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I would like to see our midfield being Lucas, Can and Henderson moving forward. Where is the creativity in this midfield?
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For the Lucas haters out there;
Liverpool this season with Lucas: 7W, 1D, 2L. Without Lucas: 2W, 2D, 7L More than likely, that is pure coincidence. These type of stats are absolutely useless and do not prove a thing. How do you work that out? We are clearly a better, more solid unit with him in the team, take the last 3 games as a perfect example.
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Someone like Matic would have been perfect. I'm not sure who else would be available in the DM position now though that would be good enough? No player wanted by Chelsea will come here. Sad but true. Get used to it.
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With players like ie
Mig
Glen, Jose
Lucas, Allen, hendo
Lambert, borini
In the team..... Lfc will win fvck all and not challenge for the epl title....
Regarding signing a natural dm...
Khedira
Carvelho
Tiote
Wanyama
Song etc etc
Their are quality DM out their that can b signed....
Can br attract them to the club ?
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Why do you keep banging on about Tiote? If he is that good why is he still at Newcastle. Carvalho is completely unproven and would be a huge gamble.
2 of your suggestions are correct, Song and Khedira but didn't we try for Song in the Summer but he wanted to go back to London.
Also Mignolet, Johnson, Lucas, Allen and Henderson were part of the squad/team that came second last season.
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Khedira is the best of the lot and it seems he's unhappy in Madrid.
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For the Lucas haters out there;
Liverpool this season with Lucas: 7W, 1D, 2L. Without Lucas: 2W, 2D, 7L More than likely, that is pure coincidence. These type of stats are absolutely useless and do not prove a thing. How do you work that out? We are clearly a better, more solid unit with him in the team, take the last 3 games as a perfect example. You're reading way too much into the stats. Our last 3 opponents weren't the same as the previous 3 opponents so you cannot compare. And it's not as if the whole team remained the same - there were other personnel changes too. They could just as easily be instrumental in the results. And who knows....we might have won by more and conceded less with someone else playing instead of Lucas. The stats are extremely misleading. It's also worth noting that we have still been playing sh1te and that our results aren't down to improved play. I'm not saying that Lucas is bad - I'm just saying that the stats do NOT support your claim.
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OK things are marginally better in midfield with Lucas sitting and Gerrard further up - but it is still not good enough. We were very fortunate to win the game against Stoke - and Leicester really could have got a point had they converted their chances. Even in the last 3 games unbeaten our midfield still gets overrun for large parts of games. We have to strengthen there or we will get nowhere near 4th. Agreed, imo our midfield is average to poor even at it’s best showing. If we have any ambition for fourth we have to spend big on a top quality DM, if that’s how we’re going to play, either that or go back to 442 and invest in a top level winger + goalkeeper and a top striker in January. Stick with our current lot and setup and we can kiss top 4 goodbye, we’re just not good enough as we currently stand. What a disaster the summer window is turning out to be, I felt at the time it was ok’ish, nowhere near great but not a disaster, but I’m afraid I fell foul of the dreaded wishful thinking complex!
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Darcus I never used stats, I never do. In my mind we are much more solid and effective with Lucas in midfield. With our midfield the way it is, he is a much better option than Gerrard or Allen in the holding role.
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Jesus, written on Lucas's grave will be:
'Remember those 3 months when he played pretty well'.
We should start Allen every game too in the hope he rediscovers his form in his first 5 games for us.
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