The Liverpool discussion thread 2006/2007

Jagdroeger wrote:

COTR wrote:their bid must have been extraordinary to provoke the board into not accepting DIC's. Im very happy with the sound of that deal especially the new stadium and debts portion of the bid. hopefully this is the end of it now.

Nah, just more money. The board have a legal responsibility to act in the best interests of the shareholders - and that would mean getting the most money for them if they were to sell their shares.

Sounds about right. Though with hindsight I do have to say, I think we may have dodged a bullet. DIC are acting like spoilt children and if they're issuing 12-hour ultimatums to a club who are under legal obligation to atleast study deals that are potentially better for both them and their share-holders, imagine what they'd be like if we lost a couple of games on the bounce?

Obispo wrote:

Jagdroeger wrote:

COTR wrote:their bid must have been extraordinary to provoke the board into not accepting DIC's. Im very happy with the sound of that deal especially the new stadium and debts portion of the bid. hopefully this is the end of it now.

Nah, just more money. The board have a legal responsibility to act in the best interests of the shareholders - and that would mean getting the most money for them if they were to sell their shares.

Sounds about right. Though with hindsight I do have to say, I think we may have dodged a bullet. DIC are acting like spoilt children and if they're issuing 12-hour ultimatums to a club who are under legal obligation to atleast study deals that are potentially better for both them and their share-holders, imagine what they'd be like if we lost a couple of games on the bounce?

Exactly. DIC are bad bussiness for everyone, wouldn't want them involved with football.
They can go build their globe and palm tree shaped islands. Megalomaniac f*ckers. Just make sure you open a window and let the stench of hubris out.

Tomorrow is a must win, Do you realise how much stick i've had to put up with from my bluenose mates the past 4 months or so!, a 5-0 thrashing would do nicely

4 from Bellamy and a Cahill own goal, during which he's injured.

Did anyone see John Barnes Football Night last night.

Cahill's insight into the derby was quite good - Actually quite a likeable guy.

Cesc wrote:Did anyone see John Barnes Football Night last night.

Cahill's insight into the derby was quite good - Actually quite a likeable guy.

no, Ive met Cahill though, he used to live next door to one of (rich) mates, nice guy

Cesc wrote:Did anyone see John Barnes Football Night last night.

Cahill's insight into the derby was quite good - Actually quite a likeable guy.

Yeah, he seemed alright on that. Hopefully he'll get crippled tomorrow and go into punditry because he's a tosser on the pitch.

Cesc wrote:Did anyone see John Barnes Football Night last night.

Cahill's insight into the derby was quite good - Actually quite a likeable guy.

Obispo is just jealous that Cahill can fly home and see episodes of Neighbours before he can.

Terry McDermott chips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKiNO81eWJk

The second one - I think it's against Aberdeen - is fucking awesome.

any chance of this being our team tomrrorow now that Aurellios out?

Reina, finnan, agger, carragher, riise, Arbeloa, Gerrard, Alonso, Pennant, Kuyt, Crouch:

.......................................Reina...............................................

......Arbeloa...............Carra..........Agger................Riise............

.......Finnan...............Gerrard.............Alonso..........Pennant........

.............................Kuyt................Crouch................................

id be shocked if it was that luis..

more likely

......................Reina

Finnan.......carra........agger........Riise

Pennant.....gerrard.....alonso......gonzalez

.................crouch......kuyt

bellamy on the bench because everton will probably park the bus

COTR wrote:id be shocked if it was that luis..

more likely

......................Reina

Finnan.......carra........agger........Riise

Pennant.....gerrard.....alonso......gonzalez

.................crouch......kuyt

bellamy on the bench because everton will probably park the bus

its the alternative to Gonzales i suppose

FA have just announced that a decision on Mascherano will not be made before Monday.

Pathetic.

Get the decision makers in a room for an hour or so, get a bit of common sense out and get it sorted.

Why do these things take so long? These clowns are paid to make decisions, not play solitaire all day

Ahh typical that they back out before the derby.

