re: OFFICIAL Liverpool FC 2015-2016 Season Long Thread: Basel Bound!

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fa cup

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I want to win this. And I want to win Europa. We have the depth to go far in both comps and maintain a challenge for 4th.

Flip side, we crash and burn and Klopp arrives in January...

Too bad Brenden has proven to be TOTALLY inept in Europe.

We'll crash out before the knockout rounds regardless of depth.

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There's that Arkans-arse positivity we all know and love!

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Fool me once...

Fool me twice..

I don't recall a single legit performance in Europe from a Rodgers side. Not one. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I love this team, just not sure about the manager as long term. We shall see.

He's had two seasons in Europe, right? You gotta build on something...

Lost on away goals to Zenit in '13

Last years UCL was a disaster and lost on pens to Besiktas in Europa..

I don't think he has established enough of a European track record to start that kind of mantra...

All that said, I'm not saying I'm convinced he will do anything, but it's a new season... we're alive on all fronts, so I will choose to stay someone positive... unless he insists on Lovren! If that's the case, I'm feeling out Klopp in Sept.

I'm holding out hope for Lovren. He was better towards the end of the year

I still hope Lucas plays in front of him if he does start, and I'll probably throw a chair when he inevitably screws up, but I have hope damnit

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Lucas

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He's usually good to give away at least one or two free kicks away, at the edge of the area, each game...

god dammit, the hog has got me all negative now... positive thoughts... positive thoughts...

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has no idea how to set a proper back four.

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Sounds like another manager of a team I follow







































Jurgen. It sounds like Jurgen

Damn some family stuff has come up that I can't get around. Will be on a long delay to watch the game Sunday evening probably.

So... This article summarizes my feeling on lovren vs sakho....

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Skrtel and Sakho were selected alongside each other just once in the six pre-season matches Liverpool played this summer (seven if you include that weird training session that morphed into an unscheduled game) while the Slovakian has played next to Dejan Lovren on four occasions. It seems apparent that this has been done by design and that the manager is going to subject us all to watching a reunion of the Lovren and Skrtel partnership that had us tearing our hair out throughout the early months of last season. The only other alternative is that the manager of Liverpool Football Club thought that his two best centre backs only needed 45 pre-season minutes together before the new Premier League campaign began. To be frank, I’m not sure which scenario would be more damning of Rodgers. I’ll do my best to prevent this from devolving into a rambling, scathing hatchet job on Lovren, but quite how there is any debate around who should be partnering Skrtel at Stoke and beyond is unfathomable to me. In fact, for me, the question I’d be asking would actually be ‘who deserves to partner Mamadou Sakho this season?’

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With the continued instince that Lovren start, O/U on number of weeks before BR is shown the door? However long it takes for Klopp to learn Scouse via Rosetta Stone?

Ive seen a lot of migs, clyne, skrtel, lovren, gomez, milner, hendo, coutinho, lallana, ibe, benteke... 4231 or 433

But I've also read Firmino is now in contention...

Regardless, I think he eventually will be in the first 11 once he's deemed "ready"

On another note, reading Werner's latest interview... he says BR had a big say in the transfers and they expect improvement... Reading between the lines, I think it's definitely put up or shut up time... will he make it back december? I hope so, because that means we're playing well... I have my doubts.