Joe Allen
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Liverpool have spent all their cash on ****e players and finished in mid table with their noses in front of Swansea City who have spent about 1/60th of the money.
They then spent £7 million on Swansea's manager and coach in order to copy Swansea City....the punch line, neither of these 2 individuals were actually responsible for Swansea's style.
Liverpool's £7 million manager is now desperately trying to bring in former Swansea players before he gets found out....but they haven't got enough money! So even though ex-Swans manager has insider knowledge of Joe Allen's £15 million release clause in his contract Liverpool are offering £13 million in installments
So Liverpool will just have to hope Pascoe and co. can coach ****e like £18 million Henderson, or one of their numerous pretentious over paid ****ers from their academy to be footballers.
Meanwhile clueless no mark Liverpool supporters come on here attempting to give it the big 'un, patronising Swans fans, and claiming Swansea should be grateful to have Jonjo Shelvey instead of cold hard cash. A kid who did nothing spectacular at Charlton and hasn't been able to break into the worst Liverpool team since the 1960s.
How in any way is that patronising?
You obviously haven't watched much of Shelvey either.
£7M is peanuts for a manager at the top level, no one cares about that sum. He's hardly desperate to bring in ex Swansea players, it's something all managers do, and we do have confirmed interest in other targets (but don't let that stop you).
Yes, we spent badly... Everyone has been over this many, many times. Yawn. Also, it's worth noting our net spend over two years is around £45-50M, which is quite modest.
You don't seem to know much about Henderson either.
Clueless? No.
No mark? It's the internet mate, we could all be anyone and we're all no-one.
How sad, hope you get something out of being angry and bitter on an internet forum.
Think Henderson was £14-16M but it's splitting hairs. He'll be worth it in a year or two, he shows glimpses of a very good player in there. Seriously, what do people expect a 21 year old centre mid to do, when his team is collapsing round him, when he's played out of position on the right wing all year? It's madness. Like most of our players, he was decent until Lucas got injured.
He's also the youngest current player in the league to have reached 100 league appearances, not really relevant but interesting.
The Carroll deal was shocking, yes, as the world and it's grandmother has already repeated ad nauseam.
Yeh, he's much better at centre mid. He's an eye for a pass but he works so, so hard. If a player isn't an immediate success they get torn apart these days, but when you work like he does, there's always a chance. We all tore chunks out of Lucas three years ago, but it was him getting injured last season that buggered us. Shows how players change.
Northern Ireland! 
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I know that he was a reasonably promising young striker, don't watch very much local football to be honest, few people really do.
Decent return rate for Cliftonville of about 1 in 2.5 games, but I don't know if he'll make it in the Premier League. Who knows though, it'd be nice for the national side.
hahaI know that he was a reasonably promising young striker, don't watch very much local football to be honest, few people really do.
Decent return rate for Cliftonville of about 1 in 2.5 games, but I don't know if he'll make it in the Premier League. Who knows though, it'd be nice for the national side.
We'd do a lot better if some of our players who are born in Northern Ireland, to Northern Irish families didn't decide for some reason that they are, in fact, Irish.
EDIT: Few examples - James McClean and Shane Duffy - both poached by the FAI despite having represented NI at under 21 level.
It's political over here of course, but we could do with a couple of our good young players staying loyal.
A bit like Zidane being more Algerian than French, and half their players being of African descent, Senegal and so on.
I'd say you should play for where you have lived for the first 16 years of your life, something like that.
I guess it's complicated when, say, an Iraqi flees to England as a young child with his family, but later in life wants to represent Iraq, despite being trained in England and brought up as English.
I guess it's complicated when, say, an Iraqi flees to England as a young child with his family, but later in life wants to represent Iraq, despite being trained in England and brought up as English.
Don't agree with that, musty. Very often your place of birth is an accident. My son was born overseas whilst I was there for two years. He was conceived in Wales, though, with both parents, all grand parents and great grand parents militantly Welsh. He does not consider himself anything other than Welsh although he does have an affinity for his birth country.
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