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

Knex. wrote: »

I think The-Rigger/Andy Carroll has this well covered from before.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=69898004&postcount=29241

At least he is consistent on his opinion.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77547175&postcount=8405

Masked Man wrote: »

Belgian trio were club signings.

Piazon was bought before AVB.

Bamford I'd imagine a club signing but I don't know for sure.

Romeu was definitely AVB.

From what I can tell your right though, AVB seems to have a very good knowledge of young players in Europe.

I will be raging if Liverpool sign AVB. He's going to be an amazing manager imo, and I'll desperately want any team he goes to to do well. Fortunately it looks like that team will be Roma, he was linked with them and Valencia and somebody from Valencia said that when they contacted him he said he already had a deal with another club. In a perfect world that club would be Chelsea.

It will be fascinating to see how AVB does at Roma if he does go. Luis Enrique was all talk and tried to implement a Barca-style philosophy, but there is a serious lack of pace at Roma and i lost count of the number of times they were taken apart playing a high line. Perhaps, like AVB at Chelsea, a case of the right system with the worng players (or vice versa?).

I would be very excited to have AVB at Liverpool. It would take two years minimum of patience (and we're not the most patient, but we've waited for league success long enough, we can wait some more if it means building something moving in the right direction which we are not doing at the moment imo) and a turfing out of the likes of Adam (and arguably Carroll regardless of how good he has been for the past few weeks).

AVB will get it right again somewhere, the egos at Chelsea behaved selfishly and got rid of him (not that i'll feel too sorry for him, he was well compensated for his troubles). His football is exciting, the tactics he preaches, but its a huge gamble without the right players and a lot of disipline too. The thing is, we actually have some players that could work well under AVB: Agger and Johnson and possibly Enrique would all be very suited, so we'd have a decent starting point at the back. Will Kenny get it right given another two years- personally i'm not confident he will, hopefully i'm wrong.

I'm a little disappointed in myself feling like this, but i now realise deep down i was hoping Kenny would leave today. You can't lie to yourself can you

redzerdrog wrote: »

Just on AVB i think his prefered tactic would suit liverpool down to the ground

we are suited to playing a high backline because we have Reina he is fantastic at sweeping and have reletively quick defenders when carra doesnt play.

we are also suited to his 4-3-3 formation as we have no decent wingers and most of our cm's cant play in a 2 man midfield. I think it suits suarez coming in off the right side of a 3 man attack aswell and he should get more space

I would class that as a little bonus but not something to be relied upon.

El Spearo wrote: »

in the airport. Hour to kill. Jesus first post up on this page combined with the rumours had me convinced kenny was gone. And I felt a little sick knowing it. It's not true though? But now I know where I lie. Long live the king

Are you off to Boston too? Christ they are summoning everybody

El Spearo wrote: »

Henry apparently sent for those whose position was safest at the club. Meself and kenny. Looks like we dodged the cut eh?.... Hahahaha... Ha....ha....ehhhh

Hope you're travelling with an adult...or at least someone is collecting you over there.;)

nuxxx wrote: »

Stolen from Twitter, no offence intended just thought it was funny!

If King Kenny does get the sack will that finally count as assist for Downing?

No. By definition, Downing would have to create a finished goal chance for it to be considered an assist.

The Chessplayer wrote: »

Lots of misinformation passing through this thread about Martinez, AVB and O'Neill. All nonsense, I can confirm 100% that Kenny is staying put.

How is people giving their opinions on different managers misinformation?

Has anybody actually said one of those managers would be at Liverpool next season?

I know this talk of Kenny going somebody else coming in is rampant, but what about the idea of Kenny moving upstairs in an advisory/dof role and another manager coming in?

The Chessplayer wrote: »

You cannot sack a King. He needs to either abdicate or be overthrown by a people's revolution rafalution.

GBX wrote: »

I know this talk of Kenny going somebody else coming in is rampant, but what about the idea of Kenny moving upstairs in an advisory/dof role and another manager coming in?

I'm not for it tbh, if he's gone then let him be just that, gone. New manager, new start, new era. If he's deemed not good enough to be our manager why put him in and advisory role for the new manager?

Maybe put him back in his old ambassador role, but that would be about it for me.

I can confirm that The Chessplayer is not ITK.