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Why, even without spending, the future is bright for LFC

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Many articles have recently suggested that Liverpool Football Club for the first time in a long time has the strength in depth of squad because of John Henry spending big. Although this is true it is not the whole picture as everybody knows that even with a strong bench you still need good quality young players in turn pushing the seven substitutes on in training, preparing them for match day environments.

Manchester United have proved this recently by having a strong squad of 21 players despite not having their best eleven or sixteen. Since Rafael Benitez revamped the structure including coaches and methods the academy and reserves setups are now starting to bear fruit for the first time in many years. Liverpool now has more internationals running through there young year groups than ever.

Below is a reason why the Liverpool squad will have an extra arm of competitiveness next season and will return to the top four, despite investment from Fenway I believe without the mentioned young stars the club would not be able to do this. These players train with the first team, have great passion and replace the usual cheap foreign free transfers or disappointing foreign graduates.

Martin Kelly – 21

After breaking into the first team last season Martin was mooted for an England call up before suffering a season ending injury at Upton Park. As a fast paced right back or centre back the England U21 star has the strength and height to cope with the English game at 6 ft 3.

Jack Robinson – 17

There is a reason why Jack Robinson became Liverpool’s youngest player ever under Rafael Benitez. He is lightening quick, fiercely competitive and has a relaxed mental attitude under pressure, proven away at the Emirates stadium last year in which he was thrown in against Samir Nasri and Theo Walcott. Instead of being destroyed by the two of the Premier League’s stars he came out of the game with rave reviews including ‘the next Ashley Cole’ etc…

John Flanagan – 18

Also fiercely competitive and a strong tackler, John has a calm mentality and made lots of appearances towards the end of the season, coping in big games as well as getting forward providing assists for goals.

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  • percy says:

    so we are going to pretend or act like the train rack at Hull did not happen yesterday 😐 SMH

  • Frozen says:

    Total rubbish,Absolute nonsense. Having these players on your list without putting Pacheco shows how unconcerned&less informed the writer is. Who’s Jay Spearing? I read Kenny was disappointed at the 3-0 defeat against. Tell him it’s not yet time to be disappointed,let’s wait and see what his BUNCH OF ENGLISH PLAYERS will do when d season starts. It’s such a pity i can only wish them well cos i’m a liverpool fan. But,if any1 sees dr.Dalglish tell him FOOTBALL speaks LOVE, IT speaks UNITY. FOOTBALL doesn’t speak ENGLISH.

  • stan howard says:

    what the heck is kenny playing at, we should be playing as many as he intends to start the season with, who cares if the likes of poulson is not fit enough and young stirling should be in for a game if he’s not injured.

  • Lee says:

    The players mentioned above are decent players but they have a long way to go. Kelly is probably the cream of the crop because he shows quite a lot potential.

    Truth is that we haven’t signed the quality we so badly needed and I am hugely disappointed by our activity this transfer market. We’re not in the CL so players will not just fall into our laps, therefore we have to go out there and convince them more. Only signing players who want to come to the club is stupid as we only get the mediocre ones. Players need to be reassured that the club is doing its utmost to succeed but judging by our average signings, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

    Add that to the fact that we spent a fortune signing these average players and you understand my frustrations….especially when the likes of Meireles are rumoured to be leaving.

    We need at least 3 quality players before the season starts – a striker, a left back and a centre back and if possible, another wide man.

    I accept we need to sell before we can buy so why is it that Insua, Poulsen, El Zhar, Degen, Ngog, Jones and Wilson still don’t know whether they are wanted or not. They should have been the first names on the list and should not be playing in these friendlies.

    Against Hull it showed we have some good players, we had some weaker players like Kuyt (who can offer something) and then we also have a lot of dross!!!!

  • jonesey says:

    Lesson from yesterday – SELL SELL AND SELL AGAIN – We all know who – time for some plain speaking Kenny – Hull was a reminder of the last 2 games of last season so start selling.

  • Oakesy says:

    The term knee jerk reaction springs to mind.
    Trust the king this is tge same side that went on the second best run in the prem after Xmas. One pre season loss and doom and gloom. Support the boys in their efforts to get our club where it belongs.
    If you have no faith in the king support sone plastic flag awing bunch of glory hunting twats.
    You’ll never walk alone

  • dee says:

    Hope the season ends well else its going to be disastrous for both DC & KK.

  • Saif says:

    Where is Coady and Wisdom?

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