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Agree. They won't go down, though. 10. Schalke 29 10 7 12 33:34 37 11. W.Bremen 30 8 11 11 40:56 35 12. Köln 30 10 5 15 40:57 35 13. Kaisersl. 30 9 7 14 40:48 34 14. Stuttgart 30 9 6 15 52:55 33 15. Frankfurt 30 9 6 15 29:40 33 16. Wolfsburg 30 6 11 13 34:44 29 17. St.Pauli 29 8 5 16 32:51 29 18. Gladbach 30 7 5 18 43:64 26 Well, it doesn´t look too good for them with 4 games remaining. Their remaining fixtures aren´t that brutal though, games against sides in 9th-13th place of the table but they definitely have A LOT to do if they want to remain in the liga. Especially considering they´ve only got 3 points in their last 6 games, this weekend´s 2-2 draw against St. Pauli really hurt their chances. I'd happily take a couple of their players off their hands. Diego (I guess we have HBA for that position anyway ), Hasebe, Schäfer the left back. I know many German fans will not shed a tear to see them go down anyway, in much the same way, Bayer Leverkusen (plastic club funded by Bayer and VW respectively) Felix Magath has been promised any car he wants out of the VW factory if he manages to keep the team up. Modestly enough he´s chosen a brand new Bentley. I thought he´d easily keep them up when he was appointed last month but the team has only managed 3 points in the 4 games they´ve played under him, next weekend´s game against FC Cologne will be absolutely crucial. edit: Actually, I just remembered that the team in 16th plays a play-off match against the team placed third in the 2nd division so they'll most likely be alright as long as they can keep themselves above St. Pauli and Gladbach. He could have gone for a Bugatti Veyron. That's a VW, isn't it?

His desire to sell Alonso to fund a move for Barry showed how daft he was. Saw the BBC interview with him a few weeks ago. Said he wanted to sell Alonso because of the home grown players rule which was on the horizon. Reckoned he could get a fair bit of cash for Alonso and then try to get young english players with the raised cash. Should have got rid of some of the other rubbish first though before even considering Alonso. Yeah. That was his motivation for trying to swap him for Barry and bringing in Keane. Alonso hadn't had the best season, but he was pure magic the season after. Then he left

His desire to sell Alonso to fund a move for Barry showed how daft he was. Still one of the most inexplicable decisions in football. The only bonus for Liverpool was that they didn't actually get Barry. Then after that narrow escape, made the same mistake 12 months later by selling Alonso anyway only to be replaced by a bloke who'd never played more than 20 league games in a season for about 5 years. Alonso wanted out at that point. Not much we could do about it. Spot on about Aquilani, though. Bizarre decision.

f*** yeah. 110%. We lay all of the blame for his iffy last season at the feet of the previous owners. Pretty much the only people who'd be against it would be the few oddballs who wanted him out long before then. Just checked his record and its not bad in the Premiership over the last few years but in domestic cups its shocking since 2005/06 and do you honestly think its a good idea him coming back after our debacle with Keegan ,it just doesnt work imho even though he probably thinks he was badly done too it will or would end in tears . Rafa was all about prioritising competitions, and he never thought twice about fielding a much weakened side in a cup (or the league if we were doing well in the CL) to keep his favoured side fresh for the more important games. Whatever his record in domestic competitions, under Rafa we were one of the very best sides in European competition. That meant an awful lot to us fans.

Fuck yeah. 110%. We lay all of the blame for his iffy last season at the feet of the previous owners. Pretty much the only people who'd be against it would be the few oddballs who wanted him out long before then.

Everyone thinks he's a knob but Terry.

Rangnick resigned after they sold Luis Gustavo behind his back. I was talking about when Schalke fired him before he went to Hoffenheim.

Bit of musical chairs going on. Magath is off back to Wolfsburg and Rangnick is on his way back to Schalke. They probably never should have fired Rangnick in the first place, but Assauer didn't like him. The longer I follow Schalke, the more convinced I am that they have a bad case of the Newcastles, and all their problems can be traced back to a bunch of tools running the club.

Is that the captain's handbag, John? http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/john-terry-transvestite.jpg

Probably. I think one of the silly sods married her.

From what I've heard, Terry is largely responsible for creating divisions in the England squad--both deliberately and incidentally as a result of fucking other players lasses--particularly with regard to LFC players. He likes to big himself up and create a them-or-me kind of atmosphere. Too much ego to be a good captain. Then again, it's kind of understandable seeing as half of Carragher's family has allegedly had a ride on his mum.

That's kind of a running joke. A RAWK member called Alonso specialises in these fake BBC front pages (he made this one), and a previous one had Poulsen sold to Stockport for £6.50 and a packet of peanuts. Type "christian poulsen" in google.co.uk and it's the 2nd suggestion.

