KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum BABEL!good or bad?stay or go?

this is not a reaction to his goal v Lyon,but it does raise a few questions as to how we view him as an L.F.C player,i have read alot of the posts lately slagging Babel off for his attitude during matches and in wanting a move away from the club.
in my view rafa has wasted a big chance with Babel,i dont understand buying a young player for big money and then playing him out of position and judging him on that.young players need to be allowed to have a bad game and not lose there place in the side.he may not display it as much as we all would like but he is one of the most talented players we have.there are plenty of managers orcoaches who would be able to get the best out of him i just wish Rafa was one of them.
u may not agree with me but i would have much rather he was playing against Lyon from the start instead of Voronin and to be honest i would rather see him playing on the right than Kyut.
on that basis i really hope we dont sell him just to get a few coppers back.we need to bring players like Babel through to be what he can be.he needs confidence and he isn't going to get that by getting splinters in his ass each week.

I feel the same as you, his goal was a wake-up call, someone who can shoot like that has big potential, his croocked shot afterwards was just the lack of games, same would be with Torres, Torres doesn't play for a season, his shots would be worse as well, not that much but still, give him a chance, it can't get worse.

As far as I'm concerned he can hip hop out of Anfield.

He's another Collymore.( just not as mad ) He doesn't realise that this is the highest point of his career. After Liverpool its downhill. I've doubted his attitude for a while but I'm starting to doubt his ability as well. Great goal last night but the free kick soon afterwards was laughable.

I would rather keep Babel but deploy him as a striker, even though I don't like the guy.

i would rather give him away - his attitude is appalling and players like that drag the whole atmosphere down ..... better off recalling nemeth!

as for this crap about playing him out of position i fail to understand how you can say that! he played on the left wing and the right wing for ajax ..... he may be thought of as a striker but he has never shown anything to suggest he will ever make it as one ..... players like this are just problems waiting to happen - get rid and let's save some money by not paying his obscenely high wages for him to sit in a recording studio making an arse of himself when he should be in for extra training to learn the basics of footie

the guy can't pass, his control is abysmal, his work rate is non existent, his set pieces are a joke and he has no idea of how or when to make a run

lads he has literally done one thing. one goal with his weaker foot. great strike but god knows where in the goal he was aiming for. everything, and i mean everything else he does is deplorable. he gets one goal and its a wake up call?. ehhh, i dont think so. ask me again when he has scored ten of those goals.
he spends his time running into cul de sacs. he's lost his pace and his shooting skills remind me of Billy from Roy of the Rovers when someone threw his magic boots in the river and he had to wear new ones.

still better then the ponytail

he was probably trying to hit Voronin when he took the shot. and he was on the BENCH at the time!

Er Flameboy, he's right footed.

The shot last night didn't surprise me as he has a venomous shot with his right foot & has done it in the past(Chelsea CL Semi). It's just his attitude. He can't get his head right. It's like he is in a classroom & he has the ability to get to the top of the class, but he keeps staring out the window or putting his ipod on!

Wake up Ryan!!!!!!

i digress, thanks for the correction. although its debatable as to whether he is any footed.

any explanations for his very subdued celebrattion? a glimpse of humility? or indifference?