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You've just described Adam Lallana perfectly

Do you really think FSG knows which position to reinforce? It cannt be them as they would rely on the manager for that. Yes, they can say that the value is not right but they won't nake decision on the required position, it's the manager's decision for sure.

Fella was signed cause BR seen him on telly once V saudi arabia, convinced we never scouted this fella.

I read that we scouted him since he was 15 and that interest is why he wanted to join us. Could be bollox if course but he was quoted.

Since the start of the 2013-2014 campaign, Liverpool have won just one of eight games without their current skipper.

I’ll repeat that – ONE GAME IN EIGHT.

Or to put it another way: Liverpool’s win percentage with Henderson since August 2013 is 62 %. Without him it drops to 12.5 %.

This shoddy sequence includes home matches against Hull and West Ham, with the only victory coming at Carrow Road, when Liverpool went into the game on the back of 10 successive league wins.

Source: Liverpool FC Swedish Branch FB page.

Wow. Startling Van Gogh. Seriously. Proves how underrated he is.

Correct.

BR has spent £250m on players so why would he need to rely on someone that he tried to swap for clint dempsey?? Henderson's absence means our squad is slightly stretched but it doesn't weaken our first team in any way.

Well, Hendo has massively improved. The stats (VG) suggest we rely on him more than any other player, bar the lost Suarez, to make us tick. He was so written off early doors that his value to us has been discounted. His decision making near goal is still suspect and this hesitance suggests he's still not got the confidence required to captain LFC. He's nowhere near the best in the league but he's the best we have, and we need to spend to provide cover. There's nobody at the club that is able to do what he does, apparently. He may not be Pogba but he's worth the money we paid, and some, now. Whether he's going to go down the plughole with the rest of this team, under BR, remains to be seen.

I don't think he has got better. When he first joined, he had Gerrard beside him to show him up and expose him. As SG got worse, he showed Henderson up less and less giving the impression that he was improving.

In a nutshell, we've just got used to him and lowered our expectations. Henderson doesn't look "terrible" but he doesn't look "good" either. He's surrounded by players of an equally mediocre ability these days so his shortcomings are less obvious.