devaney » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:35 pm wrote:Sounds like a s
hit a Sh*t couple of weeks Stu. Hope the treatment is helping your body if not your head.
I think your predicted line up for next season is way off the mark. A lot can happen in 3.5 weeks in the transfer market. To say BR and the transfer committee have got it wrong before the window has closed is a little premature. Your predictions for last season were an absolute load of old tosh and I think we will do a he
lluva lot better than your typically negative views suggest. 12 wins in a row and you still can't resist having a dig at BR. Just how many other managers in the Premiership achieved that last season. Markovic,Lovren,LLalana,Can and Origi could hardly be described as bad buys. In Luis we had a complete and utter nutter but a total worldie. He couldn't be replace unless you buy Ronaldo or Messi. We have lacked strength in depth for years and just maybe the introduction of five to probably 8 quality players will rectify that situation.
Chin up ffs Stu

Wasn't that bad mate to be fair, was a bit spewy the first week after that was a doddle really, got loads of footy manager time in, took me back to my youth the amount of time I spent on that game this last week, made me realise how good it is... and how easy it is to win the premier league

On the subject of last season I'm sorry Devaney, but with hindsight I'm certainly not counting this as the "acheivement" that everyone else is. Fact is, we failed to win it, when we clearly should have. For me, the excuse of no-one expected us to be there in the first place is exactly that, an excuse. Nothing more.
I absolutely stand by what I said last year. I defy anyone to have predicted Suarez would have reached that level last season and then to add to that a player who looked like an embarrasing joke (Sterling, so bad infact there were numourous nicknames for his dire performances) on more than one occasion all of a sudden decided to show why he was rated so highly and start performing like a seasoned top quality professional.
The impact of Suarez last season papered over some absolutely huge cracks like our midfields ability to be over run at times and our absolute shambles (and make no mistake, it was a shambles) of a defence. This season, we don't have the luxury of the third best player on the planet to pull us out of the Sh*t with 30 goals and 20 odd assists. We also have another year on an already long way past his best Gerrard, at times last season he wasn't upto it with one game a week (nowhere near to the extent some would have you believe, but amoung the good and great games there were some absolute stinkers) but he did put together some superb performances towards the end of the season, this season, with 2 games a week most weeks rather than one, I'm telling you now, that isn't going to happen. Last season we were a 5th/6th placed side, that had the third best player in the world. Now all I see is a 5th/6th place side. Also, if you think United will be as laughabley bad this season now they actually have a manager rather than a doughnut, then you can think again.
We also played a settled side last season, once we got a head of steam up, it would have been an acheivement for Rodgers to completely f*ck it up in all honesty.
Lovren I don't class as a bad buy, I rate the lad, have done for years. He's a leader and a damn good defender and player. But we've massively over payed again for a player who isn't what you'd call top bracket. Don't get me wrong, I'd have payed that myself to secure him, so I can see the reasons we payed what we did, however, had we done our home work we could have had him last year for £13,000,000 less. Also, he's nowhere near good enough to sort that defence out on his own. Manquillo is obviously a massive improvement on Johnson but is he an improvement on Flanno? Another question mark instead of a pretty much guarenteed yes. Also the goalkeeping situation is a complete joke... I do hope I'm being premature and we sign Begovic, but I can't see it and quite frankly, the longer we don't go and get that lad, the more I wonder what on earth our manager is playing at and what he see's in mignolet that hardly anyone else does. Especially when the best in the league is 50 odd miles down the M6, playing for a mid table side.
I also now believe Rodgers was weak with Suarez. I believe he's begged him for "another year" last year and promised he could go this year if we acheive a champions league place, rather than use it to keep the lad at the club. The fact is, we've badly weakened our first team with the sale of sixty percent of our quality, I believe so far we've added 10 percent with Lovren and maybe (if people are to be believed 15% with Markovic)... that to me is still a considerabley weakened team. Despite the strength in the "squad". The fact is, good players make a good side, having a great player can be worth five or six places, we seen that last season.
I really do think a lot of people are going to get a nasty shock this season. Again, I hope I'm wrong... if I am... I win

but unfortunately, with the lack of quality brought in I believe the money's been spunked up the wall... and I can't say I'm in any way suprised.