's relatively young and has aspirations to manage again though.

It is a make or break summer for lfc, a lot of things need to be to right and I'm not just talking about transfers and the manager.

Mr Alan wrote: »

Tony Barrett saying in tomorrows Times that we're hoping to bring in Elm & Belhandra in the summer. Positive news.

I know how highly Belhandra is rated, what are people's thoughts on Elm? He looked impressive the that video posted the other night.

Simon Clancy on twitter had it as well;

“@SiClancy: Liverpool "branching out" with plans to sign Rasmus Elm and Younès Belhanda.”

Belhanda won young player of the year tonight, don't know much about Elm. If true we're hardly signing players and sacking kenny?

PFL wrote: »

Simon Clancy on twitter had it as well

He got it from Tony Barrett. Said so in his next tweet.

PFL wrote:

Belhanda won young player of the year tonight, don't know much about Elm. If true we're hardly signing players and sacking kenny?

I think it's always been unlikely Kenny would be getting the bullet.

Turns out we did bid for Jones last year (according to this)