The Liverpool Thread

[Quasit]

I'd say we do as we're going to the CL next season. Heard it here first



(and if I'm wrong I'm ready for pelters lol)

I really hope you do... As long as it's not on our expense.

 

[fuelledbypassion]

Surely 'Pool will need to offload some of the high earners to accomadate new signings, and for players of that ilk you will need a massive wage incentive. Joe Cole needs moving on before you can consider spending on another free superstar. Holtby may be the only one within you budget limitations imo

 

[LFCMarshall]

OK firsty, the issue with Walcott is wage, you dont have the 100k a week he is asking for...

And Llorente will be on a free. Every elite team will be chasing him. Milan, Juve, Chelsea, You might even throw Arsenal in the mix, City will be sniffing, Inter. He has his choice and can demand the highest wages from the teams in the CL. So you are rank outsiders on that.

walcott can be negotiated, first team football and him liking liverpool is an advantage

Llorente will have alot of clubs after him, but alot of them clubs already have top strikers, and game time will again be very rare compared to liverpool who have a decent amount of money wage wise and will almost guarantee him a starting place

Like i said we are outsides but its not unrealistic

 

[Quasit]

walcott can be negotiated, first team football and him liking liverpool is an advantage

Llorente will have alot of clubs after him, but alot of them clubs already have top strikers, and game time will again be very rare compared to liverpool who have a decent amount of money wage wise and will almost guarantee him a starting place

Like i said we are outsides but its not unrealistic

Definately not impossible, but need to offload players first.

 

[LFCMarshall]

Definately not impossible, but need to offload players first.

the squad is way too light as it is,

Joe Cole is the only one i would consider at this time at around 100k a week

 

[Mike.]

walcott can be negotiated, first team football and him liking liverpool is an advantage

Llorente will have alot of clubs after him, but alot of them clubs already have top strikers, and game time will again be very rare compared to liverpool who have a decent amount of money wage wise and will almost guarantee him a starting place

Like i said we are outsides but its not unrealistic

Come on, he's barely negotiating with Arsenal.

Llorente wants elite football, this is actually why he wont resign, he was supposed to be going to Juve but they couldnt afford the price, because bilbao wouldnt back down. Thats what you are up against, and a Chelsea side who are losing faith in Torres, just to name two. Game time will not be rare for him, he's one of the best in the world.

It is pretty unrealistic. a lot of things would need to go in your favour.

Your wage bill is nearly tapped as it is without CL football.

 

[Mike.]

Surely 'Pool will need to offload some of the high earners to accomadate new signings, and for players of that ilk you will need a massive wage incentive. Joe Cole needs moving on before you can consider spending on another free superstar. Holtby may be the only one within you budget limitations imo

Liverpool dont have the spare wage capacity because of the lack of CL football.

 

[Quasit]

the squad is way too light as it is,

Joe Cole is the only one i would consider at this time at around 100k a week

Your wages to revenue ratio is somewhere around 70% which is way too high. If you manage to offload Cole it would help.

 

[Mike.]

Your wages to revenue ratio is somewhere around 70% which is way too high. If you manage to offload Cole it would help.

Realistically you are talking about adding circa 60k for Holtby, 100k for Walcott and 130k for Llorente. That is a huge amount for any club, let alone one without CL boosting the coffers.

 

[Joel`]

walcott can be negotiated, first team football and him liking liverpool is an advantage

Llorente will have alot of clubs after him, but alot of them clubs already have top strikers, and game time will again be very rare compared to liverpool who have a decent amount of money wage wise and will almost guarantee him a starting place

Like i said we are outsides but its not unrealistic

None of Milan, Juve, Inter, arguably Chelsea, Arsenal have a truly top striker. Certainly not on Llorente's level. To say his game time would be very rare is highly optimistic at the very best.

 

[Quasit]

Realistically you are talking about adding circa 60k for Holtby, 100k for Walcott and 130k for Llorente. That is a huge amount for any club, let alone one without CL boosting the coffers.

No I mean it would help bringing either Holtby or Walcott. Don't thing Llorente is at all realistic.

