Skrtel and others

I should point that my stance with them was "if we received a sizable offer". In the instance for Studge, I'd say if someone were to offer £25m+ which I can't see anyone doing.

 

reality is if he sits 1/3 to 1/2 a season on the bench and gets 120k+ plus a week then he's not doing us all that much good.

I think as i said nobody will want him now but if he got a full season and 20 goals under his belt next yearI'd say we'd geta 20+ bid if we floated the idea.. there's always someone

And frnakly for the money? we've talked enough about young players round europe who could go do the job, many of which have seen their price double after a good year while we didn't take the risk.

 

Sturridge can play more games but he needs to be managed better. Rodgers does not rotate his teams and it causes injuries.

We have overplayed our players this season - using the likes of Sterling and Sturridge in cup games is madness at times.

 

He's only played 12 games.

 

Yes, but he was rushed back from injury and put straight back into the team. Then we played twice a week when there were cup games.

Not only that - Henderson has played around 50 games this season. Sterling has played almost double the amount of mins as last season. Sakho is also injury prone but he played a lot of games consecutively before he got injured.

 

I was just pulling yer leg. However Studge was brought back in from the bench and was then taken off early in games I don't think he was really rushed back.

 

Ha fair enough

Even when fit, Sturridge hasn't looked sharp. Either he's not fit or he's not suited to the new system...

 

sturrdige in no way was rushed anywhere. he was ove ri nus for months in a camp to end such injuries

he was mollycoddled back in.

frankly he;s a crock by the look of it.

 

That

Studge has to pass a rigorous fitness test before even being considered for the bench let alone a start.

 

yeah but.... i think we looked better with balotelli if stelring and ibe would get past him and feed off his style of play... ibe did it once.

Once lallana and borini came on we never again got close.

 

For me Balo is strong, get the ball to him to feet when he inside the area, he will make **** happen. He's a brute and he can turn players with sheer strength, he's shown that when he's got the ball in and around the area.

Time we used him as best we can instead of forcing him to play a different way, in that I thnk Rodgers has failed to get the best out of a bad situation

You know what really irks me about us, you look at some of the weaker sides in the PL plus the likes of Arsenal and Man U who have 4 across the box when they are crossing the ball, we have maybe 1 or 2 around 10 yards out and everyone else is outside the area.

What I wouldn't give for someone with a peach of a cross these days, when's the last time we had someone who could regularly pick someone out in the area with crosses from out wide?

 

I think he doesn't want to be in the box so he is at his best outside that area and have guys run off him and get 1/2s going.

Yes rodgers has made nothing of getting anything out of his game but tried to bend him to our game... yet then says to players like coutinho not to press in the semi final.....

I do agree if you don't create in and around the D and you put it wide you have to commit to the box to cross it... we have players who will pump it in rather than play it back at times so i dunno.. its all disjointed for me.

 

Balo for me doesn't have the skills to be playing that intricate stuff. He should be backing into CBs inside the area and turning them, he is actually very good at that and the ONLY player we have with such a physical presence unless you count our CBs on set pieces.

He can give us that extra dimension and as you say, others can play off him as he outmuscles defenders, time we used the big lummox in a way that makes him useful. If he doesn't want to do that then he gets sold, not having that sort of attitude. Either that or slap him with a dictionary that is open on the page with the definition of the word team. In the box defenders get right on top of you, that would suit the eejit best imo

 

should be but doesn't though does he... he likes the flicks., he wasn't it a lot earlier than we deliver it. he doesn't want it high and long he wasn't it played with quality much much earlier to create space to play in.

sturridge can hold it up well enough too.

in the end he'll run out of clubs and have to find a way to make his career.

 

You know what really irks me about Balo, the guy is actually quick, a quick powerful runner, but he won't do it.
He's a basket case is what he is.

he needs to work with a sports psychologist, or just a normal psychologist even

 

he is when he gets going.

he never does. when was the last time he even fired a shot in. at the start he was firing a few but now he's not even doing that so its impossible for him to score.

 

I've had a gander through his city goals and milan goals

It's either a 30 yard smasher a free kick or arriving at the back post to tap one in for the most part.

We just have not been getting into positions for him to be doing like say the winner v Spurs where he gets to a flash across the box first before the defender, that's the main sort of goal he gets, getting on the end of balls across the 6 yard to the far post.

We've been pretty piss poor with that kind of service to anyone let alone Balo. We just don't play that way.

 

which makes buying him all the more strange

 

Balotelli is such a good option to have and he gives us something different. He cannot play as a lone striker - he needs a partner and he needs runners.

We bought Lambert to give us a physical presence - Mario provides this and more.

 

Pretty much. Which is why it smacks of "**** we need someone who's available" at the 12th hour which is what I've said all along.

#notatransfertarget
#panicbuy