20 Oct 2012

"We all saw it coming!" - Lawro blasts 'ridiculous' Brendan Rodgers decision...

Liverpool return to Premier League action today against Reading at Anfield, and on paper, the Reds are odds-on favourites to win the game. Luis Suarez only returned from international duty yesterday, but Fabio Borini's injury means Brendan Rodgers will have no choice but to play him in today's game. Reds Legend Mark Lawrenson has predicted a Liverpool win today, but he's still not impressed with the way Rodgers has handled the club's striker situation.

Speaking to the BBC yesterday, Lawro - who recently criticised Rodgers' decision to appear in the 'Being:Liverpool' documentary'- warned that Liverpool 'need to start picking up points' now, and once again slammed the boss's decision to let Andy Carroll leave. He barked:

"A lot of people saw it coming, and now it has happened - Fabio Borini's foot injury means Liverpool are down to one fit senior striker in Luis Suarez.

"The decision to let Andy Carroll leave without signing a replacement is starting to look more and more ridiculous.

"It's all very well saying that they can bring a striker in January but it is only middle of October, and that is a long time to wait".


Granted, having only one senior striker s not an ideal situation to be in, but things are not as bad as the Press is making out, and the continued claim that Liverpool aren't scoring goals is actually nonsense:

* Last 6 games: 15 goals scored
* Averaging 2.5 goals per game
* Suarez: 4/Sahin 3/Gerrard 2/Shelvey 3/Coates 1/Wisdom 1

15 goals in 6 games, of which the injured Borini scored NONE.

In what universe can that be classed as not scoring goals?! What's most pleasing is that the club's midfielders are chipping in with goals, and that will be vitally important over the next few months.

Additionally, Liverpool have Samed Yesil to come into the team, and even with his inexperience, I would take the Turkish youngster over Carroll any day of the week.

Nuri Sahin is convinced of Yesil's quality, and in an interview with the official LFC site on Wednesday, he raved:

"Samed knows where the goal is. He can smell the goal and that is a quality you cannot teach. His record is spectacular and if he continues to listen, he'll be a good player for Liverpool."

Reds legend Jan Molby has also called for the youngster to be included in the squad for today's game. He told the Liverpool Echo:

"I’d like to see Samed Yesil in the squad for tomorrow’s visit of Reading. You’ve got to have a striker on the bench even if that player isn’t 100% ready for the Premier League. Yesil did well when he made his debut at West Brom".

In his press conference yesterday, Rodgers hinted that Yesil could make the squad for today's game. Just throw him into the starting line up! What's the worst that could happen? I would go for this team:

Wisdom ------------ Skrtel --- Agger ----------- Johnson

------------------- Allen ---- Sahin

------------------------ Shelvey

Suarez ----------------------------------- Suso

------------------------ Yesil

(Gerrard and Sterling resting on the bench)

Jaimie Kanwar


54 comments:

  1. yesi upfront with suarez and suso plus shevey coming from deep would great idea when considering our opponent...it's very good idea to rest stevie g,when can use him as super sub but personally i love suso playing through midfield where he can very skillful..

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  2. Why is Lawro so anti - BR . Maybe its because
    his neighbor turned out to be the most wasteful
    manager in the history of the club. Lawro
    is frightened to death BR will be an
    outstanding success . Sorry Jaimie but Stevie
    must play before Shelvey . Shelveys defending
    & all round workrate for 90 mins. is terrible .
    Every attempted tackle is a bookable offence.
    My midfield trio would be Allen , Hendo , &
    Stevie G. We must keep a clean sheet & get
    the 3 pts.

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  3. did LFC let lawrenson down is some way he has a go at the club and manager at every chance he gets you would think he never played for us brendan can only recomend players to Ian ayre if he dont buy them players what can rodgers do he obviously allowed big Andy to go believing Ayre had aquired his requested replacements so what is the man supposed to do if Ayres let him us and the club down

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  4. The injured Borini otherwise known as the flop Borini!

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  5. Why start Suarez in your tentative line up when he is probably still jet-lagged? Start with sterling and suarez as a super sub. Concur with Gerard starting on the bench...

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  6. I dont get it andy carroll would score goals for us would he??? we could get 4 goals a season from carragher if we stuck him up front. rodgers is trying to change the way liverpool play why bring back a player that doesnt fit in to the way we play. just means us going back. forward thinking, jerome sinclair has been leathal in the under 18s give the boy a chance.

