Liverpool Thread 2014/15

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Bodgers has revised the Dippers approach. They are not now making 'istree, of which Mascherano was so knowledgeable, they are going down in folklore. They're fuckin' go down alright if they piss it up!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

If they hadn't got that soft penalty against Ludogorets then this game would be simply a fight with the Bulgarians for the Europa League spot.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The atmosphere at Anfield will be unlike anything the Basel players will have witnessed, the loudest, most passionate cauldron of fire. surrounded by the most knowledgeble and supporting of fans in the world. Playing at the most deafening ground in the world.
We are Liverpool
We are coming
Fuck those who stand before us
YNWA

[bigimg]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-sTcJJV8c1MQ/UmMmSm4PY_I/AAAAAAAAACU/JrIXzNeLS38/s0-d/unleash_the_crowd_gpweb.jpg[/bigimg]

 

[foetus]

The atmosphere at Anfield will be unlike anything the Basel players will have witnessed, the loudest, most passionate cauldron of fire. surrounded by the most knowledgeble and supporting of fans in the world. Playing at the most deafening ground in the world.
We are Liverpool
We are coming
Fuck those who stand before us
YNWA

obvious piss take

 

[Deleted member 58678]

The atmosphere at Anfield will be unlike anything the Basel players will have witnessed, the loudest, most passionate cauldron of fire. surrounded by the most knowledgeble and supporting of fans in the world. Playing at the most deafening ground in the world

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My word, they are fucking mental those Scousers aren't they?

Fair play, they do have a really good atmosphere on big European nights, but to say the Basel players won't have witnessed anything like them and to call themselves "the loudest, most passionate cauldron of fire" is just deluded. Basel have played in Europe over more than Liverpool have in the last five years and i'm sure they've witnessed some amazing atmospheres on their European travels.

Anfield doesn't come close to some of the North East and South Eastern European atmospheres. Some of the Polish Greek and Turkish fans are amazing! and if they have any South Americans playing for them, some of the Argentine Brazilian and Uruguayan atmospheres are even better still.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54twKp8k_SY[/video] (about 06:30 onwards)

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcTVXoPa75M[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbZY5jFgsg[/video]

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

The atmosphere at Anfield will be unlike anything the Basel players will have witnessed, the loudest, most passionate cauldron of fire. surrounded by the most knowledgeble and supporting of fans in the world. Playing at the most deafening ground in the world

.

My word, they are fucking mental those Scousers aren't they?

Fair play, they do have a really good atmosphere on big European nights, but to say the Basel players won't have witnessed anything like them and to call themselves "the loudest, most passionate cauldron of fire" is just deluded. Basel have played in Europe over more than Liverpool have in the last five years and i'm sure they've witnessed some amazing atmospheres on their European travels.

Anfield doesn't come close to some of the North East and South Eastern European atmospheres. Some of the Polish Greek and Turkish fans are amazing! and if they have any South Americans playing for them, some of the Argentine Brazilian and Uruguayan atmospheres are even better still.

Yeah but what about all them candles ? ;-)

 

[union city blue]

The atmosphere at Anfield will be unlike anything the Basel players will have witnessed, the loudest, most passionate cauldron of fire. surrounded by the most knowledgeble and supporting of fans in the world. Playing at the most deafening ground in the world.
We are Liverpool
We are coming
Fuck those who stand before us
YNWA

[bigimg]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-sTcJJV8c1MQ/UmMmSm4PY_I/AAAAAAAAACU/JrIXzNeLS38/s0-d/unleash_the_crowd_gpweb.jpg[/bigimg]

Written by an obese nerd sat at his computer in Trondheim in his underpants eating a family pack of crisps and who has never:
(a) kissed a girl; and
(b) been within 500 miles of Anfield.

 

[aguero93:20]

Not sure. Can't see FSG having that in cash so you may well be right. Please let it be from Abu Dhabi...

I think it's from Dubai, which means it's really from Abu Dhabi but channelled through Dubai :)

Where did you hear that? Would be hilarious if we could hit them with that bit of news. All that shite about slavery in the UAE and they've borrowed money from them.

I was told that a Dubai consortium were funding a stadium development, might not have been Liverpool but the only other one I could think of was Madrid and that's Abu Dhabi financed.

Quotes here from John Henry that suggest that FSG aren't providing the cash and the club are having to borrow themselves:

John W Henry, Liverpool's principal owner, has said there will be no repeat of the stalled stadium projects of Tom Hicks and George Gillett because Fenway Sports Group has the financial backing to redevelop Anfield.

Liverpool announced last October that plans for a new stadium on Stanley Park had been scrapped in favour of refurbishing the club's historic home into a 60,000-capacity stadium, costing approximately £154m. Henry insists "good progress" has been made by Liverpool city council in purchasing the few remaining privately owned properties around Anfield, although a planning application will be submitted only once those deals are complete.

Tom Werner, the Liverpool chairman, held further talks with council officials during a visit to Merseyside last week and the club hope a breakthrough is close in the long-running, controversial stadium saga. FSG's predecessors, Hicks and Gillett, prolonged the delay during their near-ruinous tenure by scrapping stadium designs and then failing to secure funding for their preferred project. But Henry insists the finances are in place for FSG to redevelop Anfield, believed to be via the club's own banking facilities, and there will be no detrimental effect on Brendan Rodgers's transfer budget once work begins.

Henry said: "They [Hicks and Gillett] were talking about going out and borrowing an enormous amount of money for an enormous facility. That's not what we are doing here. One of their problems is that they weren't able to get financing.

"When this [project] happens, that won't be the problem. We just need certainty with regard to these properties. The number of properties is being reduced. The city council is doing everything they can and that's all we can ask. Not just the city council but Your Housing [a social housing developer] and everyone associated with this are all on the same page. The regeneration as well; we're all on the same page."

No plans have been unveiled for the refurbished Anfield, although it is understood to involve a new main stand and Anfield Road end being built behind the existing structures to minimise the impact on revenue. Asked if the work would have an effect on team rebuilding, Henry responded: "No, because it will pay for itself. It's actually a positive. It's one of the reasons we are doing it. It still provides excess cash. This is the direction that makes financial sense for the club in the long term." Liverpool initially hoped to apply for planning permission this spring but a handful of home owners have not agreed a deal with the city council and Your Housing.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/10/liverpool-john-w-henry-anfield
Makes sense to me, can't see FSG having £150 odd million in cash reserves lying around when their highest recorded net worth was around $1.1bn and has gone down since (with most of that net worth taken up by the Red Sox).

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Please be true.

 

[bluke]

Re: The Red Lion Pub Team (aka Liverpool) Thread 2014/15

the only thing that can save the red dippers tonight is some bent referee. Expect the Swiss team to end with 10 men, concede a dodgy penalty and ... still go through.