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[Craig_H]

It is not ok if a player don't deliver if he sulks, that will never be ok.

Then he is letting the fans, the club and his team mates down. A player is never allowed to sulk, not in a single game in his whole career.

If you would sulk when you play in the red shirt then you are indeed an idiot that we don't want you playing for us because other players in the squad could easily replace you that would care and give 100%. They may not be better players but the team mates know that the player will give 100% and work his socks off.

You aren't allowed to sulk in a single game, ever, as long as you play for Liverpool FC. If you sulk then you should be forced to pay your wages back because you have simply not earned the right to get it.

So why arent you slagging Torres off then? Hypocrite, much?

[Reece]

TSCollymore Stan Collymore
by JamesSethOwens
Liverpool Team:Jones/Kelly Skirtel Wilson Aurelio/ Cole Poulsen Shelvey Jovanovic/Eccleston Kuyt 4-4-2

[lickedlollipop]

we're trough in this competition, right?

[Reece]

TSCollymore Stan Collymore
by JamesSethOwens
CORRECTION:Liverpool team as before except Babel instead of Kuyt.

[Craig_H]

bensmith_times Ben Smith
According to @TSCollymore, Torres doesn't start for #lfc tonight

There was a thing on the offal a minute ago, a news item titles 'Roy confirms Torres & Babel will start' - and this was literally about 3-4 mins ago.

It's now gone.

[Shaggy]

What was all that bollocks about Reina starting then?

Jones plays. I'm changing my prediction.

[The Erectile Banana]

we're trough this competition, right?

Yeah, we're through and already guaranteed to top the group.

The team from Collymore's ****ter is more like what I'd play. It'd be stupid to risk Torres in such a meaningless match.

Hope to see Pacheco get a run out at some stage. Thought he might start.

[DannyMan2006]

There was a thing on the offal a minute ago, a news item titles 'Roy confirms Torres & Babel will start' - and this was literally about 3-4 mins ago.

It's now gone.

Injury?

Bust up?

Wouldn't be suprised at either

Sure it's nothing though.

[The Erectile Banana]

Injury?

Bust up?

Wouldn't be suprised at either

Sure it's nothing though.

Dementia maybe?

[Craig_H]

Roy Hodgson has praised Liverpool's owners for their long-term strategy for success.
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Speaking to journalists ahead of tonight's game with Utrecht, the boss once again outlined his ambitions to bring trophies to Anfield and to get us back in the top four - but he, John Henry and Tom Werner know patience will be required.

Hodgson said: "The owners have made it perfectly clear they're in it for the long term and they're going to be patient.

"They realise it's going to take time. They realise we can't turn things around overnight and they also realise that the team I'm working with isn't the team I put together.

"The owners have talked common sense all along and their vision for the club is spot-on.

"I didn't join Liverpool to be in mid-table. I came here because I believed we could be in the top four, in the Champions League and winning things.

"That's my ambition. Certainly it's the owners' ambition and I'm hoping they'll help me - especially in terms of recruitment - get the team into the top four.

"I still think for a really healthy club, it has to be done on a healthy basis. The players who come in have got to be the right ones for the club.

"Ideally, you would do something with the Academy as well, so you can produce more of the likes of Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman along the way."

Meanwhile, fans attending tonight's Europa League clash will get to see a strong line-up including Fernando Torres.


Explaining his decision not to rest the Spaniard ahead of Saturday's clash with Fulham, Hodgson said: "I don't know if I would have considered using Fernando had David Ngog been fit. But he isn't and, having had a chat with Fernando, I think he'll enjoy it.

"It's not as if he'll be playing with a bunch of also-rans. I'm not asking him to play in the reserves. There will be just a couple of the first teamers missing from Saturday.

"It's a 40,000 crowd and maybe more, which is incredible. It speaks volumes for the sport and Liverpool.

"I've said to Fernando - and this doesn't need to be a secret - that we believe he's a very fine player, one of the best front players in Europe, and the fact that maybe he hasn't played at his level over the past couple of months doesn't change that.

"You don't become a bad player overnight. But don't forget, goalkeepers and strikers in particular play on such a small margin of error.

"The difference between being carried down the high street in a Sedan chair, or being vilified is infinitesimal. I'm hoping it will go well for him against Utrecht.

"I am hoping that he'll have a good game that will improve his confidence. He's happy to play and he wants to play, so it would be foolish of me to not use him. There's nothing to lose."

Bit in bold - thinly veiled slating of the team there - "these arent my players" = i dont rate them.

And what the **** is this about?

"The difference between being carried down the high street in a Sedan chair, or being vilified is infinitesimal.

[Daniel mote]

jones kelly aurillio wilson soto cole jovanavic poulson shelvey kuyt eccleson according to stans twitter

[Craig_H]

If that team is correct, then roy's either grown a pair or stopped putting his own position first.

Alternatively (and most worryingly), he may have been told that his job is safe, and therefore feels secure enough not to worry about playing Pepe and Nando.

[Shaggy]

Bit in bold - thinly veiled slating of the team there - "these arent my players" = i dont rate them.

And what the **** is this about?

Verbose cunt

[Craig_H]

What was all that bollocks about Reina starting then?

Jones plays. I'm changing my prediction.

I genuinely think that if you asked Roy about that, he would sincerely not remember having made those comments.

[Daniel mote]

Roy will be gone only when they feel they have the correct man. Unfortunately it mite be the summer.