BR, please bring back Fowler/Rush to train our forwards' finishing..lol

I'm happy to see we're playing good entertaining football again... We're improving and Carroll showed his ariel threat once he sub in... We should keep the big carroll for alternative attacking option... Was it Enrique left a big hole at the left back area lead to tevez cross the ball into dangerous area an then conceded... The skrtel back pass oso because he can't get support from Enrique and cost us the mistake... Anyway, we are as usual.. Playing good against big team... Hope to keep this momentum going and see where we are at the end of the season...

well sturridge is the only forward left after Torres.
so 25mil should be enough to deter liverpool intention to sign him.
Even by chance he is going to Liverpool we should get enough money from the fees to buy another player.

also given the fact he is local player and at a age of 22.

Sturridge is doing pretty well last seasons.
he is quite selfish in most of the times typical striker attitude.
capable of playing at the right flank very well. have good pace and dribbling skill.

Liverpool accept £3m Bolton bid for Spearing

The kid is heading out. Sad. I was hoping he would turn out good after all the praises by Steve Heighway.

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premie...08/28/3336227/-?

if he was lacking full match fitness, he wouldnt have started...
pass completion is one thing, useful passes is another.
its fair to say BR's golden boy does far more useful passes

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Agrees To Liverpool Switch But Club Must Offload Andy Carroll First

Reds desperate to offload Carroll, with Huntelaar lined-up.
Schalke striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has reportedly agreed to join Liverpool in an £18m deal – but the Anfield club must sell Andy Carroll before the Dutchman can sign.
Huntelaar was top scorer in the Bundesliga last season with 29 goals but has just 12 months remaining on his contract with the Gelsenkirchen outfit.
The Dutchman international, who boasts AC Milan and Real Madrid among his former employers, has held talks with Liverpool over an £18m switch and will make a decision before Friday’s transfer deadline.
Schalke coach Horst Heldt is still hopeful that Huntelaar will stay with the German club but it is understood he will only extend his contract with Schalke if the Liverpool deal falls through.
“We will definitely not have a decision on this until Friday,” Heldt said.
“He is in a situation where he could sign his final big deal and it’s pretty obvious that he is weighing up all his options. That is fair and reasonable.”
The hold-up is being caused by the Reds’ failure to shift unwanted forward Andy Carroll.
The £35m man has been reluctant to leave Anfield thus far but it is understood he would re-join Newcastle if the Toon club can agree a fee with the Merseysiders.
Liverpool are reluctant to accept anything under £18m for Carroll but Newcastle’s board is unwilling to pay such a high transfer fee and favour a loan deal.
Both parties are hoping for a resolution before Friday evening’s deadline, with Liverpool desperate for the money to finance Huntelaar’s switch.

what change of opinion? i have never been a fan of no.21 - in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
here's something someone did, comparing last yr's WBA game with the recent excellent 0-3 performance.
you can see how last yr lucas attemped more forward passes, but only for them to be intercepted which are the ones in red.
now under BR hes playing slightly further up front, moving slightly out of his comfort zone and he spraying passes sideways more again.
time will tell, but if no.21 still looks uncomfortable playing higher up...then i dont see how he'll be starting more games once he returns.


but again, to pass completion.
skrtel had 84% pass completion rate, but were any of them really useful?
thats cos we then had both adam and spearing running the midfield.
now we got the golden boy and sahin, also jonjo is slowly coming of age.

plus BR, like rafa, likes to employ 2 holding sweeping midfielders.
and i dont think anyone would just like to draw games...

btw, regarding sahin's temp - http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/...ol-stay?cc=4716

Allen is actually a defensive mid.

perhaps not offload, but his chances of a starting 11 could be limited...apart from the butthurt no.21 fans around...quite a few fans are also expecting a gerrard / sahin / allen midfield to shape up with gerrard playing in the hole.
and now with no.21 probably out for the next 2 months, we can see how the new midfield will shape up without any external butthurt influences.

Oh please. Not talking down KD, but BR is way ahead when it comes to technical & tactical organization and knowledge.

Outplay Mancity on that day, probably yes.
But what the point of outplay opponent and yet cannot score a goal?
You still cannot win the match.
Yes great to watch, entertaining, but... no prize for that.

There is no open field goal after 2 matches, even many said Liv outplayed Mancity on Sunday, but Joe Hart hardly being call in action many time.
Either fail to convert the chance, or not clinical enough.

I still reiterated Liv problem is not how to play, the problem since carry a year or 2 ago, is always cannot put the ball into the net.
There is no problem for possession, create chance even during KD tenure, but finishing the chance created was the key problem why the team cannot challenge the top 4 place, and seems the same problem for current team as well.

If Walcott is available for 15mil would you go for it ?

The thought of having the front 3 of Sterling - Suarez - Walcott looks promising. Frightening pace down the flanks but i'm not sure if its potent enough for us to score goals.