Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2016, Mod Warning in OP, 10/7

Can is a warrior. Probably prepared to play on one leg.

Kane staying fit for the majority of games over the last two seasons has been massive for Spurs.

All the usual big teams have missed their main striker for big parts of the season this year.

Kane is very like Suarez in the way he can withstand injury.

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

We should be signing Mark Schwarzer, back to back medals with Chelsea and Leicester.

Yeah but he'd end up actually playing and thats where the streak ends. (tbf it ends either way with Mingolet there )


edit: I assume theres no minimum requirement of games for the gk to recieve a medal? Otherwise no sub keeper would ever end up getting one (or very rarely at least)

Edit 2:the return. From the article "Schwarzer was one of several Chelsea players who failed to qualify to play the minimum of five matches needed to qualify for a champion’s medal, but former boss Jose Mourinho personally paid for the Australian to be given a medal.
Schwarzer doesn’t qualify for a winner’s medal this season either, but Leicester mentor Claudio Ranieri may follow Mourinho’s touching gesture, The Sun reports."

Thats a bit ****ty to be fair. "Here's my trophy room. These are my pl medals the bosses bought me" .


Might see if theres any floating on ebay

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Even bigger news:

Emre Can has put himself in contention to START vs Villarreal this Thursday. #lfc (Paul Joyce)

So now that the beast is slain and the fairytale complete what can we take from it? The message for me is simple and something any of us who witnessed 2005 shouldn't have needed to be thought: it's all possible. Leicester, with just the one player in their squad who held a top tier medal and a manager much maligned for his inability to ever win a league title kept their composure and nerve in ways we could not two year's ago.

Take your talk of long term settling for top four as an objective or justifications of playing second string sides against Real Madrid and stick it. We are only limited by our dreams and Klopp doesn't strike me as limited in that regard.

There is a possibility that this season will finish with just one team crossing the 2ppg average in the final table. Utd / Chelsea / City / Arsenal are all possibly looking at new managers and upheaval in their squads. Spurs are talented but inexperienced. This is a time of opportunity. For sure we have our problems too, but there has to be a pressure placed on ourselves from the off next year. 76 points needs to be the rough target and let the chips fall where they may thereafter.

Je_suis_Jean wrote: »

Not any more. Coming so close and the pain they are feeling right now will galvanise them next season.

That worked out pretty well for us.

Let's not forget Leicester in the either... it's not a foregone conclusion they won't be there or thereabouts next year.

Je_suis_Jean wrote: »

I don't think Spurs will be selling their best player immediately after coming 2nd like we did and replacing him with Balotelli

Would be hilarious, though, selling them Mario.

Spurs have 70 points after 36 games. Normally speaking, they'd be in a dogfight for fourth right now needing specific things to happen over the past two games to qualify for the CL. While their squad will have gained some experience from this season, it remains to be seen whether they will purchase well over the summer to improve and whether they can push on. The big dogs will be back snarling next season, make no mistake.

We finished 2013 - 14 with 84 points. Our fall off was more dramatic, but losing one of the top three players in the world that summer was a greater problem than Spurs would face if they lost any single one of their current squad.

MD1990 wrote: »

City under Guardiola worry me though. They will most likely make some great signings.

They'll still be City though.

MD1990 wrote: »

City under Guardiola worry me though. They will most likely make some great signings.

Not sure about that, I can't see many of the Bayern lads (Thiago aside maybe) following him to City. Barca guys are happy where they are and same would go for majority of Real players. Maybe he'll raid the likes of Atletí or Dortmund for some players like Godin, Griezmann or Reus!

I don't think he'll be the big success everyone thinks he will be tho he will have the best player in the league in Aguero!

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Spurs have 70 points after 36 games. Normally speaking, they'd be in a dogfight for fourth right now needing specific things to happen over the past two games to qualify for the CL. While their squad will have gained some experience from this season, it remains to be seen whether they will purchase well over the summer to improve and whether they can push on. The big dogs will be back snarling next season, make no mistake.

We finished 2013 - 14 with 84 points. Our fall off was more dramatic, but losing one of the top three players in the world that summer was a greater problem than Spurs would face if they lost any single one of their current squad.

Spurs cant replace kane. If he goes, which I doubt he will btw, but if he does.....they are in trouble. Top quality strikers are rare.

They dont even have competent backup at the moment. Look what happened to liverpool losing suarez. Losing kane would result in the same thing for spurs.