That awkward moment when you realise Liverpool practically paid Southampton to switch positions on the league table.Found in the newbs.
Brentan Rodgers
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I suppose he will be back just in time for us.
Can't disagree with much of what you're written at this point in time. However, this point in time is not the correct reference point to be making final judgements.
If this is indeed the reference point then Wenger and Pellegrini will be fired tomorrow and LvG / Rodgers would be in their last chance saloon.
In theory yes, but reputation does buy you time, and rightly so.
What? So you want Berahino, Sakho, an AM (who?) a wide player and another goalie...Give Brenty another £120m and see what he comes up with!
Sakho meaning our centre back...
No... I want a top forward player, a centre back and a goalkeeper. I don't want Berahino and we already have Sakho.
I think Berahino could be a great signing for Liverpool. Wouldn't mind us going for him at all.
So what's going on with him? Injured?
How did a manager who wants to play out from the back end up with Mignolet, Skrtlel/Lovren/Sakho as his back three?
Sakho is good on the ball (he just looks unnatural on it).
Probably won't play again for us because he left the ground after finding out he was left out of the squad.
Why do you want a CB partner for him then?Timing is definitely strange. The fact he hasn't been called up by France (or at least he wasn't last time) does suggest he's actually injured though...even if I was sceptical too.
Either way Rodgers doesn't seem to rate him.
Why should Deschamps call him up if he doesn't play for Liverpool???
France have anyway enough quality CB's: Varane, Mangala, Laporte, Zouma & Yanga-Mbiwa (Plays fantastic for Roma). They've the injured Koscielny too.
I'm not saying they should. I'm saying that although I was sceptical about the timing of his injury I doubt France would have dropped him from their last squad (not the current one) if it wasn't genuine. Wasn't he their captain? (Might be plucking that out of the air)
Lloris is their captain.
He has captained them before and he's their first choice next to Varane.
Yeah, that's what I thought. I don't watch France enough to know if he deserved to be first choice but I doubt he'd go from first choice to out of the squad without an injury.
Still doesn't mean you'll be wrong that he won't play for us again obviously. I think he will, but only a few games before leaving in the summer.
They also had Sturbridge AND Suarez to score.
But i remember Rodgers has said Sakho is only out for 2-3 weeks and that was before the Basel game
Okay maybe he has a other injury but it's a bit wierd there are no news about Sakho since the Merseyderby incident
That is my thinking too. Especially when Reina and Agger were basically pushed out by Rodgers despite both being quite good with the ball. It's strange.
Saw a stat saying that since Brentan joined them, Liverpool have made the most number of defensive mistakes which led to shots by the opposition. And they were comfortably leading that table.
To be fair, their defense wasn't great last season, either. It their attack that carried them throughout, even when they conceded you knew they had it in them to go to the other end and score a few more. Now that Suarez is gone and Sturridge is injured, they are unable to do that, so their confidence is shot and all the weaknesses that were easily ignored last season are there for everyone to see.
That's not true. He looks unnatural on the ball because he is unnatural on the ball. I'll give you that he's not half as bad as your other CBs at it, but he's not what you'd call a ball playing CB. He's at best 'decent' at using the ball. Not the type of CB you'd want if you want to implement the style of play Rodgers does.
Yeah as Earthquake said, Lloris is the captain but Sakho has captained the team I think, and was also captain of PSG at a very young age which might have caused the confusion.
Not really true, Deschamps hasn't actually got a fixed CB pairing in his mind and has swapped quite a bit over the last year or so. Sakho was first choice, most definitely, at some point, especially after his heroics against Ukraine, but then again Varane wasn't a first choice. As he's slowly establishing himself, the pairings have changed quite a bit over the last year, with Sakho, Varane and Koscielny playing a lot, and Mangala being involved also. I'd say at the moment Varane/Koscielny would be first choice in Deschamps's mind.
For as poor as Liverpool have been they are still only 2 points behind us. Which scares me a little!
He contradicts himself all the time in his eagerness to appear smart. The dippers lap it up as well.
Don't forget that we had that awful start before bringing in all our new players, while they won two of their first three.
Since then we've earned 6 more points than them in 8 games. That's why it feels like we should be further ahead. Suffice to say I'd be happy to earn nearly a point a game more than them for the rest of the season.
For as poor as we've been Liverpool is still 2 points behind us.
Good point. didnt think of things that way
This is Brenton's 3rd season in charge and his team have regressed to a worse state than when he first took over, LVG has had only had 5 months with an apocolyptic injury crisis to work through! I'm confident things will only get better for us, and much worse for them.
Nice take on the glass half full/empty line
How is he unnatural on the ball? He misplaces very few passes and rarely gives the ball away.
Rodgers' only good transfers came in January.
I've just seen in the Daily Mail that Hodgson had more points than Rodgers currently has after 11 games.
Blamed geography for the trouble he had with signings and said players are not ready to come to Liverpool. Damn straight Brenda, Damn straight.
Yeah, but Rodgers has them playing this brilliant fluid attacking football... You can really see he is developing a coherent vision within the group and...
Oh wait!..
Lescott also had a very high passing rate and rarely conceded possession, doesn't mean he wasn't unnatural on the ball. Sakho isn't as bad as Lescott for it but it's quite clear from watching him he isn't comfortable on the ball.
No wonder as History is the favourite subject in scouseland.
NB. This is not a Liverpool corner.
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