Re: More Football Chat : Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:10 am  

FWIW I think Skrtel's on a very slippery slope. Agger's on his own as far as centre-half quality goes because Carragher is long since finished. I don't know how good Kelly is there, he's a CB by trade, but has played fantastically at RB.

I think Meireles is a good player who'll get better and better. I think Lucas and Maxi would be good squad players in a successful Liverpool team.

I think Johnson's under-appreciated, he's not had the happiest of times at LFC but he's still class. I definately think he needs to be used further upfield, however. As a wing-back as part of a 5-3-2 / 3-5-2 or as a right midfielder.

So much dead wood though. Kuyt, Ngog, Spearing (sorry to judge you after one start this year mate) Soto, Konchesky...the list goes on.

Only good that come of this season is that the owners rip the squad apart in the summer and we rebuild. As long as we stay up. Our priority should be getting in some decent league form to consolidate and then try and win the Europa League. I think that's our only hope of keeping hold of Torres, with the promise of funds to come.

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:47 am  

Rumours we've made a formal enquiry for Luis Suarez, with further rumours adding we want to include Babel in any potential deal, to bring down the fee, like.

Can't say he'd be my number one pick, a good player no doubt, but I've voiced my reasons for not rating him so highly in the past, and they wouldn't change unless we became a 4-4-2 team, something I don't want to happen.

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:48 am  

Robbie Rotten wrote:

Rumours we've made a formal enquiry for Luis Suarez, with further rumours adding we want to include Babel in any potential deal, to bring down the fee, like.

Can't say he'd be my number one pick, a good player no doubt, but I've voiced my reasons for not rating him so highly in the past, and they wouldn't change unless we became a 4-4-2 team, something I don't want to happen.

Would make Football Manager slightly easier as Liverpool though as he's unstoppable on that...

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:15 am  

74' wrote:

Johnson > O'Shea
Skrtel > Evans
Rodriguez < Nani
Merieles V Carrick - difficult one IMO.

Right, in this list you've compared two squad players against two players who are first choice. I'll put it right for you.


Vidic>Skrtel
Rafael>Johnson
Nani> Maxi
Anderson> Meireles

The only players in your team who'd have a chance at starting are The two obvious ones and maybe Reina.

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:50 am  

King Kenny is cooler than the Fonz.

(shudder)

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:05 am  

at least The Reds showed some passion which makes up for their obvious lack of talent in the squad - a fan can't ask for any more than that - well done Kenny

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:08 am  

Nikaed wrote:

King Kenny is cooler than the Fonz.

(shudder)

I saw that.

I more accurate banner would have read - 'King Kenny has a lot in common with the Fonz'. They are similar because:-

- they both dye their hair
- they're best days are years behind both of them
- they're worshipped by large groups of clueless idiots whose pants go wet at the very sight of them

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:17 am  

Ian 77 Redux wrote:

I saw that.

I more accurate banner would have read - 'King Kenny has a lot in common with the Fonz'. They are similar because:-

- they both dye their hair
- they're best days are years behind both of them
- they're worshipped by large groups of clueless idiots whose pants go wet at the very sight of them

couldn't disagree with any of that (don't know if he dyes his hair tho') but as a neutral here the team actually went out with some kind of belief which was a bit different to the laid-back boring Hodgson days IMO - the sign of a good manager/coach is to get the best out of his squad however good or bad the players may be - having a relatively poor squad isn't Kennys' fault

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:02 am  

sanjunien wrote:

having a relatively poor squad isn't Kennys' fault

No, it's Rafa Benitez's fault.

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:05 am  

Saddened! wrote:

No, it's Rafa Benitez's fault.

say no more !