Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Thu May 12, 2022 6:26 am  

chapylad wrote:

Along with 11 million on Harrison, 16 million on Costa, 12 million on Firpo and 27 million on Rodrigo.
Our plight hasn`t been helped by Raphina and Phillips who look like they`ve already got an eye on where they are playing next season.
Looking at the 3 teams fighting to stay up you have to say we look worse than Burnley and Everton.

And potentially £16m on JKA!! We’ve spent around £120m and only Raphinha has proved to be a good one. Llorente has looked good at times but too injury prone same with Koch. Bielsa and Orta got it badly wrong. Orta has a track record of this.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Thu May 12, 2022 6:32 am  

The Eagle wrote:

Lots to think about. Still not a lot in it, but we look in bad shape. 3 games ago we were flying, unbeaten in 5 and quite good defensively. 4 points in the next 2 is still feasible.

I do feel we'll go down though. We've been unlucky with injuries, but stupidity in building a squad and stupidity from the likes of Ayling and James on the pitch has made this self inflicted.

Looking at next season, if we go down I am less worried. We will lose players, but only Philipps and Raphinha are people we'll miss.

What concerns me if we go down is a potential meltdown between fans, the board and manager. Could make confidence hard to rebuild.. squad wise we’d be ok with some decent additions at that level which we should be able to do with the parachute payments. I can’t see anyone coming in for Bamford given his injuries this season so we’d have a top player at that level who’d bang in goals. We’d have to make a big play to get back up first time of asking, we’ve some good young players who’d do well in the championship.

Fingers crossed that it doesn’t come to this however

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Thu May 12, 2022 6:41 am  

I can't see them getting another point tbh. Always look likely to concede and carry no threat going forward. Confidence looks to have totally gone.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Thu May 12, 2022 9:57 am  

It's certainly looking unlikely i do agree. Players look lost with the formation but it's hard to judge over these last 3 games a they've played City who are the best in the world, Arsenal away who were on good form and the current reigning champions of Europe. Trouble is, has too much damage been done. They've now lost Foreshaw, Dallas, James, Ayling and now potentially Harrison just to add to the difficulties.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Thu May 12, 2022 10:06 am  

Didn`t think I`d be saying this but Phillips hasn`t done anything since his return from injury and I thought he would really strengthen the midfield.
For me the 2 players we are really missing are Dallas and Forshaw.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Thu May 12, 2022 10:19 am  

chapylad wrote:

Didn`t think I`d be saying this but Phillips hasn`t done anything since his return from injury and I thought he would really strengthen the midfield.
For me the 2 players we are really missing are Dallas and Forshaw.

Same here. He's not giving any protection to the defence at all.. Mount had space all night to do what he wanted. KP should have been all over him.. you just wonder if Marsch is asking him to do something different and it's not working. He's bound to be very rusty but there looks to be other issues. if we go down i can't see how Marsch can stay, fans won't back him. He could possibly do well in time but he won't get that long.

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Fri May 13, 2022 8:53 am  

Good result for Leeds last night with Spurs winning, they'll be firing on all cylinders against Burnley at home on Sunday now. a spurs loss last night would have been bad news. If we can manage to get SOMETHING against Brighton it could just save the situation..

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Fri May 13, 2022 6:17 pm  

Where`s Marty?
Thought he would be gloating at this time or is he banned again?

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Fri May 13, 2022 7:18 pm  

Hope he's OK to be fair. Not like Marty to not be posting for a while

Re: The ONLY LUFC Football Thread : Sun May 15, 2022 3:17 pm  

Clinging on by our finger nails. We needed 3 points today, so results have to go out way