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Football Thread 2014/2015 |OT10| -Proud Of Our Heritage-

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Broder Salsa

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Hixx said:
It wasn't related to that miss but Qin was involved in my favourite Believe FC moment ever

Some American was playing with us (I can't remember who it was) but he just said "can anyone else hear some Asian?" after Qin spoke and I ended up crying.
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i forgot about that hahahaha

Who the fuck was that.

We really should have some tribute video to DogMan already.
 
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GorillaJu

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EmiPrime said:
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You mock me but it's lightweight, doesn't crash, and is the fastest browser for me.

Guys

Don't knock it until you've tried it.
 
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GorillaJu

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Mr Cola said:
I refuse to believe anyone can be as bad at koo at throwing the ball, or remembering who is who on the team.

To those unaware, Kyoufu has never actually made a throw in, he has never apologised for throwing it to the opposition and he never learns, he presses the throw in button the moment he gets it and it goes in whatever position he is leaning and never to one of our players.

Fucking

Bell end
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As I was reading this post I was thinking "LOL nah he's probably better than me still"

Then I kept reading and lost my shit

Koofooooo
 
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Mr Cola

Brothas With Attitude / The Wrong Brotha to Fuck Wit / Die Brotha Die / Brothas in Paris
OddMorsel said:
As I was reading this post I was thinking "LOL nah he's probably better than me still"

Then I kept reading and lost my shit

Koofooooo
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You want to know his worst quality?

He picks on Bacon incessantly, every time he missplaces a pass he does his high pitched laugh and says "Thats so Bacon"

I love Koofoo

But I fucking hate him
 
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K1LLER7

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Clegg said:
Tbf Arsenal, Southampton and Liverpool could've each put 3 or 4 past us. Our defence is atrocious and is getting bailed out by De Gea and a good set of strikers.
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Yeah, We really need some CBs. Jones can be good if he cut out being so clumsy and got a good run of games without injuries. Evans the same. However, all of our CBs, bar Rojo, are playing bad on the ball.
 
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GorillaJu

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At least vs us, your CBs' main issue was Fellaini IMO. He picked up a yellow card almost instantly and played so many terrible passes to open space. When you have a CM playing like that, your back line is going to have to work double time to clean things up.
 
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K1LLER7

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OddMorsel said:
At least vs us, your CBs' main issue was Fellaini IMO. He picked up a yellow card almost instantly and played so many terrible passes to open space. When you have a CM playing like that, your back line is going to have to work double time to clean things up.
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He was poor in the first 35 mins but by the end of the game he stopped giving it away as carelessly.

I want Herrera to start games as he looked good again vs Liverpool. With Carrick playing CB, we could get Herrera starting in the middle now.
 
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Clegg

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We've won 6 in a row but theres still the feeling that it could come screeching to a halt at any second. Performances haven't instilled much confidence but winning has. There are times when I think that we'll crumble if we concede at a particular point ala Leicester. In fairness to the team though, they're winning ugly and long may it continue.
 
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Clegg

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pulga said:
That's been my feeling m8, but somehow we've arrived at 20.

YOU JUST GOTTA BELIEVE IN DA GAAL
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He has the team believing they can win again which is something that we lost in the last few months of Moyes' reign. That's a big improvement already imo. But the performances still leave a lot to be desired. We look like we could get caught out at any moment.
 
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Elchele

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pulga said:
had power chicken today, but they fucked up by not asking me before what i wanted and hence, NO YUCA FRITA

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fuck
that's terrible

I want a pechuga asada con ala, yuca frita, tortillas y plátano frito. Frijoles de naturas y un té helado






FUCK
 
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bud

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i had brown rice, broccoli and meat for dinner

then i had a milk/oats/banana/apple shake

hixx i actually bought it on blu ray today
 
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ghst

thanks for the laugh
Clegg said:
We've won 6 in a row but theres still the feeling that it could come screeching to a halt at any second. Performances haven't instilled much confidence but winning has. There are times when I think that we'll crumble if we concede at a particular point ala Leicester. In fairness to the team though, they're winning ugly and long may it continue.
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you crumble repeatedly throughout each game but whoever you're playing refuses to take advantage of it.

de gea had a worldy against everton, but other than that has been largely just well positioned and competent. there's still some fergie era hoodoo that puts the willies into any cunt that gets sight of united's net.
 
