Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 12/13

Kess73 wrote: »

His last couple of interviews for German tv have had him gushing about the club, and retelling the story of being at the 2005 CL final.

He went into a bit of detail about how he has never played in the role that Rodgers uses him in, and that the traditional number 8 role is his best, but that he will do his best wherever he is put. Talked a bit about his fitness and settling in as well.

He does come across as quite an intelligent bloke, and seems to have a fair bit of gra for the club's history.


As for not deserving a start based on his form to date, well you do have a point there, but then again if we were to take form over the season so far as a reason to drop players, then the likes of Gerrard, Shelvey, Enrique (until of late), and a few others would not be getting within an ass' roar of the first team either.


Question though, how do you expect Sahin to adapt to the Premier league and also to get match fit without regular games? He has really only had one run where he had a few starts in a row and that three of four game run saw him get 3 goals and 3 or 4 assists.There are other players in the squad, and I am not thinking of Gerrard this time, who have played in England their whole career and somehow get excuses made over their inability to perfrom well. Excuses like they are young or settling. Surely those same excuses should be just as applicable for a youngish player playing in the country for the first time?


Personally I think that Rodgers should either play Sahin in his best position or just send him back, because using him out of position every now and then is no good to the team and no good to the player as he cannot get up to speed with the league or match fitness.


I think Rodgers' use of both Gerrard and Sahin has been poor, and that he is playing the two players in positions where neither can give the best of their abilities to the team.




As an aside, and to the other german speakers on here (Nuri, Oatsey etc), his german is quite interesting on the ear in terms of syntax and morphology making it somehow sound less Northern in terms of dialect than it should for a guy who was born in the North west and who grew up there. I am wondering if his fluency in other languages has taken the Sauerland twang from his accent. I know my own accent has been bastardized over the years through speaking German, Japanese, Flemish etc has left me with a strong germanic twang coming through my scouse accent (Think Didi's accent in reverse) but it is something that I tend not to notice save for when someone in the family mentions it (generally takes someone on my grandfather's side, Danish, to comment on it), but listening to Sahin speaking in German really piqued my curiousity and when I youtubed some older interviews of his(pre his time in Holland) the difference in his accent when speaking German is pretty interesting as his natural german (and he is a native speaker) now sounds like it is of a different dialect. I would have thought that he would have developed a twang from one of the other languages he speaks, but it sounds like his actual german accent has switched from a Northern dialect (North West to be more accurate) to a much more Southern dialect.