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  1. neopulian
    Wild conjecture. Or perhaps you should try to put on Rodger's hat: Leaving Carroll on the bench will only greatly depreciate his value and cause disaffection in the dressing room that could fester into something more serious. We are in a rebuilding phase, what the fuck does it matter if we finish top 8 or top 10 or top 12. Just have to take our medicine while we get our ducks in row. For what it's worth, I think we'll still finish top 6.
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    Jeebus, all this whining because we didn't get a 29 year old who isn't a real forward? The way I see it, the only signing that can guarantee goals is Radamael Falcao, and we're just not going to get him. We are in the middle of a building process, as long as the team shows improvements with a clear idea how they want to play, I'll be happy. Bring on the Morgan.
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    Could've been 5-1, even as awful as we've played. The first half seems to have been spent to, sensibly, nurse Adam Morgan into the game -- I like his work ethics but he missed a great chance to impress, 3 times in great position to make something happen and he looked like deer caught in headlight. Suarez also played at half pace and mentally absent, which at this level means he lost everything he tried. Second half wasn't much better. Suarez was more focus but then some others dropped off. It wasn't until Sterling coming on that we finally showed some fluency and urgency.
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    Adam is having a mare. Second time he reacted clumsily in great position. He needs a good touch soon before this turns into a crisis of confidence.
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    Suarez needs smelling salt.
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    The case for Reina at central forward. Some will laugh, and I'll get some negs, but what the hell here we go. He's big and mobile with decent ball skills and he can head the ball as well. We have such a rich history of strikers/forwards. Think Keegan, Dalglish, Rush, Beardsley, Aldo. Is there a place for Reina in Rodgers new system?
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    That's an insult to opposing central backs -- they anticipated the plays more often than he did.
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    I liked Sturridge better before I saw his games with Chelsea. Understandably strikers have to be selfish, and some of his demeanors were only reflection of the fact that he had a lot to prove and he wanted to prove it. But then I'm not sure Liverpool is the club that can help him to feel less insecure and just be comfortable playing football. He can have that at a lesser club, like he did at Bolton, but Liverpool ain't Bolton.
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    He's everything Henderson was supposed to be but didn't have the balls That's said, what's the future for young Jordan now? Is that 16 mils down the shite tube?
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    Should he? Code actually knows that very well, he manipulate them all the time to win internet arguments.
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    250+K/wk + 75% tax = 1+m/wk. It'd cost their owners 52+ millions a year just for the pleasure of having Ibrahimovich. No club can afford to pay a single player that much annually from their revenue alone.
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    An offer between 15m and 20m and I'd bid him good luck. Yes, he was England's best striker in Ukraine, but England was awful! His 10 minutes against Chelski was very good but 99% of a season and half before that was made of dire stuffs. He's not the type that we can reliably send on as an occasional sub -- nor will he be satisfied with such limited role. A fair divorce would best suit both parties.
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    Or more conventionally, Suso and Lucas deep, Gerrard at AM. Gerrard and Suso can switch while the wee one is still learning the rope on the defensive side of things.
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    Nasri wasn't hitting 30. There's no resale value in RvP.
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    Suited as in he has decent touch, but Gerrard does too. Spanish internationals don't make headless runs and position themselves as badly as senor Henderson usually does though.
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    WTF do you pick a point with something so apparently transpired in front of our own eyes? Gerrard had got on quite a bit and no longer is the whirlwind force he once was. That's not even a dig.
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    Just saw the stats. Spain haven't conceded a goal in 900+ minutes of knock out football. That's not a coincidence. That's the terrific defensive power of tiki-taka. Boring? Fair enough, but people haven't really been able to articulate why they found Spain boring or why Spain are boring. If you look from the human factor, it's natural that people tend to do what they do well often and what they they do not as well less often. And when they do something really well like the Spaniards at keeping possession, they're even more risk-averted at doing something else different. A good neuron surgeon wouldn't risk looking foolish trying to do an open-heart by pass.
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    There's no such thing "keeping possession for possession's sake". The correct analogy is "keeping possession = denying opposition possession". You can't lose when the other team doesn't get a sniff of the ball. It's fair to criticize Spain, but I feel much of the negative stuffs was purely because they are no longer the "exciting new things" and people want something "different".
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    Because they should be like Terry and deck out in full kits? They're not in the squad, the match was won, what better time to return congrats msgs from family and friends?
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    Not a dig but I don't know how people do it - hanging around a transfer thread in the golden age of disinformation. All that excitement, but the chance of something substantiates is so little while the chance to be disappointed is enormous. It's good to have another hobby, isn't it?
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    Gerrard also said Rooney could win the Euro for England. Not his most insightful moments.
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    How the fuck Cole get so highly rated anyway? He was deservingly high thought of at West Ham for "potential" due to his ball tricks, and had since failed to live up to even the most reasonable expectation. Is it because Mongo rated him and called him the "creative force" England needed?
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    Another glaring problem with England team is the lack of team coherency. Spain are based on the backbone of Barcelona, Germany - Bayern, Italy - Juventus. They had a established style, they had some built-in understanding, they drafted the other players into the team to compliment the system. That sort of cohesion is important -- players already had some trust built into the system, hence it's not as mentally and physically taxing to play their natural game. Look at how England deteriorated as the game went on, misplacing passes and not having a teammate in position to receive the ball caused frustration. More and more individuals tried to make something happen, which only got themselves even more isolated and the team effort even more out of sync. Ultimately everybody in midfield and attack ended up doing their own thing and the team ceased to exist. They spent maximum effort for minimum return.
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    Personal vendetta or self-vindictiveness?
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    As funny as I think it is that ATK got his comeuppance, making him the subject of a witch hunt and his life irrevocably ruined because some tabloid that needs a pariah to use as target of another self-righteous sermon to advance a mindless stereotype is ethically deplorable and seriously fucked up.
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