Leicester V Liverpool post match thread (Sponsored by the Hedgehog Gutter Brush)

[danperkins]

What if you called it during the summer and said that we have spent £100m improving our bench - does that make me an actual genius???

in reality though, had we bought Bertrand, Micah Richards and Rodwell - we could have had all 3 for the price of Markovic!!!

I don't want to sound like a broken record but we could have improved the squad much more cost effectively and had some cash left over to actually improve the first team as well. That is what is frustrating.

I think we have to ask ourselves the question "what would you do if you were John W Henry" and in reality he will be thinking "no ****in way am i giving these shower any more cash - they have proved they will **** it up" I think that might possibly have been a big reason Kenny got the bullet as well - because we spent so much on Carroll, Downing, Adam and still needed to spent more to replace them all - and he couldnt trust Kenny to spend the cash again. He wouldnt throw good money after bad.

I suppose my point is this: lets suppose we go on a super run again - like last seasons purple patch. Sterling and Coutinho get their form back, Sturridge comes back and it's like he's never been away - and lets say we end up with 75 points and finish 3rd in the table. Unless the new signings contribute to that, then that isn't going to make JWH/FSG back Brendan in the market any more. Not unless Balotelli pulls his socks up and starts finding form. Or unless Lovren becomes the leader of the back like he was billed as.....

If Brendan takes a step back, looks at his squad and decides that when everyone is fit then his best team is: Mignolet, Johnson, Skrtel, Toure, Flanagan, Lucas, Henderson, Allen/Gerrard, Coutinho, Sterling and Sturridge - which is our best team, then even if we won the league this year it won't have changed the fact that we wasted £120m in the summer. And it wouldn't entice them to give him more cash either.....

The likes of Moreno, Emre Can, Markovic and Origi could hopefully turn out to be class players. Potentially world class. But unless Brendan can get the team into the CL again next season, then he might not get the time to see that....

[danperkins]

My comment was as much towards the pundits though they were clamouring and creaming themselves. I'm very strongly swayed towards him NOT playing the DM position, I'll keep that stance. But when pundits and fans start waxing lyrical again about Gerrard I do worry that puts pressure on Rodgers to play him week in week out, when that is against ours and Gerrards best interests.

[BigChief]

Just wanted to add, how good was Allen when he came on? He's beginning to find his feet again. He's a pocket rocket.

[BobTheCharmer]

Just wanted to add, how good was Allen when he came on? He's beginning to find his feet again. He's a pocket rocket.

???

[frank the tank]

Rodgers has been caught between a rock and a hard place. He's had to find a way to grind out results and has altered all aspects of our game, now wouldn't be the time to integrate youth. He's had to turn to experienced players in the hope they can find form which is why we see Johnson, Gerrard, Toure, et al, getting minutes.

FSG aren't going to close their cheque book because we're not playing Moreno, Can and Markovic, but they have every right to question the purchase of Lovren, etc.

I agree with this completely - although i think that they would have expected a little more from Markovic to be honest....

it is the signings of Lallana, Lovren and Balotelli that will ultimately feck Rodgers....with Moreno, Can and Markovic then they are calculated risks and we would get 50-70% return even if they flopped at LFC.... with Lallana, Lovren and especially Balotelli, then we are looking at another Joke Cole where we are supplementing their wages while they play for someone else...

I would also question the use of young players. When BR first came in, Sterling, Suso and Wisdom all got chances.......and then eventually Flanagan did as well..... but BR needs to have a good look at what we have in the youths before signing youngsters from abroad. For example, is Manquillo that much better (or better at all) than Andre Wisdom??? I'm not so sure.... was Luis Alberto that much better than Teixeria?? Or Suso?? Again i'm not sure.

About a year into Rodgers first season i was excited with what i thought was the blueprint that FSG and BR were working to implement - to bring through young players and only supplement that with top top quality young additions - as in the best young players in the world. I thought it was the end of buying squad fillers.......

[BigChief]

???

When he came on for Lallana. I thought Lallana was average as an outlet or a creative influence and other than the goal wasn't that influential despite being the on the side that Konchesky was defending.

Allen brought freshness, kept hold of the ball at the right times and crucially released it at the right times too, i.e. when the player was ready to receive it.

[Muddled]

You see this post?

Well all of that self-fiving is gone when you say things like this.

[baitman]

self-fiving

is this it

[BigChief]

You see this post?

Well all of that self-fiving is gone when you say things like this.

Haterrz.

[Muddled]