Rickie Lambert

[Russ Atmosphere]

Did we merge with RAWK?

[Torvald Utne]

and gets a medal of some sorts from somewhere hopefully.

[Pureblood]

He's bad enough but I doubt trying to sell him at the first possible opportunity will act as much of a confidence boost.

 

It's cunning man management. 

[Paco]

He's bad enough but I doubt trying to sell him at the first possible opportunity will act as much of a confidence boost.

worked on hendo

[Dr Nowt]

Don't really blame us for accepting the offer if £5M is true, don't blame him for wanting to give it til the end of the season before he pulls the ripcord on his life's dream.  Kids in school, just moved back to his home, etc.

 

We may yet need him, however unpalatable that seems, and if its a choice of him or Balotelli I know which one I'd prefer to bring on.

[ZonkoVille77]

I have a feeling Ricky could yet have a big moment in store for us. Be great if he does. A winner in the Europa final. Great.

[easytoslip]

 

 

and gets a medal of some sorts from somewhere hopefully.

[easytoslip]

Unlike some

[mattyq]

Seems like a nice bloke but nowhere near good enough for us

Thought he'd be a decent signing, ho hum

[JoeyJones65]

Guess him leaving or staying doesn't really matter if he wasn't going to replaced.  Offers fuck all though, so hopefully he's going into his last six months.

 

Waste of a squad place, waste of wages, waste of time.

 

Don't and never will buy into this top bloke shite.  Footballing ability is all that cunts.  

 

Yeah we all know what Mario Ballotelli is like, what about Lambert?

[Grinch]

Yeah we all know what Mario Ballotelli is like, what about Lambert?

 

Could write that about all our strikers apart from Sturridge.  Close to £30m that Rodgers may as well have wiped his arse way.

[Brownie]

I don't particularly rate Lambert, certainly in the context of our style of play, but some of the piss taking is a shame to see.

 

He's contributed more than Balotelli has and pretty much equal to Borini which is £25M+ worth of strikers.

 

It's not like he hasn't contributed.

[Adebisi]

He hasn't had a decent enough run in the team, he's a good player. I reckon there's more goals in him + Sturridge than any other striking combination available to us. 

[Faustus]

As I said in a thread after the Chelsea game, I don't care how many caps he's won for Italy or goals he's scored for them or how many trophies he's won as a peripheral player, I am not having it that Balotelli is better than Lambert. The former is about as poor as it gets. There is not one single definitive quality I can offer for him. No intelligence, poor movement, erratic finishing and that last one is putting it mildly. I don't think I've seen a striker work keepers less than him. He embodies the modern phenomenon of the youtube player in scoring a worldie that trends and gets people talking, ignoring the two dozen or so previous efforts that have gone into row Z or twatted a fan in a wheelchair square in the mush.

 

Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked here a little, but my point is that Lambert is probably the second best conventional striker we've got. I'm not kidding that he's been brilliant because he clearly hasn't and has disappointed a fair few times. At least, unlike Balotelli and Borini, he's actually contributed with a handful of decent performances. I'd also fancy him to contribute more from now until May than either of those two as well.

 

He'll clearly be off in the summer. It's best for us and for him. Getting shut of him would have been a strange one to say the least because we'd have been lighter in a department we're weak in for one million quid's profit with no chance of getting a replacement in before the window shuts. It just wouldn't have made sense, so I can't get my head around people saying they're gutted he's staying or that he's an unflushable turd like on another thread. I think everyone's in agreement that he's a fourth choice striker promoted beyond his capabilities through no fault of his own, mainly because the £16m superstar we signed has turned out shite, our one top drawer striker is made of crisps and the club have their finger up the arse with regard to getting another decent striker in.

[Jairzinho]

I am gutted that we haven't fucked Balotelli off.

[Kant]

Still living the dream.

[Megadrive Man]

I have a feeling Ricky could yet have a big moment in store for us. Be great if he does. A winner in the Europa final. Great.

 

He hasn't scored at Anfield yet. A winner against United would be good

[Baltar]

I'm glad he's staying. If Sturridge is not fit then we are fucked if we need to rely on Borini or worse, Balotelli. Lambert is easily the better option and will work his bollocks off in every match and will score goals when given opportunities.

[Pureblood]

If Sturridge gets injured Sterling would play instead as none of the others are good enough.   The only time Balotelli, Borini and Lambert played recently  was when Sterling needed a rest.  So it wouldn't make much difference.

[Paco]

I am gutted that we haven't fucked Balotelli off.

Nobody wants him

[an tha]

As I said in a thread after the Chelsea game, I don't care how many caps he's won for Italy or goals he's scored for them or how many trophies he's won as a peripheral player, I am not having it that Balotelli is better than Lambert. The former is about as poor as it gets. There is not one single definitive quality I can offer for him. No intelligence, poor movement, erratic finishing and that last one is putting it mildly. I don't think I've seen a striker work keepers less than him. He embodies the modern phenomenon of the youtube player in scoring a worldie that trends and gets people talking, ignoring the two dozen or so previous efforts that have gone into row Z or twatted a fan in a wheelchair square in the mush.

 

Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked here a little, but my point is that Lambert is probably the second best conventional striker we've got. I'm not kidding that he's been brilliant because he clearly hasn't and has disappointed a fair few times. At least, unlike Balotelli and Borini, he's actually contributed with a handful of decent performances. I'd also fancy him to contribute more from now until May than either of those two as well.

 

He'll clearly be off in the summer. It's best for us and for him. Getting shut of him would have been a strange one to say the least because we'd have been lighter in a department we're weak in for one million quid's profit with no chance of getting a replacement in before the window shuts. It just wouldn't have made sense, so I can't get my head around people saying they're gutted he's staying or that he's an unflushable turd like on another thread. I think everyone's in agreement that he's a fourth choice striker promoted beyond his capabilities through no fault of his own, mainly because the £16m superstar we signed has turned out shite, our one top drawer striker is made of crisps and the club have their finger up the arse with regard to getting another decent striker in.

By the way I called him, along with a handful of other players unflushable turds on another thread.....Meant in terms of it seemed we could get rid earlier but none wanted to go. I do though totally agree that bin bagging Lambert in the last few hours of the window made no sense, no point in weakening an area we are already laughably weak in already further, and leaving just Balotelli and Borini as cover/subs for Sturridge, as I also stated on another thread. Lambert probably is the best of those back up options.

 

What we should have been looking at was bin bagging the likes of him, Johnson and Enrique for example, or perm any three from a few nice and early in the window and using the money to get somebody decent in up front.

[ZonkoVille77]

Lambert knowing he was about to be binned isn't really going to be good for his morale is it?

[Soleilrouge]

I am gutted that we haven't fucked Balotelli off.

 

 

This disgusts me

[Russ Atmosphere]

I know why a lot of fans want this transfer to work but he's hopeless in a Rodgers team and it's clear now that Rodgers doesn't want him too. I think this may result in the Borini treatment, probably to the benefit of Ibe since he stayed.

[Redder Lurtz]

Lambert knowing he was about to be binned isn't really going to be good for his morale is it?

 

Depends on his character Zonk. Could turn out as a boot up the arse for him.