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  7. Rodgers had been assured by the owners they would sign a replacement striker, and I can't see how he can be criticized for the situation we've found ourselves in. Splashing 35 million on one striker, but refusing to add 1-2 million for another when the club has to find a replacement for an outgoing forward? Just unbelievable lack of logic and reason by the owners.

    I'd definitely like to see Yesil play now.

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  8. should play gerrard as super sub or play him in some imp games...
    shelvey looks as a better goal scoring threat...
    and raheem needs some rest definitely

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  9. Time for Yesil to get on and getting us up the table once more!

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  10. Either way, still a reckless decision to have such a small no. of senior strikers. Faith in youth and Suarez's form is nice but shouldn't be relying on that solely.

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  11. Would love to see that lineup you mentioned! Interesting game today!lets hope we grab the 3 points

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  12. cos he's one of kenny's preforming monkeys joe , he's the lawro who still wears hair lacker on his barnet

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  13. Is there any chance that FSG might offer next Manager's post to this joker, if BR is sacked. After Lawrenson's old pal wasted so much money on these British garbage, BR's hand was already tied. He could have bought another mediocre striker or could have kept the donkey, but did the right thing by trash cleaning (Well almost). KD made blunders & got sacked, rightly so; now his old mates are trying to put pressure on the man on hot seat & prove that FSG's decision is wrong.

    Though we are in the last Q of the table mostly so far, I actually am happy with our team. We are playing much attractive football & have some of the best youths in the league (may be in the world) in our ranks.

    Chelsea just beat Spurs, & someone pls. inform Law'sen that his pal spent 20mn for a clown & had the chance to buy Mata with few mn more - we are struggling for that.

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  14. How statements like that make Lawro a pundit is beyond me. A five year old could come up with a conclusions like that. He could do some in depth analysis or something really meaningful to earn his money, but having digs at our current manager is all he resorts to.

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  15. We have ONE STRIKER, that is not good enough for a Blue Square league team, never mind an EPL team. Sure, we have reserves so do every team. "I would be a NUTCASE to let Andy go on loan", enough said.

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  16. Lawro its about time you stopped moaning about BR and your old team, you seem to have forgot that we never walk alone.
    The transfer situation was not his doing and not being allowed an extra 1.5 million for Dempsey was the board, who don't realise that we would prob have made that much by finishing higher in the league.
    So shut up Lawro because you should know YNWA

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  17. jesus christ!!!! wtf !! where does it say lawro blames rodgers???
    blame the clueless owners who pretty much ruined our season before it even started. it was in there hands, i presume they had a little shopping list, obviously!!!
    they failed to cover carroll simple as that. ie dempsey at 5 mill even for only 2 seasons was a bargain. come january it will all be to late, everton chelsea etc coming up, just lucky we scraped a win today

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  18. i will prefer Carragher up front than carrol...how many goals have the 35 million carrol score this season anyway,,hmmm sterling is even better

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  19. Carroll scored 4 league goals last season. He was the target man and the team was built around him. I don't miss those 4 goals :)

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  20. If there is anything ridiculous is him. Is getting boring reading his posts talking shit. The good thing is that most of the supporters r behind BR and they won't turn on him just cos this idiot ( Lawro) doesn't like him. Maybe he is hoping that BR gets the sack so his mate gets the job back. It ain't going to happen so move on. BR is the mngr, Liverpool Fc is the club we support so SHUT UP you idiot.

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  21. One goal against Stoke and Reading. That's the universe we are in Jamie. One scraped home win by the middle of October. That's the universe LFC are in. Face facts - the club is in a hell of a state. Clueless is the only word that describes them. If the manager has any idea at all of what he is doing then nobody can spot it. Says he doesn't want the job and then accepts it. Says he'd be mad to let AC go and then does it. Promises to replace him and then doesn't. Come January and what I expect to happen is...absolutely nothing. No money available.

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  22. Lawro , get a life we are moving on

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  23. When are people going to get it into there heads , it is next season that counts

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  24. Hmmmmmmmmmm don't know what 2 say,please some should go get falcao or obafemi martinz,we need a shape striker,Not somebody that just wanna be changing is eniveronment.

