I sense a certain foreboding on not606 and generally with lfc fans based on Suarez going and our targets thus far What I also see is little love for sturridge seems to exist. 21 goals and a big part in last years season, the man is England's number 9..... Yet does he have a song after 18months? What we have here is a guy who knows how to get in behind, has bags of pace and power and a decent finish too He's about to turn 25 in September..... Surely this player in particular should be the man lfc fans turn to now to step up and lead our line? Why isn't there more confidence in his ambition and ability?
getting deja vu. wait until the season starts then see where we are at, luis was the main focus last season and obviously club legend gerrard is the main other one why songs was made for them, also have to remember a lot question what's the point bothering with a song now days when they will probably be off in 5 mins time any way. now Sturridge is our main striker by the looks of things, a song will be done for him hopefully, but we are in pre season and going on tour, so not likely to hear one yet.
Iv'e plenty of confidence in Studge's ability,he's a really important asset for us. Who knows,he could be scoring closer to 30 this season
Will Sturridge be as prolific without his sidekick? Doubtful imo, as he was given both space and assists by his presence, as the focal point of your attack will the pressure tell? He's still a quality player but I think he's in for a much less productive season
Sturridge scored plenty when Suarez was out last season. He scored in all three opening matches. Sturridge is great.
I disagree with Tobes, I think he'll hit 20 again. He can be a bit selfish but a good striker always is. I don't know about all this song business, does it really matter? I think the fans all like and rate him.
Tobes' post is based on hopes not reality. Of course when someone is the top performer in any field (Sturridge top scorer with Suarez gone) any moron can propose they won't be as good next time and have a decent chance of being right. Boring. But we can also say in Sturridge's favour that he missed a lot of games due to injury and wasn't the main striker except for Suarez's ban.
I actually think Sturridge was a more important player for us last season than Suarez. He got the more important goals whereas Suarez got the flash hatricks in games we probably would have won anyway. The problem with Suarez if things don't go his way he gets frustrated and turns into a headless chicken and becomes useless, which he did more and more toward the end of last season. Sturridge for me is much more Level headed although lacking the same level of skill as Suarez, if we can keep him fit and full of confidence there's no reason he can't get 25-30 goals a season. We still need to replace 20+ goals though and that may prove difficult!
I think we are set up to score more goals from midfield, I expect goals from Lallana, Coutinho, Sterling and Markovic. Ricky will hit 20 for us though so problem solved.
Sturridge will get 20 goals. he has too and he will be tge primary target now. Remy and lambert another 20. See you scoring 20/30 goals less this season though.
agree, as long as we get enough goals to get top 4 finish, which we should be ok on, but we need to work on not conceding lots, that will probably make the dif in us getting top 4 finish, not so much scoring them as it should be manageable. we lose the assists luis got as well not just the goals, he created space for others as well, hopefully the players we have will step up and the loss of him wont be as huge as feared.
If we score 10 less and concede 10 less it's not so much a problem. There's plenty of goals in our team but that defence needs to be tighter.
You're right, strikers should be greedy and studge is but he often does it in the wrong areas. His finishing is suspect IMO too
No contradiction at all. There's no reason to think he will be a worse player or have worse performances. That is your hope. If you are strictly using his individual goals scored count as a measure of productivity then claiming he might do worse is boring. He got 0.72 goals per league match. Even 0.65 would be fantatsic.
You said my view that he'd probably score less this season was based solely on 'hope' and then went on to say that it's always likely that someone at the top will do worse next time, thus making a reasoned argument for my view, you ****ing bonehead
Your claim of "much less productive" is just your own #bitter hope because you ignore all reasons for increased productivity and can only fall back on the fact that extreme outcomes are by definition unlikely ones without any context e.g. 0.7 goals per game would still be less productive but still the best in the league
What's the reasons for 'increased productivity' that I've supposedly ignored? I must have dreamt you all drooling over the SAS partnership, as you've seemingly erased its importance, lol.
