so much drive and determination to win cheating diving dirty etc...
we need more of this in our team. sadly lacking.
we need more of this in our team. sadly lacking.
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removing all the weak links makes us stronger
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Barcelona’s Luis Suárez admits his surprise at Ballon d’Or snub
• ‘I prefer to keep quiet - there could be a problem’
• Former Liverpool striker omitted from 23-man shortlist
• Suárez recognises no limits, either good or bad
Luis Suárez has admitted his surprise at not being included on Fifa’s 23-man shortlist for this year’s Ballon d’Or but vowed to not make an issue of his snub.
The Barcelona striker was a notable absentee from the list when it was released last week, despite winning the Premier League’s Player of the Year Award and finishing as top scorer with 31 goals for Liverpool last season.
It was widely assumed that Suárez’s absence was down to his disciplinary problems that saw him banned four four months after biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup, with Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard describing the decision to omit the Uruguayan as “political”.
Suárez was questioned about the snub for the first time in a interview with Spanish radio station RAC1 on Monday night and hinted at his frustration but stopped short of criticising the governing body.
“Everyone brings it to attention, as Gerard Piqué said, and what he told me is that they voted me as the best player in the most difficult league in the world, or one of the most difficult,” he said.
“I was also the highest goalscorer of all of the European leagues. But I prefer to keep quiet before saying things because every time that I speak there could be a problem.”
Suárez is preparing to face his former club Ajax in Amsterdam on Wednesday night having yet to score for Barcelona since his ban was lifted but is confident the goals will start to flow soon.
“The coach knows where to use the players. I play in any attacking position. I already did it at Liverpool and Ajax,” he said.
“It is a privilege to play alongside Leo [Messi], even if people are doubting him. We all know what type of player he is, the Ballon d’Ors that he has. The same with Xavi, Andres [Iniesta]. We have to work with each other more.”
Suárez was also asked whether he had ever considered signing for Real Madrid in the summer.
He said: “There were conversations but not at any moment did I feel close to the white club.”Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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He said: “There were conversations but not at any moment did I feel close to the white club.”
Hmm, another 6 month ban?One tit for another.
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3rd place. Worst champions ever.
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Daft racist"Its not about the long ball or the short ball, its about the right ball." Bob PaisleyComment
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At least he's a fair racistComment
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He was a bit **** tonightComment
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Post LFC strikers curse
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Originally posted by kingfunk View PostPost LFC strikers curse
[emoji106] let's make Sterling a striker so he thinks twice about ever moving to another clubComment
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Why does he wear a Keith Lemon bandage?
Go **** yourselfComment
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He's almost looked rustier with every game some how - I think its time Barca cut their losses and sent him back in January....Originally posted by Frenchie View Post
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**** you doing up at 5am?Originally posted by Boogar View PostWhy does he wear a Keith Lemon bandage?
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Luis Suárez says Chelsea player was uneasy over time-wasting at Anfield
Luis Suárez has claimed he asked a Chelsea player about their time-wasting tactics at Anfield last season and got the reply: ‘What else can I do? If I don’t, I won’t play. What would you do?’
Luis Suárez has claimed that one of Chelsea’s players expressed misgivings about José Mourinho’s time-wasting tactics when they played at Anfield last season in the game where Liverpool’s title challenge started to unravel.
Suárez says he approached the player, who he does not name, to voice his own irritation about the ultra-defensive way in which Mourinho had set up his team for Chelsea’s 2-0 win, described by Brendan Rodgers as “parking two buses” in front of goal.
“Every coach plays the way that suits him, so I don’t mind that,” Suárez writes in his new autobiography, Crossing The Line. “The only thing I didn’t like was the way that they wasted time from the very start. I was asking myself: ‘Why are they doing this from the first minute?’ I even asked one of their players. ‘What do you want me to do? If he makes us play like this, I have to play like this,’ he replied. ‘What else can I do? If I don’t, I won’t play. What would you do?’”
