Liverpool...coming along nicely

[john@staustell]

all fine and valid points BUT they have "history"

City won a european trophy before Liverpool. FACT!

[Wooders]

all fine and valid points BUT they have "history"

City won a european trophy before Liverpool. FACT!

but they have history - this mythical thing that will always make them better than us

[Mike J]

Fuck 'em. Bunch of cunts.

[Wonderwall]

If Suarez gets injured, Liverpool will be fucked, well and truly. He is the only one who makes things happen up front. He saved them single handedly in midweek too which was a blessing as the europa league is going to kill them off. I think Liverpool will be lucky to reach 8th place this year.

[Swales4ever]

If Suarez gets injured, Liverpool will be fucked, well and truly. He is the only one who makes things happen up front. He saved them single handedly in midweek too which was a blessing as the europa league is going to kill them off. I think Liverpool will be lucky to reach 8th place this year.

not disagreeing, but I see it as a tad [strike]harsh[/strike] prudencial assessment.
I think in Sahin and Borini they have other two who can make something happens, at time.
still a workshop with plenty of hard jobs to be done. If the Scousers will show some patience, they'll end upper than 8th.

[Wonderwall]

Borini looks worse than Corradi, however, the jury is out on Sahin as he hasnt kicked a ball yet.... Arsenal on Saturday and smart money is on liverpool dropping into the bottom 3!!

[Swales4ever]

disagree on Borini, young, still in the making, but only thing he got in common with Corradi is the passport, imo.

agree on the smart bet, as i said it's very much bound to be a hard work in progress backed by stability. You may well be proven right and they end with Twichy comes january... ;)

[Mike J]

Borini looks worse than Corradi, however, the jury is out on Sahin as he hasnt kicked a ball yet.... Arsenal on Saturday and smart money is on liverpool dropping into the bottom 3!!

Sahin will be a top signing. Fuck knows why he has gone there. he should ave gone to arsenal, think he would of shone there.

[Bianchi on Ice]

Ive been reading that pool actually bid the same as spurs. Al fayed must hold a grudge lol...rodgers must be fuming...but try as i might i have no sympathy. Liverpool feel they have a divine right. Their owners are just fattening them up for a quick sale...so if i were them id oppose gills ffp ideas cos no billionaire is going to bail them out if they cant spend or relocate.

[Moonchesteri]

If Suarez gets injured, Liverpool will be fucked, well and truly. He is the only one who makes things happen up front. He saved them single handedly in midweek too which was a blessing as the europa league is going to kill them off. I think Liverpool will be lucky to reach 8th place this year.

Exactly. I reckon their performance against us was the best they'll produce this season and if we had played to our usual standards we would've come away with 3points.
I hope I'm right cos it would be funny to watch pool being a mid table club

[Im_Spartacus]

Apparently Anelka and Drogba have been released, Liverpool would be fucking mental to not go after them both as they are royally fucked if the buck toothed racist cunt gets a ban or injury

[Duckman]

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/john-henry-s-open-letter-to-fans

Liverpool Football Club's principal owner John W Henry has written the following open letter to supporters:


I am as disappointed as anyone connected with Liverpool Football Club that we were unable to add further to our strike force in this summer transfer window, but that was not through any lack of desire or effort on the part of all of those involved. They pushed hard in the final days of the transfer window on a number of forward targets and it is unfortunate that on this occasion we were unable to conclude acceptable deals to bring those targets in.

But a summer window which brought in three young, but significantly talented starters in Joe Allen, Nuri Sahin and Fabio Borini as well as two exciting young potential stars of the future - Samed Yesil and Oussama Assaidi - could hardly be deemed a failure as we build for the future.

Nor should anyone minimise the importance of keeping our best players during this window. We successfully retained Daniel Agger, Martin Skrtel and Luis Suarez. We greatly appreciate their faith and belief in the club. And we successfully negotiated new, long-term contracts with Luis and with Martin.

No one should doubt our commitment to the club. In Brendan Rodgers we have a talented young manager and we have valued highly his judgement about the make-up of the squad. This is a work in progress. It will take time for Brendan to instill his philosophy into the squad and build exactly what he needs for the long term.

