KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Why not turn Agger into our 4th Midfielder?

Agger is a very talented "defensive" player.. he reads the game well, but he's not better than Skrtel, our iron man in the back line.

Agger is very good in attacking from deep, and is a very good passer. If Aurelio was used as a makeshift midfielder, I believe, that Gerrerad will play mostly as a 2nd striker, while Mascherano, Alonso and Lucas will fight for the 2 defensive midfielder positions. Agger should be included with these players.

he can beat players, pass the ball, read the game and break up play, score from 30 yards. what else do you want from a defensive midfielder?

wouldn't that be better than making him rot on the bench?

we have players in the stiffs to play this position why would we want to hold them back so you can force a player into a position he is not accustomed to? agger is an excellent player in the backline better to leave him there rather than trying to fit square pegs in round holes

i personally dont get why aurelio was used in central midfield when we have so many talented youngsters ......... why wasnt spearing or plessis or san jose given the run out against pompey???

Simply because he is our defender

Putting Agger in MF is not on,for reasons outlined by trepie.
I personally think Agger is quality and potentially our best footballing CB since Hansen.I hope his contract is sorted soon.
Unfortunately,Carra and Sami cant go on forever and it would be a tradegy if we let him go.

Before the start of this season I didn't know who would be our CB pairing.
I thought carra was as likely as agger or skrtel to the be benched CB.
The problem is that we've got three quality CB's, plus Hyypia who is still premier-league standard.
Most other clubs have a more obvious pairing in that their 3rd best CB is of lower quality than their other 2.
Arsenal, with that swiss guy who was a liability at the back for them last year.
Man Utd until recently, as Evans? seems to have played well for them in the games he played. And Chelsea until recently as well, (remember Bouhlarouz?), although Alex looks decent cover for them at the moment.

I would hate to see Agger go, he is quality, and it'd cost a bit to buy someone of his quality, plus the risk that they wouldn't turn out as good anyway.

In a few years the combination of Agger and Skrtel would be frightening, it'd look like we paid two guys who break peoples legs for a living to play as centre back!
Aside from the fact that they both can play the ball when its on the ground, and have the speed, strength and vision to succeed.

Give him the contract that he wants, we all know the quality he's got.

Plessis is the laziest player to ever pull on the shirt
San Jose is primarily a centre back
Spearing will never make it as a regular as long as Rafa is here as he's seen as too much of a 'Heighway' player

i hope you are wrong about that because i think spearing is as good as carragher was at his age and look at how he has turned out!! the lad needs a decent run of games to show what he can do

Simple fact is, as much as a fan of Rafa as I am, there's absolutely no way Carragher would have made it into the Liverpool first team had he been born 10 years later. he'd probably be at somewhere like Newcastle or Bolton by now.

i am not sure - i think carra is the kind of lad that will always make it through by sheer force of will ...... after all houllier tried to buy replacements for him many times and he always forced his way to the front of the queue