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Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14

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  • #272
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,868 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    I've just seen proof on twitter that we are signing Willian.

    Wait for it................ apparently Willian just 'liked' a picture on Lucas' Instagram account..

    Proof indisputible indeed. Our new number 16 has all but signed I'd say.


  • #273
    Paulegend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭Paulegend


    SlickRic wrote: »
    i'd be fascinated to know what they think we've done to warrant us going ahead of Spurs and Arsenal.

    i'd love them to be right obviously, but:

    are they assuming we're buying more before the deadline?
    are they assuming Spurs have bought duds?
    are they assuming Arsenal will be shítter despite no change?
    are they assuming no EL is going to have a huge impact on our EPL season?

    arsenal no change?????

    1 player in who came from the french second division. great player yes but he is injury prone

    12 players out. all squad players but injuries mean that they have no dept at all. even this weekend they look a bit thin for a match squad.


    we have signed cisoko on loan. not the marquee we want but its strenghtened the left back spot. if we can get willian and a center back we will have a great squad.

    spurs wont finish that low at all. david james is nuts. unless they fail to adapt(which they could) i cant see spurs newbies being flops

    hopefully no EL means we are more prepared for each league game but i wont hold my breath since we had the same situation before and never took advantage of it


  • #274
    Pedalstool
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    If we do sign this Willian chap, who by all accounts is quality, and Rodgers manages to make Sturridge/Suarez/Coutinho/Willian work, we could be very formidable.


  • #275
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    5starpool wrote: »
    I've just seen proof on twitter that we are signing Willian.

    Wait for it................ apparently Willian just 'liked' a picture on Lucas' Instagram account..

    Proof indisputible indeed. Our new number 16 has all but signed I'd say.

    So from reading goats intestines to parsing Instagram details, and they say we've made progress in the last 600 years.


  • #276
    Paulegend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭Paulegend


    Pedalstool wrote: »
    If we do sign this Willian chap, who by all accounts is quality, and Rodgers manages to make Sturridge/Suarez/Coutinho/Willian work, we could be very formidable.

    gerrard and lucas in behind them:D


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  • #277
    [Deleted User]
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    Welcome back Suarez.

    Delighted :-)


  • #278
    googled eyes
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    5starpool wrote: »
    I've just seen proof on twitter that we are signing Willian.

    Wait for it................ apparently Willian just 'liked' a picture on Lucas' Instagram account..

    Proof indisputible indeed. Our new number 16 has all but signed I'd say.

    That's it. I'm all in now. I'm convinced


  • #279
    T-K-O
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,309 ✭✭✭T-K-O


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Welcome back Suarez.

    Delighted :-)

    One big misunderstanding..


  • #280
    SlickRic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,687 ✭✭✭✭SlickRic


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Welcome back Suarez.

    Delighted :-)

    despite my reservations about the "apology", if he is happy to stay, and it affects nothing in the dressing room, then it's a fantastic bit of work by those involved.


  • #281
    le la rat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭le la rat


    slingerz wrote: »
    care to expand on that?
    Just think its an extremely weak squad


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  • #282
    Paulegend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭Paulegend


    next summer after we qualify for teh champions league we buy a world class striker and sell suarez to the highest bidder:D lol if he can replicate the form from last season(the non bitey part) then im sure we wont give two craps about what happened. he doesnt need to say sorry to us. just to the team and management. the way to apologise to us is to work his ass off on the field and try not to get another suspension


  • #283
    Pedalstool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭Pedalstool


    I'm beginning to think that Suarez needs/wants drama in his life. He just seems to create so much of it all the time.


  • #284
    kaimera
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    T-K-O wrote: »
    One big misunderstanding..
    Cultural differences...


  • #285
    Bowlardo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Bowlardo



    I just like to tell you all that I have no Liverpool players in my fantasyfootball squad....Without doubt we are now going to win the league.

    There is too many coincidences happened in recent years that suggest that mepicking a Liverpool player for my fantasy team is similar to the dreadedcommentators curse. Except it last longer and causes more injuries.

    Case in point, I had Joe Cole in my team for his nightmare performanceagainst arsenal. Sterling was playing great stuff last year and then I pickedhim (sorry sterling won't do it again). Kelly injury spell last year was downto me..."hungry" Suarez was on team at the moment as well.

    So going forward I do solemnly swear not to pick any Liverpool player.

    ** Please note my fantasy football curse of injuries/sending off/madnessand loss of form does not transfer to united player (lord knows I have tried...are you there Patrice) EVRA!!!!**


  • #286
    Paulegend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭Paulegend


    le la rat wrote: »
    Just think its an extremely weak squad
    mignolet
    glen---toure---agger---enrique
    Lucas--Gerrard
    Coutinho
    Suarez
    Aspas
    Sturridge


    that looks like a strong enough team to be honest

    brad jones
    skrtel
    Cissoko
    llyod jones
    flannagan
    coates
    Kelly
    wisdom
    alberto
    hendo
    allen
    sterling
    borini
    assaidi
    ibe
    sinclair
    morgan
    yesil


    then if we sign willian and Papa/toby we would have a great squad considering we only need a squad to play premier league and the domestic cups. we might play 40-50 games this season so we dont need a huge squad by any means


  • #287
    El Inho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭El Inho


    Suarez clearly said 'I want to leave Liverpool' to go on holidays during the summer, but Ayre and the boys had a sweeping brush propped up again the door handle.

