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i for 1 completly agree wih you..but would love to see sterling + suso or 15-20 mins in carling or league cups....

and would love to see more of pacheco this season...he seams to have quality to become the next superstar....

also i think we should invest more on bringing in more quality youngsters....
and should spend more on young players to flourish them....

these days teams like bayern munich(germany)+ barcelona(spain) seems to out spend us on achedemy to bring in players like muller...

i would like to have players like wickham in our team....

I like it that so many people are picking a varied group youngsters for our side; that says a lot for the potential for Liverpool FC to really grow in the next few years without needing heavy investment in terms of depth. But I think we need to be realistic as well, even though this thread is in the realm of fantasy.

Starting 4 or more of them simultaneously for a Europa Cup, EPL, or even random knuckledragger game is madness. They need to play alongside experienced hands or they're not going to learn anything other than how difficult the next step up is; just throwing them on the pitch isn't going to turn them into world beaters.

It's true that Sterling, Amoo, Ngoo, Suso et al should see some game time through the course of the season, but for the most part they will play 15 minutes here and there just to get a feel for the pace and intensity of the occasion. They certainly won't be doing it en masse, not even in the reserve league. Also remember that a lot of our really promising guys are under 18, and they will naturally struggle against physical opponents who are grown men. They will occupy the bench in ones and twos, but frankly picking anyone of this group other than Kelly or Pacheco to start any first team game is not likely to happen. I'm not trying to "think like Roy"; I simply believe that there is such a thing as being pushed into it too early.

4-3-3

reina

johnson
carra
agger
konchesky

paulsen
gerrard
meireles

babel
torres
cole

i think that would work a dream

Not sure I would go with this, but it is a different option. I was looking for a way to give us more width whilst keepin gerrard more central and giving Cole the role he wants.

This give Johnson and Fab/Konch the license the bomb down the wings more and deliver the ball the way they can.

---------------Reina
---------Carra Skrtel Agger
Johnson--------------------Fabio/Konch
-------Gerrard Poulsen Raul
----------------Cole
---------------Torres

Another unpopular option would be to play Gerrard and Cole out wide becuase they are our best options out there, in terms of ability to cross. Pach could play the Dalglish role dropping of Torres the way Dalglish did with Rush

-----------Reina
Johnson Carra Agger Konch
-------Poulsen Raul
Gerrard-------------Cole
-----------Pach
----------Torres

reina

johnson carra agger koncheskey

raul gerrard

kuyt cole pacheco

torres

withe gerrard getting on the ball and playing the alonso role and also bombing into the box last minute like 7 - 8 years ago

goals, goals, goals and goals

Reina

Johnson. Carragher. Agger. Kontchesky
(Kelly) (skrtel). (Greek). (aurelio)
Poulsen
(spearing)
kuyt. Gerrard. Raul. Cole
(maxi) (lucas) (babel)

Torres
(jova, ngog)

I like this. A lot. Though I favour Aurelio for that kind of role (but maybe I don't understand how good Konchesky is as a left midfielder). Given all the forward-going ball Johnson was taking from Poulsen, I kinda thought at times that Roy was trying something a bit like this vs WBA in the first half:
---Carra--- Skrtel---Agger--
-------Poulsen---Lucas------
Johnson--Kuyt--Gerrard--Jova
-----------Torres-----------

It failed quite badly until Kuyt switched to the left in order to track back to help Agger. Also I felt Stevie played a bit too high up the pitch, so we had some trouble in the midfield both with and without the ball. With Raul surely a step up from Lucas, Cole in the hole, and a lesson learned from this game, I think the 3 CB plan has merit against sides we don't expect to run at us. Kelly wouldn't be half bad at the "left back" slot there either, and would allow us to abandon the plan and revert to 4-4-1-1 without requiring a substitution should it reap no reward (though obviously Pacheco/Kuyt/Babel could come on for Aurelio, and Gerrard and Cole could duke it out for the right to play in the middle).

both kuyt & jova are great assistants, but they can't make it on their own

pepe
kelly agger skits konch

jonno poulson mireles

cole stevie
torres