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it's not possible to get rid of every crap player at the same time. then we'll end up with the smallest squad in the league. but there are players that's filling no function at all in the team like konchesky, poulsen, greek, jova, ngog and those are the ones we should get rid of first.
when it comes to lucas im still not convinced. yes he has improved but when people say he's the most improved player this season they have to take into consideration that no one else has improved with the exception of kelly. i would keep lucas as a squad player but nothing more.
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we lack inspired players. players who actually want to do something with the ball. suarez and raul try, but everyone else looks like a subeutteo player.
Luis Garcia, He drinks sangria
He came from Barca, to bring us Joy
He's five foot seven, he's football heaven
please don't take my Luis away.
"...AND 32 MILLION POUNDS WORTH OF GOALKEEPER CAN'T DO A THING ABOUT IT"
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we lack inspired players. players who actually want to do something with the ball. suarez and raul try, but everyone else looks like a subeutteo player. exactly and that is why our future is looking bleak, unless we make a diffrence during the summer break, e.g buy new young techincal player, focus more on planning tactics and implementing them so that the players can have fun, play good football and compete
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I just hope we bring in 3 or 4 PROVEN qualty players, players that we know can come in the side and do a decent job, at the moment i dont think we have.
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Cleanout now? No. Cleanout process for 2-3 seasons? Yes. Sell Lucas to buy Adam? No - that's what Rafa had to do, and we supposedly have the funds to buy one and keep the other, not just at DM but everywhere. I'm in favour of dumping the high wage non performers like Cole and Jovanovic et al, because you don't want 70k+ wage players who can't make a first XI as weak as ours. For the rest, if they are only good enough to be squad players (Lucas, Kuyt, Skrtel, Shelvey), then definitely keep even if they are injury prone (Agger, Gerrard). The rest that are not automatic first team picks or under-21, sell if we can get replacements.
Last edited by thundyr; 04/04/11 01:22 PM.
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I think that the manager is by far the most important element that we need to get right - we see every week top players in teams full of stars that don;t appear up to the job, our own boys included.
Look at Man Utd for example - would you be over the moon if we signed fletcher, anderson, rafael/fabio, brown, o'shea, obertan, carrick, park, valencia, smalling, evans, gibson...etc...etc...
No you wouldn't as none of them individually could be confident of walking into any side in the championship let alone the premiership! Yet any one of them has more league title medals than our whole squad put together...because of their manager. The likes of lucas, skrtel, maxi, meirelles, sotiris..even poulsen, are every bit as good as their Utd counterparts but until we get a top class manager at the club we will always be prone to defeats at the hands of clubs like west brom, west ham, blackburn, wolves etc...
If the board seriously want us to win the league, they need to forget about the sentimental fans, the pressure of big signings etc and focus on getting mourinho on a 5yr contract.
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Lol, CarheeX. Mourinho has not managed a single club for 5 seasons, yet you think he'll come here and do that, at a club he has said he never wants to manage. Come now. He doesn't want us, and we definitely don't want him, because we need someone to build a squad for the future, not someone who will hire a bunch of egos, maybe win a trophy, and then quit when the going looks tough.
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I think that the manager is by far the most important element that we need to get right - we see every week top players in teams full of stars that don;t appear up to the job, our own boys included.
Look at Man Utd for example - would you be over the moon if we signed fletcher, anderson, rafael/fabio, brown, o'shea, obertan, carrick, park, valencia, smalling, evans, gibson...etc...etc...
No you wouldn't as none of them individually could be confident of walking into any side in the championship let alone the premiership! Yet any one of them has more league title medals than our whole squad put together...because of their manager. The likes of lucas, skrtel, maxi, meirelles, sotiris..even poulsen, are every bit as good as their Utd counterparts but until we get a top class manager at the club we will always be prone to defeats at the hands of clubs like west brom, west ham, blackburn, wolves etc...
If the board seriously want us to win the league, they need to forget about the sentimental fans, the pressure of big signings etc and focus on getting mourinho on a 5yr contract.
your head must be away with it when ur not even rating players like smalling and brazilian twins which is just pure rubbish 2 if not 3 great talents for the future and as for smalling been a smashing signing for them as much as it pains me to say it think thats the whole thing thats went missing from us in years gone by the great players we were able to nuture and help progress thru the ranks and think keenys exac5tly right when he says the academy needs revamped and start producing players the liverpool way of years gone by just look at kelly for an example not the most gifted of players but does the simple things great by pushing up and attacking the oppostions full banks and really getting at them and getting the ball in the box i think 1 of the mean things thats been missing from are play in years natural width from fullback to wingers
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