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Many people want Liverpool to buy a DM but what the hell is that going to change. Its going to be the same everybody stay balls deep tactics. We need players with an attacking flair we have only a few but then again our opinion doesnt matter its the pensioners wish that counts

i think we should go back to our 97-98 formation with the 3 center halfs, 2 wingbacks 3 across the middle, 1 upfront with someone roaming around in the mcmanaman role behind the lone striker

e.g.

reina

skrtle carra agger

johnson knocheskey


mierles gerrard cole

kuyt/pacheco

torres

4-4-2 when with the ball attacking

---------------reina

------------carra--agger

---------------- dm

Johnson -----Lucas-----kontchesky

---------kuyt-------------maxi

---------------gerrard

----------------torres

effectively 3-5-2 when with the ball and when without it becomes 2 banks off four with gerrard dropping deeper.

well said - two decent wingers and offload a half a dozen overpaid overrated(well not really everybody thinks they're siht) whingers.

Reina jones
Kelly Johnson
Carra agger
Skrtel CB 
Lb kontchesky

Kuyt RW  
Cole   LW

Lucas, spearing  
Raul, gerrard

Torres, ngog
Pacheco, new striker

That's what I feel we need more importantly than a defensive midfielder who's not needed 

Outs:- poulsen, babel, maxi, Greek

imo opinion we in are desperate need of a quality defensive midfielder. we allow teams far to much possession to control the game away from home and we miss a tenacious player who can break up the play. needs to be a good all round player though. you can see how poor chelsea are without essien in the side. ok, players of essien's quality are hard to come by but he was only playing in the french league before he signed for the chavs... so there are options out there.

poulsen has become the new scapegoat of our midfield, lucas has had a few decent performances but its still plain to see we need somebody with quality.

maybe a DM is not our priotrity right now, i agree we need wingers and a striker but its definitely an area that needs addressing in the summer at least

Our great teams always had a tough tackling midfielder who could fall deep to get the ball from the centre backs. Souness, McMahon, Case, and going back even further Emlyn Hughes filled the role for a while. Difference from our current players in the position was, that they could all play and distribute the ball, as well as having the mobility to get further forward and finish things off if the chance fell. I think it's an important role in the team to get right. Teams that don't have someone of the ilk tend to get overran and muscled out of a lot of games.

I agree, and instead of standing off players and just obstruting a player to pass it someone else the whole team ala Barcelona style should be pressing the ball an the opposition players to win the ball back. At the moment where to happy to stand off their midfield and let them try to pass through us, and then lettng the defense come to are rescue by long ball last ditch clearences

Its obvious, we need a consistent ball winner, playing full backs also requires two class DM's

i think you meant attacking fullbacks?