KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Why not give Babel a decent run upfront

First off we lack strikers and he has an obvious talent, so why not give him the chance Ngog was giving! If he has the managers trust and A decent run I honestly believe we will have our own Gareth Bale story!

Think roy will give him more opportunities than rafa did,he has to take them though.

He was but on after Pacheco the other night though, and I'm a huge fan of Pacheco. But it must be disheartening for Babel to be passed over like that!

I actually think that Babel is a good player to have on the bench as he has the ability (although not very often) to do something special and get a goal out of nothing. Not sure any other players who would be on the bench can do that.

david fairclough

More like Brian Clough.

supersub

respected gingers ever since.

My concern about Babel is that he todays Emile Heskey.

Occasionally Heskey used to be unplayable, he used to create space for others, he was a great old fashion centre forward.

Obviously Babel is a different sort of player but he has it all. At times he does great things- the goal against Chelsea in the CL springs to mind,

The reason Babel reminds me of Heskey is the statement 'when he turns up.' So inconsistent.

On the plus side since the end of last season he appears to have more 'get up and go' but it is reaching the point where if he wants to play for LFC he needs to deliver consistently and to stay he needs to deliver big time this season. I'm not sure he is capable of doing that consistently.

I'm not knocking Ngog I believe he also has great potential, but you have to admit he did look awful at times last season, yet managers stood by him. And when Babel was played it was on the wing mostly, I think he is to awkward to play on the wing, where as up top his strength and shooting will be much more of a use to him!