Oh cool. Nice to see his development.
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Football Thread 2011/12 |OT8| Made it to the Championship play-offs
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Oh cool. Nice to see his development.
My body is not ready.
We've got no chance and you know it. You can take solace in the fact that we'll lose against what could've easily been one of the CL semi-finalists, if the suicide against Chelsea hadn't taken place. Napuleeee mille coloriiiii!
Let's hope we get "second-leg poor version of Napoli".
Kenny can get away with it blaming injuries/few key players not performing.
What's Mancini's excuse for losing the league title and crashing out in Europe twice?
Kenny can get away with it blaming injuries/few key players not performing.
What's Mancini's excuse for losing the league title and crashing out in Europe twice?
Gareth Bale
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Just won a Thornton's white chocolate easter egg off of my brother by beating him with HB Koge. Whoever they are, it turns out they've got a ridiculously big striker up front. I think he might play for Brondby now though. It great fun playing random teams and discovering players you never knew existed. Runsewe is great in Fifa 12 as well.
No. When will you stop asking this inane idiotic question? What would the point of leaving before the season ends be? How many fucking times are you going to be answered before your fingers stop feeling compelled to repeat this again?
LFMartins86
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He´s been great this season. One of our best signings this year. He seems to be really happy here and he is playing with confidence, he has scored 5 times this season.
And also have scored a total of 4 league goals =P
Ok, can I ask in summer? Sorry to beat the same drum but Liverpool don't look anything like a top 4 side on this showing. And no Yurt, Kenny can get away with it because he's a living Liverpool legend. Imagine if Roy had lost 5 out of the last 6 league games? Doesn't bear thinking about.
You're more than welcome to just search this thread or OT7 for the answer to the last 4 times you brought this up. But you don't want an answer anyway, so I guess there's no point.
LFMartins86
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That cross from Arias was perfect. The kid has really impressed me every time he plays.
When I first tried out FM12 last year, he was always the one that would fuck up and then get injured for an ungodly amount of time. Nice to see he hasn't been following in his virtual footsteps
Gareth Bale
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dc it does seem like you're asking that question just to try and piss people off.
Vivalaraza
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Lollll
odd_morsel is losing it.
As an aside, if Daglish does go in the summer...Benitez aside, who else would you guys like to see in charge?
Spinning Plates
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The difference is Mancini has shown improvement compared to last season and we are still in contention for the title. If we don't win the league this season it will be with a points tally that would be good enough to win in many previous seasons.
Liverpool aren't even in the running for 4th place. Infact they are closer points wise to Wigan than they are Arsenal/Spurs.
After today's game I think anyone would lose it. Today was really a bad day for Liverpool lol.
Nah not at all. I can't remember getting a decent answer though with thought behind it. Maybe I missed it.
Id actually give AVB a go. He didnt do great at Cheslea, but he bought good players and likes to use a style of play that our better players could easily adapt to.
Not but 2-ish days ago there was a multi-page discussion on this exact topic. If you can't find it I'll give you the rundown:
- most Liverpool fans are very obviously unhappy
- Kenny may or may not be to blame, but we'd like to give someone else a shot
- consensus seems to be that Rafa Benitez is the best choice, but will still be unlikely
- there is no point in changing managers now. We're in Europe because of the league cup, and there's no chance of a CL spot. Nothing to play for except the FA cup and Kenny hasn't shown weakness in the cups
I'm just saying, if City end this season with no titles (VERY likely), they should consider hiring a better manager. Not excuse whatsoever for crashing out twice in Europe with that squad. He screwed up many games in the league as well with his tactics :/
Why?
Exactly how I felt last season about Juve. The loss of money was huge but it was for the best.
Vivalaraza
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36 goals in 31 games...definitely the biggest weakness for Liverpool this season.
sazabirules
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I enjoy watching Europa League games. It's just fun watching teams from various leagues play each other.
Hah, I lost it a long time ago, nowhere to sink to now.
I honestly wouldn't be bothered if I thought it was a legitimate question to spur discussion, but it's dc89, and he only does two things:
- talk about City
- bait Liverpool fans
There really isn't any money to be made at all - in fact clubs usually end up with a loss, not to mention slumping in the league when your squad is tired from midweek games. It doesn't really do anyone any good.
If we were to win the Uefa cup, then I'd love it, but I'd rather we just concentrate entirely on the league. That said, now that we're in, I expect the team to take it 100% seriously.
Add in talk about RVP going to City.
Phoenix Fang
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I was going to say something smart to him but realise he does have a point.
1: We don't have a strong squad to handle league cups, league games and European football.
2: It would be better to concentrate on just the league.
There are also some very good players playing Europa League football. The fact that we can offer it is something we have to use to our advantage in the summer transfer market to improve our squad.
If it were the CL, I wouldn't be swayed by issue #1, despite agreeing with you. I know I'm going to get laughed at for saying this, but we have a better team than Napoli, Benfica, APOEL, Olympique Merseille, and a few others who had very respectable CL runs. We also won the CL with a somewhat ragtag squad, through sheer determination and some great tactics by Rafa.
The CL is always worth going for, no matter how confident you are in your team. It's an important competition to be in. The Uefa cup doesn't have the upsides that the CL does (prestige for attracting new talent, a very significant amount of revenue, morale boost for players), so I wouldn't mind if we just weren't involved with it. As it is, I believe Liverpool is tied for most Uefa cup trophies
What would be the point on getting top 4 if our squad isn't strong enough for European football?
If our squad isn't good enough for the Uefa cup, then it needs improving.
Well, I personally expect us to spend this Summer, and getting top 4 may be the difference between Hoilett and Hazard, or Sinclair and Soldado...
Phoenix Fang
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The question is thou are they going to improve the squad properly or end up buying a bunch of deadwood again (i.e. Adam, Downing, Carroll)?
The problem is that with Europa League is you play on a Thursday only to be playing again on a Saturday or Sunday which isn't enough time for players to recover. With CL you get that extra day which helps a lot. Our bench doesn't have quality players on it let alone our first team.
If it were the CL, I wouldn't be swayed by issue #1, despite agreeing with you. I know I'm going to get laughed at for saying this, but we have a better team than Napoli, Benfica, APOEL, Olympique Merseille, and a few others who had very respectable CL runs. We also won the CL with a somewhat ragtag squad, through sheer determination and some great tactics by Rafa.
The CL is always worth going for, no matter how confident you are in your team. It's an important competition to be in. The Uefa cup doesn't have the upsides that the CL does (prestige for attracting new talent, a very significant amount of revenue, morale boost for players), so I wouldn't mind if we just weren't involved with it. As it is, I believe Liverpool is tied for most Uefa cup trophies
Forgot about that but not many teams have done that thou.
Fenway wont allow the club to bring in any more deadwood. As I understand it, Commoli has already had a bollocking from the owners over recent form.
We've almost certainly met the required quota now, buy British will almost certainly not be an acceptable policy again unless we're talking a real high profile addition.
We've almost certainly met the required quota now, buy British will almost certainly not be an acceptable policy again unless we're talking a real high profile addition.
New York Cosmos Legend Giorgio Chinaglia Passes Away
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Easy to say that in hindsight, but at the time they looked like fairly solid signings, and it was clear to see the intention behind them all.
Gareth Bale
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As long as you buy decent players then it doesn't matter where they are from.
Paracelsus
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Time to put those cacao meravigliao back in their place.
LFMartins86
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Some of the lights of the stadium are down.
It still looks like its fine to play though
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