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We could end up with as much as 5 players coming if the Tello and Sahin deals go thru

What is interesting is that they are all in MF, one of them ( Borini) can fill in in attack, but none are for any defense position.

That zone is not exactly stable, Agger and Glenn with injuries, Enruqi with form and Carra with age.

I think the reason Rodgers is not changing anything is because he is taking things one zone at a time, and because defense is the hardest zone to drill, i think he will wait till next season before bringing in new blood and settle with the established players for now

From what i understand there are some good prospects coming through in defensive positions and with midfield being such a big headache last season we needed that sorted asap.

Well my understanding is that we will defend with the ball. If you look at Barca there's very little emphasis on defence, so perhaps that's why BR isn't paying much attention to it? Makes one a little nervous though, I have to admit.

1st team: Agger, Skrtel, Johnson, Enrique

Backup: Kelly, Coates, Carragher, Coady, Flannagan, Wisdom, Robinson

Fair enough, we haven't got a 'superstar' defense, but I'd say we have adequate cover. With a MF/ FW there's going to be a lot more rotation. Ideally you'd keep the back 4 the same indefinitely, but you're always gonna get injurues/ suspensions- that's where the cover comes in. If we went out and bought Godin (for example), he'd be itching to play regularly and if Agger & Skrtel are in form, he wouldn't get games.

Just my two cents.

yep i agree i think BR sees defenders as midfielders. zonal marking and everything.he is going for all out possession ,we ain't going to doing any lets hold out for a point thing..nervous but exciting, hate seeing us defend, always on the front foot thats how lfc should be and hasn't been in a long long time. even rafa's biggest fans would have to agree that some of the away set ups were just so bloody negative. BR philosophy over tactics. hope it works

Last season we had the 3rd best defense in the league, lots of backup coming through, and with our new style of play we should be on the ball a lot more this season perhaps leading to fewer goals against us. I just hope we can score.

Defence is not our problem as others have alluded to.

At the moment, Our midfield could do with 1 more in and Cole going out! Unless he turns out to be this years Maxi

Our priority squad wise... Should be Forwards, I think we a very light in this department. If Suarez and Borini are injured who can replace them? No-one prolific:(

OK. So we have Carroll but he plays a different way, Perhaps we can be trained to learn this new system? Who knows?

We need a Forward who can score and is used to a 4-3-3.

Yeah if we can take even half of the number of chances we created last year we'll be challenging for top 4. This new guy from Morocco that we are signing looks like he can knock in a few, so does Borini and then we have Suarez, Gerrard, downing and the possibility of getting Dempsy so I'm feeling upbeat about our chances this season.