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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3


Jacob said:
Regards the hand wringing and media melodrama over the RS supposed fixture glut, I was thinking about our fixture congestion 35 years ago in '85. Between 4 -18th May, we played 4 League games, The European Cup Winners Cup Final in Holland and 3 days later The FACup Final at Wembley v them. Yet lo and behold, its a new problem thats arisen in the last couple of weeks. Theres me thinking they were previously blaming two of our players for two of their injuries too.
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Wasn't that the time we had a load of players with Asthma. lol
 
Jacob said:
Regards the hand wringing and media melodrama over the RS supposed fixture glut, I was thinking about our fixture congestion 35 years ago in '85. Between 4 -18th May, we played 4 League games, The European Cup Winners Cup Final in Holland and 3 days later The FACup Final at Wembley v them. Yet lo and behold, its a new problem thats arisen in the last couple of weeks. Theres me thinking they were previously blaming two of our players for two of their injuries too.
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and in them days, there was only 1 sub and the sides played all season with 15-16 players used (needs checking that, sounded good though)
 
Jacob said:
Regards the hand wringing and media melodrama over the RS supposed fixture glut, I was thinking about our fixture congestion 35 years ago in '85. Between 4 -18th May, we played 4 League games, The European Cup Winners Cup Final in Holland and 3 days later The FACup Final at Wembley v them. Yet lo and behold, its a new problem thats arisen in the last couple of weeks. Theres me thinking they were previously blaming two of our players for two of their injuries too.
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Not to be a pedant but we played United in the 85 final not them
 
rs bro in law moaning about injuries.
Me; you'll have to sell Salah and Mane to buy some new ones, because Fenway won't give you the cash

Fenway can afford it he reckons.

Question; How are Fenway actually doing
 

degsy said:
rs bro in law moaning about injuries.
Me; you'll have to sell Salah and Mane to buy some new ones, because Fenway won't give you the cash

Fenway can afford it he reckons.

Question; How are Fenway actually doing
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Not sure, weren't they supposedly pumping all their cash into their baseball team(s?) instead?

They spent 80 odd million on players in the summer window though, so they're not skint. Or at least, they weren't. If they are scratching around for funds I'm sure they'll be able to miraculously offload some youth player with 3 League Cup appearances to his name for north of £40m.
 

Black Belt Jones said:
Problem with the doped-to-their-gills hypothesis is that everyone in the prem would have to be doing it, with large scale tacit acceptance from those in charge (tacit acceptance from the fans is a given). Like Lance Armstrong was a prominent cheat in an ocean of cheats - the entire peloton was on EPO late nineties and it was fully endorsed by all teams and tacitly accepted by the UCI.
Given the testing regime in prem football is actually half-decent, seems unlikely one club could go out on a limb here.

Weight loss drugs could be massive in football and seem easier to blur into the grey area of permitted medications. I reckon we'd all be surprised if we stood next to some of these centre half or centre forward 'beasts.' Prob a lot slimmer and slighter than you think.
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Found myself talking to John Terry for a few minutes back in the day and couldn’t believe how skinny he was. Mates of mine know a few players and they’ve said they’re all like that. We see them up against each other so we’re seeing similar.

Name dropping now but met Prince Naz and he was absolutely tiny back in his prime. Looked massive on the telly but he’s fighting similar sized men. Think I was bigger than him when I was 8 years old.
 
GP_Monty said:
Not sure, weren't they supposedly pumping all their cash into their baseball team(s?) instead?

They spent 80 odd million on players in the summer window though, so they're not skint. Or at least, they weren't. If they are scratching around for funds I'm sure they'll be able to miraculously offload some youth player with 3 League Cup appearances to his name for north of £40m.
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If 80 million for the premier League , European and world champions is their budget then that should be concerning for them lot tbh.

They should be buying the very best on the market at top dollar
 
PaulPowersTash said:
Exactly this. The change in his body shape since he left City is truly off the scale!
And he runs further, for longer and is quicker. Not bad for an asthmatic...
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James Milners career trajectory is what makes me the most suspicious about Liverpool and doping. Milner was a relatively average player at the clubs he was at, he didn't exactly stand out. It doesn't really make any sense how somebody who was incredibly average when he first came to Liverpool, has somehow become a world class player towards the end of his career. Players usually reach their prime in their mid 20s then slowly get worse, unless they're incredibly fit.

Players like Gerrard, Rooney, Lampard, John Terry and Ashley Cole deteriorated a lot as they got older, so it doesn't really make sense how as he has got older he's somehow got better. Then you have players like Robertson and TAA who have come out of nowhere and have all of a sudden become world class. Henderson was useless for most of his time at Liverpool and has suddenly out of nowhere become brilliant. VVD was injury prone at Southampton yet until Jordan Miyagi Pickford put him out for the season. It's either the quality of the players in the premier league has diminished or something else is going on.
 

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