Iago Aspas: A 25 year old from a lowly La Liga team. Reasonable goal scoring record.
Luis Alberto: A young player that Barcelona decided not to take on.
Kolo Toure: A defender coming towards the end of his career who’s most recent form has been poor but had a good spell years ago.
Simon Mignolet: A good performing EPL keeper.
The only one of those you would say that you would get in any way excited about might be Mignolet. Aspas may turn out to be good. Toure may recover his old form. Luis Alberto - I haven’t a clue.
Now talk of some questionable left back from Benfica on loan.
Certainly nothing to think we will break into the top 4. And we lose Suarez and don’t adequately replace him we haven’t a hope.
[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 810165, member: 24”]Signings so far:
Iago Aspas: A 25 year old from a lowly La Liga team. Reasonable goal scoring record.
Luis Alberto: A young player that Barcelona decided not to take on.
Kolo Toure: A defender coming towards the end of his career who’s most recent form has been poor but had a good spell years ago.
Simon Mignolet: A good performing EPL keeper.
The only one of those you would say that you would get in any way excited about might be Mignolet. Aspas may turn out to be good. Toure may recover his old form. Luis Alberto - I haven’t a clue.
Now talk of some questionable left back from Benfica on loan.
Certainly nothing to think we will break into the top 4. And we lose Suarez and don’t adequately replace him we haven’t a hope.
Then next season comes the same struggle.[/quote]
We have improved the squad, no question about that. I think Aspas will be good. Too soon for Alberto.
We need to sign at least one first team starter and keep Luis. In saying that, Coutinho is the key. Everything is gonna go through him and I think he is going to be outstanding this season (lump on him now for young player of the year) if him and Luis are set loose for a season they will do some damage.
We struggled up to Christmas, partly due to shit squad, partly due to Rodgers. From crimbo on and the addition of Sturridge and Coutinho we were much better, we amassed the 3rd most points from crimbo to seasons end- some of it without Luis!
Sterling and Ibe are little whippets, and will be used here and there… Sterling looks stronger than last year where he faded after 8/9 games. But they will both be pushing.
Overall, the start really killed 4th place aspirations last year, I don’t think they will start as bad this year, take Bale away from Spurs and Arsenal have signed fuck all. We will be closer than you think - to finish top 4 we need Luis and an other.
We will be keeping Luis next season lads mark my words. Madrid seem to be the only team rumoured to be interested who have the money and it looks like they are going to spend a billion on Planet of the Apes boy and that will be that. PSG, Monaco and City have all signed strikers so I think Luis will be banging them in for us next year.
A real nip in the air at Anfield today as Liverpool attempt to expose the chinks in Fulham’s armour. The Reds’ play has been spic and span recently, a real fairytale story as the five -times European Champions sit proudly on top of the Premier League. The league leaders have been handicapped by three goals today by the bookies, with the visitors looking a bit off-coloured, occupying the relegation zone as they are. Martin Jol has appealed to his injury-crippled team to man up but you suspect it’ll be a real finger in the dyke job at the back for them, with Downy on top form on the wing and midfield midget Joe Allen making the bullets like Steve McQueen. The Welshman has been playing out of skin since news broke of Brendan Rodgers’ interest in Sven Bender, while Simon Mignolet’s performances have been reminsicent of Paki Bonner at his best. Hopefully the match will be over by the time I head out for my half-time fag in the company of my good friends Chocolate Rent-boy, former Galway hurling star Joe Coon-ey and former Home and Away star and huge Liverpool fan Gypsy Nash, who will be the Queen of the Kop today. I’ll also be listening on my tranny for the other results.
Lol…it could all happen Renton,too be honest I think Everton will finish 5th or 6th.if they hold on to baines and Fellini (which I don’t think they will) they have a great chance of pushing for a top 4 spot.
Liverpool really need to hold on to Suarez.any hope of a top 4 will be gone with him if he goes.i can’t see the pool finishing above Everton as the squads stand
Liverpool’s away football shirt was met with a mixed - at best - response, and initial reaction to their third strip on Twitter wasn’t particularly positive either.
The black, purple and white third strip will be on sale from August 1st, with the Reds debuting it during this summer’s pre-season tour.
[quote=“Noelle, post: 810334, member: 2137”]Liverpool’s away football shirt was met with a mixed - at best - response, and initial reaction to their third strip on Twitter wasn’t particularly positive either.
The black, purple and white third strip will be on sale from August 1st, with the Reds debuting it during this summer’s pre-season tour.[/quote]
You spamming cunt. I will track you down and kill you.
I will echo Horsebox 's sentiements here - there’s not a chance that Arsenal will sign Suarez. The race for fourth promises to a truely epic struggle between Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs - and it’s live - on Sky Sports.
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[LEFT][SIZE=3][FONT=arial]Been a terrible transfer window so far. The guys we’ve signed - Aspas, etc - not too exciting. Missing out on that character from Game of Thrones Henrikh Mkhitaryan to Dortmund shows how far down the pecking order Liverpool have fallen and you know what I’m not even sure that the Armenian’s decision to go to Germany had anything to go with money either. I’d be well surprised if Liverpool couldn’t match or exceed what Dortmund could offer, they’re not big spenders. That’s why Lewandowski is so keen on going to Bayern and why Gotze is already gone[/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT]
