v Fulham post match

[~LFCHistory~]

I'm not at all convinced by Mig but it's still early. He's an improvement on the level Pepe had dropped to but the long term solution? Not sure on that one. He deserves a season behind a settled back 4 though to prove his worth.

As for last night, I think he should have come for the cross and he gifted Fulham the ball back in injury time with a woeful goal kick that Gerrard had a pop at him over but on the whole don't think he did much wrong.

Mignolet will be our 1st choice keeper for many years to come so you and all the other nitpicking moaners may as well accept him. He's a very good young keeper who is doing well in his first season at a club that has a completely different style of football to his previous team plus he has in front of him a dodgy, injury prone back 4.
Yes he makes the odd mistake but anytime I find myself complaining I think back to the last few seasons with Reina in goal seems a lot of people have forgotten about that.

[G]

Moaners

I made reference to Pepe and how he's an improvement on his recent years.The rest of your post is opinion like mine,and remains to be seen.He appears to be unsuited to our style of play but he has time on his side and deserves to have a decent,stable back 4 in front of him before we see his true worth like I said.Hope he gets there but jurys still out,like it or not.

[RedReet]

Mignolet will be our 1st choice keeper for many years to come so you and all the other nitpicking moaners may as well accept him. He's a very good young keeper who is doing well in his first season at a club that has a completely different style of football to his previous team plus he has in front of him a dodgy, injury prone back 4.
Yes he makes the odd mistake but anytime I find myself complaining I think back to the last few seasons with Reina in goal seems a lot of people have forgotten about that.

Ahh yes, the dark old days of Reina. We had the same goals conceded as the champions last year and the 3rd best defence in the league the year before, despite being **** and finishing 8th. Good job we have so many people on here reminding us with short memories how **** Reina was.

Yes, some excuses can be made for Mignolet this year, but why can't those same excuses be applied to Reina last year? Our defence in front of him was **** last year too, so much so that Rodgers had to bring Carra who had one foot on retirement at this stage back from the wilderness. Lucas was also injured for most of the year with no adequate replacement. Despite this, Renia found his best form again and was excellent towards the end of last year.

I refuse to accept that Mignolet was ever bought as an upgrade on Reina, he was a cheaper alternative and that's fair enough. If he turns out to be half as good as Reina was for us over the years, then he really will be an excellent keeper.

[Mostar]

Yes but thats two people making 1 mistake each. This is Kolo cocking up twice in 11 days.

He has no confidence whatsoever and at this point he is a disaster waiting to happen again.

Agger needs to be back as our defensive errors continue to pile up and that can really hurt our chances.

Spurs are only 3 points behind and if I'm not mistaken they got the highest number of points of all clubs since Sherwood took over.

[~LFCHistory~]

Ahh yes, the dark old days of Reina. We had the same goals conceded as the champions last year and the 3rd best defence in the league the year before, despite being **** and finishing 8th. Good job we have so many people on here reminding us with short memories how **** Reina was.

Yes, some excuses can be made for Mignolet this year, but why can't those same excuses be applied to Reina last year? Our defence in front of him was **** last year too, so much so that Rodgers had to bring Carra who had one foot on retirement at this stage back from the wilderness. Lucas was also injured for most of the year with no adequate replacement. Despite this, Renia found his best form again and was excellent towards the end of last year.

I refuse to accept that Mignolet was ever bought as an upgrade on Reina, he was a cheaper alternative and that's fair enough. If he turns out to be half as good as Reina was for us over the years, then he really will be an excellent keeper.

So us conceding less last season and the season before that was mostly down to Reina ? Right. Gotcha. I thought it might be because Agger played a lot more, an old Carragher is better than an old Kolo plus Enrique and Johnson weren't injured as much either.

And how is Mignolet cheaper ? Lower wages yes but he cost us 9m IIRC and we got nothing for Reina so Mignolet is costing the club roughly the same amount as Reina was.
Actually now I see why you believe that An excellent young manager like ours couldn't possibly have thought Pepe was past it and needed replaced by a younger, superior keeper. Yes, it must have been the money there's no other reason.

Anyway, whatever, you believe Reina is better than Mignolet and that he should never have been shipped out but our manager and many other fans thought differently, perhaps you think your judgement is better than our manager's ??

[RedReet]

So us conceding less last season was mostly down to Reina ? Right. Gotcha. I thought it might be because Agger played a lot more, an old Carragher is better than an old Kolo plus Enrique and Johnson weren't injured as much either.

And how is Mignolet cheaper ? Lower wages yes but he cost us 9m IIRC and we got nothing for Reina so Mignolet is costing the club roughly the same amount as Reina was.
Actually now I see why you believe that An excellent young manager like ours couldn't possibly have thought Pepe was past it and needed replaced by a younger, superior keeper. Yes, it must have been the money there's no other reason.

Anyway, whatever, you believe Reina is better than Mignolet and that he should never have been shipped out but our manager and many other fans thought differently, perhaps you think your judgement is better than our manager's ??

Right, so our excellent defensive practically every season Reina played for us was despite him, purely down to our ever changing defence that included quality players like Konchesky, Traore, Kyrgiakos, Josemi, Kronkamp?

So buying Mignolet and selling Pepe to Barca as was originally planned wasn't going to save us money?

And your right, I've obviously imagined interviews with Rodgers when he's said he's had to sell players to balance the books, I must have imagined that one last week when he said that's why he nearly sold Henderson.

Haha, that **** argument? I guess we may close the forums because Rodgers will always be right, and that is assuming that he does think Mignolet is a better keeper.

I wonder if 100 managers had the option of buying Reina or buying Mignolet in the summer for the same price, how many would have went for Mignolet?

[RedReet]

Haha, my post was actually wasn't supposed to be a criticism of Mignolet, just a reaction to the constant 'people need to remember how **** Reina was' before they can criticise Mignolet posts. Anybody who doesn't remember that and doesn't see that Mignolet is great is an idiot.

[Mattshark]

He has no confidence whatsoever and at this point he is a disaster waiting to happen again.

Agger needs to be back as our defensive errors continue to pile up and that can really hurt our chances.

Spurs are only 3 points behind and if I'm not mistaken they got the highest number of points of all clubs since Sherwood took over.

Agger hasn't been to short of errors either tbh. Sakho has been the best in that regard.

[Mattshark]

Hyypia gave years and years of fantastic service, perhaps Kolo will get some slack from fans once he's done the same

More service means less hyperbole?

[Mostar]

Agger hasn't been to short of errors either tbh. Sakho has been the best in that regard.

Agger is fit to play and Sakho is not.

In terms of errors, collectively our defense has been terrible and there were very few games this year that we kept it together at the back regardless who started.

[Norbs]

More service means less hyperbole?

Yep. Hyypia earned the right to the odd mistake, Toure's mistakes are eclipsing anything good he is doing. It's quite a normal reaction isn't it?

[Vermilion]

There was a right bobble for his og though tbf, not acceptable i know, eye on the ball and all that, but it does mitigate his error, just a tad, and he was in the right place to make what should have been a crucial clearance.

2 goal line clearances and we'll be quits.

[Mattshark]

Yep. Hyypia earned the right to the odd mistake, Toure's mistakes are eclipsing anything good he is doing. It's quite a normal reaction isn't it?

He hasn't been great, but comparing the OG to Traore's is a bit silly.

[Fivex]

How! Luis Suarez pulled off a ridiculous piece of skill to beat Sascha Reither! - YouTube

That was just outrageous.

I think he's the best the Prem has ever seen. And to think people/press try to hound talent like this out of the league, absolute ****ing morons.

So lucky to have him.

[Fosterbloke]

He has no confidence whatsoever and at this point he is a disaster waiting to happen again.

Agger needs to be back as our defensive errors continue to pile up and that can really hurt our chances.

Spurs are only 3 points behind and if I'm not mistaken they got the highest number of points of all clubs since Sherwood took over.

If the season started in Jan 14 then we'd be top by 2 points I think.