Who wants Liverpool to fail soooo badly....

[kiam06]

Doesn't bother me either way personally. I fully expect Benitez will have either jumped before pushed or been pushed anyway before the end of the season as he's not performing to 'Liverpool standards'. Their ambition should be to win the league and yet they are 8 points off the leaders who, like it or not, are experienced in keeping hold of leads in terms of points. It is questionable whether they'll be able to creep back into a top four place this season. It's early days but the signs aren't looking good.

To me I read it as this being the best opportunity to date for either ourselves, Tottenham or Aston Villa to smash the top four 'clique' and the way things are going it could simply become a top six rather than a top five if us and spurs maintain form.

The main worry for me is will our players come down with 'food posioning' the night before our big top 4 game??

 

[hertsblue]

Transfers in:

2006
Craig Bellamy (Blackburn Rovers, undisclosed)
Gabriel Paletta (Atletico Banfield, £2million)
Fabio Aurelio (Valencia, free)
Salif Diao (Portsmouth, loan return)
Sinama Pongolle (Blackburn Rovers, loan return)
Jermaine Pennant (Birmingham City, 6,700,000)
Dirk Kuyt (Feyenoord,

2007
Alvaro Arbeloa (Deportivo, £2.6m)
Francisco Manual Duran (Malaga)
Emiliano Insua (Boca Juniors, loan)
Daniele Padelli (Sampdoria, loan)
Jordy Brouwer (Ajax, free)
Andrey Voronin (Bayer Leverkusen, free)
Krisztian Nemeth (MTK Hungariam, undisclosed)
Nikolai Mihailov (Levski Sofia, undisclosed)
Lucas Leiva (Gremio, undisclosed)
Sebastián Leto (Club Atletico Lanus, £1.7m)
San Jose Dominguez Mikel (Athletic Bilbao, £270,000)
Fernando Torres (Atletico Madrid, £20m-£26m)
Yossi Benayoun (West Ham, £4m)
Ryan Babel (Ajax, 11.5m)
Daniel Pacheco (Barcelona, £350,000)
Charles-Hubert Itandje (Lens, undisclosed)
San Jose Dominguez Mikel (Athletic Bilbao, undisclosed)
Peter Gulacsi (MK Hungaria, loan)
Damien Plessis (Lyon, undisclosed)

2008
Martin Skrtel (£6.5m, Zenit St Petersburg)
Philipp Degen (free, Borussia Dortmund)
Andrea Dossena (undisclosed, Udinese)
Diego Cavalieri (undisclosed, Palmeiras)
David N'Gog (undisclosed, PSG)
Robbie Keane (£20.3m, Tottenham)
Peter Gulacsi (permanent deal, MTK Budapest)
Albert Riera (undisclosed, Espanyol)