 

[Mike.]

No I mean it would help bringing either Holtby or Walcott. Don't thing Llorente is at all realistic.

After last nights game, I don't think Wenger will be letting Walcott go anywhere, dump some of the dross, free the wage for him.

 

[Mike.]

Liverpool issue apology to Duncan Jenkins creator over Jen Chang actions

• 'Silent' communications director feels the heat
• Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre apologised

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Ian Ayre, the Liverpool managing director, has apologised to the spoof blogger Sean Cummins. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA Archive/Press Association Images

Liverpool have issued a written apology to Sean Cummins, the fan responsible for creating the now notorious spoof journalist Duncan Jenkins, for the actions of their communications director, Jen Chang, in trying to persuade him to desist from his tweeting and blogging career.
Cummins invented "perspiring journalist" Jenkins through a series of blogs which contained many more giveaway innaccuracies – he liked to describe himself as a member of the blogging paternity, for example – and quickly built up a following, helped by what appeared to be inside information that usually managed to be spot on.
Cummins/Jenkins correctly forecast that Nuri Sahin would join the club, even though he looked certain at one stage to join Arsenal, and was accused by Liverpool of inflating the price of Fabio Borini by making the club's interest public. When the self-styled FalseNo9 began to successfully predict teamsheets the club decided a mole was at work and attempted to put the squeeze on Cummins.
Enter Chang, recently installed as Anfield communications director after working as a football analyst for ESPN's United States operation, and keen to make a positive impression after the sorry PR saga that was the Luis Suárez affair last season.
Chang set up a meeting with Cummins in a Manchester restaurant – despite being a lifelong Liverpool fan Cummins works as a copywriter in south Manchester – where he proceeded to spell out what might happen if he did not reveal his sources. Events become a little hazy at this point since there were no witnesses to the conversation and it is only one man's word against the other's, but the detail that emerged to embarrass the club was that Chang had allegedly suggested that if Cummins's address became known then enraged Liverpool supporters would soon be posting "dogshit" through his letterbox.
Cummins dropped the Jenkins act at that point and reported the conversation under his own name, leaving Liverpool with quite a lot of explaining to do.
They still have quite a lot of explaining to do, but the fact that Liverpool managing director, Ian Ayre, met Cummins on two separate occasions, handing over a written apology on the second, suggests they accept his version of events and recognise that their own behaviour was questionable.
That in turn puts the spotlight directly on Chang, who originally described the Cummins account of their Manchester meeting as "total nonsense". Liverpool have declined to comment on whether Chang will face disciplinary action – some say he has already had a dressing down from the chairman – but they clearly no longer swallow the "total nonsense" line.
"Based on everything I have heard and seen," Ayre writes in his letter of apology. "I acknowledge some of the elements you highlight were not appropriate."
Chang has remained silent on the matter so far. Cummins says he his happy with his apology.

 

[Ride The Walrus]

hope Suarez is rested tonight

 

[Lee]

Would be good to see Yesil and Morgan get a run out.

 

[iamauser]

Starting XI : Jones, Robinson, Coates, Carragher, Henderson, Shelvey, Allen, Cole, Assaidi, Yesil, Downing.

Subs : Ward, Suarez, Gerrard, Suso, Sterling, Skrtel, Wisdom.

Got from FB, but wouldnt surprise me. Looks like we are playing a 3-4-3?

 

[GodCubed]

Starting XI : Jones, Robinson, Coates, Carragher, Henderson, Shelvey, Allen, Cole, Assaidi, Yesil, Downing.

Subs : Ward, Suarez, Gerrard, Suso, Sterling, Skrtel, Wisdom.

Got from FB, but wouldnt surprise me. Looks like we are playing a 3-4-3?

Unless Downing's at LB, or Henderson at RB, it looks like it.

 

[LFCMarshall]

Carra, Coates, Robbo and Downing i would guess

 

[LFCMarshall]

Playing Poorly.. nothing in attack what so ever

 

[redterror39]

This Liverpool team is so ****, they're all useless...