RAWK Goes into Meltdown 2014/2015 - The "We go again" Edition

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If that's in his Liverpool days, why were they wearing Blue? Who were they playing against that evening?
 

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No Sturridge, Skrtel or Gerrard for Arsenal. They are gonna struggle imo.
Squirtle is going to be their biggest miss. Who will they replace him with? Toure or Lovren? They were playing better without Sturridge in the team and Gerrard was being nothing more than their super sub off late, so those two aren't going to impact their starting XI much imo.

I wouldn't be surprised if Arsenal get rolled over by Pool, they always seem to mess it up when they get cocky and are on a roll plus I don't think they have been as good as the press claim, they were lucky against us while the rest of their games haven't exactly been against difficult teams. They always win easy vs small teams. Then the build up to big games is all about how awesome they have been off late, they meet a big team and lose.
 

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Squirtle is going to be their biggest miss. Who will they replace him with? Toure or Lovren? They were playing better without Sturridge in the team and Gerrard was being nothing more than their super sub off late, so those two aren't going to impact their starting XI much imo.

I wouldn't be surprised if Arsenal get rolled over by Pool, they always seem to mess it up when they get cocky and are on a roll plus I don't think they have been as good as the press claim, they were lucky against us while the rest of their games haven't exactly been against difficult teams. They always win easy vs small teams. Then the build up to big games is all about how awesome they have been off late, they meet a big team and lose.
They struggled against a sub-par Newcastle team in their last game as well
 

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As long as Rob puts bet on Liverpool to win that game, everything should be fine.
 

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absolutely. Last season was truly depressing up until that slip :lol:
Last season had brought the looniest of them out of the woodwork, and especially since this season hasn't panned out like they planned, we get to see them at their most wound up before the worst of the lot crawl back to the nooks and crannies they came from..
 

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I wonder how they're reacting to the Sturridge news.
Id sell him now i think. And i dont mean that unkindly, i dont think hed sit on the bench. But the likes of him, and Allen are no good to us in the treatment room.
Daniel Sturridge % of #EPL minutes played last 4 seasons:
10/11 33%
11/12 66%
12/13 37%
13/14 67%


14/15 I believe is 26%

Poor fecker. Amazing when he plays fully fit. He's just a goal machine then. But just gets injured far too many times.
Is due to play a high 60% season next year then going by that pattern!!!
You just have to laugh and be glad there's more to life than football, otherwise it would be very depressing. This season has all but imploded by the looks of things. Fortunately there's still some hope with the FA Cup.

He didn't even manage to get to 100% fitness and he's broken down again.
Not as fun as usual if you ask me. RAWK at it's best would be pissed off about Sturridge but then making outrageous claims about how good the rest of their squad is, and why they can cope without him. At the moment it feels like silent resignation over there.
 

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Lambet - 19 games 2 goals - £4 million
Balotelli - 13 games 1 goal - £16 million
Sturridge - 11 games 4 goals - £12 million
Borini - 10 games 1 goal - £10.5 million

53 games - 8 goals - £42.5 million = £5 million a goal
:lol: That's shocking.
 

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Sturridge out for a month - our top 4 finish is in the bag. L/pool, may be a Europe free zone next season?
 

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Is Sturridge really injured or is it one of the international break knocks?
 

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:lol: That's shocking.
Our strikers have been rubbish this season and yet by comparison:

Rooney - 26 games 11 goals - £26 million
Van Persie - 24 games 10 goals - £24 million
Falcao - 19 games 4 goals - £6 million
Wilson - 12 games 1 goal - Youth

81 games - 26 goals - £56 million = £2 million a goal
 

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Our strikers have been rubbish this season and yet by comparison:

Rooney - 26 games 11 goals - £26 million
Van Persie - 24 games 10 goals - £24 million
Falcao - 19 games 4 goals - £6 million
Wilson - 12 games 1 goal - Youth

81 games - 26 goals - 56 million = £2 million a goal
Those comparisons annoy me. We're not paying Everton £26 million each year, so if you break the fee down to a per-year thing we pay somewhere around £2-3 million a year for Rooney. Plus it does not take into account wages, which really should be if you're working out a striker's total cost per goal. Seems a bit of a pointless way of doing things to me :boring:
 

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Those comparisons annoy me. We're not paying Everton £26 million each year, so if you break the fee down to a per-year thing we pay somewhere between 2 and 3 million a year for Rooney. Plus it does not take into account wages, which really should be if you're working out a striker's total cost per goal. Seems a bit of a pointless way of doing things to me :boring:
I know, but I did it the same way as Hectic had originally in case people were interested.
 

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Lambet - 19 games 2 goals - £4 million
Balotelli - 13 games 1 goal - £16 million
Sturridge - 11 games 4 goals - £12 million
Borini - 10 games 1 goal - £10.5 million

53 games - 8 goals - £42.5 million = £5 million a goal
To think they also have Origi to come in the squad on Summer:cool:

That guy is the definition of an average player.
 

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Van Gaal will get found out soon, he's been lucky all season.
Yeah, 7 top flight European league titles, a European championship, and 3 domestic cups over 2 decades, but SOONER OR LATER HE WILL BE FOUND OUT.
 

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Lambet - 19 games 2 goals - £4 million
Balotelli - 13 games 1 goal - £16 million
Sturridge - 11 games 4 goals - £12 million
Borini - 10 games 1 goal - £10.5 million

53 games - 8 goals - £42.5 million = £5 million a goal
That's how much Falcao would cost us if we decide to buy him up.
 

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From that Liverpool FC forum linked above.

I'm sure the chief exec would say the same about Liverpool if asked about it. Because LFC and MUFC are, and hopefully will always be, the 2 most storied and beloved "brands" in their "corporation", and so it is in their best interests for both us and them to be strong. Not that they want the others to be weak. But that they want us to be strong because we are such a strong and beloved part of their brand. So if there was any cheating going on, it would be to get both of us inside the top 4.

However sadly only 4 teams can get in the top 4.

What would be nice is if Platini scraps the Europa (hate the idea) and we get 6, 7 or 8 teams per year in the CL (like the idea), then we're pretty much guaranteed CL every year because we never miss the top 8 realistically, and then we can focus on what it's really about: WINNING things, not finishing top 4 lol.

However I do agree that managers that are very vociferous in their criticism tend to get more things go their way just because refs are scared of those guys and their backlash.
That's an absolutely terrible idea. Unless the aim is to completely devalue the CL.
 

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Liverpool's Minister of Propaganda is back with his weekly 'King Kenny' column in the Daily Mirror after last week's in which he said LVG stood no chance at Anfield. His observations this week?

Steven Gerrard's immediate apology after his red card against Manchester United was an endorsement of his stature as a man and a human being.
Of course. Of course. Let's ignore the match, the result, the sending off, let's find a way to make the article all about what an outstanding human being Steven Gerrard is for saying sorry to Liverpool fans but not the opponent he stamped on.

I was at Anfield last week but I didn’t see the incident with Ander Herrera
Understandable. A week has passed but he hasn't seen it, only the apology.

I'd be offended over how he's allowed to come out with this crap in a national newspaper but at the same time I'd miss the transparent desperation he displays on a weekly basis.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/kenny-dalglish-steven-gerrard-reds-5413288
 

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That would be Arsenal actually after Sundays result. Liverpool 26 points, Arsenal 27.
Of course if we beat them next weekend, we can go back to the top of the 2015 calendar year league table, that does not exist, nor is there a trophy for - which is a shame because we are the defending champs!
 

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King Kenny being a royal cnut as usual.