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Scott Parker would be a good signing under Hodgson. Good player for consolidating our position as a midtable team. Guarantee we won't be relegated with him in the side. We need players that are the envy of other sides, who can lift the team and win games for us. Not players that are a mild improvement on what we already have, if Parker is even that. He'd be a good signing as a squad player, but we simply can't afford to be in the market for squad players when we have an urgent need to fill out the starting XI first and foremost.

In a way. I think it's a real possibility that this team collectively don't believe that are all that anymore. And aren't. I'm not sure you need to flush the team, but I think it may require several marquee signings for them to start believing they can win things on a regular basis and play like it. Also, I think Kuyt is finished. He's lost what he had.

Alonso left and our team coherence went away. Then Mascherano left and now teams are dominating our midfield as well. There is a gaping hole left in our midfield and it really is no surprise that we are so lacking in what they gave to us when our replacements are Meireless and Poulsen. Meireless is a decent enough player to have, but if we want to have pretentions of being a top 4 again, we need players visibly better ahead of him in the pecking order.

Riise was a better defender than he gets credit for. In his latter years it was only really Gronkjaer and Pennant who had his number. Whereas players like Ronaldo he kept firmly in his pocket. That infamous game against chelsea aside, he usually did well when the chips were down in the important games. He was even a cultured technical fullback for a while. Shame he forgot about that in favour of shooting on sight and longballs towards the end. Strange that his game regressed like that.

Since it is established on the webs that carra conspired against Rafa, that Rafa defo would have dropped him this season (even though he should have done so a lot earlier and never did, even playing mascherano and skertl at rb instead of moving him out of the centre for just a few games), I believe the Rafatollah advocates against him being a starter. Personally, I think he is still better than skittle but we really should be looking for someone better to partner Agger.

Certainly hasn't been true this season. In fact, don't think it's been true in the past two seasons that's coincided with his loss of form. Imo, his 'constant communication' is no great loss. His moaning and shouting at others is indiscriminate and just as often happens when he makes mistakes himself. Reina is the true leader and organiser at the back and the one the backfor should be deferring to on the pitch.

Suarez doesn't impress me that much. He could grow into a terrific player but I think it just as likely he won't. Turan though... I might just do a little jiggle if we signed him.

Holloway is a character and decent enough for it, but he has his moments of buffoonery. He looked like he was ready to cry from frustrated outrage when he took it upon himself to comment on Rooney wanting away from United. He does like to talk a bit too much.

We certainly do to get back in the top 4. Roy, and the sycophantic press, was peddling the line that we could only expect improvement with new players. Good to have a man who believes even this team should be doing much better than it is.

There's no way he'd join as an assistant. Secondly, he is leaving FC Copenhagen in the summer to coach the Norwegian national team. That's where he is going.

gasp. But, but... we were told we'd need new players to do better!

Kenny is actually about to do the old 'what's that on your shirt' trick on stevie. Brilliant.

An away game coming up and I actually fancy our chances. It's been a while since I've felt that.

purslow is gone. Ryan needs our help.

I love Ryan. He's the most lovable stupid footballer around.

expectations. f*ck havig our feet on the ground, hodgson style. Let's win the bloody Europa League and make an epic push for 4th place. Only because Torres has that wand.

This. The club has lost its way the past years under the tyranny of G&H. Dalglish embodies LFC and everything it stands for more than any other person. Having him in charge means instilling the liverpool way back in the dressing room and the staff surrounding it. Hopefully, it will rub off in the higher echelons as well. Love him. There is not a person around I want to see succeed more than him, and not just because I want LFC to be succesful. Really hope he does so well he gets an extention, but even if he doesn't it will all have been worth it. This simply feels right. Me too. Add to that Dalglish's own "Torres has got a magic wand." Love it. The man hasn't been back for five minutes and he is slinging out classic lines aleady.

genius

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I should probably say my 'coup de grace; was meant metaphorically. fwiw, I completely concur.

If there is no player investment this window, they will have an uphill battle ahead of them to convince the fans, and probably players too, that they are not a bunch of American lying liars back for round II of lying to and deceiving the fans in the name of $$$.

it's so f***ing smalltime. Winning tropies is a coup. Beating your archrivals is giving them their just deserts. Stop talking like we're Northampton whom you were couped out of the league cup by. Please, someone administer the Coup de Grace before sunday.

I should think there would be far less impressive finalists to pick on both before and after than Ajax if i weren't.

Unless they have plenty of time on their side, which most top managers don't, I think top managers think like top players: They want to play with the best and where they have a chance of winning trophies. Signing up with Liverpool FC means a rebuilding project of several years before that is a genuinely realistic prospect (barring miracles like Istanbul). Unless FSG whip out a checkbook with enough blank checks to make a top manager positively giddy, I think it will be very difficult to attract managers in the top tier, certainly so for those already in a job. I think our realistic candidates are those looking to establish themselves in the top tier and see Liverpool FC as a viable platform for that. The trick is to figure out who of those are actually good enough to do it.

I somehow doubt most top managers will see it that way.