Or even challenge next year, and don't say a miracle. Which players / positions do we need to strenghen?
A goalscorer for a start'd be nice![]()
I'd personally love, love, love to try and get Defoe and think it may be slightly more possible should Harry take the England job which would be pretty hard for him to turn down...
£10million and he'd be bloody bargain of the century even given his age (and he's hardly old either)! Hard to know what the Carroll solution is though, sell him at a big loss, losing both money and face or persist with him??
I think Kenny's rein will be defined by how he goes about the 'Carroll' question. As he showed yesterday Kenny remains loyal to his players but will it ultimately work against us should he keep the faith in Andy???
Chapions League football, so they can attract the very best players. Or at least that would help.
Iid say we need more creativy and flair in attack, more width, and a more natural goal scorer. I also feel another neat and tidy hard tackling midfield would help big time, and another versatile full back for added depth andstability.
Our current strengths are defending and holding possession. Really we just need to break through defences easier and score more goals.
In:
Left back (or versatile full back) - Not sure who though, wouldnt break the bank on it.
Centre/ Holding midfielder - Possibilities - Defour, Banegar, Martinez.
Quick, creative left winger - Possibilities - Hazard, Bale - spend big
Right winger - Possibilities - Lennon, Marin.
Strikers - Possibilities - Cavani, Sturridge, Bent, Benzema, Higuin.
I think more ambition to. Give the young players a go.
I like Glen Johnston as he brings width but as you say we're possibly light with players who can beat a man and get the ball in to, say, Carroll. Henderson can't beat a man, Stevie's not a winger, ditto Kuyt and I'm not convinced by Downing as a winger either... We've been (central) midfielder's heavy for a long time...
I agree we are to central midfield heavy.
Look at United. Scholes, Carrick and Giggs isn't exactly a top midfield, but Valencia, Young and Nani do so much for them.
More goals from midfield would help us a lot. A truly great team would have the whole team chipping in on goals, apart from maybe the keeper.
Your hilarious.
Agree decent wingers would certainly get the best out of Carroll. Ericksson or Hazzard would be a nice start. Kuyt, bless him, does not do it for me and Downing has had a poor start so far.
With Lucas, next to Spearing, Adam or Henderson in the middle and Gerrard or Shelvey in front I think we have a great team to dictate play. Especially with our back 4.
------------------Reina------------------
--Johnson-Skrtel----Agger--Enrique--
----------Lucas-------Henderson-------
----------------Gerrard------------------
Suarez.............................Bellamy
...................Carroll.....................
Pick a front 3/ attacking 3 to go in front of that.
and there is no cryptic reason behind why I didn write Suarez. I'm just writing a spine for the team here.
No reason why I choose Henderson from my list of 3 either, it was perfectly randdom.
I'm not a wum. I just offer an adverse opinion to LFC, which apparently is wumming to most of you.Well you know the amount of Wums we get on here, that comment was a dead cert.