Indeed we will. And Luis will bite Skittles and be banned until 2035.
So, Luis to Barca.....
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Indeed we will. And Luis will bite Skittles and be banned until 2035.
He won't need to - Suarez will just go down like a ton of bricks every time Skrtel tugs his shirt on set pieces.
Skrtel will boot him into next week!
ha ha only once he signs for barca.
we will, we just won't make anyone aware of it
I, like many of you I'm sure, don't really care now. I don't mind either way what happens. I just want it done.
I, do think, though, that we could well struggle next season - particularly if the right replacements aren't found. He's one of the best players in the world, and I think we could have struggled anyway given the extra games next season, and other teams improving around us.
What this money does do, though, is give us the chance to improve our squad depth - an area that cost us last time around. I'm pretty torn. I don't think we'll challenge for the league this season, and I'd take 4th now, but I think in the long run we might be better off.
I, do think, though, that we could well struggle next season - particularly if the right replacements aren't found. He's one of the best players in the world, and I think we could have struggled anyway given the extra games next season, and other teams improving around us.
What this money does do, though, is give us the chance to improve our squad depth - an area that cost us last time around. I'm pretty torn. I don't think we'll challenge for the league this season, and I'd take 4th now, but I think in the long run we might be better off.
We're not going to "struggle". That's what we did under Hodgson. We may well find it harder initially to reach the same standard as we did last season, but that's a rather different matter.
Two ideal scenarios - either one I could live with, anything else is gloom & doom :
1: -
- Henry says "not for sale",
- Luis' appeal sees his world wide ban reduced to 4 weeks
- Luis recommits to LFC & repeats last season
- We win the league & European Cup
2: -
- We reluctantly agree to sell to Barca for £80M+
- We get Sanchez & a few other worldies to replace him
- FIFA view his appeal against the ban as petulant (whats the word the FA use?) and increase it to 12 months
- We win the league & European Cup
1: -
- Henry says "not for sale",
- Luis' appeal sees his world wide ban reduced to 4 weeks
- Luis recommits to LFC & repeats last season
- We win the league & European Cup
2: -
- We reluctantly agree to sell to Barca for £80M+
- We get Sanchez & a few other worldies to replace him
- FIFA view his appeal against the ban as petulant (whats the word the FA use?) and increase it to 12 months
- We win the league & European Cup
Tom: the word you're after is "frivolous" and under other circs.I'd have thought FIFA could well take that view if he were still appealing on the same grounds he gave before his apology. Now that Blatter's praised him for the apology, though, I'd be surprised if they do take a hard line.
Struggle for top 4 that should have said. I think it will be a battle for the top 4, if I'm honest.
Agreed, but IMO it's a battle in which we'll be well involved. Biased as I may be, I reckon we're still the best bet below the probable top two.
Very apt.
Yeah I think Chelsea and City are a given for top 4, if not top 2. Then there's Arsenal who always finish top 4 as it's all they're good for. That leaves one of us, a (surely!?) improved Man Utd, and then below that you've got outsiders like Spurs and Everton. I think it will be a really tough season in that regard. Selling Luis will definitely knock us back somewhat, but if the squad becomes better on the whole then his loss may become compensated.
Sanchez coming in the other way would go some way to resolving this. Shaqiri coming in too would add extra firepower, then we need to address the defence. Ideally, I'd like another top quality striker, but there's a dearth of those available so whatchyagunnado
The reason to be optimistic for the coming season, I feel, is Rodgers. He really has got us playing some scintillating attacking football over the last 18 months. Our transfer targets seem to indicate that is likely to continue. We may replace Suarez's goals from others on the field elsewhere.
Alongside replacing Suarez, the biggest challenge for me is tweaking the system to make the defence more solid. We'll see if he can do it.
Difrent league doe innit
Still, it does buck the common thinking that he is irreplaceable.
If we can unearth some upcoming gems then I think we will be fine.
I liked the look of that Origi kid, he reminded me of a young Anelka when he was at Arsenal.
I think Shaqiri could be a good buy if we could get him for under 20M
My real hope is we could possibly buy Isco or someone similar, I'd actually ask Barca if we can have Delefeou as part of the deal....
I liked the look of that Origi kid, he reminded me of a young Anelka when he was at Arsenal.
I think Shaqiri could be a good buy if we could get him for under 20M
My real hope is we could possibly buy Isco or someone similar, I'd actually ask Barca if we can have Delefeou as part of the deal....
So I guess there's not going to be any 'real' news on this until late late in the transfer window. We'll just know it's happening when our summer spending goes past about 60mill (I guess it's currently about 17+10+5).
If Henry was going to give us about 40-50mill to spend this summer, plus player sales, and he lets us spend the Suarez money, we could be in for a whopping window. 100mill+.
Even though we did brilliantly in the league last season, I'm concerned we'll do a spurs as the current transfer committee's record is hit and miss, some brilliant buy, and some bollocks. We're in a bit of a quandary really, there would be no point in filling the squad with loads of average players that might not make the first 11 with that amount of money to spend, and on the other hand, you don't want to go and add 5-6 first team players and unsettle the current lineup and have to start re-teaching everyone the system again. And we can't just buy 2-3 superstars, as they're not going to want to come to us.
I'd like to see a new first team LB, CB, and a striker-come-winger. That's 3. But as we've already signed the llama, if we got the other 3 too, that might be pushing it with too many new faces.
If Henry was going to give us about 40-50mill to spend this summer, plus player sales, and he lets us spend the Suarez money, we could be in for a whopping window. 100mill+.
Even though we did brilliantly in the league last season, I'm concerned we'll do a spurs as the current transfer committee's record is hit and miss, some brilliant buy, and some bollocks. We're in a bit of a quandary really, there would be no point in filling the squad with loads of average players that might not make the first 11 with that amount of money to spend, and on the other hand, you don't want to go and add 5-6 first team players and unsettle the current lineup and have to start re-teaching everyone the system again. And we can't just buy 2-3 superstars, as they're not going to want to come to us.
I'd like to see a new first team LB, CB, and a striker-come-winger. That's 3. But as we've already signed the llama, if we got the other 3 too, that might be pushing it with too many new faces.
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