re: Let's Talk about Liverpool

count city out unless mancini has a hard on for torres. city is in the market for defensive help with injuries. not saying they dont need offensive help, but if they want to make a run for top four, they need defenders.
i wouldn't rule it out completely, as new ownership has showed they are willing to part with boatloads of cash for talent if the manager wants it, but from what I have seen mancini seems confident in the talent he has up front.

That's a shame. I always wanted to know a paleontologist.

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jesus

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yes?

Does anyone have any numbers as to Pool's debt situation? I'd be interested to see how bad things actually are. I'm wondering whether the debt is incurred by the owners and some holding company, or through the club itself.

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Does anyone have any numbers as to Pool's debt situation? I'd be interested to see how bad things actually are. I'm wondering whether the debt is incurred by the owners and some holding company, or through the club itself.

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I know it's not nearly as bad as is reported

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some holding company, or through the club itself.

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both

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The only place in the world that Torres will go if he leaves Liverpool would be back to Spain.

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Torres said in an earlier interview this season that he wants to play in Italy one day. The most logical club would be AC Milan.

let's just say that i hope either wolves or liverpool get the three points saturday... a draw doesn't help either side enough

btw liverpool's my favorite of the "big 4"

Honestly, I just recently started following EPL about a month ago. Liverpool is my girlfriend's favorite club just because she wants to blow Torres so I watch occasionally. The Portsmouth game was pretty shitty to watch if you're a Liverpool fan. The team gave up so easily after conceding then getting the red on Mascherano. Very unimpressed.

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liverpool needs to start off by trimming the fat on their current squad (itandje, voronin, dossena, kyriagos, degen, etc.) and bring in a winger (or two) and by winger i mean someone who can beat their man and deliver a pinpoint accurate cross (a la 2000-2004 nobby solano FTW)a decent centre half and a centre mid. at the same time maybe even go after someone like van der vaart, they should play kuyt more centrally (maybe they have been doing this i havent watched many prem. games as of late to be honest) let him play with torres. if they can get the personnell to run some variation of a 4-2-3-1 they could use ryan babel as a second striker, otherwise they should move him. they could also sign mike grella, but thats a whole nother topic.

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The money isn't there.

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The money isn't there.

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yeah i know that whole post is basically just like a pipe dream 'let me trade reggie bush for winston justice and two first round picks lol' scenario. just trying to compile a summary of what needs to go on.


now with the squad as is, you can try that 4-2-3-1 im talking about with

GK=Reina RB=Johnson RCB=Carragher LCB=Agger LB=Aurelio DM=Mascherano CM (the Alonso role)=Aquilani RM=Benayoun CAM=Gerrard LM=Riera ST=Torres

that would be your first choice XI obviously


second XI GK=Diego Cavalieri RB=Martin Kelly RCB=Dani Ayala LCB=Skrtel LB=Insua DM=Plessis CM=Lucas RM=Kuyt CAM=Babel LM=El Zhar ST=N'Gog

this however would be more of a 4-4-2, just kept the 4-2-3-1 labels.

n'gog and babel play up top together, lucas is the main man in midfield like he was at gremio

they should try and sign mata or silva from valencia to replace riera as the first XI LM.

and the key for making the 4-2-3-1 work again is adjusting to the roles/keeping a solid mixture of height and skill. with benayoun on the right flank, you know he wants to cut in which gives johnson the width to work in.

on the left, aurelio and riera had a pretty good understanding going, but if its insua starting (mostly because of injury), make sure he know to stay back as a speed cover whenever johnson goes up. Mascherano knows to stay home and cover in defence, and can drift wide right to cover for Johnson(when he joins in the attack as benayoun moves more inside)

Lucas/Gerrard as the Mascherano partner need to develop that rapport with mascherano to know when to be up, and when to drop (lucas is better at this now, but he doesnt have the passing of aquilani)

aquilani needs to be thrown into the fire this next 3 weeks as there's a shite ton of games, and while i fully expect him to be caught upfield a few too many times, he just needs to learn the EPL.


just some random thoughts.