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

mike65 · 12-06-2014 03:04PM

Sure we all knew that was coming. I've already decided Chelsea are the winners of PL 2014/15 - its just the race to finish 2nd now.

Knex* · 12-06-2014 03:04PM

Vicxas wrote: »

Fabregas just signed for Chelsea, christ...

Bastids.

I hope the whole Costa and Fabregas thing goes worse for them than Ballack and Shevchenko.

I don't see it, though.

gafferino · 12-06-2014 03:08PM

Vicxas wrote: »

Fabregas just signed for Chelsea, christ...

Utopia Parkway · 12-06-2014 03:12PM

Vicxas wrote: »

Fabregas just signed for Chelsea, christ...

Bit of a sickener if you are an Arsenal fan. Could never imagine him playing for anyone else in England.

I'm not convinced Mourinho actually wanted Fabregas to be honest but it's gone ahead anyway.

jasonb · 12-06-2014 03:13PM

Ah, the GIF that reminds me that Hollywood came up with the Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down system, no-one actually knows what the thumb signal was back then...

J.

Nerdlingr · 12-06-2014 03:14PM

They'll have some team next season!

rob316 · 12-06-2014 03:16PM

Don't worry lads we will finish ahead of them again next season.

Dickerty · 12-06-2014 03:19PM

So their back 4 is still set.
Matic, Fabregas and Ramires in midfield.
Hazard, Costa and Willian in attack.

With Oscar, Torres, Salah, Schurrle, Ba, Lukaku all in reserve.

I hope they sell Lukaku and put all their eggs in the Costa basket, and it doesn't work...

Knex* · 12-06-2014 03:20PM

jasonb wrote: »

Ah, the GIF that reminds me that Hollywood came up with the Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down system, no-one actually knows what the thumb signal was back then...

J.

According to Twitter back in the day, they used to have a thumb war with the Emperor. Best out of three.

Nuri Sahin · 12-06-2014 03:24PM

Dickerty wrote: »

So their back 4 is still set.
Matic, Fabregas and Ramires in midfield.
Hazard, Costa and Willian in attack.

With Oscar, Torres, Salah, Schurrle, Ba, Lukaku all in reserve.

I hope they sell Lukaku and put all their eggs in the Costa basket, and it doesn't work...

Now imagine if they had a manager who strives to play attacking football with those players at his disposal.

That's not to say Mourinho won't win nowt with his football, before the Mourinho fanboys come wading in!

slingerz · 12-06-2014 03:24PM

Dickerty wrote: »

So their back 4 is still set.
Matic, Fabregas and Ramires in midfield.
Hazard, Costa and Willian in attack.

With Oscar, Torres, Salah, Schurrle, Ba, Lukaku all in reserve.

I hope they sell Lukaku and put all their eggs in the Costa basket, and it doesn't work...

Fabregas should be going into my FF team anyway

kevohmsford · 12-06-2014 03:25PM

Bloody hell Fabregas and Costa gone to Chelsea.

Washington Irving · 12-06-2014 03:27PM

Cech, Courtois, Azpilicueta, Terry, Cahill, Luiz, Ivanovic, Matic, Ramires, Lampard, Hazard, Oscar, Willian, Salah, Schurrle, Fabregas, Victory Moses, Costa, Lukaku < Being Galvanised.

Dickerty · 12-06-2014 03:29PM

The scary thing is, with the money they got for Mata and De Bruyne, they have not actually spent a great deal...

Agent Coulson · 12-06-2014 03:30PM

I don't know anyone is surprised with Chelsea signing these players.

They cleared out huge wages earners this summer and got crazy money for Luiz.

They were and are going to be the big spenders in England this transfer window even out spending City.

Utopia Parkway · 12-06-2014 03:30PM

Dickerty wrote: »

The scary thing is, with the money they got for Mata and De Bruyne, they have not actually spent a great deal...

You're forgetting the certifiably insane money they got for Luiz.

Knex* · 12-06-2014 03:33PM

A non Liverpool related net spend discussion.

Hmm.

Dickerty · 12-06-2014 03:37PM

11 seasons ago, they did this -

Paulo Ferreira - £13,200,000
Arjen Robben - £12,000,000
Peter Cech - £7,000,000
Scott Parker - £10,000,000
Claude Makelele - £16,600,000
Hernan Crespo - £16,800,000
Adrian Mutu - £15,800,000
Joe Cole - £6,600,000
Juan Veron - £15,000,000
Wayne Bridge - £7,000,000
Damien Duff - £17,000,000
Geremi - £7,000,000
Glen Johnson - £6,000,000

Total £150,000,000

Dickerty · 12-06-2014 03:37PM

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

You're forgetting the certifiably insane money they got for Luiz.

