Liverpool Thread 2014/15

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It will be hilarious watching slippy steve end his career giving chelsea the guard of honour

Talk about rubbing salt in the wound!

 

[Vienna_70]

"YOUS JUST WAIT! NEXT YEAR IS GONNA BE OUR YEAR, LA!"

City Watch @City_Watch · 19m 19 minutes ago
Daily Star: In addition to James Milner, who they expect to sign, Liverpool have also made City forward Stevan Jovetic a £16m summer target.

They probably just need someone to keep Sturridge company in the treatment room.

LOL!

Very good.

 

[jimharri]

So; what's everyone hoping for tonight. If the scousers lose that will, in all probability, end their chances of catching us (unlikely anyway, but not impossible). But if they win, it still leaves open the possibility of them reeling in the vermin. Decisions, decisions!

 

[stony]

Rodgers is in today's papers saying Liverpool will challenge for the title next year.
What is with Liverpool and next year?

 

[superseiyan]

Rodgers is in today's papers saying Liverpool will challenge for the title next year.
What is with Liverpool and next year?

Dude (Rodgers), just STFU and let our actions (development of players, signings, etc) speak for themselves.

 

[superseiyan]

Atrocious game vs WBA. Rodgers predictably called the performance "outstanding" (he needs to be banned from using that word). We need a striker.

Otherwise linked with Depay.

Ok. He's quality and the type of player we need. But we have Sterling, Ibe, and Markovic already in the wide positions.....

In any case we'll offer 15-18 M, PSV will want 25-30M. Spurs will probably offer higher than us and will emerge as a real signing rival, then you, the Rags or Chelsea will come in at the 11th hour pay the asking fee and that'll be that. And to add insult to injury, we'll then probably turnaround and pay 30M for Berahino.

- Proven striker--whatever it takes. We must be willing to overpay if it's for quality.* Martinez or Lacazatte. Yes, above our pedigree, but move mountains.
- Cheapie support striker that can run - we fucked about paying 5M for Ings in January, now he'll go to the Rags. Maybe Jovetic? :)
- Milner

I'd be happy with that output from the summer if it means Lucas and Sterling stay and Lambert, Borini and Johnson leave. Maybe we need another journeyman old head in there, but Skrtel and Lucas--who should stay, are reaching the stage where they can be considered veterans.

*But what I don't understand is that we paid 25, 20, and 20M for Markovic, Lallana and Lovren, no questions asked, no haggling-- so I'm really mystified by our transfer strategy.....we paid 35M for fucking Andy Carroll and 20M for Aquilani when that was a lot of money.

Overpay for Lacazette? That sounds like something City would do. I'd be worried that he is a bit of a flash in the pan, so to speak. He has more or less doubled his goals per 90 minutes rate from age 22 to 23.

Certainly a quality player but I imagine his true ability is somewhere between this year's output and last year's.

Also, the increase in goals this year has a lot to do with 7 of them being pennos (he had zero in Ligue Un last year.)

But Lacazatte has a good upside and he fits our paying style. We MUST take an informed* gamble, and we'll never do worse than 35M for Caroll or 20M for Aquilani. Playing it safe won't do, it'll just get us mediocrity and 5-7th again. We already tried the quantity thing last summer, now might well take our chances on true quality.

*Young but not a baby, no injury record, proven goal scorer, and fits the playing style of Coutinho and Sterling.

 

[shackattack]

"My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study and that's been my biggest influence."



"I always say a squad is like a good meal. I'm not a great cook, but a good meal takes a wee bit of time. But also, to offer a good meal, you need good ingredients."

"I've always worked along with the statistic that if you can dominate the game with the ball you have a 79% chance of winning the game."



"When you’ve got the ball 65-70% of the time, it’s a football death for the other team. We’re not at that stage yet, but that’s what we will get to. It’s death by football. You just suck the life out of them."



"Southampton don’t have to sell, they have a choice. Maybe their objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe."



"If you spend more than £100 million, you expect to be challenging for the league."



"I will leave no stone unturned in my quest – and that quest will be relentless."



"I use a quote with the players,'Per aspera ad astra', which is Latin for ‘through adversity to the stars’."



