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Liverpool FC Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2012/13

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  • #4022
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 45,738 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Surely getting a striker in is priority ahead of Walcott?:confused:

    Or a replacement for Lucas, if we are selling Spearing?

    Have people forgotten last season?


  • #4023
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,397 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    Dickerty wrote: »
    Talk over the weeks that Pacheco was off to Villareal, I think it was. But most Spanish clubs have very little cash, I can't see anyone stumping up £2M for Dani...
    Forgot about him. He badly needs to get himself out of Anfield if the likes of Adam Morgan have moved ahead of him in the pecking order.


  • #4024
    Sappy404
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,256 ✭✭✭Sappy404


    Dickerty wrote: »
    Agreed, should stick to loans. Wilson, Flanagan, Eccleston?

    Eccleston in free to leave AFAIK but there'd be a tribunal if he did it without an agreement with Liverpool, so a price would be very low. Fulham hardly need him though, he's in his 20s and some of their younger attacking players are already better IMO.

    Flanno maybe, though we're stretched in the full-back positions at the moment, even if Jose is coming back. That said, if Rodgers won't play Robinson at LB he probably won't play Flanno at RB. So maybe.

    Wilson is the forgotten man. He'd benefit greatly from a loan I think, preferably not back to Rangers though as they're several levels lower than we'd like him to play at. A Championship club perhaps; I doubt Fulham would risk him in the first team and as such a loan would likely be pointless.


  • #4025
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,461 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Surely getting a striker in is priority ahead of Walcott?:confused:

    Or a replacement for Lucas, if we are selling Spearing?

    Have people forgotten last season?

    Last season:

    Downing: 0 goals, 0 assists
    Walcott: 8 goals, 8 assists


  • #4026
    tok9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭tok9


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Surely getting a striker in is priority ahead of Walcott?:confused:

    Or a replacement for Lucas, if we are selling Spearing?

    Have people forgotten last season?

    If we really are as interested in Walcott as is being reported then I imagine it's because he wants the front 3 to be completely interchangeable.

    So that Borini Saurez and Walcott can all play left wing, ring wing and up front. It'd be a nightmare for defenders to contain but the main issue from what I have seen of all 3 is that none of them are clinical finishers.


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  • #4027
    whatawaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,911 ✭✭✭✭whatawaster


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Surely getting a striker in is priority ahead of Walcott?:confused:

    Or a replacement for Lucas, if we are selling Spearing?

    Have people forgotten last season?

    Allen is ten times the replacement for Lucas that Spearing is.


  • #4028
    Sappy404
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,256 ✭✭✭Sappy404


    whatawaster wrote: »
    Allen is ten times the replacement for Lucas that Spearing is.

    I though Jonjo was class on Sunday as well when he came on.


  • #4029
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Leiva


    Morgan starts tonight :)


  • #4030
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,397 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    Leiva wrote: »
    Morgan starts tonight :)
    Rumoured team: Reina Kelly Skrtel Carragher Downing Allen Henderson Gerrard Shelvey Morgan Suarez

    Downing at left back possibly.


  • #4031
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Leiva


    Francie Barrett wrote: »
    Rumoured team: Reina Kelly Skrtel Carragher Downing Allen Henderson Gerrard Shelvey Morgan Suarez

    If that's the line up Morgan will score.

    You heard it here first :p


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  • #4032
    Grayditch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    Leiva wrote: »
    Morgan starts tonight :)

    Deadly. I was hoping so.


  • #4033
    Gbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Where are ye getting the Morgan starting bit of info from?


  • #4034
    tok9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭tok9


    Any sign of who's on the bench?


  • #4035
    Dickerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Dickerty


    Leiva wrote: »
    Morgan starts tonight :)

    God, imagine the mania on here if he scored a couple?

    "Who needs Llorente or Huntelaar or Walcott, or any player with a double letter in their name..."


  • #4036
    NEDDURC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 448 ✭✭NEDDURC


    Francie Barrett wrote: »
    Rumoured team: Reina Kelly Skrtel Carragher Downing Allen Henderson Gerrard Shelvey Morgan Suarez

    Downing at left back possibly.

    That'd be an interesting team alright. BR is really experimenting with the young players which is very refreshing. I presume he's looking to get some early goals and then take Gerrard and Suarez off.

    I think Downing at left back could be very good, he doesn't give the ball away too often and is a decent passer. Could physical size too.


