Not only to piss them off,but to overall destroy them.Give them back 10 fold for every year they have lorded it over us.Destruction and humiliation is best served cold.Revenge is also on the menu.Thats also best served cold.
I mentioned that earlier this season. It increasingly seems like City fans are letting go of the old bitterness, and being solely focused on United, whilst some Liverpool fans are embracing it and building it up even more. It's quite an interesting role reversal... Remind me again, how did that "sign players to piss off the Yankees" strategy work? Oh yeah, they won the World Series in 2009
Ask any real Liverpool fan who they want to destroy and humiliate and make suffer intolerable pain and they will say the same thing....Manchester United. Its just the way it is.
Well no. Ask any real Liverpool fan what they want more than anything in the world and they will say they want their team to win the Premier League and Champions League. Ask any bitter and twisted Liverpool fan what they want more than anything in the world and they will reply with your answer. It's just the way it is
According to delusional Man United fan its ''We're Manchester United,we're the bestest team in the world cos we've got Scholesy and he's got ginger hair,and nobody else does and how dare anyone hate us cos we said so,and we deserve to win the league every year''.Fact is the majority of fans of clubs actually do hate those dirty scum rag bastards.
Yeah. The interesting bit of the article: "What got me the other week was when we were playing West Ham at home on the same afternoon Arsenal beat United. A big cheer went round the ground when the result was announced and you can understand the rivalry but, in the cold light of day, it would have improved our chances of third place if Arsenal had dropped points that day." To a degree this mentality relates to their owners also. That's why I feel if City can make big decisions for themselves this summer, and bring in the players they currently lack and need, then they will finish 1st or 2nd. But if they do what the have tended to do (going players to prevent others from doing so) they will end up with about 4/5 players like sneidjer, Bale and Ronaldo that will unbalance things, and halt their progress.
As a Liverpool fan, my first thought about a player linked with us is 'is he any good?' followed by 'how much will he cost?' and various other questions of that nature. It'd be a long way down the list before I was asking 'will this piss United off?', if it was on the list at all. United can do what they like, buy who they like, sell who they like. It doesn't bother me, same as it doesn't bother me who Chesterfield are planning to sign. I might read about it from time to time on the news websites, but I only care about Liverpool's dealings. I'm sure the same applies for most of us here. Our club first and sod the rest.
I was thinking the same thing, but then after our recent performances over the past couple of seasons etc.. Not many people would consider us up there with the European elite at this moment. So why would one of the best strikers around say he is a Liverpool fan if not for 1 and/or 2 reasons: 1, We've already approached him and he's trying to sweeten the deal. 2, He's genuinely a Liverpool fan.
Pretty pleased with the response so far so nice one lads. Have to say though I'm beginning to see what people mean when they say you're obsessed with Utd KPR. Utd aren't even one of the teams remotely linked with him so I'm not sure how you've managed to get 'humiliation' and 'suffering' in there! Were you molested by Scholes in a Utd Gimp mask perhaps? As mentioned Aguero indeed said this at 17, which in one sense dilutes things as it was a while ago and he was just a kid, but on the other hand its more than your usual 'it would be a dream to play for them'. its the athletico/maxi connection that makes me a little hopeful.
Although Aguero is an amazing player I think you would be better off getting someone else. He is too similar to Suarez and I think your team would be better as a whole if you filled in your weaknesses at LB and in CM rather than make a football manager signing in an area you do not need. He would probably cost around 40-50 million and I think it would be better to get 2 very good players rather than 1 exceptional player as that would help your team more.
I don't honestly think that's what they've been doing so far. It seems more like they have just been buying any player that is available and interested in joining them. Because to be honest, before this summer, they didn't have the European football, the history, or the level of recognition to specifically pick and choose players to fill individual positions or fit a specific plan. They just had to cast the net for as many players as possible, in the hope that they can make a decent team out of the ones they get. It'll be interesting to see what their approach is this summer now they have the CL as a carrot for the top players. Cos they only really need to make two or three targeted signings in order to have a good shot at the title next year.
