Willian secures 'Dream' Liverpool Spurs Chelsea move

[Bender]

We are also following Willian. It definitely means he's signing.

Willian has blocked me

[Neil Young]

[Vermilion]

I had it down more as a 4-2 then the rest of it was a bit sorta Jackson pollock-y with no it changing from 2-2 to 3-1 to 1-3 and then 2-1-1. Each of Aspas, Sturridge and the Cout seemed to be playing at least 3 positions at times to with Henderson switching between the right and middle.

It was brill! We're going to smash some mutha'uckers this year!

As this graphic cleary shows.

[Rowan]

Ordered my new wheels yesterday

[Neil Young]

Ordered my new wheels yesterday

What did you go for?

[Rowan]

What did you go for?

Ended up going for the mystery option and picked up a Specialized Tarmac Sport for £1200. I tried a load yesterday and that was the one I felt really comfortable on. Almost got a Trek Madone 3.5 but it just didnt feel quite as right. The dudes at the shop are even swapping the pedals out for clips and sorted me out with a few other bits and pieces. Should hopefully get it next weekend.

Mega excited! Swimming lessons are booked too. I'll be single again by October

[G]

I'm following Kelly Brook, I must be shagging her.

(I'm not, on either count )

[LFCman]

Lets not forget Suarez was not exactly a fight to sign was he? And he was class from day one.

Well said. Are we going to be Tottenham and just chase players because other top teams are chasing them too?

No, we need the right players for us.

[SB]

Willian has blocked me

He's smart & skilful. sign him up please.

[kingfunk]

But does he have man strength?

[Bender]

He's smart & skilful. sign him up please.

[Gibbo]

I don't see why the fee bother you so much, the scouts and Rodgers apparently rate him and don't think the fee is too high hence we're supposedly in for him in or around the fee quoted.

We got Coutinho for about £10m less than we should, we are putting that extra £10m to getting Willian who should improve the team.

Happy days.

[wiw]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...s-8636804.html

That was NOT 4-4-2 yesterday

From where I was sitting it was. Or 4411 if youre fussy. The only good thing about being high up is that you can see the formations well

Thats not to say we played it like a traditional 442 but we did defend with that shape. There was a clear line of 4 behind Aspas and Sturridge.

Obviously the front 4 drifted, the fullbacks were high and was more 424 in attack with lots of movement. I thought it was cleverly done. We smothered the life out of them for the most part.

[Hemingway]

If there needed to be more evidence that formations are increasingly nominative and waning in importance, look no further than this debate.

If you want to call it something, it looked to me a bit 4-4-1-1, with Aspas as a second striker in behind Sturridge. Though you could also call it a 4-2-3-1, as Gerrard and Lucas sat deeper than Coutinho and Henderson. (Hendo, and not Aspas, was definitely on the right; the heat maps and action areas make that point pretty obvious.) It was quite asymmetrical though, as Hendo came inside to become part of the midfield than Coutinho, who functioned as an attacker and had something of a free role at times. But if you want to make that point as clearly as possible, it was a 4-2-1-1-1-1. Which is a ridiculous label.

I've increasingly come to the conclusion that, while Rodgers may have a basic idea of a formation, the actual shape is going to be determined by who's playing and who we're facing. Aside from the three-at-the-back experiments, a 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, 4-4-1-1, 4-4-2 - we played all of them during preseason, and we played them pretty much the same way, and with a healthy dose of fluidity and interchange to muddle things up even more. The style is more important, and that remains the same.

So...Willian, eh?

[Arn]

If there needed to be more evidence that formations are increasingly nominative and waning in importance, look no further than this debate.

If you want to call it something, it looked to me a bit 4-4-1-1, with Aspas as a second striker in behind Sturridge. Though you could also call it a 4-2-3-1, as Gerrard and Lucas sat deeper than Coutinho and Henderson. (Hendo, and not Aspas, was definitely on the right; the heat maps and action areas make that point pretty obvious.) It was quite asymmetrical though, as Hendo came inside to become part of the midfield than Coutinho, who functioned as an attacker and had something of a free role at times. But if you want to make that point as clearly as possible, it was a 4-2-1-1-1-1. Which is a ridiculous label.

I've increasingly come to the conclusion that, while Rodgers may have a basic idea of a formation, the actual shape is going to be determined by who's playing and who we're facing. Aside from the three-at-the-back experiments, a 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, 4-4-1-1, 4-4-2 - we played all of them during preseason, and we played them pretty much the same way, and with a healthy dose of fluidity and interchange to muddle things up even more. The style is more important, and that remains the same.

So...Willian, eh?

I said more or less the same thing months ago.