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This team is fucked.
Why the fuck is a cronically slow leftback our best option for the left mid after five years to sort it out?
Dirk is a centre forward without the skill, touch, pace or guile to play right side of midfield.
Insua would not get into most championship sides, Lucas would also be dominated in the championship.
N'gog does not have the quality to play for Liverpool, how did we come to accept such mediocrity?
It pisses me off that we have 3 of the best players in the world, surrounded by players most of whom are not good enough to play mid table premiership football. Sorry.
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Good post, depressing but very accurate.
[/quote]But united have Park, oshea, Nani, Arenal have Senderos, Eboue, Bendtner, Silvestre Chelsea have Ferreira, Mikel.....ok im reaching with chelsea, but all players have mediocre players.
You're both ignoring the fact we have reina, carragher, Johnson, agger, mascherano, aquilani, gerrard, torres all of whom are belting players kuyt and riera and yossi can be brilliant on their day, so like cheer up lads.
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Out of that list you named, only O'shea is a first teamer.. and if he is mediocre, then the likes of Insua and Lucas are shite.
Also Dirk Kuyt and Riera are hardly ever 'brilliant'. They are our mediocre players. On the same level as an O'Shea/Eboue.. Riera has a competent first touch and good technique but lacks speed in both legs and mind to be a top player. Dirk Kuyt is just a poor footballer, a failed forward, who is all guts and effort but wouldn't get a sniff in midfield at any other top side in Europe. Watching the ball constantly bounce off him yesterday confirmed to me that I actually have better technique than him, and I only play football once every fortnight. It's very disturbing to me, that a professional can train 5 days a week and not have the ability to control a ball.
Once we get a good LB (even a competent one like O'shea who isn't getting raped by Championship wingers) and 2 good wide midfielders (Rieira has enough about him to be rotated), I convinced we'll see an upturn in the way we play. In my mind, part of the reason we hoof so much, and ask Fernando to chase the ball like a dog, is because our defence and midfield inparticular lack the pace, technique, movement and guile to play our way through teams. When was the last time you saw Kuyt play a killer through ball? Or beat a man? Hence everything is just so slow and static.. and eventually we're forced to go long once the other team shuffles across to cover our sideways passing.
