I think it would be fair to say Brendan has now bought most of your first team squad so should have the players that fit HIS formula/tactics. Maybe his formula/tactics don`t work or maybe he just doesn`t recognize players who will fit?
Maybe you being out of the CL for a few years and not winning pots did make some of the players that you showed interest in cautious - but the London factor aside, what made Arsenal a bigger draw for Sanchez? The effort made to lure him perhaps? I don't know, but I think you could have got at least a couple of 'names' but obviously excluding the bell end that you did end up with like...
He is but even he's not world class yet. He as the potential to be but needs to work hard for two or three more years yet.
Fair point. It would be wrong to write them off at this point, but as football fans we're allowed to pass comment and I think all would agree that the signs don't look great for the likes of Markovich et al.
Can you cast your mind back to when yoonited last played Real?, they supposedly had their "own world class players" and were reigning prem champions?, who won at OT?, we were beaten by the Champions of Europe Treble, Rodgers said what he needed to say at the time, his post match analysis is more humble and realistic.
We lost 2-1 with ten men. Not quite the same as being bitch slapped by a team conserving energy for a big game at the weekend. You can sugar coat that performance as much as you like but it will forever be a turd underneath!
You can't argue otherwise, it was a bumming. Madrid had a another couple of gears had they needed them 2nd half, they strolled it, as the job was already done.
Gtf you plastic ****, you won the FA Cup with 10 men against a great Everton side. We've only been in the CL 6 times, won it and narrowly lost another final, as for bitch slapped, we bitch slapped them last time out so what comes around hey?
You've gone way off (your own) topic by referencing an FA cup final that happened almost twenty years ago. Congrats in having thrashed Real a few years back though! You're still ahead on aggregate! Dipper muppet!
That's obviously possible, but without being privy to the negotiations, we'll never know either way. While being second in the PL is obviously a big draw (the stuff books are written about...), it was the first time in five years we'd achieved Champions League qualification, the manager is unknown and our best player was due to leave. Added to that (if the players bothered to look closer at Liverpool), the problems in midfield and defence were there to see last year, as was the small size of the squad and the extra burden of the CL this season. And the wages don't compare to the top earners. You mention a comparison to Arsenal; I would imagine wages could be similar, but Arsenal have a more consistent record of CL qualification and a manager and players known and respected around Europe. And the London factor, which I think you mentioned. For a foreign player, I would think that Arsenal is deffo the bigger draw at the moment.
So nothing constructive hey shteve?, point being that losing with 10 men against aint a good excuse when you've done the reverse and won a trophy. As for "a few years back", how long since yoonited's last CL trophy win? In our little 6 seasons in the competition we have the record highest score in the group stages and are the only English club to beat Barca at the Nou Camp, how many more seasons have yoonited failed in the competition than excelled?
Madrid sat back a bit and let you run yourselves out while they looked for the weak spots, then rhey did what they do.
I was angry earlier and I still am about the the football that we have served up in the last 2/3 games. I am not angry about the players that we have bought but they way that we are trying to use them. For the life of me I cannot understand why we are playing such pedestrian football and in particular why we appear unable to pass the ball to each other - let alone create anything when we have the ball. It's not just the absence of Sturridge. There are pockets of light begining to emerge. Coutinho appears to have refound his desire to attack. Lallana, whilst not yet finding a true role is prepared to take men on on the edge of the box. Given half a chance Moreno is more than willing to attack but is often left cruelly exposed by the midfield. Yet there is still nobody conducting the orchestra. The only attacking player that I have reservations about is Balotelli but even he must be spared from full venom because he has never shown any expertise in playing as a lone striker. In another thread it has been suggested that Henderson may have been carrying a knock. I hope that is what it is because he has become a liability. He runs about to no good purpose, he can't pass accurately and he slows any momentum that we may have created. Last season he picked up the second ball and added even more pace. Perhaps last season took too much out of him? Sterling for me is wading through mud. He still has pace but his close control has deserted him. The more I think about our problems, the more I am coming to the conclusion that Rodgers needs to forgo his favoured tactics. Let's take some of the weight off our midfield and use Lambert as a target man. Sure it will slow our game down but it will help us to maintain possession and give time and space to our more creative players. Until such times as we can recapture the form of last season then we must make some radical changes. In defence I believe that we have to give Lovren a break. He is suffering greatly from a lack of confidence so give Sakho a run in his stead. I also think that last night showed that we will be better served playing Manquillo despite his lack of experience than Johnson who should be put on gardening leave. I also believe that Gerrard needs a long rest as he presently is giving the side nothing. It's the manager who really needs to bite the bullet and give the side a fighting chance of playing some good football and winning games.
Did they **** sit back, it was ended to end Our heads dropped after the second, we started to sit back and stopped pressing the ball. You could say Real started to attack from then like you claimed but in reality, Liverpool stopped going forward as much.
But did YOU actually expect them to do differently Diego?, of course not and neither did the vast majority of us, so when it worked out that way you(and others)could take the piss, and to be fair we'd have done the same especially if for arguments sake your team had been beaten by lowly MK Dons in the lowest trophy in England for example. But of course that would never happen.
