re: OFFICIAL Liverpool FC 2014-2015 Season Long Thread

Moreno wet my shorts with that third. Sweet Jesus that was a gorgeous goal from start to finish.

Suarez was at the training ground today saying goodbyes, and clearing out his stuff. There are a few photos of him with Stevie and friends, but I don't know how to post them from twitter.

That Moreno goal..will watch again and again. And loved that he went to the supporters and how excited he was. Hope its the beginning of a beautiful and long relationship!

My thoughts on Balos first start - extremely disappointed with how he finished - I counted four decent chances and he only put one on frame, and that one pretty much right at the keeper. All three others weren't really even close to frame. He has to do better than that. His hold up play and linking with others was better than I thought for a first game though. He also occupied guys on Sterlings goal.

I think being able to bring on Can when we have some leads will be a big help. Much better than Lucas (though I don't think he was really playing a second CDM with Gerrard like Lucas did week 1) even though we kinda of seemed to switch to a 4-2-3-1.

Not much on here about Sakho, but I've seen complaints elsewhere about him. I'm actually pretty happy with him. I think he's a bit goofy/uncordinated looking sometimes with his challenges, but I think he's probably our most positionally sound CB, plays a nice hard ball along the ground (so its easy to trap and move as opposed to a ball in the air) past pressing to the MF or even FWD, and is generally where you need him to be. I think a rotating 3some will do decent enough, assuming Lovren can play both sides well enough (and he was decent yesterday)

Lovren has been a bit more erratic than expected. Maybe he just needs some time to adjust?

Finally - after three weeks, its clear there was some tiers developing - I feel a lot better about our chances at top 4.

City/Chelsea
'Pool/Arsenal
5 or so teams (including Everton, Tottenham, etc.)
Most the rest of the league
Burnley

Looking at it - if Arsenal does not get more help at striker, you have to wonder if they'll struggle over the next few months and drop points (like yesterday) where they maybe shouldn't.

I thought ManU would take some time to grow into Van Gaal (like Rodgers first year where we struggled early but were the second highest point total from January to May), but I also thought they would pick up points due to their soft early schedule and by the time October or so rolled around, be high enough to compete for fourth. Does not appear that will happen and they are likely on a similar path to us two years ago. You have to think once they start playing City, Chelsea, us, etc. they won't be able to pick up points very easily. Long story short, our competition for fourth (Except Tottenham who we just beat) have dropped a lot of points early.

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I still don't understand how BR doesn't see the need for a quality DM... Stevie needs to rest and frick me if he gets hurt...

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Given the Lucas rumors, I can only assume he thinks Can is able to do that job - maybe in conjunction (4-2-3-1) with Allen or even Hederson, etc.

There is no way someone was smart as Rodgers is can think that Gerrard will be able to play 50+ games this season.

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That leaves us with just 4 senior CBs

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That does concern me a bit with all the matches we have and our injury history at CB.

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Finally - after three weeks, its clear there was some tiers developing - I feel a lot better about our chances at top 4.

City/Chelsea
'Pool/Arsenal
5 or so teams (including Everton, Tottenham, etc.)
Most the rest of the league
Burnley

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I think you're assessment in spot on... If we don't have too many injuries, I think we'll be in good shape for another 4th place finish... Though it will be tough, because I don't think there is much difference between 3-6 or 7...

I was surprised by Sakho's passing. He's usually a lot more crisp, albeit goofy looking, but he gave more away than usual with his passing.

I agree, I would've liked to have held on to Coates for an extra CB but I guess we can always bring in Lloyd Jones from the U-21's if we're desperate for cover, but I think Skrtel and Lovren l think have been pretty healthy in their career. Hopefully that'll hold us over til Ilori comes back and is ready for more first team action.

And I admit, I'll be a little worried about the midfield too if we get rid of Lucas, but Coutinuo and Lallana could potentially take up a deeper role, but I'm not sure if Rossiter's ready to be thrown into anything other than maybe an early cup match. Looks like we'll have a pretty good bit of money left from our transfer kitty even if we don't sell anyone else to put some of that towards January to get another good DM.

Unless I missed it (admittedly massively hung over when I made my first read through in the thread) has anyone really talked about Joe's performance? He spoke about needing to be more cynical this past week and he did just that. The grab and embellishment are exactly what this team needs from time to time to kill off games. Playing like a choir boy will get you 2-0 defeats to Chelsea like we had last season. They were incredibly cynical in that game and it worked. People may say that they'd rather us play with more class that that, and I understand that mentality, but at the end of the day I'd rather a somewhat dirty 3 points/draw than having to listen to songs about Gerrard falling on his arse.

We need more cynicism like Joe showed yesterday. I thought he was brilliant.

Joe was very good again. He's smart, quick, and he just understands the system. That and similar to Henderson, Manquillo, and Moreno, they may have some blunders, but at the very least, they are gonna run their arse off for 90 minutes. Can't be too disappointed with that

Oh and Agger and Suarez

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James Pearce
@JamesPearceEcho
#LFC have accepted QPR offer. Deal worth around £12million including add ons for Borini. Player granted permission to hold talks

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So, with this Agger and the Assaidi and Coates loans, this puts us under £20mm net spend this summer...

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Borini

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Hope he chokes on a thousand dicks.

I will stop jumping into yall 's thread now.