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I'd say Keane won't be asked to come back for corners as he's not that tall or particularily good in the air.

I concur.....

Rashid :thumbsup:

I think they wanted £18m in cash which we wouldn't agree to. We offered £15m plus finnan (value £1.5m). So it looks like we have offered £17.5m cash plus Finnan. I suppose it gets Finnan off the wage bill but it still doesn't look right...:dunno:

And its also fitting that the most retarded LFC "supporter" in our history should think like that.........

Brilliant......just brilliant !! :lol: :lol:

Oooh, listen to her :biggrin: Seriously though, when are you back to school ?

What do you think Rash ? :lol::lol::lol:

You have said that hundreds of times already !!

Keane is fairly nippy over the first 10 yards but wouldn't be much good over a longer stretch But 10 yards is fine for a goal poacher and he has a similar quick footy brain to say Sheringham

You would play Pennant ahead of Kuyt ??

Unfortunately, I doubt it.......:no

:lol::lol: You have posted almost 25 fucking thousand times on this LFC forum. What % of your posts/threads would you say are supportive of our club, players or manager ? I'd say about 5% myself One thing I've learned on here is that you know fuck all about football. You are a soccer am/sky generation championship manager deluded arsehole who pollutes almost EVERY FUCKING THREAD with your pro Arsenal/Manc/Barca shite. There is no fucking way you are an LFC supporter.

Yes, yes I am .....which would mean I'm obsessed with you, wouldn't it, Xabid ? :thumbup:

You're wasting your time. I'd say football began in 1992 for him, with Sky, Dick Keyes,soccer am, etc..... This thread is MEANT to be highly inflammatory (did I spell that right Stringvest ?). That's where he gets his kicks. That's why he always has a sly dig at our club, players and manager. I wouldn't be surprised if he's an Evertonian havin' a laugh.........

I don't know what age you are but did you actually ever see Liverpool play in the 70s and 80s ? We could be brilliant in many ways at times, as a unit, a team fighting and battling for each other who loved to have the ball and use it properly. We had great individuals over the years but the team always came first. A lot of our players then scored goals throughout the season, not just the strikers. That is the reason I believe Rafa came here. He believes in the same principles that Shanks believed in.......teamwork. .........but sexy football ? don't think so

