redtrader74 wrote:What is important is the games that coincide with the African Nations cup, that is where Chelsea and Arsenal could fall down.
that's actually a very good point.
stmichael wrote:redtrader74 wrote:What is important is the games that coincide with the African Nations cup, that is where Chelsea and Arsenal could fall down.
that's actually a very good point.
redtrader74 wrote:stmichael wrote:redtrader74 wrote:What is important is the games that coincide with the African Nations cup, that is where Chelsea and Arsenal could fall down.
that's actually a very good point.
They will lose players from around the 10th Jan to 10th Feb, depending on how far the relevant teams go.
LFC2007 wrote:redtrader74 wrote:stmichael wrote:redtrader74 wrote:What is important is the games that coincide with the African Nations cup, that is where Chelsea and Arsenal could fall down.
that's actually a very good point.
They will lose players from around the 10th Jan to 10th Feb, depending on how far the relevant teams go.
I think some may go earlier to train and prepare with their respective teams.
bigmick wrote:I think this "zonal-marking" thing is a bit of an urban myth to b honest. I've always been an advocate of the system and its various derivatives, and the problem Liverpool had when Rafa first introduced it was not the system itself, it was that the players weren't playing it very well. This added to the Andy Gray factor, whereby he spent hours going on about the system even though he patently obviously doesn't understand its fundamentals, meant that many "pundits" slagged of the employment of such a "European" way of defending.
That the great Liverpool teams of the seventies and eighties employed a form of zonal marking, and many teams in the Premiership did and continue so to do as well was seemingly irrelavent, Rafa was a fool for bringing this brand new system over here and expecting it to work. I remember doing long posts at the time and boring everyone senseless with the technicalities, but like many of the "anti-rotators" I was and remain an advocate of defending zonally. Rafa and his team deserve great credit for being brave enough to stick to their guns when the players couldn't get their heads around it, but they didn't introduce it to English football by any means.
I'm not saying this about you BM, but I have seen it said a couple of times on here when people are defending rotation "well remember what they said about zonal marking etc etc ". Not so in my case I'm afraid.
Alonso14 wrote:Rafa will stop rotating as much when he has got players he can trust.
Ace Ventura wrote:Alonso14 wrote:Rafa will stop rotating as much when he has got players he can trust.
I actually disagree, i think he trusted players last season and they either let him down or were just not good enough.
He probably will rotate this season like the previous 3, lets just hope that the players he is bringing in are good enough to make it not matter.
Thats what cost us last season imo.
Ace Ventura wrote:Alonso14 wrote:Rafa will stop rotating as much when he has got players he can trust.
I actually disagree, i think he trusted players last season and they either let him down or were just not good enough.
He probably will rotate this season like the previous 3, lets just hope that the players he is bringing in are good enough to make it not matter.
Thats what cost us last season imo.
stmichael wrote:Ace Ventura wrote:Alonso14 wrote:Rafa will stop rotating as much when he has got players he can trust.
I actually disagree, i think he trusted players last season and they either let him down or were just not good enough.
He probably will rotate this season like the previous 3, lets just hope that the players he is bringing in are good enough to make it not matter.
Thats what cost us last season imo.
exactly. it's one thing trusting a player but whether or not he's good enough is an entirely different matter.
look at zenden for example. rafa trusted him in the big european games for his experience. however was he ever going to win you a game or produce anything?
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