The Bigfooty Liverpool Thread

[kane249]

I will die on the hill of Raul Meireles being a good player for us. I was spewing when he ended up at Chelsea.

Still remember this banger he scored for us

 

[kane249]

Yeah he was excellent for the time he was with us. Not quite sure why we sold him. We had FSG onboard by that stage, surely we weren't that desperate for cash. Flipping Torres was the best businesses of the mid season window as unpopular as it was at the time.

Damage was done by the time FSG came on board, Mereiles had his head turned by Chelsea and was committed to getting out. Similar exit to when we lost Yosi to them

There has to be an alternative universe out there where Torres stays to partner Suarez, recapturing his best form and they go on to do great things together for us.

We flipped Torres and Babel for Carrol and Suarez, don't think we would have bought Suarez without the Torres cash

 

[Zidane98]

Torres was spent by the time we flogged him off. It was the right if unpopular call by FSG to get rid.

 

[Tonga Bob]

Torres was spent by the time we flogged him off. It was the right if unpopular call by FSG to get rid.

I remember Carragher saying something similar recently.

 

[gaskin]

don't think we would have bought Suarez without the Torres cash

IIRC Suarez was already incoming when we sold Torres. I remember being excited about the potential partnership.

 

[Lefti93]

I remember Suarez stating that he was excited to play with Torres, little did he know he'd be sold a few days after.

 

[Tonga Bob]

Further to my post yesterday, it does seem there is a little bit of luck with the UCL knockout rounds. There will still be a draw but it will be limited. This graphic illustrates it best:

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Our four possible opponents in the round of 16 as it currently stands

 

[kane249]

Matches against Juve are always extra spicy given the past history

 

[gaskin]

I fancy us against any of those but I don't want to play Madrid again.

 

[Tonga Bob]

Stan Collymore's birthday yesterday. You remember him...

 

[The Punter]

Our four possible opponents in the round of 16 as it currently stands

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Screenshot was taken while City were leading PSG. City now in 25th (all they need to do to make it is beat Club Brugge at home), Celtic are now in 18th.

This just adds to the ridiculousness of the needless changes to the UCL. There was no problem with the old format.

 

[Zidane98]

Screenshot was taken while City were leading PSG. City now in 25th (all they need to do to make it is beat Club Brugge at home), Celtic are now in 18th.

This just adds to the ridiculousness of the needless changes to the UCL. There was no problem with the old format.

It's a stupid format to shoehorn another few games in.

 

[Dylan8]

Nostalgia tripping for PAdman posting here

 

[Cooldude]

Bayern, Real, and City are all likely to win their final game. I think there's a chance PSG is our first knockout opponent?

 

[Zidane98]

Nostalgia tripping for PAdman posting here

Spaghetti legs.

 

[Cooldude]

PAdman out there devastated that spagetti legs lifted every possible trophy as Liverpool captain

 

[Mr Meow]

For 6 months in 2010 we had Cancer & aids owning the club and Woy managing the club.


Don't think it's ever going to get much worse.............

Guess the year that I arrived in Liverpool and started supporting the club.

It was grim times back then. I didn't even get the Rafa era beforehand.

 

[RossFC]

Our four possible opponents in the round of 16 as it currently stands

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Did the predictor and it could end up being this.

 

[RossFC]

Imagine any top 6 club having a summer window like this


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It says a lot that the biggest success in this window was Meireles who was flipped to Chelsea in January and Brad Jones who was a backup keeper.


This readds more like the transfer business of a promoted championship club at the time.

Damn we must have been rolling in the money back then.

15 years later and our window is 10mil on Chiesa. And -25mil net spend.

 

[RossFC]

 

[jod23]

All this 15th to 18th is redundant isnt it. Dont we get a free pass into the last 16 for finishing top 8. I actually have nfi how this format works haha

 

[RossFC]

All this 15th to 18th is redundant isnt it. Dont we get a free pass into the last 16 for finishing top 8. I actually have nfi how this format works haha

Yeah it's about who we could face in the round of 16. Those 4 teams.

 

[jod23]

Yeah it's about who we could face in the round of 16. Those 4 teams.

Yeah I see I see, I actually went and looked it up to see what happens in the knockout stage.

Hopefully with one game left that 15-18 spots change and it's not filled with bloody Real, Bayern and Juventus haha

 

[Zidane98]

Stan Collymore's birthday yesterday. You remember him...

Also well known for his dogging exploits....

 

[largebus]

Collymore basically won Man Utd the league after we tried to hand it to them from Blackburn the year before. Had Newcastle won that game they would've gone to the last day a point in front - probably would've still choked it though