A tad long, but a good read : From RAWK Quote: This is the year of the hungry man Whose place is in the past Hand in hand with ignorance and legitimate excuses - George Michael, 'Praying for Time' (1990) I was never a child with high expectations. I'd ask me ma and da to get us a Nintendo for Christmas but would assume the yearly threat of oranges and coals for being a naughty child would come to fruition. The delight when I'd ravenously tear off the wrapping paper and a Nintendo, complete with gun and a copy of Duck Hunt, was unbridled. What have George Michael and Christmas got to do with Liverpool Football Club, then? Well, we have a jolly, rotund man in charge, for starters; and our team usually enjoy early success before hitting a crisis halfway through and inevitably wind-up being caught with their pants off, sliding down the table. That aside, supporting Liverpool FC the past seventeen years can be likened to the feeling you had throughout the winter months when you were younger. It was different for everyone, though. Some kids always expected to get their presents on Christmas Day; but, as I've pointed out, I was different. Perhaps it was the footballing climate I grew up in. I was three years of age when Liverpool last won the league championship. Growing up, the phenomenon of Fowler was sadly littered with mediocrity of Matteo and Dicks; the magic of McManaman hindered by the banality of Phil Babb's defending. Even going to Wembley twice in three years not enough to give me confidence in winning number nineteen. I'd always listen intently to my granddad tell me of how we'd been so dominant in the 70s and 80s and how the league title wouldn't stay away for long. But I was just a wide-eyed child, a victim of Souness' sub-standard buys and 8th place finishes. I never believed him. Of course, intermingled with my happiness of a Coca-Cola Cup victory over Bolton Wanderers and the subsequent documentary detailing our win on ITV, was the disgruntlement of the older kids. The kids who asked for the Nintendo and expected it; failure to deliver this would result in a swift kick to Santa's testicles; or in footballing terms, a 'mutual termination' for Souness, Evans and Houllier. It has always been a case of 'one bitten, twice shy' for me. After the fantastic treble of 2001, I finally expected a Nintendo (by now, a PS2) within two years, only to be heartbroken as I unwrapped Diouf, Diao and Cheyrou. Never again, I said. Even when Rafa brought us that fifth European Cup, I still didn't expect, despite all the other kids expecting what now must have been an XBox 360. Despite the hopefulness, I knew the acquisition of Crouch wouldn't bring us the league, nor would Bellamy a year later; Bellamy thrived on space behind the defenders, something he wouldn't get at Anfield when visiting teams park the bus and the bus station in front of the goal. Even a newly-signed Mascherano and Fernando Torres, complimented by an unbeaten record heading into December, didn't lead me to believe we would win the thing we all crave the most. What? Yes, I'm getting to George Michael soon, just a minute... That elusive no.19 still hasn't come, thirteen years after my granddad told me it wouldn't be long. Football has changed but the one thing that hasn't is that 'league championship' honour list on Merlin sticker books. This is the year, though. This is the year that I'm waking up on Christmas Day and expecting something. I know it isn't a Nintendo any longer, but whatever Blu-Ray I-phone DVD vibrator which hums zipee-de-doo-dah as you shove it up your minge is all the craze these days. I expect it. It is going to be there, hand-delivered by Santa Claus himself. It's weird, ironic, a sinister twist of fate, that George Michael released his fantastic ballad 'Praying for Time' the same year we last won the league title. 'This is the year of the hungry man' indeed. Liverpool Football Club is hungry for this league title, possibly more than ever. We have those pariahs across the M62 snapping at our heels. When I was told the league title would soon come back to Anfield, there was never an inclination from anybody that fourteen years, and eight league titles later that Manchester United could equal our proud record. Now that there is a distinct possibly it can happen, it will drive our lads harder than ever. This is all fairytale stuff though, isn't it? Seventeen years without a title, and just when we're being threatened to be equalled and perhaps overtaken, we rise like Lazarus and bring home number nineteen. But even Cinderella had a modicum of reality. You should have seen the loan repayments on that glass carriage. And here's that reality: we're signing two top, top Premier League players. I was watching highlights of the game from Villa Park last season on LFCTV today. Barry looked heads and shoulders above his team-mates. He controlled the play, he dictated tempo; he basically did everything better than what an £18m Michael Carrick did for Manchester United. He isn't a machine like Essien, granted. But we don't need one. We need somebody who can play in the domestic league calmly and concisely. Mascherano can bulldoze his way through attacking players; Alonso, if he stays, can provide a bit of class. What Barry does better than those two however is break up play and looks for the simple ball. And that's all Gerrard, Torres, Kuyt, Babel, Benayoun and Keane need. Speaking of Keane... He's basically here, and I don't think there'll be a more astute signing this season by any football manager in any top flight division. The man gives us options across the front four and most importantly (like Barry), he knows this league inside out. This isn't a Bellamy-style signing, or even a Crouch-style, with no disrespect to the big man. Rafa knows exactly what he wants to play next season and has acquired the man he knows will do the job to the highest standard from the start. The signing of Keane raises questions regarding who'll be dropped to the bench. Whoever that may be, it doesn't really matter, because they'll be in good company. The new seven-sub rule has been brought in beginning this season and we're in the best position to take advantage of it. Can any other team match a bench of, for example... Cavalieri, Hyypia, Skrtel, Benayoun, Babel, N'Gog, Voronin/Nemeth We have Babel, United have Eagles. We have Skrtel, Chelsea have Ben Haim. And I know for a fact Benayoun is better than whatever 13 year old dear old Arsene is planning on putting there. Rafa is a man who, out of any manager in the league, utilises his 'possibilities' the most. He will thrive with an extra two options on the bench. And so we come to the most important component. Rafa. It's his fifth year and this is finally the squad he wants. He never really wanted Cisse, Bellamy or Pennant. He could have gone for Queresma, Silva, Villa, Moutinho... but he has chosen Barry and Keane. He saw what a lot of us saw last season, particularly in the second half of it. A side that is capable of winning the league with a few missing ingredients. Sack off all this 'last piece of the jigsaw' nonsense, because Rafa would never adhere to such a strict structure. He has identified his targets and, it would appear, he has got them. For anyone who complains that we need to sign 'world class wingers' are missing two vital components of that: one, there aren't any around; and secondly, we don't play with wingers. We have three players who drift in and around Torres, but very rarely do they go massively wide. That's why we've signed two attacking full-backs. If you noted the first few glimpses of them, they don't bomb crosses into the box... they simply get forward and support the front four. This is how we gained the most goals last season and Rafa has acted upon this. As George Michael sang: 'Whose place is in the past // Hand in hand with ignorance and legitimate excuses'. For the past seventeen years, we've seen ignorance (Evans' lack of a back-three; Houllier's persistence with his mediocrity) and also some legitimate excuses (Houllier's illness possibly the ultimate one). Rafa is not perfect. He has shown signs of ignorance at times which has hindered us, although it isn't the media-driven claims of rotation or zonal marking; it is more the inability to beat the other top three. He's also had legitimate excuses; boardroom squabbles, lack of funds, inability to get the players he wants for this football team. Next season though, it will stop. I've never been more confident of anything in my life. The man knows what he's doing and as a result, this team knows what it's doing. We've got a brilliant Torres/Gerrard partnership, an excellent back five, a rejuvenated Kuyt and most importantly: the team and squad he has been striving for, for the past five years. George and Tom need to keep their noses out and we need to keep our noses in front of those horrible c***s across the motorway. It's apt to finish with another George-ism. You've gotta have faith. Believe that come Christmas morning, that no.19 will be sitting under our stockings. And it will. We're gonna win the league. COME ON REDMEN!

ha ha ha :lol: :lol: :lol: There is no fucking way you are 20 !! Look at your posts, for fucks sake ! No more than 15...tops

Well, you could start by (a) stop publically masterbating over Quaresma, a player who confessed himself that he would not play the way LFC wanted him to, a player who was fucked off by Barca and a player it seems nobody wants. He is not world class. He plays for an average Porto side and cannot get past Simao into the Portuguese team. (b) you could include Tevez's cost to Utd's transfer purchases to get a more realistic idea of how much they are spending. I know it will fuck up your anti-rafa agenda, but there yuou go. © you could stop coming out with over the top, drama queen, generalisations. (d) stop repeating your obvious dislike of the manager.

Its just that almost all of your & Rashid's posts are so embarrassingly pathetic,immature, anti-rafa, attention seeking and repetitive that I felt sure you were one and the same. Sorry, simple mistake to make. :whistle:

Ah, welcome back Rash..........

ha ha You said ALL of that to get a response, didn't you ? I bet you are laughing your cock off behind a computer screen now waiting for the next guy to tear into you. And you're probably naked as well

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Where exactly do you mention Rafa winning the FA Cup ?

Are you blind ? Not what they're worth, what they COST ?? Tevez will have cost Utd around £35m.............deal with it :whatever: