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23 Jun 2015 12:25:48
Before the end of the season we talked about having a DOF this season and how it would benefit us! however the excitement surrounding the DOF has alomost died down!

What happened? are we getting one or the current managerial structure will be followed the coming season also?

1.) 23 Jun 2015 13:05:27
The fans on here said we would get a DoF, the Eds preached caution. So, it was just idle gosssip.

2.) 23 Jun 2015 16:40:39
(Cough)

You really think the fans started the talk of a DoF?

Don't make me laugh.

It was embarrassing watching the first set of "fans" in the history of football get on a bandwagon calling for a DoF to solve a clubs problems.

Same as this constant sheep about there being no stragegy at LFC. ED01 has now just admitted signing all these youngsters IS part of a strategy which at other times he claims not to be able to fathom. As I've said, you may disagree with the strategy but you can't say there isn't one. One tied to Ozone's observations about the owners ultimate ambitions.

{Ed001's Note - you are, as usual, twisting words to suit your views. The strategy of buying 55 players for the squad is the one I can't fathom, so why on earth you try and include that in this conversation I have no idea. It is embarrassing watching fans snipe at each other like you have just done.}

3.) 23 Jun 2015 19:12:53
Ed01, I apologise if you think I'm sniping. Just pointing out what I consider an inconsistency. And I wasn't abusive and I don't know what you mean by "as usual"? I thought we were allowed to disagree.

{Ed001's Note - sorry the as usual wasn't meant to be aimed at you personally, but a general comment that everyone twists what we say and we then have to defend ourselves (as a general regarding the editors) over comments that were never actually said or are taken out of context. I do apologise, my reply was rushed as I was trying to keep all the sites ticking over and it is really busy. It is much harsher than I intended, I should have taken the time to read it through. I fully agree that it is not you that as a usual twists my words.

To get back to the original point, it is not the fact that we buy them with this intention anyway, it is the fact that we seem to have no idea how to implement the plan that really confuses me. It is like they only got as far as the buying the players bit, then just left the rest to sort out later. Chelsea sorted out a partnership with a club in the Netherlands to use for this purpose, so that they can guarantee regular football for the might make its. We have done nothing other than stockpile young players.}

4.) 23 Jun 2015 20:53:03
And on that part of the plan I completely agree with you. In terms of the "hedging" strategy (as a financial plan) so far it's probably working. Two Rodgers era signings have been sold so far. Assaidi went for a profit and Aspas a loss. Borini would have been a profit last summer if he'd agreed to move to Sunderland. Yesil goes down as an unfortunate one (terrible injuries) but he only cost 1m. Ilori (again injuries have stalled his career, not BR) would have yielded a slight profit this summer if he'd been playing regularly and we wanted to sell. Alberto looks as though he'll be a 3m loss when he goes. But having players you can ship like Aspas this summer provides liquid funds for an opportunistic purchase like Ings which, barring injuries, looks a shrewd financial move that will offset any losses on Alberto, Yesil & possibly Borini. FSGs investment in Sturridge & Coutinho means they're sitting on at least 30m profit at today's prices and so the strategy absorbs any hits on the Balotelli, Lovren, Markovich, Lallana type of signings. Your Sterlings & Ibes are brucie bonuses. Bought young and eventually good enough to attract elite level transfer fees. I'll say it again, our transfer policy isn't the basket case it's portrayed to be. But is all this wheeling and dealing ever likely to elevate us above 5th on a regular basis? I'm not so sure. It's like you have to study the financial pages to understand football these days. How I pine for the days when we just talked about how good the King was and bought players from Oxford & Scunthorpe.

{Ed001's Note - it might look on the face of it like a profit, but you are forgetting all the wages we have to pay between loans and signing fees each time they get a contract, plus paying off contracts when they go, agents fees, solicitors fees, cuts of transfer fees to previous clubs and other sundry amounts such as the 5% of the transfer fee the player gets. Those costs are what put the club in trouble under Rafa, despite it looking like all his wheeling and dealing had not cost the club too much.}

5.) 23 Jun 2015 21:22:53
Oh sure but that's the same for every club. On book values a club can post a "profit" on a player they sell for half the price they paid ( I remember the Robinho example on the Swiss Ramble blog that I know you read). I guess that's why Ed02 says don't talk about money. I can't get my head fully around the fact that what we'd all consider a loss can be a profit in accounting terms.

{Ed001's Note - it is madness mate, that is why I first got chatting to Ed002 in the first place, as he was explaining it all to me on the sites and showed me how I had been wrong for years. So I asked him to help edit. The financial side is so convoluted it is difficult to follow.}

17 Mar 2015 07:02:11
Pardon me for repeating but in the 1st half, our game was disgraceful. No pace, woeful passing, failing to hold on to possession and a lack of motivation almost giving an impression that the players were tired or were showing way too much respect (unwarranted) to the swans.