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  25. Firstly, Lawrenson should keep it shut, secondly for me it was NOT all Rodgers fault if we failed to bring in another striker.. everybody thought that Dempsey would be ours ...

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  26. if i ever get the chance to meet this clown face to face , i will spit in his face , he seem's to think he can slag liverpool because he was part of the 80's team , ad he gets paid for it , you never ever hear ex utd players slagging united off the jock hanson is no btter either . supporters spend so much time , money , and energy , to give dogs like him a life style a big house in southport no money worries ect ect , and he picks on the managers (but not kenny) he's pure anti lfc , like hanson , they should be banned from anfield too , parasite he is ,

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  27. Lawreson is a fool. As with zonal marking, as with squad rotation, as with Allen's role in the team, he shows that all he can do is jump on the bandwagon without having any thought behind anything he says. If you look at it like a person with a half a brain, we have only had Suarez as a striker from the moment Torres left. We haven't had a twenty goal a season striker since Judas left for chelski so the situation didn't get worse in the summer transfer window. Obviously, the situation didn't get better either but to now say missing a striker has anything to do with last summer's window is just idiotic. Then again, that is just what Lawreson is.

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  28. The mantra of Liverpool supporters! And I guarantee that next season it will be the season after that counts. I've been listening to this for so long I can't even remember when it started. For United it's always this season that counts, I notice. I think I prefer it their way.

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  29. I don't mind you editing my post but at least make sure the message stays intact when you do? Also, you were going to rest Sterling and play Suarez, who has just played on the rooftop of the world and returned after a nine hour flight on Thursday, ahead of him? Interesting..

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  30. In that case I believe you are on the wrong forum and need to read Google for Dummies so you find your way to where you belong..

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  31. Beyond Borini and Suarez, who do we have up front that aren't puppies? No one. Before we had Carroll, Suarez, Bellers & Kuyt. They may not have been high calibre but they were forward options and 2 of them had plenty of experience. Three of those four strikers left and only one (Borini) came in. Do the maths. The situation has gotten worse, compared to prior to the summer window, in terms of forward options. Secondly, it blatantly has something to do with last summer's window as well as before. Its not necessarily about the quantity of goals that Lawro is having a pop at, it is the lack of forward options. That isn't idiotic.

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  32. Football is about scoring goals, not about having as many players as possible in your squad. Last year, Kuyt, Bellamy and Carrol scored 12 league goals between them.So if the likes of Sterling, Suso, Yesil and Morgan can equal that impressive feat, we did not get any worse. As it stands we average 1.25 goals per game so far this season against 1.23 last season. So like I said, it didn't get worse, it didn't get any better either.

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  33. Wow, you call a 21-year-old who has played 10 games for our club a flop. Guess you did the same with Lucas.

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  34. If you prefer their ways why don't you join them then. Just asking.

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  35. I'd actually think that Agger would score more goals than Carroll if he'd play up front.

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  36. I don't need to join them. To be honest, I don't like them very much. My team, Juventus, has excellent players, a terrific fan base, a new stadium and is based in a lovely city. Oh, wait a minute. Perhaps I'm being insensitive? Sorry. Anyway, I'm sure you'll have those things next year. ( It's always next year, isn't it? Ever noticed that? )

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  37. Your comment doesn't really address my point about LFC supporters living in a fantasy land, does it? Maybe, as T.S. Eliot said, mankind cannot bear too much reality. The truth is, as you must know, Rodgers will get chopped, the new man will get rid of the players Rodgers brought in and introduce his own and the fans will say 'Give the guy time - Rome wasn't built in a day.' Oh, and another great favourite 'This season was always going to be about transition.' Dear, dear, what a boring little club they have become. Fortunately I remember the good days, when they worth supporting.

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  38. 11 goals in 18 starts and 1 sub in PL for Newcastle in that season, most strikers would love that ratio, let alone defenders. I criticized him loads last season but that is a silly point, as he clearly has his uses up front.

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  39. Yes, football is about scoring goals, it is also about having options, experience etc, in case players get injured, regardless of their poor recent form. I don't think the fella above said football is about having as many players as possible nor did he imply that (as many clubs rely on 3/4 strikers of some experience at least such as Arsenal, Man , that is silly arsey comment to make. Like the fella above said, better to have four strikers of some experience, than just the two. Rodgers did try to go for Dempsey, so clearly he felt we needed another option. Of course it is a worse situation to have just the two, regardless of the so-called talent, hype and next-messiah labels on these young players.

