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

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detroiturk15 said:
Origi wouldn't scare me if he came on in the derby. Therefore, the more they have to spend on him the better. Same goes for Lallana and Lambert. Markovic is a bit of a different story but they're still gonna overspend on him. They've spent much more than they should on everyone they've brought in and will bring in.
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Thought this Origi guy was going out on loan after they buy him ?
Want to turn him into a young Andy Carrol I was told.
 
detroiturk15 said:
Origi wouldn't scare me if he came on in the derby. Therefore, the more they have to spend on him the better. Same goes for Lallana and Lambert. Markovic is a bit of a different story but they're still gonna overspend on him. They've spent much more than they should on everyone they've brought in and will bring in.
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I said on here ages ago that I didn't care who they bought and for how much with Rodgers at the helm. If they had £100m to spend I would still say the same now....and that's apart from the scattergun list of players hes supposed to be flashing the chequebook at. They should ponder more why some class players haven't been interested in signing for them.
 
The Times reported that Brenda will be given all the Suarez cash to spend. But he already has pretty much hasnt he?

I cant see FSG letting him loose with another £60-70 m
 

Classy as always:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-making-Wilfried-Bony-without-permission.html

Liverpool slammed by Huw Jenkins for moving for Wilfried Bony without permission as Reds look to trigger £19m release clause
  • Liverpool and the striker have met for talks over a move to Anfield
  • Swansea's chairman upset as Liverpool have not made official approach
  • Bony wants to leave Swansea and is keen to move to Merseyside
Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins is upset to have heard that Liverpool are talking to Wilfried Bony without making an official approach to the Welsh club first.

It is understood that representatives of the player and Liverpool have met to sound out if Bony, who moved to Swansea from Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem for £12million last summer, is interested in a move.

But Jenkins told Sportsmail: 'I have no idea about that. The only thing I'd say is I'm completely unaware of contact between Liverpool and myself.

'I was very surprised to hear and disappointed to hear that Liverpool had gone down that route and were talking to the player behind behind my club's back. I'm disappointed that Liverpool are acting in that manner. No official approach has been made to me or our football club.'

It is understood that Bony has a £19m release clause and is keen on a move to the Merseyside club.

The 25-year-old wants to leave Swansea but is eager to stay in the Barclays Premier League and join a club who will be playing Champions League football next season.

Bony scored twice in three games for Ivory Coast as they made a surprise exit from the World Cup in the group stage after conceding a stoppage time goal against Greece in their last game.
 
d34noj said:
And what are all of the media outlets not innundated with ex-Liverpool players reporting it as?

Also... 'Could be worth as much as? Sounds as concrete as a paving slab that.
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That just means that Sky still think it's £64M but the fundamentalists have terrorised them into saying £75M, hence the 'could' and 'as much as'..........
 
From a rs
Markovic is pure quality, as long as we get him it's all good. The Benfica boards seem to think he'll go on to be a 50-60 million pound player in a couple of years time. He's the main one to watch, out of all our signing's so far, Rodgers could make him a real star.

They recken he will be WORLD CLASS in a few years, in the same league as Suarez. Lets hope not. Is there any competition for this player?
 
The Echo must be joking with the melodramatic suggestion Suarez would have regrets leaving the RS. They are merely contributing to this pathetic delusion Kopites have that he hasn't reneged on them good style. That delusion is also in spite of the previous efforts at people in his camp touting him round in the past eighteen months...when only Arsenal showed a formal interest. This "Liverpool Way" mantra they spout was spat on by his behaviour..and frequently and publicly but still they didn't see it because of him scoring them to wannabe glory days. They should realise that him leaving more than suits image conscious FSG and their financial status....nearly as much as it suits the self serving horror himself. The tears are very much theirs only.
 
Liverpool calling themselves The most successful team in England ahead of their U S A tour, cringeworthy oh dearie dearie, they have no shame at all.
 

davek said:
Is there?

You wont have trouble providing examples of it then.
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Firstly, his upbringing, born in Glenbuck, in the Ayrshire coal fields, lived in a cottage on “miner’s row”, the ninth of ten children.

His political ideas were a product of his hard surroundings in Glenbuck. He had a good grasp of politics having educated himself on the subject both from books and life. Shankly's political leanings were to emerge in his later football life when it was clear he has shown noticeable animosity towards some directors of clubs. His life experiences were based on his education, and particularly on the works of Robert Burns. He was later to use the famous Scottish poet to reinforce his own philosophy:

"Burns was early socialist - the first was Jesus Christ of course. He didn’t think that God made people to be unequal, he thought everyone should share in the work and the rewards".

Source: David P. Worthington BA (Hons), PG Dip, MA.

Baird Institute, Cumnock December 1997

His belief in collectivism, of everyone working for the common good, defined him to his core.

“If I became a bin-man tomorrow,” he told me in 1975, “I’d be the greatest bin-man who ever lived. I’d have everyone working with me, succeeding and sharing out the success.

“I’d make sure they were paid a decent wage with the best bonuses and that we all worked hard to achieve our goals.

Some might say, ‘Ah but they’re only bin-men, why do we need to reward them so well for a job anyone can do?’ But I’d ask them why they believe they are more important than a bin-man.

“I’d ask them how proud they’d feel if their dirty city became the cleanest in the world? Then ask who made them proud? The bin-men.”


Source:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/brian-reade-bill-shankly-not-2239293#ixzz37HHtszd8

His own words:

“The socialism I believe in is everyone working for the same goal and everyone having a share of the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life”

My own experience:

My Grandad's best mate was a turnstile operator on the main stand at Anfield when not working at Cammell Lairds. Cutting a long story short, he suffered an injury at CL and could not work for a long time including the turnstiles at Anfield. Bill Shankly used to call in and see him at home, usually once a week to chat about football - not earth shattering, but an indication of the type of man he was.
 
davek said:
I'm just surprised they never claimed they won the world series by proxy.
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What a wonderful readership, David is correct though. Probably.

And it's funny to see how LFC fans knock United fans for being gloryhunters from down south. It's as if they permanently stare at their belly button.

It's also nice to see that the LFC marketing department can't count.
 
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Khalekan said:
What is a "Christian Socialist"?
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The Christian Socialist movement has a long history going back to the 1850's initially as a counter to the philosophy of laissez faire individualism and more recently as a movement trying to tie the values of Christianity with the aims of socialism.

There's about 40 Labour MP's part of the Christian Socialist movement.
 

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