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we nearly had the perfect balance with Alonso and Mascherano. Alonso quaterback like would just keep the ball moving enticing fullbacks forward but still remain centrally positioned if it breaks down. Masch would press when we never had the ball forcing errors and gaining back posession. Our stats were an average of 60% posession in Alonso's last season, this dropped to 55% last season and is <50% this season.

Lucas can do a sort of Masch job as seen recently but too inconsistent. I see Raul doing the Alonso job. Problem is neither are of the same quality as their predecessors. Johnson would have flourished with Alonso as he would have defended less and attacked more.

I do agree with everyone about the our poor possession, however if we had a good enough midfield and attack we would not need to protect protect and protect like a condom

I think the modern midfielder has to do a lot more than it used years ago. Sadly there are not many around that can do it.

Gerrard is as close as you can to to a complete footballer. He scores, can defend, head, tackle, pass short or far and has the fire in the belly.

Liverpool needs a DM that can tackle and pass the ball to the creative players to carry on the attack. He should be strong, very mobile, aggressive and most importantly intelligent. Or we can just bring back Didi Hamaan.

Quite alot actually if we had one this good