Are Liverpool FC heading in The Right Direction...?

[upnorth1]

Originally Posted by monkey nuts

with a full team of imports like arsenal,

Alonso, Reyna, Jon A Reesa (spelling?), should I go on ???

[monkey nuts]

Originally Posted by upnorth1

Alonso, Reyna, Jon A Reesa (spelling?), should I go on ???

carragher, gerrard, crouch, fowler,and penant. or are thay not english enough

i just hope we keep some english and british players there in the team, as last year i think it was shame to have a english team playing in the europen cup final with no english players to represent the country, just a personal thing

[upnorth1]

Originally Posted by monkey nuts

carragher, gerrard, crouch, fowler,and penant. or are thay not english enough

i just hope we keep some english and british players there in the team, as last year i think it was shame to have a english team playing in the europen cup final with no english players to represent the country, just a personal thing

I reckon if them lads at Arsenal had signed for Liverpool - you wouldn't complain????

[upnorth1]

Originally Posted by monkey nuts

, fowler,

"....we all live in a Robbie Fowler house, a Robbie Fowler House, a Robbie Fowler House... (sung to the tune of yellow submarine...)

"...He's big, he's red , his feet stick out of bed, Peter Crouch..Peter Crouch....

God I love my Saturday's at The Stadium of Light...
Mind you, Anfield is a proper sh*thole!!!!!

[BaggieRich]

Originally Posted by upnorth1

God I love my Saturday's at The Stadium of Light...

Now, I'm generally not the kind of bloke to say I told you so, but I simply can't resist this.

Can I draw your attention to this post Paul. Old post5 defeats on the trot (followed by a win against the Albion to kick start your season) and I still said you'd win the playoffs.

In fact, I think you still might get auto... It's too close to call at the moment.

To quote some balding old striker, "It's a funny old game" and things have a habit of turning around quite quickly, so I'm keeping stum in this particular debate.

Also, I'm Sorry Biggun, but this made me smile.

Originally Posted by Biggun

I have supported my team for nearly forty years through all good and bad times

Sorry mate, but untill you've spent a cold Tuesday night in Feburary gettting soaked (and beaten) in the footballing meca of Grimsby or being knocked out of the cup by non league Woking or generally sampling the delights of 3rd division football, until you've done all that, then you can't really say you've been through the bad times.

For example in 91/92, whilst Liverpool marched towards another FA cup win, Albion, having been relegated the previous season, magnificently failed to even make the play offs in the old 3rd division. Mr Bobby Gould "managed" us in a season which included home defeats to the likes of Hartlepool, Swansea and Leyton Orient. Now, far be it from me to belittle these clubs, but to me this qualifies as proper "bad times" not simply failing to win a cup.

It's all relative mate. I'd give my right arm for some of Liverpool's bad times!

Edit: Please understand that I'm on about bad times in a purely footballing sense. I realise that LFC have been through Hillsbough and Heysel, and believe me I felt just as bad watching those events as anybody. I'm just talking about the on pitch bad times here.

[andyg]

Hey I'm Scottish and a Rangers fan - our bad times are similar to Liverpool's bad times, but our good times don't even compare.....

When I was a kid in the late 70's & early 80's everyone supported an English team and for nearly everyone this was Liverpool. There were 2 reasons for this:

1) They were by far the best team in the world at the time
2) All their best players were Scots

As far as having English player in your team........ why bother?

While current rules don't limit foreigners, there's no point in having English (or Scottish, Welsh etc) players in the team because they are not as good and more expensive.

You only have to look at the performance of British national teams in International competitions over the last 40 years to recognise that we collectively (Scotland, England, NI, Wales) have done nothing.

English football and especially the premiership should think itself lucky to have the amount of money bouncing around that has allowed it to attract and keep players like Cantona, Henry, Ginola, Bergkamp, Veira, Klinsman, Van Hoidonk, Ljungberg, Pires, Di Canio, Schmiekel, Van Nistelroy..........

Im the last 15-20 years England has produced how many world class players, Paul Gascoigne, Tony Adams, Beckham, Lineker?

By the way, this is not anti-English - I think the Premiership is fantastic, but only so because of the foreigners, so I wouldn't be so quick to kick em out of your team...............!

[BaggieRich]

Originally Posted by andyg

By the way, this is not anti-English - I think the Premiership is fantastic, but only so because of the foreigners, so I wouldn't be so quick to kick em out of your team...............!

I have this same argument with my father-in-law all the time Andy. He says that there should be a limit of 3 foreigners per SQUAD, but I think that'd kill the quality of football in the Prem. Let's face it, if the English player at the top clubs are good enough, then they'd play. No manager in their right mind will leave out a world class player just because he's English, it's just that there aren't that many of them to be played. Certainly not enough to fill up every position in the teams of the top clubs.

Gotta say though, I not over keen on the Premiership itself. When we first got promoted I was really looking forwards to playing at Highbury, Anfield, Old trafford, but the amount of money that the Premiership has given these clubs means that we'll NEVER be able to compete with most of them, so we end up getting thrashed all the time and that's just no fun. That money is about to get even more silly next year as well. I reckon that if your not in the prem next season, well you might as well just forget it. There'll be the prem teams, those that bounce back and forth but never get established, and everybody else.

Also, the cost of the tickets and the loss of the traraces has killed the atmosphere at grounds. I honestly believe you get more passion and atmosphere at clubs in the football league than you do in the Prem, even with their massive crowds. Give me a smaller ground, with non corporate fans that actually care about the result anyday.

That said, I'll be gutted if we don't go up this year!

[monkey nuts]

dont get me wrong, i think the foreigners bring flare and skill to teams, and i love watching barca and even arsenal (after hammering us twice with there kids)
i just dont like to see NO english/british players in the team. i feel our national teams have suffered cos very few english players get to play at a high standard like the premiership

[robm]

Looks like Liverpool are heading in the right direction to me,what a great result in the nou camp tonight.

robm

[biggun]

Originally Posted by BaggieRich

That said, I'll be gutted if we don't go up this year!

So will I Rich, we have missed that easy 6 points this season!