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tri_willy

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WoodenLung said:
ChelsTransferGossip ‏@ChelsTransfer 1m1 minute ago
Sources close to Mohamed Salah claim he is ready to leave the Stamford Bridge club. #CFC #Inter (talkSPORT)

ChelsTransferGossip ‏@ChelsTransfer 1m1 minute ago
Inter sporting director Piero Ausilio has made contact with Salah's representatives. #CFC #Inter (talkSPORT)

ChelsTransferGossip ‏@ChelsTransfer 2m2 minutes ago
Inter Milan have begun talks to sign Chelsea winger Mohamed Salah, according to reports in Italy. #CFC #Inter (talkSPORT)


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getting rid of the fake messi's in order to sign the real deal




DC if old

some online LFC page said:
Earlier in the year I had a quick chat with a former Liverpool legend who lives a few doors down from my parents. He said that all that was left to do was sign the paperwork and we'd welcome Alexis Sanchez to the club. In between, it appears that the club's Transfer Committee started picking at details, annoyed his wife with tinkering too long with terms and he went instead to Arsenal.

James Pearce, the respected Liverpool Echo journalist, has shed new light on the internal politics and working of the club today in an interview which paints a grim picture for our acquisition of talent. Brendan is continually overruled by a faceless collection of bean counters and armchair experts who require detailed business cases for every purchase and frequently buy players which are not seen by the footballing staff as in the absolute best interests of the club's on pitch performance.

Vorm and Bony are two other players which have appeared as chosen options, only to be missed or ruled out through over cautious and poor backroom decisions. The decision making train in the club is long, slow and has to travel the Atlantic several times to complete it's journey. I think we can all picture this season with Vorm, Sanchez and Bony in the side, and imagine all the differences that those players would have made to what is becoming a season that feels cursed. The failure to buy fast strikers appears to be rooted in this committee's role in the club, and illuminates clearly why Suarez was not replaced.

With this in mind, the idea of returning Benitez to Liverpool to replace Rodgers seems ludicrous. Rafa's hatred for backroom shackles and his immediate escalation to all out boardroom warfare would rip the club to pieces and make a bad situation even worse. Rodgers signed up to the club to make decisions and specifically excluded a 'Director of Football' from the organisational structure. It appears instead that he has gained a second remote control board with no executive powers other than to make shoddy decisions based solely on cost. Until this dark, shadowy grouping is removed from the club, we may have to accept the current state of affairs as the best we can hope for.
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crazy mad if true, we're fucked this season
 
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Scum

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Brendan needs to tell that transfer committee to fuck right off. Who in their right mind thought off bringing in Balotelli? Fucking madness!
 
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GorillaJu

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tri_willy said:
getting rid of the fake messi's in order to sign the real deal




DC if old



crazy mad if true, we're fucked this season
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Not to discount the possibility but it really sounds like a fan apportioning blame after bad results.

We did sack three scouts, so logic would dictate our acquisition of talent is seen as a major problem, but given that some of Rodgers' very Rodgers-esque signings (like Borini and Allen) have turned out badly, I'm not at all convinced that we should just hand over the reins to him completely for transfer activity.

The only managers that can take a group of players they had no say over and perform well are managers of teams that are so filthy stinking rich they can't possibly fail, like Ancelotti or Blanc.
 
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tri_willy

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OddMorsel said:
Not to discount the possibility but it really sounds like a fan apportioning blame after bad results.

We did sack three scouts, so logic would dictate our acquisition of talent is a problem, but given that some of Rodgers' very Rodgers-esque signings (like Borini and Allen) have turned out badly, I'm not at all convinced that we should just hand over the reins to him completely for transfer activity.
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i suppose that is also true, i found some more interesting reads

some more online lfc stuff said:
Liverpool Echo's James Pearce one of the most trusted persons regarding LFC affairs has come out to suggest that the Transfer Committee (TC) could have made BR's work difficult at Anfield.

