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

Utopia Parkway · 11-12-2014 11:35PM

Charlie19 wrote: »

Or another way to look at it, would be to say he was very foolish for giving the ref an excuse to send him off.

I'm sure he thought he was just fending off an opponent like normal. I doubt he thought a red card was even a remote possibility. Especially for basically flicking the tip of his nose.

Charlie19 · 11-12-2014 11:37PM

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

If we get Sturridge back, winning the Europa League might be our best shot at CL football next year.

I dont know about that. Judging on how our rivals for the top four have been playing, I'm still hopeful on getting fourth.

Utd have had a gun run but were terrible in some of those games.

redzerdrog · 11-12-2014 11:37PM

MD1990 wrote: »

We all know who certain posters would be cheering for:p.

Liverpool id imagine

OwaynOTT · 11-12-2014 11:38PM

Charlie19 wrote: »

This is who we could potentially face:
Borussia Moenchengladbach, Club Brugge, Besiktas, Red Bull Salzburg, Dinamo Moscow, Inter Milan, Feyenoord, Napoli, Dynamo Kiev, Fiorentina, Legia Warsaw, Sporting Lisbon, Olympiakos, Zenit St Petersburg, Athletic Bilbao.

Some very tricky ties there.

Napoli just for the crack on this thread.

Looking at those, we could go quite far in this competition. All the way to Moscow or St. Petersburg.

Charlie19 · 11-12-2014 11:40PM

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

I'm sure he thought he was just fending off an opponent like normal. I doubt he thought a red card was even a remote possibility. Especially for basically flicking the tip of his nose.

I know what you're saying but after looking at replays, he had two good looks to see where the player was and I think he gave the player a reason to make the most of it.

klose · 11-12-2014 11:51PM

Charlie19 wrote: »

Or another way to look at it, would be to say he was very foolish for giving the ref an excuse to send him off.

Well i dont think he went to swing for him or anything like that and fending off players is common practice and he just made a bit of a balls of it. No biggie in my books anyways, was impressed by his cameo all the same and hoping to see more of him from now on.

brevity · 11-12-2014 11:52PM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/11288976/Liverpools-Adam-Lallana-playing-through-pain-barrier-with-two-broken-ribs.html

Lallana has been injured since Leicester apparently.

Utopia Parkway · 11-12-2014 11:54PM

brevity wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/11288976/Liverpools-Adam-Lallana-playing-through-pain-barrier-with-two-broken-ribs.html

Lallana has been injured since Leicester apparently.

God knows how anyone could play with 2 fractured ribs. I had one fractured rib before and it was sore to even breathe.

Mr Alan · 12-12-2014 12:03AM

brevity wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/11288976/Liverpools-Adam-Lallana-playing-through-pain-barrier-with-two-broken-ribs.html

Lallana has been injured since Leicester apparently.

Hmmmm isn't Bascombe very close to Rodgers? Seems strange this would only come out now

brevity · 12-12-2014 12:11AM

It makes no sense at all. If someone is injured then just say they are injured and let them get better...we have cover in that position.

Very strange.

Harry Palmr · 12-12-2014 12:14AM

Mr Alan wrote: »

Hmmmm isn't Bascombe very close to Rodgers? Seems strange this would only come out now

Is he? More conspiracy stuff when it suits?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/dec/11/liverpool-adam-lallana-fit-manchester-united?

Knex* · 12-12-2014 12:22AM

Mr Alan wrote: »

Hmmmm isn't Bascombe very close to Rodgers? Seems strange this would only come out now

Bet he too has a portrait of Rodgers in his house.

Mr Alan · 12-12-2014 12:27AM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Is he? More conspiracy stuff when it suits?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/dec/11/liverpool-adam-lallana-fit-manchester-united?

Both articles posted at the exact same time. Weird.

Injury seems like bull**** to me.

Royal Legend · 12-12-2014 12:28AM

Washington Irving wrote: »

Rafa the opposing manager for the first leg and our manager for the second

We can go back to ending our posts in the original and best IRWT

Agent Coulson · 12-12-2014 12:31AM

Just reading that AC Milan are going to cancel the loan deal for Torres and Chelsea are prepared to let him go on a free.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/fernando-torres-set-offered-up-4793025

We need a striker... Just saying.

If he was prepared to take a huge pay cut would anyone take him back?

I think I would on a pay as you play deal.

