Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2015/16 (*EVERYONE READ MOD POST in OP)

Rodgers is a very lucky man that Henderson got injured before he shipped out Lucas against the wishes of the fans. I think his job would have been almost untenable had he got Lucas to leave only for Henderson to go down injured a few days after window closed.

ush wrote: »

Missing Henderson for three months in total. We mightn't win the league because of that.

I might slip down to 6th insterad of 5th. Damn.

NukaCola wrote: »

In fairness, Lucas isn't half the player some on here will have you believe either. Not going to bash the guy, I do like him, but he's a very limited Midfielder that can only play in a 3 man midfield IMO.

To be fair every midfielder at the club would struggle outside a three man midfield. Which is one of the main problems with the club, overloaded in certain areas and very weak in others.

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

Milner isn't quality? Interesting.

I'm not certain anyone knows (and I include the manager and the man himself) what he's supposed to be doing in this midfield.

With Hendo in, we had someone in the engine room at the back of the midfield and we had Coutinho in front doing the fancy stuff.

What exactly Milner's job is in between, other than making a nuisance of himself, I'm not sure.
That's fine in some games - if we have a functioning counter-attack then it's perfectly legitimate for particularly tough fixtures.

It'd be interesting to see heat maps for Milner in his last two games without Hendo and see if he's changed at all.

I know the first couple of games he spend the entire match in the right CM channel going box to box, whereas Henderson covered the whole width of CM but scarcely ventured out of it.

If Milner dropped back into the role Hendo was playing I think he could do it fairly well and we could find a better balance in how we support the attack.

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Rodgers is a very lucky man that Henderson got injured before he shipped out Lucas against the wishes of the fans. I think his job would have been almost untenable had he got Lucas to leave only for Henderson to go down injured a few days after window closed.

Sure Lucas was gone for the last 3 years.

The fact he's still here is enough. Agent talk, tabloid rumours and twitter making mountains out of molehills.

How I think we should Line up against Norwich.

I would rather have any of chirivella, rossiter or can play instead of lucas. He is a busted flush and does not deserve his place on form.

s8n wrote: »

still not getting it ??

Vicxas wrote: »

West Ham are turning into ninja football slayers...

Is that game over;)

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

Milner is comfortably our best midfielder.

The fact that he has Can beside him for the foreseeable future won't help him unfortunately, hopefully Allen is fit and firing soon because the 2 of them could form a really good partnership in a diamond with Lucas behind and Coutinho in front.

A 3 of Allen, Lucas and Milner has a huge deficit of quality on the ball, pace and strength.

It's grand if your only aspiration is drawing away to Villa or something but if we plan on taking games to people we can't waste that many shirts on people who just do a job.

It's well and good having players wade through muck so the more creative players have room to work in, but you can't devote half your attacking unit to it.

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

Milner is comfortably our best midfielder.

The fact that he has Can beside him for the foreseeable future won't help him unfortunately, hopefully Allen is fit and firing soon because the 2 of them could form a really good partnership in a diamond with Lucas behind and Coutinho in front.

Lets say for the sake of argument Milner is better, he's certainly not comfortably our best Midfielder, not sure how anyone who watches football and understands it can come to that conclusion. He is better out wide than Henderson absolutely, he doesn't have enough in the centre and its no wonder he didn't play the majority of his time there at City. Not much between him and Henderson, if anything Henderson is the better CM IMO.

Milner has done nothing in a red shirt apart from average displays of pressing opponents and running. I would have thought with him in the middle our midfield would be stronger without Gerrard in it but we haven't seen it yet. Needs to up his game big time.

The quality in midfield is quite poor lets be honest here.

Some guy called Moses has been tearing it up for West Ham these two past games..

West Ham are some buachaill's

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

Milner is comfortably our best midfielder.

The fact that he has Can beside him for the foreseeable future won't help him unfortunately, hopefully Allen is fit and firing soon because the 2 of them could form a really good partnership in a diamond with Lucas behind and Coutinho in front.

Henderson is better than Milner. He is more creative.