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Now’s Not the Time To Let Certain Players Go

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THE win against Gomel provided a fairly positive display of what could be expected from a Brendan Rodgers Liverpool side.

Fluid passing, better movement amongst players, and more of a cutting edge in the overall attack. Lucas Leiva’s return to the midfield was a treat for sore eyes – the way he took back control of the Liverpool midfield, allowing Steven Gerrard to continually push up and link with new boy Borini.

It’s been already pointed out though that Liverpool won’t be playing a side like Gomel every day. Having said that, the continuing doubts over Daniel Agger’s future at Anfield is increasingly worrying.

Of course Rodgers isn’t at fault here, having already come out and said he wants the 27 year old to prolong his stay with the Reds.

Agger himself is reportedly looking to stay, yet apparently new contract talks haven’t seen any kind of positive outcome.

This is a rebuilding process for the club and during this time, it needs the key players to stay. Even during last season’s tumultuous performances in the league, Daniel Agger and Martin Skrtel’s defensive partnership was praised time and again.

This would be the worst possible time to break that partnership. Of course Martin Kelly is more than capable of playing in central defence but it’s important for the club not to set a precedence of selling key players.

Speaking of key players, many will strongly disagree and perhaps they’re well within their rights to do so, but allowing Andy Carroll to leave would be a huge mistake.

It’s already been confirmed that Craig Bellamy has returned to Cardiff City ,and if Carroll’s let go as well, it will come back to bite Liverpool later in the season.

He hasn’t yet developed any expectations of starting each and every game and his return to form last season needs to be capitalized on. Especially after his fairly encouraging performances at Euro 2012.

In form, the lad is the perfect man to pressurise defenders and steal balls from them in the final third of the pitch and link with the wide men. His aerial presence will only keep getting better and with more confidence, it won’t be long before that rocket of a left foot drive makes a return.

It’ll be naïve to assume he can’t fit in to Rodgers’ style of play just because he emerged to prominence while playing for a team that used the long ball philosophy.
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Ironically, Kenny Dalglish tried using it with Carroll in the team and it failed but the moment he was played behind Suarez and the team adopted a more on the ground approach, there were some results.

Now’s not the time to discard the potential the young Geordie holds for the club. A lot of the criticism he’s faced has come as a result of the price tag he has on his head. He didn’t ask for it and it’s slightly unfair to judge by those standards.

He’s a young player, still learning his trade. Given the way he managed to make a form of comeback towards the end of last season, it would appear he may well have the ability to battle adversity and come out flying the other end.

Rodgers needs to retain these players – both Carroll and Agger. Again, people are welcome to disagree on Carroll’s importance but the same people worship most of what former manager Kenny Dalglish did.

Carroll was one of his decisions, albeit with help from Damien Comolli but it’s quite unlikely Dalglish was forced to sign the player.

Let’s put some faith in the front man then.

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13 comments

  • Elias says:

    Jo cole ,spearing and loan henderson lets do business with fulham ..dempsey+£10-7million = big andy,then take the money and add some to it and get g.ramirez.what do u think frendz

    • Andrew says:

      I think you need to get real and stop living in the world of football manager computer games.

    • Erin says:

      Henderson could be good this season. He did show talent. Jo boomerang Cole needs to be shipped ASAP. The guy is not an athlete. Can barely last a full game. Sparing? Positive discreminaton gone too far. Tries hard it so would I or any fan given the chance. Fact is, he does not have the talent.
      Nice to see lessons learned from last season. 15 million pounds bargain it seems. It’s not like Liverpool to overpay for the average Jo, is it?
      Maxi, kuyt

    • kenneth says:

      could you’ll stop it with ramirez. im getting tired of seeing his name pop up in every goddamn forum. im pretty sure none of y’ll have seen him play, there are much better options than him. im still frustated we did not get sahin instead of another british garbage.

  • Erin says:

    Maxi, kuyt, Bellamy = 20 plus goals a season. Replaced by borrini and allen. Sorry, but we are in for another treat this season, of the wrong kind. Oh wait, let’s sell Agger. Another Rafa signing to indulge our new manager. That way, we start to play the Swansea way.

    • kagu says:

      Rafa’s legacy still present in liverpool starting XI
      Reina, Agger, Skrtel, Johnson, Lucas. Not so bad for someone who left us two years ago now …

  • shane says:

    if agger was to be the one sacrificed for allen, then BR clearly needs to be shot. the fact we are having one of the best defenders in EUROPE not just the PL, is itself a big deal. we seriously are fortunate to be having him. a ball playing defender like him is an extreme rarity. we should be keeping him by any means. whats the point in strengthening one part of the lineup just to weaken another.does not make sense. an allen shouldn’t have never been bought especially when sahin on the market and potentially could have been bought for much less.he is more proven than allen.

    • kagu says:

      Don’t need to sacrifice someone for someone else, we can get Dempsey and Sahin now, they would fit the bill for the season. We’ll see in one year what we’ll be currently lacking of…

  • lee says:

    carroll.adam.spearing can all move on…

  • Jack The Lad says:

    Look at the state of Agger’s hands!

  • peter says:

    Pls theer are smoe player that will should do everything to keep apert from our regulers, we should not loss jonjo,or any of our reguler back and pls let some of the U20s go on loan to eithe potuger or Geminey becouse they need to start playing regulerly,4 if we continue to buy it will block their chances

  • Elias says:

    Liverpool needs a new revolution to take place not waiting for the likes of henderson,adam,joe cole,carrol and downing to be improving in important games ,all i mean is that if we wait for these guys to come good they will cost as,when we meet sturbon deffences the game is a draw coz the cant break but long passes we need shooters get dempsey and add ramirez to our large but weak mid

  • alfonzo mo says:

    i dont think more players will come in unless sales are certain to happen, therefore with this in mind:
    1)if dempsey comes in, expect carroll to go.
    2)if tello comes in, expect cole to go.
    3)if sahin comes in, expect adam to go and shelvey to go on loan.
    4)if a winger/forward comes in expect downing to go.(this i believe is the most unlikely scenario to happen, despite the media’s view of an incoming forward/winger, of which we are linked with many).
    5)if de vries comes in expect doni and jones to go.
    6)if a CB comes in expect agger or skrtel to go (dont think this will happen thankfully certainly not agger)

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