Mr Alan · 12-12-2014 12:33AM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Just reading that AC Milan are going to cancel the loan deal for Torres and Chelsea are prepared to let him go on a free.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/fernando-torres-set-offered-up-4793025

We need a striker... Just saying.

If he was prepared to take a huge pay cut would anyone take him back?

I think I would on a pay as you play deal.

He's a better option than anything currently available to us. On a free & with a big pay cut id take the punt.

super_furry · 12-12-2014 12:33AM

Well he's better than Lambert, but he's still muck.

ush · 12-12-2014 12:37AM

There's a striker coming in January. Thats the only explanation for freezing out Borini and persisting with Lambert or Balotelli as lone strikers. Hope its Jackson Martinez and not Torres though.

ben.schlomo · 12-12-2014 12:54AM

No chance as regards Torres, hes a shadow of the player he was, would offer nothing, no pace anymore, which we already lack in a striker. Id sooner take a 20/30 million punt on someone with talent, power, pace and a record of goals in recent times e.g Jackson, Higuain (for way less than 20mil), Gignac, Lacazette. Have to say idbe surprised if we do anything in Jan as we will have Sturridge back and Origi due in the summer, cant see them letting BR spend that money until the summer. Maybe if we got rid of Mario but thats unlikely in Jan too.

Utopia Parkway · 12-12-2014 01:00AM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Just reading that AC Milan are going to cancel the loan deal for Torres and Chelsea are prepared to let him go on a free.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/fernando-torres-set-offered-up-4793025

We need a striker... Just saying.

If he was prepared to take a huge pay cut would anyone take him back?

I think I would on a pay as you play deal.

Apparently he's been chronic at Milan. Think he's done to be honest. Not sure he'd even be an upgrade on Ballotelli.

DaveSuarez · 12-12-2014 01:04AM

So we started Lallana against Sunderland knowing that he had two broken ribs?

Charlie19 · 12-12-2014 01:20AM

ush wrote: »

There's a striker coming in January. Thats the only explanation for freezing out Borini and persisting with Lambert or Balotelli as lone strikers. Hope its Jackson Martinez and not Torres though.

Somehow I don't think it's the only explanation.

To me, it actually looks personal. Borini is far from being brilliant but for him not to get a place on the bench when it leaves just lambert

Augmerson · 12-12-2014 01:37AM

I dunno. Torres back at Liverpool. Depends on what reception he might get. Would he receive that same adulation and love from the fans? Could he feed off that?

12-12-2014 01:42AM

Last two seasons, 15 & 13 goals for Lambert and he played in most games, can't see how Torres is considered better tbh

Pulsating Star · 12-12-2014 01:43AM

Quoting Charlie19:
"
To me, it actually looks personal. Borini is far from being brilliant but for him not to get a place on the bench when it leaves just lambert "

A couple of times last year Rodgers mentioned his time at Reading and what he took from it. Namely , that he would no longer give any player ,who would not follow his direction, more than two chances.
He felt that being two forgiving with some who continued to do as they felt best was what did for him in the end. Seemed quite adamant about that, bitter even.

daithijjj · 12-12-2014 01:54AM

Torres would be an absolute desperation signing, that lad has been 'done' for years.

A player we should look at is Benteke, for example.

The reason we got Balotelli was because we were desperate, and they were desperate to sell, and the quality of the people trying to do deals on our behalf is full of 'small time'.

Strongbow10 · 12-12-2014 02:04AM

Augmerson wrote: »

I dunno. Torres back at Liverpool. Depends on what reception he might get. Would he receive that same adulation and love from the fans? Could he feed off that?

WiFi reception on the bench should be appealing to him

Turtyturd · 12-12-2014 03:11AM

Augeo wrote: »

Last two seasons, 15 & 13 goals for Lambert and he played in most games, can't see how Torres is considered better tbh

Torres scored loads of goals in other seasons too.

rossc007 · 12-12-2014 05:00AM

Torres **** on this club right when it looked like we where turning a corner. IF he was banging in 20 goals a season, something he never did with any other club, there might be a case for signing him, but he's been a shadow of the player he was for us and frankly I'm delighted. I don't harbour any I'll will for players like masch or Alonso who moved to bigger clubs in a different league. Torres was here long enough to understand what that would do to his legacy.

12-12-2014 08:21AM

You can't blame Torres for leaving. He had no connection to Liverpool bar it being his employer.

If my job looked like it was going pear shaped and I received an offer from another company in better shape with increased wages I'd be gone in an instant.

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

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