2009
Glen Johnson (£18m, Portsmouth)
Alberto Aquilani (20m, Roma)
Sotirios Kyrgiakos (2m)

Full List as spent alot from 04 also

Fernando Torres July 2007 20,200,000 Atletico Madrid
Alberto Aquilani August 2009 20,000,000 AS Roma
Robbie Keane July 28 2008 19,000,000 Tottenham Hotspur
Glen Johnson 22 June 2009 17,500,000 Portsmouth
Ryan Babel July 2007 11,500,000 Ajax
Xabi Alonso August 20th 2004 10,750,000 Real Sociedad
Dirk Kuyt August 18 2006 9,000,000 Feyenoord
Albert Riera September 1 2008 8,000,000 Espanyol
Andrea Dossena July 2008 8,000,000 Udinese
Peter Crouch July 20th 2005 7,000,000 Southampton
Lucas Leiva 11 May 2007 6,750,000 Gremio
Jermaine Pennant July 26 2006 6,700,000 Birmingham City
Martin Skrtel 11 January 2008 6,500,000 Zenit St Petersburg
Craig Bellamy July 1st 2006 6,000,000 Blackburn Rovers
Luis Garcia August 20th 2004 6,000,000 Barcelona
Jose Reina July 4th 2005 6,000,000 Villareal
Dan Agger January 2006 5,800,000 Brondby
Mohammed Sissoko July 2005 5,600,000 Valencia
Fernando Morientes January 2005 5,500,000 Real Madrid
Yossi Benayoun July 2007 5,000,000 West Ham United
Diego Cavalieri July 2008 4,000,000 Palmeiras
Alvaro Arbeloa January 31 2007 2,600,000 Deportivo La Coruna
Sebastian Leto July 2007 2,500,000 Lanus
Jose Miguel Gonzalez Rey (Josemi) July 2004 2,000,000 CD Malaga
Gabriel Paletta July 1st 2006 2,000,000 Banfield
David Ngog July 24 2008 1,500,000 Paris St Germain
Sotirios Kyrgiakos 21 August 2009 1,500,000 AEK Athens
Mark Gonzalez July 4th 2005 1,500,000 Albacete
Scott Carson January 21st 2005 750,000 Leeds United
Mikel San Jose July 2007 270,000 Athletic Bilbao
David Martin January 2006 250,000 MK Dons
Antonio Barragan July 4th 2005 240,000 Sevilla
Besian Idrizaj August 2005 190,000 Linzer ASK
Jack Hobbs August 2005 150,000 Lincoln City
Alex Cooper January 2008 100,000 Ross County
Alexander Kacaniklic June 2007 75,000 Helsingborgs
Dani Pacheco July 2007 0 Barcelona
Mihail Alexandrov July 2007 0 CSKA Sofia
Nikolay Mihaylov July 2007 0 Levski Sofia
Marvin Pourie July 2007 0 Borussia Dortmund
Vincent Lucas Weijl July 2008 0 AZ Alkmaar
Chris Mavinga July 8 2009 0 Paris St Germain
Gary Mackay Steven June 2007 0 Ross County
Nicolaj Beier Kohlert July 2009 0 Esbjerg fB
Ryan Flynn July 2006 0 Trainee
Charles Itandje August 2007 0 Lens
Ryan Crowther July 2007 0 Stockport County
Victor Palsson January 2009 0 AGF Arhus
Nikola Saric July 2008 0 Herfolge
Philipp Degen July 1 2008 0 Borussia Dortmund
Hakan Duyan June 2008 0
Lauri Dalla Valle January 2008 0 Jippo
Vitor Flora September 1 2008 0 Botafogo FC
Daniel Ayala July 2007 0 Sevilla
Gerardo Bruna September 2007 0 Real Madrid
Damien Plessis August 2007 0 Lyon
Peter Gulacsi 1 September 2008 0 MTK Hungaria
Emmanuel Mendy July 23 2008 0 Murcia Deportivo
Andras Simon 27 May 2007 0 MTK Hungaria
Krisztian Nemeth 27 May 2007 0 MTK Hungaria
Godwin Antwi August 2005 0 Real Zaragoza
Javier Mascherano January 2007 0 West Ham United
Miki Roque August 2005 0 Llieda
Nabir El Zhar June 2006 0 St Etienne
Mark Smyth June 2004 0 Trainee
Jay Smith July 2005 0 Trainee
Stephen Darby July 2006 0 Trainee
Craig Lindfield July 2006 0 Trainee
Adam Hammill January 2006 0 Trainee
Danny Guthrie July 2005 0 Trainee
Paul Anderson January 2006 0 Hull City
Lee Peltier July 2005 0 Trainee
Fabio Aurelio July 5 2006 0 Valencia
Jan Kromkamp January 2006 0 Villareal
Boudewijn Zenden July 4th 2005 0 Middlesbrough
Mauricio Pellegrino January 2005 0 Valencia
Robbie Threlfall July 2006 0 Trainee
David Mannix July 2004 0 Trainee
Dave Roberts July 2006 0 Trainee
Andriy Voronin July 2007 0 Bayer Leverkusen
Robbie Fowler January 2006 0 Manchester City
Ryan Wilkie July 2005 0 Trainee
Calum Woods January 2006 0 Trainee
Paul Willis July 2005 0 Trainee
Danny O'Donnell July 2005 0 Trainee
Ramon Calliste August 2005 0 Manchester United
Steve Irwin July 2008 0 Trainee
Martin Kelly August 2007 0 Trainee
Ronald Huth January 2007 0 Tacuary FC
Jordy Brouwer January 2007 0 Ajax
Francisco Manuel Duran January 2007 0 Malaga
Emiliano Insua January 2007 0 Boca Juniors
Ray Putterill June 2007 0 Trainee
Martin Hansen June 2007 0 Trainee
Jay Spearing June 2007 0 Trainee
Antonio Nunez August 2004 0 Real Madrid

 

[C_T_I_D]

Doesn't bother me either way personally. I fully expect Benitez will have either jumped before pushed or been pushed anyway before the end of the season as he's not performing to 'Liverpool standards'. Their ambition should be to win the league and yet they are 8 points off the leaders who, like it or not, are experienced in keeping hold of leads in terms of points. It is questionable whether they'll be able to creep back into a top four place this season. It's early days but the signs aren't looking good.

