so he's turning into another Dudek? DO NOT WANT

pepe used to be so reliable. used to be

I'm worried because we are not banging in goals comfortably like we should. We are frustrating ourselves on most occasions.
During Owen's time, goals came comfortably. During Torres's time as well. Plus the goal post curse is still around. We need a lucky fella coming in to put an end to the goal post curse.

Its only a loan move, it comes down to whether Chelsea can get Schurrle.

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Added on August 31, 2012, 4:01 pm
I do not fancy this Dempsey move simply because of Fulham's asking price, they would have to halve the price for it to be considered a reasonable deal. I still have my doubts for Dempsey, he scored lots of goals but many other sub-par players do when they play for smaller teams where they are the focal point of the attack, simply put it "big fish in a small pond". Also looking at how we were playing last night, were we even creating enough clear cut chances for our strikers? Most of them were half chances at best. Suarez often has to try doing something on his own, nutmegging past players and when he gets close enough to the goal he is surrounded by 2-3 defenders with the ball rolling away from him as the GK closes down on him. So far we've only seen Sterling who is capable of doing those mazy dribbling runs pulling defenders onto him. If Suarez is the focal point of our attack and we depend on him to score our goals, shouldn't it be the midfielders or winger/forwards to do those dribbling runs to free up space or those defense splitting through or lob passes for our goalscorers to have a better chance of scoring ala 1 on 1 opportunities. Wasn't that how Owen and Torres scored their goals? By sitting on the shoulders of defenders waiting for a clever pass looking to break free of the offside trap at any moment which their pace will then set them on to score a 1v1 chance against the GK.

Technically speaking, we are not doomed. As my friend says, the ball is round and 11 men may just do wonders when least expected. LOL.

Ok. Don't kill me. Just trying to cheer everyone up.

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Sahin a Turkish, Yesil Turkey born German and Assaidi a Moroccan. Are they all Muslim? no offense, just wonder. =)

I agree. Good midfielders are essential for passing play to work. Maybe BR is focusing on midfield department first then maybe forwards next summer. Rafa too did not build his team in 1 transfer window.

now that is just bitter. did we really do that? or its the media? sheeesh. oklah. no problem. no dempsey tak mati one... blessing in disguise probably.

i thought players are more expensive in january transfer window? 
anyway imo, why should we NOT spend a little bit extra if it helps our cause? i dont think there is any benefit in us doing that. in saving our face, we effectively lose out on a player that could be our problem solver. if its me, even though i dont like it, i'll pay for dempsey. extra 1-2m? its not extra 10-20m for God's sake. what goes around comes around. we dont need to be sooooo calculative with such small clubs. they want the 1m extra? let them have it. in the end they might get relegated who knows. now thats payback

by january, we would have played more than half the fixtures. a little too late by then if we are in trouble.

unless we can loan someone. loan can be made anytime outside the window correct?

We too missed out on dani alves back then when sevilla wanted 12M and the most we could fork out is 10M. Right?

fulham didnt take us seriously. they just teased us with 1m extra and we were put off. they sold dempsey anyway in the end.

bloody Liverpool cant even spend 1m extra? losing out to Spurs some more, our direct competitor. it makes no sense saving that 1m. just admit it - we fuc*ed up big time on dempsey. if news about the owners furious is true, then it makes even bigger embarassment. in then end, we neither did save face, not did we solve out own problem. it was a situation where we needed to just swallow the pride and just show the money.

now fingers crossed none of borini and suarez are injured till january. what is the best part - neither are prolific.
and no disrespect to anybody - wa cant even tiki taka properly, dont expect us to play like spain where they dont need any strikers and goals can come from midfield, although i understand, that is exactly what we are left with now

Didn't we try to sign him some weeks ago? FSG got ahead of themselves and announced the signing before it happen, didn't they?
Secondly, if we weren't seriously looking for strikers, then why did we send Carroll out on loan? Bear in mind that other than Dempsey and Sturridge, we weren't link with anybody on the last day. So if they aren't our primary targets, who was supposed to take Carroll's place?

My point is, somebody behind the doors clearly f***ed this up badly and once again we're at risk of facing another PR turmoil.

well, the way i would have done it - sign dempsey first and if we did get sturridge, we will have a healthy 4 strikers. not bad. our mistake was to rely on chelsea. we should take matters into our own hands