Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Note in OP, 1/09

Gerrard isn't the issue. Far more pressing problems tbh.

Mr Alan wrote: »

You're probably messing but bad defeats to Madrid & Chelsea & the Jan window looming...stranger things have happened

I'm really not though.
These Americans have no patience. Never gave Kenny a right chance, and they won't wait much longer for Brendan to turn things around.

I'd take Rafa back right now if I had the chance.

Makes it all the worse when you see how badly the new signings are doing. Markovic not even on the bench, lallana not even getting a game. Lovren looking the biggest waste of money since caroll.

Rodgers needs to do something ASAP but he will obviously persist with the same players next week.

Fair enough going to a tricky ground and trying to keep it tight.

It just won't work if you give away as stupid a goal as Moreno did. ****ing daft.

Still, if you lose a game because you concede 2 chances then it's your attack that's the problem. Did we create any chances at all in the game?

If you have several goal threats in midfield and pose a threat from direct and indirect set pieces then you can make do without a top goalscorer.

The team that lined out had no goals in it though, from any source.

Coutinho, Sterling and Balotelli never got going because Allen and Henderson didn't allow them to. They were terrible. Especially Allen.

Those two aside I think pretty much everyone played fairly well.
Even Moreno was largely excellent up until those two awful errors that lead to Newcastle's two goals. Hopefully he irons those sorts of mistakes out. He needs to be more decisive when he has to make a challenge in dangerous areas.

Chelsea and Real are going to utterly destroy us.

It would be a great shame to see Rodgers getting sacked. We played some great stuff last year. We would have beaten that Newcastle team handy enough last year.
If we get rid of him who could be possibly bring in.

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Gerrard isn't the issue. Far more pressing problems tbh.

Exactly. Gerrard & Balotelli were likely our best two players today which sums up the problems we have.

Balotelli needs to have someone beside him up top, Rodgers still hasn't copped this.

If we don't make top 4, FSG will sack Rodgers regardless of how stupid some people think it is.

That's the first time i've seen Liverpool for 90 minutes this season. I was shocked at how abject and disinterested they were.

Something stinks really badly. The body language of the players, something is badly, badly wrong there.

It can't all be Suarez.

Balotelli is just a scapegoat. He was better then a lot of Liverpool players today.

That being said, we should have had at least one red card so who knows what happens if the referee did his job.

Moneymaker wrote: »

That's the first time i've seen Liverpool for 90 minutes this season. I was shocked at how abject and disinterested they were.

Something stinks really badly. The body language of the players, something is badly, badly wrong there.

It can't all be Suarez.

Balotelli is just a scapegoat. He was better then a lot of Liverpool players today.

That being said, we should have had at least one red card so who knows what happens if the referee did his job.

Probably two red cards but I still think Liverpool would have lost.

I cannot understand why Rodgers won't pick his strongest team.Lallana should be playing. He should know his best 11 at this stage. We have Real Madrid and Chelsea next but I am sure he will be judged on our league position.

Dressing room?

Stargate wrote: »

Problem is , we have Madrid and Chelsea next , can't see it getting any better anytime soon . He hasn't learnt anything since the start of the season.

Playing ONE upfront is nuts .

I wouldnt be surprised if he rested Lallana for Madrid away. That's how naive i think Rodgers actually might be. If he is going to play the game of playing the same stuff week after week in the hope of turning it around we will be nowhere near CL football next season, we will be too far back and relying on collapses elsewhere.

And to the people throwing their nose up at the Carling Cup and playing in the Europa League this week, that's the best we'll be getting this year the way we're playing.

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Remember how smug everyone was about how we took all Southampton's best players?

Talking about...

Nobody was smug, Lallana is a good player and should start. Lovern was one of the better CB's in the league.

Sterling out wide.
Balotelli up top on his own.
no Lallana.

just some of Rodgers' baffling decisions, and that's only today.

to say I'm getting concerned with his performance this year is an understatement.

He's the biggest underperformer at the club right now.