KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum After tonights game, who you'd rather keep ?

Sell the players on loan. Sell Jovanovic. Keep the remaining under performers as squad players. You can't afford to sell your second string guys when you have no front liners. Buy quality players only; players proven to be better than our squaddies either in this league or at international level. In 12 months time reassess the players you people want to sell now; if they are no longer goo enough as 2nd or 3rd chioce, then sell them.

You can't sell N'Gog now because our system requires 2 strikers and we only have 4 in the squad. You can't sell Lucas because if he's injured we have no backup. You actually can't sell Poulsen either, because then if Lucas is injured we would then not even have a player to put on the pitch, nor could we play a second DM alongside Lucas for games/situations where we want to protect a lead. Much the same applies to Insua and Konchesky ironically, but neither is really EPL quality so LB is where we must invest heavily in the summer despite Johnson doing a solid job on the left.

Sell loans, Jovanovic, youth who won't make the grade. Buy top quality LB, wing/LM, DM, CB. That will leave us with a 25 man squad - not having 25 experienced players is killing us right now. More likely we won't be able to invest that heavily (15-20m per player is a lot considering the fair play rules), but we must make advances in these areas without getting rid of the squad players (who currently keep us afloat even though they lack dazzling skill).

your comment about 'not having an experienced 25 man squad' is spot on and needs to be addressed asap.

Its good to buy young potential for the future, but we need players who can come in and do a job for us IMMEDIATELY. LFC can't afford to go another season without champions league, and thats why I think we should go for:
LB Enrique, bring back Insua so we have at least 2 LBs
CB Cahill
DM Tiote, Diaby
LM N'Zogbia, ? (we need at least 2 for this position)
RM Young, Thomas, Jarvis (we need at least 2 for this position)
Stiker - Bendtner (I think we should add 1 more experienced striker)

Not Diaby and Bendtner! They are about the only players Wenger would like to let go - simply 'cause they're not good enough! No more deadwood!

After tonights game:

Keep:

Reina ( Need I say anything?)

Kelly (for the next 10 years hopefully)

Carragher ( a liverpool side without carragher? seems strange to me, will truly miss him if he decides to hang his boots)

Kyriagkos (He is one monster and should have a goal in this game, Sadly it is his final 2 seasons as he edges closer to retirement, but as a back up squad player, he is certainly earned the respect of the fans)

Skirttle ( underated defender in my opinion. when on form, he can be very good at the heart of defence)

Wilson ( Seems to be one of the future, perhaps Aggers successor?)

Lucas (This guy never quits, I think he will be very good for us as he gets older)

Spearing ( another young gun from the academy, although with limited ability, He certainly has a future with us for now)
Cole (Hasn't worked out for him so far unfortunately, but I am willing to give him more chances to impress)

Meireles ( One of our 'classy' players. He isn't young but I believe atleast a few more season are in him.

Kuyt ( No matter what you say about this guy, bad touch, can't pass, can't cross, can't hold up play blablba, I will always have this guy as my first player in my teamsheet. Great role model for youngsters)

Sell:

Agger ( I really can't stand his injuries anymore, I am sure he is out for a couple months now with that injury, its no use. get rid and get wilson in his position)

Ngog ( at his age, I think even at wolves its not acceptable, I think its time the club start being ruthless and axe all these not good enough players)

Maybe we can bring a couple free agents in summer Altintop, Taiwo/Wendt, M.Diarra and never mind Klose either, then we should go for a couple future prospects like Suso & Shelvey, and a couple big signings

We could buy a left back and use kelly at rb and johnson as a winger and aurelio plus those 2 can cover. Give cole a season or loan him if he gets to his best he is world class and him and suarez could be special. Merieles scores good goals but for me he doesnt dictate play enough and we really need an alonso in the middle and stevie to be free. We definitely need at least one top wide player to get the crosses in buy a striker sell ngog. Poulsen can go as can skirtel cos we do need a high quality centre back carra is good agger is alright but injury prone but if we want to be great in defence a new hypia is needed.

its easier at the minit to say who we definatly woudlnt keep and after last nights game the first out the door should be POULSON my goodness hes useless ! ngog? not exactly clynical is he? lucas maybe the second one out as when hes paired with poulson hes just as bad last nights midfield didnt do much bossing did they no creativity.

n'gog, poulsen, konchesky, insua, aquilani, degen, maxi, cole, el zhar

we need:
full back
2 wingers
centre midfielder
backup striker

i'd go for:
coentrao
arda/young/mata/sanchez
adam/banega/defour
wickham

sell ^^^

I'm not taking issue with your list, but I'm a bit confused mainly because I'm not sure what you have in mind for the team in terms of formation. If you want 2 wingers, then we definitely don't need another central midfielder, for eg.

I think that LFC's greatest asset right now is our 3 man midfield (Gerrard-Lucas-Meireles). If we want an extra wide player to feed Carroll then we will almost certainly be pushed more into 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 than 4-4-2, I believe. If we're going to stick with 3-5-2 though, then the need for a winger largely disappears.

So for me it's up to the way the manager wants to see us play.
3-5-2: Need LB, DM, CB, backup striker
4-3-3: Winger, LB, DM
4-4-2: 2 wingers, LB, backup target-man striker
4-2-3-1: Winger, LB, DM

The common ground is LB, which must therefore be our priority (Coentrao). I really don't think the manager will play 4-4-2 outside of serious injury trouble, so a DM becomes the next priority for me (Adam?). After that we must assess whether it is more important to get another CB to handle Agger's injuries than putting our eggs in the Wilson/Kelly/Soto basket as backup to Carra/Skrtel. I feel we're a bit thin here but I'm mainly hoping Wilson comes good (Micah Richards could solve a lot of problems for us if we stick with 3-5-2 for eg).

Next would be attacking options. The backup striker question for me is moot if we get a left-sided winger. We can then play 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 with ease, resting the wing to play 3-5-2. In case of injuries Kuyt is an adequate backup striker, who has experience leading the line in 4-2-3-1 which would ideally be our plan 'C'.

So for me at a minimum we need Coentrao, Adam, and possibly Turan. We should look at someone like Richards or maybe Sakho, and then consider whether we really need a replacement for N'Gog rather than starting Kuyt up front on his own. Next season our youth players will be a year older, and people like Pacheco and Ecclestone come more into the frame for those injury-hit patches than another foreign buy.