"The Championship is not an option" - I Love Football off-season and transfer speculation thread 2012

Ruddock - fitness coach
Roy Evans - enforcer

I would have said KD as DoF -- lots of people said he should be kicked upstairs.
But the owners were clearly more ruthless than that; he's no longer at the club and I can't see him coming back soon.

I think my scheme is really not bad, except maybe Stevie needs to retire to focus on being manager ... I don't know ... KD didn't, c.1985! Benitez coming back in planning role seems a good plan though maybe he would seek more control.

Grobelaar - GK Coach

I can't believe no LFC fans back my plan. I bet if you look on websites & messageboards, some would be quite keen on it.

xpost those are excellent suggestions, though less serious than mine.

they already tried gerrard, carragher and rafa running the club iirc

no one has mentioned Neil Warnock

supposedly Sheff Utd turned down di Matteo last summer

have to admit, on google I cannot find a single reference to Stevie G as next LFC manager

idk what one would see in gerrard that suggests 'manager', truly. Even on the pitch the intricacies of movement, organisation and teamwork are near enough his weakest points

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2011/10/08/jamie-carragher-will-be-a-liverpool-fc-manager-one-day-says-tommy-smith-100252-29558858/

"Whether he starts out somewhere else and makes his way up as Shanks did, goes onto the staff and comes in as Bob and Joe did, or even steps up quickly like Kenny Dalglish did so successfully in the 80s as his playing days came towards an end, only time and circumstance will tell."

OK, Carragher as manager (not player), Benitez DoF, Stevie stays as captain.

carragher as coach certainly, stevie g might even listen to him

i already remember this off-season in the future with the nostalgia i know i’m bound to feel, long summer days of the ilf massive diligently wiping the drool from the pinefox's maw as he gives the matters of the day the benefit of his senility

The Pinefox - FSG CEO

We're in safe hands at least.

bet he could write us a killer Cup song should we ever make a Final again.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/20/republic-of-ireland-robbie-keane

Kieron Dyer has signed a new one-year contract to stay at QPR.

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Surely an Owen Hargreaves 'pay as you play' deal? QPR aren't that insane are they?

don't think stevie g's ever seriously been thought of as a future manager, but carragher certainly has. if he turns out to be good then fair enough, but i hate the idea of him just being handed the job in some sort of sentimental nod to 'the boot room'.

he could go somewhere else - Tramere? Huyton Juniors? - to learn the tropes.

no value in pay as you play with the 25 man squad rule, either you've wasted a place or he can't play even if fit

likelihood is some berk negotiated an automatic extension if we stay up, idk

The famous Tranmere literature boot room
xp

ah yeah that sounds a more likely clause r/t/c

http://www.arsenal.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=529324

Bellend of the Season 2012 - Venkys, Steve Kean and the corrupt agents involved.

Fun write-up until one scary reminder: "The truly terrifying thing about the Venky`s is that it could happen to any club."

Daily news-

Joe Cole... might be staying at Lille! :D Rudi Garcia wants to keep him but knows it is Liverpool's decision.

Deschamp seems to have said Thanks But No Thanks to LFC.

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And finally, thank whatever diety may exist - Abidal is out of the hospital and seemingly all has been successful so far in treating him.

hey folks you know that previously 4th place team in EPL would have to go through the qualifying stages of champions league (amirite?) who now goes through the qualifying stages, if any?

fuck, sorry wrong thread.

Chelsea, I think.

so looks like the drog's off, to cash in on china. seems a little bit premature in that as a late starter in football he's probably actually got similar, maybe even less, wear and tear than torres has but understandable i guess

i'm guessing they won't go so far as letting lampard go?

could lure him away with a trail of M and Ms

http://twitter.com/#!/1Dev/status/204649529260244994/photo/1

hey noodles seen this

eh a qualifier from a smaller european league must now go through an extra qualifying round iirc

Drog more than good enough to be a league-winning striker imo, but he's had long injury niggles for every season since forever

lolineux. dunno, that picture doesn't look like it's from seat level, but nowt wd surprise me. people wd probably have paid extra to only see half the game this season.

Anticipating a summer in which we are tantalized by all manner of new and exciting tricky Eastern Europeans whose value will rocket and will look amazing until their tenth game in the Premiership.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/21/harry-redknapp-daniel-levy-spurs

silent billionaire

Just talk to Sébastien Bassong who, when on the brink of a transfer to Queens Park Rangers, watched Levy wake up in the morning and double the agreed fee.

mrs bassong was right all along; this had been no way to force a transfer through.

Probably figured it worked for Keane-to-Liverpool.

Keegan
Hoddle
Tigana
Sven-Goran Eriksson
Curbishley
Neil Lennon (pretty good fit given relations Celtic - LFC?)

yeah i mean, they might as well just appoint anyone who actually is a manager, you're right. you forgot dave bassett though and ian branfoot too. and brian robson. fuck it maybe terry phelan can manage, worth a try. or someone from another sport like tim henman or graham gooch.

this morning's news anyway, is that capello is to have talks with FSG

it's psg

f u sg

Ooh - does that mean Ancelotti out? Henry, Henry, sign him up.

All four English sides automatically into the group stages btw xp, darragh's right.

Change the rules and stick 'em in the same group I say.

Darragh's "psg" was a "joke"

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when the crowd say booooo
seleeeeeeect martinez

I get my news from ilx, lol me

Robinson became something of a hero for Rovers fans this season as, unlike the rest of the team, he continued to acknowledge their support when the going got tough. However, this 'connection' brought the goalkeeper a lot more credit than his performances deserved. The weekly compilation of Premier League Numbers & Stats caused gasps in F365 Towers whenever Robinson's performances were reviewed in the cold light of day. With the worst saves-to-shots ratio in the division, and by far the lowest passing accuracy, England's former number one has dropped into the level befitting his current ability. The surprising thing is, someone will probably take a chance on him this summer for one last top-flight hurrah.

nah, capello just had smthg against him iirc. The only possible explanation for his exclusion from the national team.

Really the player who will turn out to be irreplaceable is Modric. Everyone just played better when he was in the team and there isn't anyone else quite like him in the Premiership.

I dunno, the jury's out still. We need these new signings integrated into the team asap. It'll all count for nothing if Spurs persist in shitting themselves whenever a reasonably physical bottom half team bullies them for the last 10 minutes.

it wasn't the last ten minutes that worried, it was the entire 90 where nobody had a single idea about how to break down norwich

floodgate mmoment

decent break but seemed too easy too. the kind of break spurs would concede to

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