Tonight's football thread

[Danbert Nocurry]

But of the 'big' managers ol' Manuel did the best job: he won the league. And wasn't a tosser whilst doing it.

Agreed Hank. As the season progressed my concern was that we had another Kevin Keegan on our hands. A nice bloke who would get the team playing good football but lacking that know how to be a real winner.

Pleasure to be proved totally wrong.

[The General]

Danbert as a 'Rag' i'm glad you won the title & not the Dippers. At the end of the day you are still 16 titles behind us whereas if they'd won our lead would only be 1. We are still the biggest & most successful team in England, why would we want to lose that moniker. It's also been proven that the $$ clubs, Blackburn & Chelsea don't go on to dominate.

[IainR]

How did Rodgers do "a better job"? Got Liverpool to the top of the league and then failed to set his team up properly against Chelsea and chucked it away? Shipped 3 goals against Palace? Yeah, Liverpool played some great football, but their defensive issues cost them the league and that's on the manager's hands.

Poyet and Pullis both did tremendous jobs, fair enough. I wouldn't be disappointed to see either of them win it. But of the 'big' managers ol' Manuel did the best job: he won the league. And wasn't a tosser whilst doing it.

Rodgers took a team from 7th, full of supposedly average players, and took them to the brink of the title.. Pelligrini took a team who were champions a season before, 2nd last season, and just won with a decent points total., but didnt walk it.

I agree Rodgers made errors but he's still taken Liverpool on great strides.

[Muddy Retriever]

so far me Pulis as MOTY..

Martinez for me. Took Everton up a level, while playing attractive football. And he's a genuinely nice bloke. Nothing against Arsenal but I wish Everton had finished fourth.

[Swoop]

Pelligrini's done well and been professional, made them less of a joke club.

At least that title has stayed in Manchester!

[IainR]

Martinez for me. Took Everton up a level, while playing attractive football. And he's a genuinely nice bloke. Nothing against Arsenal but I wish Everton had finished fourth.

Not really... they finished 5th, they've just played better football.. Rodgers took Liverpool from 7th to 2nd.. from no euro football to CL football...

Swoop.. sadly true..

[duncz]

A team that scores 100 goals in a season should be the champions but a team that lets in 50 will never be. Is it down to bad defending or the system that Rodgers uses? We will find out next season. It's been a great season for us, Rodgers has done a fantastic job and i feel proud to be a dipper.As for united you are in for few years in the wilderness you need to bring in nearly a whole team Moyes spent £60 million on two players so how much are you going pay out to rebuild the team. You have no manager If you are waiting the dutch manager who going to choose the new players. United are over £500 million in debt and rising.The glazers have been lining their own pockets so how much are they going to lay out? Will they sell out to the Arabs. Liverpool have a lot of young players out on loan it will be interesting to see how they have progressed also we have good youngsters 16 and 17 playing for the under 21's it's looking good for us.
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[Stagger]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ester-27383218

[IainR]

A team that scores 100 goals in a season should be the champions but a team that lets in 50 will never be. Is it down to bad defending or the system that Rodgers uses? We will find out next season. It's been a great season for us, Rodgers has done a fantastic job and i feel proud to be a dipper.As for united you are in for few years in the wilderness you need to bring in nearly a whole team Moyes spent £60 million on two players so how much are you going pay out to rebuild the team. You have no manager If you are waiting the dutch manager who going to choose the new players. United are over £500 million in debt and rising.The glazers have been lining their own pockets so how much are they going to lay out? Will they sell out to the Arabs. Liverpool have a lot of young players out on loan it will be interesting to see how they have progressed also we have good youngsters 16 and 17 playing for the under 21's it's looking good for us.
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Codswallop... you went from 7th to 2nd with very few changes.. I'm gobsmacked when I see Liverpool fans make that statement when you see how you went from exactly the same position...

We have good youth.. De gea, Januzaj, Evans, Jones, Smalling, Shaw supposedly coming in, Rafael, so the back sound but we'll bring in another center half, add a midfielder and I'm not too concerned.. spouting rubbish like we need a new team is just nonsensical and has never been United's way.

Check your facts re the business.. it remains one of the healthiest in the league.. 150 million profit this season, new kit deal coming, certainly way off 500 million but hey keep reading the liverpool forums...

The base business is still very successful and turns a good profit..

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27111513

Youth wise.. http://www.tribalfootball.com/articl...1#.U3EnVEJ4ZHI

We're pretty healthy, we've always encouraged youth, developed and bought and developed, thats showing no sign of abating..

[Richard Head]

Rio Ferdinand to leave United, luckily they have Chris Smalling to fall back on