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

[MikeH72]

They've not finished spending yet

There's more players to be bought yet

I doubt they'll go after more wingers. If they spend big it will be on a central midfielder like Pogba, or a defender

 

[Dithering Dougie]

I highly doubt he'll be merely rested at the right times

He'll be playing in the Cup games mostly

He might just make enough league appearances to get a medal, but most of those apps will be as a sub

Mikey are you taking the Michael? They've agreed to pay upto £49m, he's earning a reported £200k a week.

He's going to be a regular starter for them, no doubt about it.

 

[tsubaki]

They've not finished spending yet

There's more players to be bought yet

True, though whether or not they will be in Raheem's position is another question. They will have to start him more than you think, though - even they cannot go around spending that sort of wedge on a player that sits on the bench.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

He'll be a starter for City, course he will. Nasri is badly average and Navas isn't anything to really write home about. There's a reason they got nowhere near to Chelsea last year. Players like Nasri, Navas, and looking centrally Fernando and Fernandinho, aren't good enough to win you titles. City were continually dragged out of tough situations last year by Silva, Toure, Milner and Aguero. It's a real shame Milner has gone to them lot. Sterling starts, I'd imagine with Silva and Nasri behind Aguero.

 

[PhilM]

Bollocks. Money doesn't win games. Good players do (I admit that good players cost money)

Liberpewl are now a selling club. The list is quite long. Torres, Alonso, Mascherano, Sterling, Suarez and errr, Steven Gerrard (remember him? the captain fantastic that f****d up Liberpewls best chance of winning the league in a generation?)

I never said that Liverpool aren't a selling club; to be fair I would entirely agree that they're regularly offloading their top talents.

Furthermore, they've arguably lost a fairly significant aspect of their attractive powers: they're not as attractive as they once were.

However what I was implying was that in the mainstream media, Liverpool have came out quite successfully or at least with this saga.

We may be able to see the long-term cracks forming within their club, but they've manipulated this scenario so that it is less obvious.

The rhetoric is actually quite believable: he's not even that good; definitely not worth £50m; bad influence gone from the dressing room.

It could potentially work out a fantastic deal for Liverpool if they reinvested the money properly. They most probably will not, but they could.

That's the dogma that the Red press are already beginning to spin and people are lapping it up, as Sterling has made it easy for them.

Long term it isn't a pretty picture for them, although right now I think Brenda is spinning the great unwashed a good yarn.

 

[MikeH72]

He'll be a starter for City, course he will. Nasri is badly average and Navas isn't anything to really write home about. There's a reason they got nowhere near to Chelsea last year. Players like Nasri, Navas, and looking centrally Fernando and Fernandinho, aren't good enough to win you titles. City were continually dragged out of tough situations last year by Silva, Toure, Milner and Aguero. It's a real shame Milner has gone to them lot. Sterling starts, I'd imagine with Silva and Nasri behind Aguero.

City's squad bar 3 or 4 players is seriously average. The last 3 years they've become really complacent and made stupid signings like Fernando, Negredo, Demichelis, Navas, Rodwell, Sinclair and Fernandinho, rather than actual world class players. Even Bony for the money they paid, hardly an elite player. They're in real danger of being caught for that last Champions League spot I think, Toure will be past his best soon and they have to rely on Aguero staying fit for a full season

 

[mythbuster]

I never said that Liverpool aren't a selling club; to be fair I would entirely agree that they're regularly offloading their top talents.

Furthermore, they've arguably lost a fairly significant aspect of their attractive powers: they're not as attractive as they once were.

However what I was implying was that in the mainstream media, Liverpool have came out quite successfully or at least with this saga.

We may be able to see the long-term cracks forming within their club, but they've manipulated this scenario so that it is less obvious.

The rhetoric is actually quite believable: he's not even that good; definitely not worth £50m; bad influence gone from the dressing room.

It could potentially work out a fantastic deal for Liverpool if they reinvested the money properly. They most probably will not, but they could.

