AJ The Red

just noticed the keepers name awesome

kuyt is givin the bal away too much

hows about this in the last 5 appearances alonso has made we have won one game and that was a last minute goal by sg, therefore i agree get rid of pennant

the market is the market , thats what these players are going for .if you compare other cms hargreaves and carrick who cost the same i know who i prefer.

ye makalele hasnt been the backbone of real and chelsea for years,real letting him go was one of the worst things they ever did. masch can be ours and i think he is just as good

Sg can play anywhere but i dont like him out wide too much , he hasnt the discipline to stay there and comes in the center looking for the ball clogging the midfield.The point of a rw is to help stretch the opposition defence and take on the lb , we are too lob sided with him on the right. We cry out for a proper rw and thats what we need a quality rw who will stay there.I dont blame SG for searching for the ball sometimes but it doesnt help the team.Im sure any opposition manager would prefer him on the rw too.

i would sacrifice alonso to keep masch personally. I think sg and masch compliment each other well in the center

Even if we had the quality out wide i still dont like the combination. You need players who compliment each other especially in the heart of the team .Alonso as good a player as he is needs a more attacking player besides him than masch and vice versa.I personally hope i dont see a lot of that combo at liverpool.

I dont like alonso and masch in the center personally, you need more drive forward and i dont thin they compliment each other at all.Either with sg makes sense but not together for me they both sit way too deep.

I disagree our defence is part of the team and doesnt contribute towards our attack at all.Our overlappiing runs are slow and our cbs never score apart from a certain 34 yr old. How many goals do our def contribute in a season because i can bet you the other 3 do,terry vidic gallas eboue ferdinand etc all grab the odd goal to help. A good pair of quality fullbacks in the alves mould would make a hell of a difference attacking wise to our team.I know its not that simple but the back 4 dont do enough imo. 2 players out there tonight have scored a goal this season i n the starting 11 its quite poor

Crap thread Rafa has had to wheel and deal his way towards a better squad and i think he has done well. Has anyone thought about the ones that got away????We were too tight to go the extra million on a few players Vidic, Sima,Alves to name a few and we have settled for less ie pennant for alves.We stalled on the alves deal over a million or so and how much would it take to get him now?? Rp and the club have a lot to answer for as well.Get off our managers back ffs

Carra obviously aint going to get any better as he is 30 ish now.He is a great defender but (i dont agree with hitman) his distribution is poor and prob wont change.Hopefully one of our youngsters will ease him out of the team in 2-3 years but until then id say we wont get anyone better. Hansen is a classic example of someone who could do carras job and distribute the ball Agger is closer in that respect and i think we need him back yesterday to give hyyia a rest who to be fair has done great.

Im afraid Benitez must take a lot of the blame.We were on a roll and he picks that team wtf.Although the ref was awful

He is ours for 18 months no matter what really. Wtf is going on though , we take this guy on an 18 month contract and he starts showing what a great player he is.Are we just grooming him for someone else or doesnt our idiot ie parry see that any other club but ours would have had a clause in the contract allowing us to buy him permanent. beggers belief the shambles we have in the upstairs staff sometimes.

Lets see where we are in april before starting these threads Personally dont think we will win it this year

Liverpool can go through with a draw in france but besiktas must beat porto for that to happen. Hope it doesnt come to that but its possible

i called it

think i would change voronin for kewel and change the shape a bit

We look really rattled at the moment , our movement off the ball has gone to pot. Rafa needs a good halftime talk here

Cant see myself why qualification to the knockout stages is going to much of an effect on the outcome of this.At the end of the day it could only be 2 more games im sure it cant generate all that much cash?Any more after is just speculation at the moment.

Never said anywhere Rafa only had 21m to spend , the fact is thats what was outlayed

Net spend is net spend end of.Managers are given budgets to work to and decide how best to spend it to improve the squad. G&H outlayed 21m roughly although its not as straight forward as that with the way payments are made.

Rafa spent 21m in the summer , lets be honest that not a lot at all nowadays. The prem money has gone up massivly this year surly to god there must be a fair few coffers for january.The yanks buying the club was to boost our spending power. I started a thread about wtf moores sold the club to them a couple of weeks ago and nothing yet has changed my mind.Rafa is much more important to me than the yanks and he sounds pissed.

its because they have to buy carling cup tickets , they have no choice.(st holders that is) Lots of fans will buy a ticket and not go because its part of the new glazer dynasty lol

I also thought SG was great yesterday, i gave him mom as far as im concerened. What impressed me was his work rate it was superb,havent seen that much hunger from him for a while.