Liverpool

If Aaron Lennon could sort out his final delivery hed be a fine player but at the moment i still think hes average, theres plenty of promise in Ashley Young think he got burnt out last season playing so many games as Villa have such a small squad.

A player that i would have liked is Brian McBride, he would have been a cheaper option holds the ball up wall offers a different plan b.

Theres plenty of options coming thru such as Pacheco,Dalle Valli and Nemeth but realistically we need someone out wide we need some one to offer a different option from kuyt. Kuyt really won me over with his development over the last 18 months,before he was just all effort and little skill but hes worked hard on that and gotten over his fathers death which affected his form badly.
Dortmunds Kuba could be an option.

Yeah Ashley Young and the rest of the Villa team really suffered from a small squad alright. Didn't know Kuyt had any personal issues of that nature. I rated McBride as someone who would do a job alright but even at his best I'm not sure he'd be good enough for what Liverpool are trying to achieve. He must be mid to late 30's at this stage anyway.

McBride is 34 or 35 i think he has since retired anyway,he would have been a decent squad player, a better/cheaper crouch. Villa have Bouma back after a lengthy lay off,i still think there going to struggle, as far as i know they havent replaced Barry and really need to get a few players in cos city and everton are sniffing around that 5th spot

[QUOTE=Noli;1211827]If Aaron Lennon could sort out his final delivery hed be a fine player but at the moment i still think hes average, theres plenty of promise in Ashley Young think he got burnt out last season playing so many games as Villa have such a small squad.[QUOTE]

There would be no fear of burn out with Young at Liverpool due to Rafa's famous rotation system :D

Wouldn't mind him or Lennon at United myself, 2 great young players who will only get better but will need to move to bigger clubs with better players to do so.

Im nearly sure Old whiskey nose made more changes per game last year than rafa,cant find the stats,heard McMullen say it today on today fm again.

Its all about when he makes the changes,rafa rotates fergies "rests" players :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Noli

Im nearly sure Old whiskey nose made more changes per game last year than rafa,cant find the stats,heard McMullen say it today on today fm again.

Its all about when he makes the changes,rafa rotates fergies "rests" players :rolleyes:

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old whiskey nose changes must have worked last season :D:D

Bit of luck helped him along the way too

Did anyone else look at the line up for todays game and think that is not a squad capable of winning the premiership?

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Originally Posted by Kildare Lad

Did anyone else look at the line up for todays game and think that is not a squad capable of winning the premiership?

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Team maybe, squad no.

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Originally Posted by Razors left peg

Team maybe, squad no.

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Other way round surely? Just compare Liverpool's bench to Man Utd's and Chelsea's.

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Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge

Other way round surely? Just compare Liverpool's bench to Man Utd's and Chelsea's.

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Im meaning that Pools first team might be capable but their squad isnt good enough

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Originally Posted by Noli

Im nearly sure Old whiskey nose made more changes per game last year than rafa,cant find the stats,heard McMullen say it today on today fm again.

Its all about when he makes the changes,rafa rotates fergies "rests" players :rolleyes:

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Yeah I'm sure United rotated far more than Liverpool last season but that's because they had/have a better squad. It makes sense to rotate when your bringing in Anderson for Scholes, Tevez for Berbatov, etc. It doesn't when you're bringing in N'Gog for Torres, Lucas for Alonso, etc.

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Bit of luck helped him along the way too

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How so?

Liverpool were very poor today. Spurs looked stronger all over the pitch but I don't think there'll be too many teams leaving the Lane with full pts this season. Palacios is a class act and Huddlestone should play ahead of Jenas every time. I know there were a lot of raised eyebrows when United signed Owen but when you see Voronin coming on to save the day for Liverpool it makes me wonder why Liverpool weren't interested themselves. Suppose they might sign someone yet, they'll need to for sure.

I wasnt looking for a row when i made the comment about luck as teams that generally play good attacking football get the rub of the green,if your looking for a specific comment about luck you can look at the dubious penalty that utd got at home to spurs last season when they were two down and looked clueless,that gave them a foothold in the game and they destroyed spurs after that.

I didnt see the match today as im in work at the moment but the general feeling that i got that they were ****e today absolutely muck, i said it before that they needed someone with a little bit of magic to change a game and by the sounds of it they really need it, babel was awful from what i heard and the combination of Lucas/Mash is hardly going to be the most creative,so hopefully Aquilani will get fit as soon as possible or maybe even Gerrard drops back into 4-4-2 cm role,but that then exposes the weakness of having Voronin/N'Gog as part of the matchday squad.

Liverpool were in talks with Owen but what he wanted in wages the club wasnt prepared to match also the fact he wasnt going to be no 1 striker at the club as well didnt help his choice, but when you hear contact was made with him 6 months before the deal was done, maybe he had his mind made up from then, but one thing is for sure today exposed a few gaps in the liverpool squad and has burst all that pre season optimisim!

You heard right anyway. Babel was/is(??) absolutely shocking. Not in the game at all. Gerrard improved a bit in the 2nd half and poor Torres was absolutely starved up front. Carragher and Skrtel had a nasty class of heads in the first half and I think Skrtel was struggling after it. Great run by Glen Johnson for the penalty but completely brain dead by Gomes bringing him down. United generally get the rub of the green I'd be the first to admit that. Think the big teams do generally to be fair. Foster made a really good save from Benitez of all people near the end today to keep it at 1-0.

Foster looks like he has a good career ahead of him and has a great mentor in VDS to help him along, as for Ryan Babel if only someone could get inside that lads head and sort it out.

Rafa imo should either give him a go up front or sell him,hes so infuriating

Yeah playing him up front might do the trick alright. He was dubbed the new Henry at one stage if I remember right. Looks a long way off that at the minute.

If im not mistaken this will be his 3rd full season in the premiership and he hasnt gotten used to it and Rafa still doesnt know what to do with him,at the moment i think theyd be lucky to get 6m for him

how bad were they today? I missed the game and wish I didn't now!! Benitez was in charge of transfers this summer so if he doesn't win a trophy this season I'm sure he'll think back to July when he paid 17 million for Johnson instead of using that cash for a striker.

It would be his 3rd season alright. Just seen the interview with Rafa there. Bit sour they didn't get a penalty at the end, think it would've soft enough but there was contact alright. Just before it actually there seemed to be a clear push on Crouch in the box at the other end. Kind of one you'd get outside the box.

Rafa has cut his cloth its his team,only Gerrard & Carra are left from Istanbul its his team so he can have no excuses. If he is sour,he may get over it and blow those cobwebs of the team and have em ready for Stoke