Our attacking play also had no aggression as was evident form the tactics employed by BR in the first half. IMO we were playing so deep that when the ball was played to studge in and around the swans box, sterling coutinho and lallana were still in their own half and left studge with no option to dribble and shoot in vain.
There was nobody to pass the ball to!

One more tactical flaw by BR was that he did utilise sterlins's and lallana's wing play even after keeping them on the wings. They were continuously looking to cut inside and dribble through the crowd of defenders instead of making vertical runs on the wings/ beating defenders with their pace and then crossing in the box. Particularly sterling wasted good build up play opportunities by cutting inside and getting crowded out.
Also studge kept on shooting aimlessly when he sjould have passed it to sterling /lallana on the wings and then create space in the box.
I think BR failed tactically in all these respects in the first half.

Please also note that Sterling is still not the finished product. His passing was way off mark.

why is our final third play deteriorating? And why can't we keep the same tempo throughout the game as we did in the 2nd half?

please share your views and opinions and smile if you concur with my analysis of BR's tactics yesterday.

PS- laugh if you don't agree with me. Atleast it will keep your blood pressure in check! : )

But a great 3 points for us!

Play like we did in the 2nd half and we sort out our final third probs and i think we will breeze past Man Utd!

March on reds!!!

1.) 17 Mar 2015 07:22:08
typo - BR did not utilize sterling/ lallana on the wings!

2.) 17 Mar 2015 08:18:38
You can't play well all the time.
We were awful last night but we won.
Why did we win?
Because we have not conceded a goal in over 8 hrs away from home.
Must play better but give credit to Gary Monk, he had a plan which worked first half, but I don't think his plan was causing Liverpool players to give the ball away as much as they did.
All in all, a night to forget in terms of performance but don't all good teams win when not playing well?

3.) 17 Mar 2015 08:30:08
We were poor in the first but much better in the second when we matched up in midfield. Ed001 obviously had his anti Joe Allen glasses on then as he was our best player

{Ed001's Note - grow up. I never said he wasn't, but that every player was poor. I can't stand idiots that think criticising a poor performance is an anti thing, rather than merely pointing out where things could be improved. Allen was poor, as was the rest of the team.}

4.) 17 Mar 2015 09:15:25
We haven't conceded in some time, because Migno was superb on the line and because Swansea missed such good chances (Ki heading straight into Skrtel instead of just shoving it in the net etc.).

I'm happy we won, 3 points forward, kudos to the lads, but we are not convincing in attack, for some time now we struggle to create good chances. Sturridge is selfish too often and doesn't seem to link up with Coutinho and Sterling, the latter two are deployed on opposite sides and have few opportunities to play as they used to, creating chances together, Sterling seems distracted and a lot less dynamic than he used to. Most of our goals lately are either brilliant or bizzarre.

I hope against Manchester next week we play like we did against Manchester three weeks ago.

5.) 17 Mar 2015 12:42:20
It was a poor performance, but thankfully we got away with it. Really need to buck up our ideas for Sunday.

6.) 17 Mar 2015 13:39:38
I think Allen is a good player. As discussed previously, neither Henderson or Allen were coming to the ball, leaving the CBs and GK in bad positions in the first half. It was a lot better when Gerrard took over DM duties, as he was actually keeping the ball moving and coming to the CBs for it, although I don't feel he has the pace to start against MU.

The players that stuck out as poor to me were all playing in attack. Sturridge was increasingly isolated, Coutinho couldn't stop cutting back into defenders feet, Sterling only improved once he went to the right, Lallana wasn't much better playing centrally and was moved around the whole night.

Swansea took advantage of the lack of interplay between Coutinho and Sturridge, and the incoherence in defensive midfield and should have been up. Fortunately, Mignolet was our best player yesterday and kept us in the game long enough to get lucky.

It's still 3 points, so forget about it and let's play some real football on Sunday.

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21 Jul 2015 09:24:03
Happy Birthday reet. you will find it on Amazon.in maybe

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18 Jun 2015 14:31:32
IMO we need just 3 players at the moment - a GK, a DM and a top striker.

GK - Either Handanovic or Begovic
DM - Medel
ST - try convincing Tevez otherwise Aubemeyang. Mitrovic could also be an option.

If Sterling is sold then take Konoplayanka on a free.

Kovacic is not needed neither is Clyne. They are luxury signings we can do without with.

Balo and Borini should be sold/loaned out at the earliest. Same goes for Enrique and Allen.

Pls share your views.

Cheers!

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17 Mar 2015 07:22:08
typo - BR did not utilize sterling/ lallana on the wings!