Liverpool Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 Mod Warning Post #6378

amiable · 17-04-2014 12:32PM

Ps, that account @Fydsy is a mate of a well known Sports Editor

whatawaster · 17-04-2014 12:34PM

We have Sturridge and Suarez.

Unless funds are nearly unlimited I doubt we will go for a marquee striker.

I don't think Costa would improve us enough to justify the fee and wages

rob316 · 17-04-2014 12:46PM

Every tabloid in England would piece together the fee for Costa for us just so they could have Suarez and Costa in the same team. The papers sold would be endless.

A Costa and Suarez strike force would be entertaining to say the least.

Fizman · 17-04-2014 12:52PM

I'd be pretty disappointed if we signed Costa.

If we are splashing that kind of cash and those kind of wages, I'd much rather it spent on areas where we absolutely need it......and imo another marquee striker is certainly down my pecking order right now.

googled eyes · 17-04-2014 12:52PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

Costa and Suarez in the same team would be pretty mental.

Other fans hate us already rarnes, they'd REALLY hate us if we hate the two of them playing for us

djPSB · 17-04-2014 12:56PM

amiable wrote: »

No I think he's on 160k until the summer and 200k come July

Oh Mama that Rooney £300k p/w looks even more ridiculous now..

murpho999 · 17-04-2014 12:57PM

If we signed Costa wouldn't Dunkin Donuts object?

djPSB · 17-04-2014 01:00PM

Fizman wrote: »

I'd be pretty disappointed if we signed Costa.

If we are splashing that kind of cash and those kind of wages, I'd much rather it spent on areas where we absolutely need it......and imo another marquee striker is certainly down my pecking order right now.

Moar goals!

Knex* · 17-04-2014 01:03PM

IT’S the small moments that give you the true measure of a man.

Leaving The Kop at the end of the memorial service via Back Rockfield Road (go on then, it’s the alley way down to ‘The’Arry’) we noticed a small gathering surrounding a van at the end of Lothair Road (boarded up houses, owned by the club, leads up to the park). There was a degree of commotion, a light hubbub.

The object of this? The cause? Roberto Martinez in amongst a huddle of Liverpool fans, phones aloft, dodging in and out of his embrace for opportunistic ‘selfies’.

We know how passionate, how moving, how heartfelt Martinez’s address at the memorial service had been; how he echoed his Chairman’s speech of the previous year in saying that ‘they took on the wrong city’. We knew that he just simply ‘got it’.
The applause that he received was warm, genuine, appropriate. It was for him and for the club that he stood as an emblem of, and everything that they and their supporters had done over the last quarter of a century.

This small moment on the corner of a street though was purely him and purely of the moment itself. He posed with fans not his own and he smiled and he shook hands and he chatted. And he was warm and sincere and personable and charismatic and instantly, obviously, likeable.

And in time he moved on. Up Lothair Road. Smilingly ignoring the cries of “Ey, Bobby lad, is Barkley comin’ then or wha’?” as he walked. To his waiting car, one would assume.

One would assume incorrectly. Roberto Martinez, the manager of Everton Football Club, the manager of our neighbours across Stanley Park, WALKED across that Park back to Goodison. Roberto Martinez, once linked with ourselves, supposedly once having turned down our approach, walked amongst thousands of Liverpool fans and shook hands and chatted and smiled and was charming and graceful and just basically an utterly nice guy.

That a man walks across a park in daylight seems such a small thing but tell me this: where else would this happen?
This happens here. Only here. On days as important as yesterday, on days when unity and support and understanding are everything, days where we demonstrate to all that Red or Blue we are, and always will be, one family.

The small moments are everything

http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2014/04/roberto-martinez-hillsborough-anfield/

I genuinely hope Everton get 4th this year. Can you imagine the buzz around the City of Liverpool then? Added to that, both Rodgers and Martinez are genuine football guys. Similar ethos, a passionate love for the game, and both come across as extremely likable and intelligent (Certainly, emotional intelligence is not something either lack in, just look at their speeches at the memorial for one thing).

Its a good time to be a fan of either team, and I for one hope we can reignite the rivalry of the 80's, with two fantastic Merseyside teams competing at the business end of English competitions. No two better men to be in charge of each team in such a rivalry either.

I can only imagine the sense of pride in Liverpool for both of these clubs at the moment. Long may it continue.

googled eyes · 17-04-2014 01:07PM

Jim Boardman ‏@JimBoardman 10h
Bit of a change in how Suarez gets written about. Not long ago this would be glossed over. From Thursday's Mirror..

donfers · 17-04-2014 01:21PM

googled eyes wrote: »

Phil McNulty at BBC still writing articles saying it was a massive dive when the clear evidence suggests otherwise - bbc journalistic standards falling tut tut

amiable · 17-04-2014 01:22PM

donfers wrote: »

Phil McNulty at BBC still writing articles saying it was a massive dive when the clear evidence suggests otherwise - bbc journalistic standards falling tut tut

McNulty **** over Jose Mourinho constantly

17-04-2014 01:24PM

amiable wrote: »

McNulty **** over Jose Mourinho constantly

And still manages to hold down a good job.

