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Reinas No.1 Fan wrote:

Stu.Murph wrote:I also completely disagree with what you say about yard dogs. Its part of football, you're going to get a Robbie Savage and Sissoko, good players will just simply out play these types of players. Its as simple as that. Can you imagine either of them coming up against Joe Cole or someone in central midfield? They wouldn't get near him.

I seem to remember Sissoko kept a certain goofy trisha looalike very very quiet during a recent game against barcalona. Cant get much better than that for a creative and brilliant player.

However im not saying robbie savage could do the same.   

Stu.Murph wrote:

Reinas No.1 Fan wrote:

Stu.Murph wrote:I also completely disagree with what you say about yard dogs. Its part of football, you're going to get a Robbie Savage and Sissoko, good players will just simply out play these types of players. Its as simple as that. Can you imagine either of them coming up against Joe Cole or someone in central midfield? They wouldn't get near him.

I seem to remember Sissoko kept a certain goofy trisha looalike very very quiet during a recent game against barcalona. Cant get much better than that for a creative and brilliant player.

However im not saying robbie savage could do the same.   

Behave yaself.

No 

Ace Ventura wrote:

Stu.Murph wrote:

Ace Ventura wrote:I have said for years that i think all clubs release youth team players far too early.
My mate same age as me was with Tranmere as a kid, imo (possibly biased) he was the best kid about and played for Merseyside same team as Gerrard and Jason Koumas and was in the same Tranmere team as Jason, and another few lads, well only Jason was taken on from Tranmere after the YTS, which was obviously the right choice, the others ended up at welsh clubs one of them Tommy Holmes (year below me in our school) played for TNS against us last year.
Point is they were on peanuts, and just discarded when Tranmere were bringing in ageing players on bumper contracts and hardly playing them like Liam O'Brien. I know this is an LFC forum but we are just as guilty Davey Thompson was f'cked off on the cheap cos we wanted to persevere with Leonhardson who cost 4 million but was sh!te.

Just a couple of examples that baffle me, there will be many more, i cant see why these young lads arent given longer as we are paying them next to nothing anyway.

Thompson in fairness was sold for Barmby, not Leonhardson. Thompson also said he wanted to go as he felt he wouldn't have had the chance. Which was a mistake on his part as Houllier wasn't about to beg him to stay.

Stephen Wright was the one for me. He could have been and should have been a quality player and our current right back. Instead we sold him and brought in Xavier... Why?

It was Leonhardson keeping him out of the side that started the frustration, the signing of Barmby probably hammered the final nail in the coffin.

It was mystifying about Wright, Xavier was garbage and was probably on really high wages as well.

Barmby.














































































Ok then Leonhardson...

Rafa-Dodd wrote:

Stu.Murph wrote:I've been playing fairly regularly with a premiership player this season who's played for England at a senior level (no not Dean Ashton ), I won't give more away than that as I don't want to get the player into any trouble with his club, and I have to say the gap isn't as big as some would imagine.

Blatant "I play with a footballer" post 

Get lost ya fat little munchkin!

Rafa-Dodd wrote:

Stu.Murph wrote:I've been playing fairly regularly with a premiership player this season who's played for England at a senior level (no not Dean Ashton ), I won't give more away than that as I don't want to get the player into any trouble with his club, and I have to say the gap isn't as big as some would imagine.

Blatant "I play with a footballer" post 

Anyway, what that should have read is he plays with us.

Rafa-Dodd wrote:Who you calling a fat munchen hey! Watch ye back from the internet tough guys


  How dare you be so rude and politically incorrect.


Its a obese munchen thank you very much

Not munchen!

Munchkin!

Rafa-Dodd wrote:Birkenhead Rules Over Liverpool - FACT

Go an support Tranmere then!

Right boys, i'll stop with the banter before you accuse me of insulting your family and I get my final warning. Have fun.

Stu.Murph wrote:

Rafa-Dodd wrote:Birkenhead Rules Over Liverpool - FACT

Go an support Tranmere then!

Right boys, i'll stop with the banter before you accuse me of insulting your family and I get my final warning. Have fun.

Blatant "look at what a bad boy I am - on my final warning"

Sabre wrote:

Stu.Murph wrote:

Rafa-Dodd wrote:

Stu.Murph wrote:I've been playing fairly regularly with a premiership player this season who's played for England at a senior level (no not Dean Ashton ), I won't give more away than that as I don't want to get the player into any trouble with his club, and I have to say the gap isn't as big as some would imagine.

Blatant "I play with a footballer" post 

Anyway, what that should have read is he plays with us.

How does that affect to LFC's youth system?

When I knew that some players played amateur games I was shocked. Should a Spaniard player do this, and he'd face a good fine inmediatly. Do a thread about that kind of games with premier players, it would be interesting!

About this matter, I'd like to ask because I know fúck all about the academy and it's details.

1) Is that news confirmed? that's to say, who else does say that besides Balague? (I mean the news that Rafa wanted him out, but for the quotes I read, it seems quite obvious he wanted to stay. If so, a proper explanation of Rafa would be nice)

2) Can be blamed entirely to the academy the lack of youngsters in the first team, or to first team management instead?

In this forum I feel like the too patient poster with every player of the squad guy. And I think that's the kind of patience you need with youngsters growing in the first team.

Meaning, if a young Danish international has the jury out(or Stu, for that matter)   after his first season in the club with regular football, then I don't see a good environment for developing youngsters. No matter how good they are, they need getting experience.

I'd personally would be surprised if Rafa wanted direct control over the academy. That wouldn't be the Spanish standard in any club with a decent youth system. So if it's true that he wants Heighway out, it must be because he doesn't like the work being done.

Learn to speak propper english then come back...