Liverpool - post match thread.

[balotelli's back pocket]

I'll ask him when I see him at The Monte Carlo Club,Saadiyat Island,on Friday.

I do know he's perplexed about thr 'Joe' situation like many others.

So you know the sheikh, and his opinion on city matters. Right. And kolarov is the new beckenbauer...

 

[OB1]

Back now just watched the highlights.

Joe would have saved that

We were still shite.

Boring.

Hart wouldn't have saved that; unless he was out of position in the first place or clairvoyant.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Stop digging or don't,up to you

Karen, you've got this wrong - in a very public place as well.

 

[Crouchinho]

Yeah I thought we would snatch an equalizer too, but we huffed and puffed and seemed to give up towards the end, I would have browe on Nacho with 20 mins to go . Saw Spurs the other night you looked impressive at St Mary's never an easy place to go.
Going to be some battle for the top 4 , let's hope the arse and the scum miss out !

I hope you mean our scum as well as your scum, Arsenal and United. It's a long way to go there will be a few blips for everyone along the way. It's gonna be a great season. I think we'll miss out on top 4 but I'm used to that most times. Happy new years fella!

 

[BAB.DAB]

Yeah, 13 wins in a row.....such a lucky guy

Lucky Taylor was referring against us

 

[Kinkladze 1]

I agree we weren't that bad but we weren't that good either. The first 30 minutes of the second half we were comfortably in control but we offered no threat. Yaya played facing his own goal much of the time, KDB was utterly wank, Fernandinho wasn't involved, Silva did what Silva does and pretended he was playing in a gentle training game instead of a top of the table clash.

Aguero can frankly fuck off for me. Shows no interest or positional awareness. In a game of few chances, he was offside whenever we built anything that looked promising. If he was needed in or around the 6-yard box he was outside the area and there was at least one opportunity where he should have been around the penalty spot but was on the edge of the 6-yard box. World class my arse. I'm sure he'll bully Burnley on Monday though.

Finally someone lets loose and gives it real. The clappers will be most displeased! Fully agreed with all comments.

 

[ID70]

It's ok saying we need 5/6/7 new players next season but the they need a bedding in period and so that'll be another season wasted

 

[OB1]

source? I think I read hes earning around £15m here, the same as at Bayern.

I've also read that he took a pay cut but cannot recall where but it was in the media.

 

[gomer27]

Kolarov, Zabaleta, Toure and Aguero will be gone in the Summer. I think Guardiola knows what he is doing and we'll rebuild. We need to finish top 4 this season, and I am sure we will.

Today was a bad defeat, but the performance was not that bad. But I feel that had we not conceded that goal, Liverpool would have still nicked one at some point. Stones is such a weak central defender. He's never where the danger is. That happened against Chelsea. We're fragile at the back, and Aguero has lost half a yard. Not the team we were. But that's the consequence of sitting on our backside for two years under Pellegrini.

Stones was solid today. What game were you watching?

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Hard to disagree with any of that, our attacking players today were woeful, only Sterling tried, and he wasn't much better, but once again we've been beaten because of our own mistakes.

I'm with PB on the subject of Aguero. Looks like a man on borrowed time to me and today he was absolute wank. Chuck in 7 games out of contention due to self indulgent petulance, at a rough cost of £1.5m in wages, and I can't see Pep putting up with him long term. He needs a fucking rocket up his arse. I'd disagree with your assessment of Sterling's contribution however. For the first hour he was diabolical, a walking dictionary definition of how not to deal with a baying mob. He ended up losing the ball every time he tried to run forward, he crossed it into the crowd, and ended up playing the ball backwards time after time. He improved thereafter, but was still no more than a 4/10 overall.

As others have said, calls for Pep's head, or anything of that nature, are ridiculous. There's no point in acquiring the best manager in the world and then not giving him time to do the job, and if you compare the 2nd half today to our performance at Klanfield 12 months ago, then you'll see clear evidence of our improvement. The sense of disappointment should not be ignored however. When players like DeBruyne, Aguero, Otamendi and Sterling turn in performances as gormless and physically and mentally weak as they did today, it's not unreasonable to ask why the manager isn't getting more out of them. What irked most was that the candle wavers were there for the taking today, and we still didn't look like turning them over. There's an almighty clear out needed this summer IMO and the time to start judging Pep properly will be in 12 months time