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Rodgers actually just said that the pitch at Anfield is "awful" and "terrible"! Thoroughly enjoying how he's cracking up EDIT: Rodgers: "This was a better performance than the 5-1 last season." Just keeps getting better!

Rodgers to come out and talk about how great they played and how they deserved to win but were unlucky...again

Stopped reading after the lame title. Really, Jason?!

Haha. Reminds me of this:

Disappointing. If you're going to do that 'joke' at least go with "Where there's a Walters, there's a way."

Are weekends really this boring when we have a Monday night match?!

Naive

You're saying it's news to you that he lies?

No, what matter is what actually happened and we all saw not what was said a year and half ago. Jose said he was ready which is very different from thinking he was ready which in retrospective he obviously was not.

"All down to him" was the wrong expression there, but what I meant is that it matters more what he does than what the club does. He's been going to clubs where he's not far from the quality of the XI, so it's up to him to make his football count. "He was ready". Not really. I don't think he was nearly ready at the start of last season and that has been more than proven right in the past season and a half. If he were really ready at the time he would have taken the championship by storm or at least become a regular for Burnley. Very easy to throw the blame on the club rather than the lack determination and quality (yet) of the player himself.

Problem is, it's a lot harder to park the bus effectively against City because they have Navas and Kolarov and people who provide genuine width with real pace and can put in quality crosses.

This is obviously a matter of different tastes and opinions, but, to me, the home kit is perfection! Love absolutely everything about it.

Still, he's no observer in all this. At the end of the day it's up to him to work hard in training to try to get a chance on the pitch and when he does he needs to take it. The loans have not been great after Watford. Forest was a terrible decision by the club especially that Watford wanted him back, but he still got plenty of time, especially at the start. I think there were some trouble in the background and he did not want to be there but that is still no excuse for his bad performances and disinterested attitude. He got better at Boro whom he chose IIRC, but still not to the level he was performing at Watford. And now Burnley: a PL club where he had a real chance of becoming a regular. You can't put the blame on the club for that. He got a chance early in the season when they were 2-0 down against WBA at HT. It was a real chance to put himself in the XI picture. He was just disastrous and they ended up losing 4-0 (one was directly from his mistake IIRC). Since then he's had several sub appearances but has not shown anything to get more time. Yes, the club has been far from perfect in deciding his loans, but he is not a blameless victim in the stagnation of his career. In the end it's all down to him.

Can't blame the player for his own performances?!

True, though Barca seemed confident they have. Anyway, that was just an example. It happens all the time. They're pretty common in Italy and Spain.

Has to be photo-shopped. He HATES kids!

Tiny club? Like us when we bought Oriol from Barcelona? It is done all the time for young players as is a first option at a fixed price like the Fabregas case with Arsenal. I think that the main factor in that is probably the player himself and his will to return to the club.

Well, you don't draw the line, at least not in the foreseeable future. We are required to win trophies every year and that means having the best squad possible every year. The promising young players will continue to be loaned out until they are good enough to be part of the regular first team, except for extraordinary talent or circumstances like Ake and (I hope) Christensen.

Actually, we won a free kick because Benayoun took down the corner flag!

Might be a better idea to contact the club rather than the fans so that maybe they'll have something up on the screen on the 28th minute.

Are those buttons on the home shirt? I kinda like it. The away shirt looks like a wool sweater my grandma would knit

I think it's best if he is sold and we include a buy-back/first option clause. His position is incredibly competitive here and it would be very difficult to see him being an important part of the team in the next season or two.

Mr. Hinsley is an 'acquired taste'

I'd rather face Liverpool over two legs than in the final where anything can happen.