You can't be serious? THIS is your PROOF that Liverpool will play tika taka football next season? He had a chat with Del Bosque? Alex Ferguson had plenty of chats with Brian Kidd and Carlos Quieroz when they were his number two, doesn't exactly mean their teams played the same brand of football To the other poster who questioned Dembele's attitude, he had the highest percentage of successful tackles in the league last season. Strange for someone who doesn't put in any effort.
Rodgers philosophy is based on tiki taka. He does not need to provide any proof, it's common knowledge.
Are you mentally ill lad? I never said anything was proof either way,you're just hoping baz is wrong so much that you wont accept that there's a possibility that Rodgers will have us playing eye candy football next season. If you can 100% prove baz is wrong give us your definitive evidence?
Nobody knows how well we will perform next season, all we can do is speculate. and seeing as this is a Liverpool forum and most of us are pretty diehard, then of course we may view things through slightly rose tinted spectacles. But even an outsider must be able to see we have the basis of a very good team, certainly if we add a few players that are better than what we have. Rodgers is a progressive coach, with a real strong ethos. A very highly rated young coach with excellent contacts. Why would we not be excited by that?
Page, where was that from? Bandit. If you had read what Rodgers has already said then you would know that he is not aiming to have Liverpool play like Swansea did last season. He wnats to wed his philosophy with the Liverpool traditions of bright attacking football to invent a LIVERPOOL WAY. Therefore, in this interchange we can be certain that Liverpool will NOT play like Swansea did last season.
Take your pick dave. http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&rlz=...qf.,cf.osb&fp=c72d84806ae8a6&biw=1280&bih=709
I think we will see some signings that may surprise a few people, everyone seems to be under the illusion that we are broke, there is absolutely no evidence of that. We played some good football last year, but we had some real bad luck, hitting the post on numerous occasions, dominating teams only to see them have one or two shoots and score them both, it was like there was some kind of curse. There was a large number of new players settling in at the same time and then we had the Suarez ban, which caused a massive disruption. All these things can only be better next year, we must focus on taking maxinum points from the teams in the bottom half of the league and make Anfield a fortress again. Next season, we will see the beginning of a new era. Exciting times ahead as far as I can see.
Page, it was just the Dempsey thing that I was interested in. But it really seems like yet another piece of media space-filling (Oh OK - CRAP)
I could argue with you until I'm blue in the face but you really don't seem to be listening so I'll just leave it there. Good luck for the season.
Borini keeps on running Post by ErPupone on Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:16 pm Borini keeps on running Ahead of Fabio Borini’s Italy bow, Scott Fleming recounts the tireless youngster’s journey from West London to the Welsh Coast to the banks of the Tiber, with a knife between his teeth. He never stops running. Watch the eight goals Fabio Borini has scored for Roma this season and you’ll find almost all of them are the culmination of lung bursting runs. But he doesn’t stop there. He doesn’t catch his breath or accept the congratulations of his teammates, he keeps on running, as if he doesn’t understand the game and isn’t aware he’s scored, like a little moustachioed Forrest Gump. He gallops off towards the sidelines, a big smile on his face, his right hand thrust between his teeth. As celebrations go it’s fairly naff, not quite as cool as Francesco Totti’s thumb sucking or Pablo Osvaldo’s machine gun routine, but it does provide us with some important insight if you’re wondering what made Chelsea sign Borini when he was just 16 – or what has compelled Cesare Prandelli to give the now 20-year-old his first international call-up for Italy’s friendly against the USA in Genoa. “I’ve been planning that celebration for a long time,” he said after scoring his first senior goals in March last year, a brace for Swansea versus Nottingham Forest. “In Italy it means you’ve got the knife between your teeth – it’s when you want to achieve something so badly that you are angry to reach your goals.” Borini, who is a full three years younger than anyone else in the Azzurri squad for tomorrow’s game, has had the good fortune to work with a bevy of respected Coaches in his short career to date, from Carlo Ancelotti to Brendan Rogers, Ciro Ferrara, Luis Enrique and now Prandelli, and not one of them has a bad thing to say about the boy from Bentivoglio. If there’s a theme to the praise lavished upon Borini by bosses past and present it’s this – his mental qualities, hunger, passion, the ‘knife between his teeth’, distinguish him and promote him above more naturally gifted teammates. “I was left very impressed by his determination,” says Prandelli. “Fabio lives for goals, first and foremost he expects to score in every game he plays,” commented Rodgers, whose Swansea side have been adulated for their attractive football in the Premier League, but might still be in the Championship if it wasn’t for Borini, so influential was the young Italian in his two months on loan at the Welsh club. Rodgers, who had previously worked with Borini in his capacity as reserve team Coach at Chelsea, attempted to bring the Azzurrini forward back to the Liberty Stadium even after Parma’s summer swoop, but the Roma deal was already done. Borini headed for the Eternal City before he’d made a single competitive appearance for the Gialloblu. Signing for such a big club seemed premature, and the Bologna youth product was little more than a bit part player until Osvaldo was struck down by injury in January. Enrique could have drafted in former Barcelona colleague Bojan Krkic as a replacement. If it was just a matter of God given ability he would have. “Enrique can no longer do without the tireless running of Borini,” declared the Gazzetta dello Sport after the Giallorossi’s 4-0 victory over Inter at the start of the month. “He ran himself into the ground and did the work of two players.” That game was Borini’s breakthrough, he scored two splendid goals and left Inter’s defenders Lucio and Walter Samuel wheezing and reaching for their zimmer frames. His style of play is old fashioned, as is his hair, his moustache, even his position – not quite a winger, not quite a forward, more of a wing forward. But while Borini may lack Bojan’s sophistication he more than makes up for it with good old-fashioned graft. And that’s what makes him arguably the most exciting player Italy have produced since the man whose place he has took in Prandelli’s squad, Mario Balotelli.
But he did that in the championship, if he makes the step up and does the job for you should he sign you will have a class act. Placing him on a pedestal before he's kicked a ball for you could be a mistake.
