I'm just wondering on your thoughts on Tex? Each time he has been given a cameo he has impressed and has shown that he has something about him, however based on how many midfielders we currently have, especially AM do we see him making it here? Or is it right place wrong time for him? Interested to hear your thoughts.
Looks decent but until a player makes the step up, anything can happen. To yet again sound like a broken record... Pacheco! He was brilliant in our youth/reserve teams. He got bored player of the tournament in one of the youth competitions and he had the likes of Barca sniffing around too. He never made the step up. In contrast to that, Flanno. He never looked like he'd make the step up but grasped it with both hands on the 2013-14 season.
I agree with everything you say, but more often or not you need the chance to play first team football to make that step up. Tex certainly has the right mentality. At this point in time I think he has 1 year on his deal? If this is the case, do we sign him up or do we cut him loose?
The thing with Pacheco is that the youth team he was in was pretty poor. He stood out because he was better than the likes of Stephen Darby, Steven Irwin, Gerardo Bruna etc. And Flanagan was a really promising youngster at one point. A lot of people were talking about him and Jack Robinson as future first team regulars in the full back positions. When he broke into the team under Kenny Dalglish he was also really impressive. He just lost momentum and confidence when he couldn't get into the team ahead of Johnson, IMO.
Don't agree about Flanno in youth/reserve team. There were plenty of others ahead of him in the pecking order so he never got the spot light. He did preform though. Although he did alright when Kenny game him a first team chance, he didn't look all that good and no one thought he get another chance. Most expected him to be sold and Brod reportedly even told him to find a club at one point too.
Suso, Pacheco, Nemeth, Lindfield... Every group of youth has a kid that people think is going to set the world alight but doesn't. That said, everything I've seen of Tex, even in first team, has looked really promising. He was quoted recently saying he wants to play in Liverpool squad (not on loan again) this season. I'd like to see him in first team more, I think he will become good. At least squad player good even if not star player good.
Flanno wasn't even first pick for the U21s when he got his chance; there was literally no one fit available to play besides him and that's why he got his chance.
I remember in the being Liverpool documentary that he was quite patronising towards Flanno and it certainly looked like that BR didn't rate him too much. In the season we finished second I thought Flannagan was excellent he looked very composed and held his own against most. The players Flannagan struggled against were players who were very quick over a short distances and could leave him flat footed at times, although with more games he grew into that role more and became more assured.
Yes he was. He was a regular until he got pulled out of the squad and moved up to be with the senior squad. It was Stephen Darby but he got sent out of loan which gave Flanagan a chance to play regularly in the reserves at the age of 17, which is quite young for a reserve.
don't think rodgers will push him at all. he lost too much time moving to us and being injured then. he is a lovely little player. but rodgers aint going to give him a chance
they need the right attitude to start with, how many players have we had down the years in the first team we have brought in where we keep saying give them another year to settle, yet we don't have that patience with youth players. Ibe, sterling, wisdom, kelly (ok injuries with him fair enough) pacheco, babel etc, probably others i have forgotten, are all players we have had in the squad yet we have spent silly money buying players from outside who have cost ridiculous money and been on silly money, yet we dont or havent given these type of players chances soon enough. your downings coles, borinis, lovrens, allens, marcovics (yeah i have seen give him time, another one lol) have they really been better than the youth we already had? yet we have thrown silly money and wages at them, then wonder why we cant get rid of the ****e!!
Was really good start at Brighton last season before he tailed off and was dropped. Came back into the side and finished strongly before breaking his leg. Top op acorer and probably most creative in a side fighting relegation. Coupd ps be good to have a short loan to prem club but don't think anyone would take the risk. Would walk into top end champ club at the moment though but would love to see him get a go.
i don't really see an attitude problem with him. you could see for 2 years with pacheoc his performance never ever got batter and in fact got worse 17 to 19/20... very poor. kelly's body failed... end of. babel wouldn't work to save himself stelring is a **** to chased money. we've gvien plenty of chances to lads. ibe is decent and got a go. wisdom i feel rodgers doesn't rate.... he needed him last year but left him off on loan.
now do the same with the players we wasted money on and tell me if they actually improved on what we had youth wise to start with, didnt did they, and we should have only brought quality any way in my opinion,as we already had average players to start with youth wise. and babel cost less than borini and was good enough to play cl football and score against utd, arsenal etc, borini isnt even good enough for europa and score against ****e like everton etc, and dont get me started on downing,markovic,lovren or cole, and if you like throw in carroll. not brilliant is it, they are no better than the youth we have.
suso v markovic for example? markovic wasn't worth 20mil but he's got the pace and suso frnakly attitude stunk. babel barely cost less than borini and babel was a lazy ****. 10 v 100 mil. babel only played cl cos he was i na cl side. roma were cl and borini played for them and italy.. just cos he coudln't hit the side of a barn doesn't mean he wasn't at one point thought of in italy or spearing v allen.. short arses.. whats spearing done cine. or coady... of eccleston or silva or ince or amoo.... and the list goes on and on. san jose, palletta and a couple are the only ones you'd say have dones something since leaving us sorry but no.. downing was never a big club player but he was and prove he was a prem player time and again.. same for the others. the youths we've had has never set the world alight elsewhere which says we were not wrong.
i never said the youths did set the world alight, thought me saying we already had average players already youth wise would have been a clue there, and they were no worst than what we spent silly money on to begin with was my point, ie cole,downing, etc etc improved nothing, why we are now struggling to finish 6th each season. also spearing didnt cost what allen did, but ones no better than the other, just one was silly money, seem to have had a few of them but improved nothing.
