The Liverpool FC Thread XIV

It's the perfect manager for us to get and a clear improvement on what we already have.
If things still don't turn out well, at least we can say that we actually tried to make a change instead of sticking with this retard.

P.S: i got a few weird inboxes this morning, and what happened to the misc thread?
Serious modding problems here, sort it out mate.

Here's what I think we should be playing against Aston VillaIt's a standard 4-2-3-1 but during the game, Firmino and Coutinho should be swapping and equally Ings and Sturridge should be swapping position (when one moves, the other fills in). So you have a solid base behind but a fluid front 4.

Firmino is out with a back injury.


I'd like to see:
Sturridge Ings
Coutinho
Milner Allen
Lucas
Moreno Sakho Skrtel Clyne
Mignolet

So basically this new lad wants rich Arab owners that treat the club like their little play thing.

Liverpool have lost enough lately.

Don't add class to the equation.

I love how you bring up the point of honor and class, as if we are under patriotic ownership.

I don't want to burst your bubble, but you do realize that the game has now evolved to foreign ownership right ?

Yes, just like Manchester City, United, Chelsea and Arsenal we are now under the reign foreign ownership.

So don't bring up values of patriotism, when just like Manchester City we are under foreign ownership.

And you refer to Manchester City being a 'play thing' right ?

So what is Liverpool to FSG ? Our owners have gone on the record and have said, ' We are not in it for profit, we are to here win'.

So according to your logic we must also be a 'play thing' to foreign ownership, something which you so patriotically oppose with your Liverpool hat on.

The only difference between our owners and Manchester City, is that Manchester City have been transformed in to an elite club which is capable of signing world class players and competing for trophies.

And before you put forward the argument ' But Well Manchester City have bought their way to success' , didn't we also participate in record breaking transfers ?

Our beloved Kenny Dalglish was signed for a British record transfer fee by Shankly, and the rest would be history.

The key to attaining success is the ability to attract players who can take our club forward, both in terms of transfers and youth development.

We in comparison have achieved diddly squat in the last 5 years since FSG have taken over, and we have pretty much regressed in comparison to the previous decade.

There proposed formula to success has always been based upon their money ball philosophy of purchasing players on low wages with high resale value.


From Selling Fernando Torres In 2011, we signed Carrol, Henderson, Downing for 75 million.

City in comparison, from 2010-2011 have signed Aguero, Silva and Yaya for a combined value 90 Million.

Chelsea signed Eden Hazard, Mata, Oscar for £81 million.

Who has seen a better return, despite us spending just 15 million less than city and 6 million less than Chelsea on the same amount of players ?

We can compete to sign world class players, just not under their money ball philosophy as they just wont pay the wages that those players would demand.

Before any one brings up location or history, we are in a similar geographical area to both Manchester clubs. We have equal and better history to United and City respectively. The only club which could possibly triumph us is Arsenal and Chelsea, because the location of London for foreign players.

You cant possibly make excuses for FSG particularly when we spent in a similar transfer fee bracket, although are net spend was considerably lower in comparison to the others.

How can you possibly defend an ownership philosophy where we spend near the 100 million mark and not sign world class players ?

In 2014, we very much repeated the same philosophy of 2011. Like Torres, we sold Suarez to fund a spending spree which resulted in us signing players with low wages, high resale value.

We finished 2nd for the first time 4-5 years and this is what we did :

Lallana - Downing
Markovic + Balotelli = Andy Carroll

Like the downing and Carroll fiasco, we blew 50 million on 3 average players, 2 which have left. And the other, who cant even make the starting eleven when Coutinho is fit. We have a £20 Million defender who cant defend in Lovren, and the only saving grace from that window is Emre Can.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/sep/25/steven-gerrard-liverpool-brendan-rodgers-overconfidence

But in ‘Steven Gerrard: My Story’, the influential midfielder – now with the LA Galaxy – points the finger at Rodgers as well.

Gerrard said: “I’ve never been able to say this in public before but I was seriously concerned that we thought we could blow Chelsea away. I sensed an over-confidence in Brendan’s team talks. We played into Chelsea’s hands. I feared it then and I know it now.”

And I miss that 2012/2013 team... Unbelievable

Well well... Is Steven really trying to burn bridges with certain people or what!

And I miss that 2012/2013 team... Unbelievable

I think it's done.

Rodgers talked today with dignity, but the whole press-conference had an air of inevitability and ending surrounding it. Rodgers knows that he's gone, and I don't think it matters what happens over the next three games.

The international break may prove to be quite a finite chapter end in this current period.

Wasn't it pointless to keep him on then? Could have got Klopp wrapped up at least a month ago and surely be in a better position atm.

Because a month ago we'd won our first two games and drawn away at Arsenal, as good a start as we could have hoped for.

ikr, that 7th place finish was an incredible year for Liverpool.

Man needs to sell his book so he can make some money for...

You mean 2013/14?