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Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2015/16 (*EVERYONE READ MOD POST in OP)

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  • #3842
    MightyMandarin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,723 ✭✭✭MightyMandarin


    Sir Gallagher wrote: »
    His article on SSN today is hillarious. He basically outlines all that is wrong with Liverpool right now, no identity, players not good enough, olayers being played out of position etc. but yet we should stick with Brendan... I dont think he gives a reason why.

    Then he finishes with.

    "Liverpool fans want a style and formation that they like and that's why they'll always complain"


    Baffling stuff. It's actually gas how basically all of the British telly pundits never come out and say a manager should be sacked, it's all a big boys club.

    I distinctly remember Charlie's "predictions" for last season. Apparently Arsenal would win the league and Walcott would be top scorer in the league.

    The man is completely delusional.

    Edit: Found the article


  • #3843
    brevity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭brevity


    Some choice quotes from the This is Anfield forums:
    It's like a weird Lego set, we've got all the bits to make a **** hot intergalactic space fighter ship to invade the universe, but the guy putting it together just keeps ending up with a ridiculous looking moon buggy with no guns.
    We look like a Lego set that's been expensively acquired but some bright spark forgot to include the instructions. Actually, no, we look like someone has bought several different Lego sets, pirates, space stuff and some Duplo in there as well, and then tries to mash it all together with no coherent plan or logic.


  • #3844
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,122 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    If we're going to keep the tradition of alliterative names for the days of the week, then can we call this one Tantrum Thursday - cause it looks like just about everyone has thrown the toys out of the pram :pac:


  • #3845
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    brevity wrote: »
    Some choice quotes from the This is Anfield forums:

    It's like a weird Lego set, we've got all the bits to make a **** hot intergalactic space fighter ship to invade the universe, but the guy putting it together just keeps ending up with a ridiculous looking moon buggy with no guns.
    We look like a Lego set that's been expensively acquired but some bright spark forgot to include the instructions. Actually, no, we look like someone has bought several different Lego sets, pirates, space stuff and some Duplo in there as well, and then tries to mash it all together with no coherent plan or logic.


    Watching our games is akin to jogging on Lego, barefoot, for 90 minutes.

    #Lego


  • #3846
    Bandana boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,341 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    Francie Barrett wrote: »
    If we're going to keep the tradition of alliterative names for the days of the week, then can we call this one Tantrum Thursday - cause it looks like just about everyone has thrown the toys out of the pram :pac:

    I am afraid that has already been appropriated by Tuesday

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=96642116&postcount=6247

    Tragic Thursday or trouble Thursday maybe


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  • #3847
    brevity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭brevity


    Bandana boy wrote: »
    I am afraid that has already been appropriated by Tuesday

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=96642116&postcount=6247

    Tantric Thursday it is.


  • #3848
    Bandana boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,341 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    Ooh turbulent Thursday


  • #3849
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,868 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Freakout Friday, or else F*cked up Friday.


  • #3850
    kop77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 820 ✭✭✭kop77


    brevity wrote: »
    Tantric Thursday it is.

    yup...

    Jays lads, tomorrow is Friday already!


  • #3851
    Bandana boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,341 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    brevity wrote: »
    Tantric Thursday it is.

    tantric Thursdays would be a postive thing , not expecting much postivity in here on any day


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  • #3852
    Caovyn Lineah
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,839 ✭✭✭Caovyn Lineah


    LuckyLloyd wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    Good one. I was happy during the Houllier / Benitez eras at being in the upper echelon of the league maintaining a base that was used to challenge for trophies or advancement to the later stages of European competition year on year. And do you know what? That was a slight lowering of standards from what fans would have expected during the 70's and 80's. That's as low as I would go however and, yes, the Souness and Evans eras were poor enough to make the Houllier / Benitez decade seem like a mini golden age.

    Houllier had 2 teams to challenge, Rafa had 3. Rodgers has 5 at least.


  • #3853
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,865 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Mick McCarty deserves his chance.


  • #3854
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,865 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    So if Rodgers is sacked who takes over , Kenny? Could he step in until we find our man. What if he does step in and gets us 4th, would he still be asked to step aside.


  • #3855
    Caovyn Lineah
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,839 ✭✭✭Caovyn Lineah


    NukaCola wrote: »
    The feeling I get with BR is he will turn us around, for a period of time. Whatever formation/approach he will settle on will get picked a part by a decent team and he wont change it until its too late.

    I can see us going on a run and then falling apart again. I have no doubt he'd get us 5/6 every year with this approach. But he's not learning and after 3 years we have similar problems to his first season even. Players are not being utilised by his tactics, and when he gets a formation and tactics to work he cant adapt them when results go bad.

    He wont get us back into the top 4 and he wont win us any trophies. But he will get us in and around par or just below. We need more, and that may be unfair but its a fact. As for who is available to take over etc is up for debate.

    From now on, if anyone asks for my opinion on the manager. This is it, word for word.


  • #3856
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Caovyn Lineah wrote: »
    Houllier had 2 teams to challenge, Rafa had 3. Rodgers has 5 at least.

    Rodgers has City and Chelsea. Arsenal have consistently got top 4 fair enough. United hav been in flux for the past 2, going on 3 years. Your revisionism is pathetic.


  • #3857
    Caovyn Lineah
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,839 ✭✭✭Caovyn Lineah


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Rodgers has City and Chelsea. Arsenal have consistently got top 4 fair enough. United hav been in flux for the past 2, going on 3 years. Your revisionism is pathetic.

    Arsenal and United are also superior to Liverpool right now and have been for 20+ years (bar one season). This is a fact that nobody can dispute seriously.

    Spurs have also finished ahead of us 4 of the last 5 years I think.


