I reckon Discontento would appeal to our fans more though.
Who the fuck are we going to sign?
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I really think the 'we're not in the Champions League so we can't attract top players' line is a convenient excuse for us failing to land quality players.
We signed the likes of Suarez, Coutinho and Sturridge without CL football. Spurs signed Vertongen last summer without CL and Paulinho and Soldado this summer without it.
The fact we won't pay ridiculous wages anymore is obviously a factor. Not blaming the owners, just the way it has to be.
This.
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i just can't believe that rodgers isn't looking for midfielders . We're so average there it's scary . He surely can't think we have enough. And last yr we used the lucas injury to excuse others for having to play unnatural roles . We'll we still don't have any cover for his position so it could be the same again at periods this season .
Its a worrying time, because if you look around the park there arent that many areas where you think we have a really strong set of options.
KEEPER - Mignolet, Jones - OK
LB - Enrique... WORRYING
CB - Agger, Skrtel, Toure, Wisdom, Coates - DECENT (if we keep Skrtel) could still do with someone else in place of Coates
RB - Johnson, Kelly - OK
DM - Lucas - WORRYING
CM - Henderson, Gerrard, Allen - FINE
AM - Coutinho - WORRYING. I think our season really hinges on this lad staying fit. Worrying that hes only been here for 6 months and he is our key.
LM - Downing - WORRYING AS FUCK
RM - Alberto, Sterling, Ibe - WORRYING as far as experience goes.
CF - Suarez, Sturridge, Borinin - FINE ... currently.
With 20 days of the transfer window remaining this is all a bit up in the air.
KEEPER - Mignolet, Jones - OK
LB - Enrique... WORRYING
CB - Agger, Skrtel, Toure, Wisdom, Coates - DECENT (if we keep Skrtel) could still do with someone else in place of Coates
RB - Johnson, Kelly - OK
DM - Lucas - WORRYING
CM - Henderson, Gerrard, Allen - FINE
AM - Coutinho - WORRYING. I think our season really hinges on this lad staying fit. Worrying that hes only been here for 6 months and he is our key.
LM - Downing - WORRYING AS FUCK
RM - Alberto, Sterling, Ibe - WORRYING as far as experience goes.
CF - Suarez, Sturridge, Borinin - FINE ... currently.
With 20 days of the transfer window remaining this is all a bit up in the air.
It's is. In terms of stability & talent I'm not happy with the keeper, defence, midfield or attack.
Which is the entire side.
3/4 quality first teamers (not world class but quality) can change that quickly. Thing is we're not linked with them yet.
Which is the entire side.
3/4 quality first teamers (not world class but quality) can change that quickly. Thing is we're not linked with them yet.
The problem is that we have left it so late now that if you throw in even two or three new players it makes a mockery of our pre-season because we will have to start again as a cohesive unit.
Its maddening. I dont want to be the kind of cunt who moans about money and buying players, but the simple fact is we benefited from FIFTY million this season in TV rights on top of the usual TV deal, we USUALLY spend 20m in summer, we are (as reported) commercially now making a fortune, AND we have cut the biggest expense the club has (wages) by 10m.
So we are 80m in the green and we look like spending none of it. Im starting to feel very much like Aston Villa.
Maybe im being paranoid, but those 'THE WINDOW HAS JUST OPENED' posts seem a long time ago and still we have signed a replacement for our best keeper in decades, a journeyman CB and two unproven Spanish starlets the like of Swansea and Cardiff are signing.
I'll be honest im shitting my pants.
Its maddening. I dont want to be the kind of cunt who moans about money and buying players, but the simple fact is we benefited from FIFTY million this season in TV rights on top of the usual TV deal, we USUALLY spend 20m in summer, we are (as reported) commercially now making a fortune, AND we have cut the biggest expense the club has (wages) by 10m.
So we are 80m in the green and we look like spending none of it. Im starting to feel very much like Aston Villa.
Maybe im being paranoid, but those 'THE WINDOW HAS JUST OPENED' posts seem a long time ago and still we have signed a replacement for our best keeper in decades, a journeyman CB and two unproven Spanish starlets the like of Swansea and Cardiff are signing.
I'll be honest im shitting my pants.
I think the Celtic game was a bit of a wake up call.
The season seems a long way away when you're playing teams that for all intents and purposes may as well be semi-professionals but seeing that team against Celtic just seemed to hit home how little we've actually achieved in terms of improving the side.
Agree with Oncey - even if we get some players in now we're going to be integrating them into the squad when points are at stake.
The season seems a long way away when you're playing teams that for all intents and purposes may as well be semi-professionals but seeing that team against Celtic just seemed to hit home how little we've actually achieved in terms of improving the side.
Agree with Oncey - even if we get some players in now we're going to be integrating them into the squad when points are at stake.
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On the 20th day you can tell yourself Joe Allen is adequate cover for Lucas. Henderson can cover left midfield. Johnson can cover left back. Suarez can attempt to partially cover for Coutinho.
