schmuckdonald

So we're clear: 10 games is the threshold for how good a player is, yeah?

Never trust an Italian journalist on twitter.

The best.

Nah.

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In the bin.

Isn't, really.

It's a nonsense. Spalletti used a striker-less formation at Roma. It's been around for a while. False nine makes sense. Don't get why people are arsed. "Quarterback" can get to f***, mind. As can using foreign words for things we have words for.

This is the main question that occupies my thoughts.

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He's in capable hands. You only have to look at Borin...Assai...Yesi...Ilor...Cissokh...Teixeir...we shouldn't sign foreign lads.

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Like a cross between a mongrel t-rex and Pele.

Wasn't at the game. Based on 30 second highlights. Aspas Aspas Aspas

Ace.

We edge closer to the AGE OF ILORI.

#prayforschmuck

If Jones plays, we riot.

Why? Was he s***?

That Eusebio sounds good. Cheap, too.

It half makes sense if we got Salah. Would like an actual squad at some point, though.

It is surprsing that a player with no match fitness has struggled in a team he's barely played with, who've consistently used the same players throughout the season. He's also being used in a different position to what he had mostly played before. First few games of the season he consistently got into good positions. People forget a lot in a couple of months and just assume he didn't do anything. Played a big role in the win against United (if it's the game I'm thinking of) by pressing and harrying really well and pushing into the space when we won it back. EDIT: And on the point about him congesting space and not knowing where he was meant to be on Wednesday, think that was more down to Rodgers who put him there. Had no idea what role he was meant to play there.

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We undoubtedly judge Gerrard on a different body of work but there's a complete dismissal of Aspas' because it wasn't at Liverpool. £8m for a squad player isn't much, for me. I don't know if we loaned out Borini to make space for him, either. Think we know Borini needs games and wouldn't get them here. Not that he's getting much at Sunderland either. We've not seen enough to disregard Aspas and I don't know what the goalie thing is but sounds b******s also. Unless it's Brad Jones. Like I said, I think there's a few times where if the ball is played to him he strokes it in and he has a few goals to his name. It just hasn't happened. He's tenacious and although his technique isn't great it's alright and he's relatively quick. He is a good player, even if he hasn't shown it yet. EDIT: We've only to look at Allen, Lucas and Henderson to see a player disregarded too quickly. Some were fuming with Allen's signing and wanted rid last season but now he's actually fit and had a run of games he looks like what he is: a good player. This doesn't necessarily mean Aspas will cut the mustard and there's plenty who just don't cut it but it's ten games. Anyone can look s*** in ten games. Especially in a new country and no run in the team. If he doesn't get it then he'll probably never prosper here, but he's still a good player and I'd expect him to move on and be a good player somewhere else. It happens.

Think he has shown good intelligence, actually. He works hard and presses well. In the box he's always moving and in good spaces. If a few passes fell to him he'd have a couple of goals by now. Just hasn't happened.