ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

[BlueShark]

Comedy gold mate. Brilliant!

 

[Del]

Benitez knocked Ronaldo back

LOL

 

[davek]

I read in the Echo Lee Carsley mentioned Coleman was had a trial at Birmingham when he was there. Said he played RW. Makes me wonder if he had loads of trials that but Everton were the only team to take a punt on him. Not complaining like!!

Far as I know he went to Celtic onto B'ham then Everton. Moyes was the only one who rated him!

 

[maccavennie]

Far as I know he went to Celtic onto B'ham then Everton. Moyes was the only one who rated him!

Cheers mate, never knew he went to Celtic as well. Shocked that neither of them seen enough to at least take a punt of 60k on the lad.

 

[roydo]

Benitez knocked Ronaldo back

LOL

I heard a different version of that. But you might be right.

Mine is that Rafael spotted him at a very early age, tracked him, but wouldnt be backed by the club. Or someone offered him tons. Not sure he was knocked back by him.

The source is my cousin, who knew him, Rafael that is.

 

[maccavennie]

Benitez knocked Ronaldo back

LOL

And it was for a really crappy low fee if I remember correctly as well.

 

[deipnosophist]

Agree with that.

I bet no mark Rodgers is quietly relieved Gerrard is being undermined, as it strengthens his position in the power politics around Anfield.

There's three things that cost them if truth be known:

• Gerrard's slip at the moment of truth against Chelsea and his failure to lead thereafter
• Rodger's lack of flexibility and in-game decision making in many games this season
• the enormous pressure the Kopites themselves placed on their own team in the run in (guards of honour etc)

...and their defence. It was their GD relative to City that heaped the pressure on them post Chelsea....and led to their abysmal failure at Cyrstanbul where they tried to improve that GD....and paid an hilarious price

 

[Del]

I heard a different version of that. But you might be right.

Mine is that Rafael spotted him at a very early age, tracked him, but wouldnt be backed by the club. Or someone offered him tons. Not sure he was knocked back by him.

The source is my cousin, who knew him, Rafael that is.

Story that went round was GH had a list of targets when Fat Waiter took over and one was Ronaldo

 

[deipnosophist]

Mate, C'mon. Bobs got a plan d,e and f. The amount of times he's changed games at HT or with a sub is phenomenal. Look at what we did to Man Utd too. Let them have the ball and devastated them on the counter.

Agree. RM's changing plans don't always work (eg Palace at Goodison)...but he does have more than one blueprint for playing the game...and he will get better I feel

 

[toffee matt]

Story that went round was GH had a list of targets when Fat Waiter took over and one was Ronaldo

Considering the amount of highly rated dross houlier bought , I can see why tubby didn't want to touch his scouting list

 

[deipnosophist]

Knocking Rodgers I think is down to his own insistence that he doesn't need an alternative, that attacking football is enough to get the job done every time, and that's been proven spurious.

...and specious

 

[roydo]

Story that went round was GH had a list of targets when Fat Waiter took over and one was Ronaldo

Ah. Close.

Never ever trust me on non Everton footie matters mate. I know absolutely jack. It is worrying that, when you think about it!

 

[Del]

Mate, C'mon. Bobs got a plan d,e and f. The amount of times he's changed games at HT or with a sub is phenomenal. Look at what we did to Man Utd too. Let them have the ball and devastated them on the counter.

So simple but boss

Said they had a great away record but a poor home one so allowed them to play like the home side

 

[deipnosophist]

http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2014/05/sorry-roy-hodgson-you-can-stick-your-england/

...the melt who penned that says he hopes "Stevie slips on his {rude word} arse in Brazil". The same melt is an RS fan. Do these people realise what walking parodies they are?

 

[Del]

Ah. Close.

Never ever trust me on non Everton footie matters mate. I know absolutely jack. It is worrying that, when you think about it!

You were spot on tbh, Just GH tracked him not Rafael


‘I saw him in the Toulon Under-21 tournament and we went for him, but we had a wage scale and we weren’t paying the sort of salary he wanted,’ said Houllier.

‘Then Manchester United played a friendly against Sporting Lisbon and all their boys said to Sir Alex Ferguson, “You have to sign him”. But I agreed with not breaking the wage structure. I thought it would cause problems in our dressing room.

‘I know some of the signings were not as sharp as they could have been. Maybe we would have won the title with Ronaldo, but we had Harry Kewell, who was outstanding at the time and was very hungry but got a bad injury. After that, he never had the same confidence, the same appetite.’



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