Thought it worked out fine haha. One bad season and he was gone. I miss Rafa.
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Thought it worked out fine haha. One bad season and he was gone. I miss Rafa.
i edited my post. but the kind of football rodgers wants to play will take some time, and more compatible players to do it in the long term rather than just one match against city.
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Would love Drogba at Arsenal, he's caused us so much pain over the years. Just to stop him scoring against us at least.
I think it's a ridiculous decision to drop him. Lindegaard's a very good keeper, but what this might do to DDG's confidence, when he was the reason we didn't get fucking destroyed by Everton... silly if you ask me.
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It WAS working until piss poor management at board level almost bankrupted the club. I am willing to give Rodgers time, I think he has very good ideas on how to play the game. but Rafa Benitez was the best Manager Liverpool have had for a generation. Call him what you like. He was a successful man, destroyed by the two bastards and Purslow.
It is way too early to be talking about Brendan's position as manager. We had a very harsh game against West Brom, then City and Arsenal right after.
We're already seeing significant improvements in how we play. We have things to work on, no question.
Rodgers built the Swansea side that has been playing incredibly well. When you build a system based on possession, trickery and being brave on the ball, it just can't happen immediately.
And let's be honest, Gerrard has been *really* bad.
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Joe Allen today 74 passes 93% completion. Nuri Sahin 45 passes 93% completion. Mikel Arteta 92 passes 95% success rate.
Fergie is putting a lotta faith in Ferdinand/Vidic to prevent Southampton from getting shots away or even crosses.
We all do Wilbz. We all do.
I can't help thinking that it's faintly ridiculous that we've gone from Liverpool being a good, attractive team after the Man City match, to Liverpool being shit and Rodgers being sacked in January.
The kneejerking is incredible.
Just to be clear, I'm the biggest Rafa fan you'll meet.
He's already been fucked over by whoever handles the transfers/money.
I would disagree with this somewhat. Martinez and Sousa did great work before Rodgers got there; I think he was a little lucky to join a team who had already bought into his philosophy but of course he did a fine job. A fair few of the players were already there and playing like that though.
Why do you guys care about this stat?
Maybe it's just me but if I was a manager there is no way I would wait until deadline day to sign a player in a position I desperately need. You knew you wanted to get rid of Carroll from the start, should have been your first priority. It's really the fault of the manager and the owners.
What a sexy beast.
I love Rafa, too -- and he was completely undermined -- but he would go insane with the current budget.
Yep. Very true. We won't "bounce back," we'll improve over time. Will take patience though. Not just from the team and Rodgers but from the fans – we're gonna be hearing a lot of lolerpools.
As was elucidated in the Telegraph article about the transfer window kerfuffle, FSG's goal is to have Champions League football by 2015. That's our goal.
Only to show quality of players you may not get a chance to see because they don't play in forward attacking positions.
Though anyone who watched the game today would see Allen is absolutely class.
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First try at making a football .gif
Not quite SunhiLegend level though
Not quite SunhiLegend level though
Lindegaard is quality.
I have beef with the reason for DDG's benching, but Anders can handle this shit. His GF is blindingly hot.
Yeah, that's not happening.
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It was his decision to shove Carroll out the door before even coming close to agreeing terms with his only potential replacement
Areteta had a really solid game. Expected much more from Liverpool but they currently have no end product much like Spurs. :/
Correct. Rodgers just took on what was already in place a bit further, at Liverpool he's starting afresh.
I didn't see the Liverpool game, but I'll stick with my original assessment that they have fucked themselves over (Rodgers, Ayre etc) by alienating and tossing Carroll out the door, and not bringing in any replacements. I'd rather have a poor striker that doesn't fit the system than none at all.
For Fergie, I don't mind that he's dropping DDG with the international break coming up. Generally, I don't think you should rotate the keeper (or even the back five unless absolutely necessary), but Lindegaard has impressed and with the international break coming up I don't think it's much of a problem. I don't want to see him rotating the fullbacks (especially RB) too often, I hope he sticks with Rafael.
For Fergie, I don't mind that he's dropping DDG with the international break coming up. Generally, I don't think you should rotate the keeper (or even the back five unless absolutely necessary), but Lindegaard has impressed and with the international break coming up I don't think it's much of a problem. I don't want to see him rotating the fullbacks (especially RB) too often, I hope he sticks with Rafael.
It identifies the key players in progressive attacks and possession play. :s
this just goes to prove how little this actually means.
they were all passes to players standing within a five meter range. he was very poor, and he didn't even look fully fit.
It identifies players passing a ball to another player.
Whoop de fucking doo passing is hard
Hear, hear. If he wants to blame someone, he should look in the mirror.
I hate you.
Still predicting 4-0.
Fuck you NikeI'm not saying Brendan should be sacked or even suggesting it. I'm questioning whether or not he was good enough for the job to begin with. He done well at Swansea but this is a massive step up in both club and expectations. Making CL football has to be minimum requirement for a club like Liverpool.
Yes because getting caught on possession deep in your own half doesn't affect you.
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