Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Warning in OP, 10/12

klose wrote: »

Mignolet, Johnson, Skrtel, Kolo, Moreno, Henderson, Lucas, Lallana, Coutinho, Markovic, Lambert


Rumoured to be the team, rodgers going for the least immobile first eleven for god knows why. Looks a 4231 to me also.

Ugh...my sense of impending doom just got waaaay worse.

Kolo and Lambert are not fit for football at this level imho

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Lucas starting? Great. Cant wait for all the free kicks outside our box so.

Maybe, but at least he'd put a tackle in unlike Gerrard who just watched as Ronaldo ghosted by him in the first game.

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Mentioned him yesterday, if he could turn that Palace rabble round he could do great things at Liverpool. Imagine the reaction if he got the gig as a coach!

It would also spice up games with Arsenal

Not looking forward to the game tonight. We do need our younger players to play for the experience. If we brought in all these young players we should just play them.
Staying well clear of the match thread. It was a disgrace the last time.

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Houllier beat the likes of Roma / Barca; won a European trophy and got within a few minutes of the CL Semi
Benitez beat everyone and has us top of the European tree

From 2000 through 2010 we were a competitive, feared side in Europe. That's a full decade in the recent past.

Crucially, under both Houllier and Benitez there was never the lack of belief and cripplingly low European expectations that Rodgers seems to have instilled in the players and fans. :mad:

And we virtually never had to play a team like this Real side.

And never when we had a team this ****.

Rodgers says its highly unlikely Sturridge will be in the match squad tonight but does that mean he could feature against Chelsea? Chelsea don't look as tight as last season I really think we could cause an upset on Saturday or at the least get a point if he does feature.

Cant imagine rodgers bringing back his predocessors right hand man would ever happen, step backwards anyways.

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Houllier beat the likes of Roma / Barca; won a European trophy and got within a few minutes of the CL Semi
Benitez beat everyone and has us top of the European tree

From 2000 through 2010 we were a competitive, feared side in Europe. That's a full decade in the recent past.

Crucially, under both Houllier and Benitez there was never the lack of belief and cripplingly low European expectations that Rodgers seems to have instilled in the players and fans. :mad:

I would argue the standards of the giants in Europe is a lot higher to back then. Real and Bayern are in a different league to everyone else in Europe currently. I mean compare the team we had in 09 to now and then compare the Real team in 09 we tonked 5-0 to there current team.

We were top of the tree because we had the players a spine of Reina, Carragher, Agger, Mascherano, Alsonso, Torres and Gerrard was world class.

We went into decline at the end of Rafa's term and then further into decline under Roy/Kenny. We have a lot of rebuilding to do to our European rep.

rarnes1 wrote: »

I can see where Lloyd is coming from and tbh if we weren't beaten so easily by Madrid at home a few weeks ago I might have some hope even if it was tiny.

Personally I think they are the best team in Europe and there's a huge gap between us, massive.

However I'd like to see us at least put up a decent fight and press hard for 90 mins. This is the CL after all and we still have a great chance of qualifying

Agree with most of this - seems pointless getting excited about qualifying if we're basically putting out a B side against one of the best teams on the planet.

Wouldn't be at all confident about us taking 6 points from the remaining games either

Bowlardo wrote: »

Sometime you have to hedge you bets. I would take a hammering tonight if it meant gettign a draw/win against Chelsea on Sunday.

We were alway going to get beat by Madrid twice and it was going to be about bettering the other two.

I have every confidence we can beat basel at home with sturridge back.
It will (hopefully) come down to the last game which will be extrememly difficult to beat that team away from home. We can do it. you never know maybe a draw will be enough

Why not do soemthing crazy & play our best team for both games :P. There is 4 days between the Real & the Chelsea game.

Is Chelsea this weekend?



Oh sweet Jesus....

K-9 wrote: »

Do you ever actually read and look and what you wrote.

We're after nearly winning a Premier League title and we get this crap.

It's our first season back and Rafa and Houllier had poor seasons in Europe too.

How many 3 - 0 defeats at home (or defeats by three goals) did we suffer in Europe under Houllier and Benitez?

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Got beaten by Celtic 2-0 in the UEFA Cup in 2003 and that's deffo worse!

The same Celtic team who got to the Final and only lost to the Champions League winners of the following season led by, arguably, the best manager in the world?

Ok.....

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

How many 3 - 0 defeats at home (or defeats by three goals) did we suffer in Europe under Houllier and Benitez?

Does the quality of the opposition come into consideration? Is a 3-0 home defeat to Real Madrid worse than a 2-0 home defeat to Celtic?