floyd the barber

Besides the one poor pass towards the end of the game, I thought he was excellent tonight. He's definitely a first choice for me and based on recent performances...sktrel would Starr alongside him. I like the look of that partnership.

Mignolet apart.... Everyone should be fined a months wages...including Rodgers. Fkin useless pisses me off big time bstrds

Fkin awful this and we've been here before hundreds of times these past 20 years.....why we don't take the game to teams like these ill never know

He needs a decent game today....I reckon he'll score today and get the knockers of his back.

Played really well today....still think hell be out of the side soon with Moses on the left and coutiniho in front of Lucas and gerrard. phillipe is struggling at the mo and needs to get back to his best position.

I think Moses is an exceptional player...well happy with this.

Moses is only 22?...surprised...thought he was older than that. Honestly feel he would be a fantastic addition. Think he's a quality player...Chelsea fans seem to think the same and don't want to.lose him.....IE like sturridge.

Kill me now....but I'm not happy with the Lucas.-gerrard partnership. I don't feel they compliment each other that well....plus a severe lack of pace. Also I know its early in the season but they looked both knackered 2nd half....there was one point Lucas I believe or someone close lost ball on our right the villa.player runs away and Lucas.just kinda strolled back...no effort in chasing him down at all.

Am not bothered.... Willan isn't worth 30mill....and for those complaining about us giving up to spurs targets...Dempsey want worth the money fulham wanted so we pulled out....sigurson also wasn't worth the money .....Im glad we didn't get them, we didn't overspend on 2 decent players and based on the past 12months we have been proven correct. I believe the same will happen with willan.

I really don't think we've ever had a player like.coutiniho before. Been searching the archives in my brain and he really is quite a unique player for us We had a few slighlty similar....IE smicer,beardsley,Garcia maybe dalglish... but that small juniniho(the boro one) type which I feel he most similar too....we've never had

Fee has been agreed with Ajax for Eriksen apparently.

It does look fantastic ...lots of pressure on Lucas though,lets hope he recovers the form of 2011.12. Since returning from injury he has been off the pace. A long summers rest should do the trick. saying that....we definitely need a back up for him.

the true legendary artists...have their faults

I'm with you.....he's a character of which football currently lacks due to so much p.c nonsense. Soon we will all be robots.

As a back up...Jones (besides the fa cup game where he played injured) has been solid,in fact his record when starting this season is impressive.......I'm more than happy to keep him as 2nd choice.

Haven't seen that photo before....is it legit? IE the laughter.on Brendans face......hilarious! I'm liking him more with each passing day.

Well considering we play both spurs and Chelsea...and they also have to play each other......there's no reason to suggest 4th is a long shot....

No. We need a qualifty defensive coach. No coincidence that our defence looks since we lost clarke. its more about positional tactics, bad organization and a lack of confidence to me...

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Pah!!!!!! its obviously down go poor work on the training field. we miss Clarke who did an outstanding job with our defence last season...with mostly the same players. I haven't seen many individual errors...more bad set ups at corners, free kicks....a certain lack of confidence in who follows the man off the ball...etc