He didn't "buy" the league by outspending others, but he was still pumping in much more cash than the club could generate, so that tarnishes the achievement for me, just as with Chelsea's league titles. I consider it similar to doping. Agree 100% re Man Utd (except the model club bit, but that's down to the Glazers). You can't begrudge them their success because they did it entirely off their own back. Still hate 'em, though I don't believe for a second that NUFC could be in the same league size-wise as Man Utd. Bigger than City or Chelsea, but not Man Utd. They have the kind of global cachet that only Real and Brazil can match. Barca are getting up there thanks to their current side, and clubs like Bayern, Ajax, Milan and us have the kind of legend borne of great teams past that gives us the potential to maybe get up to that level, but not if we don't put on a show for the younger generations pretty sharpish.

It's do-able if you're organised and concentrating on the CL. What a lot of people fail to consider is that the strongest teams are usually fighting on two fronts: league and CL. It's a rare and special side that can compete seriously in both, especially when nominally lesser teams are concentrating 100% on the CL. More often than not, league leaders that reach the CL final are walking their domestic league and can afford to rest players and devote more time to CL preparation. Saying that the 2005 Liverpool side was shit because we were so far behind Chelsea in the league is to totally miss that very important point. We were only aiming for 4th place in the league so we could concentrate resources on the CL. Milan were playing exactly the same game. When we played Chelsea in the 2005 semis, they were 30-odd points ahead in the league but knackered and injury-hit from their balls-out league push, while we were at full strength and fitness, but had sacrificed league points to concentrate on the CL.

Which makes the achievement even greater. If the sides we beat were so much "better", why didn't they beat us? Were you disgusted that Porto and Monaco beat Real and Man Utd to reach the 2004 final, or just in 2005 because it was Liverpool? Because everyone would rather watch Total Network Solutions and Young Boys Bern than Real Madrid and Arsenal. Fair enough if you think the CL/EC should only be for league champions, but let's not pretend the current format doesn't contain much better sides than the old one.

European Champions. It's great

And the two CL finals, winning one of them.

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Mourinho had his choice of literally any player in the world to built his defence around. He chose John Terry, and endorsed that decision by making him captain a short time after getting the Chelsea job. Not sure why you're bringing Carvalho into it. No, Mourinho based his defence around Carvalho, the guy he brought with him from Porto and took with him to Real. Much better defender than Terry, even if he's not the shouty, gee-'em-up type that makes a good captain.

Not exactly showing alot of confidence in the manager that brought him to the club He's been putting his foot in it quite a bit since he moved. Probably been learning from Terry, but due to the language barrier confused foot with dick.

So are Citeh, and Chelsea and ManU. Many managers have been able to splurge massively over the years, but it doesn't necessarily mean success. It has worked for Fergie and Mourinho because they know what they're doing, but it didn't work for Hughes or Ranieri. Souness spunked £50m at SJP and was a complete disaster. At our place, Hodgson spent £24m in one transfer window and took the side about 50 steps backwards... I agree that having had a metric fuckton of cash to spend is certainly an asterisk next to Kenny's achievements at Blackburn, but it absolutely doesn't warrant dismissing his contribution to their success. Perhaps Kenny is that type of manager that can only do a good job if he has lots of cash to spend, but relatively speaking we are one of those clubs. Would Blackburn have done so well with Hodgson at the helm? Would they fuck! Why did Liverpool hire Hodgson 20 years later then ? Because that was his first crack at a "big" club. And he emphatically demonstrated that he wasn't capable of leaving behind his mid-table, park-the-bus-and-lump-it mentality behind. It was reasonable to believe that a manager of his experience and relative success would rise to the challenge, but he had apparently forgotten that the long ball is a compromise strategy when you can't compete on quality, not the best way to play football when you have and can afford players who can really play.

So are Citeh, and Chelsea and ManU. Many managers have been able to splurge massively over the years, but it doesn't necessarily mean success. It has worked for Fergie and Mourinho because they know what they're doing, but it didn't work for Hughes or Ranieri. Souness spunked £50m at SJP and was a complete disaster. At our place, Hodgson spent £24m in one transfer window and took the side about 50 steps backwards... I agree that having had a metric fuckton of cash to spend is certainly an asterisk next to Kenny's achievements at Blackburn, but it absolutely doesn't warrant dismissing his contribution to their success. Perhaps Kenny is that type of manager that can only do a good job if he has lots of cash to spend, but relatively speaking we are one of those clubs. Would Blackburn have done so well with Hodgson at the helm? Would they fuck!

You don't think a 3-1 win, at home to Manchester United, with a Kuyt hattrick, deserves another goal? Then what does? Winning the league? Aye but if you're going to give a goal everytime they beat someone or give one to Parky everytime they lose it would be mental. If they win their next two fair enough but you could argue Parky deserves two for them drawing with Wigan at home and getting hammered off West Ham! But it's not 'everytime they beat someone' - it's the league leaders Manchester United, who they walked all over. It's not like they beat Blackpool 1-0. I just don't think that Liverpool have done well enough under Dalglish to be beating Parky 4-1. Why not? Hodgson "masterminded" our worst start in half a century and had us flirting with relegation. Dalglish has got us up in the European places. We're averaging nearly twice as many points per match under Kenny, and we look like an entirely different side. Let's face facts: Parky appears to have met his match

Yeah. It was a pretty clear-cut red card, and the injury could have been a lot worse. On the other hand, if Nani had been wearing shin pads instead of playing cards, it might have just hurt a lot.

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