In principle I'd agree, but in practice I'm not so sure given our current squad. Maybe the terrier type is what we need to let our existing midfield players off the leash.
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In principle I'd agree, but in practice I'm not so sure given our current squad. Maybe the terrier type is what we need to let our existing midfield players off the leash.
That's only because you don't realise how good Lucas is and will be.
Would love to watch an LFC game with you MM so we could critique Lucas's performance as the game goes on, I am desperately trying to see what you (and other pro-Lucas posters) are seeing that I'm not! I find it baffling.
Paul Ince has cautioned his son and Blackpool winger Tom against leaving Bloomfield Road at the expense of regular first-team football.
Ince Jr has been heavily linked with a return to Liverpool, where he graduated from the youth set-up but failed to establish himself at senior level before joining the Seasiders in summer 2011.
His father is in no doubt that he is capable of making the grade in the top flight but feels the prospect of time spent on the bench at a big club may hinder the 20-year-old England Under-21 star's development.
"There's been a lot of press saying he's going to Liverpool," he told Sky Sports News. "Not at one time has he said Liverpool - not at one time has Thomas said he wants to leave Blackpool.
"I just feel that he's ready for the Premier League. Whether that means he's going to go in January, or it means he's going to go at the end of the season or the season after, who knows?
"I think he's ready to go and play in the Premier League but I don't want Thomas going to a Premier League club and not playing football because they will just stunt his development.
"Wherever he goes he has to have the chance of being involved and getting game-time.
"If you say Liverpool, you say Man United or you say Barcelona - I don't want him going to those clubs if he's not going to play football.
"For me, he might as well stay at Blackpool and keep playing week in and week out."
Ince Jr has been heavily linked with a return to Liverpool, where he graduated from the youth set-up but failed to establish himself at senior level before joining the Seasiders in summer 2011.
His father is in no doubt that he is capable of making the grade in the top flight but feels the prospect of time spent on the bench at a big club may hinder the 20-year-old England Under-21 star's development.
"There's been a lot of press saying he's going to Liverpool," he told Sky Sports News. "Not at one time has he said Liverpool - not at one time has Thomas said he wants to leave Blackpool.
"I just feel that he's ready for the Premier League. Whether that means he's going to go in January, or it means he's going to go at the end of the season or the season after, who knows?
"I think he's ready to go and play in the Premier League but I don't want Thomas going to a Premier League club and not playing football because they will just stunt his development.
"Wherever he goes he has to have the chance of being involved and getting game-time.
"If you say Liverpool, you say Man United or you say Barcelona - I don't want him going to those clubs if he's not going to play football.
"For me, he might as well stay at Blackpool and keep playing week in and week out."
*squints through monocle*
I know. I just think that, but for his injury, you would have started to see it by now.
Let's chat again in a year.
Wesley Sneijder has been handed a path out of Inter Milan after president Massimo Moratti confirmed an offer from Galatasaray has been accepted.
The Turkish side revealed that they had entered in discussions for the unsettled midfielder, who has not played for Inter since September amid a public stand-off over a proposed pay cut to his contract at San Siro.
The rift could now see the Holland international leave for Gala, who have reportedly offered €10million as well as agreeing to meet the player's demands.
Heading out: Wesley Sneijder looks set to join Galatasaray from Inter
The Turkish side revealed that they had entered in discussions for the unsettled midfielder, who has not played for Inter since September amid a public stand-off over a proposed pay cut to his contract at San Siro.
The rift could now see the Holland international leave for Gala, who have reportedly offered €10million as well as agreeing to meet the player's demands.
Heading out: Wesley Sneijder looks set to join Galatasaray from Inter
Lucas has improved immeasurably since he arrived (although he's yet to show any kind of form since returning from injury), but comparing him with Didi at this stage is slightly insulting to Didi. He's nowhere near that level yet.
Ugh, this always happens when I bring them both up in the same post.
I think their styles and strengths are similar. I also think that they are the type of players who start out as steady, consistent players who won't turn heads but continually improve. Then they pass 25 and everyone starts noticing them.
Obviously I don't think Lucas is anywhere near the player that the Kaiser was for us. I do think he will get close though.
As I said earlier, I think that if he didn't get injured when he did he would be consistently turning out the kind of performances he was in the weeks/months before.
If you think that's not close to Didi at 26 then I say you don't pay enough attention.
"I don't think Lucas is anywhere near the player that the Kaiser was for us" to me didn't seem like an assessment purely on the month or so Lucas has been playing following his return from injury but rather his career at Liverpool on the whole.
I think Lucas needs to show he can recapture that form by the end of the season though.
I think Lucas needs to show he can recapture that form by the end of the season though.
It wasn't. I don't follow your point here.
So......what happened?
I think this is pretty close.
I think Lucas is closer to Didi than Del implies here but the injury does seem to have curtailed his performances - at least temporarily.
I think he's been trying to step it up in the last couple of games, lifting the tempo and pressing the ball forward with quicker, sharper passing. But he's also been making more errors than he was which must be frustrating him after his year of very good displays where he'd eliminated the errors and fouls.
What has to happen for Lucas is his reading has to get even better. His touch, passing and tackling is excellent but his pace means he can't run with opponents (much like Didi) and his stature makes it difficult to compete with them (not like Didi).
Ross predicted it would take him a year + to recover and I admit I thought his youth would see him come back faster. Thus far, though, he's struggled a little to pick up the pace of the game.
Lucas has never displayed a level anywhere near Hamann's.
Felliani to Chelsea for 27 million euros as per L'Equipe
To suggest a purple patch of a few weeks that was cut short by injury, where he was making cynics lie me eat humble pie, could get Lucas anywhere near Didi as far as a footballer goes is just plain wrong.
He has never been near that level, and will never be near that level.
He has never been near that level, and will never be near that level.
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