Looking back on your football posts your quite, errr very anti liverpool stavros! for someone who "enjoyed their success" lol :D
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Looking back on your football posts your quite, errr very anti liverpool stavros! for someone who "enjoyed their success" lol :D
Ally's not ready, but his dignity amidst the farce around him does him great credit. And he was the best out-and-out striker Scotland have had since the peerless Denis Law.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
As for Liverpool, everyone on their list seems to be turning them down. It isn't surprising - who knows what FSG's next move will be and who would willingly take that risk with their career and reputation? Even Martinez is probably better off with another season or two at Wigan.
And I hear Villas Boas is in the frame. Bloody hell!
Not at all, my remarks are more flippant than angry, I am afraid that is a reflection of the way LFC has been managed in recent years. Can't take them seriously. Telegraph latest is that van Gaal is in the frame.Quote:
Originally Posted by SammiValentine
I didnt say angry :D Fair enough......;-)x
I have sympathy with the LFC fans. As a Sunderland fan, pain and misery is the normal order of the day.
Van Gaal would be a good choice. AVB ?? hmmm - he looked like a bit of a nut job at Chelsea.
I am not looking forward to the euros. England shite and Woys motivational skills. Major yawn. I think ill go play rounders instead
Most reports was Van Gaal for this "DOF" bollacks job, not the manager post. Load of shit all these diff roles anyway.
We sold our soul to the devil (thanks moores) and we are still getting fucked from it, are the 2nd set of owners any better than the first lot..?? Well they have not started assett stripping yet but , still no new stadium news. All this talk of "Money they have invested", we have the biggest sponsorship deal we ever had and biggest in the prem. Furthermore from that "£120 million spent" approx £25-30million was all that was not raised through selling our players. Now take into account the MASSIVE wage difference that you will see in next years accounts, all the new "big money signing" players are on a fraction of what the old stars are, plus all the deadwood that was sat on big wages has gone.......vast amount of money saved weekly, not to mention our mechandise is still one of the best sold "brands" in the world (which is they they took us on, obviously) so if we do not get any funds it all goes back to the golden question... where is the money going? Are we due another £37 million ihn surveyors fees like H&G - before a spade even went in the ground... lol
Apart from that they seem to be sat in Boston and do not have a clue what theyre doing Manager wise, online polls suggested 80% was against removing Dalgish, and polls also indicate that 60-70%+ (Varies forum to forum) want Rafa back but wont even be interviewed... playing a risky game imo. They do not have a clue.
Rar.
Rant over. Carry on.
xx
Your rant touches on a lot of the issues which may or may not explain why Spanish football teams appear to be playing better as teams. On one level I think it has something to do with the import of foreign players which has been both a blessing and a curse -in the past the restrictions on foreign players meant that there were a few (Arnold Muhren for example) whereas EU employment law and restraint on trade law etc have opened up opportunities that did not exist in years past. Has this prevented local talent from feeding through into the clubs as a form of natural progression? It is rather like some industries who shut down their R&D facility -why invest money in home-grown research if you can buy it off the shelf? Make or Buy? I don't know because Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott, Aaron Ramsay and Christian Bale are examples of 'local talent' who could probably move to a foreign club if they wanted to. But why then has LFC bought such poor defenders, when in the past it had laters of talent in defence whose skills were as good as the midfielders and strikers -that complete, total football which cannot work if you don't hire the best players.
If the nurturing of local talent is not what it used to be, have the internal dynamics of the club also changed? There used to be a manager with a tightly knit group of coaches and scouts and they all were part of the fabric which gave clubs identity, purpose, player support and so on -it was this organic football that made Celtic and Liverpool such powerful clubs in the 1960s in particular when Jock Stein's Celtic players were all from Glasgow. Nowadays you have a 'Director of Football', a manager, an assistant manager, a coach for goalies, a coach for defenders but apparently no coach for penalties. It has become atomised inside the club, while the prima donnas like JohnTerry assume they run the dressing room anyway. How long would John Terry have lasted under Bill Shankly I wonder? Joey Barton wouldn't even be cleaning boots (but Shanks might feel he could tame 'the lad' and turn him into a professional, or not). Bobby Moore (whom I once bumped into when I was on an errand for my boss at the time) lived in a semi-detached that looks like the setting for Abigail's Party; Arry Redknapp who also has Ammers istory lives in palatial splendour in Sandbanks. Money has eaten away the soul of football as a working class sport, but I don't begrudge it to young lads whose careers last 10 years if they are lucky.
Ownership reflects globalisation, but it makes demands of teams that cannot be realistically delivered -Chelsea have still cost RA more than he has reaped even with this latest success.
Liverpool have lost the bootroom mentality that was crucial to their former success, they have had owners who lacked the commitment and crucially, did not understand Liverpool as a city in the context of England, and their inability to get a manager like Ferguson or Wenger has cost them. I think they will return to the top fight, but it doesn't look like it yet.
hey you didnt know exactly what the bootroom was the other day :D I will reply to the rest later ;)
I am not really that sure, sometimes I think it means the dressing room, at other times a more genera area with players, coaches, physios, and so on. I don't know everything...!
heheheh :D eugh will reply in full later, on behalf of my mate Rafa la.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros