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20 Jan 2014 19:03:56
claiming we're in for Hernanes of lazio, anything in that?

24 Nov 2013 10:30:06
Hi Eds

Just wondering what the situation is with martin Kelly?
always seemed a good player but br don't seem to rate him.
flanno was excellent though {Ed001's Note - he just needs managing as he comes back from a long term injury, that is all. It took Ramsey two years to get back to his best after one, Kelly will need time as well.}

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10 May 2015 18:19:47
Hi ed001

Thanks for replying to my mignolet question, have another I would like your thoughts on, and also any other BR haters.

Basically you don't rate BR at all, so my question is where do you think last seasons success in the PL comes down too?

Obviously BR deserves at leastsome credit?but do you think it was a mixture of a few other things e.g Suarez, no European football etc

{Ed001's Note - yes, it was a combination of other teams being awful and us being on a roll. He did some good things, but not everything.}

1.) 10 May 2015 21:10:06
Lol eds credit where credit is due!

Gerrard doesn't slip - 19th league title, everyone does everything they can do divert the blame from gerrard, his fault none elses

2.) 10 May 2015 20:48:48
Ed001 did he not take on board a conversation with beisla last season before our form changed?

{Ed001's Note - yes and it is ridiculous to suggest Gerrard's slip was the sole reason we didn't win the league. If we had played well in the first half of the season, we would have had the league wrapped up long before the Chelsea match. If we had managed to get a defence together that could work as a unit, we would have wrapped up the league regardless of Chelsea games. The fact that we were playing so poorly in the first half of the season that Rodgers needed to seek advice on how to fix the issues means that he had accepted that he was not getting it right, so how can Gerrard be the sole reason? I am probably Gerrard's biggest critic, but there is no way on earth he deserves to get the blame for us failing to win the league, it should have been sewn up long before he slipped.}

3.) 10 May 2015 23:33:17
I think last season was obviously down to Sturridge and Suarez on fire, Sterling dropping in just behind them feeding off their havoc, and Coutinho, Hendo and Gerard showing the creativity and vision, showering the front 2/3 with assists and feeding the fast breaks and movement. Rogers did well to play to it's strengths but likewise he shouldn't have completely disbanded the winning formula this season.

This season we've obviously lacked any goal scoring talent, but more than than, we've also changed up the system considerably which in my opinion has made us far less direct and also hurt us badly. The midfield has often included Lucas or Allen (both lack something going forward), and we've also played with a front 3 or wing backs which has forced us to play far wider than before, making it easier for teams to push us out wide and cut off the danger. We've lacked anyone in the box to convert chances and/or better natural crossers of the ball, so teams have been relatively comfortable pushing us wide then clearing the danger. How many times today did we go wide then fail to cross the ball into anything like a dangerous area?

I don't mind the 4-3-3 with Coutinho, Hendo and a DM behind a front 3, but we clearly need to use our pace better to get in behind, plus get a versatile goalscorer upfront. I still long for the diamond though.

4.) 11 May 2015 01:23:10
The system that was proposed to him by Bielsa which worked so well is not his preferred system and the utter rubbish we all saw in the first half of the season, via his preferred system, proves that. Ironically, it was Bielsa's system we reverted to this season that got us going again since Jan so what does that say about belief in his own abilites and system which is a proven failure? His arrogance cost us the league and that is a fact hence, blaming it on SG is the poorest excuse for a reason for our inability to win it last season, I've ever heard.

10 May 2015 16:56:16
Hi ed001

Simon mignolet has improved a lot recently & I do quite rate him despite his obvious flaws, you still state we need a new keeper, just interested to hear you talk a bit deeper about it e.g your thoughts on his weaknesses that need to be replaced etc

{Ed001's Note - I would like to know what you think his strengths are as well. I mean when was the last time you saw him pull off a save that looked impossible? I have seen De Gea and Courtois and even Hart do that this season, but Migs has not saved a single shot that you wouldn't expect a half decent keeper to make.

Added to that, he is still woeful with his distribution, he fails to command his area at all, he doesn't organise the defence, he flaps at crosses, all the things people have moaned about before he got dropped he is still doing. The one change he has made is being more decisive, he no longer dithers so much, which is important, but he needs to work on every other aspect of his game.

You just know that if he is put under pressure he will make a mistake, whether it is a sliced clearance, a poor punch, or something else, he will make a mistake each time he is under pressure.}

1.) 10 May 2015 18:04:04
Agree with you Ed001 but have you seen the Cruyff turns Migs does when he's under pressure but has the ball at his feet!

2.) 10 May 2015 18:16:50
Like many of our players he is a good premier league player, but he's not at a level we should be satisfied with for a first team regular.

Red Rum

3.) 10 May 2015 18:28:56
It has been a better second half of the season for Mignolet, and he has shown an improvement, particularly with being more decisive. He is a decent player, and next season, the hope will be that he improves.

As a side not, I see that LFC have given a two-year extension to Lawrence Vigouroux (21) who I think will now fill in to be the 3rd choice 'keeper for next season, and with Brad Jones leaving (out of contract this summer), and I now expect Danny Ward (21) to leave too as he too is out of contract. So, very likely that we will be bringing in a 2nd choice 'keeper to push Mignolet.

{Ed002's Note - Brad Jones is not out of contract this summer - but the club want him out. They will likely need to buy him out of his contract and pay up wages, bonuses, insurance etc..}

4.) 10 May 2015 18:38:57
We should turn to one of the young German keepers but saying that though he is not the worst goalkeeper that we have had during the BPL years.

{Ed002's Note - Any random young German goalkeeper? Great transfer policy.}

5.) 10 May 2015 18:48:09
If we don't buy a top keeper and a top striker then we won't be at the end everyone wants us to be . Also a top midfielder as coutinho seems the only one there of top 4 quality . Was nice of Rodgers to take stevie off , so he gets a "ovation" . Bloody scandalous

6.) 10 May 2015 18:48:36
Bit confused on this one, Ed002. Transfermarkt has Jones' contract running through until next season, yet several generally decent journalists and papers have said specifically out of contract this summer. Is there a specific reason this seems to be so confused?

{Ed002's Note - Maybe the journalists are confused by the behaviour of the club to make commitments to the player and then withdraw them.}

7.) 10 May 2015 19:38:50
One from left field:Any interest in Kasper Scmeichel from Leicester ? Reminds me a lot about his dad prior to him going to Man U.

{Ed002's Note - No.}

8.) 10 May 2015 20:02:17
Feel sorry for Brad Ed do you?

Will Neto be happy to arrive as number 2 do you think though?

{Ed002's Note - (a) Yes. (b) I have no idea.}

9.) 10 May 2015 20:21:16
Feel sorry for Brad erm not sure that's life,in all walks of life you get told your safe in your job to your face and things change overnight move on it does make you stronger in life.

10.) 10 May 2015 20:52:52
Like a stated above migs won't inprove unless he gets the right coaching, we NEED a decent coaching staff period

11.) 10 May 2015 21:16:35
Feel sorry for brad? Made a super living doing noThing for 5 years lol he can get off the wage bill, he will get another job with an alright wage. time for ward on the bench!

And mignolet needs to be gone this summer he's awful,.does anyone else feel that he never saves those first attempts against big teams like it feels that it first chance first goal, he only saves.what should be saved. Hysterical when he gets called a good shot stopper, ain't he a keeper? It's the rest of the stuff that elevates you to professional level! (distribution, commands, decisiveness,reading of the game, pace, two good feet) by the logic of shot stopper anyone can becomes an keeper, I was terrific at it!

{Ed002's Note - Maybe you could see Brad Jones off in the way Liverpool supporters do best, daubing abuse on the stadium and a hate page on social media.}

12.) 10 May 2015 21:41:34
KFC reading your posts seems as tho rodgers foot in mouth has wore of on you well done suits you sir ha ha

13.) 10 May 2015 21:56:24
Handanovic would be good

14.) 11 May 2015 02:37:52
I don't feel sorry for a premier league footballer if they lose their contract. They don't need the money and they will still get comparatively fabulously paid at a championship club.

Brad has had his troubles in other areas which I have a large amount of sympathy and compassion for.

15.) 11 May 2015 09:07:10
Neto is no better than Jones, I have seen him on a handful of occasions and he seems to have made a massive blunder. Mignolet is doing okay but if the club is to sign a keeper they should make it a real competition in my opinion Neto wouldn't be that, although I have only seen him a few times so I might have just seen some games which he has been poor in

25 Dec 2014 18:38:09
Hey ed001

Just wondering if you like to read and if so would like to recommend any autobiographys (and anyone else) regarding LFC

I have read carra's, bellamys and now reading suarez's

Carra's and bellamys were good

{Ed001's Note - I do love to read, but I have to say I am not a big fan of autobiographies as they are never truly autobiographies. How can you trust what is said when they lie about who wrote them? It is about time anything ghostwritten was not allowed to be called an autobiography! Sorry I will get off my soapbox now.

I have read hundreds of them, I would suggest avoiding Hamann's, though it is clearly not written by a professional! It just doesn't really have much to say other than him trying to justify his smoking while being a professional athlete. Plus it is dead short, I got it last Crimbo and had finished it before lunch.

Dalglish and Fowler's are the two I would recommend. I would also suggest the scouting diary of one man who was a major part responsible for the club's success - Geoff Twentyman. It is called something like 'The Secret Diary Of A Liverpool Scout' and is taken from the notes he kept while Liverpool's scout throughout our years of success. It is really interesting.}

16 Dec 2014 20:29:45
Hey ed001

In Rodgers first season we were awful first half of the season, but if I'm not mistaken (not 100% sure on this) only utd got more points than us in the second half of the season?
So was it only last season Rodgers had the team playing well, and has he already proved he can turn things around?
Or do you fully believe he is not the right man and is not capable of turning this around?

{Ed001's Note - it is not that much better a record from what I can see looking at it. Maybe my eyes are deceiving me but I don't see anything outstanding about the record in the 12/13 season, first or second half. If my eyes are correct, we picked up 5 more points in the second half of the season than we did in the first. I certainly don't remember us playing well either.

For me he has proven that he can't buy players, can't pick a side, can't get the best out of players for an extended period and is incapable of moulding a side that wants to play together. Also that he talks too much and says all the wrong things. Oh and that he will look to blame anyone and anything other than himself for every bad thing, while looking to take the credit for himself for every good thing that happens.

After Sterling had one game, following a lengthy slump, it was all about how 'I had a word with him', rather than just saying well done Raheem you played well. He is incapable, in my opinion, though I would love him to prove me wrong, I just don't see a single sign of him doing that.}

23 Nov 2014 16:46:39
Hey ed001

Sorry was meant to ask this on my lady question & forgot,

You said you would take klopp in a heartbeat, but he got Dortmund playing well & everyone fell in love with him, and now Dortmund are in 'crisis', isn't that pretty much the same thing that's happened with Rodgers?

{Ed001's Note - no, Klopp has been losing his best players for years and still manages to lift up Dortmund time after time. This time he is struggling but you would not bet against him fixing it.}

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