Liverpool Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread Summer 2014 - Mod Warning post #6893

Shouldn't take the piss out of our selves but.........

I feel like I missed a chance for a decent yellow, tonight.

so, big andy for a hatrick on sunday..

murpho999 wrote: »

35 million would seem like a bargain if he did actually **** city over :L

what was the major news that was to be released? was that even today? or did I make it up? are those my feet?

Been really impressed with City these last few games. They have probably been buoyed by the Liverpool results but they have really gone about their business in a really patient, professional way.

Really have been a fan of Pelligrini who has led the way with his calmness. He comes across as a real gentleman, but obviously with a serious winning mentality.

They completely controlled the game last night and I expect them to cast aside West Ham in the same manner.

Personnally, I'm a big Liverpool fan, but it's still only football. You win some, you lose some. I have never been as entertained as a Liverpool fan as I have been the last 2 seasons.

This season, we nearly did, the closest in 24 years, and I had to keep checking myself because I was getting to carried away.

I firmly believe we will be close again next year with some new players and a manager that's very quick to learn from experience.

It's all comes down to the manager I think so cheers Brendan.

OwaynOTT wrote: »

what was the major news that was to be released? was that even today? or did I make it up? are those my feet?

"Major news" was typical Suarez related crap. Something about Real bid ... meg. As I said. ..so it begins

It looks likely now that Liverpool won't win it, hugely disappointing for ye. Know ye have seen huge strides made by the club and i actually think Rodgers is a great manager he's shown a lot if naiveity in last few weeks. We (utd) have had a few seasons where we've effectively thrown it away somewhat like Liverpool thus season and its gut wrenching.

Do ye now think that ye can push on next year or is this as good as it gets

Do you think Rodgers has to improve his transfer targets. Seems his signings have not established themselves and with Gerrard getting on a bit he'll need his signings to start pushing into the team

Do you think that you'll keep challenging for titles or have you broken into the top four.

I honestly think this was a season you may not see again where it was in your hands and ye threw it away at least not for a few more years anyway. Chelsea while it was rotten to watch found a way to play and beat ye and more clubs will try and copy this way of playing next year. Think city and chelsea will spend heavily next year and arsenal if they can keep their key players injury free and add strong midfielders will push on.

For ourselves im actually excited now, gonna be a big overhaul in club and with 4 or 5 players in we should be back challenging for top 4 next year

What's West hams record vs city like?

One thing that is really pissing me off as I read around is people saying Liverpool have "bottled it" or it's been a "title collapse"

That is really just the most incredibly inaccurate way of describing Liverpool's season. We will most likely finish the season having won 12, drawn 1 and lost 1 of our last 14 games. Including the longest winning run in the history of the premier league.

To win the league, it looks like we would have had to win 13 and draw 1 of our last 14 games. By not doing that we've collapsed? What nonsense.

The fact we have actually have come so close is something to be incredibly proud of, not something to be ridiculed (if anyone is being in any way genuine). Coming so close makes it hurt like ****, but it's still something to be proud of.

Even with the Crystal Palace game the other night, it wasn't a bottlejob. We'd done the hard thing by getting 3 nil up. We then went chasing goal difference, it was madness, aboslute madness, stupidity of the highest order, but hopefully the team & Rodgers will learn from it.

The simple fact is the league was pretty much lost when we lost to Chelsea, which there is never any shame in. Hopefully Rodgers and the team will also learn from that. But that's the only reason the Palace debacle happened, because we'd lost to Chelsea and knew we'd probably need goal difference so we went chasing it. We just seemingly forgot we actually can't really defend.

The desire from people who didn't want Liverpool to win the league etc to label it as a bottlejob, Rodgers as a fraud, the season as a fluke, players as playing better than they are etc etc is literally some of the most silly stuff I've ever seen or heard. The fact most of these people follow a club who've just had their worst season in modern times explains it somewhat but it's still silly.

Rodgers has proven beyond any doubt he is a fantastic manager. He has already this season shown that he can evolve and adapt so there's no reason to think the lessons of the last few weeks will be lost on him.

The likes of Henderson, Sterling and Sturridge have lived up to the potential that many have suspected they had in a massive way. There is no reason in the world to think that they won't go from strength to strength, particularly as their confidence, the squad & first team are bolstered.

Suarez has had arguably the greatest individual season in the history of the Premier League-yet was actually pretty average by his own standards for much of the second half of it. Every noise from his mouth since last summer is that he wants to get CL with Liverpool, which we've done, at a canter. As such, unless Real come in with a world record bid for him, I can't see either him nor the club being interested in a move.

Gerrard has shown that he can do something many of his critics thought he was incapable of, adapt to a more conservative role.

We now have something we've been missing the last number of years, the lure of CL football, the lure of players thinking they may genuinely be able to win a league title if they go to Liverpool, the lure of one of the youngest most dynamic managers in the game today (who's team play electric football) and much more money than we've been dealing with the last number of years.

Despite what some rival fans seem to be trying to tell themselves or us, it's a pretty awesome time to be a Liverpool fan. While there is nothing certain in football, there is good reason to be very positive about the future.

By my calculations if West Ham get a draw on Sunday, we only have to beat Newcatle by 13 and not 14 to win on Goals Scored.
Yay