Think he understands having played with Alonso, Torres, and Suarez that if we can get the best and they aren't British, that we need to look at these options.
There's nothing in the article that you can argue with. In fact he is saying that we need experience to take us further and help our youngsters to bloom. The problem for Rodgers is that he firstly needs players who are experienced in the Premiership. Only fater he has those players can he truly expand his vision to improve our European prospects.
This Still a class act and as I've said the better Gerrard plays the better the team results will be. You can't even begin to compare any of our youngsters with him, but the more they play alongside him whether in training or the first team the better they will be in the long run. Let's hope he keeps his good form going tomorrow
nothing wrong with it but it'd be nive if he'd not slightly critise the whole clubs policy the day before the big game... lets see what media make of it. anyway. i don't think he's talking british but he's talking experience.... i think poulsen is a good example of why its also not precisely a sure thing that an experience campaigner can deliver. i agree with billy the better gerrard plays the better we play... conversely when he's trotting about to get through the game and just moving 2-3 yards then passing it and then maybe chasing down forward and not getting back we play badly.... bursting into life with 10mins to go is not much good... i would like to see gerrard play for 70 mins then put on shelvey. if gerrard plays ever 90mins and does so by playing within himself its not great is it?
and if he was so great still having played all year along with suarez we's not be 8th. you guys just hate me not fawning over gerrard all the time.
Not at all MITO. If he plays poorly I have no problem saying so. He has been far from his best and criticising individual performances after a game is not an issue. What I do have an issue with is your claims of laziness. He's in his early 30's and has been the driving force at the club for over a decade. He quite simply cannot play the way he used to and if BR was to ask him to do that we'd end up with him on the treatment table 8 months of the year. What he needs is people around him (Henderson being a good example) who will do the bulk of the donkey work for him. Find a way to use his best assets and he'll give us at least two more seasons of service that you just can't buy without spending tens of millions that we don't seem to have anyway.
Yes, as is Gerrez. There was voting going on over the last two days, me and Jaffa stepped down in the running, you know, to give them a chance
The main issue for the people criticising him is obvious here for all to see. They expect him to play like a 25 year old Gerrard, when that isn't feasible as he's obviously got older and just doesn't have the pace and dynamism he used to have. He's still quite mobile but he's not as quick over the ground as he used to be, that much is obvious. They have unrealistic expectations of what they expect him to do, they want the old box to box, all action Gerrard when that guy went out of the window probably when he had that long 7 month lay off. We've got a more controlled player in his place who is still one of the best midfielders in the PL on his day but I guess that will never be enough for the poeple who want to see him at both ends of the pitch at the same time.
Agreed and in fairness I think we'd all love to have that Gerrard back but it won't ever happen. The simple fact is though that we don't have any other player who can play the sort of balls that Gerrard can or who know's how to dictate a game like he does. His ball to Suarez against Sunderland was as perfect a pass as I've seen at Anfield for years. I know he's not faultless but I also think the slow build up style hasn't helped him a great deal either. He's always been at his best playing a quicker game and looking to release forwards early (Owen, Torres and now Suarez all look so much more dangerous when we play/played at pace).
I think Gerrard's form going up to the next level (he was decent/good previously, recently he's been world class) has coincided partly with the fact we seem much readier to mix it up and go for the long/direct pass than we were early on in the season? Or is it a combination of Lucas coming back and him getting used to the playing style? Or even a mixture of all three. I imagine we'll see Gerrard's long passes being even more effective with Sturridge being there to take advantage of them with his pace to run in behind defences.
Lucas coming back definitely helps the whole team and Gerrard looks better for it, Gerrard is probably adapting to the new system as he has always done (a point i've been making until I'm blue in the face) and we also seem to have been more willing to go a bit more direct in recent games whether by accident or design. I have to say I think part of it is down to the types of teams we've faced recently. Stoke for example Gerrard looked much less effective because their defenders simply will not be drawn out of position. this obviously makes getting direct balls in behind them much more difficult. Again I totally agree that the only way we'll get the best out of Sturridge and to an extent Sterling is to be playing the ball in front of them not having them picking up short passes with their backs to goal. Suarez can do either. He can come deep, turn and run at players or he can take it on the run and put the fear of god into defenders. My biggest issue with the signing of Sturridge is that I just can't see where he'll improve us in the types of games we struggle in at the moment. I watched the Stoke game with Sturridge in mind and just couldn't see where a player like him would make a jot of difference. Games like Sunderland and QPR he'd probably have had a field day but we won those games comfortably anyway. Hopefully I'm underestimating him.
well lads... i have to say that i'd perfer to be calling gerrards form world class after the next 4 games... which are agaisnt top teams.... the last 4 have been grand fine great to see you play stevie but you played who? I still say hendo in has help gerrard hugely and only need to point to stoke away as to how a busy industrious midfield can boss us. I don't think its necessarally lucas, i have said for months he can't play with shelvey so i'm glad to see hendo in and him working... sadly allen is the guy who's industry and passing accuracy have dropped off so if you've two players to run for gerrard he can use his latent world calss footballing tlaents. my critism is not fo that but of his ability to get up and down the park i nthe role he's playing..... in italy he'd be called world class, here he needs the engine and frankly rodgers gameplan needs it too! rumours are of rooney playing tomorrow it seems after ferguson ruled him out.. he would be put in midfield 5 to choke off our midfield which shows how poor their options are! I eally do agree though that gerrard's first instinct is the forward postive ball... this separates him from say downing who is always playing safe. sturridge and stelring for sure as you guys say need the ball played through or over the top and suarez loves that too but is the guy to also come deep. re: sturridge; stoke = a midfield failure to control the ball. too many gaps between midifeld and defnse as well and a generally poor showing. sturridge would have been starved of it. when sunderland game to anfield they brought no game at all, none... larsson in central areas was a bad choice and they paid for it. sturridge would indeed have lapped it up... sturridge v qpr would have been usefull second half as we desperately needed someone to hold it up and let us get settled down again