    Secondly, 'if...bla bla bla', I could do the same theoretical feat of 'if' too but it is somewhat pointless, in relation to the context here as 'if'-based logic isn't definitive/conclusive. 'if Carroll had recovered his Newcastle form or if KK played to his strengths', 'if Kuyt & Bellamy played more, in order to show they could perform like they did before' bla bla bla, all that waffle. I can do it too but it doesn't matter as its an 'if'. You can't rely on a 'if' to definitively say the situation hasn't worsened, as you simply do not know at this point as to how well these young raw players will do. Odd angle of

    You may still disagree, fair enough but possible to disagree without a point being idiotic, which is the case here as I don't think it is idiotic logic, just another angle.

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  40. Liverpool still needs a lot of work,and at least 4 more players with epl experience

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  41. Just goes to show tht Kanwar doesn't know what he's on about. If Sterling hadn't played, LFC would have lost....

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  42. why are you on a LFC site then you plastic muppet?

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  43. who cares what you think?

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  44. Based on what? A parallel universe? Who knows what would have happened if Sterling hadn't played. No one is perfect, even the best of managers can get it wrong, as long as they have logical reasoning for it.

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  45. I for one don't think we'll win the league next year, though I hope that next year we will perform better (especially when it comes to scoring goals) than we did so far this year. Don't know what's wrong with wanting the team to improve. Well, maybe that thought is alien to you. Maybe at Juve, when they come second (or are relegated for match fixing, what a lovely club) you don't wish to do better the following year. Strange attitude that.

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  46. He never emulated that form at Liverpool. Take your pick of the following suggestions. Newcastle played to his strengths, something Liverpool wouldn't do. The manager at Newcastle knew how to best use him, the manager at Liverpool didn't. Or anything else.

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  47. Yet Agger would do better, based on what? Nothing. Absolutely nothing definitive. That is what I am getting at with your silly initial reply, that Agger remark you made was needless and didn't add/subtract anything of substance to the post you were replying to in relation to context, just a needless pantomime pop at Carroll (if you had qualified it into the context of the initial reply, might not have been so needless but it is what it is now, a silly pop). So I couldn't care less about what you said in your latest reply, as it is veering off track from the initial post. Anyhoo, I'll leave it at that, as that Agger remark was just silly and not that relevant, in my view.

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  48. It really doesn't matter IF the young lads score as many as the players who left. So far, we're averaging the same amount of goals per match as we did last season. It doesn't matter who scores the goals, as long as we score them. Yes we should score more and yes we do need a striker and I am not contesting that. What is utter nonsense though is to say that the situation got worse over the summer when the facts tell us differently. If you insist on only debating facts than maybe you need to admit that bringing a new striker in is not a guarantee that he'll score goals so even that is a big IF in regards to solving our problems in front of goal.

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  49. OriginalChan, it is my opinion. I think Agger is a fine player and technically quite gifted. He is not a striker, but I believe that he would also be able to score six goals in 44 league matches if played up front. No, there is no evidence I can provide you with, sorry. Still it is my opinion. You may find that laughable, silly and whatever you wish, you can even call me names (though you would probably get banned on here, and rightly so). I don't like some posters on here (you are not one of them), and I think that you generally don't like my posts. Think I can live with that. Good night.

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  50. In terms of no. of senior options, it has gotten worse. It is nonsense to suggest otherwise.

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  51. We had a amicable discussion (mix of disagreeing & agreeing) about work permit, 3rd party ownership, etc, on another thread the other day/week, without animosity from either side. Not sure what your problem is based on, to be honest. It is odd that you feel I don't like your posts. It really isn't anything personal. I have clicked 'like' many a time on your posts, such as your Rafa-related posts the other day. Sometimes I agree, sometimes I disagree, based on what is said, not on who said it. People will disagree/agree all the time on a forum, it doesn't have to be personal and it certainly isn't from me, in relation to your posts. Had to respond as there really isn't a personal issue on my end but I'll finally leave it there.

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  52. Well then, no problem at all here either. Maybe I was a bit touchy yesterday, probably didn't like being branded 'silly' and 'laughable'. Don't mind continuing amicable discussions.

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