Xabi couldnt play cause he had a ban for picking up 2 yellows
African-red wrote:I thought Cisse played well and in fact had a touch in the last three goal. Very decisive touches and if anyone really watched can confirm that. He was crucial to the three goals scored. He really wasted many chances but I mean the guy has been out and at the moment being scoring goals for France regularly. One game he does not score and everyone is complaining. This happens to any striker the weekend MO also did not score but yesterday he scored. Ronaldo scored yesterday after a year without scoring for Brazil. And Cisse does not score and everyone is on his back. I know Rafa will sell him and may be he will not even get a chance. BUT I am not so skeptical of whoever Rafa plans to buy. The targets he intends to buy might not make it in England I would only rate Dirk Kuyt to make it because of his sturdiness. France has a way of launching attacks and Cisse really runs at them you cannot tell if we used him in the attacking way he would not score more goals. Why were the English fans jeering at Crouch?
He really wasted many chances but I mean the guy has been out and at the moment being scoring goals for France regularly.
RedRoots wrote:I'm slightly dissapointed in Cisse for saying what he's said in the media, but I beleive it was an indication of how much he wants to play and the hunger he has to perform for LFC unlike one or two others
bring_back_biscan wrote:Angry Cissé talking his way out of Liverpool
By Matt Hughes
IF DJIBRIL Cissé could shoot as straight from inside the penalty area as he does from the hip then he would be quite a footballer. Built like a boxer, the Liverpool striker has little else in common with Muhammad Ali, the Louisville Lip, save a fondness for the sound of his own voice.
Most players see the international break as a welcome sanctuary from their domestic problems, an opportunity for quiet reflection in more familar surroundings, but in ten days with France Cissé has caused quite a stir. Indeed, such has been the relentless nature of his almost daily briefings that the French Football Federation would be well advised to install a Big Brother-style diary room at Clarefontaine to cope with Cissé’s confessionals.
Cissé is unhappy with his role as a mere reservist at Anfield and is intent on telling the world. Having previously revealed that he was “ off” at sitting on the bench, his emotion increased to anger yesterday, Cissé repeating his threat to leave the club during the next transfer window if his situation does not improve.
“I want to concentrate on Liverpool and win my place back,” Cissé said. “If I don’t do that then I will think about leaving in December. The only way I will play at the World Cup is to be playing for my team. I do get angry when I’m left out of the team but am determined and will fight for my place. I can’t afford to be playing just one game in three.”
Cissé should be so lucky. It took Liverpool several seasons and £14 million to prise the 24-year-old from Auxerre, but these days there is a shortage of suitors. Marseilles have inquired about taking him on loan and Real Betis are showing mild interest, with Liverpool likely to make a substantial loss.
Whatever happens it appears that Cissé has little future at Anfield. From the moment he joined the club, Rafael Benítez has had little regard for a player bought by his predecessor, Gérard Houllier, treating him like an unwanted inheritance and keeping him out of sight. It says something that Benítez would rather play a striker who has not scored since May up front on his own — Peter Crouch — than give Cissé a chance.
Cissé’s constant carping will not help his cause and he can expect a dressing-down from Benítez when he returns to training today. Beneath the softly-spoken exterior the Spaniard is a fierce disciplinarian, even dropping Steven Gerrard to the bench for last month’s Champions League tie against Betis, and players who cross him do not linger long, as Milan Baros could testify. After returning from last year’s European Championship with the golden boot the Czech Republic striker felt he deserved to be more than a bit-part player and told everyone as much, resulting in his rapid departure to Aston Villa.
It is not even as if Cissé is negotiating from a position of strength. Although he scored in France’s 1-1 draw with Switerland, by his own admission he endured a nightmare against Cyprus on Wednesday, missing five clear chances with only the goalkeeper to beat. As ever he offered a novel excuse, but when he surveys the squad he has inherited it is Benítez who must feel that he is cursed.
“On the personal level, it is a match to be forgotten,” Cissé said. “It felt like a curse and I would have been responsible if we had not qualified. It was a nightmare and I will try to forget all about it. It was a very hard match for me but the most important thing is that we got through. Sometimes in football you have bad matches like tonight and you have to forget as soon as possible.”
One senses that Cissé’s Liverpool career will soon be forgotten.
Harsh. But clearly Cisse has no future at the club. Against Chelsea in the league Benitez showed the world, and Cisse, what he thought of him. And when you look back the writing was on the wall right back to the first game in the league away at Spurs last season, when Cisse scored and got taken off after an hour.
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