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I'm sure they're referring to GOATs as in their club's greatest players of all time. We've all masturbated to pictures of Gerrard.

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Inter Yer Nan said:
It can be rough stuff talking to the overly excitable Liverpool fans. I remember even in 2007/2008 Pennant was better than Ronaldo. Biscan was better than Keane and Scholes. So many amazing examples.
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Remember the legendary Le Tallec/Ronaldo article....

Soon enough, the rest of the nation will wake up to Le Tallec's talents. Let's not forget who was named Player of the tournament in the World Youth Championships two years ago," says Chris Bascombe

In most cases, paying #12m for a teenager would be considered rank stupidity, over-indulgence or, at the very least, a gamble which even Chris Kirkland's dad would shy away from.

When Manchester United do it, it's a stroke of transfer genius.

According to everyone who they make listen, United have just signed the best teenager in the world. By God are we hearing about it.

I'm not doubting Ronaldo's abilities. Clearly he's a talented kid who may be on the threshold of greatness. It just strikes me as rather odd that no-one has given the same attention to Liverpool's equally stunning new teenage recruit.

It seems Gerard Houllier's mistake with Anthony Le Tallec was to buy him early rather than delay until everyone in Europe wanted him. Obviously, Liverpool should have waited until Le Tallec's value was #12m.

Soon enough, the rest of the nation will wake up to Le Tallec's talents. Let's not forget who was named Player of the tournament in the World Youth Championships two years ago.

No doubt both Gerard and Sir Alex watched those same youth championships in Argentina a few years back and noticed the same players.

Indeed, Liverpool had already signed Le Tallec by then and were strongly linked with Ronaldo themselves, but can't afford to splash out like United.

Time will tell who's got the better deal, but for value for money I know who I'm backing. It's a bit like Houllier and Ferguson have both dined at the same top class restaurant and had their pick of the best main courses on the menu.

Houllier has managed to get his dish at a quarter of the cost Ferguson has paid, and yet it's his rival who is getting all the praise.

Indeed, I'm getting an eerie sense of deja vu when it comes to theman dubbed TLT who's about to explode onto the Premiership. I remember how slow our London based number one writers were to realise who Steven Gerrard was a few years back.

The Kop Magazine I once wrote even launched a campaign to get him in the England squad, so little attention was he receiving. Then, when the rest of the country noticed a year later, they decided to make him their own property.

It was a similar story with Wayne Rooney at Everton. A friend of mine who works on a national newspaper tried to get a feature on Rooney into his paper in the summer of 2002. They were having none of it. How times changed three months later when "Rooney Opens Crisp Packet" stories were making the front page.

Le Tallec won't get the same attention as Rooney, Gerrard or Michael Owen because he ain't English. But the few glimpses I've had of him remind me so much of the first time I saw Gerrard.

So young, yet so full of class. So clearly ready to play at the highest level and begin the learning curve which will take him to the top of the game.

One of the most encouraging, but sadly overlooked parts of Sunday was Le Tallec's being named a sub. Pity he didn't get on, although Houllier said he was prepared to play the youngster if the circumstances of the game had been different.

The career paths of Le Tallec and Ronaldo are sure to cross regularly over the next decade. Should the French gem prove himself the better player, you never know, maybe the manager who signed him will get a bit of credit.
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kentafuji said:
Ah, anthony Le Tallec, who as of this season is playing in Romania.

They sure got that one spot on
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But how many goals have Ronaldo scored in the Romanian league?
 
1974_Fergie_Time said:


Didi telling it like how it is
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Sadly, I think he's bang on the money. I've said it a few times before, but the decision not to buy any starting defenders this summer was ridiculous. Everyone could see that the defence was our big problem the last couple of seasons and badly needed to be strengthened. Instead we bought attacker Salah (who's looked good) and spent 40m(!) on Ox. I genuinely can not get the reasoning behind this.

How was Klopps Dortmund at defending?
 
Rob said:
Sadly, I think he's bang on the money. I've said it a few times before, but the decision not to buy any starting defenders this summer was ridiculous. Everyone could see that the defence was our big problem the last couple of seasons and badly needed to be strengthened. Instead we bought attacker Salah (who's looked good) and spent 40m(!) on Ox. I genuinely can not get the reasoning behind this.

How was Klopps Dortmund at defending?
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Klopps Dortmund pressed very high and got the ball often in midfield. If the opponent went through, they had the likes of Hummels, Subotic, Schmelzer and so on. And on top of that, he had Weidenfeller as GK. Liverpool would dream of such a defense
 
D4X73r said:
Klopps Dortmund pressed very high and got the ball often in midfield. If the opponent went through, they had the likes of Hummels, Subotic, Schmelzer and so on. And on top of that, he had Weidenfeller as GK. Liverpool would dream of such a defense
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Alright, thanks. So basically the same, only with far, far better defenders.
 
Scarlet Spider said:
Sure I remember a local taxi driver who supported Liverpool telling me that United couldn't compete financially with Liverpool any more because we had blown all of our transfer budget on Paul Pogba...
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Same way they said we'd do a Leeds once the Glazers took over and how them getting US owners meant they would dominate for decades again.
 
'Reality has a pro-United bias'.
 
D4X73r said:
Klopps Dortmund pressed very high and got the ball often in midfield. If the opponent went through, they had the likes of Hummels, Subotic, Schmelzer and so on. And on top of that, he had Weidenfeller as GK. Liverpool would dream of such a defense
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Rob said:
Alright, thanks. So basically the same, only with far, far better defenders.
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The Dortmund defense was quite crappy overall both in organisation and personnel. Subotic aside, those players are no better than what Liverpool have.
 
AshfordLad said:
The Dortmund defense was quite crappy overall both in organisation and personnel. Subotic aside, those players are no better than what Liverpool have.
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I might remember wrong, but weren't Hummels and Schmelzer far better than Matip/Lovren/Moreno? Wasn't Hummels considered one of the best CBs in the world?
 
AshfordLad said:
The Dortmund defense was quite crappy overall both in organisation and personnel. Subotic aside, those players are no better than what Liverpool have.
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What?? Matip was in and out of the Schalke team while Schmelzer and Hummels played for the best team in Germany and the national team.. Lövren, Matip, Gomez and Moreno wouldnt even get close to either that Dortmund team or the Mannschaft even if they were German..
 
Ronaldo has more goals for Real Madrid than Le Tallec has league appearances in his entire career.

But there's still time for Le Tallec to prove us all wrong.
 
I'm very tired today but the "I'll help you Ragnar" from Mr.Graph is pure gold. :lol:
We should hire him to analyze our games as well.
 
Blaming the wind again:

RAWKwind said:
Yes he made mistakes, but he also recovered brilliantly from most of them and so very few of his guffs actually led to us conceding.
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Fellani, Herrera and Matic
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. Watching Utd is going to get a whole lot more painful if that is even possible.
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So we're going to keep winning?

A lot of the usual shite on there but I'll be honest. Some of those guys are pretty funny.
 
At least the City result has brought them back down to earth a bit, its very tiresome reading them saying they are going to 'walk the league' every time they win a game.
 
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