Was thinking about this guy the other day.... I was 10 when Wayne signed for Liverpool and I still remember clearly all the press and massive expectations. On his young shoulders.. Was wondering if anyone actually saw him play any of the reserve games? He was touted at being the next wonder player....such a shame what happened... Anyway I found this great article...posted below. http://footballslostprodigies.com/2012/06/26/coming-soon-wayne-harrison-the-original-wayne-rooney/ When Wayne Harrison lost his footing while climbing out of the loft of his Stockport home in the North West of England and ripped the ligaments in his knee it was just the latest in a long list of injuries for the former footballer. Just like the Manchester Utd superstar, Wayne Rooney, Harrison came to the attention of the footballing world at the tender age of 17 because of a natural ability to find the back of the onion bag. And just like Rooney he too secured himself a move to England’s biggest club for a world record fee and was labelled as one the best talents in the world. But despite being hailed as a child prodigy the amazing career of Wayne Harrison never eventuated and the name simply disappeared amongst the whispers and fables of the terraces of a talent lost and stories of what might have been. Wayne grew up in Stockport, which is just a short car journey from Manchester ,with a love of football and a dream of making his mark on the world game. But it wasn’t the blue of Manchester City or the Red of Utd that stoked the football fire burning deep in his heart instead, in a move that would be considered a death wish in many people’s eyes giving where he grew up, Wayne followed Liverpool after being sucked in by players such as Kevin Keegan and Kenny Dalglish. “I got a bit of stick for it,” said Wayne. “But I didn’t care; I just got on with it, Kenny Dalglish was my hero.” Wayne was soon becoming known for more than being the Liverpool fan from Manchester scoring goals wherever he went and attracting the attentions of clubs from all over England. “I was top goal scorer for every team I played for,” remembers Wayne. “A lot of teams wanted me.” In the end the simple lad from Stockport chose Oldham Athletic as the place to hone his skills for one reason and one reason only. “I could get the bus straight there from my house in Stockport.” But with hindsight he couldn’t have made a better decision with the enigmatic Joe Royal in charge of the club to lend a guiding hand to the youngster’s career turning him from raw potential to the best teenage talent in the world. “He was a natural goal scorer,” remembered Royal some years later. “The way he timed his runs was magnificent. Bill Urmson was our youth coach then and he didn’t have to tell Wayne much. The kid was going to be a player.” Wayne was soon banging in goals for his new club. 35 in total for the youth and reserve team meant that England’s top teams were already sniffing around for his signature despite his tender age. Wayne Harrison was flying; so when he arrived at the famous Anfield stadium to take on the best kids that Liverpool had to offer he was very determined and extremely confident that he could show his heroes that he had what it takes to one day play in front of the Kop. The young upstart didn’t disappoint, bulging the Anfield net twice in a 4-3 win for the Latics. But little did Wayne know that his majestic performance in Liverpool had caught the eye of the then reds manager Joe Fagan who instantly set about trying to sign him. After an initial offer of 200,000 GBP was rejected Fagan instantly upped his offer to 250,000. Rumour has it that Joe Royal had initially thought the direct phone call from his Liverpool counterpart was a joke with the conversation going something like this. “Hello, Joe? It’s Joe Fagan here at Liverpool. About this kid of yours – Wayne Harrison – we’d be willing to offer you two hundred grand . . . “ “You’re having me on,” says Royal. “OK then, how about we make it a quarter of a million?” “Done!” And with that Wayne Harrison was on the move even he didn’t really want to go anywhere. “I didn’t want to leave Oldham I was happy there,” remembers Wayne. “But I got a call the day after the match at Anfield and said I was going to Liverpool for talks.” Harrison saw out the 1985 season with Oldham where he earned himself five first team appearances and arrived at Anfield with his hero Kenny Dalglish now the manager and a massive future ahead of him. Due to the 250,000 GBP and the tag of the most expensive teenager in the world the hype and pressure surrounding him was massive but the management team at Anfield decided to label their latest acquisition as “one for the future” and made him earn his stripes in the reserves. The goals still flowed, but just as he was ready to break in to the first team Wayne Harrison’s career was brought to a sudden and resounding halt. “I was messing around with some mates,” remembers Wayne as he calmly talked about the accident that nearly killed him. “We were wrestling and I fell through a greenhouse.” As if that wasn’t bad luck enough the accident happened while the local ambulance service were in the middle of a bitter pay dispute and were well and truly on strike. The young Liverpool striker nearly bled to death after severing an artery in his arm before the replacement Army medics arrived and rushed him to hospital. If the fact that Harrison was still alive was amazing enough then the fact that he got back playing and once again pushing for a first team place could almost be considered a miracle. But it seemed that every time Harrison was knocking on the door to lead the Liverpool forward line another injury would swipe away his destiny. A double hernia, an operation on a damaged cartilage, a gammy knee and a dodgy shoulder all scuppered his chances. But as the 1989 – 90 season drew to a close and now 22 years old Wayne Harrison was once again the name on everybody’s lips. “I was top goal scorer that year,” remembers Wayne. But just as things were looking up an innocuous clash with the Bradford City goalkeeper would put Harrison back in the physio’s room. “I felt sick when I tried to get up,” he said. “I knew it was bad because I couldn’t feel it. It was wobbling from the inside.” It was the final game of the season for the reserve team and Liverpool’s wonder-kid had ripped every ligament in his knee and would never again get the chance to fulfil the potential that many had thought would see him rip apart the world of football. Numerous operations followed but it was no good and Harrison soon got the news that he simply didn’t want to hear “It was 1991 and Graeme Souness, the manager, called me in,” Harrison said. “He told me the doctors had said I wouldn’t play again. It was soul-destroying. My head was spinning and I didn’t know what to do. To think that was it. I got in the car and just drove around for four hours.” Wayne did try to make a comeback to the game turning out for the Offerton Green reserves in the Stockport Sunday League where he apparently rolled back the years one cold afternoon on a bobbly, boggy pitch when he sweetly scored, David Beckham esc, from the half way line. But with his knee getting worse the comeback was short lived and Harrison was left to concentrate on his day job delivering kegs of beer for the Robinson’s Brewery in his hometown of Stockport. “The knee still gives me gyp,” he explained just a few years ago before reiterating that he never wanted to leave Oldham in the first place. “In fact, it gets more painful with each passing year. But I console myself with the thought that nothing in life can ever be as bad again,” he said. “Nobody recognises me these days, but I’m not bitter. I wish I’d never gone to Liverpool and that I’d had more luck. It was nobody’s fault, but you do think about it all sometimes. Steve McManaman was my friend and look at him, he played for Real Madrid.” But the sad tale of Wayne Harrison doesn’t end there as the luckless man now finds himself out of work after reinjuring his knee while climbing out of his loft and has now had over 40 operations on various parts of his body. He was watching his friend play in a Sunday league match as I chatted to him on the phone. Now virtually penniless and surviving on a measly incapacity benefit trips such as these are rare. “I don’t get out much anymore,” he says. But despite this and all of the unfortunate things that have gone his way Wayne Harrison still has a hint of something in his voice that suggests he still believes that his luck will turn soon. And I for one wouldn’t begrudge him a single ounce of goodness that comes his way"

the only player id trust up against Bale is Johnson, he can match him for pace plus has the quality to nulify Spurs biggest threat. Enrique has done decent left mid, but for this game id start him left back. ---------------------------reina-------------------------- johnson-----------skrtel--agger----------enrique -------------------allen------sahin-------------------- -------------------------gerrard------------------------- -----sterling-----------suarez------------suso------

Surprised this thread hasn't blown up!!! Enrique was fkin unbelievable today..an outstanding performance and is now my first choice at left mid. Yes it was wigan..still his quality and creativity really surprised me.

Jones has done well and has to done nothing to suggest he should be dropped. Pepe on the other hand did plenty to suggest he needed to be dropped....then the injury happened. I have more confidence in Jones right now honestly.