If Mourinho catches him though he's in trouble

amiable · 17-04-2014 01:26PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

And still manages to hold down a good job.

If Mourinho catches him though he's in trouble

What they do in the privacy of their own home is their business

knucklehead6 · 17-04-2014 01:30PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

And still manages to hold down a good job.

If Mourinho catches him though he's in trouble

going by the fact that he's still writing about a dive rather than a foul he might be able to hold down a good job, but may not necessarily be good at it!!

Guy:Incognito · 17-04-2014 01:33PM

Tip of a boot or not, it was a dive.

Gbear · 17-04-2014 01:34PM

donfers wrote: »

Phil McNulty at BBC still writing articles saying it was a massive dive when the clear evidence suggests otherwise - bbc journalistic standards falling tut tut

There's dives and there's dives.

Suarez threw himself to the floor under minimal contact. There may have been slight contact but the contact didn't lead to him falling on the floor.

I'm going to assume that Suarez gets fouled more than any other player in the league by a huge margin so he gets a lot of free kicks.
But he's **** at diving. Especially away from home, more understated flops to the floor would highlight the incident (as is his right) but not have the chance to blow back on him. Even if he just stopped pretending he was injured it would be enough.

It was the same with Dzeko and Sakho - it was a clear penalty but there was minimal contact and Dzeko had no real reason to go to the floor like he did.
It's only human nature that less will go your way if you piss the ref off. Suarez pissed the ref off. Thankfully not enough that he saw fit to book him for diving.

And that also highlights the problem with legislating for diving as well. I think Refs would be better off giving or not giving the foul but not have any recourse to give cards for it on the pitch.
Then, let it all get sorted after the game.

ciaranmac · 17-04-2014 01:39PM

K-9 wrote: »

Mad odds, they'd the best run in of the 3 teams and all they needed was 1 slip up from City.

They needed City to lose to us and drop points elsewhere, and then a win against us would do them.

Now City need Chelsea to beat us and drop points elsewhere.

We don't need anyone to do us favours.

googled eyes · 17-04-2014 01:47PM

The point is that Suarez is less the panto villian to the parts English press. He may go down easy on minimal contact. But they all do.

During the City game Niall Quinn commented that Dzeko should have been smarter and gone down earlier under Sakho's challenge. Can't have you're cake and eat it

8-10 · 17-04-2014 01:55PM

ciaranmac wrote: »

They needed City to lose to us and drop points elsewhere, and then a win against us would do them.

Now City need Chelsea to beat us and drop points elsewhere.

We don't need anyone to do us favours.

Neither do Chelsea in fairness. It's in their hands too. Win their 4 games they win the league, same as us.

Slattsy · 17-04-2014 01:57PM

Lads, any idea what winning the league and CL qualification is worth to a club?

Mickalus · 17-04-2014 01:59PM

Slattsy wrote: »

Lads, any idea what winning the league and CL qualification is worth to a club?

Bragging rights for starters

ronjo · 17-04-2014 01:59PM

Slattsy wrote: »

Lads, any idea what winning the league and CL qualification is worth to a club?

A nice shiny cup and tonnes of bragging rights.

knucklehead6 · 17-04-2014 02:01PM

8-10 wrote: »

Neither do Chelsea in fairness. It's in their hands too. Win their 4 games they win the league, same as us.

They needed favours before this though. City dropping those points last night is the only reason Chelsea have it back in their own hands

googled eyes · 17-04-2014 02:06PM

Slattsy wrote: »

Lads, any idea what winning the league and CL qualification is worth to a club?

For 2012/13 Utd got a prize of £15m odd for winning plus about the same in tv rights.

Plus champions league qualification ( advertising etc)

Prob around £50-60m ?

Dickerty · 17-04-2014 02:07PM

ciaranmac wrote: »

We don't need anyone to do us favours.

But if some other teams wanted to take points off them, that would be fine with me...

Guy:Incognito · 17-04-2014 02:13PM

Chelsea could be good sports and do us a favour by not scoring at Anfield.

Mickalus · 17-04-2014 02:17PM

OK so real answer this time Slattsy...
Going on previous posts here, league winners get £100 million, CL qualification worth £30 mil, more the further you go.

Anyone got official numbers?

googled eyes · 17-04-2014 02:21PM

Last years money table

So winners prize plus tv money plus Prem League money of £33 Plus CL Qualification

What is CL Qualification worth ? £30

So like Mickalus said around £100m

Eight Ball · 17-04-2014 02:30PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Tip of a boot or not, it was a dive.

There was contact thus a foul. Suarez went down easy but they all do. I don't like when players go down easy but tbh every team has them so fans getting worked up about other teams players doing it is hilarious to me.

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