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

~Rebel~ wrote: »

I'm sure you know exactly the point he was making.

Having some top class players is just step one to competing for the title. You then need to set everything up to wring every drop out of that talent, and everyone around them.

The way you talk about it, you'd swear that City didn't have Silva, Yaya Toure, Kompany and Aguero etc, that Chelsea didn't have Hazard, Oscar, Matic, Terry etc, that Utd didn't have De Gea, Mata, Vidic, Rooney, Van Persie etc.

All our competitors had undeniably better squads and first 11's. Having one player better than theirs doesn't give you a title challenge - it takes all your assets being utilized in the best way possible.

I think it's especially telling that we had a consistent improvement from when he joined until the end of season 2 - that comes down to working on finding the best ways for your players to compliment each other.

it's just blind ignorance to look at the passing and movement of our players and not recognize the work of the manager - Henderson, Coutinho, Sturridge, Suarez, Sterling - their interplay didn't come from one guy being really good, it came from a ****load of work on the training ground. One guy doesn't pass his way through a team, cutting them open. A team working in unison does.

Rodgers built the perfect machine with the parts available at the time, and yeah, when the biggest cog left, he couldn't make the machine work anymore. But that doesn't remove the credit he should get for making that first machine.

You've always been ludicrously harsh on him, and frankly I don't understand it.

Only catching up now, this was an excellent post, I haven't seen anybody that believes it was just the Suarez show counter this post with a decent argument? Alan in particular who the post was aimed at, no response? It's a very tough post to counter in fairness, I'm sure most agree it's bang on.

It's easier to be wildly dismissive, especially when some evidently strong emotions are in play, than concede any ground or rationally analyse the evidence available. The way mad Alan talks you'd think Rodgers sat down and decided to speed up the ageing process of Gerrard and go off out offering Sterling and Suarez to the highest bidder. He probably thinks he lobbed a banana skin on the pitch for the famous Gerrard slip.

When players want to go, they go. Arguable he did very well to get one more highly productive year out of Suarez, evidently it wasn't going to happen with Sterling.

The replacements killed him off, but as has been mentioned something similar happened to Klopp at Hamburg. Rodgers biggest failing for me was the defence. If he had been less dismissive and we had a solid foundation at the back things could have been different for him, but he was naive and over confident about the fundamentals and it cost him dearly.

For his own sake I hope he takes a lesson from it and develops his defensive coaching style.

Gegenpress (buzzword of the month) sounds great, hopefully the defenders we have can apply it without going completely kamikaze. AVB at Spurs and Chelsea tried to play a pressing game where his teams defended up at the half way line and they were rountinely spliced open due to slow or dodgy defensive personnel. Sahko can be a bit "full blooded" at times, not sure we have a defender with enough composure to implement the system he wants to play? Maybe Gomez will thrive there. Illori? Not seen him play even for Villa yet.

monkey9 wrote: »

It's like the bleedin' Eurovision in here today.

great though isn't it?

Hangball Doughboy wrote: »

Hit It!
Nah, na na na nah

Here comes the Klopp-stepper, Jurgen Klopp
I'm the tactical gangster, Jurgen Klopp
Pick up the crew in-a de area, Jurgen Klopp
Still love you like that, Jurgen Klopp

What goes in the place of Jurgen Klopp in these lyrics, I never could figure it out!

Knex. wrote: »

Knexlande, douze pointe.

Plenty of douche points alright! :cool:

It' s done, It's done, it's ****ing done!

Deal done according to Sky!

i'm still in shock.

an incredible coup, and makes the Rodgers sacking an absolute fúcking no-brainer.

as i say, shocked.

Liverpool is still a draw. fúck the haters.

I wont believe it until i see him awkwardly shaking hands with Ian Ayre.....

Boom_Bap wrote: »

What's this deal they are talking about?

Dunkin Donuts renew their deal with liverpool

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