Wouldn't lose too much sleep over it, the reality is you are no worse off than Utd and Arsenal in the grand scheme of things.

You lost Suarez and then Sturridge, that will hinder any team, Arsenal without Sanchez for example, United without Rooney.

In my view Origi should have arrived early once you had no striker effectively, Ballotelli clearly struggled, Origi is a fast mother and would have fitted Liverpool nicely and expanded play which whenever i have watchwed just seems pretty pedestrian other than when Stirling has a run.

Rodgers has the final say on ALL player's coming in to your club. He even said this

" I have the final say on all player's and if i don't want a certain player he won't be signed. The committee helps identify players as do I and we work from there to get them here."

So don't blame the committee , there all BRs players 100%.

The shît has just hit the fan.
The fraudster has been found out.

Fraudster?????

It was Liverpool who incredibly finished 2nd last year wasn't it?

When was the last time they had done that?

Cinc

Suarez. Simple.

Wasn't the committee only put in place this season because of BRs poor record with transfers previously? And he is part of it and signs off all transfers. I think a DoF might be a better shout than the committee though.
Don't trust BR with full control of transfers.

Agree with other parts (again if he stays). We should go with a diamond really, 4-3-3 doesn't suit us. And put people in their proper positions, didn't get to see the game but heard Markovic came on as a RB

The committee has been in place since day 1.

FSG wanted a DOF (could have been LVG funnily enough), Rodgers didn't, so committee was the compromise.

The signing of Balotelli has been an absolute disaster, and heads should roll somewhere for that alone.

Unless stated otherwise the buck stops at the manager when it comes to the signing of Balotelli. Rodgers did make out that his mother Theresa way of management will be able to reform Balotelli when in fact we have made him even worse.

Balotelli is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to our poor transfer business.

I don't think Balotelli is the tip of iceberg.

For me his signing (and subsequent poor use of him) is the key reason for our failure to score goals this season, and if you can't score goals then you can't have confidence throughout the team.

Really you are putting all the blame on Balotelli when the likes of Lovren, Moreno and Markovic have all been bad?

Did we really need Lallana?

Lambert another who the manager has no faith in.

Im not blaming Balotelli.

He is what he is.

I'm blaming those who decided to buy him, and Rodgers for his bad use of him.

Need to forget about Sturridge from now on, it'll just ruin your plans long term

rodgers has criminally misused balotelli, and hes a scapegoat for a poor season. he will only ever work in a two, we can all see that, but for some reason brendan cant.

We should be back playing the diamond with balo and sterling up top at the minute, but for some reason, rodgers will only use sterling as a lone striker, i wonder if his hesitation to go back to two up top this season is because he would struggle to fit lallana, markovic, ibe in the teams, and two of those he signed for over £40m

brendan was saying we would not sign balo, no way, he even laughed at the prospect, right until it turned out we were getting him, then he swiftly changed his tune

i actually think, given a run of games, a suitable playstyle and a strike partner balo could be a player for us, i dont think it will ever happen,

comment by WHL Lifer #2 (U9994)
posted 5 hours, 38 minutes ago
Cinc

Suarez. Simple.
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Up in the early hours of the morning banging the same tired drum.

Loser.

wonder if his hesitation to go back to two up top this season is
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We let in shít loads of goals.

comment by Robbing_Hoody - putting the bureaucracy into footballism since 1979 (U6374)
posted 1 minute ago
wonder if his hesitation to go back to two up top this season is
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We let in shít loads of goals.
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and now we cant score ANY, when was the last game we actually looked like we could score everytime we went forward?

balos debut against spurs?

since then we have struggled for cohesion in attack, and have scored less than half the goals we did last season, in fact i dont see us even getting half.

And the attack is not entirely to blame, yesterday in the 80th minute 1-0 down we were passing it sideways across the halfway line, for a good minute. then we moved it forward 12 yards and did the same, by which time their defense was set up,and there were too many bodies to pass through

thats been the case all season

Yep. We don't have the player to play either system well.

which is strange, we could have bought FOR the diamond.

i just think brendan, wanted to revert to 4-3-3 which we always look useless in, he was also an admirer of the way lallana plays football. he bought for a 4-3-3 in my opinion, then panic bought balo when we werent getting any of our primary transfer targets.

i still think our problems lie in signing the players, we would be a different prospect had we managed to convince mhki and sanchez to come here.

They would have suited the diamond

Bali was never a Rodgers signing. Doesn't fit the style of pace and movement and hardwork. Plus his statement weeks before Balo signed.
His tactics are baffling given the players available. Balo needs a partner like he had at spurs and tahe em cud do that
4 diamond 2 for remaining games pls?

i actually think, given a run of games, a suitable playstyle and a strike partner balo could be a player for us

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That's right. No matter how detached from reality this statement actually is You keep banging that drum IRU.

We shouldn't ditch everything to get the best out of Balotelli.

He's not worth it.

What we need to do is sell him an go back to what we were doing when we were good.

comment by Pâî§Lë¥'š _P䆆ê®ÑëÐ_ÐrÊåm§ (U1541)
posted 15 minutes ago
i actually think, given a run of games, a suitable playstyle and a strike partner balo could be a player for us

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That's right. No matter how detached from reality this statement actually is You keep banging that drum IRU.


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how is it detached from reality?

milan set up to supply him, he rewarded them with goals.

IF we set up to play to his strengths (as we did for suarez last year) then he would reward us with goals, the question is just do we want to go 4-4-2 and fling early crosses at him?

probably not, but its still not the players fault he has been bought for a system that doesnt suit him, for a manager that doesnt want him, and is hardly being given gametime

I mean vs spurs

Now we have Balo and little other choice we shud try to set up to get the best from him by playing with a partner who has pace(studge or sterling) . So playing the diamond would make sense as it suits Balo and Coutinho and if can or Lucas are in the dm role then hendo and Allen can scurry about doing what they do.
Other than that playing manquillo (who must have knobbed Rodgers mom to be so unused!) at rb and then skrtel and sahko and Moreno wen all fit
Reckon that wud see us scoring and winning again

Football is about players first and foremost and you're only as good as your strikers.

Ours are shít. There. I said it.

I've defended Balo but 22 touches is shít. I could get 22 touches if I busted a gut.