That's the dogma that the Red press are already beginning to spin and people are lapping it up, as Sterling has made it easy for them.

Long term it isn't a pretty picture for them, although right now I think Brenda is spinning the great unwashed a good yarn.

Sound mate. I reckon they'll finish 6th again next season. Where do you reckon they'll finish?

 

[Darth Toffeeman]

Apologies for not quoting the original article I can't find it. It is a truly awful article. Someone should write a comeback and send it into the mirror.

Dear Jim,

Firstly nice attempt to look like an average fan when you are a paid hack, classy bit of deception there. As a football supporter it mis best to correct some of the lies and nonsense you have peddled in your piece.

Firstly, Sterling was as much pushed out of your club as he wanted to leave. You are a no mark team who specialise in selling players to the big clubs who win things. Suarez, Torres, Mascherano, Alonso and now Sterling. You desperately want to sell these players and go to enormous lengths to overhype them in order to get the best price. Hacks like yourself in the press are central to this. It has already started with Coutinho, banding a decent tidy player world class in an attempt to get a bidding war going next summer. Those same morons will then turn on the media and make out it's the presses fault for Liverpool selling their best players.

Secondly, James Milner is paid to make such ridiculous statements. You have signed a Manchester City reserve player and paid him more than what you lot considered the best young player in the world. Manchester City have won the title twice in the last 4 seasons. You haven't won the league in the last 26 years. You are the Huddersfield town of the 1970's.

Comparing Manchester City to Everton is another stupid thing to add, the two clubs are not comparable.

Fourthly, the Liverpool protestors never once went to Wall Street. You cried and whinged that the debt you wracked up with overspending should be bailed out. It was, by venture capitalists who trade on wall street. At no point did you ever raise the slogan or idea of fan ownership.

Next time, try to write with substance why it is that Liverpool every season go out of their way to offload their best players. You are no longer a big club and behave like a small team. Rodgers looks thoroughly stupid saying he wouldn't leave when he has. As a journalist, why not comment on these things, instead of pretending to be an ordinary fan, writing open letters, (your piece was a column).

Regards

Spot on. That absolute guff of an article in the Mirror sums them up to a tee. I hope they publish this tomorrow (although you would probably get, at best, plastic cups of poo posted to you).

 

[peteblue]

He really is a lying toe rag ......

'I decided to make a change,' Rodgers said at a press conference in Thailand, where Liverpool landed on Monday for their pre-season tour.

'I had two fantastic guys, both Colin and Mike are great professionals and were very supportive.

'I just felt the need to move in a different direction and the decision was purely made by myself.'............

 

[ste d' indica]

He really is a lying toe rag ......

'I decided to make a change,' Rodgers said at a press conference in Thailand, where Liverpool landed on Monday for their pre-season tour.

'I had two fantastic guys, both Colin and Mike are great professionals and were very supportive.

'I just felt the need to move in a different direction and the decision was purely made by myself.'............

Ooh you lyin' get!

 

[Toffeelover]

Mikey are you taking the Michael? They've agreed to pay upto £49m, he's earning a reported £200k a week.

He's going to be a regular starter for them, no doubt about it.

Does not mean he will be any better than he was with our neighbours.

 

[Toffeelover]

According to the express today now it's all go for Benteke.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

According to the express today now it's all go for Benteke.

Yeah, just a matter of time regards to that I reckon

Doesn't strike me as the sort of player Rodgers would want, but then again I question how much control he has over signings to begin with

 

[Toffeelover]

Yeah, just a matter of time regards to that I reckon

Doesn't strike me as the sort of player Rodgers would want, but then again I question how much control he has over signings to begin with

Strikes me really as another Balotelli. Looks good but is it consistent.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Strikes me really as another Balotelli. Looks good but is it consistent.

It just shows that Rodgers is full of it really

He simply had to get rid of Andy Carroll, because he couldn't play the style Rodgers wanted, but then he goes and signs Lambert, Ballotelli and now possibly Benteke. It's obvious he just didn't want Carroll and he spun the whole "style" argument as a way to justify selling him