KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum so if we bought borini and dempsey...

How would we play? My guess is our ideal XI would be:

Reina
Johnson Skrtel Agger Enrique
Lucas Gerrard Adam
Borini Dempsey Suarez

Something like that, right?

And then you've got as back ups/subs (somewhat in order of viability): Carra, Bellamy, Kelly, Henderson, Spearing, Flanagan, Aquilani and Sterling (accepting that Carroll will probably leave this summer). Damn, actually, looking at it, we're THIN on the bench.

I can't see us using Dempsey as a striker.

he can finish well enough

Maybe, maybe not, but he'll definitely have an advanced role, and I've noticed he's most effective playing, if not as a striker, through the middle just behind a centre forward

And what are the timetables on these deals anyway? Rodgers comes out and tells us one is going to happen early this week, it's already mid-afternoon on Thursday, and we've had naught. They're going to America, what, next week? And I'm sure [oops] will happen while they're over there

That's as maybe but would his positioning, gameplay and discipline be like that of a striker?
Where does he usually play for Fulham, right wing isn't it?

Will we play with a striker?

I can't imagine we wouldn't; we may be adapting to the tiki taka style, but even Spain looked a little lackluster when playing the false 9, and we're no Spain. Besides, it'd definitely be better to play Suarez alone up top than no one at all.

He has played there, but he's usually a deep-lying forward or a second striker.