Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14 Mod warning post#7005

Utopia Parkway · 20-02-2014 08:18PM

mike65 wrote: »

Anyone watching Konoplyanka? Probably the best player out there, some lovely touches and pace (left Dawson for dead a couple of times, okay not that hard). The pitch is a typical east European disgrace - he'd be brilliant on grass!

What odds Spurs sign him now in the Summer?

GTR63 · 20-02-2014 08:20PM

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

Some Aqua fella is looking fairly decent at the moment for Fiorentina (my dark horse for the EL despite Italian clubs not really taking it seriously over the years!) though.

If both them & Juve get through they'll face each other in the next round. That'd be fun.

Francie Barrett · 20-02-2014 08:25PM

Konoplyanka looks to have a few tricks alright, but he's saying in a fairly awful team relative to the Spurs reserves.

Nuri Sahin · 20-02-2014 08:25PM

GTR63 wrote: »

If both them & Juve get through they'll face each other in the next round. That'd be fun.

I take back what I say about dark horse so! Shame, watched a fair bit of them this season. Very entertaining team.

Nuri Sahin · 20-02-2014 08:38PM

Goloooooooplyanka!

*Ade sobs uncontrollably*

GTR63 · 20-02-2014 08:39PM

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

I take back what I say about dark horse so! Shame, watched a fair bit of them this season. Very entertaining team.

If they get Gomez fit & firing stranger things have happened. Montella is a fantastic manager imo. They miss G.Rossi though.
1-0, Konoplyanka peno

Agent Coulson · 20-02-2014 08:42PM

Well that's it then Spurs will try for Konoplyanka in the summer now.

happyoutscan · 20-02-2014 08:47PM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Well that's it then Spurs will try for Konoplyanka in the summer now.

Exactly my thoughts too.

Morzadec · 20-02-2014 08:47PM

Swansea going more or less full strength against Napoli.

Hopefully good news for us with some tired legs on Sunday

Nuri Sahin · 20-02-2014 08:52PM

He only does MOTM performances I swear. Only watched the last 30 minutes, but going by elsewhere, easily MOTM tonight.

mike65 · 20-02-2014 08:55PM

The only thing Kono lacked tonight was better players round him (and grass).

Francie Barrett · 20-02-2014 08:57PM

Yep, that pitch was a shocker even by Russian standards. You can see why we're in for him though, he's got the jinking runs and the cleverness in buckets.

Nuri Sahin · 20-02-2014 08:59PM

GTR63 wrote: »

If they get Gomez fit & firing stranger things have happened. Montella is a fantastic manager imo. They miss G.Rossi though.
1-0, Konoplyanka peno

Aye. Gutted for Rossi. I was open to Liverpool taking a punt on him despite his bad injury at Villarreal.

20-02-2014 09:06PM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Well that's it then Spurs will try for Konoplyanka in the summer now.

If they don't get top 4 they might not even be an option for him

DrumSteve · 20-02-2014 09:22PM

Veltman looks decent for ajax.

DrumSteve · 20-02-2014 09:23PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

If they don't get top 4 they might not even be an option for him

True that, though we should only go for him if we miss out on Robbie Keane.

Agent Coulson · 20-02-2014 09:25PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

If they don't get top 4 they might not even be an option for him

Or we both get top 4 and they try and bid for every single player we are linked with :eek: Which is a sacry thought really.

Milkers · 20-02-2014 09:29PM

googled eyes wrote: »

Just for sh1ts and giggles

Rafa was a fantastic manager for Liverpool.

I think Rodgers will be too.

marno21 · 20-02-2014 09:32PM

This Rafael lad playing in goals for Napoli is quite good, can't see Napoli hanging onto Reina and those wages if he keeps playing this well.

(even though Trevor Welch keeps calling him Cabral, suppose if he's commentating on LFC there's a Leiva fella playing DM. Although there's someone called Verm playing in goals for Swansea and Kieron Dyer is playing too)

marno21 · 20-02-2014 09:47PM

On another note, former keeper Peter Gulacsi started for Red Bull Salzburg who currently lead 3-0 away to Ajax

mav79 · 20-02-2014 09:57PM

https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/AFEC94E9571048367379215736832_1fba50347a3.4.8.12219895696080207576.mp4?versionId=.FsP116J1ZgGVQ2vqpaDKW1hdLSVFeC.
Kono just toying with Spurs.

Courtesy Flush · 20-02-2014 10:03PM

googled eyes wrote: »

Just for sh1ts and giggles

Amazing. And some people here still arent sure if Rodgers is the right man for the job :cool:

Seaba · 20-02-2014 10:06PM

mav79 wrote: »

https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/AFEC94E9571048367379215736832_1fba50347a3.4.8.12219895696080207576.mp4?versionId=.FsP116J1ZgGVQ2vqpaDKW1hdLSVFeC.
Kono just toying with Spurs.

I do like that burst of pace at the end. Left your man for dead in a split second

Morzadec · 20-02-2014 10:35PM

mav79 wrote: »

https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/AFEC94E9571048367379215736832_1fba50347a3.4.8.12219895696080207576.mp4?versionId=.FsP116J1ZgGVQ2vqpaDKW1hdLSVFeC.
Kono just toying with Spurs.

Right, f*ck that I'm convinced! Sign him up!

Slattsy · 20-02-2014 10:41PM

googled eyes wrote: »

Just for sh1ts and giggles

Rafa didnt have to contend with money bags City and to an extent Chelsea, and also Spurs were useless back then.

Makes what Rodgers is doing serious form.

djPSB · 20-02-2014 10:45PM

Slattsy wrote: »

Rafa didnt have to contend with money bags City and to an extent Chelsea, and also Spurs were useless back then.

Makes what Rodgers is doing serious form.

Rodgers also had that awful start to his first season.

Both excellent managers.

Charlie19 · 20-02-2014 11:05PM

Some difference in the goals, 53 more scored for Brendan. I would have thought Rafa had the better record but there's not much in it tbf.

mike65 · 20-02-2014 11:19PM

Cisse, Baros, Pongolle then Crouch were his strikers in the first 18 months.

Charlie19 · 20-02-2014 11:23PM

mike65 wrote: »

Cisse, Baros, Pongolle then Crouch were his strikers in the first 18 months.

Crouch the only striker he bought in that period?

Rodgers has bought Borini, Sturridge and Aspas.

Gbear · 20-02-2014 11:29PM

Charlie19 wrote: »

Some difference in the goals, 53 more scored for Brendan. I would have thought Rafa had the better record but there's not much in it tbf.

I suppose you only have to look what Rafa had up front in his first two seasons.

Was it Bellamy, Crouch, Baros, LeTallec, Pongolle and Garcia? (ETA Cisse, although he spent most of it injured).
Was Kuyt there the 2nd season?

As bad as we were last season (although there was of course lots of progress from the previous year), we were atrocious in the league in Rafa's first season.

Of course a large part of that was that we got to 2 cup finals, particularly the CL, but we finished 5th on 58 pts.
At the time that was our lowest pts total since 98/99 and, I think, the joint 3rd lowest points total we've had in the last 20 years.
If we'd lost in Istanbul Rafa would've had to face some very tough questions.

I'm surprised Rodgers has had more pts in that time. We must've finished the end of Rafa's second season very strongly because we ended up on 82 pts.

It is interesting that despite Rafa getting painted with the "defensive" brush, and Rodgers with the "attacking" one, Rodgers has drawn more games and lost fewer.

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