So too is Turan
Jamie Carragher believes selling Luis Suarez would make Liverpool look stupid
Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher says the club’s owner, John W Henry, would look stupid if he were to sell unsettled striker Luis Suárez, who has been warned by Brendan Rodgers he will be forced to play in the reserves unless his attitude changes.
Staying put: Luis Suárez will remain at Anfield, according to retired Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher Photo: REUTERS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-Suarez-would-make-Liverpool-look-stupid.html
Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher says the club’s owner, John W Henry, would look stupid if he were to sell unsettled striker Luis Suárez, who has been warned by Brendan Rodgers he will be forced to play in the reserves unless his attitude changes.
Staying put: Luis Suárez will remain at Anfield, according to retired Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher Photo: REUTERS
By Jeremy Wilson and Jason Burt
11:00PM BST 11 Aug 2013
Rodgers, the Liverpool manager, says Suárez must apologise to his team-mates for his very public attempt to leave the club before he is allowed back into the first team. Carragher believes that the most important gesture the striker could now make is with his performances on the pitch.
Carragher trained with his former Liverpool team-mates last week ahead of Steven Gerrard’s testimonial and admitted that he was “alarmed” by Suárez’s attitude. Suárez is now being forced to train alone and Carragher believes that he must accept that he will not be able to force a move from Liverpool to Arsenal. It follows a public slapping down by Rodgers, who on Sunday night stepped up his warning.
“As a club and as a manager we have made our stance on the commitment and standard that is required,” Rodgers said. “If you don’t have that commitment you won’t play it is as simple as that. If you have to sit and wait and not move, so be it. This is a club that has great values and the situation can be resolved really and I am sure it will be resolved.”
Carragher believes there will be a change of heart.
“I expect him to stay at Liverpool now,” he said. “I think if you come out as owner and say that, and then something happens, you make yourself look stupid. I’m glad he has done it and I think everyone in football should be glad he has done it. It is maybe a message for players.
“I trained with him once this summer and you are talking about probably one of the best trainers I have ever seen. I’ve only seen him once, God knows what he has been like all pre-season, but he hasn’t been his normal self.”
Despite Suárez’s training ground attitude, Carragher is convinced that the Liverpool players would still be sufficiently pragmatic to want him to stay.
“He’s the best player,” said Carragher. “It probably all affects supporters more who absolutely love the club. Players come and go at different times; we are all probably selfish, we think about our own situation. I think a lot of them will be probably focused on getting themselves ready for the start of the league. I’m sure they will want Luis to stay because it gives them more chance of being successful.” So how does Suárez go about rehabilitating himself? “Play football, play well, score goals,” said Carragher.
Goals were lacking for Liverpool in their 1-0 defeat by a young Celtic side in Saturday’s friendly in Dublin, but it has been a largely successful pre-season for Rodgers’ team, with six wins from seven games.
The sight of Daniel Sturridge returning to action was another boost.
The striker played the second half at the Aviva Stadium, his first involvement since injuring an ankle at the end of last season, and Liverpool have arranged a behind-closed-doors match this week to step up his return to fitness in the hope he can start next Saturday’s opening Premier League match at home to Stoke City.
Rodgers admitted there were “teething problems” for Sturridge after his £12 million move from Chelsea last January but added that “once he had got his head around the demands of playing for a big club regularly then he was terrific”. He continued: “I think he is aware of the opportunity in front of him. He has wanted to be in this position – leading the attack for a big club with everything that brings – and it is just now about making himself available as much as he can.”
Rodgers remains in the market to add to his attacking options – having had a £21 million bid for Diego Costa rejected by Atlético Madrid. “I am confident that we will add to the team,” he said. “We are looking for someone top left with pace and who can score goals.”
Rodgers said that there was “strong interest” in Stewart Downing with West Ham United having bid £6 million for the England international and Newcastle United also in the running.
Rodgers is hoping to bolster his squad with the imminent signing of Granada left-back Guilherme Siqueira which would raise doubts over the future of Jose Enrique. Siqueira, a Brazilian with Italian citizenship, is keen to quit Granada, who he joined three years ago from their parent club, the Serie A outfit Udinese, and the 27-year-old is thought to be available for around £8 million although Liverpool would hope to pay less.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-Suarez-would-make-Liverpool-look-stupid.html
Telegraph or Guardian, cant remember which
We don't look any stronger than last season. We've swapped a keeper, swapped Toure for Carra, signed a midfielder for the bench and added an attacker who looks nothing more than OK.
There was some talk about adding quality to the team rather than the squad. We certainly haven't done that. Yet anyway.
There was some talk about adding quality to the team rather than the squad. We certainly haven't done that. Yet anyway.
Agreed. I think the official line may end up being that we spent much of our money in January, and that the expectation is just that if we continue our form of the second half of the season, we'll be fine.
The second part of that is certainly not true for me unfortunately.
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