Ed-Zeppelin

The optimist in me thinks we are holding back on announcing Suarez as confirmed as we will do it when all our business is sorted which will include Adam and A N Other, or two if Torres does go. Kenny, Commolli and co have a busy 24hrs ahead probably. Fingers crossed. If Torres goes I'd really like us to get another striker in, even if it's a loan deal.

That would be Utopia! I now reckon we'll end up with Suarez and Adam but I'd be properly surprised if someone like Young also came in. Would be great though and his pace is just what we need. Add Warnock and I'd be more than happy until the summer. Things are definitely looking up though and even if no one comes in at least our style is getting better.

Shame. Would have been a useful addition. Given our current struggles on the pitch my desire for some encouragement on the transfer front seems worse than normal. Now Henry is over the next few days could be telling. To be fair though even if all we got in the next week was a top CEO then that would probably be a good start. Still hoping for Suarez or similar though......

Someone has just put a picture of Diego Milito apparently at Lime St station on Twitter. Anyone heard anything along this line? Would be a good move if he can capture the scoring form he had at Inter. Would also be a good match for Nando for me. If it's in any way true of course! Still clinging to the possibility of Suarez as a show of intent by FSG. They've form at the Red Sox for putting their money up and not being afraid of pushing the team forward. Lets hope they adopt the same approach here. Some decent players to bolster the squad, especially the odd low cost loan like Warnock makes sense to me if they can add to that 2 or 3 good long term options like Adam, Suarez or Milito!

Good video that. Hopefully after having a chat with him Kenny will give Pacheco a few more minutes on the pitch. With Stevie out for 3 games we could do with someone tidy to play off Nando. Just great seeing him back in the tracksuit on the training ground. Really can't wait for wednesday night, first time ive felt like that in a while.

Haha! I know. It's the first time I've used it though. Feel a bit better for it too!

That berk from Southampton is proof that Roy is succeeding in lower expectations with his consistent b******s. Which is in turn proof that he should go, if we didn't need any more. I will say it for the first time on here, than man is a c***. His post match interviews were cowardly and once again he failed to take any personal responsibility for any of this. Even the idiot UK media are catching on slowly. Ancelotti was class by comparison, and should really have far less to be worried about with his CV. And to think it was our boss touted as a gent when he arrived. The last two letters are correct at least.

I said a while back that he was turning his PR disaster press conferences into an art form. I think he's now achieved that aim. Worse still, he's almost becoming a parody of himself as we see him. We could spend all week coming up with great Royisms about how 'he's doing his best' or 'is one of the most respected coaches around' etc and he'd still come out the day before our game and trump all of us with some verbal s*** storm of tripe. He's done it this week again. I really can't stand him. And, as before, so much of the media is still peddeling the uninformed nonsense to try and justify their backing of him in the summer. The only upside is that the tide appears to be slowly turning in the press. I'm also giving Henry and Werner the benefit ofnthe doubt at the moment. I wish they'd act now but I don't for a second believe he won't be gone as soon as they have an option that fits their plans. It can't come soon enough, for the sake of LFC and the sanity of all of us.

Hodgson's Disease and Verbal Diarrhoea are two of the others surely. Struggling for the fifth. How about delusional self-aggrandising?

More classic stuff from Roy. Takes the levels of delusional detachment from reality to new heights, again. He put the best players out, and his subs didn't change anything so it must be where the players are right now. Is that right Roy? Your team, with Gerrard, Torres, Reina, Raul and Kuyt couldn't beat a Wolves side that had got a point away from home all season. You break up an axis of Lucas and Raul and wonder why we're affected. Throw on three more players, out of position in some cases, and they don't make a difference. That's all their fault isn't it. f*** me it's beyond belief. The level of tactical naivety in the man is really quite astonishing. His approach seems to be that his way, tactically, is one actually exists is just to work the players harder on his s*** system and spend to get better players and that'll do it. And saying he can't do more is an out and out admission that he's not up to the task. At this rate FSG will have grounds for dismissal which will help them avoid paying compensation due to gross incompetence.

That's outrageous. The fact he is that far detached from reality that he thinks that comment may in any way be helpful is simply mind-boggling! He really can't go soon enough. I can't wait to hear all his bleating after where he looks for every excuse in the book. He's a fraud and he's been found out. If the media turns, as it seems they are doing, then it really will get difficult. The fact he can't see his part in this is maddening.

One other little thing I notice tonight was the way Nando approached McCarthy at the end. It struck me as a player saying well done to MM on the basis that his own boss was just so poor, something in the body language and gesturing between the two. Hate to say it but I'd be the same. And worse, the fact that Mick McCarthy is made to look great at Anfield with those players against us is simply unacceptable.

Absolutely, and Coyle has just said they went to Chelsea trying to win. Saturday could be very tough after this. Bolton are playing well. The boost of a change of boss mint see us through, but otherwise I'd fancy them to come here and repeat this result. Sad as it is to say.

The most damning thing I can say about the game today is that I'm not surprised. Shocking. Has to be the end of the fraud.

As much as our performance has bothered me in the first half i at least have a modicum of confidence that FSG will eventually do the right thing and rid us of this idiot. What annoys me more is that we will all be stuck with Sky and their s**** pundits forever it seems. Keys, Gray, Redknapp, what a bunch of agenda driven tossers. Sky in general are really pissing me off these days. Utter drivel most of the time. These people get paid big money for this! Forget PL footballers like PFK it's Keys and Gray I'd want rid of, just.

