I'm worried too mate. I'm going to give it another week or two before panic sets in. Hopefully we sign someone out of the blue. Someone who swags in and can win us games. A realistic target ala Reus if that player exists out there.
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I'm worried too mate. I'm going to give it another week or two before panic sets in. Hopefully we sign someone out of the blue. Someone who swags in and can win us games. A realistic target ala Reus if that player exists out there.
We're relying heavily on Sturridge having another good season, and Lambert, Markovic, sterling and Coutinho to pick up the missing Suarez goals.
Risky, but we've got young players there who should be aiming to improve on last season's tally.
I'm not convinced we're going to get world class talent
Risky, but we've got young players there who should be aiming to improve on last season's tally.
I'm not convinced we're going to get world class talent
So we've lost 1 player from that team? Would have been quicker to just type that.
Quicker but less impactful.
Ive got bags of faith in Mr Rodgers hes the fucking mack but he has to have something to work with.
As ive said im happy with Lallana and Lovren and even Can looks a good player but 20m on Markovic looks steep and given he plays in the same position as Sterling/Coutinho/Lallana it looks a lot to fix something that wasnt broken.
Ive only seen him play once in a friendly though so maybe im way off base.
We really do need a forward though.
Ive got bags of faith in Mr Rodgers hes the fucking mack but he has to have something to work with.
As ive said im happy with Lallana and Lovren and even Can looks a good player but 20m on Markovic looks steep and given he plays in the same position as Sterling/Coutinho/Lallana it looks a lot to fix something that wasnt broken.
Ive only seen him play once in a friendly though so maybe im way off base.
We really do need a forward though.
I thought Markovic was a case of buying him now before we miss out and he ends up at Chelsea/City/ManU/Barca/Real.
Anyway, with Suarez going it will hopefully have the same effect as Gerrard's injury last season when Henderson stepped up. Pressure is onto Sturridge, Sterling, Coutinho and hopefuly some other big shot to do it with Can & Markovic playing their part.
Anyway, with Suarez going it will hopefully have the same effect as Gerrard's injury last season when Henderson stepped up. Pressure is onto Sturridge, Sterling, Coutinho and hopefuly some other big shot to do it with Can & Markovic playing their part.
I dunno. You buy good players to replace and it's not the fucking car-crash some are expecting.
United sold Ronaldo for 80M odd, who'd scored what, 40 goals in his last season? They went on and won the league twice in the 3 seasons after that. Same with Van Nistelrooy, they sold him and that was taking monster goals out of the side, replaced him with Carrick and went and won the league that year.
It might not be the end of the fucking world.
Ajax have won the last 4 Eredivisies since Suarez left.
Personally I would happily take another second finish next season.
In fact I would be tempted to accept forth at this point.
This coming season in my opinion should be about cementing our place in the Champions league again and preparing to become genuine contenders in all trophies we enter, without becoming the new Arsenal
Finish 2nd - moan moan moan
Buy lots of new, exciting players - moan moan moan
Season have not begun - moan moan moan
Lose/draw 1st match of new season - commit suicide ?
Buy lots of new, exciting players - moan moan moan
Season have not begun - moan moan moan
Lose/draw 1st match of new season - commit suicide ?
If only it was that simple. We've lost our only world class player, and yes we looked to have sorted some of our issues at the back, but not enough to suddenly turn us suddenly stop conceding more than Suarez was responsible for last season.
We're still miles behind in attacking, we need to get someone who can actually make things happen for us, and I just don't think we're going to get them.
Undoubtedly losing Suarez is going to make our first 11 worse but I don't think it will be that bad if coutinho, sterling, hendo all continue their upward trajectories as well as can, Lazar and lovren Hitting the ground running.. Yes I'm pinning my hopes on 6 different players upping the ante. .
Its not just Suarez goals though is it?
He occupies 2 or 3 defenders, he creates space, he was our one world class talent and the one player we had who could consistently do something ridiculous to change a game.
We are going to face at least 30 games this year with packed defenses and teams happy to take a point.
I cannot see how (unless Coutinho and Sterling suddenly become world class overnight) we are in a position to deal with that, let alone dealing with Sturridge innevitable adsences.
Im not panicing at all, there is loads of time but we need to bring in some proven world class talent to replace Suarez or we will find ourselves frustrated a lot of the time.
He occupies 2 or 3 defenders, he creates space, he was our one world class talent and the one player we had who could consistently do something ridiculous to change a game.
We are going to face at least 30 games this year with packed defenses and teams happy to take a point.
I cannot see how (unless Coutinho and Sterling suddenly become world class overnight) we are in a position to deal with that, let alone dealing with Sturridge innevitable adsences.
Im not panicing at all, there is loads of time but we need to bring in some proven world class talent to replace Suarez or we will find ourselves frustrated a lot of the time.
I was going to say the same thing.
I think any expectation to build on last season and push for the league title is unrealistic personally. I'd love to be proven wrong but it does feel like last year was a bit of a freak where things sort of just came together for us (and we should've won the fucking thing but we've done that) and this year will be a different story.
Success this season for me would be giving a decent account of ourselves in the CL and finishing in the top 4 again.
Do we have the players to do that? I don't know. It's hard to say how everything will come together for us with all the new faces and we'll also have to see to what extent the clubs around us have improved.
If Studge stays fit we'll be absolutely fine.
That's a great story about the first class ticket.
This is the closest I have seen to a Ryan 'like'!
Rodgers could have been talking about Borini there 2 years ago in that vid, thought he was for a second, very similar.
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