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When he celebrates a goal at the corner flag......

Your missing the point. Gerrards most productive seasons have been when he's been behind the front man from 06/07 season and even more so when fernando arrived. Gerrard was never just a right winger in those two seasons he played there, he was allowed to drift inside to link up with the play, pretty much to the waywe have been allowing the full back (finnan) to provide the width. And he was very
productive in that role (role similar to what zidane played for Madrid)
Admittedly gerrard is at best when he's floating round the middle of the park roaming left and right between midfield and striker as a free role

as for pacheco, your wrong, completely wrong. Of course he would be good in his natural position, but he's inexperienced and I struggle to think why you'd put him in

give me 5 reasons why pacheco should be in the team on experience?

Difference is 'we had the best midfield in the world' then

steven gerrards best position is hanging out the back of there lass.

SG's best position is linesman

What makes you think that he is better playing behind the striker?

Because, if you do drop him back into centre mid your losing 15-25 goals per season. Goals win you games

I think Torres has been lost without Gerrard along side him and it's been painfull to se this game after game.
My main concern now is that Gerrard's leg's can no longer do what he's done for the last decade so what we must find is some winger's to add extra pace and width to our game and also a centre midfielder like Dafur or Sissoko or Martinez
To take the weight of Gerrard like Alonso used to do.

For me Gerrard is probably the most complete allround footballer in the world but not special in any one position. The reason I say is that if you names a world 11 Steven Gerrard would not get in it because there is always a player in that position better than him and in some cases two or possibly three. There were alot of people this season saying Gerrard should play central midfield because thats his best position, well he has played that position and at best has been alrite at most and sometimes looked out of his depth, lets be honest even young Jack Wiltshire bossed him first game of the season and he went hiding against City, West Brom and Blackpool although second half's against United,Sunderland and Everton he did do ok. If you were going to ask me which was Steven Gerrard's best position I would say it was Steven Gerrard's best all round season which was 05/06 when he played right midfield and we won the Cup against West Ham. I think it's no coincidence that our two previous managers not to mention a few England Managers have not trusted Gerrard to play in the centre for a sustained period as they think he lacks discipline and plays with his heart insted of his head at times.

But you're ignoring that he also scored 23 the season we came second, where he played in the hole exclusively, and if memory serves he played there in 07-08 as well and also got 20+. Don't really recall LFC in recent times having more than one forward score 20+ in consecutive seasons. Goals win matches - they really do. Not letting them in also helps, but I think everyone here would take 4-3 over 0-0 any day.

As we are now, I think letting Meireles and Lucas build up some sort of partnership could be of value (sorry, but you don't get regular call-ups for Brazil if you absolutely suck), while Gerrard and Torres re-establish their mind control over enemy back lines. But we must sort out the issues at fullback (both flanks, as Carra is awful as RB) and left wing (Cole isn't really cutting it there, and maybe Kuyt will come to our rescue yet again because Roy doesn't want to trust Pacheco right now).

I'm on the fence regarding Gerrard as CM now (firmly believed he should have been there before the season started however), but Meireles looks the real deal. If we play 4-4-2 more then obviously Gerrard+Meireles must be the CM partnership.

And where does this leave Joe Cole? Gotta feel for him - the way the side is shaping up he's going to be benched as much as he was with Chelsea.

The best position for him is in a team that doesn't include Roy, Poulsen.....