The Liverpool FC Thread XII

Sterlings finishing is atrocious there's no power and the placement of his shots are terrible.

He's still a good player but was completely overhyped last season when the success was clearly down to two players. Gerrard, Henderson and Sterling get hyped up by the media along with SAS because they're nationalist and want the England players to look good, same with John Flanagan.

Sterlings is as good as Hazard. I loled at that hard.

I like Flanagan I like Clyne more though. Disgrace it took them so long to call him up for England.




Di Maria is a far better comparison with Hazard. Former works harder, latter is arguably naturally more talented.

Fixed that for you. I remember Cleverley being compared to Fabregas ffs.

Well I know that stats aren't everything and final result is all that matters but if you look at the stats for yesterday's game, it show that Liverpool didn't really do much all game. They should have tried harder to score a 3rd in my opinion. Obviously with the score in Basel, its somewhat makes sense to reduce risk as a draw is almost as a good as win in this scenario but given the opponent, I think its just silly.Liverpool does look dangerous when the game goes their way but it hardly ever does this season.
There is obviously the pressure of expectation when playing against weaker teams and I guess what makes Ludogorets slightly different is that the team plays well together rather than individual talent. Having watched many of their games, sometimes the passing is pretty much amazing but very often there are stupid mistakes which makes their game very inconsistent and leads to goal gifts.

It is nearing Christmas after all, maybe they are in a good spirits...

Sterling is obviously not reaching the heights of last season, but his ball to Henderson last night was a reminder of what he can do.

He IS still young - and nowhere near the heights people were spouting about him earlier this summer - but he needs to be kept from fatigue. Walcott is so injury prone, and we can't afford Sterling to become that. He's still so young and he's a vital player for us - too vital, I'd suggest. He plays every single game for us and it'll be his undoing.

I like Flanagan I like Clyne more though. Disgrace it took them so long to call him up for England.




Di Maria is a far better comparison with Hazard. Former works harder, latter is arguably naturally more talented.

No he's the best young player in the world and will hit 20+ goals this season.

Who was it that said he was on par with hazard

He really isn't. He got a terrible injury last season from a tackle vs Spurs, but that can happen to any player. Prior to that he was very rarely injured and had played 40+ games on average in his prior 3 seasons(before that wasnt 1st team). Maybe he'll be injury prone now of course, but we'll have to wait and see.

Sterling is better now than Walcott was at the same age, although Walcott later developed a very strong goal-scoring ability(esp in big games) and it remains to be seen if Sterling will produce the same raw stats, even if he has more talent. Walcott took a long time to get to the point of being a consistent scorer/provider though, very few young players are consistent like that.

But Sterling is having a poor season though, AOC has probably overtaken him tbh.

Wtf is a 'WUM'?

We wouldn't have even scored at all if he was playing hence would've lost. Lambert looks much better.

Valdes is on the market again, it's being widely reported that we're not offering him a deal and he's returned to Spain.

Surely you'll try and sign him this time, surely?

Valdes is on the market again, it's being widely reported that we're not offering him a deal and he's returned to Spain.

Surely you'll try and sign him this time, surely?

Valdes, Cech, Casillas.
As unlikely the latter two are, I really don't care how much money it takes; I just want a consistent keeper.
Not saying any keeper could do well with our defence but mignolet still makes hilarious errors on top of that.