Midweek Games 25/4 - 29/4

[Cocacolajojo]

What a goal it was too:

https://streamable.com/fdy9

I'm actually not that impressed. He was more or less allowed to jog into the penalty area and people moved of him instead of closing him down. Pep's a genius!

Come on, if it was one of ours it'd be a wankfest on here.

If it was Kane or Wooney it'd be a general media wankfest for a month.

Yeah, true, but it still doesn't take away the poor defending. Unless it had been a goal by Agüero, then it would of course have been pure genius.

[Saul Goodman]

You have to admire what Atletico have done with their squad.

Lost De Gea and replaced him with Courtois. Lost Courtois and bought Oblak.
Torres > Aguero, Forlan > Falcao >Costa >Griezmann up top.
Had Godin & Miranda. Replaced Miranda with Gimenez and Hernandez looks great already and will replace Godin eventually.

Only recent failure was their inability to replace Filipe Luis last season

[bigblue]

Yeah, true, but it still doesn't take away the poor defending. Unless it had been a goal by Agüero, then it would of course have been pure genius.

If Nacho had scored it, this forum would crash from the excitement

If rashford had scored it, the media would unanimously agree that "he's definitely on course to be better than Messi without a doubt"

[gillie]

Note the tone on BT Sport tonight for the dippers game very upbeat.Not downbeat like they are when we play, fuckin scouse loving twats.

[iwasthere2012]

Note the tone on BT Sport tonight for the dippers game very upbeat.Not downbeat like they are when we play, fuckin scouse loving twats.

Not a great deal better on Setanta.
Denis Suarez playing for Villareal tonight.
Just put in a decent cross there.

[Tueart's Pen]

I just want Scouse out of this now, I don't need the idea of these twats winning this, and thus taking our fourth place cushion away

[nottsblue]

I just want Scouse out of this now, I don't need the idea of these twats winning this, and thus taking our fourth place cushion away

Dont worry. Irrespective of whether the dippers fluke the EL, fourth place is assured PL. Well, qualifying round at least.

But 100% agree i want the dippers to lose

[Bluedj]

I hate Milner, every time I see him and I would love to twat that Lalanna asshole, ever since Yaya picked him up and slung him on the deck
I just hate Scouse!!

[nottsblue]

Great. Dippers concede in last minute. Denis Suarez with the unselfish assist

[Bluedj]

Great. Dippers concede in last minute. Denis Suarez with the unselfish assist

Great work by Suarez, bet he enjoyed that lol

[iwasthere2012]

Suarez sinks Liverpool at the death. Played it on a plate for a tap in. He has a few mistakes in him but he is very talented.
Great control. Lacks pace but very, skilful.
Wish we could have held onto him.

[Alioune DVToure]

When Villarreal score in injury time and celebrate for a minute, how can the ref then blow up bang on 93:00 (at the end of the allotted three minutes)? Only a minor thing but it gets on my tits, stuff like this.

[Wonderwall]

This aftermatch coverage is more biased than LFC TV.

[nottsblue]

Suarez sinks Liverpool at the death. Played it on a plate for a tap in. He has a few mistakes in him but he is very talented.
Great control. Lacks pace but very, skilful.
Wish we could have held onto him.

To be fair, in the last two years is it since he left or even three, how many games would he have got and at the expense of who? We got in the region of £1.5/2m for him I believe. Not all our promising talents will make it and I dare say a number will go on to better things in their careers but we have to make decisions based on how the guys are playing at a moment in time, probably based on the previous 12/18 months. He had not shown enough to warrant a place which would have held up Lopez and one or two others. As it happened, Lopez failed to make the grade with us but he needed to be given his chance.

Good luck to the lad though and I will be willing him to score at Anfield next week

[iwasthere2012]

Suarez sinks Liverpool at the death. Played it on a plate for a tap in. He has a few mistakes in him but he is very talented.
Great control. Lacks pace but very, skilful.
Wish we could have held onto him.

To be fair, in the last two years is it since he left or even three, how many games would he have got and at the expense of who? We got in the region of £1.5/2m for him I believe. Not all our promising talents will make it and I dare say a number will go on to better things in their careers but we have to make decisions based on how the guys are playing at a moment in time, probably based on the previous 12/18 months. He had not shown enough to warrant a place which would have held up Lopez and one or two others. As it happened, Lopez failed to make the grade with us but he needed to be given his chance.