So no Aurelio and Momo (both of whom can play in the centre). We're fucked if Cahill acts his usual thuggish self and injures one of Xabi or Stevie early on tomorrow.

not a single positive to be taken from that display. rafa got it wrong big time playing three up front. it works when we have space away from home but with everton not leaving their own box it just made for a lack of numbers in midfield and us having to punt it onto crouch. horrible stuff. probably our worst performance of the season but we should still have won comfortably given the 4000 chances we managed to mess up. obviously all it needed was a goal to ruin everton's tactics but im gutted by the way we went about it. no patience, no trying to draw everton out and pass around them and no quality.

SHITE

We're a one man team. Just wish Sky would recognise who that one man is.

It's becoming increasingly obvious that when Alonso plays shit, we play shit. Hopefully Masch is ready for Newcastle. If we are to have any hope of winning the league, they have to be the last dropped points.

all we are going to hear is it was a great defensive performance from everton. it wasn't. I even heard the commentator mentioning neville and carsley having a good game. all they did was sit two yards in front of their centre half and try to kick us off the park. I hate playing against shite teams like them. it takes two teams to make a game but we should still have been so much better. im blaming rafa for not realising the shape wasn't working and introducing gonzalez and moving kuyt into the middle. he was shocking on the wing.

Riise, gerrard, alonso and kuyt all put in comfortably their worst displays of the season.

Sadly that wasn't the worst performance of the season from Riise.

Games like this are part of the reason I like Gerrard playing wide. He was the only player who actually beat his man more than one today...

Gonzalez has been shit recently aswell CotR so I can sort of understand why he wasn't brought on, but I do agre with you.

Well, I told you it wouldn't be easy, Certainly not the '5-0 thrashing' many people were expecting.

The thing is I actually thought we played well, OK we didn't finish our chances and we looked out of ideas at times, but who can honestly say Liverpool didn't deserve 3 points? the second half was Liverpool Vs Everton's defence + keeper.

The first half was pretty even, but even then we created more chances, Everton only looked dangerous when johnson looked as if he had beat the defence but it was clear he wasn't 100% fit and in the end he just couldn't keep up with the high tempo.

Fair credit to Everton, they've come to Anfield, with a plan of not losing and they defended really well, we couldn't break them down and the got the point that will send them home happy.

At the end of the day, lets not kid ourselves as to who is the bigger and better team, yes Everton took 5 points off us this season and we didn't score past them, but at the end of the season one club will be in the top 3 or 4 and will maybe get further in the champions league, with a tremendous (if not the finished article) squad at their disposeal, the other will be hovering around mid-table with only a squad capeable of achieving that position.

I'm not bitter, I'm not really interested in Everton but yes there is a rivalry in merseyside and of course it's dissapointing not to score past Everton in two matches or beat them, but We have a lot to play for still and this is just a hiccup like the Blackburn game where we've created chances but haven't taken them.

my MOTM: Jermaine Pennant

26 games, 50 pts. how many points do you need now, to win the league? or is the dream over...

i was hoping Liverpool would win today because if Liverpool catch Chelsea then that means Chelsea drop points. as things stand Chelsea have a 7 pts lead over Liverpool.

Batman wrote:26 games, 50 pts. how many points do you need now, to win the league? or is the dream over...

i was hoping Liverpool would win today because if Liverpool catch Chelsea then that means Chelsea drop points. as things stand Chelsea have a 7 pts lead over Liverpool.

the dream never existed for me, we can still get second, but i'll setlle for 3rd and the CL..

before i thought Liverpool had no chance against Barca in the CL, but now i am changing my mind. although Barca do have Eto'o back now.

We don't have a chance against Barca, like we never had a chance against Chelsea, Juventus and Milan.

A Barca defeat is unthinkable!!...

Batman wrote:before i thought Liverpool had no chance against Barca in the CL, but now i am changing my mind. although Barca do have Eto'o back now.

Congratulations on proving you're ever so slightly more intelligent than Paul Merson.

Treat yourself to a drink, a flutter on the dogs and a line of cocaine. It's what he'd do.

I wonder if Everton will release a DVD of todays game

They'll be too busy setting up their parade probably

"Rafa Benitez will be given a transfer fund of between £100m and £150m when Americans George Gillett and Tom Hicks take over the club. (Various)"


So that's Villa, Kaká & Alves then. Lovely.

I'd rather have Lampard over Kaka anyday

Why not both?

The Grim Reaper wrote:I'd rather have Lampard over Kaka anyday

did you mistype ronaldinho and put lampard ?


or have I missed the sarcasm here