Football 2015/16

[TheGayTent]

The FA Cup doesn't count as winning something?

I wouldn't mind West Ham not winning something if that's the case...

[eFestivals]

Why? Fergie was still winning things. Wenger hasn't got close to winning anything for over a decade. After he sold Viera basically.

Wenger also hasn't really spent any money on the squad for a decade+ ... I wonder how fergie would have gone with that restriction?

In many ways the new guy (whoever it might be) has it easier, because he's not going to have that restriction and is unlikely to have fixed himself in a mindset of not buying players.

[Gucci Piggy]

10 goals in the last 3 games for Lewandowski, and he was on the bench for at least half of one of them. Madness.

Edit: He's going to kill Ospina.

Edit 2: It's 10 goals in 185 mins.

Edited September 30, 2015 by Will-2609

[DomDom1984]

Will-2609, on 30 Sept 2015 - 2:39 PM, said:

Edit 2: It's 10 goals in 185 mins.

 

Good Christ.

[The Nal]

We (Ireland) and Scotland have Lewandowski in a must-get-a-result game aswell.

[thetime]

Why? Fergie was still winning things. Wenger hasn't got close to winning anything for over a decade. After he sold Viera basically.

Nothing to do with trophies won, more to do with the amount of time Wenger has been there.

Removing fergie left United rudderless, it's crucial arsenal get the appointment right. Will be interesting the reaction of players, fans and the club alike.

[The Nal]

Now this was tasty!

[eFestivals]

Now this was tasty!

 

a lot of hoof in there as well as the goal

[ThomThomDrum]

Now this was tasty!

 

Mata really is a difference maker. Great player. Should always be on the pitch IMO

[TheSilence]

Liverpool against Sion tonight. With any luck, Rodgers will fuck up again and play the entire first team so theyll be nice and tired when they play us on Sunday

[The Nal]

a lot of hoof in there as well as the goal

 

Yeah, I'm only referring to the backheel though. Mata is Utds best player now. Would love to see him drop a little further back at times into the Scholes position and run the game. Like what should've happened in the 2nd half last night.

[eFestivals]

Yeah, I'm only referring to the backheel though. Mata is Utds best player now. Would love to see him drop a little further back at times into the Scholes position and run the game. Like what should've happened in the 2nd half last night.

 

Mata's too light-weight to do that role.

[The Nal]

Mata's too light-weight to do that role.

 

Not with Schmidfield beside him to give him space to play.

 

Keano laying into Arsenal here.

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38940s_rec508_people

Edited October 1, 2015 by The Nal

[mjsell]

Not with Schmidfield beside him to give him space to play.

 

Keano laying into Arsenal here.

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38940s_rec508_people

 

Every other conversation Keane has he lays into Arsenal.

[5co77ie]

Am I right in thinking Sturridge has been dropped from England squad because Rodgers said he couldn't play both games?

[eFestivals]

Am I right in thinking Sturridge has been dropped from England squad because Rodgers said he couldn't play both games?

I'm surprised England might want to take him again, as I think it's them who've picked up most of the cost of his off-sick wages the last couple of years. He always seemed to get injured playing for England.

So him being dropped is good news for Liverpool, I reckon.

[thetime]

It's a bit if a no brainer sturridge not being picked. He's just had a year out and still building his fitness up.

Give the lad half a chance of staying fit.

[Wooderson]

Another superb result last night. It'll be over soon.

[Wooderson]

All Balotelli's fault of course. Most Reds can see this. Rodgsie still has the backing of the maj of right thinking fans. The likes of Tarby.

[thetime]

Another superb result last night. It'll be over soon.

To be fair it's not how Rodgers sees it.

Rodgers: "We go into Sunday's game with confidence. We have quality in this team. We should have won that game last night 4-1."

[eFestivals]

lol @ Rodgers.

 

It was dreadful, but it was very much a b-team that was played.

 

I thought Origi looked pretty good. His shooting could do with improving, but he made some decent contributions. I'd like to see what he looks like with Sturridge also on the field, I reckon they could be a decent pairing (probably better than Sturridge with Ings).

 

I thought Rositer looked OK too - tho a bit too much sidewards.

 

Dreadful, tho.

[ThomThomDrum]

Rodgers: "We go into Sunday's game with confidence. We have quality in this team. We should have won that game last night 4-1."

 

And he is right. They should have, but yet again the players are really letting the club, fans and manager down with their finishing and lack thereof. They are making all the chances, but just not finishing them. 

 

In reality what more can BR do? Over the last 3 years he has LFC playing in such a way that only the likes of Barca and City actually create more chances. The difference is that the quality up front for LFC is very different since Suarez left and Sturridge got injured and it seems LFC are simply not a club who can attract and/or afford the top top strikers/finishers.............they find themselves having to buy young or 2nd tier players with the hope they can develop/improve them. They manage to do that now and again, but then its difficult for the club to keep them. Its a mini vicious circle in reality. 

Edited October 2, 2015 by ThomThomDrum

[eFestivals]

It probably hasn't helped with the striker thing with the club having so many bigger-name strikers last season and this.

 

It probably leads to keep trying different things with different players, when what's really needed is give the same players a decent run when they have a chance to build up their sharpness.

 

Might Origi have put away one or more of  yesterday's chances if he was playing every week? Perhaps, perhaps not, but it would surely have increased the chances.

 

Ings I sort-of like, but I don't think he's got what it takes to be prolific.

[ThomThomDrum]

Give em no defenders and a poorly positioned keeper and he will smack em in!

 

https://vine.co/v/eQjTKJB75z2

[TheSilence]

I just don't think the Liverpool squad is good in the slightest. 

Mignolet is average at best, the defence is a shambles bar Clyne, Benteke has been okay. The midfield is solid but you can see the gap that Gerrard has left. Sturridge and Coutinho remain Liverpool's best players but they're not amazing by any stretch of the imagination. 

 

Losing Gerrard, Suarez and Sterling in the last two years has badly hurt Liverpool as a squad and it'll take a lot to bounce back from it. 

 

Saying that, our squad is lacking in a million and one ways as well, we're just in solid form.