The transfer policy was not about cutting costs. It was - and will be in the future - about getting maximum value for what is spent so that we can build quality and depth. We are avowed proponents of EUFA's Financial Fair Play agenda that was this week reiterated by Mr Platini - something we heartily applaud. We must comply with Financial Fair Play guidelines that ensure spending is tied to income. We have been successful in improving the commercial side of the club and the monies generated going forward will give us greater spending power in the coming years.

We are still in the process of reversing the errors of previous regimes. It will not happen overnight. It has been compounded by our own mistakes in a difficult first two years of ownership. It has been a harsh education, but make no mistake, the club is healthier today than when we took over.

Spending is not merely about buying talent. Our ambitions do not lie in cementing a mid-table place with expensive, short-term quick fixes that will only contribute for a couple of years. Our emphasis will be on developing our own players using the skills of an increasingly impressive coaching team. Much thought and investment already have gone into developing a self-sustaining pool of youngsters imbued in the club's traditions.

That ethos is to win. We will invest to succeed. But we will not mortgage the future with risky spending.

After almost two years at Anfield, we are close to having the system we need in place. The transfer window may not have been perfect but we are not just looking at the next 16 weeks until we can buy again: we are looking at the next 16 years and beyond. These are the first steps in restoring one of the world's great clubs to its proper status.

It will not be easy, it will not be perfect, but there is a clear vision at work.

We will build and grow from within, buy prudently and cleverly and never again waste resources on inflated transfer fees and unrealistic wages. We have no fear of spending and competing with the very best but we will not overpay for players.

We will never place this club in the precarious position that we found it in when we took over at Anfield. This club should never again run up debts that threaten its existence.

Most of all, we want to win. That ambition drives every decision. It is the Liverpool way. We can and will generate the revenues to achieve that aim. There will be short-term setbacks from time to time, but we believe we have the right people in place to bring more glory to Anfield.

Finally, I can say with authority that our ownership is not about profit. Contrary to popular opinion, owners rarely get involved in sports in order to generate cash. They generally get involved with a club in order to compete and work for the benefit of their club. It's often difficult. In our case we work every day in order to generate revenues to improve the club. We have only one driving ambition at Liverpool and that is the quest to win the Premier League playing the kind of football our supporters want to see. That will only occur if we do absolutely the right things to build the club in a way that makes sense for supporters, for us and for those who will follow us. We will deliver what every long-term supporter of Liverpool Football Club aches for.

JOHN W HENRY

[Chinners]

But we will not mortgage the future with risky spending.

So like the 4th season of Dallas, last season was just a dream ....

[Bianchi on Ice]

Talkshite wheeling out all the ex pool legends to say rodgers needs another sttiker and owen is the man hes a natural finisher bla blaj blah...could he be the signing of the season again???? If Anelka is free its a no brainer surely? Only rodgers' pride will get in the way...its high comedy that needs to drag on...please

[BobbyDazzler]

Owen on a free, Heskey is available on a free, as is Harry Kewell. If only they could track down Bruno Cheyrou, it could be 2003 again...

[CuteMancs]

But we will not mortgage the future with risky spending.

So like the 4th season of Dallas, last season was just a dream ....

This :)

[Wonderwall]

Ive been reading that pool actually bid the same as spurs. Al fayed must hold a grudge.

Fulham reported Liverpool for tapping up Dempsey well before deadline day. You reap what you sow, well done Fulham.

[Slim]

Owen on a free, Heskey is available on a free, as is Harry Kewell. If only they could track down Bruno Cheyrou, it could be 2003 again...

Sadly Danny Murphy is still under contract at Blackburn, but Biscan(Biscuits) is a free agent.

[ronk]

Talkshite wheeling out all the ex pool legends to say rodgers needs another sttiker and owen is the man hes a natural finisher bla blaj blah...could he be the signing of the season again???? If Anelka is free its a no brainer surely? Only rodgers' pride will get in the way...its high comedy that needs to drag on...please

Another ex-player, good one.

[london blue 2]

King Kenny has well and truely fucked that club Twitchy style!