Of course! I forgot that one. They were in credit in Jan, and over Jan and this summer so far, they are about even...

A2LUE42 · 12-06-2014 03:40PM

Dickerty wrote: »

11 seasons ago, they did this -

Paulo Ferreira - £13,200,000
Arjen Robben - £12,000,000
Peter Cech - £7,000,000
Scott Parker - £10,000,000
Claude Makelele - £16,600,000
Hernan Crespo - £16,800,000
Adrian Mutu - £15,800,000
Joe Cole - £6,600,000
Juan Veron - £15,000,000
Wayne Bridge - £7,000,000
Damien Duff - £17,000,000
Geremi - £7,000,000
Glen Johnson - £6,000,000

Total £150,000,000

That is quite a mixed bag in retrospect.

Agueroooo · 12-06-2014 03:45PM

actually I'm calling it now..

If Chelsea win the league and Arsenal are in contention then Wenger will be gone this time next year.

This could be the final straw for many.

Mickeroo · 12-06-2014 03:48PM

Dickerty wrote: »

11 seasons ago, they did this -

Paulo Ferreira - £13,200,000
Arjen Robben - £12,000,000
Peter Cech - £7,000,000
Scott Parker - £10,000,000
Claude Makelele - £16,600,000
Hernan Crespo - £16,800,000
Adrian Mutu - £15,800,000
Joe Cole - £6,600,000
Juan Veron - £15,000,000
Wayne Bridge - £7,000,000
Damien Duff - £17,000,000
Geremi - £7,000,000
Glen Johnson - £6,000,000

Total £150,000,000

Show's how crazy the market has gone since then. Not one of those players would have been under 15m by today's standards and very few would have been under 20.

djPSB · 12-06-2014 03:50PM

Agueroooo wrote: »

actually I'm calling it now..

If Chelsea win the league and Arsenal are in contention then Wenger will be gone this time next year.

This could be the final straw for many.

Arsenal would be a bigger danger if Wenger wasn't there imo.

Imagine them with a manager like Klopp..

Francie Barrett · 12-06-2014 03:53PM

For extra trollage, it looks like Fabregas will count as a home grown player for Chelsea next season :pac:

Given how much Chelsea stuttered last season and the fact that their strikers were rubbish, I think with these additions, I've mentally prepared myself for the fact that both they and City will finish ahead of us. Given that our rivals will be Arsenal/United, I think we should be grateful that Fabregas hasn't ended up with either of them.

slingerz · 12-06-2014 03:59PM

Francie Barrett wrote: »

For extra trollage, it looks like Fabregas will count as a home grown player for Chelsea next season :pac:

Given how much Chelsea stuttered last season and the fact that their strikers were rubbish, I think with these additions, I've mentally prepared myself for the fact that both they and City will finish ahead of us. Given that our rivals will be Arsenal/United, I think we should be grateful that Fabregas hasn't ended up with either of them.

Stall the digger there now Tommy, Matic/Ramires/Fabregas against Gerrard/Henderson/Lallana for example for pretty comparable really.

Especially as we have Suarez

Knex* · 12-06-2014 04:00PM

Fabregas to be sold to United in January for 70m, for not pressing or tracking back enough.

Knex* · 12-06-2014 04:00PM

slingerz wrote: »

Stall the digger there now Tommy, Matic/Ramires/Fabregas against Gerrard/Henderson/Lallana for example for pretty comparable really.

Especially as we have Suarez

I laughed. Perhaps more than I should have, going by the judgmental stares I received in work.

Augmerson · 12-06-2014 04:06PM

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Given that our rivals will be Arsenal/United

Just being pedantic I suppose but I reckon it'll be Arsenal/Everton again as rivals with Spurs/Utd/Soton following up. The right appointment at Spurs or Soton is crucial and likewise the right buys for United, not that LVG seems too bothered. Probably too busy with World Cup.

whatawaster · 12-06-2014 04:08PM

Agueroooo wrote: »

actually I'm calling it now..

If Chelsea win the league and Arsenal are in contention then Wenger will be gone this time next year.

This could be the final straw for many.

Would have been a strange purchase for them.

They have Ramsey, Ozil, Wilshere, Cazorla, Oxlade-Chamberlain all capable of playing that attacking midfield role that Fabregas is best at.

They need players in many other positions more than they need Fabregas

Agueroooo · 12-06-2014 04:10PM

whatawaster wrote: »

Would have been a strange purchase for them.

They have Ramsey, Ozil, Wilshere, Cazorla, Oxlade-Chamberlain all capable of playing that attacking midfield role that Fabregas is best at.

They need players in many other positions more than they need Fabregas

Injuries to the above players (like a fair few seasons now) probably cost them a great crack at the title last season.

Cesc would have helped immensely imo.

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

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