Liverpool Football Club Thread

[Istanbul]

Last game in charge today anyway I reckon. Goodbye Brendan.

See Andy Carroll on Twitter..."win win for Liverpool"

Win and we win, lose and Rodgers is sacked.

[glb]

"I will do my best with what I am working with".

I am probably being massively naive, stupid, uninformed or all of the above, and have long-since lost track of what goes on 'behind-the-scenes' thanks to the lack of knowing a decent source who might *nudge, nudge, wink, wink* know something, but is Rodgers not part of our award-winning transfer committee? So he is in part responsible for the players he's working with? Or is it like the Stone Cutters, and he is only ranked #28 and his vote equates to not very much. Or are FSG to blame? Or traffic wardens? Or that bloke on the number 72 bus with the spooky glint in his squinty eye?

Expecting (dreading) a resounding victory for Everton today. But if they can't beat this current Liverpool side, they should probably take up hockey or darts or synchronised swimming. The People's Synchronised Swimmers.

[angel]

the people he works with that he had final say on buying. i hate his poor me attitude, hes spent more on players than he'll rver be allowed again

[Azrael]

3-1 to Everton is my prediction, hope I'm wrong.

[Gabe]

Wow, I know things haven't been great for a while, but it's disappointing to see such negativity in here. For what it's worth, I don't think Everton are all that good, though Lukaku will cause us a lot of problems if he's allowed to get into his stride. I think we'll win or draw, form never really counts for much in these games and I think our pace up front could force them to play a little bit deeper than they'd like, and we could profit from that because it will hopefully give Phil a bit more time on the ball.

[gospvg]

Lots of media reports on Klopp 3 year deal?

[Keiths_Dad]

They're far from having a first choice backline as well, I think we have a good chance here.

Edit: Let's shut up about the managerial situation for now, yeah? The Merseyside derby is about to kick off.

[bradigor]

4-0 to Everton today. Will be 1-0 ear;y then Everton will score 3 late on.

[angel]

my money literally on score draw. prob 1-1

[glb]

Wait, when did we sign a goalkeeper?

[Stig]

2 fantastic saves by Mignolet to stop us going behind. Of course that now means he's going to make an almighty fuck up to cost us the game later.

[Gabe]

Shot-stopping has never been the problem with him though, it's everything else.

[glb]

Have that!

Good way to quiet a justifiably annoyed Sturridge too!

[Gabe]

Lovely whipped ball into the area for Ings, about the first time we've done something from a corner this season!

[ryodi]

Another great finish by Ings. Not sure what happened to the marking on that corner from Everton.

[Gabe]

And there's the mistake we expect these days.

[ryodi]

Can

[glb]

Happy for four minutes. Better than recent weeks I suppose.

[SnoopZakaDaVe]

it was a dreadful attempt at a clearance but he's playing out of position all over again @can

[angel]

guess your new manager is from the simpsons

[ryodi]

What was this about? Is it a fake profile?

https://twitter.com/klopp_juergen/status/645942614743740416

Fake. It even says #parodie when you click on the profile.

[glb]

Even if Everton now win 5-1, that won't be worse than sitting through a half-time featuring Andy 'Andrew' Cole, Dick Keys, Peter Reid and Andy Gray. It was horrible, but I couldn't take my eyes off it.

[Kelthink]

Milner is garbage and slow. He needs to be substituted, but he's the captain so that ain't happening in 100 years. Awful football.

[Gabe]

Everton have been well on top since about the 15th-minute. Not sure we have any options on the bench to do much about it, either. Our front players haven't really had much change out of their makeshift defence, which is very disappointing.

[angel]

hairy hands keyes and sexist old andy gray, made sky unwatchable on a sunday pundit wise. real dark days

[glb]

hairy hands keyes and sexist old andy gray, made sky unwatchable on a sunday pundit wise. real dark days

Keys is like a genetic experiment where a mad scientist distilled all of the raving loonies on 606 and Talksport into a blender, added a copy of Zoo magazine, a tabloid newspaper and all the hair that gets discarded from a smokey barbershop, then poured the contents into a doughy sack.

[Gabe]

We just have no authority or control in midfield, Sturridge hasn't had a kick, Coutinho has been anonymous...

Moreno has probably been our best attacking threat, and his final ball has been terrible.

[glb]

Sakho was about to go full Hulk there. Says something when Skrtel is a calming influence.

But that being the most exciting thing in the second half is frustrating.

[angel]

called it. 1-1

taking ings off was bizarre

[Gabe]

It's not been a spectacle, that's for sure. Everton were by far the better team, Howard had absolutely nothing to do. There's pretty much nothing positive we can take from that, it was completely flat. No ideas, no class or control on the ball, no chances.

Ings again ran around a lot, but the movement in general from both he and Sturridge was so predictable, rarely stretching the backline, though in fairness they were given nothing to work with. I wonder what magical words Rodgers will find to describe that? Perhaps "showed character during a difficult period" or something. How Ings in his interview thinks we created a lot of chances and defended well is bizarre.

I said this before the transfer window closed, but we are again at a point where our squad isn't very strong. From the bench today we had youngsters who are, at best, good potentials and Lallana. Not good.