  • #3858
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Caovyn Lineah wrote: »
    Arsenal and United are also superior to Liverpool right now and have been for 20+ years (bar one season). This is a fact that nobody can dispute seriously.

    Spurs have also finished ahead of us 4 of the last 5 years I think.

    United have been shocking for the past 2 seasons, only Brods incompetence has stopped Liverpool overtaking them.


  • #3859
    Caovyn Lineah
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,839 ✭✭✭Caovyn Lineah


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    United have been shocking for the past 2 seasons, only Brods incompetence has stopped Liverpool overtaking them.

    Then why haven't Spurs also surpassed them?

    United, just like they always have done, manage to pull performances out of the bag when needed.


  • #3860
    Utopia Parkway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,029 ✭✭✭✭Utopia Parkway


    Caovyn Lineah wrote: »
    Spurs have also finished ahead of us 4 of the last 5 years I think.

    Probably the most damning statistic. At least the other 4 have higher revenue and a higher wage bill than us so they should finish ahead of us more often than not. No excuse really for finishing behind Spurs 4 seasons out of 5.


  • #3861
    Caovyn Lineah
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,839 ✭✭✭Caovyn Lineah


    Utopia Parkway wrote: »
    Probably the most damning statistic. At least the other 4 have higher revenue and a higher wage bill than us so they should finish ahead of us more often than not. No excuse really for finishing behind Spurs 4 seasons out of 5.

    And yet people still don't see the issue when they demand top 4 every season.


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  • #3862
    Talisman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭Talisman


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Klopp is also not Premiership proven!
    Careful now - you might get accused of advocating Sam Allardyce for the job.


  • #3863
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,072 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    United have been shocking for the past 2 seasons, only Brods incompetence has stopped Liverpool overtaking them.

    This would have been a great season to mount a title challenge. City are obviously the favourites but are vulnerable, Chelsea have fallen apart, Arsenal are doing their usual thing and will finish 3rd or 4th, United are poor. If FSG had gotten Klopp/Ancelotti in the summer and given them £100 million we would be right up there.


  • #3864
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    Caovyn Lineah wrote: »
    And yet people still don't see the issue when they demand top 4 every season.

    Perhaps people ought to to take a harder look at our cherished past to understand why Arsenal & United generate more revenue than us.

    We blew it years ago, the Moores were fools with no vision, the root cause of our issues stems from their failure to build up the ground in boom years, they sold us to the worst owners conceivable and only now are we getting round to addressing the infrastructure problems we have. Makes me wretch listening to idiots complaining about the owners while they maintain the 5th highest wage bill, spend hundreds of millions in the transfer market, redevelop Anfield and surrounding area etc.

    It's a case of what did the Romans ever do for us....


  • #3865
    jesus_thats_gre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    Caovyn Lineah wrote: »
    Houllier had 2 teams to challenge, Rafa had 3. Rodgers has 5 at least.

    Their performance in both domestic and european cup competitions has to be considered too.

    That is unless you believe both managers had luckier draws too?


  • #3866
    Caovyn Lineah
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,839 ✭✭✭Caovyn Lineah


    jesus_thats_gre wrote: »
    Their performance in both domestic and european cup competitions has to be considered too.

    That is unless you believe both managers had luckier draws too?

    Houllier had one fantastic season and imo should have been cut loose sooner than 2004.

    He finished 2nd in 01/02 and signed Cheyrou, Diouf and Diao as the players to get us over the line and win the title. Let that sink in.

    Diouf and Diao in while Anelka and Litmanen left.


  • #3867
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Arsenal have been static and stale under Wenger for 11 years a team outside the top 4 with the right manager and backing (Which Rodgers has gotten) would have been able to move past them.

    Utd have been in shocking since Fergie retired and when we passed them to finish in the top 4 two seasons ago that should have been that for us yet Rodgers blew it.

    Van Gaal came in and showed what an experienced manager can do with average to good players and took there top 4 place back from a Rodgers trying to be to clever for his own and the clubs good.

    Rodgers blew it simple as that.


  • #3868
    Pyjamarama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,308 ✭✭✭Pyjamarama


    Caovyn Lineah wrote: »
    Houllier had one fantastic season and imo should have been cut loose sooner than 2004.

    He finished 2nd in 01/02 and signed Cheyrou, Diouf and Diao as the players to get us over the line and win the title. Let that sink in.

    Diouf and Diao in while Anelka and Litmanen left.

    You're opening yourself up to a list of players signed last summer to replace Suarez...

    I don't know how you can say we should have given Gez the bullet earlier and then say that Rodgers should be kept on tbh. If we could see any sign that there was something improving then I'd love him to stay but he looks like a manager who's lost his way.

    I still think he's a very good manager btw and has huge potential but that doesn't mean his time hasn't come.


  • #3869
    niallo27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,139 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    Caovyn Lineah wrote: »
    Houllier had one fantastic season and imo should have been cut loose sooner than 2004.

    He finished 2nd in 01/02 and signed Cheyrou, Diouf and Diao as the players to get us over the line and win the title. Let that sink in.

    Diouf and Diao in while Anelka and Litmanen left.

    Why do we always crucify our managers for the players that turned out ****. Name a manager who didnt buy his fair share of ****e players.


  • #3870
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Sky sensing a cup upset.

    https://twitter.com/CapitalOne_Cup/status/647048001878368256


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  • #3871
    Luckycharms_74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,740 ✭✭✭Luckycharms_74


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    So if Rodgers is sacked who takes over , Kenny? Could he step in until we find our man. What if he does step in and gets us 4th, would he still be asked to step aside.

    Would they give to Macca until someone else comes up.
    His record wasnt too bad at leeds. The Coventry win rate was pretty low though.

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