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    Is your team stronger now than it was 5 years ago?

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    Post by Guest Tue May 24, 2011 10:11 pm

    The question was asked in the Wisla thread on a Polish forum I frequent and I thought it'd be an interesting topic to bring up.

    Do you think your team is stronger now than it was 5 years ago? And Why/Why not?
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    Post by luke. Tue May 24, 2011 10:12 pm

    This is a fucking hard question.

    Immensely hard actually Neutral
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    Post by Guest Tue May 24, 2011 10:13 pm

    luke. wrote:This is a fucking hard question.

    Immensely hard actually Neutral
    Good thread is good. Very Happy
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    Post by Guest Tue May 24, 2011 10:13 pm

    5 years ago we pulled off the great escape to not go down to league 1.

    So yeah, not by much but deffo better.
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    Post by dena Tue May 24, 2011 10:15 pm

    2006 was the year we were bought by Red Bull Laughing, 5 years later we are better, no doubt. Maybe not a better manager (Arena vs. Backe) but better team overall.


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    Post by Zzonked Tue May 24, 2011 10:16 pm

    Easiest question ever. Bad thread is bad.
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    Post by Guest Tue May 24, 2011 10:19 pm

    Easiest question ever for me too. No, we were stronger 5 years ago. It's all good though, we are going through a growth period with our players, just like we did with the players 6 years ago, I fully expect to win the title 4-5 years from now.

    Hopefully I'm alive to see it.
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    Post by Hitchy Tue May 24, 2011 10:20 pm

    Yes
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    Post by ResurrectionRooney Tue May 24, 2011 10:22 pm

    Here's our team from the 3-0 defeat to Chelsea 5 years ago, our last meaningful game of that campaign

    Saha Rooney

    Park Giggs O'Shea Ronaldo

    Silvestre Vidic Ferdinand Neville

    van der Sar

    Subs: Howard, Evra, Brown, Richardson, van Nistelrooy
    Notable injuries: Scholes, Solskjaer, Smith, possibly Fletcher

    Weaker then without a doubt. A few months later we were far stronger though, stronger than today, in the first team at least. Vidic and Evra showed their world class talents, Scholes was exceptional on his return, Carrick was better in midfield than O'Shea, Giggs was better on the left than Park.

    Chelsea at the time were far stronger than they are today, easily the 2nd best team in Europe, they'd have walked the League this season. It should surprise me that Luke finds this question difficult, but it doesn't, because he's a bit of a spastic.
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    Post by Guest Tue May 24, 2011 10:23 pm

    No. The players who are still here and were there 5 years ago are younger. We had a bigger squad. Mourinho was in charge then.
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    Post by Guest Tue May 24, 2011 10:23 pm

    About equal I think. Although that team had Ze Roberto. Love
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    Post by Scouser_Dave Tue May 24, 2011 10:23 pm

    At the moment no. Hoping that changes this summer though.
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    Post by Guest Tue May 24, 2011 10:25 pm

    Zzonked wrote:Easiest question ever. Bad thread is bad.
    Man City don't count. Laughing

    Hitchy wrote:Yes

    Really? Suspect
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    Post by Mal Tue May 24, 2011 10:31 pm

    Talent wise - yes. Experience and winning mentality wise - Hell no.

    Even though in 2006 we had Henry, Bergkamp, Pires, Ljungberg, Cashley. Etc.. But they were all ageing. :shifty;
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    Post by Potato-7 Tue May 24, 2011 11:03 pm

    yeap,quite stronger actually.
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    Post by Carlos Jenkinson Tue May 24, 2011 11:07 pm

    Fucccccccccccccccccccck no, don't even need to explain why everyone knows lol
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    Post by Drake Tue May 24, 2011 11:13 pm

    I would say no this is the team that beat Manchester United 2-1 at Old Trafford.
    Brad Friedel
    Lucas Neill
    Zurab Khizanishvili
    Ryan Nelsen
    Michael Gray
    David Bentley
    Tugay Kerimoglu
    Robbie Savage
    Morten Gamst Pedersen
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    Post by lvrpl4life Tue May 24, 2011 11:22 pm

