David Villa to Liverpool?

[DJS]

Will Rafa still continue with this nonsense about not giving anyone the no. 7 shirtif this happens? :wink:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_3693685,00.html

Oh and as a couple of my mates are Liverpool fans I can be excused for maybe hoping they'll get him - imagine this team.

Reina

Arbelola Agger Carragher Dossena

Milner Gerrard Barry Babel

Villa Torres


Could finally ruffle the feathers amongset the current top 4 a bit and make interesting viewing! :up:

 

[General Levy]

Well spending £20million Villa instead of Barry will be better for everyone excluding Valencia.

Why does Raf refuse to give a player the #7 shirt?

 

[dvdhopeful]

Will Rafa still continue with this nonsense about not giving anyone the no. 7 shirtif this happens? :wink:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_3693685,00.html

Oh and as a couple of my mates are Liverpool fans I can be excused for maybe hoping they'll get him - imagine this team.

Reina

Arbelola Agger Carragher Dossena

Milner Gerrard Barry Babel

Villa Torres


Could finally ruffle the feathers amongset the current top 4 a bit and make interesting viewing! :up:

And makes sure it's only the Arse who are within our sights. Dont see Villa going to Liverpool, think Barca or Madrid make more sense.

 

[DJS]

Well spending £20million Villa instead of Barry will be better for everyone excluding Valencia.

Why does Raf refuse to give a player the #7 shirt?

There was an article in a newspaper a few weeks back where he was saying his players weren't mentally up to wearing it due to expectations of living up to previous greats - Keegan, Dalglish, Kewell (ok scratch the last one!).

There was an article about retiring shirt numbers in Spurs chat relating to this too - see if I can dig it up...

 

[DJS]

Found thread.

http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=31654&highlight=rafa

And makes sure it's only the Arse who are within our sights. Dont see Villa going to Liverpool, think Barca or Madrid make more sense.

Ahh but that's the challenge for Spurs! :up:

I know he's younger (altho not sure who would have been better in his prime?) but do you reckon he'd go to Madrid with Raul still there and seemingly back on form?

 

[deselina]

villa will go to real madrid and they will become unstoppable. rvn and villa upfront with raul coming from the bench with sneijder, drenthe and robinho supporting them from midfield.

 

[DJS]

villa will go to real madrid and they will become unstoppable. rvn and villa upfront with raul coming from the bench with sneijder, drenthe and robinho supporting them from midfield.

Plus Ronaldo if Real have their dirty way! :wink:

 

[General Levy]

Is Drethe any good and does he play LB or LM/LW?

 

[Mullers]

I can't see Rafa playing both Villa and Torres. Villa would be the one to lose out and grow frustrated by being on the bench.

 

[joey55]

I can't see Rafa playing both Villa and Torres. Villa would be the one to lose out and grow frustrated by being on the bench.

Why not?

 

[SpurSince57]

Is Drethe any good and does he play LB or LM/LW?

Either, but he hasn't played much at all this season.

 

[Mullers]

Why not?

I think he would prefer the Gerrard/Torres partnership especially in Europe or other players that can play more than one position such as Babel, Louis Garcia, Benayoun or Kuyt it gives him more flexibility. He may like Villa as an option but I couldn't see him playing him week in and week out.

 

[jj87]

Putting Villa on the bench would be insanity.

 

[talkshowhost86]

Reina

Arbelola Agger Carragher Dossena

Milner Gerrard Barry Babel

Villa Torres

I still don't think that team is anywhere near challenging for the title and in fact I'd say that our team wouldn't be far behind.

Reina v Our new keeper - Depends who we get

Their back four v our back four - If Hutton, King, Woody and Bale are fit I don't think I'd pick any of the Liverpool back four ahead of them.

Milner isn't better than Lennon

Barry isn't better than Modric

And Berbs is on a par with Villa and Torres.

They'd probably just have the edge but with a couple of additions we could match that Liverpool 11.

 

[joey55]

I think he would prefer the Gerrard/Torres partnership especially in Europe or other players that can play more than one position such as Babel, Louis Garcia, Benayoun or Kuyt it gives him more flexibility. He may like Villa as an option but I couldn't see him playing him week in and week out.

Maybe and Gerarrd is certainly a great option behind the striker, but Rafa has played 442 for a majority of his time at Liverpool. In fact he played it for the majority of this season, but changed to 4231 for the last 10 or so games. I'm not sure how he usually played at Valencia, but in the UEFA Cup final he used Mista and Angulo in a 442. I think the main reason he hasn't always played with 2 strikers is becasue considering the money he's spent, he's not been too clever in the transfer market. Morientes, Bellamy, Crouch and Kuyt I'm sure were all bought with the intention of playing 2 strikers, but just haven't been good enough, so he's looked at different formations. I'd be pretty confident that if he had two of the quality of Torres and Villa, then they'd start most games together.

 

[donny1013]

I know Liverpool will raise some funds by selling Crouch, Riise Pennant etc, but have they now really got the spending power to get Villa who is now a reported 30 mill and also Barry who will cost between 15-20mill (WTF?!). Im not sure they have. I am pretty sure Valencia would have rejected bids before Euro 08, bet they are glad they did now!

 

[Mullers]

Maybe and Gerarrd is certainly a great option behind the striker, but Rafa has played 442 for a majority of his time at Liverpool. In fact he played it for the majority of this season, but changed to 4231 for the last 10 or so games. I'm not sure how he usually played at Valencia, but in the UEFA Cup final he used Mista and Angulo in a 442. I think the main reason he hasn't always played with 2 strikers is becasue considering the money he's spent, he's not been too clever in the transfer market. Morientes, Bellamy, Crouch and Kuyt I'm sure were all bought with the intention of playing 2 strikers, but just haven't been good enough, so he's looked at different formations. I'd be pretty confident that if he had two of the quality of Torres and Villa, then they'd start most games together.

Rafa rotates a lot and he makes some rather curious decisions at times and sometimes pretty cautious. The reason why Torres wasn't rotated more last season was because he proved himself indispensable. Rafa likes Kuyt because he can run and run all day even if he doesn't score all that many goals. He likes his strikers to have some kind of extra dimension. I think thats why he got rid of Owen and never chose to get him back.