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Daniel sturridge aged 25
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Top 5 in his age group in the prem.....just (cos I only searched 6 players)
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Yeshua
Unnh
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O Fenomeno
Only Ibra y Suarez stand out
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Yeshua
What about Costa?
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Guys like Costa come around every six months
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Ibra y Suarez would of fitted in with the elite CF of 95-02
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The Infamous
Brendan Rodgers: more pain to come for ‘unrecognisable’ Liverpool
• Rodgers highlights lack of resemblance to last season
• Manager ‘understands’ it has been hard for supporters
Brendan Rodgers has laid bare his frustration with Liverpool’s form by describing the team as unrecognisable from last season’s title challengers and warning supporters there could be further pain ahead.
Liverpool host West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League on Saturday with seven points from six league games and having fallen to a fourth defeat in nine matches this term at Basel in the Champions League. Rodgers claimed “we have gone into a little bit of transition” following the Basel setback and compared Albion’s visit to his first league game as Liverpool manager at The Hawthorns in August 2012, on the basis that “this feels like a new group again”.
While a transitional period was to be expected following Luis Suárez’s departure to Barcelona and the signing of nine players at Anfield this summer, the extent of Liverpool’s problems have alarmed even their manager. Rodgers made no attempt to camouflage his team’s malaise ahead of the Albion game and, in his most damning assessment of Liverpool’s performances so far this season, admitted he does not recognise the side that fell just short of winning the Premier League title only six months ago.
“It’s hard for the supporters [to hear of transition] and I understand that,” said the Liverpool manager. “It must be so difficult at the moment to see a team that for 18 months has been so fluent and dynamic. Now they probably look and see a team with maybe no resemblance to that in many ways. I understand that and there is no one more frustrated than myself.
“We look at our game, which is based a lot on possession, but we’re also a big threat in transition when we’ve won the ball back and we’re on the break. We don’t look a threat on the break at the moment. You could argue that we don’t even play in transition. We’re getting no one in behind. No one is breaking lines.”
That final complaint, about a lack of penetrating runs behind opposition defences, suggests Rodgers has more concerns over Mario Balotelli’s contribution than the lack of goals and assists that he criticised on Thursday. The £16m signing from Milan is likely to lead the line again against Alan Irvine’s team with Daniel Sturridge expected to miss a seventh game with a thigh injury, another source of frustration for the manager.
“Our team dynamic was dominating the game with the ball but also without the ball,” added Rodgers. “And without the ball means running and getting in behind people. We’ve done that for 18 months. We did it at Tottenham. Once we lost that movement and speed of Sturridge – and the link-up of other people within that – that has broken the dynamic a little bit for us.
“We just have to persevere until I get the squad back, until we have Emre Can back, Joe Allen, Daniel and the others. Then I think we will return to that level. In the meantime it’s obviously been hard for the supporters and I totally understand that.”
Rodgers is confident Sturridge, Allen and Can will be fit after the forthcoming international break, for an intensive programme that includes back-to-back Champions League fixtures against holders Real Madrid. Until the team dynamic returns, however, the manager believes Liverpool will continue to face short-term problems. “You have to go through some pain along the way and right now we are in a difficult moment,” he said. “But I think the pain is for now, I think it’s unfortunate.”
The Liverpool manager also disputes that he should have followed Chelsea’s transfer policy this summer and acquired more established talent, albeit fewer in number. He said: “Chelsea obviously brought in a seasoned professional in terms of the Premier League in Fàbregas. He’s a very good player. And then Costa, who is someone we looked at a couple of years back as well, his profile suits the Premier League.
“ We lost a top class player and then had to bring in other players to help us now and for the future. Once these players settle in and adapt and really understand how we work I think we’ll move back to where we were. There will be frustration now absolutely. No one respects that more than me. We have to work hard to get them settled and bedded in.”
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JOHN DOE
i agree
and i feel welbz
last week i was wathing Liverpool tv as there was nothing on and I saw sturridge goals for pool
tekked out, cool finisher , can be very cheeky and has pace
defo better than welbeck in time who knows but like thizz said its just hope really
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JOHN DOE
have you forgot
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looking at a couple pics i forgot how many ballers sturridge has actually played with
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Thizz
You know what I mean lad.
Playing as a starting striker.
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JOHN DOE
i knew
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Flojo
You seem to have a real problem with Rodgers, is this a common thing amongst your lot or is it that you just don't like him?
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Thizz
No problem with him mate.
Just find him massively overated and really cringeworthy.
I'm sure you'll disagree so let's leave it there.
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Flojo
I think he's underrated as a coach which is why I aren't particularly worried about our form at the minute, I'm already seeing changes to address our problems this season. His adoration for Gerrard is his biggest problem imo.
He was trying way too hard when he first came to say all the right things and sound like a Liverpool manager so I get the cringeworthy shout to an extent, he's grown into the role now though and is much more at ease.
I do wonder how you'd look at Mourinho's 'little horse' talk if it came from a different manager in charge of one of the most expensive squads in the world though, I imagine you'd think he was a huge c*nt in the way I think Mourinho is.
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Thizz
Mourinho has been consistent in saying he wanted to build a team and stay somewhere for 10 years +. Something he's never said before. The little horse talk was all apart of that.
But you think he's a c*nt which is your perogative and you won't see that. Like I won't with a lot of what Rodgers says.
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gattsu
They both are tbh
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JOHN DOE
how is rodgers a c*nt
nothing about him has been cuntish imo
mourinho is a c*nt but i like him for that
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Lovren
BSOM
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darkman
Until Sturridge leads a successful top tier side and performs in the Champions League lets not even mention him in the same breath as RVN
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Kuffir
tekks aside though welbeck has a great chance to catch up with sturridge liverpool numbers at arsenal
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Fresh
I agree, anything less and he'll have failed to reach his potential
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Yeshua
He never had as much as potential as Sturridge in the first place.
And to think he will match 35 goals in 50 games is pretty absurd, considering prime Torres who was the best striker in the world never matched it.
Just because he is black and English doesn't mean he should constantly be compared with Sturridge, Sturridge last year was up there with Aguero Suarez and co at a point in time(majority of the season) for goals per minute, Welbeck i don't think has the instinctive finishing to match that level.
Your comment then is a bit like saying if he doesn't match Agueros scoring Welbeck would have failed to reach his potential, because thats the stage Sturridge is at, and unlike Welbeck he doesn't have no problems in facing defences in the top 6.
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Kuffir
whats welbs potential got to do with sturridge
35 in 50 is good but the hyperbole is killing me
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