I'm not entirely convinced about City. I agree that they have great strength in depth so a couple of Champions League players would make them a force. But with the whole Tevez saga, Mancini not really knowing how to let City off the leash, Balotelli, and a few players like Barry who i don't particularly rate and think they were simply the ones available like you said, how they do is anyone's guess. There is something of a vacuum with regards league winning teams after this summer, it seems to me. This isn't a case of writing off Utd like some people like to do more often than they should, but the fact is Utd are having to replace their Keeper (a hugely important position when it comes to the top of the league), and probably Scholes and Giggs. I also think their team is weaker than any of the other Utd teams to win the league (again i know that is said a lot but i think to a limited extent it is true, though to be fair i know if my team had just won the league this statement would annoy me no end). My point being not to write Utd off, I would still probably make them favorites because of their culture, just not clear favorites. There is no Chelsea of last season or Utd of the Ronaldo era where you think that team will blow others away. Then you have Man City and an Arsenal side that, for all its faults, is a lot closer to title winners than it has been for a while and maybe their manager has finally realised the signings he needs to make. Chelsea have serious squad age issues but could still spend significantly. So none of them are awe-inspiring teams to me, which i think makes the summer transfer window pretty important and i think it's the best chance a team outside of Chelsea and Utd will have to win the league since Arsenal last did it. From a Liverpool perspective it also means we have a better chance of cracking the top 4 in my opinion, but yes i agree it will be interesting to see just how Man City fare in the market.
I agree completely - like I said before this is one of the first seasons I can remember where you would struggle to make a definitive prediction about either of the likely top 2 next season. It all comes down to who strengthens best in the summer, and who can rebuild their team the fastest. It doesn't really annoy me that people say it, cos it is largely true. Although whilst we may be weaker on paper, we have shown much more mental strength than some of our league winning teams. After all, the treble winners were much more talented but scraped the league by a point on the last day and had to come from behind in stoppage time in the CL final. And our team in 02/03 was nowhere near as strong in defence, and far too dependent on RVN. And I do take a lot of heart from the fact that our current team is, imo, much stronger than our team at this stage in 04/05 (Silvestre, Fortune, Smith, Miller and Carroll!!). And from that team we went on to win three out of the next four EPLs, and a CL, despite our debt burden being much worse back then. I have to admit, your recent form has shown that you have a better chance of making the top 4 next season that I gave you three months ago. The "Big 5" are looking pretty evenly balanced next year. Unless one of them fails to strengthen well in the summer, I think the team to miss out is likely to be the one that gets the most injuries, or has the most problems with form.
I'm thinking Robinho, Berbatov, Barry. And to a certain extent they used to buy players solely to distrupt/weaken other teams -Lescott & Milner. They've calmed down now, and last summer they actually bought the players that they needed, so I think those days are behind them. However this summer will let us know. To be honest they only need 2 players in my opinion, a Left back and a winger. With these two they can be top 2 easily. But will they just buy more for the sake of it? With the FFP coming in soon you would assume not, but we'll wait and see.
Well, of the first three, they were all available, definitely leaving their current clubs, better than anything City had at the time and, with the exception of Berbatov all had their head turned by City's cash. Lescott was a funny one, given they already had Kompany and Dunne who are both better than him, but Milner was another one who I think realised he'd never reach the top with Villa and was willing to move to City for the potential of CL football in the future. And again better than any of City's wingers at the time. They seem to have taken a similar scorched earth policy to Ranieri at Chelsea. Buy any player that comes available and ss willing to move to them, safe in the knowledge they can flog the ones that don't fit and write off the losses. Now they're in the CL I'd expect them to go for quality over quantity. Re: FFP I reckon they'll carefully sell off some of the extra deadwood players they bought, like Lescott, Jo, Santa Cruz and Bridge, over the first few seasons. That'll give them a double benefit - they can book some profit and remove some amortisation charges from their books, thus helping them get through the early part of the regs.
I don't buy into the idea that being a Liverpool fan is a good thing. How many of our star players from recent history have been Everton fans?
deadwood would be boateng.....why did they buy him again? I would love it if we got Aguero but where would he play, behind Carroll, out wide. Where would Gerrard go, Suarez, Winger X( whoever that may be, or we contacted some mutants).
-------------Carroll----------- ------Aguero-------Suarez--- -Hazard------------------Gerrard- --------------Lucas---------------- Enrique--Agger--Carra--Johnson -------------Reina----------------- I call it the Christmas tree of death. With interchangable subs like Spearing in for Lucas, Meireles in for Gerrard, Kuyt in for any of the front 3. No out and out wingers but Kenny seems to prefer it that way and it's worked so far this season.
