Think you need to watch Moreno and Manquillo a little more before you make such bold (and wrong) statements... Manquillo was fine. He was taken off because we needed to change our shape to three at the back and Moreno is the superior of the two going forward.
Watching players and making judgement based on it is overrated. Better to assume based on a few minutes of motd and the opinion of some journo from goal or the daily star.
I said Moreno was very good going forwards. Did you not pick up on that? Anyway, turns out I'm wrong and they're all ****ing brilliant.
It was always going to be difficult to replace Suarez. But buying at least one top quality striker (at 50m+) could have mitigated the loss. This team is totally unrecognisable. Balotelli is simply not the replacement needed.
Yeah lad, I imagined the kop singing about it week after week, the flare lead 'welcomes' for the champions elect bus at the pit for weeks on end, and those t shirts proclaiming your victory, none of it ever happened.
I've accepted they're both the nuts. Long may they patrol the Liverpool defensive flanks. World class.
get Enrique, Johnson, Skrtel and AnOther as the back 4 for a few matches to settle down and try and shore up the back I like the new kids but we've missed more experienced fullbacks
Moreno is fine. Jury still out on Manquillo, but it has to be said that defensively he's been sound, until today. Our midfield was our biggest problem today- utterly clueless. And from what we've seen so far from Markovic, Can and, to some extent Lallana, I'm waiting to see if Rogers hasn't done the same as benitez did @ 8 years ago in buying quantity rather than quality.
Although losing Suarez was a big blow, I honestly don't see his departure as the reason we're so poor right now. I think it's a combination of things: no settled defense and three new players in our back four, Gerrard being unable to move, Sturridge being injured means there's only Balotelli up top who prefers it to feet meaning there's no movement up top and no options for the midfielders and definitely no option of counter attacking which we were devastating at last season. Big thing imo is that Rodgers doesn't fire up the players before a game as he used to, we walk out like we've won already whereas last season we had a high tempo and desire to fight for every ball from the whistle - because we were constantly under rated and had no expectations on us. Like I said, not so much losing Suarez as Sturridge and Sterling's movement can create the space our midfielders need without him and they have done so previously, but certainly Balotelli isn't the answer to any problem and he certainly isn't a replacement for Sturridge.
You certainly imagined anyone on here saying we were going to win it, especially at the beginning of this and last season. As to the euthoria in April and may last year - what the **** did you expect in that position? All stand there pessimistically shaking our heads when the team needed our support?
Your problem is simple. Last season you were defensively mince but covered that flaw by scoring hatfuls of goals - with 31 being scored by and many more either directly or indirectly assisted by Mr Suarez. Now he's gone, you look one paced and lacking invention up front and at the back you're just as mince, but are coming under more pressure than last season due to not dominating games on the front foot in the same manner.
I'm lucky. my kids entertained me when they came back from the park and played on the trampoline so I got shut of the annoyance quick. I said 3 things pre-season... anyone remember them............ and anyone willing to admit we are in full blown crisis mode now?
