The defence will get blamed again but as much as they do make mistakes their midfield really don't do enough defensively, especially Gerrard. Defence was often sacrificed for players who were better going forward and it's been the case again this season, makes for exciting games but they're becoming less predictable without Suarez's goals and tumbles for freekicks/penalties. On the plus side for Liverpool, they've got 2 nice home games coming up and the media don't seem like they're going to be throwing their £100mill spending in their face anytime soon, unlike the criticism we had.
Just watching the highlights, or lowlights if you're a Pool fan, comedic defending, non existent midfield - so bad, they even managed to make Downing look like some sort of midfield general!
I was hoping that, now, the Mousers might actually have woken up and smelt the coffee. Some of us stated, quite openly, long before this season began, that 'Pool would revert back to a 7th/8th spot side, in the wake of Goofy's desertion from Klanfield. We were ridiculed, and forced to run the usual barrage of Mouser-delusion. Yet any hope I might have had that Mousers and the 'Pool-loving media might, at long last, be able to put some proper perspective on matters was complete dashed by some of the utter bollocks that was being spouted on TalkShite, tonight. To be fair, Stan "the man" Collymore did have the foresight to stick the knife into the ribs of his former club (at which he remains a legend), but most of it was the usual delusional garbage. Some twat, on the late show, said the following (and I kid you not):- "I think 'Pool might struggle to win the title this season, but I think they will be good for 4th." Unbelievable! Do these people have no shame?
Roy Rodgers is slowly beginning to be exposed as the fraud that he is, yet in most Mouser`s eyes he is some sort of footballing god. Roy`s success rate in the transfer market is very poor, over paying massively for the likes of Lollana, Markovic (Aqualani mk2), Lovren and that carthorse Sakho etc etc. Rodgers mugs the Pool fans off, he plays on their emotions, feeds their ego`s and plays the tragedy card etc. When asked about Spurs` spending last year Rodgers told Scouse Sports "It's a different club and different vision we have here. At Liverpool there's a strategy behind what we are doing." "We were talking a lot right the way through last season with the recruitment team; we knew that we had to improve the depth of our squad - it was one of the objectives for the summer." Now Roy is claiming his new players need more time
That red shirt still looks quite strong to me but I have to say I'm surprised at their last two defeats, I expected better,
Wumming aside this is what actually pleases me about Liverpool's poor start. Fans, pundits, players and the manager have all been keen to stick the boot into Spurs and pretend Liverpool couldn't do the same. Whether they do improve significantly, or they don't,, this start proves what an arrogant load of **** that assumption was. Bring on the equality and bashing Liverpool for there £100mill flops. I personally don't believe it's true, they'll be stronger in the long run, but I didn't believe it was true of Spurs either yet we still had to put up with the media chatting such nonsense.
"Now Roy is claiming his new players need more time" Should that one not be on the "No sh*t, Sherlock" article ??
I've answered this one several times, TMT, and the answer is very, very simple: we have no strikers. A team that is evenly matched with its opposition - as we should be with any of the sides we meet in the Prem - can relieve the pressure on its defence by spending half the match attacking the opposition. When teams play us, they know that we have no striker and are toothless in the final quarter of the field, so they can spend at least 75% of the game attacking us and putting pressure on our backline. Eventually, something will give, and with us it usually does.
Interesting to me. Our local accent, which includes Anglo-Irish elements, abounds in "x"s. I would half expect to hear laxadaisacal in a place where I often here exscape, Pixburgh, and axed (for asked). You can imagine Irish Gaelic speakers transposing the sk sound to ks on first learning English, and the mistake becoming endemic. Laxadaisacal for lackadaisical is a different case, but may be influenced by the tendency to add the x sound. Or, as you say, it may have nothing to do with that and may be someone's accidental portmanteau word that has caught on. In any case, I'm sure I've heard it before. It proves how powerful confidence and expectation are. We went into that game afraid of getting waxed, so we were. Two years ago, we found belief at Old Trafford, and retained it against the other top teams. It's difficult to say when and how confidence turns into fear, and vice versa.
Welcome to the world of having to sell a world class player, and then trying to compensate by buying a bunch of others who are light years away in terms of talent.
It appears that Liverpool are to be investigated for a possible breach of the FFP rules. They're trying to dodge out of it, though.
They made an enormous loss last season of nearly £50m, but the circumstances are a little odd, as they weren't in Europe.
