Liverpool, First Champions Of The New Walking Football Craze?
Article by Red Phil
If, I repeat, IF, you believe the most recent website rumours we are set to replace Stevie G’s tired and slowing legs with new blood in the shape of 36-year-old Andrea Pirlo and something-in-the-region-of 34-year-old Yaya Toure, both of whom are old and slow enough to star in any remake of Dad’s Army. If anything comes of these rumours then either I am completely insane or the people on Liverpool’s transfer committee are.
I work amongst numerous City fans and they all tell me that Yaya Toure’s legs have absolutely gone and he simply can’t cope with all of the running crap any more, at the pace required for Premier League football . . . and that was BEFORE they knew LFC might go in for him! If they are saying he needs to be replaced, at City, because of his lack of pace, are they going to be sad or in hysterics at the prospect of dumping him, at a huge cost to LFC no doubt, on to a club who SHOULD be amongst their rivals next year?
I can almost hear the chuckling and the nearest City idiot I work with is about five miles away at the moment. No doubt somebody at Anfield is thinking that he’d be a wonderful signing for £30m . . . a few months before City would potentially be giving him away on a free transfer when his legs finally give way completely. He is NOT the player he was even 18 months ago! If he was, do you think the City fans would be talking about who will replace him NEXT season? Perhaps we are getting together the best-ever squad for that new game, Walking Football?
I don’t know if signing him would be just to give the squad more opportunities to do the “Toure dance”, with BOTH brothers leading the way, or not, but if we are now a song-and-dance act let us bid to go on Britain’s Got Talent and forget about this pretending to be a football club lark, eh? Going from having too many kids to having a squad full of kids and potential Dad’s Army rejects is NOT a step forward in my opinion! Don’t people aged 20+ to just under 30 ever get transferred?
If some of the players had used the same amount of energy on the pitch that they used when being filmed doing the “Toure dance” we might have got into the Champion’s League . . .
And then, just as we are potentially going to release “spring-heeled” Yaya on an unsuspecting Premier League next year – along with his equally pedestrian brother – we can possibly add Andrea Pirlo to the mix!
Aged 36 and used to the slow pace of the Italian League, I dread to think what he’d experience in his first 45 minutes of Premier League football! A coronary, a couple of seizures and being carried off on a stretcher immediately spring to mind but, hey, what do I know about football? When thinking of replacing somebody about 34 years old the obvious thing to do is go for somebody old and slow enough that they can remember the Munich air crash! Or maybe NOT!
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Wouldn’t it be nice for the club to stamp on these rumours and dispel the horrendous thoughts we are having of our midfield containing two people who in their day, were superb, but who, these days, would rarely get to finish a game in English football? At least I’ve not seen us linked with the ageing Dani Alves in the last couple of days . . . but I’ve not looked at half of the websites yet . . .
Again, reading the rumours, and NO, I don’t believe them, it seems we are bidding for about six strikers. Ings, Berahino, Vietto, Benteke, Lacazette and several others spring to mind. I don’t know enough about Lacazette to say either way and I only know what I’ve read on websites and from seeing him on TV but that Vietto DOES look good, very good. Berahino faded a bit after a good start last year, Benteke is a bit injury-prone and Ings may not be the twenty-five goals per year man we need so what do we do? Seems like Benteke and Ings are the most talked about, and would probably do well, but I hope we can squeeze Vietto in somewhere . . .
Lot of talk about Clyne potentially joining us. I hope that means the manager is going to ditch his ludicrous 3 at the back garbage and use Moreno and Clyne as full-backs? We most certainly need to decide either stick to 4 at the back, or 3 at the back, but I wouldn’t think Clyne is any more suited to a 3 at the back role than any of the other players we’ve got. He’s not exactly big, is he? Surely, having a bit of height in ALL 3 players is a major factor in having 3 at the back . . . and especially when you consider how we struggled last year, in the air, at the back? Even AFC Wimbledon took us to the cleaners for long period just by lumping the ball in the air into our penalty box. We struggled horrendously, which made them do it all the more! Let’s hope we’ve learned our lesson regarding utilising people, at the back, who couldn’t out-jump their grannies!
Oh, well, back to the rumour mill with, apparently, nowt done and dusted so far . .
