Aser Illarramendi
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Rafa will sell to us 🙂
Wow Milner is only 5"9, I didn't realise he was such a midget, I always thought he was over 6ft.
Me too. I guess this now makes him small and tricky though.
United won 3 titles with Carrick as their midfield lynchpin. Barca have built a dynasty with Busquets at their midfield base, and we had our best midfield in 20 years with Alonso at its base.
Physicality is not required, as long as you have strong positioning, game intelligence, and wonderful technique. We've had poor imitations of such players in Lucas and Allen, but if someone is genuinely good, then they'd have no problems beasting it in the PL at all.
Can't really say if Illarra is genuinely good though. Haven't seen him play much.
Illarramendi was 'meant' to be Xabi's replacement/protege. Not sure why that's not happened. He's more of a Xabi than a Mascherano though. Not sure how Lucas, Allen, Hederson, Milner, Coutinho, Can, Illarramendi*, Kovacic*, Firmino* would all get games though, would make sense to let 1-2 go.
But which of those targets want to come to Liverpool? Lacazette would be great, but he said he wants CL Footy. Higuain and Benzema are also unlikely to want to come to us (for the very same reason). So who's left?
Austin
Remy
A 28 year old South American from Spain
A unknown from Russia trying to escape racists
I haven't spoken to any of them so couldn't tell you. But it's surely very clear - we need to invest heavily in the very best striker we can get. Anyone else is secondary. Maybe it's quite different on the inside but from here it looks as though we're spending what cash we have on defenders and midfielders, with whatever is left being offered to another Aspas-quality forward. Priorities, priorities.
I agree but brodge could say he bought in two new strikers already and has not yet offloaded the other three.
Alonso had mascherano next to him who provided plenty of steel and protected him. Can't remember who else was in the man utd team so i can't comment. Barca are a one off and can hardly be used for any comparison. Most successful teams in the world make sure they have that midfielder who imposes himself in the middle.. Our midfield has a habit of getting bullied by the opposition. We need someone in there that can impose himself and run the midfield.
Its utter bollocks to say you dont need steel though, it may not be a constant necessity, but there were games when Alonso partnered Gerrard and we were made to look like chumps by players of the standard of Savage and Tugay.
We need options, horses for courses and all that..
We need options, horses for courses and all that..
You need steel, but not at the expense of guile. Henderson, Milner and Illarramendi should have enough steel - that's the point.
And Alonso and Gerrard struggled not because of a lack of steel (Gerrard was probably the steeliest midfielder of his generation!) - it was because Gerrard never had the positional nous to play CM.
And Alonso and Gerrard struggled not because of a lack of steel (Gerrard was probably the steeliest midfielder of his generation!) - it was because Gerrard never had the positional nous to play CM.
I would say our midfield's greatest ailment is its lack of ability to control the pace of the game. Lucas and Allen are in theory supposed to do that, but they aren't good enough.
Can, Henderson and Milner are all fairly physical players, and more than capable of holding their own against the likes of Yaya or Matic or whoever.
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