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Brewlio's brother
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Steve McManaman-Spastic Extraordinaire.
Just claimed Liverpool have the strongest squad, man for man, in the Premier League. And scousers complain when you call them delusional spacktards.
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First Team Sub
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Green & Gold till the club is sold!
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Babel - meh Gerrard - Hollywood Mascherano - very good but angry, dirty idiot Kuyt - shite Fatty Dossena- shite Hyypia - old Carragher - shite Arbeloa - meh Reina - meh I'd say that's the worst first XI of any of the Top 4 and their squad players are only marginally better than Arsenal's. |
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First Team Regular
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Belfast,Northern Ireland
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When you compare both teams's first 11 man for man, there's no way their squad is better or stronger than ours. The only player of theirs I'd take to improve ours is Torres, that's it.
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Even with a deformed penis, talks more sense than ILF
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Slightly biased don't you think? |
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Poster of the year 2008
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Location: "As relaxed and natural on the park as a dog chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind"
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![]() I mean, they're not even close. |
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Even with a deformed penis, talks more sense than ILF
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They do have the worst team of the big four, but their team is fairly close in terms of quality to Arsenal's imo. Arsenal have the much better manager though, which makes an almighty difference. |
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"Ronaldo and trophies > Manchester United football club"
Join Date: Sep 2004
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sorry but the odd player aside liverpool have the shitest squad by quite a bit. No great wingers, so-so backup. Average fullbacks who don't really offer an attacking threat. A midfield that's functional rather then dynamic. Gerrard sure - but he's played all over the shop most of the time.
Chelsea Manchester United Arsenal Liverpool Though it has to be said I wouldn't swap a lot of ours for chelsea's - with exceptions like essien, drogba AND drogba aside ...in terms of strikers they're not that convincing. Anelka blows hot and cold, Shevchenko is about as cold as you can get. McManaman is dreaming |
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First Team Sub
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That's not what I was talking about so much as how meh Reina was, how they played a 442 with Gerrard in centre mid, how shit Dossena was etc which you were arguing against. Benitez also said in his interview that Keane would be playing as a second striker not right wing or whatever.
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No Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Liverpools first eleven is very good, and is capable of challenging for the title. But their squad is weak relative to the other top sides (perhaps excluding Arsenal currently)
The Setanta pundit coverage is dreadful. They also managed to talk with a straight face, declaring the Scouse have clearly concentrated on Europe in recent years, and this year they'll turn their attentions to the league. Erm, no Sherwood and Mcmanamanamanawank, they concentrate on the league they've craved but haven't won for nearly two decades, fall woefully short, then rest their players in the league and progress in Europe... So, in conclusion... IT'S ON You can set your watch by the Scouse boom-bust cycle |
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Even with a deformed penis, talks more sense than ILF
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He had one shot to save and did so.And the comment about Keane only makes me think even more so that Gerrard will play on the wings a lot this season. |
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They looked awful today, their squad depth is awful. Torres is pure class though, and will win them some close games this year like today. But Gerrard is awful in a two man midfield. The only place for him now is on the right wing, a place where he is less effective than in the hole behind Torres. I dont see why they signed Keane, they should have kept Crouch and spent their entire kitty on a player like Ashley Young, Mancini, or Silva, then they would be much more balanced, as it is now they arent and they have no where near the squad depth that United or Chelsea do
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First Team Sub
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Torres - 10 Keane - 8
babel - 7 Gerrard - 8 Mascherano - 8 Kuyt - 5 Dossena - 5 Hyypia - 6 Carragher - 6 Arbeloa - 7 Reina - 7 Average = 7.36 Adebayor - 9 Van Persie - 9 Nasri - 8? Fabregas - 9 Denilson - 6 Walcott - 7 Clichy - 10 Gallas - 9 Toure - 7 Sagna - 9 Almunia - 6 Average = 8.09 Drogba - 9 Cole - 8 Deco - 9 Kalou - 7 Ballack - 10 Essien - 10 Cole - 9 Carvalho - 10 Terry - 8 Bosingwa - ?Let's say 8 Cech - 9 Average = 8.82 though it could be lower as I've no knowledge of Bosingwa whatsoever. Rooney - 9 Tevez - 9 Nani - 8 Scholes - 9 Carrick - 8 Ronaldo - 10 Evra - 10 Vidic - 9 Rio - 10 Brown - 8 VDS - 9 Average = 9 At least that's my reckoning. Obviously likely to be biased but there you go. A significant difference and if anyone would care to do their own amendments I'd be interested. |
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I think it was obvious to anyone with half a brain that Evra would probably come good as he needed a proper preseason with us and had already shown his class in the Champions League with Monaco. Dossena is not so obvious. He's had a full preseason and he's a fat, 26 year old no mark who has been awful in every game he's played for Liverpool. |
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Even with a deformed penis, talks more sense than ILF
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Babel - 7 Mascherano - 8 Alonso - 8 Gerrard - 9 Dossena - 7 Agger - 8 Skrtel - 8 Arbeloa - 7 Reina - 8 Average = 7.8 Adebayor - 9 Van Persie - 9 Nasri - 8 Fabregas - 9 Denilson - 7 Walcott - 7 Clichy - 9 Gallas - 8 Toure - 7 Sagna - 9 Almunia - 6 Average = 8.1 Drogba - 9 Cole - 8 Deco - 9 Lampard - 9 Ballack - 10 Essien - 10 Cole - 9 Carvalho - 9 Terry - 8 Bosingwa - 8 Cech - 9 Average = 8.9 Rooney - 9 Tevez - 9 Nani - 8 Scholes - 8 Carrick - 8 Ronaldo - 10 Evra - 9 Vidic - 9 Rio - 10 Brown - 8 VDS - 9 Average = 9 |
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Even with a deformed penis, talks more sense than ILF
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http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...987790,00.html Clearly Alonso didn't recover fro the knock well enough in time so was only put on the bench, as even Benitez knows he is a much better player than Plessis. It's easy to say in hindsight about Evra but if you type in the name Evra in the Manchester United forum and take a look at the first few threads you won't see many people saying he will come good and had "already shown his class in the Champions League with Monaco". There were plenty of doubters. Don't judge Dossena yet. |
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from Redcafe (matchfixing department)
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Even with a deformed penis, talks more sense than ILF
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Benitez was being arrogant?
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First Team Sub
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I bet you lots of hypothetical money that Dossena turns out to be a shit buy. Never be more than a 7/10 barring performance enhancing chemicals intervening. |
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Even with a deformed penis, talks more sense than ILF
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Rio would get a 9.5 too. This would be what it's like:
Torres - 9.5 Keane - 8 Babel - 7 Mascherano - 8 Alonso - 8 Gerrard - 8.5 Dossena - 7 Agger - 8 Skrtel - 8 Arbeloa - 7 Reina - 8 Adebayor - 9 Van Persie - 8 Nasri - 7.5 Fabregas - 9 Denilson - 7 Walcott - 7 Clichy - 8.5 Gallas - 8 Toure - 7 Sagna - 8.5 Almunia - 7 Drogba - 9 Cole - 8 Deco - 8.5 Lampard - 9 Ballack - 8.5 Essien - 9 Cole - 8 Carvalho - 9 Terry - 8.5 Bosingwa - 8 Cech - 8.5 Rooney - 9 Tevez - 8.5 Nani - 8 Scholes - 8 Carrick - 8 Ronaldo - 10 Evra - 8.5 Vidic - 9 Rio - 9.5 Brown - 8 VDS - 8.5 |
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