On a brighter note...

[psl]

What a great goal!

 

Very promising start for the lad this year.

[MFletcher]

I've been very impressed with him this year. I think he's going to a fantastic player for us.

[Spike]

Needs to demand the ball more.

[Guest Snorky]

I've been very impressed with him this year. I think he's going to a fantastic player for us.

 

Seconded.

[psl]

Needs to demand the ball more.

 

Should come with time I reckon. Needs to become more confident in the team.

[stressederic]

He looks a proper player.

 

I'm still pretty pissed off that Neville stuck his hand out to stop his shot at Goodison, as he deserved a goal in that game as well.

[Guest spk]

+aye he was mint today. that goal would have beaten most keepers imo. id like to see him have a dig more often.

[floyd the barber]

gerrard---alonso/lucas--masch-----

 

 

is the way forward....only wish rafa would do it, and gerrard would get over his c-mid fixation...

[Berger]

I think he formed a good partnership with Stevie too, deserves more starts.

[Swipe]

I think he formed a good partnership with Stevie too, deserves more starts.

 

Yeah think there's potential with that partnership

[surf]

gerrard---alonso/lucas--masch-----

 

 

is the way forward....only wish rafa would do it, and gerrard would get over his c-mid fixation...

 

It would leave us needing one wide player instead of two, certainly a useful idea.

[Guest WesthamRed]

I like him. He has the vision and awareness, and can also get about the pitch. Just hope he gets enough games, which isn't easy with three players ahead of him. Brings me back to my feeling that Xabi might be sold in the summer.

[CaptainXabi]

It would leave us needing one wide player instead of two, certainly a useful idea.

I agree. Get an attacking fullback like Alves behind Gerrard on the right and that partnership would be deadly. Let Stevie do what he wants and have the fullback provide the width. Masch will cover the holes.

 

As for Lucas he's quality. I know it was just a semi-pro team yesterday, but he really started showing the confidence to play the Xabi-esque long ball and he was finding Babel over and over and over again. He needs minutes but I think he's potentially exactly what we need in midfield to partner Masch and that is a player who's style is right between Xabi and Stevie.

[Guest WesthamRed]

He needs minutes but I think he's potentially exactly what we need in midfield to partner Masch and that is a player who's style is right between Xabi and Stevie.

 

Exactly right. I think deep down Rafa would love Stevie on the right and Lucas/Xabi in the middle to dicate the game.

[honourablegeorge]

"It was a special moment for me because I became the first Brazilian to score for Liverpool so I'm really, really happy.

 

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0500liv...-name_page.html

 

 

Aurelio's scored one for us, hasn't he?

[Rich Gobey]

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0500liv...-name_page.html

Aurelio's scored one for us, hasn't he?

 

nope.

 

Johnaldo scored loads though...

[Frosty Jack]

I see the americans didn't hire a new translator.

[fyds]

My daughter Katja (she's 8) spotted Lucas straight away and insisted getting his name on her shirt for this year 'he's going to be great for us Dad'. Knows her stuff that one!

 

He is a very, very shrewd buy.

[Stevie H]

i just hope he gets the games to show what he's got. he's clearly really talented and has a good work ethic, but he needs games.

[fyds]

i just hope he gets the games to show what he's got. he's clearly really talented and has a good work ethic, but he needs games.

He's getting just about enough this year to ease him in. Next year he'll get some more still - his form has been good enough to get him back in the Brazil senior squad.

 

Of course, if Wenger had signed him, the papers would be full of it - what a fantastic buy for £6m! etc...

Edited January 28, 2008 by fyds

[Stevie H]

He's getting just about enough this year to ease him in. Next year he'll get some more still - his form has been good enough to get him back in the Brazil senior squad.

 

Of course, if Wenger had signed him, the papers would be full of it - what a fantastic buy for £6m! etc...

£6m isn't chicken feed. i just have a feeling that we'll sell someone in the summer and it could be xabi.

[fyds]

£6m isn't chicken feed. i just have a feeling that we'll sell someone in the summer and it could be xabi.

In terms of transfers thesedays, £6m is pretty close to chickenfeed. Momo, who has nothing like the range of skills Lucas has already is going for aroundf £10m - and even that is not all THAT expensive thesedays. £6m tends to be the amount your average english player capable of more than a toe-ender goes for.

 

We don't need to offload a midfielder in the summer as Momo's going - unless they want to go, or we pull in someone new.

[Rimbeux]

In terms of transfers thesedays, £6m is pretty close to chickenfeed. Momo, who has nothing like the range of skills Lucas has already is going for aroundf £10m - and even that is not all THAT expensive thesedays. £6m tends to be the amount your average english player capable of more than a toe-ender goes for.

 

We don't need to offload a midfielder in the summer as Momo's going - unless they want to go, or we pull in someone new.

 

 

Certainly dont need to offload. Hopefully Lucas can keep the upward curve going as a player and put severe pressure on all and manager.

[Molby]

It would leave us needing one wide player instead of two, certainly a useful idea.

 

 

or Masch and Alonso deep, with Lucas and Gerrard ahead of them - a narrow midfield, aided by the cavalier world class overlapping full backs we'll sign one day - a la Brazil 94

 

nice to write a tactical post

 

was a time when 80% of my posts were in this vein; now it's more like 5%

ffs

[fyds]

Still - that was one reasonably worth waiting for! Not a bad suggestion in many ways - whether the width it would give us would be enough...depends who the full backs are, and how fit they are too.