Boocity » Tue Sep 23, 2014 11:41 am wrote:Take it easy Stu, this is a forum and people are here to debate, ok if you don't agree with anothers point of view then thats fine, put your argument forward but theres no need for questioning their support because they are not born in liverpool or personal attacks.
You can have a go at me now because I agree with some of these points, last season was not only about Suarez, yes he is a great player and scored some fantastic goals but we also did well when he wasn't playing. Its also not just not about chucking 11 players on the pitch and say do your own thing, tactics are vital and BR got his attacking tactics spot on last year just as he got the defense wrong.
When some muppet who's never even watched a live game, been to anfield or has no qualifications in a field calls someone's views ridiculous and personally insults me then I won't "take it easy" what so ever. Numpty's who's support numorous teams and think they're the oracle, yet have no concept of real football other than f*cking championship manager do my wick in to be perfectly honest with you. Disagree all you like, have a different opinion, look at the way I repsonded to Yakka in comparrisson.
I have no problem with conflicting views that are backed up with reasonable arguement and logic and am very open to learning new things and hearing new ideas, but the fact is, if you're going to talk complete and utter garbage and pathetic rubbish and tell me a square has 8 sides then you're going to get called clueless muppet.
You've said we done well when he wasn't playing, did we really? Three 1-0 wins, a poor away draw and in every match we scraped the 1-0 win. We didn't play well at all when Suarez wasn't in the side. Sturridge scored a couple of goals but by no means were we dominant and in control in any of those games. You mention tactics, but tactics won't win you a league. Great players win you a league, great teams consist of great players. You may get away with not having a world class player if you have 11 players with the ability of Sterling or Coutinho in your side, but we don't. Suarez made the difference for us. That much is obvious. Tactics are very overated in football as are managers roles in "creating" these said tactics. Players very often define tactical play and players quality often defines its effectiveness. Gerrard at 34, has never ever learnt, to not play long range passes and switches of play, thats how he is, thats how he's always been, how he always will be... if one of LFC's top 10 players of all time can't adapt properly to a short passing game, how on earth do you expect average and decent premier league players like Henderson and others to do so? As I've said a million times, you can bang on about tactics and all that boll0cks, because thats what most of it is, boll0cks. Tacitcs will win you a two leg tie in europe, it will win you the odd game, quality players win you trophies, consistency and make you a great team.
Tactically it would be impossible for every manager to get it right all the time, I personally think that the very best managers tactically get it right 25% of the time, the rest of it is down to how good the players they have at their disposal are. And Rodgers, has not spent the money wisely and we lack real quality.
Balotelli is a quality player. You can see in his touch and awareness how good the lad is, he's never a great goalscorer, but he's got that touch of class. However, you can also see how much the side misses Suarez in comparrison to him. Another three or four through the door with the same level of ability as Balotelli and we may have a team that can challenge again, but the system doesn't suit him either. He will improve with Daniel Sturridge's return, of that I have no doubt at all.
The money this summer, should have been spent on players to improve the first 11. Tevez, Begovic, Lovren, Richards (I'd have had Lallana at the right price) and someone lilke Schneiderlin or Wanyama. Also, Remy at £8,500,000 would have been a superb signing and is of similar style to Tevez and Sturridge as well as probably being as good as Daniel so you don't lose much if anything when Danny is injured. Manquillo still could have come on loan... leaving us with a better squad and first 11 than the one we currently have.
Of all the players I mentioned, I think every one of them would have came here and improved not only the first 11, but the squad.