The Liverpool FC Thread XII

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Exactly what I feel like - credit to the keeper for keeping everything out but no matter how skilled the guy is in goal, players simply must score from those chances.
We had the chances we needed to win that game and we didn't take them - we just decided we'd rather gift you goals at the other end instead :smile:

Thing that annoys me is people are talking like he made a string of brilliant saves over and over. You'd expect a top quality keeper to save them all, except the Balotelli one of course which well deserved a goal.

It's kinda a positive for you; Sturridge back should mean you score more; he can actually finish. Tough season though.

We had basically our same team as last year on the pitch today bar the final 20 mins or so, minus evra rafael and vidic :lolwut:

I'm not sure why our fans expect us to look amazing when we play with no fullbacks, and a midfielder in DC along with 2 defenders who haven't played for months. Have no doubt we'll improve, and improve a lot when everybody is finally fit.

One final note, Moreno was poor as hell. I actually felt sorry for Allen, he was literally covering him 24/7. We missed Shaw and ADM though.

Reply 7121

Lúcio

Original post by samba

exactly - give sturridge those chances and we wouldn't be crying over a 3-0 loss, we'd probably have won the match (although there's other variables unaccounted for here)

i'm glad we created so much but 1) your makeshift defence is laughably easy to open up, and 2) we used a system with the expense of a striker
if sturridge doesn't hit the ground running and we don't buy in jan it's over man, no question
a long way to go but we're so far behind now that we'll be playing catch up all the way

exactly - you guys are only gonna get better but you're already 10 points ahead
so we have to catch up 10 points (probably more by january) on a team that will only get better as they (potentially) bring in better quality in jan and start to actually play well.
K den.

moreno was frustratingly poor which annoyed me because in general he has been gret for us
he has been left out a fair bit recently though so i'll give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe he isn't 100% physically and/or mentally
but to be taken apart so easily by bloody valencia is not promising in the slightest.

Reply 7122

ZÃ¼rich

Ronald De Boer said his brother would take the LFC job in the summer if offered. If you were smart you'd be all over that

Reply 7123

samir12

Original post by Zürich

Ronald De Boer said his brother would take the LFC job in the summer if offered. If you were smart you'd be all over that

I don't really know anything about De Boer other than he's dutch so maybe you or someone else can give some insight to how good of a manager he is, what style does he make his teams play, experience in Europe etc..

Reply 7124

username1315644

Original post by Zürich

Ronald De Boer said his brother would take the LFC job in the summer if offered. If you were smart you'd be all over that

I think he actually said he would think about it, instead of rejecting immediately like he did before.

Reply 7125

The_Mighty_Bush

Original post by samir12

How do you not know Frank de Boer?

Reply 7126

sr90

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Original post by The_Mighty_Bush

How do you not know Frank de Boer?

He's obviously referring to his managerial ability, I couldn't tell you jack **** about that either.

Reply 7127

ShotsFired-9941

Why wouldn't Guardiola join the pools? He wants money and time.

And both of that is available at Liverpool. Plus with no europe next season he can take one week to work on each game. Liverpool for da treble folks in 2015/16 folks. I'm calling it.

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JamesR12

Original post by sr90

He's obviously referring to his managerial ability, I couldn't tell you jack **** about that either.

What makes your level of knowledge relevant?

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Zerforax

Original post by ShotsFired-9941

I'm sure he's happy at Bayern while looking to dominate Europe for the foreseeable future.

Original post by sr90

He's obviously referring to his managerial ability, I couldn't tell you jack **** about that either.

He's won the Eredivisie with Ajax for the last 4 years in a row which isn't a shabby achievement.

Reply 7130

Zerforax

Well Besiktas are currently heading up the Turkish league so they won't be easy.. ah well we can worry about them in February. Plenty more to worry about in the mean time.

Reply 7131

sr90

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Original post by JamesR12

What makes your level of knowledge relevant?

''How do you not know Frank de Boer?'', implies that everyone knows all about his record as a manager.

Reply 7132

Mackay

Demba Ba will cause huge problems against our defence.

Reply 7133

drewBusby

Original post by Mackay

Demba Ba will cause huge problems against our defence.

Reply 7134

drewBusby

Original post by ShotsFired-9941

Dreamer, what fool would walk away from BM now. When he can dominate germany/europe for the next 2-3 years.

Reply 7135

IceJJFish(II)

Original post by ShotsFired-9941

And both of that is available at Liverpool. Plus with no europe next season he can take one week to work on each game. Liverpool for da treble folks in 2015/16 folks. I'm calling it.

How will he win treble next year then without Europe unless you mean domestic treble.

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SHOO

Original post by IceJJFish(II)

How will he win treble next year then without Europe unless you mean domestic treble.

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Capital one cup init

Lolol

Reply 7137

Mackay

Very interesting: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2296954-inside-line-liverpools-transfer-committee-has-been-a-spectacular-failure

Reply 7138

GorlimtheUnhappy

Please tell me this was piece due to be published on April 1st 2015? It isn't even "Moneyball" - funnily enough Chelsea have a moneybag operation but we don't..
Whey would anyone base their transfer policy on a computer program!????!!!!!!!!!! espicially one designed by someone who has a skewed definition of defender etc.

Reply 7139

Zerforax

Looking at the current squad, it's hard to judge who may or should still be here in 2 years time..

Yes you would still want here

Philippe Coutinho
Jordan Henderson
Daniel Sturridge
Albert Moreno
Emre Can
Raheem Sterling
Jon Flanagan
Lazar Markovic
Andre Wisdom
Divock Origi

Maybe would still want here

Mamadou Sakho
Javi Manquillo
Adam Lallana
Lucas Leiva
Joe Allen
Martin Skrtel
Iloris
Ibe

Retired/left/declined

Glen Johnson
Jose Enrique
Kolo Toure
Steven Gerrard
Ricky Lambert

Not good enough

Brad Jones
Dejan Lovren
Simon Mignolet
Fabio Borini
Suso
Mario Balotelli
Assaidi
Coates
Alberto
Aspas

A little bit worrying how many we have in the not good enough/will leaving soonish?