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mate your probably better than spearing, who tries very hard and cannot be faulted for effort ever but is sadly not good enough for the liverpool squad
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stretch the huge wage bill out some more then do we? turn our back on lucas and bring in a DM to take his starting place after 6 months of injury?
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be smart mate,
let go of cole aqualani, kuyt will free up space.
we need a better replacement than spearing or poulsen.
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I think the answers we need are within the reserves and youth, but it will take time for them to come through. For me this squad has enough about it to be dangerous to the sides above us on the table, but we've largely failed to put it all together from game to game. We have at times played football of the highest order, but the following week we reverted to missing chances and making bad errors at the back. Not everything is tactics - the players still need to pitch up.
I think that Spearing has lost his chance of being number 2 behind Lucas at DM/MCd. Henderson should take that role going forward, to be followed by Coady in a few years. While our squad players in that position are a bit short of confidence and danger awareness, I don't see any reason to buy a ready-made player to replace them. We need to sort out the right side of midfield - whether that is Gerrard or an import is for debate.
I think our first XI can be very good, but our squad needs bolstering out wide and we need a 3rd striker, especially for Europe. I truly hope we see more of our academy products in the Carling Cup and maybe even in the EL next season, because they need to start getting some exposure at this level. I'm not saying we should pick droves of them at a time - results are important too! - but a few substitute appearances here and there, maybe a start or two for Sterling. When the fixtures pile up we will need them to have their heads on straight and be familiar with our system.
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again great post mate.
agree with you about spearing but not sure about henderson in that role.
Coady is someone (like the rest of the youngsters) I follow closely and unfortunately he has not progressed this season as we would have hoped.
he even played a few games at centre back towards the end of the season.
So I think another season at reserve level beckons for him.
We need a decent back up for Lucas, I am thinking Joe Allen of Swansea who would fit the FSG ethos
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again great post mate.
agree with you about spearing but not sure about henderson in that role.
Coady is someone (like the rest of the youngsters) I follow closely and unfortunately he has not progressed this season as we would have hoped.
he even played a few games at centre back towards the end of the season.
So I think another season at reserve level beckons for him.
We need a decent back up for Lucas, I am thinking Joe Allen of Swansea who would fit the FSG ethos
isn't joe allen pretty old? 28? or is that leon britton, one of them is older than you'd think. and also how much will he cost? 12/14 million? again there has to be a better more experienced DM in europe for that money.
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Joes Allen's 22 mate. Haven't seen to much of him, any good?
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I think the answers we need are within the reserves and youth, but it will take time for them to come through. For me this squad has enough about it to be dangerous to the sides above us on the table, but we've largely failed to put it all together from game to game. We have at times played football of the highest order, but the following week we reverted to missing chances and making bad errors at the back. Not everything is tactics - the players still need to pitch up.
I think that Spearing has lost his chance of being number 2 behind Lucas at DM/MCd. Henderson should take that role going forward, to be followed by Coady in a few years. While our squad players in that position are a bit short of confidence and danger awareness, I don't see any reason to buy a ready-made player to replace them. We need to sort out the right side of midfield - whether that is Gerrard or an import is for debate.
I think our first XI can be very good, but our squad needs bolstering out wide and we need a 3rd striker, especially for Europe. I truly hope we see more of our academy products in the Carling Cup and maybe even in the EL next season, because they need to start getting some exposure at this level. I'm not saying we should pick droves of them at a time - results are important too! - but a few substitute appearances here and there, maybe a start or two for Sterling. When the fixtures pile up we will need them to have their heads on straight and be familiar with our system. First decent thread in a while Thundyr - I agree with most on here, all the new sigings have at some point shown real promise and there is no doubt that if they can obtain consistency then we will be ok. That said all have not reached what is required to be a top Liverpool player. Henderson is either very good or very bad and impossible to know which games suit him best. Enrique needs a rest and the summer cannot come soon enough. Carroll very poor for a year but now starting to show some poetntial, Downing plenty already said. We need to gain a stronger spine to the team and a leader needs to emerge. remember only 3 seasons ago we had Pepe,Carra,Hyppia, Macherano, alonso, gerrard, torres down the centre of the team the midfield/attack being arguably the best in europe. I look today and see a fading Pepe, Agger+Skrtel(ok/good) then a very average midfield with only Lucas showing promise to be something great, up front Suarez. Gerrard fading, Carroll - well short. So 3 players short of being a great side. For me the task this summer is fpr Pepe to step up again and Carroll to be every week who we saw for 25mins on saturday. Still no leader so that would be a priority.
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best post of the day so far
excellent
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