    Suarez contacted the Guardian through his phone, lucky he had his charger in his gear bag. He told them he was promised summer holidays, basically Ayre thought he wanted out of the club and locked him into the dressing room with only a freezer full of Negredo bars to keep him going. He's been training alone since trying to work off the extra weight.

    It also explains the whole Evra thing. Sure wasn't he only inviting Patrice in for an aul ice cream, and the poor lad gets slapped with racism. He saw a bit of an ice cream on Ivanovic's arm, asked politely - 'Bratislav, could I be so kind as to rid your arm of this terrible mess', to which the Chelsea man said, 'Oh please would you?'. Sure then the poor lad gets a ten match ban.

    Fierce misunderstood chap our Luis.


  • #288
    murpho999
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    What's the betting that Suarez gets a serious injury this season after all this drama.


  • #289
    [Deleted User]
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    Our first team looks decent.

    Our squad looks weak


  • #290
    T-K-O
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,309 ✭✭✭T-K-O


    kaimera wrote: »
    Cultural differences...

    you scratch my back, I'll bite your arm


  • #291
    T-K-O
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,309 ✭✭✭T-K-O


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Our first team looks decent.

    Our squad looks weak

    Agreed, we need one of the new guys to hit the ground running and I hope Henderson can improve on last year


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  • #292
    Paulegend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭Paulegend


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Our first team looks decent.

    Our squad looks weak

    hopefully if willian comes to the club players like aspas alberto and allen can start to become super subs

    our bench looks good but it probably lacks game changers. aside from sterlings pace we dont have alot of players you would be thinking they will come on and score the winner


  • #293
    5starpool
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    murpho999 wrote: »
    What's the betting that Suarez get's a serious injury this season after all this drama.

    11/4


  • #294
    rob316
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    Shankly Gates wrote: »
    It's clearly our year if these lads are saying it

    UPT6TKS.jpg

    Christ Newcastle and Swansea ahead of Tottenham, I'll have some of what James is on.


  • #295
    Turtyturd
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    murpho999 wrote: »
    What's the betting that Suarez get's a serious injury this season after all this drama.

    I can think of one wannabe bookmaker who will offer you odds on that any minute now.


  • #296
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Statsbomb article which confirms what most of us knew - Liverpool shoot often and often from the wrong places, and what some of us understood - the defence is not intrinsically bad rather it had some awful off-days.
    In fact, Opta confirmed that in the last two seasons for GK playing more than 1000 minutes, only Paddy Kenny had a worse “% of shots in the box saved” number than Pepe Reina. Thankfully this looks to have been addressed with the purchase of Simon Mignolet, a goalkeeper who performs extremely well in just about every GK metric that you care to choose. In a sport of very few goals like football, the theory is that more saves equals fewer goals conceded equals more points

    All Coutinho fans also knew this of course :D
    Coutinho instantly became the most sublime creative player at Liverpool since the lesser-spotted Jari Litmanen in 2001, a bona-fide Brazilian maestro. He created a superb 2.8 open play chances per match, making him a peer of David Silva, Juan Mata and Suarez. However, Coutinho’s value-add was that over 30% were Opta’s “clear chances.” Chance quality is a critical advantage, because we know that 38% of “clear” chances are converted compared to 8% of “normal” chances. Whilst Suarez, Silva, and Mata created a clear chance between every 190 and 200 minutes, with Coutinho it’s 100. Those numbers make little Phil look a genuine phenom.


  • #297
    El Inho
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Statsbomb article which confirms what most of us knew - Liverpool shoot often and often from the wrong places, and what some of us understood - the defence is not intrinsically bad rather it had some awful off-days.



    All Coutinho fans also knew this of course :D

    Oh_stop_it_you.png


  • #298
    jethro081
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭jethro081


    i don't know why i do this to myself. watching willian videos on youtube and looking at twitter every five minutes, when i know the chances are pretty remote of it actually happeing. this'll be like micky ryan but worse.


  • #299
    flanzer
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    jethro081 wrote: »
    i don't know why i do this to myself. watching willian videos on youtube and looking at twitter every five minutes, when i know the chances are pretty remote of it actually happeing. this'll be like micky ryan but worse.

    Have a look at a few of the Cissoko videos to bring you down to earth. He's a bulkier Djimi Traore imo


  • #300
    El Inho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭El Inho


    jethro081 wrote: »
    i don't know why i do this to myself. watching willian videos on youtube and looking at twitter every five minutes, when i know the chances are pretty remote of it actually happeing. this'll be like micky ryan but worse.

    I've gone past the tipping point...

    I'll now be surprised if we dont get Big Willy.


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  • #301
    Dickerty
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    mike65 wrote: »
    :D

    "Mike! Mike! A quick word for Sky Sports!
    How do you feel about Suarez's return to training? Will you be cheering him on when he returns to the side??"


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