RED PHIL
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If, I repeat, IF, you believe the most recent website rumours we are set to replace Stevie G’s tired and slowing legs with new blood in the shape of 36-year-old Andrea Pirlo and something-in-the-region-of 34-year-old Yaya Toure, both of whom are old and slow enough to star in any remake of Dad’s Army. If anything comes of these rumours then either I am completely insane or the people on Liverpool’s transfer committee are.
I work amongst numerous City fans and they all tell me that Yaya Toure’s legs have absolutely gone and he simply can’t cope with all of the running crap any more, at the pace required for Premier League football . . . and that was BEFORE they knew LFC might go in for him! If they are saying he needs to be replaced, at City, because of his lack of pace, are they going to be sad or in hysterics at the prospect of dumping him, at a huge cost to LFC no doubt, on to a club who SHOULD be amongst their rivals next year?
I can almost hear the chuckling and the nearest City idiot I work with is about five miles away at the moment. No doubt somebody at Anfield is thinking that he’d be a wonderful signing for £30m . . . a few months before City would potentially be giving him away on a free transfer when his legs finally give way completely. He is NOT the player he was even 18 months ago! If he was, do you think the City fans would be talking about who will replace him NEXT season? Perhaps we are getting together the best-ever squad for that new game, Walking Football?
I don’t know if signing him would be just to give the squad more opportunities to do the “Toure dance”, with BOTH brothers leading the way, or not, but if we are now a song-and-dance act let us bid to go on Britain’s Got Talent and forget about this pretending to be a football club lark, eh? Going from having too many kids to having a squad full of kids and potential Dad’s Army rejects is NOT a step forward in my opinion! Don’t people aged 20+ to just under 30 ever get transferred?
If some of the players had used the same amount of energy on the pitch that they used when being filmed doing the “Toure dance” we might have got into the Champion’s League . . .
And then, just as we are potentially going to release “spring-heeled” Yaya on an unsuspecting Premier League next year – along with his equally pedestrian brother – we can possibly add Andrea Pirlo to the mix!
Aged 36 and used to the slow pace of the Italian League, I dread to think what he’d experience in his first 45 minutes of Premier League football! A coronary, a couple of seizures and being carried off on a stretcher immediately spring to mind but, hey, what do I know about football? When thinking of replacing somebody about 34 years old the obvious thing to do is go for somebody old and slow enough that they can remember the Munich air crash! Or maybe NOT!
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Wouldn’t it be nice for the club to stamp on these rumours and dispel the horrendous thoughts we are having of our midfield containing two people who in their day, were superb, but who, these days, would rarely get to finish a game in English football? At least I’ve not seen us linked with the ageing Dani Alves in the last couple of days . . . but I’ve not looked at half of the websites yet . . .
Again, reading the rumours, and NO, I don’t believe them, it seems we are bidding for about six strikers. Ings, Berahino, Vietto, Benteke, Lacazette and several others spring to mind. I don’t know enough about Lacazette to say either way and I only know what I’ve read on websites and from seeing him on TV but that Vietto DOES look good, very good. Berahino faded a bit after a good start last year, Benteke is a bit injury-prone and Ings may not be the twenty-five goals per year man we need so what do we do? Seems like Benteke and Ings are the most talked about, and would probably do well, but I hope we can squeeze Vietto in somewhere . . .
Lot of talk about Clyne potentially joining us. I hope that means the manager is going to ditch his ludicrous 3 at the back garbage and use Moreno and Clyne as full-backs? We most certainly need to decide either stick to 4 at the back, or 3 at the back, but I wouldn’t think Clyne is any more suited to a 3 at the back role than any of the other players we’ve got. He’s not exactly big, is he? Surely, having a bit of height in ALL 3 players is a major factor in having 3 at the back . . . and especially when you consider how we struggled last year, in the air, at the back? Even AFC Wimbledon took us to the cleaners for long period just by lumping the ball in the air into our penalty box. We struggled horrendously, which made them do it all the more! Let’s hope we’ve learned our lesson regarding utilising people, at the back, who couldn’t out-jump their grannies!
Oh, well, back to the rumour mill with, apparently, nowt done and dusted so far . .
RED PHIL
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From being a team that only two year ago, used to hit teams on the break with blistering pace, we're seemingly moving towards trying to trip them up with our Zimmer frames if these incoming transfers happen . . . and if Benteke is normally as good as he was in the Cup Final, we don't need him a we've already got more than enough passengers up front as it is. Also, seems Vietto might be lined up for Atletico Madrid move so that's another one to give us the slip.
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