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

quarryman · 11-11-2014 05:03PM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

And so it begins.........

Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling good enough to play for Barcelona, says Xavi.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/11/liverpool-raheem-sterling-barcelona-xavi

The way they spin that is hilarious:

Guardian journo: Is Sterling good enough to play for Barcelona one day?
Xavi: Yeah why not.

What was he supposed to say? "No, he'll never be good enough".
He just gave the "safe" reply.

Charlie19 · 11-11-2014 06:03PM

googled eyes wrote: »

Let's be honest, contracts ain't worth **** these days

Yeah but the idea is right.

greendom wrote: »

Especially when you can lie about their contents

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~Rebel~ · 11-11-2014 06:22PM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

I was listening to Tony Barrett on a podcast this morning and he said these are the players Rodgers wanted this Summer!!

Lovren.
Lallana.
Lambert.
Markovic.

These are the players he did not want that were signed by the transfer committee.

Can.
Moreno.
Manquillo.

All they could find with time left in the transfer window.

Balotelli.

Listened to this as well (was the Second Captains podcast), the way I interpreted it was this was Tony's opinion, not a fact he had from a source.

For Moreno for example, his reason for him being one Rodgers maybe hadn't wanted was that Rodgers had also been looking at other fullbacks - but obviously that doesn't necessarily mean that Moreno wasn't wanted. For every position we should be (and are, i'm sure) looking at multiple targets.

11-11-2014 06:26PM

Sir Gallagher · 11-11-2014 06:30PM

Charlie19 wrote: »

Yeah but the idea is right.

Well to be fair if the player wants a move, the players agent could easily leak the contents of the contract.

11-11-2014 06:40PM

In fairness going by word of mouth without checking a contracts contents is/was pretty stupid and naive

SlickRic · 11-11-2014 06:45PM

On Sterling/Barca, all I've got to say is...

Suarez ain't a dummy.

MonkeyTennis · 11-11-2014 06:48PM

theres no way Sterling would move to Spain. It would be too much hassle to uproot all his kids.

11-11-2014 07:10PM

Sterling might have to start performing for us before he goes anywhere! He's been poor this season overall tbh

11-11-2014 07:41PM

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

theres no way Sterling would move to Spain. It would be too much hassle to uproot all his kids.

Maybe he's starting a new team with them all. Player manager role

hefferboi · 11-11-2014 08:02PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

Sterling might have to start performing for us before he goes anywhere! He's been poor this season overall tbh

He was excellent and our best player in August and September. Funnily enough, his form dipped around the time he was "tired" on England duty.

Fcuking Roy Hodgson acting like a helmet as usual.

5starpool · 11-11-2014 08:07PM

He's 19, I'm not blaming Hodgson for tiring him out.

Chucky the tree · 11-11-2014 08:08PM

5starpool wrote: »

He's 19, I'm not blaming Hodgson for tiring him out.

He might be referring to the possible fan/media backlash knocking the kids confidence a bit.

11-11-2014 08:11PM

He's not getting much help from Ballotelli tbf. He has a great understanding with Sturridge

Turtyturd · 11-11-2014 08:14PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

He's not getting much help from Ballotelli tbf. He has a great understanding with Sturridge

Sterling seems reluctant to pass to him a lot of the time tbh.

ricero · 11-11-2014 08:15PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

Jasus I miss carra terribly

Blatter · 11-11-2014 08:16PM

Good article here that touches on Liverpool's defensive problems.

http://gemsandrhinestones.com/

5starpool · 11-11-2014 08:18PM

Chucky the tree wrote: »

He might be referring to the possible fan/media backlash knocking the kids confidence a bit.

Oh well in that case, I'm on board that train.

Devilman40k · 11-11-2014 08:39PM

hefferboi wrote: »

He was excellent and our best player in August and September. Funnily enough, his form dipped around the time he was "tired" on England duty.

Fcuking Roy Hodgson acting like a helmet as usual.

Or maybe it dipped the moment Sturridge got injured. Balotelli doesn't give Sterling the space due to his lack of movement or work rate leaving Sterling stuck on the wing.

