You can trust the scousers to give you a laugh over a bleak rainy cold weekend. As soon as dodgers open his mouth to say they have a great chance for coming 4th you knew they would slip up. Lo and behold, they underestimate the saints and they get thrashed... What clowns! Why oh why can't tikitaka keep his mouth shut after each lucky win? Great fun.
Aye, I think after his speech we should have all known it would go tits up. To be fair a lot of the guys on our board saw this coming, I was optimistic but am not surprised at all we lost. Pleased it gave you guys a laugh though.
BR's quotes are cringeworthy, but I expected them to at least make an improvement this season. I thought that their defence was at least good enough to built upon, but it seems that they have gone backwards in this department. IMO their squad is really beginning to show the signs of a lack of regular top 4 finishes. Liverpool supporters seem to be raving about how good Sturridge is, but I certainly wouldn't see him as a regular starter for a top 4 side. I understand that the squad BR inherited was poor, but I it seems that he is addressing this by adding squad player quality. IMO Allen and Borini are mid-table acquisitions and don't really offer a great deal of improvement.
There's a reason Sturridge couldn't get regular games for Chelsea who only really had a mis-firing crap Torres at the time as competition. He's just not good enough for a top side... as a starter anyway. Too greedy and not clinical enough. On his day he can be effective, which suits the scousers I guess as they'll use that game as proof he is world class for the next half-season until he has another good game
I think that the scousers should implement a system of taking Rodgers and putting him in a locked cellar for 3 days as soon as they have a win. No dodgy talk of optimism, of getting into the top four and no chance of making a fool of himself... without even realising it, the scousers are now experiencing classical mid table mediocrity behaviour: consistent inconsistency. The number of poor performances are equal to the number of good ones. It will take Rodgers at least 4 years (if he is fortunate to get th funds he asks for) to even challenge for the title. That is assuming that united, City, The Chavs, Arsenal haven't massively invested themselves.
Liverpool will struggle to keep rat face, he will be off at the end of the season, then they will be in free fall.
Personally I think their problems run deeper. In the past they've signed a lot of players like Alonso, Garcia, Mascherano, Hypia and Henchoz who probably had similar profiles and potential to players like Allen, Sturridge, Borini, Coates and Meireles. Not world class at the time, but rated reasonably highly and with a good chance of success. Alonso, Mascherano and Henchoz were all mid table players before they joined LFC. But then Alonso etc all went on to improve at Liverpool and become great players, some arguably close to being world class. Whereas Allen, Borini, Coates, Meireles and others like Downing, Henderson and Carroll have all completely failed to justify their potential or the money invested in them. Even Suarez has only just managed to recapture his Ajax form this season, so he's hardly improved at Liverpool. And players like Agger and Reina, who used to be among the best in the PL, have started struggling and playing quite poorly and making bad mistakes at important times. I do wonder - much the same way Arsenal and Everton seem to have a sort of mental block when it comes to winning trophies, have Liverpool developed a mental block when it comes to playing consistently and doing well in the league? Since 2009 they've done well in big games against good teams, and have given out a few thrashings, similar to the Liverpool of old, but every time it looks like they're building momentum they choke against a team they should be able to beat. Then you hear players like Gerrard and Carragher publicly accepting they'll never win the league or CL again in their career - that must spread to the impressionable young players and make them question what the club can actually achieve. I wonder if they're going to end up like we did in 87/88 - with such a culture of underachievement in the squad that the only way to succeed is to clear out the old guard and start again with a clean slate? Tho' whether the owners will be willing to do that is another question entirely.
Excellent post. Did the orderlies let you have a beer or did they say you can't cos the other patients would create a ruckus?
A lot of those names are UK players That's our problem, buying mostly UK homegrown players. Merieles though wasn't bad he was not young and does not belong in that list. Potential at what 27? The rest of them, there is some truth in though
Desperate attempt by a miserable deluded scouser at humour... At least he recognises it was an excellent post. So this scouser is not entirely lacking in insight
I think they need more than that. Their few good players are reaching the end of their careers. And those the y have bought to replace are clearly not good enough to step into their shoes. They have made catastrophic mistakes in the purchase of their players. So they would need to accept a massive financial hit and gamble again on a huge investment on potential of future players. They need to have like SAF has done to have two or more really top drawer players that others can look up to. To not have no. one else apart from a cheat and a racist in that position is something the scousers should rectify as soon as possible. Lastly but not least they have a manager who has been promoted above his competency level. Why else would he try to pat himself in the back after each win? The results and performances of the miserable scousers suggest that any decent manager would have achieve d the same ( fat Sam, Martinez, laudrup, MON and many others)
Hyypia wasn't young either - he was high profile in the Erdedivisie much like Meireles was in the Primeira in Portugal. Meireles wasn't bad, but compared to how he bossed the midfield for Porto he was fairly average for Liverpool, whereas Hyypia stepped up massively. You are right about the UK players to an extent, but then Downing, Allen, Henderson, Carroll, Adam etc were all doing well at Prem clubs then moved to Liverpool and almost all went downhill at pretty much the same rate. And it seems to have been the same story every season since 2009. Which implies something is wrong outside the players you're buying.
Didn't he get around 50 goals in his last full season at Ajax? Didn't see him play much for them, and the Erde obviously isn't as strong as the PL, but it's not like he was some unknown player who had never performed at a top level before. Was also Dutch footballer of the year and one of the players of the 2010 WC (before the handball of course )
In case you haven't noticed I am coming around to your brilliant insight into all things Liverpool. that being said, it should be known you are banned from being near the pond in the hospital grounds for punching ducks after a Liverpool win and screaming Buffoon at passing traffic through the security fence
Hyypia wasn't that old, 27 He improved cos had room to, he played for us not you and I've seen infinitely more of him than say yourself, he was not that great in the beginning for us, decent but it took his a couple of years to get as good as he was and his partnerships also was a big factor, why because he's intelligent. Not all players are, Rooney Rooney was also was scarier at 17 than he is now... hmmmm interesting. As for Meirles, aint you one of those who's been banging on about the prem being the best league? So a player from the Portuguese league was not as good in the by your account a stronger prem, in which way are you trying to prove you are wrong, not sure the UK players was a piss take an obvious one. We bought bad, an obvious point. You must be bored
I see you have logged under a new name. Are you BBF or Billybob in disguise? I am sure Swarbs can have a quick check... No need to try to lick my a**. I know and we all know I have a brilliant insight about the miserable deluded scousers. Why the scousers thought tikitaka was the messiah when he was appointed is an indication of the level of delusion that afflicts the scousers. To give him his due he is good at PR selling himself and pretending that for the first time the scousers are doing a passing game...
Sisu is BBF, you can tell from the posts, they are full of **** Sisu is Billybob, you can tell from the posts, they are full of ****
