Liverpool Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Note in OP 28/8

Augmerson wrote: »

Under the Skin leaves little to the imagination. I kind of wish I hadn't seen her naked. It's like living all your life yearning to see the face of God and dying only to find out he looks like one of the Mitchell brothers.

She looked a lot better before she was in Iron Man 2 and the Avengers. She got all self conscious about the skin tight cat suit and lost a ton of weight. Unfortunately, a lot of it came out of her chest. Some women just look a better with a bit of extra weight. Look at Christina Hendricks as another example.

And er ye....4-3-3, net spend, The Rodgers, Suarez replacement, etc. et.c

jasonb wrote: »

Love TP's books, have read all the Discworld ones (reading the latest one at the moment) and his collection of short stories too.

Love when he takes something from our world and sees how Discworld handles it (like Music, Movies and Football)...

J.

Liked music with rocks in it. Loved Moving pictures and all those elephants.
Unseen Academicals was a big disappointment. It seemed like it had all the ingredients to be one of my favourite books such as wizards, football and pratchett but it ended up something like Augmersons feeling about ScarJo tits.

ASOT wrote: »

Just seen this on facebook and it makes me very happy, i could think of one or two more to stick in also!

"Ibe - 18
Sterling - 19
Origi - 19
Can - 20
Markovic - 20
Ilori - 21
Flanagan - 21
Coutinho - 22
Sturridge - 24
Henderson - 24
Sakho - 24
Lovren - 25
Future is great at Anfield!"

Forgot Flanno was so young. Thought he was around 23-24. If he keeps on improving we could have a very good full back that can cover both sides for years to come and in the World Cup 2022 he can start in midfield for England after being moved there by Rodgers for Liverpool in the previous season.

Forgot Flanno was so young. Thought he was around 23-24. If he keeps on improving we could have a very good full back that can cover both sides for years to come and in the World Cup 2022 he can start in midfield for England after being moved there by Rodgers for Liverpool in the previous season.

Yes he can be excellent cover in either position, happy to see him in cup games etc. Athletically he seems to have peaked, maybe more to come in terms of technique if he works on crossing etc, but you cannot doubt his commitment to the shirt and that goes a long way imo

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Liked music with rocks in it. Loved Moving pictures and all those elephants.
Unseen Academicals was a big disappointment. It seemed like it had all the ingredients to be one of my favourite books such as wizards, football and pratchett but it ended up something like Augmersons feeling about ScarJo's tits.

Moving Pictures was the first one I read, thought it was excellent, loved all the references, like 'Gone With The Wind' being called 'Blown Away'! I know what you mean about Unseen Academicals, I have found some of his later books to not be quite as good, but that might just be because of high expectations.

Find it hard to get too excited about buying a player we won't see for a year. But at least it sorts out next season's 'like a new signing' quotes already!

J.

Striker Rickie Lambert, 32, was signed for £4m from Southampton
Midfielder Adam Lallana, 25, was signed for £25m from Southampton
Midfielder Emre Can, 20, was signed for £10m from Bayer Leverkusen
Winger Lazar Markovic, 20, was signed for £20m from Benfica
Defender Dejan Lovren, 25, was signed for £20m from Southampton
Striker Divock Origi, 19, was signed for £10m from Lille

Guts of £90M spent on those 6 players with the prospect of maybe 2 more to come (probably a full back and another striker). When you look at what we've spent, and indeed, what other clubs have spent, I don't think any of the top 6 can say they haven't supported their manager. The problem is that there's only 4 spots for 6 clubs. Have to say I am more nervous about this season than last year. The expectation this year is a top 4 finish.

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Striker Rickie Lambert, 32, was signed for £4m from Southampton
Midfielder Adam Lallana, 25, was signed for £25m from Southampton
Midfielder Emre Can, 20, was signed for £10m from Bayer Leverkusen
Winger Lazar Markovic, 20, was signed for £20m from Benfica
Defender Dejan Lovren, 25, was signed for £20m from Southampton
Striker Divock Origi, 19, was signed for £10m from Lille

Guts of £90M spent on those 6 players with the prospect of maybe 2 more to come (probably a full back and another striker). When you look at what we've spent, and indeed, what other clubs have spent, I don't think any of the top 6 can say they haven't supported their manager. The problem is that there's only 4 spots for 6 clubs. Have to say I am more nervous about this season than last year. The expectation this year is a top 4 finish.

Some of those figures can be assumed to be a bit inflated, e.g. Lallana. That said, there's still a substantial outlay there. it will be interesting to see who else will come in given there should still be the Suarez money available and possibly funds from some sales.

MR NINE wrote: »

You can add suso wisdom and Mignolet to that list, the majority of our squad is mid 20s or younger. A lot of the older ones are people who are not hugely important members of the squad such as agger Lucas Lambert Johnson. Gerrard and maybe skrtel are the only important members of the squad who are older than I would like

Unfortunately, until someone realises how little he actually contributes and buys some quality in his position, we have to assume Johnson is important to the squad.

Agueroooo wrote: »

Anyone else think we are trying to be a little too smart in the transfer market?

Yea quality young players and I've heard them been labelled rough diamonds, and we're hoping they are the next big thing.

But sometimes when you have the money you should just buy the polished/finished item.

Some of these expensive 'rough diamond' signings inevitably won't reach ours (or their) expectations, so it's a bit of a false economy.

I don't see too many polished/finished items out there who we could realistically buy.

People have pointed out Griezmann over Markovic, and maybe they have a point. But enough people have talked about Markovic being one of the top 5 talents in Europe for me to think that our scouts simply think he is a better player.

5starpool wrote: »

They have all cost various amounts with nothing confirmed, so people will use a variety of figures. General opinion seems to be that it's up to 25 as far as I can see.

I'd have to wonder though how Bournemouth got a 25% sell on clause for a 12 year old? Is that type of thing standard for kids that age?

No 5star it's only if your kids turn out to be professional footballers. Otherwise you get hardly anything if you sell them on.