To me I read it as this being the best opportunity to date for either ourselves, Tottenham or Aston Villa to smash the top four 'clique' and the way things are going it could simply become a top six rather than a top five if us and spurs maintain form.

The main worry for me is will our players come down with 'food posioning' the night before our big top 4 game??

With City's biggest fan behind them they're sure to raise their game with his support ;-)

 

[hertsblue]

When you look at that list and add up the money spent on players you have not ever seen play for Liverpool. let alone signing on fees and wages, he cant say he hasnt been backed. He has just bought alot of crap and lucky he inherited gerrad and carragar

 

[sam221985]

Part of me actually wants the rags to smash them. The loss would be more damaging for them than it would the rags. It's more fun to watch a team you hate spiralling into chaos than it is to watch a team you hate a little bit more lose one match and then go back to having a steady if unspectacular season. Either way though it's win-win lol.

A bad enough result on sunday though and Rafa is gone.

 

[Gwladiator]

How so?

I would have thought the constant sniping at City from a number of Everton fans in recent months would have backed up my statement.

Everton fans believe they are the only ones with a fine history, devine right to investment.

First visited Goodison with my Dad as a kid back in 87, Littlewood Cup QF - we lost, naturally.

But have always found Everton fans more overly-aggressive than any other team, barring Millwall.

And, yes, you did have a great team in 85/86, which would have been good enough to have had a proper tilt at European Cup.

I don't like Everton, probably because they remind me most of ourselves at one stage or another. The siege mentality, living in the shadow of a neighbour, being skint, shit stadium.

It's the reason why Brits don't get on with the Germans and French. We don't admit, that we see a little bit of ourselves in others.

The seemingly majority of Evertonians seem to begrudge us our moment in the sun, despite the fact our history is just as long and prouds our yours.

I disagree with that to an extent, there is obviously going to be some jealousy though but the sniping works both ways.

 

[sam221985]

I would have thought the constant sniping at City from a number of Everton fans in recent months would have backed up my statement.

Everton fans believe they are the only ones with a fine history, devine right to investment.

First visited Goodison with my Dad as a kid back in 87, Littlewood Cup QF - we lost, naturally.

But have always found Everton fans more overly-aggressive than any other team, barring Millwall.

And, yes, you did have a great team in 85/86, which would have been good enough to have had a proper tilt at European Cup.

I don't like Everton, probably because they remind me most of ourselves at one stage or another. The siege mentality, living in the shadow of a neighbour, being skint, shit stadium.

It's the reason why Brits don't get on with the Germans and French. We don't admit, that we see a little bit of ourselves in others.

The seemingly majority of Evertonians seem to begrudge us our moment in the sun, despite the fact our history is just as long and prouds our yours.

I disagree with that to an extent, there is obviously going to be some jealousy though but the sniping works both ways.

It's all that self-righteous stuff about Everton doing things 'the right way'

 

[chedinho]

an evertonian wished us well and when i mentioned lescott,he just shrugged his shoulders and said"we got a good price in the end" much the same as we did with shaunie.
its nice and refreshing to see liverpool struggle and i want it to be made offical when we beat them.

 

[Gwladiator]

an evertonian wished us well and when i mentioned lescott,he just shrugged his shoulders and said"we got a good price in the end" much the same as we did with shaunie.
its nice and refreshing to see liverpool struggle and i want it to be made offical when we beat them.

Not long till the first Derby at Goodison now and for the first time in a while I'm quite Optimistic.

 

[Gwladiator]

It's all that self-righteous stuff about Everton doing things 'the right way'

That was more the Manager than the fans and to be fair your manager did imply that we were a small club so I think that makes it fairly even.