  • #4037
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,397 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    "So, Thursday the 30th. Good night from the UK. There might be little time left."
    Speaking of Pacheco, this cryptic tweet suggests he's leaving.


  • #4038
    MD1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭MD1990


    i would be starting Eccelston ahead of Morgan


  • #4039
    gafferino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭gafferino


    Dont be at yourself wrote: »
    Last season:

    Downing: 0 goals, 0 assists
    Walcott: 8 goals, 8 assists

    Andy Carroll
    Newcastle 80 games 31 goals
    Liverpool 44 games 6 goals


  • #4040
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,937 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Dickerty wrote: »
    God, imagine the mania on here if he scored a couple?

    "Who needs Llorente or Huntelaar or Walcott, or any player with a double letter in their name..."

    That's Messi out so!


  • #4041
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 45,738 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    whatawaster wrote: »
    Allen is ten times the replacement for Lucas that Spearing is.

    What are you basing that on? One game?

    You could well be right but with Lucas out for 2/3 months and Spearing on the way out, it leaves us with Allen filling in. What happens if he gets injured? Hence my point about not rememebering last season. It also hinders Allens natural game no?
    Sappy404 wrote: »
    I though Jonjo was class on Sunday as well when he came on.

    Shelvey did well, in fact he did very well.

    He's no DM though and it still very inconsistent. He had a stinker v Hearts last Thursday.


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  • #4042
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 45,738 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Imo fúck Walcott and his ridiculous wages and bring in a top goalscorer and Dempsey, and sort out the DM backup.


  • #4043
    whatawaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,911 ✭✭✭✭whatawaster


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Imo fúck Walcott and his ridiculous wages and bring in a top goalscorer and Dempsey, and sort out the DM backup.

    Really unlikely we will have the money for all that


  • #4044
    Dickerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Dickerty


    murpho999 wrote: »
    That's Messi out so!

    We don't need 'im. Showboat, one trick pony. Front three of Sterling, Assaidi and Morgan.

    Our year.


  • #4045
    Seamu$
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Seamu$


    tok9 wrote: »
    If we really are as interested in Walcott as is being reported then I imagine it's because he wants the front 3 to be completely interchangeable.

    So that Borini Saurez and Walcott can all play left wing, ring wing and up front. It'd be a nightmare for defenders to contain but the main issue from what I have seen of all 3 is that none of them are clinical finishers.

    For me, the piece I have bolded is the critical thing with our interest in Walcott. Personally I regarded him of something of a pacy headless chicken which is probably a bit harsh, but even if he is improving I don't think he is what we need, which, as you have said, is a clinical finisher. Obviously, we trust Brendans judgement & perhaps he can be converted to a front-man rather than a winger, but I'd prefer someone who has a track record of being able to score 15+ league goals per season on a regular basis. Not too many of them about, but the likes of Huntelaar.


  • #4046
    Dickerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Dickerty


    whatawaster wrote: »
    Really unlikely we will have the money for all that

    I think if he was worried about being without Lucas, Spearing would stay as cover. But it looks like he's gonna live without.

    Dempsey for sure, and either Carroll stays, or he's replaced. But still no closer to knowing who he might replace him with...


  • #4047
    Luckycharms_74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Luckycharms_74


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Surely getting a striker in is priority ahead of Walcott?:confused:

    I agree.
    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Or a replacement for Lucas, if we are selling Spearing?

    Have people forgotten last season?

    The talk is spearing on loan to Bolton/Wolves. With regard to loan players can we recall them if we needed to (like Shelvey at Blackpool last year)


  • #4048
    Grayditch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    Any chance we could ask Uncle Mou for a loan of Diarra, too? ;)


  • #4049
    Nuri Sahin
    Site Banned Posts: 26,456 ✭✭✭✭Nuri Sahin


    In fairness to Cole, if this was your missus, you'd be agreeing with her too :pac:

    carly_zucker_18.jpg


    ___

    Anyway, Llorente won't happen. He wants to move to a club competing for the league. Said as much earlier in the summer.


  • #4050
    whatawaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,911 ✭✭✭✭whatawaster


    Shelvey or Henderson will be more effective at DM than Spearing. His use of the ball is not good enough and imo he is only average at the defensive side of things


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  • #4051
    Steven81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Steven81


    Dickerty wrote: »
    God, imagine the mania on here if he scored a couple?

    "Who needs Llorente or Huntelaar or Walcott, or any player with a double letter in their name..."

    Thats why he wants Carroll out


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