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According to The Mirror

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-need-two-more-big-1545890

Looking at the first and second strings below, and not wanting to get bogged down with questions like should Sterling be played ahead of Downing or not (because I feel the front and middle 3 can rotate and cover to some degree), I agree with Gerrard and think we are short just three players of really challenging for the title.

Assuming we stick with a Rogers 4-3-3

Pepe Reina

Glen Johnson---Martin Skrtel---Daniel Agger---José Enrique

Steven Gerrard-----Lucas
Joe Allen

Stewart Downing--------Luis Suárez
Daniel Sturridge



Brad Jones

Andre Wisdom---Jamie Carragher---Sebastián Coates---Jack Robinson

Jordan Henderson-----Jonjo Shelvey
Suso

Oussama Assaidi--------Raheem Sterling
Fabio Borini


It seems to me the the obvious weak areas are as follows:

Central attacking midfielder
Allen hasn't impressed enough to date, Shelvey still has a way to go and Suso is not the finished article. I would love to see Sneijder come in. He'd be perfect.

Wide attacking forward
A Downing replacement for the right of the attacking trident. Sterling is great, but we lack depth in this area. Borini is not at the required level and Assaidi can't get a game for some reason. How about trying for Alexis Sánchez?

Left back
Though Johnson can play there, it's not his best position. Enrique hasn't looked that bad there, but he at least needs competition.


So do you agree with Gerrard? 2? Or 3 more? Or are we fine after the great showing against Norwich?
Which positions?
Who?

why would sanchez want to come to us?

OK, maybe he wouldn't. I don't think it will happen. Although he has been linked.
Do you agree with Gerrard that we just need 2 or 3 more big players?

Yes I'd agree but the key word used is BIG...

LB Fabio Coentrao
DM Yann M'Villa
AM Wesley Sneijder.

I wouldnt worry about width as BR uses 1 real wide man with 1 who plays on the outside but on the inside if that makes sense. He might look to change that to 2 men on the inside and have the Full Back provide the width. Johnson does this well. Enrique likes to get forward too.

As long as one of them bomb on at a time the DM can fill in or just switch to a 3 at the back like Wisdom did today.

I'd just play someone like Sneijder further forward

Suarez - Sneijder

----Sturridge -----

Or flip the triangle and have Sneijder behind the front 2. With a flat 3 in the middle? I dunno there are lots of ways to play the 4-3-3 and it's open for debate.

But the point is we need 3 BIG players who can come in and challenge for 1st team spots.

we need THREE TOP TOP players to be title contenders. when i say top talent am talking alonso, bale, sanchez quality.

we wont get those top players anytime soon

The starting 11 and squad are shaping up well. The lads from the academy have been great, with Kelly, wisdom, sterling and suso all stepping up the club has saved millions. Looking at the under 21s and below it's plain to see there will be more coming through in the future.

Now BR has proved to the owners what he can do, so they need to back him now in the transfer market, they let him down in the summer and by that undermined him at the start of the season. If he WANTS Wesley snidger get him, if they got there man as they said in the summer it's time to back him up

no top draw players are going to come to us, a mid table average club unless we do what Man City did to attratct them which is give them about 200k a week in wages like they did with Tevez, Silva and big Yaya...

We need a bigger player than midget boy joe allen

I just have a feeling the end of this window will be stronger than the last, not just because we need it, but the club will want good PR after the failings at the end of the last window.

I wouldn't be surprised if a big player like Sniejder came in at the end of the window. I fully expect a couple of young players to come in too...

I think the deals we've tried to make (according to the press) have been for an alternate forwad line (Ince, Holtby, Gomis, Lee), a centre-half (Forren, Fazio, Okore, Diakite) and an offensive centre midfielder (Sneijder, Coutinho). I think we'll bring in one of each, but at worst a couple of signings.

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