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sterling has the potential to be brilliant, coutinho will want to prove his worth/fight for his place with lallana coming in, who will also be looking to prove himself and add goals/assists
plus Sturridge might be thinking - great, with suarez gone i'm the man now and this is my chance to show how good i can be and get out of suarez's shadow so to speak
plus lambert gives us an extra bit of decent cover and will get goals,
and all that's without even thinking about who will probably sign as a marquee/suarez replacement signing (sanchez or whoever)
from a bbc article in Sept last year when he was banned -
without Suarez
18 games, 11 wins, 3 draws/4 losses
plus we'd have a stronger squad/better cover than in those 18 games.
he's top class - prob only messi/ronaldo who are on the same level - but he's not the be all and end all and we're not going to suddenly be **** without
personally i think **** him - we're on the up playing exciting football, with great fans, great atmosphere and i'm confident that trophies will come.
If he doesn't want to be apart of that then **** it. He can go to Barca we're he will be second fiddle to the greatest player of all time in a **** league that only has two other teams to worry about (and the way Atletico are selling players they'll be out the hunt next year also)i own everton fans on the internet....that's what i doComment
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Steven Gerrard says get knotted, VOriginally posted by -V- View Post
I saw a dead fish on the pavement and thought "what did you expect?"
There's no water round here stupid, should have stayed where it was wetComment
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He does anything untoward again and its a further ban from FIFA, if he bites someone its got be a lifetime ban.
As great aplayer as he is I reckon its just not worth the risk to keep him.
Lets be honest he's bound to do something stupid again, La liga football is far less disciplined that the prem.Comment
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Aye.Originally posted by PTP View Post
sterling has the potential to be brilliant, coutinho will want to prove his worth/fight for his place with lallana coming in, who will also be looking to prove himself and add goals/assists
plus Sturridge might be thinking - great, with suarez gone i'm the man now and this is my chance to show how good i can be and get out of suarez's shadow so to speak
plus lambert gives us an extra bit of decent cover and will get goals,
and all that's without even thinking about who will probably sign as a marquee/suarez replacement signing (sanchez or whoever)
from a bbc article in Sept last year when he was banned -
without Suarez
18 games, 11 wins, 3 draws/4 losses
plus we'd have a stronger squad/better cover than in those 18 games.
he's top class - prob only messi/ronaldo who are on the same level - but he's not the be all and end all and we're not going to suddenly be **** without
personally i think **** him - we're on the up playing exciting football, with great fans, great atmosphere and i'm confident that trophies will come.
If he doesn't want to be apart of that then **** it. He can go to Barca we're he will be second fiddle to the greatest player of all time in a **** league that only has two other teams to worry about (and the way Atletico are selling players they'll be out the hunt next year also) I'm choosing to remain optimistic until evidence says otherwise. Sterling, Cou, Sturridge, Lallana and Henderson can raise their games a la Rooney when Ronaldo and Tevez departed.
And we have a manager who's proven in doing just that; our trump card is truly Brendan Rodgers.
This isn't mentioning recruiting a top player like Sanchez or a commanding CB like Lovren to marshal the defense.I wear my heart on my profile name.Comment
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Why are we happy to sell
He's got a new contract and getting a nice payrise. **** him, make him stay he is/could be the difference between CL or not and isnt that worth about £50 mil plus this year.
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Luis Suarez has served his purpose at Liverpool and should be allowed to join Barcelona
Luis Suarez's ‘apology’ has at least shown his true motives and even Liverpool’s biggest fans should be glad to see him go
By Paul Hayward, Chief Sports Writer
10:47PM BST 01 Jul 2014
Those bangs in the attic of this World Cup are Luis Suárez trying to get out of England. If the title had not been claimed already for a book about Lord Lucan, “Trail of Havoc” would be an appropriate epitaph for his time at Liverpool.
Suárez has served his purpose: he helped to rescue Liverpool from the Europa League zone, or worse. Thank you and good night. Aside from the goals and the mesmerising movement, which speaks of amazing cunning, he has no place with Gianfranco Zola, Dennis Bergkamp or Thierry Henry in the pantheon of foreign players to have graced the Premier League. Remove emotion and every car on Merseyside would fire up to take him to the airport for his flight to Barcelona.
