I am actually very scared now that we won't make top 4. Obviously football is a very hard game to predict, however i think it would be us, Arsenal and Liverpool battling it out for that 3rd and 4th spot. With this signing, they might actually challenege for the league again. Forget replacing Suarez, that was basically impossible for them, however in Balotelli they have a striker who can form a deadly partnership with Sturridge and Sterling.
Those three on top can cause havoc to any defence in this world.
We all know that we need to go out and get players, this signing here should trigger Woodword and LVG to go out all blazing and sign some real talent. Alonso and Khedira as Scholes said are two players we can genuinely get, they are surplus to requirements.
Liverpool just signed Balotelli
posted on 21/8/14
Just like Welbeck and Rooney's is massively overrated., Where the fark did that get us last year.
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Nowhere, but it won us the title the year before and twelve others with SAF prior to that.
posted on 21/8/14
Well they did not do too bad last year did they?
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Because they had a world class and very good striker both in the form of their lives, they actually conceded there most number of goals in a league season for around a century.
Liverpool were a fluke exception, no team with such a bad defence will challenge again for a very long time.
posted on 21/8/14
Because I don't see Liverpool improving with two lazy forwards.
Their system is reliant on players putting a shift in. Suarez' work rate is massively under rated.
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Sturridge isn't lazy, and Sterling's work-rate is absolutely ferocious. Add that to the likes of Henderson, Coutinho, Can and Allen who also provide bags of energy in midfield and Balotelli could be accomodated, even if Rodgers can't get him to up his work rate.
We improved massively as last season went on, we finished the season streets ahead of where we started it in terms of cohesion. To be honest, I think anyone hoping we'd collapse after Suarez's sale will be sorely disappointed. He's class, but it was other areas of the team that improved to make us the beast we were in the 2nd half of the season.
Sturridge scores in most games he plays, and Suarez's absence in the first team could always have been mitigated somewhat by Sturridge playing on his own up top with Coutinho and Sterling in supporting roles. It was in the instance of an injury to Sturridge that we REALLY would have seen the full impact of Suarez's sale, because you were talking about Lambert, Borini or Markovic coming into a first 11 missing both of its top scorers the previous season.
That's been remedied with the signing of Balotelli; he can play with Sturridge or he can spearhead the attack on his own if Sturridge is injured or rested. He's not as good as Suarez, but he doesn't really need to be, either. We're getting a full season of Sterling at a higher level than he started last season, and Rodgers has a bettter grasp of how to use his players effectively than he did at the start of last season.
I think we've gone about mitigating Suarez's loss brilliantly, and can't see us dropping our level much - if at all - without him.
posted on 21/8/14
I love how people think playing the same system that won 16 out of 19 PL games will somehow be detrimental to Liverpool.
posted on 21/8/14
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posted on 21/8/14
no chance of us making top 4 this season
posted on 21/8/14
RBW lets see how it all pans out, I didn't expect us to have the season we did last season. Onwards and upwards. The Red Devils will march on decades from now and last season will be a distant memory.
posted on 21/8/14
hope you a right Hafi!!!
posted on 21/8/14
I would be happy if my username expectation comes true.
posted on 22/8/14
It won't