Agent Coulson · 11-11-2014 08:42PM

Or maybe Sterling doesn't give Balotelli the support he needs down the middle because the manager has told him to stay out on the wing affecting both their form and not using eithers strenghts to help the other.

~Rebel~ · 11-11-2014 09:58PM

Devilman40k wrote: »

Or maybe it dipped the moment Sturridge got injured. Balotelli doesn't give Sterling the space due to his lack of movement or work rate leaving Sterling stuck on the wing.

You can see in pretty much every game that Balotelli is being specifically told to stay centre. he said it himself in an interview that it's something he has to get used to, and every time you see him drift wide, you also see Rodgers gesticulating for him to go back inside.

I'd say its very frustrating for him to be honest. I don't know why we're playing the way we are...all of our teams movement is weird, and largely out of character.

klose · 11-11-2014 10:08PM

Whoever this guy is who wrote the article hit the nail firmly on the head for me

http://liverpoolworld.com/articles/nov-2014/permanently-in-transition

5starpool · 11-11-2014 10:16PM

klose wrote: »

Whoever this guy is who wrote the article hit the nail firmly on the head for me

http://liverpoolworld.com/articles/nov-2014/permanently-in-transition

That was hard to read. Looks like a website from 1999.

~Rebel~ · 11-11-2014 10:19PM

klose wrote: »

Whoever this guy is who wrote the article hit the nail firmly on the head for me

http://liverpoolworld.com/articles/nov-2014/permanently-in-transition

To a point (although he did get the timing of Robbie Keane's signing wrong - he was with us for the first 6 months of the great Rafa year, not the following year).

The writer here though is a bit pie in the sky though, with regards to getting people like Cesc or Costa - I mean, Costa wouldn't even join us the previous year when we met his buy out clause, and that was before he went on and had an amazing scoring record the next season. You can only really attract those players if you're willing to throw huge sums of money around, and are also a hugely attractive club (trophies, location etc). I definitely think we should have aimed higher in certain categories alright though, but the finished world class article was never really a likelihood.

Some of the criticisms are perfectly fair, but i think the article is a little too simplistic.

<edit> Also, i'm now seeing white lines everywhere i look.

Hoki · 11-11-2014 10:36PM

~Rebel~ wrote: »

Listened to this as well (was the Second Captains podcast), the way I interpreted it was this was Tony's opinion, not a fact he had from a source.

For Moreno for example, his reason for him being one Rodgers maybe hadn't wanted was that Rodgers had also been looking at other fullbacks - but obviously that doesn't necessarily mean that Moreno wasn't wanted. For every position we should be (and are, i'm sure) looking at multiple targets.

I was going to post something similar myself. It didn't come across as 'matter of fact' whatsoever imo, he basically said that Rodgers indeed wanted the Southampton trio + Markovic yet he 'thought' question marks remained over whether Rodgers wanted Moreno & Manquillo . To me it was just his opinion on the matter .

Knex* · 11-11-2014 10:50PM

5starpool wrote: »

That was hard to read. Looks like a website from 1999.

Even has a web page hit counter. Retro mo'fo.

citytillidie · 12-11-2014 07:18AM

Anyone else up to join the ticket madness for Burnley

Boom_Bap · 12-11-2014 09:42AM

Just been reading some transfer gossip. There are 2 players that by all accounts will be available in Jan.

Schurrle & Mata.

Schurrle - I would jump at this, he's quality. Sign him up.
Mata - I know before he signed for Chelsea, there were alot of people here that wanted him real bad. He was top drawer for Chelsea, but I havent really been paying attention to his time at Utd. From what I understand, it's either him or Rooney that plays in the starting 11, and we all know who wins that.
Given the both CFC and UTD (seemingly) are willing to let him go easily, I expect that he may be some sort of royal ar$ehole to deal with. Would that be a correct assessment?

12-11-2014 09:45AM

citytillidie wrote: »

Anyone else up to join the ticket madness for Burnley

Got 2, then realised I probably can't make it!

The Moldy Gowl · 12-11-2014 09:49AM

Mata is going nowhere. Dont know where you heard utd will easily let him go.

Same as schurrle.

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