But the thing is, all heart may not hide the players deficiency any longer. Look at Carra, how much longer do you think that his heart & soul may cover for his lack of speed or deficiency in general?
Lucas? he'll always be a player that divides opinion. From what I see, he'll no better than a squad player unlike Babel, who, if his potential is fully explored,will be a world class player. But sadly, for one reasons or another, it seems the coaches cant get key to his enormous potential.
That said, but every team need a water carrier to complement a genius, our best hope is Lucas can be the water carrier

Rafa was good enough for RM B team
Wenger is a double Phd, so no time to play footie
Ferguson was a decent player while Ancelotti excelled in Milan & Parma midfield.
I always have this mentality that great coach was not a great player. Look at the mess that Maradona created with arguably one of the most gifted team in the world

Unlike them Ancelotti is one of the key performer in the team, even excel in other team like Parma. That cant be said with Traore & Diomede.

We should have sign van der Vaart

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Added on September 24, 2009, 3:42 pmtopic to discuss mah Actually me too think Elano is good player

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Definitely wont be match fit even if he does recovers on time

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Hence we're there for the taking since we're away as well

Not to mention during Hull game, Carra went attack ball that being played in even though clearly Gerrard is there to head clear. So is it really misunderstanding or rather Carra distrust anyone in his area which is defence.
Looking back at Hull goal, me thinks that Carra's the one to blame for rushing to Skrtel area even though skrtel was there to head clear which leaves geovanni free. Sometime me really think carra tried to do too much hence creating confusions.

You may have a point, but still it explain only partially the reason of confusion. Using my eg, clearly Carra can see Gerrard is focussing in heading clear, still he rush toward Gerrard to clear as well which nearly cause the same incident as 'Skrtel Jaw'. Even when he broke Skrtel jaw, Carra was drifting from right (according to u, his better side) to left & collide with him, which really make me loss for words.

It really make me wonder if this is the cause.

I don't blame skrtel, I blame Carra
agger's coming back, reckon it'll solve the LCB problem?
I dun think so since clearly RB prefers Carra-Skrtel axis. But I reckon, it's time to rest Skrtel, he's not convincing lately. Maybe still feeling the after effect of Carra wrath

No, he cant overlap well, else we don't have to bring in dossena last year. Ever wonder why RB nvr put agger there?

No because there ain't ppl here that work for the prince or those yanks

Personally i think Drogba will skin the Greek guy since other than strength, he also got speed which the greek giants sorely miss.

Actually I thought we are missing alonso calming influence & ability to dictate pace of game more than anything. For now, there's no one dictating the pace of the game & the midfielders seems like forever in chaos, that is dont know what to do with the ball. Even by pulling Stevie to midfield, he won't be able to have a calming influence since he's always like fast/rush irregardless of whether his midfield able to cope with his game.

BTW, can Stevie stop taking corners, they're like shite. He's more of attacking threat if he's in the box attacking corners

1 star player & 1 star bench warmer

No. that will be suicidal to play 2 attacking minded CM. It'll also held back Gerrard attacking instinct since AA is attacking player

I believe it is more wise to have players that can interchangeable during games without disrupting the balance of team.
Prime eg is Benayoun on the left interchangeable with Gerrard behind Torres. By this, it will confuse the opposition.
Some pundit once said that Riquelme is impossible to mark,u put a marker to stick to him, he'll just drop deep into his on half to bore the marker to death. U put in zonal marking in midfield against him, he'll have a field day exploiting those gaps. Just like this, if ever Benny, Stevie & Aquilani can interchange successfully, then it is impossible to pinpoint markers against them which in turn disrupt the balance & shape of opposition.

BTW Matin Palermo just scored a 40m HEADERS

Thats like halfway line. Never thought that its possible. Alonso should try that to complete his halfway goals collection

In terms of attacking maybe, but in terms of defending, Arby still the more solid one, for now at least.
As I said, losing alonso disrupt the balance of our team unlike others. Say Man U, they may miss Ronaldo's goals but still they have enough players of quality to compensate for the lost of goals. While in our case, Alonso doesn't contribute much in terms of goals or even assist but he is the one that make our midfield thick, a calming influence if u might. Still we cant compensate for the void left by Alonso. Hence the chaotic mess in midfield + the void in right back when johnson is attacking made our side leaking goals.

ya, & i don't like any dirty linen to be aired in public. As a head he should know much better than that

Actually for now & immediate future is the best chance for us to win the league. In few years time, Gerrard will be over 30, Carra will most likely ousted from 1st 11 while if RB is sacked, doubt Torres or Reina will stay, so i think its now or never since there isn't another Gerrard on the horizon. Furthermore, the main players is mostly in their prime now.
Notwithstanding, Gerrard & Torres keep on saying that winning medals is all they want. Do you think Torres will stay on if we underachieve? He already said that winning medals & trophies is his aim

This post has been edited by vreis: Oct 7 2009, 11:44 AM