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Theres no doubt he's improved since we first bought him but at the same time he's just not good enough. We need to be a bit more ruthless. This summer is going to be a big one. If someone comes in with a decent offer, we should let him go and bring in someone with a bit more quality. The likes of Moussa Sissoko or Yann M'Vila would be a step in the right direction.

Defo.

Lucas has come in, taken some serious heat and negative feedback for ages of journalists, tv pundits, and the LFC fans. But guess what

He stuck with it - kept going and improved and is now a definite squad player. If he continues to grow, mature and improve his game like he has been the last 12 months then this time next year he could be an even better player and therefore he has got to be given a shot for his commitment and dedication to the club thus far.

One player who will give you all and takes criticism and goes QUIETLY about his business. Good professional. Another year and he could be a decent shout to replace Mascherano and become better than him.

Yes I think he has done enougk. Lets not forget he is playing as a defensive midfielder here so I don't think we should be expecting too many goals from him apart from good passing, would love to see him score more each season.

If you compare Lucas with the other defensive midfielders our rivals have, you will probably find out they don't have a significantly better DM than us at all.

Chelsea - Mikal who is a headless chicken in most of chelseas games
united - fletcher/carrick, hard working but not alot of passing quality either
tottenham - jenas seen alot of him but he's overated in my opinion.

Only Arsenal who have Song, I think he is a fantastic DM because he has much more passing ability than Lucas and also City who have Toure/barry/ and De 'legbreak' Jong.

Well said Snakeye because you put it into perspective.

And also, we should remember the role of a 'squad player' is as important as the regular player.

I believe Lucas is growing out of the 'squad player' role and making a claim to be the permanent DM.

However, if we do manage to sign an even better DM, then Lucas will be great as our backup and create competition for the role.

We have had too many players unchallenged for their position for far too long.

yea a really good point to make but we can only add to what we've got to increase the quality of depth in the side and i think lucas will only help compliment that.

chelsea also have ramires and arguably essien who can play that role. spurs also have sandro (fantastic against ac milan), palacios and huddlestone too. united also have anderson and gibson who can do a job for them.

we just need a little more strength/depth in the side. but as snakeye pointed out lucas is as good as any.

if we were to replace poulsen in the summer then i'd think we'd see more rotation. the fact poulsen is a crap liability makes the manager more reluctant to play him more often

Of course he deserves new deal! He is still young and developing hei game - he plays more and more dependable - the areas that he should improove are attack and shooting - but he can do this - I belive in Lucas - he should stay with us!

Lucas only turned 24 recently.

He should be reaching his best in the next 2 years or so.

I think that he will only get better.

I'd give him a contract, I used to think he was one of the worst players to ever wear the shirt but he has improved quite a bit. Don't think he should automaticaally be a first team player though.

Best we got in that position by far. New contract goes without saying.

lucas has improvement greatly and he is still quite young so he still has a lot to learn and with his attitude i think he will learn because he wants to so yeah deffo give him a new contract depending on how much money he wants wouldn't pay him more than 65k a week