Posted: 1st September 2010 by CSD in News
The club has released the official roster for their Premier League campaign. It is as follows:
Daniel Agger, Fabio Aurelio, Ryan Babel, Milan Jovanovic, Dirk Kuyt, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Lucas Leiva, Raul Meireles, Christian Poulsen, Pepe Reina, Maxi Rodriguez, Martin Skrtel, Fernando Torres, Jamie Carragher, Joe Cole, Stephen Darby, Steven Gerrard, Glen Johnson, Brad Jones, Paul Konchesky, Jay Spearing.
Now, you might be wondering why there’s only 21 names on a 25 man squad. Part of the reasons is that the club simply does not have that many senior players. The squad was already a little thin, and then more were sold in the transfer window than were brought in. The other reason is that youngsters like Martin Kelly and Danny Wilson do not have to be named. As the rule goes, players who remain under 21 until the end of the year can play without being named into the squad. I’m guessing that the only reason Stephen Darby was named in the squad was to have the proper amount of “homegrown” players.
Aston Villa has also named squad smaller than 25. Yay! We’re on track with Aston Villa! *grumble*
-CSD
Paul still insist he was going for goal...
The News Desk does is sick of doing the transfer window Hokey-Cokey. All of that players in and players out and turning oneself around was
getting tiresome so this day has been marked on our calendar, conveniently hung beside the desk, for quite some time. The last day wouldn’t be exciting, or excruciatingly silly, without
helicopters to London and German strikers acting
the fool but who cares about all that anyways? Paul Konchesky wrapped up his move
from Fulham while Replica Shirt Roy kept up his Argie- Bargie by sending
Insua out “on loan with a view to a permanent move” to Turkish side Galatasaray. Not quite the big money moves promised by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
pre-transfer window but what did you actually expect? Besides that, there were a whole lot of the youngsters that no one cares about once they sign shifted around with notables Nabil El-Zhar and Damien Plessis leaving for
beautiful Greece while Lauri Dalle Valle will be calling
London his new home. Kind of underwhelming, isn’t it?
....we all fall down!
Seems that all I ever watch these days are renovation shows and football. After clocking in more hours than I care to admit on HGTV, I’m confident in saying that this Liverpool side are a work in progress. The foundation might be there, the walls are going up but we need some finishing touches to make this one a beauty. Plant a tree, paint a fence and maybe get some blinds or something for the windows. Taking out West Brom by an unconvincing scoreline and a less than spectacular performance might not raise our market value but we’re building equity. So get out the cranes and the gardening tools, time to get down to work.
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Time to cash in those Air Miles...
If there’s one thing the News Desk loves, it’s liquid lunches. A pint of
Black Gold and some fries on a Friday. Everything was skipping along just fine until Liverpool ended up in
Group K without Javier Macherano. Napoli, Steaua Bucharest and Utrecht, who we faced
last year, join us in the Group. For those of us hoping for an easy draw, you can’t help but be disappointed. Double that up with Macherano
leaving for a reported €16m + an additional €6m in addons and now your Guiness is starting to taste like swamp water and these fries are burnt, aren’t they? Fucking Barcelona. Speaking of being burnt, didn’t we say we
wouldn’t let him leave without an acceptable offer? I didn’t think that selling a player, one that should have drew so much more, was an acceptable thing to do. Maybe they have different calculators in the Liverpool boardroom…
Posted: 26th August 2010 by steven. in Europa League, Match Reaction
Tags: 2-1 wins, Carrahoof, David Ngog, Drik Kuyt, Europa League, Glen Johnson, Joe Cole, Roy Hodgson, Teofilo, Trabzonspor, transfer news
Everybody was....too easy?
Another hard way or the highway victory and Liverpool are through to the Europa League Group stages after a nervy fight to the finish in ever so welcoming Turkey. We haven’t beaten a Turkish team at home since Jesus Christ was a small boy and by half time I thought we were going to continue that dismal trend. You can do your best to take positives away from the match but I’m just going to roll my eyes back in my head and sleep it off. Now, repeat after me: No win is a bad win. Forget Alkaseltzer™. Do that 60 times and you’ll feel better fast…
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Make yourselves at home...
You can already hear the doomsayers out in droves. Nothing makes those gits happier than a big black cloud and a always say die attitude. We’re on our way to Turkey and lining up against a team that put 3 goals past Fenerbahçe the day after we lost by 3 in Manchester. If you ever needed a reason to be negative, then this is it. With the transfer window almost shut, we’ve got no new owners and the fixtures are already piling up fast and furious. This will be the 2nd of a 3 match run in only 8 days. The TRABZONSPOR are a good side at home and anyone who thinks that qualification for the Europa League Group stages hasn’t been paying attention at all.
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Posted: 24th August 2010 by steven. in Rumor
Tags: Barcelona, Macherano, Roy Hodgson, transfer rumours
Zombie Mach needs GAAAAAAMMMES.
The News Desk is still getting angry faxes about the trolloping at Man Citeh yesterday but we’re prepared to move past that and ask the real question everyone wants to know: where in the World is Javier Macherano? The internets were ablaze yesterday with reports that the pint-sized midfielder refused to be included in the City Whipping Party after a bid came in from the Catalonians for a measly €13mil. New Boy Roy, on the other hand, alluded to the fact that he didn’t include Macherano in the squad due to the fact that “he wasn’t in the right frame of mind to play”. Since this could mean a number of different things, the News Desk is going to assume he was either down at the boozer playing pinball or he met an unfortunate demise at the hands of a Witch Doctor and is now one of the living dead. Reading between the lines has always been our forté, no? Hopefully an unholy zombie Mach will garner an improved bid from Barcelona and we can all go home, whereever that may be, happy…
Posted: 23rd August 2010 by steven. in Match Reaction, Premier League
Tags: 3-0 losses, Diego Cavalieri, Gareth Barry, lack of width, Lucas, Macherano, Manchester City, Roy Hodgson, Sheik Mansour, transfer news
Oliver Twists polar opposite.
I said this one was going to be boring but what the fuck do I know about the football anyways? A trio of holding midfielders for the home side and Man City record their biggest win over Liverpool, 3-0, since 1937. Sheik Mansour came out for the first time to see a team he’s spent £1bil on since purchasing it 2 years ago and he must now feel that his plaything is finally becoming a force to be reckoned with. A contentious Carlos Tevez double and a surprising strike from almost-a-Red Gareth Barry wrapped up the potential 6 pointer for Roberto Mancini’s side and left counterpart Roy Hodgson with a lot of ‘splainin to do…
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