The Liverpool FC Thread XVII

I did not mean Fernandinho exactly but someone of his mould. He and Yaya Toure would have helped our midfield.

Rice is honestly overrated imho.

True, United did good business with their midfield.

Disagree on rice. He's rated fairly.

Fair enough but I don't see that and I have watched him play for his club and country.

I've watched him a lot too live. He's got a lot of quality on the ball but west ham aren't really a passing team. England also are expected to play defensive possession football. Rice is very good on the ball but is asked to sit back for England, he's more of a no.8 in profile but he's good defensively. He's similar to Matic at benfica

Na liverpool midfield would ruin Bellingham. Trent not been all that, as for Henderson an ageing central defensive midfielder. Liverpool were in for Aureline Tchoumeni but decided Fabinho was better a midfield of Tchoumeni, Camavinga, Bellingham with Valverde, Modric and Kroos to back up with experience and know how to win is just a sense of danger but that’s frightening.

I agree with you. The midfield needs proper surgery to bring in talents. I would like Fabinho to be in that updated 3/4 pack. The club needs CDMs like Fernandinho or Xabi Alonso.

Not been watching Liverpool have you? Fernandinho and Xabi Alonso were fantastic players but they needed a system to suit them. Liverpool need legs in midfielder and neither of those players had that.

I did say that there needs to be changes in the midfield. Liverpool have runners up front.

I'd be quite pleased if we signed Mount, Mac Allister and Ugarte for the midfield this summer.


Diaz....Gakpo...Salah
.......Mac....Mount
...........Ugarte.........
Robbo..VVD..Konate..TAA
..........Alisson...........

Jota.....Nunez.....Elliott
.......Curtis...Hendo....
...........Fabinho..........
Tsimikas..Matip..Gomez..Ramsey
..........Kelleher.................

That would leave Adrian, Thiago, Bajetic and Carvalho on the bench from both squads.

Obviously you couldn't play the new formation without Trent but I think the 2nd string would be good enough for all the cups.

Good formations and players. I would remove Curtis and put in Thiago. Yes, the midfield will do well if we have new players.

Looking at your squad, I would have kept Firmino in the club to bring him on as a sub or to start cup games.

Curtis plays a very different role to Thiago but he has been good for the last 8 league games where our formation has been different with Trent in advanced position.

I think the club and Klopp wanted to keep Firmino but he wanted to move on. I don't blame him - he can be a starter somewhere else.

(Original post by Zerforax)
Interesting how quickly Thiago becomes surplus. He is a lovely technical footballer and is genuinely thrilling to watch but he just doesn’t offer us what we need him to. The thing that baffles me is that he was never going to.

He would never have fitted into our peak Klopp midfield and he doesn’t fit into the altered Guardiola-esq midfield we moved towards.

No matter what all the reasons were - Liverpool missed the qualification for UCL and that is without a doubt a horrible season.

We all know why this reform and the new mode in Champions League came into being - to guarantee the big teams a place in that cpmpetition, although they haven't qualified. Like Liverpool FC this season.