The Liverpool FC Thread XII

Now we are going to lose to Basel (I hope not), and everything will be like before, United competing for the title, City and Chelsea too, Arsenal are crap now but they have to get better or they will sack Wenger.

I don't mind buying Markovic's, but to buy Markovic's we should be worried about our XI first... XI then the 'squad depth'

Everyone looked better with a worldclass player (Suarez) and a top player (Sturridge) in our team, the midfielders looked great, we were in the title race with Flanagan as our LB, etc... We didn't care if we conceded 3 because we scored 6, now our strikers are not here, we can't create anything, we have many inexperienced players, many average players, and teams like WHU, Newcastle, Swansea are above us. You can't expect to finish top 4 when your best player is a 20 yo and your best striker is injured all the time.

What im trying to say is that we should be worried about our XI, buy players who improve our team, not 40m players but players like Lacazette, Bony, etc who make an immediate impact in our team, not for 2-3 years more...

Can you explain to me why didn't we buy Bony or Remy instead of Balotelli? he has scored 0 goals in the premier league!!! he doesn't care about the team, he just walks around there, you can do that if you are good but he isn't good.

Lambert, a 4m player has scored more goals, runs more (he's 32) and puts more enthusiasm than him...

Look at all the money we spent, spend and will continue to spend, and all that money will be spent on average and overpriced players, I don't mind paying 16M for a Lallana type of player if we spend 40M on a Sanchez type of player...

We don't have a leader in our team, Gerrard is a top player but we can't rely on a 34 year old to carry our team, he doesn't have the legs anymore, he should be used like a Pirlo, the only difference is that Pirlo have top players around him to do the work for him (Vidal, Pogba) and we have Henderson, Allen, etc...

I’ll admit that even I am slightly disappointed that Markovic hasn’t made a similar impact in his first few months at Liverpool like his did in his first few months at Benfica. But I still believe that in time you lot will see what I watched during his season in Portugal.

I know it’s only a small thing but I also feel what possibly helped him settle into life at Benfica so quickly was he had the help of five other Serbians around him, so surely that had some part to play in it, especially with him leaving his country at a young age.

As for the price tag we all know us Portuguese throw in an extra couple of Euros to every player we sell, but I say give it another year or two and people won’t even mention the cost of him being ridiculous.

I know people say our league is awful and anyone can make such a positive impact but when watching him he had that something extra which made him stand out from the others around him. I just think he needs time, which also makes me feel he left Benfica that one season too soon as he would still be getting a regular first team place which could have only helped him to continue learning and improving his game at this present moment, which is what you need at this young age. But if that was the case you’d probably have to pay another £10m-£20m on top of what you paid for him. I just think a bit of patience is all you need with regards to this guy and he'll get there.

AFC Wimbledon away R3 FA cup.

Balotelli isn't world class?

Wish Liverpool had the luck United are getting (basically having De Gea )

amen to that

but in all seriousness, lol at united fans essentially confirming top 4 finish for united this season.

we aren't even bloody half way and given the quality of their performances, they're far from guaranteed top 4.
take nothing away from them though, they took their chances and soton showed us all why they won't stay up top for too much longer.

Tomorrow night is huge, as is Sunday. Hell of a week.

I agree with you. Tbh the track record at Benfica and Porto is pretty good. Was pretty spot on with the assessment of Matic as well.

Hear Chelsea are looking at one of Benfica's attacking mids. Anderson Talisca has scored like 8 goals in 12 games. You know much of this player? Do you think he'll be like Atsu and forever on loan?

We've scored a grand total of 7 goals in 8 home games this season. I honestly don't see where the goals are gonna come from tomorrow since we haven't been sharp in front of goal this season.

United can easily be 10 points ahead of us on Sunday if they beat us, which they probably will. I honestly can't wait till Sturridge is back, I'm hoping that when he's fit again we'll find our winning ways in the 2nd half of the season.

They've been shaky at the back but their attacking quality and gk is what'll get them top 4. Like today's game v Soton, they didn't play well but RVP took his chances and DDG made a few saves and they came away with the 3 points.

I'm pretty sure they'll beat us on Sunday.

Convinced they'll beat us tbh.

Just hope United don't pull off another jammy win against us, would rather they win deservedly (which isn't exactly hard to do against us though)

Yeah, Rodgers keeps omitting Borini obviously to make a point that he should have left in summer too.

He should have gone tbh, he isn't good enough for us. Sunderland is the perfect level for him, apparently they might make a bid for him in January.