Signings Rogers got right...

[mark1975]

I will never accept anyone being called CR7, Arod, RPatz, Glenjo, Brangelina or any other wank acronym or nickname. They are, to me, the height of shitness and symptomatic of us failing 'the kids' by not giving them a fucking good, hard cuff around the ear for starting this bullshit up in the first place. You can also add every young guy walking around with his underpants on show. No one wants to see your fucking kecks you little cunt.

Agreed SS.

 

[Hansern]

I hate shit signings whether they are free or cost 1 million or 15 million.

The problem with shit signings is that we dont look at the opportunity cost. For example, a common argument used to defend Rafa against the Keane transfer is that we got back 75% of the transfer fee from Spurs. So it is not as bad as it was made out to be. No the true cost of the Keane transfer was number 19. A quality 20 million attacker would have potentially won us the title that season.

It amazes me whenever I listen to interviews with Rafa, Rodgers, Houllier - they are all about the system, how they spend countless hours studying weakness in other teams, prepare DVDs, individualized instructions for players to deal with threats, tweak the system, blah blah, all complicated stuff. And impressive too, I may add. And then they go out and spend 15-20 million on strikers who patently do not fit their system and pretty much obvious from day one. It is something I will never understand. I know it is not an exact science but we can do better on the transfer front.

True. But I also think that we would have won the league if we hadnt sold Keane.
He could have scored those 4-5 goals we needed to win it.

 

[Silver Sean]

True. But I also think that we would have won the league if we hadnt sold Keane.
He could have scored those 4-5 goals we needed to win it.

Is this a joke? He was shit. I hated him for years and then suddenly he's in a red shirt. Utter tosspot.

 

[Hansern]

Is this a joke? He was shit. I hated him for years and then suddenly he's in a red shirt. Utter tosspot.

No, its not a joke. I couldnt care less if he was a tosspot either. He scored 5 goals before Christmas.
We sold him and Torres was injured leaving us with N'Gog.
Another striker could have won us those 4 extra points. 5 more goals from Keane could have been enough.

One of the worst decisions ever was to sell Keane and not replace him.

 

[Silver Sean]

No, its not a joke. I couldnt care less if he was a tosspot either. He scored 5 goals before Christmas.
We sold him and Torres was injured leaving us with N'Gog.
Another striker could have won us those 4 extra points. 5 more goals from Keane could have been enough.

One of the worst decisions ever was to sell Keane and not replace him.

I will counter that point of view by saying buying him in the first place was one of the worst decisions ever. Dreadful footballer.

 

[Hansern]

I will counter that point of view by saying buying him in the first place was one of the worst decisions ever. Dreadful footballer.

That may be and we should have spent those 19 mill on another striker but leaving us with Torres and N'Gog was horrendous imho. Torres only played 24 games that season.
An extra striker could have gotten us those 4 points.

 

[Judge Jules]

They could indeed. That was definitely not Rafa's finest hour.

I don't agree with Sean about Keane BTW. He may not have hit the heights for us, but flat-out dreadful footballers don't have the career he's had.

 

[keniget]

That may be and we should have spent those 19 mill on another striker but leaving us with Torres and N'Gog was horrendous imho. Torres only played 24 games that season.
An extra striker could have gotten us those 4 points.

It's impossible to say really. My immediate thought is that the presence of Keane probably would've seen Rafa tinker with the side, perhaps to our overall detriment.

We could've won the title that season had he have taken the shackles off earlier.

 

[Silver Sean]

They could indeed. That was definitely not Rafa's finest hour.

I don't agree with Sean about Keane BTW. He may not have hit the heights for us, but flat-out dreadful footballers don't have the career he's had.

I guess I've always been unable to be objective about him because I hated his stupid face since he broke through at Wolves. I mean a proper irrational dislike.

 

[rurikbird]

I always thought Keane was a streaky player, prone to barren runs and then scoring for 6-7 games in a row. Somehow Rafa kept his faith in Keane over the spell of a barren run, but as soon as Keane started recovering some confidence he found himself "rotated" in a typically inexplicable Rafa fashion. With the exception of Torres, Rafa was pretty bad at managing attackers' form and confidence.

 

[Aidan O' Neill]

True. But I also think that we would have won the league if we hadnt sold Keane.
He could have scored those 4-5 goals we needed to win it.

I thought the same. I'm not his biggest fan, but we drew a lot of games that season and he was definitely a better second option than David N'fucking'Gog.

 

[Hansern]

It's impossible to say really. My immediate thought is that the presence of Keane probably would've seen Rafa tinker with the side, perhaps to our overall detriment.

We could've won the title that season had he have taken the shackles off earlier.

Maybe, but without Torres there wasnt much to tinker with.

 

[localny]

Is this a joke? He was shit. I hated him for years and then suddenly he's in a red shirt. Utter tosspot.

Thanks for sharing. Janey Mack. RK7 gets the SS treatment.

 

[cloggypop]

I couldn't be doing with the shit cartwheel and the pistols thing.

Not that he did it much for us.

He also used to wear a Man U top when he was a kid.

 

[Lippy]

Silver Sean seems awfully angry these days. Maybe he should be ASS, not SS

 

[Red Bird]

Everyone though lovren was going to be quality for us.

I didn't. I thought Agger and Toure were good enough. I did think Lambert, Markovic and Lallana were going to rock,though.