I still think he can be a good player for them and although I think that is terribly harsh an article, I couldn't stop myself from chuckling and I really enjoyed it. I know, I am shallow
To help get us out of L1 to the PL. Also to give us a shedload of cash to buy better players without crap beards.
Lallana was a great player for us, absolutely no doubt about that. But he was THE main man. I'm not saying that the team was built around him as such but everything we did suited his style of play. Liverpool have turned him into a lesser player, or at least, one who can't adapt to their system. In one way, I agree with the article, I think he's going to struggle again this season. I would take a punt that he won't be at Liverpool in 2016/17. And by the way, how come he's advertising skin cream by rubbing it into his beard!!??
Interesting article. Lallana reckons he's at his peak at 27, but the reality is that his best season was his last with us 2 years ago. If Rodgers can't use him as a creative attacking midfielder and realise he's never going to be quick enough to be a winger, then sadly his best days are behind him. Like FLT, I can't help but take a certain amount of schadenfreude from that.
Whilst I thank him for what he did in his time here, I take nothing but pleasure from watching him fail at liverpool.
Me too. That article makes some good points. He is one of the most irrelevant players in the league (obviously grouped within his band of similarly-capable players, united by either England appearances, profile, or transfer fee). Liverpool could not recoup at all on him, and as long as that is the case, we are financially justified in having sold him. He will never make a bigger transfer, so we sold him at exactly the right time. Same with Dejan. Adam worked superbly as part of a system, and away from that system, he is distinctly average. It always seemed to me he would struggle with two elements of his game: confidence, and physicality. Bale had both in spades, as did Alex O-C. Adam had confidence on tap at Saints, where he was proven, and a key part of the team, but it's gone from his game now. A lot of his importance came from him being a symbolic player (from our Academy, young, English, captain) - that should sustain him through another seaosn at Liverpool, and probably a fair few more England caps (given the England lag of about 10-20 games based on all sorts of non-footballing reasons). If I had to guess for Adam, I would say next stop: Stoke, followed by Bournemouth. Might be a few years, but reckon that might be it - if they aren't too good for him by then and he can displace Shaqiri!
Which isn't an uncommon set of circumstances. Lallana is a player who is at his best in a free role, popping up wherever he pleases to receive the ball and initiate. The problem is that you cannot have several such players in a team or it turns into a muddy, shapeless mess, and Liverpool have multiple players who are better at it than Lallana.
But that's why the article is off-base. It implies that Lallana is useless, when in fact he is pretty decent... just not any better than some other Liverpool options. When there are 4-5 Lallana-type players in your side who are neither good nor bad but are being overpaid and playing out-of-position, or sat on the bench because the options are interchangeable but none really fit-- it's not the players that are useless. It's the manager.
The point of Adam Lallana is to further prove the fact that most modern day footballers are greedy, self-centred, egotistical mercenaries Edit: As well as proving that England players are completely overrated
The point of Adam Lallana is to entertain. He certainly did that when he played for us. Can he do that at Liverpool? Only if he's given the chance, and It's far from certain he will be.
It's not only Twatbeard, tbf, although I don't know quite why I should. Look at Oxlade-Chamberlain. He doesn't exactly set the world on fire these days, does he.? Walcott has never ever reached his potential. Bale has without question, and could get even better. Never mind. Not our problem. If enough of them end up iffy then perhaps the newest graduates won't be so keen to leave.
Whilst true, we also won't be able to convince teams to pay over the odds for our players and thereby secretly finance our plans for world domination.
