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Discussion in 'Liverpool' started by LuisDiazgamechanger, Jul 6, 2018.

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  1. astro

    astro Well-Known Member

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    Best scorer then.
     
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  2. PleaseNotPoll

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    Llorente's good enough, he's just not suited to playing under Pochettino and doesn't get anywhere like enough game time as a result.
    He's rusty as **** because of that and we have to play a different way to try and get a performance out of him.
    It's not worth all of that for a player of his age and we should've replaced him in the summer.
     
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    Moura? He just came back from an injury and wasn't fit enough to start.
     
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    Live Sky Sports Premier League fixtures announced for March
    Merseyside derby, Manchester derby and other key fixtures involving Liverpool and Manchester City to be shown in March
    New PL games live on Sky Sports in March

    Sat 2 West Ham vs Newcastle 5.30pm
    Sun 3 Watford vs Leicester 12pm
    Sun 3 Fulham vs Chelsea 2.05pm
    Sun 3 Everton vs Liverpool 4.15pm
    Sat 9 C Palace vs Brighton 12.30pm
    Sun 10 Chelsea vs Wolves 2.05pm
    Sun 10 Arsenal vs Man Utd 4.30pm
    Sat 16 Man Utd vs Man City 12.30pm*
    Sun 17 Tottenham vs C Palace 12pm*
    Sun 17 Fulham vs Liverpool 2.15pm
    Sun 17 Everton vs Chelsea 4.30pm*
    Sat 30 Fulham vs Man City 12.30pm
    Sun 31 Cardiff vs Chelsea 2.05pm
    Sun 31 Liverpool vs Tottenham 4.30pm
    Mon April 1 Arsenal vs Newcastle 8pm
    https://www.skysports.com/football/...s-premier-league-fixtures-announced-for-march
     
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  6. astro

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    IMO your bigger problem is that Vertonghen is finished and your keepers are poor
     
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    In your opinion the world is out to get you and Salah's never dived, though. I don't put much stock in it.
     
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    Not the world, just small group of ABLs working for the likes of the FA, PGMOL, and #bbcsalford
     
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    That's not even logical. If you'd bought a striker or two in one of those windows, who knows who your top four goalscorers would have been.
     
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    We play with one striker and it's highly unlikely that anyone we'd sign would displace Kane. Logical now?
     
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    To be fair this is a point.

    Its not like Spurs have the money to keep a Jesus or Mahrez on the bench like City do or United with Sanchez, Lukaku etc.

    It'd be the same if Van Dijk or Salah got injured, obviously the replacements coming in aren't going to be as good. You can't have world class players sitting on the bench.
     
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    So you're saying this is more of a failure of Pochettino's tactical system than Levy's transfer business?
     
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    Our strategy has been to get as many #worldclass forwards into our side and then find the best system to use them. Pochettino has put all his eggs in the Kane basket.

    Mané was our top scorer. We still moved him when Salah came to improve the strength of the overall team. Then Shaqiri was great so we shifted to a front four.

    Problem is Kane's individual stats come ahead of the team. And he's too limited to play any slightly different role.
     
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    No, not really.

    Let's say in the past few windows you'd bought 3 or 4 or more players who'd scored lots of goals, you can't logically then say "Probably wouldn't have prevented us having our top four goalscorers unavailable to start the match though," - those players you'd maybe bought could have been amongst your top four goalscorers.
     
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    It's a bit of both.

    Levy should've replaced Llorente, despite his occasional usefulness if we have to go direct late on.
    Having not done so, Pochettino should have used him better and given him more game time.
    Kane doesn't need to be on the pitch when we're 4-0 up against Bournemouth at home and have a rusty striker on the bench.
     
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    Yes short term you needed better rotation. Longer term, no successful club plays a one striker system any more so you need to move past Kane to compete.
     
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    You've got some strange ideas about Kane and I'm guessing you don't know how we actually play from that sentence.
    We don't use more of a "one striker system" than you or City do.
     
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    Kane is like Lukaku. Fine when a #flattrackbully but he's not going to carry Spurs (or England) anywhere they shouldn't already be anyway.

    Everton had a great chance to improve when they sold Lukaku but the #fraud Moshiri spunked it on bad managers and bad players.
     
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    Shaqiri has taken up the Coutinho role really in the team, when we play smaller and defensive sides.

    I don't think there's that much difference between our forward line and Spurs', to be honest. I think the real difference is in the quality of our defence, particularly full backs and our depth. We have a miles better squad than them.
     
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    <laugh>
     
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