That's a fair shout. I'm torn at the moment as I still believe in FSG and they have a record in the US of getting things done. It's going to take time, that i can live with. Roy might stay until the summer, till take time to get a top CEO, and then a top coach. I think generally behind the scenes progress is being made. What bothers me is that any progress behind the scenes will take longer to shine through the longer Roy is around. This is why the transfer window is big for me, as its a tangible sense of how they are approaching things. It's a tough balance for them as they have to be seen to support Roy but probably want to hedge bets for the summer too. Its a big window for Comolli as a result. It'll also give Roy a great excuse come the summer when the reason he didn't win us the league was down to not getting his players in January! It'll never be down to him will it.

If, big if admittedly, we bring in Huth and Cole, and similar players then I'd be thoroughly pissed off and fed up with it all. Just not good enough for me and screams the mediocrity that Roy seems to cherish so dearly. More worryingly is would raise big questions for me about Comolli and FSG. If Roy is staying until the end of the season, as seems increasingly likely, the damage he does has to be limited as far as possible. Transfers in this window are a major part of that. This window is a good opportunity for FSG to make a statement, within reason, to all in football that they mean business and that would surely make attracting the top coaches a bit easier come the summer. I'm fed up with us being in limbo. I can't wait to get a real leader in so that we can knuckle down and drive forward as a club. I rate Henry and co but this window is a big test, which would be marked as a fail if people like Cole are signed, IMO.

It's 3 Kings, not 3 Queens.

Whilst those figures are staggering, if true, they aren't really the thing that bugs me most in that. Given this is something from the media I imagine the wages aren't that high, and if they are then it's just another example of the nonsense in football at the moment. Nothing we can do about that really. The thing that bothers me is that, and i might just be picking on things, i think all the players in that list could still be useful for us under the right leadership. I tend to grudgingly enjoy transfer windows inspite of all the Sky b******s. If Roy is about it all seems quite irrelevant as it'll make little difference whilst he's around. Merry Christmas!

He's almost turned this into an art form. Every time he says something daft and makes me rate him that bit less I always think that he couldn't get worse. Then he does. Shambles. Pull your fingers out Tom and Henry and get rid of the fraud.

Brilliant. Makes you proud on so many levels. Rhys is a star. Football in general in this country does put a lot back and it generally goes unnoticed. Some of the things you see our team doing either inspired by the club or off their own back is really very good. On a side note thats the first time I've seen Jeremy Kyle and not wanted to punch him in the face. My estimation of him has gone up a fair bit!

Fair point, and i agree. It's been a building sense of disillusionment which has snapped in me in the last couple of days, and been made worse when contrasted with the grief Rafa gets, with their comparative records. Two friends at work are a Blue and a Geordie. They've found our season highly amusing. I've found the best way to take the wind out of their sails is to agree when they have a pop about Roy, which is easy as most of the time I agree with what they are saying. Total shambles. The only positive in all of this, that I can see, is that on this basis i now genuinely believe i could be a PL manager. If this bloke has pulled it off so far i reckon I'd give it a bloody good go. The major obstacle would be the colloquial inbreds, mainly ex-players, who'd do anything to discredit an outsider who might have the temerity to do anything differently to them. That and I'd tell them to f*** off at every opportunity and call Keys a thunderc**t in my first interview live on Monday Night Football. Gray would be ignored entirely, except that I'd extoll the virtues of zonal marking just to piss him off.

Sick of this now. If NESV can seriously listen to the absolute drivel this imbecile spouts every time he opens his mouth without questioning it or at least telling him to keep a lid on it i am loosing belief in their leadership. I am going to declare that as of Boxing Day, assuming no change, where this shambles will inevitably continue, my support for NESV will start to drop like a giant sand hour glass until I reach some sort of rage come May when this berk describes our mid-table finish as some sort of glowing achievement and yet another glorious chapter in his unparalleled career. The man is a f***ing coward, a snide who lucked into the job on the back of incompetence, timing and fortune and now doesn't have the good grace to admit that a) he's entirely out of his depth, and b) has made a complete f***ing mess of everything he's touched at the club so far. For a man who touts his many year experience so often he seems to have completely missed that period in football where we established ourselves as the club we are with expectations of a certain approach. He doesn't fit the style and mentality of the club in any way. I hate his tactics, his negative approach, his blaming everyone but himself for the mess so far, his goal-post moving excuses, his archaic methods. I don't hate the man, more feel sorry for him on many levels. I did however expect, on previous experience, a gent who understood the game. What I've seen so far is a narky, sniping buffoon. Just when I was getting back a passion for football post the American idiots, Roy has sapped all the fun out of it again. The t***! A final word goes to those who saw fit to hire this berk in the first place, regardless, and thanks, for all else you did for the club, f*** you for leaving us with this. Also, the British media are a great big steaming pile of horse s***. The coverage of Roy's ongoing idiocy when contrasted with the re-writing of the Rafa era, which is happily sucked up and spewed out by the idiot masses, is a bloody disgrace. It's my birthday today, I've had a great day, some nice booze and it's taken only 20 minutes catching up and listening to Roy and the various comments about to reduce me to a level of frustration which is worrying my cat, for fear he may be drop-kicked through the tv! Football can be s**** sometimes!

Part of me would love to see it though. If offered no doubt he'd take it, he believes he's worth it. The fun part would be all the Inter fans going who? Followed by bad football and the whole thing falling to pieces. Clubs like Inter just wouldn't accept his style. It'd be fun to watch though, a bit like watching Roy with us, but from the outside!

As unlikely as i still think this is I'd love to have him back. Forgetting how much better he is than Hodgson he gets us and the club. He'd fight for us and build a winning mentality back into the club. It would piss off the media and a number of other managers no end, which would be superb. I'm still sure that after finishing second we'd have pushed on again had it not been for the mess above Rafa's head and the lack of funds. If Rafa can agree to the structure of the club with Comolli's involvement i actually think it would benefit Rafa. If most of this squad can stay with good backing in the next two windows I'd back Rafa to win the league in the timescales NESV are talking about.