Comments on: Tom Hicks Plays With Your Emotions http://beingsven.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/tom-hicks-plays-with-your-emotions/ ain't nobody's hero but i want to be heard Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:46:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: YNBA http://beingsven.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/tom-hicks-plays-with-your-emotions/#comment-97 YNBA Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:43:32 +0000 http://beingsven.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/tom-hicks-plays-with-your-emotions/#comment-97 <i>Plus, Benayoun wears fucking gloves, for crying out loud. GLOVES! If it’s that cold outside, why are you wearing short sleeves?</i> Ha. That always annoys me, too. The gloves in general annoy me, but with the short sleeves, especially. Plus, Benayoun wears fucking gloves, for crying out loud. GLOVES! If it’s that cold outside, why are you wearing short sleeves?

Ha. That always annoys me, too. The gloves in general annoy me, but with the short sleeves, especially.

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]]> By: nate http://beingsven.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/tom-hicks-plays-with-your-emotions/#comment-94 nate Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:06:34 +0000 http://beingsven.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/tom-hicks-plays-with-your-emotions/#comment-94 I'm honestly not as bothered by the Benayoun speculation as everyone else seems to be. I'll be awfully angry if he's signed while Liverpool fails to get any "big names," but if on form and willing to play in such a role, he could be dead useful as a squad player, especially since we know he can do it in the Prem. All too many times, Liverpool needed that extra bit of flair to break down defenses, especially after Garcia was injured. I'd take Garcia over Yossi every day of the week if that was the choice, but they are kind of different players, and I think Benayoun has an excellent eye for the short pass in the final third, which Liverpool needs and Benitez is more than willing to use. Again, Liverpool needs more than just players like Benayoun, and in the same vein, Voronin, but having them around, especially if Benayoun is available for less than £3m (when £12m was the rumored fee last summer), doesn't seem a bad idea. I’m honestly not as bothered by the Benayoun speculation as everyone else seems to be. I’ll be awfully angry if he’s signed while Liverpool fails to get any “big names,” but if on form and willing to play in such a role, he could be dead useful as a squad player, especially since we know he can do it in the Prem.

All too many times, Liverpool needed that extra bit of flair to break down defenses, especially after Garcia was injured. I’d take Garcia over Yossi every day of the week if that was the choice, but they are kind of different players, and I think Benayoun has an excellent eye for the short pass in the final third, which Liverpool needs and Benitez is more than willing to use.

Again, Liverpool needs more than just players like Benayoun, and in the same vein, Voronin, but having them around, especially if Benayoun is available for less than £3m (when £12m was the rumored fee last summer), doesn’t seem a bad idea.

]]> By: drew.catt http://beingsven.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/tom-hicks-plays-with-your-emotions/#comment-93 drew.catt Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:41:31 +0000 http://beingsven.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/tom-hicks-plays-with-your-emotions/#comment-93 I haven't even bothered to look at transfer speculation yet. Of course, that'll change once La Liga is done this weekend... I haven’t even bothered to look at transfer speculation yet.

Of course, that’ll change once La Liga is done this weekend…

]]> By: lingeringbursitis http://beingsven.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/tom-hicks-plays-with-your-emotions/#comment-92 lingeringbursitis Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:05:19 +0000 http://beingsven.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/tom-hicks-plays-with-your-emotions/#comment-92 The Benayoun news made me vomit in my Corn Flakes, because honestly, "cheap" price tag or not, what if that 1-3 million makes the difference between a Simao or Torres or Tevez or Malouda coming to us as opposed to someone else? In the past, I've been baffled by some of Rafa's decisions, but watching them pan out, a healthy majority of them made sense. He keeps his cards close to his chest, but he is quite savvy at building teams [though not nearly as good as Wenger]. That being said, what we need is a STRIKER. Sell off the irritable c*nt Bellamy, bid adieu to all the shite currently clogging the left flank [Zenden, Kewell] and bring in a true-and-true winger who can do the job. Pennant is also frustratingly inconsistent; look at the CL final... he turned that sap Jankulovski into his own personal finger puppet, and yet couldn't put in a decent cross to save his fucking life. I'm growing tired with the number of pet projects we take on; the Premiership is not really the ideal arena for ifs and maybes. We take on far too many players who could grow into the next-big-whatever, and almost all of them fail. We need decisiveness, and the commitment to spend big cash on a proven commodity or two, because otherwise, we're wasting our best players and not giving them the League success that their performances have deserved. The Benayoun news made me vomit in my Corn Flakes, because honestly, “cheap” price tag or not, what if that 1-3 million makes the difference between a Simao or Torres or Tevez or Malouda coming to us as opposed to someone else?

In the past, I’ve been baffled by some of Rafa’s decisions, but watching them pan out, a healthy majority of them made sense. He keeps his cards close to his chest, but he is quite savvy at building teams [though not nearly as good as Wenger].

That being said, what we need is a STRIKER. Sell off the irritable c*nt Bellamy, bid adieu to all the shite currently clogging the left flank [Zenden, Kewell] and bring in a true-and-true winger who can do the job. Pennant is also frustratingly inconsistent; look at the CL final… he turned that sap Jankulovski into his own personal finger puppet, and yet couldn’t put in a decent cross to save his fucking life.

I’m growing tired with the number of pet projects we take on; the Premiership is not really the ideal arena for ifs and maybes. We take on far too many players who could grow into the next-big-whatever, and almost all of them fail. We need decisiveness, and the commitment to spend big cash on a proven commodity or two, because otherwise, we’re wasting our best players and not giving them the League success that their performances have deserved.

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