Liverpool play Chelsea at Anfield again on Saturday for the first time since that crucial encounter in April and Suárez recalls how Steven Gerrard was so distraught about the slip that let in Demba Ba for the opening goal that he was unable to travel to the Professional Footballers’ Association dinner that night.
“If I had been in Stevie’s shoes, I don’t know if I would have been able to carry on playing,” the Barcelona striker recalls. “Emotionally, it must have been very, very hard.
“In the previous weeks, so much had been said about him, the expectation had built so much, the talk had been about him leading Liverpool, his club, to a first title in over 20 years, on the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, in which his cousin had died, and then that happens. The captain, the former youth-teamer, the one-club man, a Scouser born and bred, and he was the unlucky one to make a crucial mistake.
“He still hadn’t won the league title. Stevie had started to believe, we all had. And now it had been virtually taken away from him and like that, with him slipping against Chelsea. I’m convinced that if Chelsea had not scored like that, they would not have scored at all. And once you are a goal down against them, it’s virtually impossible.”
Suárez’s book, released on Thursday, reveals that he made the mistake of starting to think Liverpool had virtually won the league, asking one of their coaches whether there was anything special planned at the end of the season, and hearing other players openly talking about it.
“We had gone into the game knowing that a draw was good for us. With the atmosphere at Anfield, with the fact that we had just beaten [Manchester] City, our attitude remained the same: we wanted to win. But we were conscious of the fact that with a draw we were still ahead of everyone. What I didn’t expect was for them to play for the draw. It’s true that they won the game but I am convinced that without that stroke of luck, they would not have scored.
“We knew that some of the normal [Chelsea] starters weren’t going to play, but we also knew that if they wanted to win the league – and people forget that they still had a chance to do that – they would have to play to win. For them to try to waste time when the draw was no good to them was something that I didn’t understand.
“We didn’t play that well, but I honestly think that there was nothing we could have done differently. We had 10 players in front of us, almost all of them in the penalty area. We could try a one-two, or move the ball quickly from player to player to try to pull them out of position, seeking to create some space, but then there would always be another defender in front of us.
“It’s very hard when you see that there is no space to move into. Meanwhile, every time we looked up at the clock, time was running out.
“The way that they seemed to be playing with the clock frustrated us. They tried to wind us up, I think, and we were drawn into that. ‘Come on, hurry up.’ We should not have been dragged in.
“Mourinho knew: if you waste time, if you break it up from the very start, they’re going to get frustrated, they’re going to play a bit more crazily, they’ll do anything. They pulled us out of our normal routine. And, of course, we never imagined the slip and that was what truly made it hard for us. Nor did they. You can’t plan for a player to slip.”Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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3rd place. Worst champions ever.Comment
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Luis Suarez has revealed that he does not know whether he would have been able to carry on playing if he had been in Steven Gerrard's boots and made the slip up that contributed to their failure to win the Premier League title.
The former Liverpool striker reflects on Gerrard's costly error against Chelsea which gifted Demba Ba a one-on-one chance and assisted their 2-0 win at Anfield which loosened their grip on the title.
Suarez, who left Liverpool for Barcelona in the summer, writes in his autobiography: "If I had been in Stevie's shoes, I don't know if I would have been able to carry on playing. Emotionally, it must have been very, very hard.
"In the previous weeks, so much had been said about him, the expectation had built so much, the talk had been about him leading Liverpool, his club, to a first title in over 20 years, on the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, in which his cousin had died, and then that happens.
"The captain, the former youth-teamer, the one-club man, a Scouser born and bred, and he was the unlucky one to make a crucial mistake."
In Suarez's mind were it not for Gerrard's error and subsequent goal, Chelsea would not have won at Anfield.
"I'm convinced that if Chelsea had not scored like that, they would not have scored at all. And once you are a goal down against them, it's virtually impossible."
While Gerrard's slip up disrupted Liverpool's charge for a first league title in 24 years, they then went on to let a three-goal lead slip at Crystal Palace. A last-day win over Newcastle was not enough to claw them back to top spot as Manchester City held their nerve to clinch the title.
That rug really tied the room together.Comment
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