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RyanBabel Ryan Babel
I wanna wish Liverpool all the luck and I hope they will end in top 4 where they belong at the end of the season
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RyanBabel Ryan Babel
I learn to love the lfc way, the city, the people and I made lots of friends in Liverpool
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RyanBabel Ryan Babel I was blessed to work with one of the greatest football players and I learned a lot
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RyanBabel Ryan Babel
Its definitely a shame it didn't worked out for me and the club, but that's how it is sometimes..
[/quote] Lucas will be chuffed to hear that
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[quote author=Binny link=topic=43694.msg1268348#msg1268348 date=1296311853]
Babel's 1st contribution on his debut is an assist (for Vorsah) that helped Hoffenheim take the lead in the 4th min away at Schalke. Not a bad start. Game going on now.
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I think he made his debut this week against a non league team in the cup, and Hoffenheim lost.
Still, good start in the league.
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Nope - this is his real debut ... and they lost to the equiv. of a Championship team (Cottbus)
[quote author=keniget link=topic=43694.msg1272760#msg1272760 date=1296506513]
Babel is a cool guy. I wish him well and hope he finds his way back to a top club in the next few years.
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[quote author=jan link=topic=43694.msg1272899#msg1272899 date=1296508752]
Pop quiz: guess which option did he choose and what was the outcome
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I hate guessing:
The guests missed a chance to double their advantage at the half-hour mark as Schalke keeper Manuel Neuer stopped Ryan Babel's attempt, though if he had looked, Vedad Ibisevic was open on the counter attack.
Liverpool flop Ryan Babel has blamed the Anfield club’s training regime for his poor form in England.
The Dutch forward arrived on Merseyside in 2007 with a growing reputation and a hefty £12m price tag.
But the 24-year-old scored just 12 goals in his four years at Liverpool and was sold to Hoffenheim in January.
The forward has enjoyed a stellar start to his new season in the Bundesliga and puts it down to better training at his new club.
“I think I've had really benefited from the move to the Bundesliga,” he told Dutch paper De Telegraaf.
"We do more preparation work at Hoffenheim than I ever saw in England and we do longer training sessions. I’ve never felt so fit. "
"You need competition to get fit. I often sat on the bench and the schedule in England, with a game every three days, meant the training was only there to maintain us.”
[quote author=The_Rule link=topic=43694.msg1398323#msg1398323 date=1315900367]
So we have shit training regime here at Anfield and because of that he didn't perform? What a load of bull this is.
When he was given the chance to play, he played like shit. But i would also like to highlight it is also due to Rafa's rotation policy.
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Err...Aren´t you and Babel saying the same things?
Think the headlines didn't do him any favour. Basically he commented about English football's schedule and the effect it has on training sessions and his own lack of playing opportunity. This line really sums up his point "I often sat on the bench and the schedule in England, with a game every three days, meant the training was only there to maintain us."
Don't see how it can be a shot at Liverpool FC in particular.
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