Good luck to the lad though and I will be willing him to score at Anfield next week

£2m seems cheap when you look at him now. He got a couple of chances in the league cup, didn't he and I thought did ok.
Setanta hailing him as the best player on the park tonight.
Talk of Barca wanting him back from loan next season. It would be hard to see who he would play instead of in that team.
I wouldn't mind him as an option on the bench for us this season. I'd have him ahead of Sterling anyday.
Anyway that bird has flown. I just hope we start to see us retain and play some of the talent coming through the current 16's and 18's.

[nottsblue]

Suarez sinks Liverpool at the death. Played it on a plate for a tap in. He has a few mistakes in him but he is very talented.
Great control. Lacks pace but very, skilful.
Wish we could have held onto him.

To be fair, in the last two years is it since he left or even three, how many games would he have got and at the expense of who? We got in the region of £1.5/2m for him I believe. Not all our promising talents will make it and I dare say a number will go on to better things in their careers but we have to make decisions based on how the guys are playing at a moment in time, probably based on the previous 12/18 months. He had not shown enough to warrant a place which would have held up Lopez and one or two others. As it happened, Lopez failed to make the grade with us but he needed to be given his chance.

Good luck to the lad though and I will be willing him to score at Anfield next week

£2m seems cheap when you look at him now. He got a couple of chances in the league cup, didn't he and I thought did ok.
Setanta hailing him as the best player on the park tonight.
Talk of Barca wanting him back from loan next season. It would be hard to see who he would play instead of in that team.
I wouldn't mind him as an option on the bench for us this season. I'd have him ahead of Sterling anyday.
Anyway that bird has flown. I just hope we start to see us retain and play some of the talent coming through the current 16's and 18's.

I think your last line resonates with a lot of fans, myself very much included. I have high hopes Pep will start to utilise the Academy

[nottsblue]

This aftermatch coverage is more biased than LFC TV.

Mcpointalot showed his class tonight. In so much he hasn't got any. "We will beat these. They are no good" was the gist of it. Didn't look at the scoreboard then Steve?

[john@staustell]

Media darlings beaten. Oh dear.

[Dubciteh]

Suarez sinks Liverpool at the death. Played it on a plate for a tap in. He has a few mistakes in him but he is very talented.
Great control. Lacks pace but very, skilful.
Wish we could have held onto him.

To be fair, in the last two years is it since he left or even three, how many games would he have got and at the expense of who? We got in the region of £1.5/2m for him I believe. Not all our promising talents will make it and I dare say a number will go on to better things in their careers but we have to make decisions based on how the guys are playing at a moment in time, probably based on the previous 12/18 months. He had not shown enough to warrant a place which would have held up Lopez and one or two others. As it happened, Lopez failed to make the grade with us but he needed to be given his chance.

Good luck to the lad though and I will be willing him to score at Anfield next week

£2m seems cheap when you look at him now. He got a couple of chances in the league cup, didn't he and I thought did ok.
Setanta hailing him as the best player on the park tonight.
Talk of Barca wanting him back from loan next season. It would be hard to see who he would play instead of in that team.
I wouldn't mind him as an option on the bench for us this season. I'd have him ahead of Sterling anyday.
Anyway that bird has flown. I just hope we start to see us retain and play some of the talent coming through the current 16's and 18's.

I think your last line resonates with a lot of fans, myself very much included. I have high hopes Pep will start to utilise the Academy

I was hugely dissapointed when we let him go as i thought he was quality anytime i seen him, sometimes our management are guilty for just goin for the big names that they buy rather than the players that come through, surely he could of had Sinclairs squad place and actually contributed?

He has been quality for a few seasons in spain now, there was talk of Barca keeping him with there first team this season before letting him go with the buy back clause(essentially a loan). I read somewhere only a few weeks ago that barca fans still think they should of kept him for this season.

Speaking of buyback clauses why dont we go down this route, barca always do it and they are no lose situations. If we had one on suarez we would just buy him back with a view to playing him or selling him for his now inflated price. Hes worth at least 10m now, could be two europa leagues in a row for him at 22 and already calls for a spain cap for him.

[Wonderwall]

He looked very comfortable on the ball and has been given time to grow into the role and plenty of game time by Villareal, he would not get that with City which is the main issue we have. If the youth player is not of Messi's level they are not given the opportunity.