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Has Spearing done enough to be considered first choice back up for Lucas (next season) or does Coady deserve his chance?

Agree with rafa spearing is an ok player does his job and works very hard just not the greatest natural player but could be a good player for a lower level premiership side and if we could get about 4 million for him then let him go and let coady have a go seems to just have that bit more class about him still needs a lot of work but just has that natural ability of a higher level than spearing. A shame because spearing seems a good lad and very hard working just not quite good enough at a side who wants to be winning things and challenging for the champions league .

I think Spearing is at the level of a championship midfielder, Coady has the look of a Gerrard about him, very combative and assumes command of midfield in most games he plays

from what i have seen ( not a great deal to be fair) coady has northing of gerrard apart from the willingness to get stuck in. i havent seen anything from him to suggest he will be any better then spearing. i know shevley is a different type of player to caody but av seem more from shevely to suggest he has the ability to play in the PL then i have of coady. if coady was to get loan out to a championship team i cant see him being one of their better players but i can see that with johno. his already show that with the small loan to blackpool. shame we got him back

Have you actually seen him play? or just done a quick google search

http://eurorivals.net/video/conor-coady-new-steven-gerrard/309538

Coady hasnt shown me anything to suggest he will be the next Gerrard yet but he is very young so there is time

While acknowledging that Spearing is no world beater he has shown that he can compete at Premiership level. I'd love for us to get someone in better but are you seriously saying that we should get rid of him on the off chance one of our 'promising' reserves will step in and do a better job in a holding midfield role? People slated Lucas for 2 or 3 years whilst he grew into the role, what chance would a young whipper snapper like Coady have? Reserves that develop into Premiership type players of any level are fairly hard to come by, I think we should appreciate what we have with Spearing (average or not) in the absence of a foreign player of the same ilk that might cost 10 mill.

I love how whether Spearing is deserving is being questioned in the same sentence as it's being questioned if a young lad who's never played for the first time deserves a chance instead.

It's always the same with some people - the grass is always greener on the other same. The same as some people claiming Sterling should have got a game when Downing has a bad game (not that I have anything against Sterling, I have high hopes for him), or saying Adam Morgan should be given a chance when Andy Carroll misses a shot.

Give any of these youngsters a chance and if they fail to shine within 1 or 2 games then they'll too be slaughtered by the same people here.

Coady cannot replace spearing cause he isn't a defensive midfielder that will cover ground in the same way. Spearing is incredibly limited, work rate and breaking up play is good enough to be a back up, but his passing is horrendous, the last game he played he fluffed simple attacking passes I could have made.
To replace spearing we would have to buy someone, and I don't think that is where are money is best spent.

spearing is nowhere near what i would want in an LFC centre mid. and i do like coady but coady needs to go out on loan as do a number of our youngsters. adorjan, coady, wisdom, ngoo, sama, flanno and shelvey all need real competitive games even if it's at league 2 level. playing in games that actually mean something; getting a bollocking at half-time; playing against grown men. they all need that. sterling should be a first team player though and maybe suso although after pacheco im not excepting too much of suso.

i would love to see those players going out on loan but for some reason we dont loan them out as much as the other teams. the likes of sterling, suso, adorjan, wisdom, flanno and shelvey can play for a championship team and be able to hold down a regular place