if you said 'great' players ... such as kaka, c.ronaldo, messi, can liverpool afford them ?

rafa is like wenger and fergie, sign 'unknown' players and hope to establish them ... either fail or success ...

Again bollocks. Although i have little love nor pity for rafa, I have even less for those who gleefully jump on the bandwagon and start blaming the cold weather on the stubborn spanish bugger.

Late last season we were all clamoring for an attacking right fullback. We got one.
Then Alonso finally showed Rafa the middle finger and left, and we had to find a replacement....

athough to say that Aqualani's not a flop at the moment is akin to saying that Kewell was no flop either - he just wasn't fit often enough 

He couldn't even get a game at West Ham before he joined us, so give the spanish bugger some credit.

I'm like an ogre, living alone in my swamp, calling for Rafa's head with a few like minded doubters... like since two seasons ago... and suddenly i wake up and notice that there's one thousand and one campers erecting 'rent-a-tents' around me so forgive me for being sceptical and nasty

You by any chance a Malaysian politician? Your "i didn't mean what i say, so stuff it" sure sounds familiar.

Which side  Left/ Right ?

Anyway guys, leave it ...

Who are we going to face on the next EPL match ?

OH MAI GAWD!? Insua is a leftback? I thought he was always playing in the right D:

Do you guys realize that skeleton202 is actually an arsenal fan?

His post in arsenal's thread.

against spurs, Liverpool need a pacy left back to cope with Lennon direct and tricky run. plus now with spurs implied early ball into the box, insua going to have his hands full against Lennon.

As for defence, Krgriakos would be useful against Crouch. his display against Stoke was impressive. Defoe will surely provide threat either from inside or outside the box. Mascherano and Lucas must be at their very best to contain Spurs creativity coming from the likes of Krncjar, Modric and Huddlestone.

noob...and when asked u said u r referring to fullbacks (i dunno whatever sideback or what crap u call them)...but then again it is flawed as glenny plays on the right, insua plays on the left....unless u r talking about a flexi fullback like Arbeloa that can play on either flank then that would make it a good rebutting statement....for saying Insua and Glenny interchangeably, clearly u've got ur right and left mixed up....or u r just plain noob...nuff said...how can ur post have any weight from now on since u cant even get the fundamentals right?  u damn noob la wei...

haha! maddie...i think ryan babel is overrated la...who the feck plays with his head down, staring at his own legs and  still tries to take on a player n squeeze out a pass....i did have high hopes on him....DID...   no longer  

Insua will be better if play on midfield side. He is kinda quick making crosses. Like yesterday game, he did few volley croses. This can help a fast counter attack for the team. For me, he is ok, only thing need more expose and game. But to defence, we can take as 2 way, one is clossing down oppoents winger, which he need to quick on tackling and intercept the possesion. Another one is man marking. For man marking he definately not the one, he is too short for challenge high ball. If he got pace, he only thng can do is clossing opponent possesion.
I don't know what Rafa plan. My idea is stick to this raw team, we have no choice. If we really dun want babel, veronin, etc. Just let them go. Play with the players we have. Maxi and Aqua-man will create some attacking for us. Ngog can be support for Torres. 4-4-2. Gerrard will be in center with Luca or masch. Let the wings attack with mash and gerrard holding the midfield.
If Rafa intend to go with current team, those players in stoke, w/o rotating their position. I will support him. Point is these players are new, they need to play in the same posisiton and skill up. If you keep changing them, how they can improve their skill. To know wheather you can be place in what position, during the training. They should knowliao.
Hope we can land the UEFA for some consolation this season. Of course the 4th placing is very important. No CL next season, big financial prob.

GET PAKO to be our next manager

Beardsley urges Liverpool to stick with Benitez

Former Anfield star Peter Beardsley believes Liverpool should stick by under-pressure manager Rafael Benitez.

And he insists the Spanish boss, who has signed more than 100 players in his five years on Merseyside, is the best man for the job even if Liverpool do not finish in the top four at the end of the season.

Beardsley puts most of Liverpool's woes this season down to injuries to their most influential players, Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard.

Beardsley said: "He's (Benitez) signed a lot of players but look at most teams in the world. If they lost their stars then they would struggle. If you lost Rooney out of Manchester United's team they would struggle.

"The criticism is a bit over the top. I would definitely stick with him. What have they got to lose? It's only going to be the same players I would imagine for whoever takes over anyway. I would give him to the summer definitely and beyond then because he has done a brilliant job at Liverpool.

"They were really close last season to winning the league. When you look at the Premier League as a whole this season most of the top teams have lost three, four or five games which is unusual.

"He has got the respect of the players. In the main, most of the fans want him to stay.''

If the board decide Benitez, whose side drew at Stoke on Saturday after exiting the FA Cup against Reading in midweek, should lose his job, however, Beardsley believes Kop legend Kenny Dalglish would be the perfect man to take over.

Dalglish currently is working with the academy and Beardsley, speaking on Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme, said: "If they were to make a change that would be the perfect change. He (Dalglish) knows the club inside out. He and Sammy Lee get on like a house on fire so there wouldn't need to be wholesale changes. But at the moment I wouldn't do anything.''

Beardsley also believes there is no chance Gerrard, who was on the brink of joining Chelsea in 2005, will leave his hometown club.

He said: "When he turned down the Chelsea thing I think he committed himself to Liverpool for life and I genuinely believe he'll be there for life.''

sos : Soccernet

Some positive notes for all of us :

Man C lost yesterday
Spurs and Villa drew their games this week as well...

So it isn't as bad as we thought?

under normal circustances, Rafa already sacked. But due to some financial issue, the owner still keep him. Already spend not much profit generated in. Expenses getting bigger and yet, we playing so terrible. Other big club already fire the manager already. I mean we could be bad bad situation, bcoz the debt. At the end we could sell players to generate fund, bcoz we aren't generate any fund. Lossing out CL, no trophies.

skeleton is arsenal fan? nope.. manyur fan? nope.. mancee fan??? nope.. again, toten fan??? nope again.. so what fan are u??
is this what we so call a 'Lalang' in the field? i guess so...
gud luck skeleton...

gud deal from rafa this time.. lets see how jones can contribute to us.. hell yeahhh... 

Rafa vs owner = doom