The College Dropout

A year in the Championship did Colo the world of good. Sure it could benefit Haidara too.

I don't know what people are arguing about. Benitez was overall a very good L'pool manager. Dalglish is a legend and had a superb half season. Rodgers is building something the fans can support. Hodgson was none of the above. The end.

FIFA will fix it, France will cheat and go through. We can blame managers but France have been a second rate nation for awhile now.

AOC is a central player imo. In any case Townsend has earned his spot.

Zaha is still pretty much a "local lad". From what i've heard he mostly hangs around the type of places most 20 year olds hang out from Croydon. e.g. not China Whites and other known London footballer haunts.

We were 13th when Roy was sacked (25 points in 20 games) , and not 7th. After his sacking, we had the 2nd best record in the league (after United) in second half of that season. Then f*** knows why Dalglish abandoned his passing game and formula and built a team around Andy f***ing Carroll. Also, the other 3 are praised (Despite their managerial deficiencies) because they defended the club and the city and talked the club up, as opposed to bringing the club down and undermining the fans. I am sure you'll appreciate a manager who'll go out there and say : "I want this club to be competitive with the very best in the country. I want to win many games and bring pride back to the shirt. With the support of the fans we can do it. I'll protect the values of this club and we'll grow together" as opposed to someone a manager saying : "an away win is rare (historic)" . Hodgson was absolutely crap at Liverpool and a c*** to boot. People are just sticking the boot in because they don't like Liverpool. This.

He said one more time you know.

Benitez won trophies. 2 CL finals, 1 win. We idolise Kev for less. Dalglish is a legend. Arguably their greatest player ever. Rodgers side is based around youth and looks to have tremendous potential.He has a philosophy the supporters can get behind.

He's qualified - big whoop. He's on par. He's also in this position where the media have pretended that they don't have high expectactions which has helped a little. IMO he's L'pool's Big Sam. It's just a bad fit. Any successful L'pool manager has to have the big grand ambitions, spirit of Shankly, best fans in the world etc. They need to have a certain authority while being a victim when it suits them. Fundamentally, a die-hard pragmatist isn't going to work at L'pool unless they get tremendous results. I couldn't see Hodgson at any of the other bigger clubs in England. I rate Clarke higher than Hodgson. Hodgson's better than Pardew but not by a massive distance.

L'pool was too big for Hodgson. He signed Konchesky ffs.

I think Welbeck has to start when fit. Even if it means Welbeck or Townsend on the bench. He's stupidly dynamic.

Welbeck will drop to the bench eventually. Not sure about that. He's versatile in the sense you wouldn't be scared to play him against Robben or someone. It's things like this that makes my eyes bleed on this forum. Putting an attacker on to defend the other teams attacker. SAF did it. And tbf he has the energy to get back up and attack. In an England shirt you never keep Welbeck quiet. He'll cause problems even if he misses loads. Walcott is liable for the MIA performances.

Welbeck will drop to the bench eventually. Not sure about that. He's versatile in the sense you wouldn't be scared to play him against Robben or someone.

True. But it was such a big deal because it's so rare.

Townsend really trying to put Walcott out the team.

Steady.

Baines is much better against weak opposition definitely. But i'm unsure about him when he has to spend most of the game defending. Tbh he's probably earned the right to get tested at that level. But with Cashley you know he'll never be taken for a mug defensively.

Unfair on the African teams especially. No matter what they do on the continent they'll be low seeds and end up in very difficult groups.

Most are failed glory hunters - let's be honest. Most from the KK era but some from the SBR era. That's what success brings. Ashleys done some major damage to the NUFC brand.

Aye, most of them will be lving in the UK. This way they can all be together.

Aye Fletcher's class.

Suarez embarassed him the last timt they met-up IIRC

It's THAT f***ing boring. Would be happy with it though be a huge upgrade on Taylor IMO. And he's a unit, which people seem to he crying out for Huge upgrade on Taylor? He's first and foremost a RB who's got similar weaknesses to Taylor at CB in addition to being small. Agree that's he's not really a CB and if he is.. he has huge weaknesses similar to Taylor. However he has a tremendous leap does Richards.

This is wrong, very wrong.

Aye, don't Madrid view their youth set-up as something they do to provide players for the rest of the league/divisions and the signings end up paying for the whole thing anyway. When you consider all the good but not world class players they've had come through the system it starts to make sense.