Didn't watch the game yesterday due to 2 long haul flights in succession, but was shocked when i saw the result, Liverpool fell 3-0 to lowly West Brom?

Nothing new actually. It's not like we had a good start with Woy and KK in the past 2 seasons. Even Arrigo Sacchi had a rough start in his AC Milan managerial career and the rest is history.

Now let's see how the boys react and bump back from this loss. The next game will be critical and weighs heavily on the manager.

How did Joe Allen perform? What excuse we gave to the press this time?

Yellow carded for that. What a BS

Reminds me of old boss Rafa Benitez. He place great emphasis on defence before offense and particularly has an eye for CBs. Words of wisdom from Rafa, always build your team from the defense up.

Which probably explains why he hardly got it wrong when it comes to buying defenders, but not the same can be said with his gamble in the striker department during his tenure with Liverpool.

Rafa oh rafa.

This post has been edited by carloz28: Aug 21 2012, 11:46 AM

No point reminiscing the past buddy. Have to look forward now.

To you guys who expect instant tiki taka football, i think it's advisable to lower down your expectations a bit. One of the main ingredients of tiki taka football is the midfield.

Look at our midfield at the moment. If I'm honest, Gerrard and co are not made for tiki taka, not especially when you throw in the Brit boys. British footballers are known for their tenacity rather than creativity. They are best suited to play high tempo football than fluid movement one touch football.

Arsenal is the only English team i know who advocate this style of play, under the great tutelage of Arsene Wenger, but still it don't win them trophies.

We need a good balance between tenacity and creativity, which is evident in all EPL winning teams.

More importantly, we need to have a winning mentality and never say die attitude to claw back from jaws of defeat, an attribute I have to yet to see in this Liverpool team yet.

Tiki taka tiki taka tiki taka. This word has appear countless times in this thread since BR took over.

The team has yet to evolve into a single cohesive unit that can perform consistently again mid table teams, so it's a bit too far fetched to expect BR's team to play like one.

Totally understand the heartbreak and disappointment some of you guys are having now, but my advise is to sit back and relax, enjoy the ride, lower your expectations this season and trust me, you will find there's more sunshine during the day, the sky's bluer and your life will be a lot happier.

Exactly. This whole tiki taka fantasy is frankly speaking....quite an unrealistic pipe dream to indulge in at the moment.

Fix the god damn midfield first.

Give me a good reason why Nuri Sahin wants to come to Liverpool at this very instance?

Let's be realistic, if you are a neutral professional football player and you are at the mother of all junctures in your career, which club would you move to? Arsenal or Liverpool?

It's a blessing in disguise. 10mil for another BRIT who hasn't had regular football in a year?

I'll pass anytime of the year.

And how much did Charlie Adam cost us back then?

U think Selangor FC stupid? Selangor FC is not an idiot. Last time they paid premium price to bring TONY COTTEE to the club(a BRIT)....and needless to say, he flopped 9 streets away, citing homesick and pitch conditions.

Selangor FC has learnt their lesson in a hard way.

This post has been edited by carloz28: Aug 25 2012, 02:55 PM

Charlie Adam's youtube video shows he's better than Baggio and Mattheus combined together.





It's YOUTUBE bro.

Looking at our current form, I think I will probably last for another 3 months tops...

1 point against the EPL champions? I'll take it.

Hope we don't produce a lacklustre performance in the NEXT game, which seems to be the norm lately.

Liverpool has the tendency to raise their game again but always fall short against weaker teams in the following week!

Hope we don't see this next week!

Let us all have a moment of reflection and spend a minute to read this Great article from Paul Tomkins.

A little excerpt from the article;



Andy Carroll: Is he Worth It?

This post has been edited by carloz28: Aug 29 2012, 06:54 PM

NOT surpising at all. The decision to loan out Carroll is more likely due to financial issues rather than tactical as what was told by BR. Carroll's a good squad player to have, but let's face it, FSG does not have oil and natural gas in their backyard, we can't afford to have 35mil man on the bench chewing gums on regualr basis.

Having said that, I'm glad BR has the balls to cut off these so called high profiled players whom he think will not fit into his long term plans rather than sticking to them on groundless faith. Or maybe BR thinks Andy Carroll does not cut it, who knows?

Good job BR. Now please get rid of the man whose freekick and corners worth 10mil, C. Adam.

This post has been edited by carloz28: Aug 31 2012, 12:19 PM

LOL...+1

Your favorite player is the only remnant left from King Kenny's buy British policy which failed spectacularly. Glad that error prone Jay Spearing is gone as well.

He's a nice bloke and all but I always thought they gave him a place in the team more likely due to his roots and not his skills. A pat on the back for BR.

Going to reserve my judgements on Joe Allen. So far he's doing well and so did Charlie Adam and Hendo in their first few games! Hope Allen's going to perform consistently over the season or else.....

If only Clint Dempsey is a Brit. FSG would have put Melwood into a mortgage to get him.

Sad bench? Think again. We got 36 mil worth of firepower on the bench. One of the highest in epl second only to city.

For Shanks sake, come on guys...