KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Skrtel or Adam Johnson?

I would sell Suarez and bring in Sturridge, Johnson and the other winger from Fulham Frey, think that would be a really good forward line with pace, goals and movement and would fit in nicely with what Rogers footballing philosophy seems to be.

Only lfc fans would sell there player of the year skyrtel has been great the last season who would we put there coates and we sart again the 2 central defenders are pivatol to build a team agger and skyrtel have been the best 2 central defenders in the EPL for me.

I know he might be our player of the year but what we need to ask ourselves is, is he good enough a player to take us where we want to go. I think Skrtel is steady at most, decent enough but nowhere near special like Agger, I think the same about Lucas who was voted our best player a season or so ago too, again he does a job, is dependable and very disciplined but lets be honest he's no Xabi Alonso. I dont mind any of these two players and dont want to seem harsh on them but realisticaly if we lost them both Skrtel or Lucas they would'nt be that hard to replace.

Agreed. If you sell a top quality player, you can't expect to challenge for titles replacing them with youngster/ squad players/ backups etc. Replace quality with quality. Look what happened when we didn't replace Alonso, Mascherano and Torres....

Sell srktel for Johnson and de jong.

Will Sturridge and Frey take us to where we want to be? Doubtful.
We should't even consider selling any first team players, apart from Adam and Spearing. Although I do think Skrtel is easily replaceable (I could probably count 15 different spellings for him).

holly sh!t, there is something at LFC that you think is good. i didnt think i would see this day

Absolutely no way I would entertain this idea. Skrtel is massive in defence for us. Let him go and Agger gets injured and we are back to Carragher playing with Coates. At best Agger stays fit and we play Carragher every week. Unless of course we start playing Kelly there like he does for u21's.

No guarantees with Johnson who is just another one of those players who would be in the Downing bracket for me. I would rather take someone like Moses or Zaha than someone who would cost twice as much and be paid twice as much. Actually we could get both of those and at least have options to cover injuries.

I just think that Johnson would be high maintenance and higher expectations than Citeh fans have of him in their set up.

There are a lot of players that I am sure Rodgers could blend together as a team without taking a huge risk on players like Johnson.

Adam Johnson is another overrated english player (better than Downing)If he was any good Mancini would be playing him regurlarly. If Man City want Skrtel they can pay 20mill for him. Silva and Aguero are the only City players I would buy but they are not for sale.

We must need players who can do the job. In my opinion Lucas doing more than a job. Lucas isn't playing in Alonso role. He took over Masch role and he is doing better job.He may not do crunching tackles. But he intercepts more than masch i believe. Better passer than masch per sure. More than anything we don't have 20+ million to buy CDM when we need to strength attacking options. Only thing missing from Lucas is goals.. If he can score 3-5 goals then he looks massive in everyone's eye.

It's time for Gerrard to take up Alonso role and play as long as possible for LFC.