“The best players want to play in the best competition. Any club will suffer the same when they’re not in there. It will hurt you, and United will know that.”




"I think there’s three players who will let us down this year — the cause, the fight, everything – and I have written them down already in these three envelopes. Make sure you are not in one of the envelopes."



"I started coaching for one reason and that was to make a difference for people, not just as footballers but as human beings."



"I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope."



"It was a perfect away performance, apart from the first 10 minutes."



"We play with 11 men, other teams play with 10 men and a goalkeeper."




"I don't think there is anyone better, that is the reality of how I see it."



"Three months ago I was a tactical genius."



"When we lose I don't get too disappointed in the same way that when we win I don't get too carried away."



he can quote all day long for me !!!!

 

[Rösler von Stretfordbömber]

Atrocious game vs WBA. Rodgers predictably called the performance "outstanding" (he needs to be banned from using that word). We need a striker.

Otherwise linked with Depay.

Ok. He's quality and the type of player we need. But we have Sterling, Ibe, and Markovic already in the wide positions.....

In any case we'll offer 15-18 M, PSV will want 25-30M. Spurs will probably offer higher than us and will emerge as a real signing rival, then you, the Rags or Chelsea will come in at the 11th hour pay the asking fee and that'll be that. And to add insult to injury, we'll then probably turnaround and pay 30M for Berahino.

- Proven striker--whatever it takes. We must be willing to overpay if it's for quality.* Martinez or Lacazatte. Yes, above our pedigree, but move mountains.
- Cheapie support striker that can run - we fucked about paying 5M for Ings in January, now he'll go to the Rags. Maybe Jovetic? :)
- Milner

I'd be happy with that output from the summer if it means Lucas and Sterling stay and Lambert, Borini and Johnson leave. Maybe we need another journeyman old head in there, but Skrtel and Lucas--who should stay, are reaching the stage where they can be considered veterans.

*But what I don't understand is that we paid 25, 20, and 20M for Markovic, Lallana and Lovren, no questions asked, no haggling-- so I'm really mystified by our transfer strategy.....we paid 35M for fucking Andy Carroll and 20M for Aquilani when that was a lot of money.

Overpay for Lacazette? That sounds like something City would do. I'd be worried that he is a bit of a flash in the pan, so to speak. He has more or less doubled his goals per 90 minutes rate from age 22 to 23.

Certainly a quality player but I imagine his true ability is somewhere between this year's output and last year's.

Also, the increase in goals this year has a lot to do with 7 of them being pennos (he had zero in Ligue Un last year.)

But Lacazatte has a good upside and he fits our paying style. We MUST take an informed* gamble, and we'll never do worse than 35M for Caroll or 20M for Aquilani. Playing it safe won't do, it'll just get us mediocrity and 5-7th again. We already tried the quantity thing last summer, now might well take our chances on true quality.

*Young but not a baby, no injury record, proven goal scorer, and fits the playing style of Coutinho and Sterling.

Good points, those. I would worry that Brenda would have the brilliant idea to play him at wing-back or some such.

If you really want Lacazette I'd imagine the time to buy him would be a year from this summer. I'd imagine the goal total will drop for him next year if he stays at OM. Bielsa and his gonzo system being gone, regression to mean, etc

 

[moomba]

Love those quotes above, what a bellend.

My favourite from his is this one.

“It is great for the public here at Sunderland to see us,” said manager Brendan Rodgers. “They must have been wondering what this team everyone is talking about are all about and now they have seen. We were wonderful.

“Our intention is always to pass teams to a standstill, but give credit to Sunderland, they defended ever so well when other teams might have wilted.

I think Sunderland had beaten them 2 or 3 nil that day.

 

[Ducado]

Love those quotes above, what a bellend.

My favourite from his is this one.

“It is great for the public here at Sunderland to see us,” said manager Brendan Rodgers. “They must have been wondering what this team everyone is talking about are all about and now they have seen. We were wonderful.

“Our intention is always to pass teams to a standstill, but give credit to Sunderland, they defended ever so well when other teams might have wilted.

I think Sunderland had beaten them 2 or 3 nil that day.

He really is the perfect definition of an enormous twat