KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum CONFIRMED - Toure signs for LFC

to be fair everyone had wrote carra off last season saying its time for him to retire & way past his best etc. think he proved a lot of people wrong with his performances in the second half of last season. hopefully this transfer can emulate that

Good news indeed. We have been building and rebuilding, managers with 7 year plans, putting faith in candy-assed youth for the future, on and on for the last 20 years and we finish 7th in the league. Geez, Toure is a Monster. We need him and more like him. Players with bawls and a good football brain. Agger will thrive playing next to him and will have more options to go forward. We need players who can step up now! not kids who can skip past a player and then seem lost and give the ball away (Sterling), or players who are happy to pass the ball immediately backwards to its source regardless of whether they are pressured or not(Henderson)or players who avoid the ball or cant pass (Downing).
Compare our current first team with Bayern and its obvious we really need mature, quality players who have talent, courage and football brains. Currently half our first team is lacking in these qualities.

dont you think it was more to do with the demise of Skirtel rather than Carragher being better or as good as ever, I honestly think its a sorry state of affairs when a player 4 or 5 years past his best or sell by date is still your best defender.

skrtel's form is irrelevant. carra was amazing in the second half of the season commanding the back line. wether he was past his best or not he was still going toe to toe with the best forwards in the premier league and putting in good performances week in week out. how can an experienced player playing well each week be a sorry state of affairs?

easy when a player well past his best is still your best defender like Carragher was last season it shows up how poor and weak his fellow defenders were. If Borini was our best forward it would show how weak Suarez and Sturridge were, hope that clears it up.

if my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle lol

if borini was our best forward next season, better than suarez and sturridge as you say (which would be one hell of an achievement). would his performances not be classed as good form rather than a "sorry state of affairs".

it doesn't matter if carragher is past his best or not. if he's performing well and has earned his place on merit then it shouldn't matter about other players.

fair enough skrtel was crap at times last season. but you can't take anything away from carragher for that reason because he played well in most games he was called upon.

if gerrard was our best player next season would it be a "sorry state of affairs" because the rest of our midfield wasn't as good?

or do we give credit where its due?

well said that man

Maybe someone can clarify this, but didn't Toure play just as much at right back than centre back for Arsenal?

He did until the invincible season in 03 or whenever it was.

He's also featured at DM a few times.

Let's just hope he keeps himself clean.