    Liverpool 2006/2007 Squad


    1 - GK - Jerzy Dudek
    3 - DEF - Steve Finnan
    4 - DEF - Sami Hyypiä
    5 - DEF - Daniel Agger
    6 - DEF - John Arne Riise
    7 - MED - Harry Kewell
    8 - MED - Steven Gerrard
    9 - DEL - Robbie Fowler
    10 - MED - Luis García
    11 - MED - Mark González
    12 - DEF - Fábio Aurélio
    14 - MED - Xabi Alonso
    15 - DEL - Peter Crouch
    16 - MED - Jermaine Pennant
    17 - DEL - Craig Bellamy
    18 - DEL - Dirk Kuyt
    22 - MED - Mohamed Sissoko
    23 - DEF - Jamie Carragher
    25 - GK - José Reina
    26 - MED - Paul Anderson
    28 - DEF - Stephen Warnock
    29 - DEF - Gabriel Paletta
    32 - MED - Boudewijn Zenden
    33 - DEL - Neil Mellor
    35 - MED - Danny Guthrie
    36 - MED - Adam Hammill
    37 - MED - Lee Peltier
    38 - DEL - Craig Lindfield
    39 - DEF - Stephen Darby

    Liverpool 2010/2011 Squad

    1. Brad Jones
    2. Glen Johnson
    3. Paul Konchesky
    4. Raul Meireles
    5. Daniel Agger
    6. Fabio Aurelio
    7. Luis Suarez
    8. Steven Gerrard
    9. Andy Carroll
    10. Joe Cole
    12. Dani Pacheco
    14. Milan Jovanovic
    16. Sotirios Kyrgiakos
    17. Maxi Rodriguez
    18. Dirk Kuyt
    21. Lucas Leiva
    22. Danny Wilson
    23. Jamie Carragher
    24. David Ngog
    25. Pepe Reina
    26. Jay Spearing
    28. Christian Poulsen
    32. Stephen Darby
    33. Jonjo Shelvey
    34. Martin Kelly
    37. Martin Skrtel
    39. Nathan Eccleston

    Debatable
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    Why are some of them in red?
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    Post by Carlos Jenkinson Tue May 24, 2011 11:28 pm

    The 2006 squad..
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    Post by lvrpl4life Tue May 24, 2011 11:28 pm

    ResurrectionRooney wrote:Why are some of them in red?
    Hyperlinks. I copied from thisisanfield and they link to another page.
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    Post by MickStupp Tue May 24, 2011 11:52 pm

    5 years ago we finished outside the top 2 for the only time in my lifetime. And Paul Le Guen was about to become our new boss. So yeah, we're better now, although we still had some quality players back then. We're nowhere near as good as we were 10 years ago though.


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    Post by bcfcben Tue May 24, 2011 11:53 pm

    Our new defence and midfield are better whereas our old strike force is better purely because of Forssell not Heskey
    06/07
    Taylor
    Kelly--Upson--Taylor--Sadler
    Pennant--Clemence--Dunn--Gray
    Forssell--Heskey

    10/11
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    Carr--Johnson--Dann--Ridgewell
    Larsson--Ferguson--Gardner--Bowyer
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    Post by Zzonked Tue May 24, 2011 11:54 pm

    Pilkz wrote:I would say no this is the team that beat Manchester United 2-1 at Old Trafford.
    Brad Friedel
    Lucas Neill
    Zurab Khizanishvili
    Ryan Nelsen
    Michael Gray
    David Bentley
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    Post by Totti Wed May 25, 2011 12:10 am

    We've gone downhill since 2003, so yes.
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    Post by Sean Wed May 25, 2011 12:38 am

    Shit. On a whole I would say no, 2006 we were absolutely unstoppable.
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    Post by Guest Wed May 25, 2011 12:40 am

    Hell no. Ahly was at its strongest 5 years ago. Now they are shit. Barca are its strongest now though.
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    Post by Guest Wed May 25, 2011 1:05 am

    Brown,
    Mkandawire, Beckwith, Jeannin,
    Green....................................... Travis,
    Stanley , Ferrell, Purdie,
    Stansfield , Williams

    Pitman, Fleetwood, Ipoua, Mawson, Carey-Bertram.

    I would say this team from 5years ago is a bit stronger than our current one. Mkandawire has gone on to play for Millwall consistently, whilst the two strikers went on to play for League 1 clubs. Stanley is in the League 2 play-off final at the moment whilst Beckwith is at Northampton but better than our current CB's.

    We still have Green, Fleetwood and Pitman (Who is now our manager Laughing)

    Brown went to Bury before moving to South Africa, i would say he is about equal to Bartlett atm but Bartlett has greater potential.

    Jeannin, Travis and Ferrel are in the non-league. Ipoua was amazing for Hereford but didn't take football seriously enough after dropping out off Athletico Madrid's books, he retired and was last known to be a British Gas Laughing

    I would prefer this squad to our current one. Stansfield lost his fight against bowel cancer last year, he was one of the good guys.

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    Post by Danny Wed May 25, 2011 1:05 am

    Yes. Neutral
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    Post by SussexByTheSea Wed May 25, 2011 1:20 am

    18th in league one then
    1st in league one now
    So yes.
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