Martin Lipton's Latest Bile

[Guest]

That's disgusting. The tone of his article is a disgrace to the profession of Journalism IMO. We should just let rip on the comments section.

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[Guest]

Just read this. And he doesn't have a vendetta against Rafa?

Fine: GK Reina: Hard to criticise this season, even if he has rarely made significant errors; RB Johnson: Like a curate's egg - good in parts. Always a blooper in there somewhere, as proven against Arsenal but has provided more width and balance from full-back; CB Carragher/Agger/Krygiakos/Skrtel - between them, more thud and blunder than blood asnd thunder. Carra at least knows he has been poor but none of them are doing the basics right; LB Insua/Aurelio - average, on a good day, between them. The Brazilian takes a good free-kick but was never stand-out at Valencia, so why should he be at Anfield? Insua, having started the season okay-ish, has gone backwards; RM Kuyt: Will always do a job, straight up and down, runs his socks off. But how much fantasy, flair or imagination/ Not a lot, methinks; Centre midfield Mascherano, Lucas: Why two of them trying to do the sasme job? That is a tactical flaw, irrespective of the merits of the players. Lucas is what he is, Mascherano far better but with his head full of dreams of Catalonia. Neither of them are really putting in a shift; LM Benayoun/Riera: Spaniard has fallen out of favour and does little when he does play, Israeli can look one of the best players in the league but surely he would be better starting froma central role (even if that means tethering Gerrard) than wide left where he always has to go inside; Attacking midfield Gerrard: Inspirational at best but has a tendency to get down on himself, the team, the universe in general and that can show. But who else would you want as captain? CF Torres: Not been fit enough this season and certainly not on Sunday.

The problem, really, is what is left: Ngog should simply be Go, Voronin was manure first time round and no better this time, Aquilani turned up - as everybody knew he was - a crock. Selling Alonso - in the end, whether he wanted to go or not (and given that he came back to watch the game yesterday, perhaps he didn't) was a terrible decision, taken by Benitez alone. Not enough strength in depth, not enough quality in many of the key positions. More worryingly, on the evidence of the second half v Arsenal, no more motivation.

[Joe King]

He's not wrong

[Guest]

He's not wrong

Enlighten me then. Your one liners contribute nothing.

[cream]

Just read this. And he doesn't have a vendetta against Rafa?

He's pretty much spot-on, apart from benny in the hole, not good enough to play that position.

[Leyton388]

The way we are playing this season we are wide open to take shots like this. The knives are out as they can smell blood.

[Guest]

But we've played with the same team last season, it seemed to work then. I won't get back into this again, my point of this thread was about the tone of the article. What does he have against Rafa?

[Rich]

It's a results business and frankly our results have been nothing short of shocking. He's not 100% but more on the money than off.

[Rich]

But we've played with the same team last season, it seemed to work then. I won't get back into this again, my point of this thread was about the tone of the article. What does he have against Rafa?

Probably doesn't have anything against Rafa personally but its a big story so he's looking for a juicy story. He's a journo at the end of the day, most are exactly the same type of person.

[Guest]

Probably doesn't have anything against Rafa personally but its a big story so he's looking for a juicy story. He's a journo at the end of the day, most are exactly the same type of person.

The tone of his article suggests he has something against him.

[Philosophia]

I think he's right.

[Rich]

The tone of his article suggests he has something against him.

I don't know why you think he has to give a balanced view?! He's giving his opinion, which in a blog he is entitled to do.

Fact is that other than it being slightly more negative to what I'd write, he isn't far off the mark. Individually AND collectively we have been poor this season. If you look at the current form table we're 14th.

[Guest]

I think he's right.

What if Torres scored the chance he had and we had a penalty? Results are not good but nothing has really changed since before that game on Sunday. It's a question of confidence, not tactics like Lipton's enlightening analysis seem to suggest.

[Icon]

It doesn't actually slate Rafa anywhere and is generally spot correct.

My only query would be the control Rafa had over the Alonso sale and Aqua purchase.

[Icon]

What if Torres scored the chance he had and we had a penalty? Results are not good but nothing has really changed since before that game on Sunday. It's a question of confidence, not tactics like Lipton's enlightening analysis seem to suggest.

What if what if what if???