Hang on, you cry. Did the Footballer Writers’ Association not elect him footballer of the year only in May? That vote, which needs to be detached from the old “precept and example” caveat to avoid contradictions such as this one, was a straightforward endorsement for the best player in England in 2013-14. To declare an interest, I missed the ballot deadline, through incompetence, but agreed that Suárez could hardly be denied the award on the basis of generalised moral disdain, given that he had served his time for his offences.
He remained, however, a diver and a thespian from a Latin American street culture where English high-mindedness is often rightly laughed out of court.
But the monumental dishonesty of his initial denial and then semi-apology here in Brazil was more significant than the bite on Giorgio Chiellini. It showed him not to be a troubled soul who needs “help”. He is a man of infinite low calculation who will take any measure necessary to protect his own self-interest.
We can say this without anger, or outrage, or even caring very much. These are mere notes in the margins of his character. If a Cameroon Football Association investigation into possible match fixing unearths evidence of corruption in the group stages here then Suárez’s teeth colliding with Chiellini’s shoulder (the original explanation) will read like a skirmish at a six-year-olds’ party. But the rush to compare every offence – biting, butting, violent tackling, elbowing – in the quest to get Suárez off the hook only obscured his Machiavellian handling of the fallout.
For that reason, the craven “apology” and subsequent praise from Barcelona’s sporting director, Andoni Zubizarreta, were moments of welcome clarity. They rendered the whole game transparent, and gave Liverpool fans the reason they need to abandon their all-out defensive posture.
Nobody in football doubts that Suárez cost Kenny Dalglish his job, which puts a never-ending twist on the desperation of some Liverpool supporters to defend him, even after the farce in Brazil. Stick up for the man who brought King Kenny down?
Suárez has atoned for it since, some might say. And nobody forced Dalglish to print those T-shirts defending him in the Patrice Evra racial abuse case – or to excuse his refusal to shake Evra’s hand at Old Trafford (despite being told to). This is not old ground. It is a reminder of the delusion we slip into when we turn footballers into gods.
The loyalists who closed ranks around Suárez after the Chiellini biting fiasco will surely turn on him when he signs for Barcelona. This indignation-mode is based on the old idea that an attack on a Liverpool player is an attack on the whole of Liverpool FC, their history and traditions.
Dalglish, who doubtless felt he was being loyal and honourable, fell into this trap during the Evra racial abuse case, in which Suárez was found guilty. The embarrassment it caused spread all the way to Boston, where John Henry’s Fenway Sports Group went looking for a new manager.
It may be a columnist’s cliche, but nobody from this third biting scandal emerges with much credit, except perhaps Fifa, which ignored the rantings of the Uruguay federation and manager Oscar Tabarez to make the point that Suárez had clearly not been deterred by the first two suspensions for chomping. The risible conspiracy theories constructed around the perpetrator also undermined the case for mercy.
Suárez is a master at exploiting desperation. Liverpool needed a world-class talent to lift them back into the Champions League places and indulged him to that end. He repaid them with a dazzling season.
Barcelona have fallen behind Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid as the tiki-taka era fades. Football-wise, Suárez is just what they need: an elusive runner, finisher and creator. The game has moved on and Suárez will help Barcelona to catch up.
Liverpool can move on too, under Brendan Rodgers, if they spend wisely and avoid being taken hostage ever again by the talent of one player. And the World Cup, you will have noticed, is fine without him.
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Can you clarify "we"?Originally posted by Liverpool View PostWhy are we happy to sell He's got a new contract and getting a nice payrise. **** him, make him stay he is/could be the difference between CL or not and isnt that worth about £50 mil plus this year.Comment
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Can you post a link or two were "The Cloob" have stated they want to sell SuarezOriginally posted by Liverpool View Post
In advance thanks
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Whats got your goat?Originally posted by Assassin View PostCan you post a link or two were "The Cloob" have stated they want to sell Suarez
In advance thanks
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You little lurker
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