The sale of senior players on big wages and the signings that BR made this season were not totally his choice, but the committee's. Many managers refused to work under a sporting director when they were interviewed by FSG for the job before BR came in. FSG later set up this committee that is identical, or perhaps wields more power than a sporting director, whilst giving the idea that the manager is totally in charge. Whatever decision the manager makes with regards to signings and contracts, will be voted by 5 people in the committee. Only in the case of a majority vote, BR can sign the players he wants. Otherwise he has to improvise with the players chosen by the TC.

Pearce says BR NEVER wanted to sign Balotelli but was forced to settle for him. In other words, it was the TC that ultimately failed to replace Suarez despite getting big money by selling him. Pearce says BR also made it clear that he wanted Michel Vorm and that signing a GK is a priority. But he says the transfer committee refused to pay his value despite only spending over 30mil in net spending this summer. This also had a significant impact on Mignolet's form as LFC didn't try to provide competition for the Belgian.

Pearce says paying top bucks for Lovren made perfect sense at that point, as he was not one for the future, but was coming in as a top centre back, based on his form with the Saints and his Premier League experience. He was bought to hit the ground running. However he's had a major dip in form which is disappointing says Pearce. Similar tone has been voiced by Mike Bernard, a former employee of FSG, who said BR failing to see eye-to-eye with some of the TC members and their signings, is getting a little unsavoury. Mike noted that BR wanted Eriksen and Bony but was overruled. This also goes back to previous failures to show the money and securing players early when they had interest to move to LFC. Plenty of dragging negotiations and low-balling saw the failure of securing targets such as Willian, Salah, Mikhtaryan, Konoplyanka and more. Diego Costa was identified by BR as a transfer target when Costa was playing as a wing-forward, long before he became a star in that out-and-out striker position and caught the whole world's attention. TC thought his release clause of 20mil back then was too much. The rest is history.

While we drag our feet on targets, other clubs come into the picture, showed the money and swooped them as we watch helplessly. Even for Sanchez, Phil Thompson declared during the world cup that we had Sanchez in the bag. However too much negotiations into details and conditions in payment method allowed Arsenal to sneak in and turn his and his wife's head.

Pearce also does not believe with the popular excuse that BR got founded after Suarez left, and that it was the Uruguayan who made BR look good last season. He says BR's tactical acumen led the team prosper last season, not Suarez alone. The expectations has been raised by last season's football and LFC are struggling with the pressure now he adds. Pearce labels Borini's position as strange and wonders if it could be the club showing frustration against him, for not being able to secure 14mil from Sunderland and another 13mil from QPR. They're certainly making it clear to Borini that he shouldn't reject another deal in January. Another journo Graham Beecroft says Borini could have indicated that he rather sit on the bench and take the wages or run down his contract, than moving to a small club ie Sunderland, QPR who are also refusing to pay more wages than LFC. Could be the reason why he's strangely frozen. Could be the club's decision not the manager's.

The last time Pearce spoke to BR, the manager said Can and some of the new players are still trying to adapt to his philosophy of football and it could be the reason why BR resorts to playing those who know what is expected of them for now. But Pearce says he will speak to BR again about Can to find out more on his position. Pearce says LFC's season could depend on Sturridge coming back to be paired with Balotelli upfront, and then allow the rest of the team to click. Pearce doesn't know if FSG are willing to spend in January but it's a question of can they afford not to. As champions league new TV deal brings in over 40mil next season compared to 25mil before, he opines that LFC must spend. Especially on a top quality striker, taking into account Studge's fitness.
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ghst

thanks for the laugh
brendan rodgers is basically flanders in the leftorium episode. still putting a brave face on it even when his family is living in their car.

i want to know who got the other half of the wishbone.
 
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tri_willy

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OddMorsel said:
Willy have you seen the Tony Barrett blog from the same thread?

http://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/2mz953/why_liverpool_must_avoid_the_lure_of_january/

Christ almighty what a mess.
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haha jesus christ... we have some real evident problems... if by the previous article i mentioned, we needed at least a legit GK who would make mingnolet in the least fight for his place or magically improve not to mentioning missing out on the rumoured strikers prior to balotelli

id like to find out more on this supposed transfer committee coz if what ive read is true, we're getting killed in the inside just as bad as the outside
 
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