Sturridge is an automatic starter this season if and when fit?
I don't.
Sturridge is an automatic starter this season if and when fit?
I don't.
I'm sure others have done less and cost more.He's become the most expensive luxury player we've ever had.
40 000 001 fro Arsenal?Not an automatic starter but I wouldn't consider selling him given what price we're likely to get.
40 000 001 fro Arsenal?
Sturridge is an automatic starter this season if and when fit?
I don't.
I don't think he is an automatic starter, no. But he is one of our best players and should play most of the time when fit. Like I said many times before, I consider him an attacking midfielder rather than a striker in Klopp's system, I don't think he is interchangeable with Origi, because he can't lead the line like Origi, but he is interchangeable with Firmino and Lallana. And having an AM capable of scoring 20+ goals in a season is fucking great.
As Admiral Akbar sez, this is obviously a trap to snare the unwary who think you have a best 11 (Ryan's single biggest bugbear). This thread is like Donald Trump asking you whether you think Mexicans should be able to wander freely into the U.S.
I could be wrong, but IMO he's probably 3rd choice right now, and this is a stretch - but I'm not sure Klopp's that big a fan of him. Clearly on ability he'd walk into the team just about every week, but there's something about his attitude and endeavour that I'm not sure Klopp's altogether sold on.
We'll see.
Actually Firmino is pretty much better than Sturridge at all of the team player traits that Klopp loves, since he is continually stressing team over the individual. Firmino knits the team together and still has a very decent goal-scoring / assist rate last season (ca. every 165 mins, which edges Coutinho though as far as goals is concerned is far behind (at 306 mins) Sturridge - goal every 135mins - and Origi - goal every 164 mins). That said Firmino averaged a goal or assist every match when playing at CF last season and even Sturridge doesn't match that (goal or assist every 113 mins).And yet he does appear to be sold on Firmino for reasons I cannot understand. Apart from running about more, there is nothing he is better at than a fit Sturridge. So maybe it does boil down to attitude and endeavour.
The best strikers usually are greedy, selfish and arrogant. And surley the best contribution a striker can make to the team is to score...which Sturridge has done at an astonishing rate in his years with Liverpool.
If it's a fit Sturridge v Firmino for a place in the team there's only ever going to be one winner for me.
Which is what I said/did in the pre-Arsenal thread, time and again. However the point I was making is what Firmino brings to the team which you state time and again you fail to see.The best strikers usually are greedy, selfish and arrogant. And surley the best contribution a striker can make to the team is to score...which Sturridge has done at an astonishing rate in his years with Liverpool.
If it's a fit Sturridge v Firmino for a place in the team there's only ever going to be one winner for me.