Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun Apr 01, 2012 2:37 pm  

Post match press conference will go one of two ways; Dalglish will see his a*** and refuse to talk, or if he does it will be full of complaints, woe is me comments, how everything is not his fault.

I will stick my neck out and go for the former....

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun Apr 01, 2012 2:58 pm  

I bet Hodgson would've done a better job if he was given the money Dalglish has been given. I hope they finish in the bottom half.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:03 pm  

with the money he wasted on mediocre players, he was always set to struggle. the only reason liverpool were considered by some to be serious top 3 or 4 challengers was due to their big club reputation.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:05 pm  

ARF, MEGALOLZ etc etc, where ARE wire85 and cornish these days?

Before we rip Liverpool too much though, let's not forget, that if their strikers had not missed the target so often (hit the woodwork instead), if opposition goalkeepers hadn't saved so many of Liverpool players shots, if Evra wasnt such a crybaby, if there wasnt an anti-Liverpool conspiracy at the FA, if the misery of Woy wasnt still hanging over the club, Liverpool would be top of the league with the title almost wrapped up

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:09 pm  

andym1988 wrote:

with the money he wasted on mediocre players, he was always set to struggle. the only reason liverpool were considered by some to be serious top 3 or 4 challengers was due to their big club reputation.

The last time they were regularly successful nobody even knew what a webpage was

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:14 pm  

downing, adam, carroll and henderson have been four truly awful signings to start with, and they were brought in as important players. maybe with the exception of henderson, who still needs a bit of development.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:21 pm  

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:31 pm  

Not a dive. Carroll's attempt at a step was perfectly in line with his attempts to control the ball.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:34 pm  

dddooommm wrote:

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:35 pm  

andym1988 wrote:

City should approach Madrid in the summer and do everything possible to make Jose Mourinho their big summer 'signing'.
They need someone that can deliver instant success.

I disagree. If we're building a club we need to ensure some stability and by keeping hold of Mancini we're doing that. I know there are a few people (particularly non-fans of the club) that think the success should come overnight bearing in mind the investment that's been put in. However, I'm hoping our owners are divorced from this decrepit capitalist idiom that investment demands instant return. You cannot build a club by chopping and changing managers every couple of years. Mancini is building a team that plays attractive football and yes he's come a cropper a couple of times but who hasn't? The club appear to be backing him and that is the way to go for me. If he fails spectacularly they can afford to pay him off but no amount of money can make up for instability.

As for Mourinho, he'd do a job and he has a great CV but I'm not one of them that wants winning at any cost (I know others are) and that brand of anti-football isn't what we should be looking for. It's a shame that Brendan Rodgers took the Swansea job because had he come to City something really special could have happened. As it is now, I wouldn't want to disrupt that for Mourinho who brings with him other factors which I don't think would sit comfortably with our owners i.e. I think we're aiming to be an exceptionally professional sporting organisation and Mourinho has some qualities which don't mesh well with that aim.