Everywhere you look, there’s a new headline criticising Fernando Torres for his poor goal scoring form as if he’s the only player capable of hitting the back of the net for Liverpool. It’s unfair to put this much pressure on a man who we all felt so relieved to keep during the summer. He’s not the only attacking source in the team after all; we have Milan Jovanovic, Steven Gerrard, Joe Cole and Dirk Kuyt who are all experienced both at club and international level.
One other experienced attacking outlet we have is Maxi Rodriguez. I can only speak for myself here but I couldn’t believe my eyes when we managed to pull off the signing of the Argentine. I’m aware that it was due to his contract running out but Maxi was one of those players who seemed to always look dangerous in matches. His Champions League goal against us for Athletico Madrid a couple years ago demonstrated his intelligent movement along with his clinical finishing.
Upon signing for us he didn’t disappoint either. For the second half of last season I believe he was pivotal towards our good home form while his link up play and smart movement contributed to our style of play heavily improving. Seeing him have a decent World Cup playing in most of Argentina’s matches only raised my expectation of him for the upcoming season but, like a lot of our players at the moment, he isn’t playing anywhere near to the standard I’m sure he can produce.
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Blame the manager, his antiquated tactics and style of play.
Don’t blame individuals, blame all the players, they have all been poor. Maxi was our best player towards the end of last season
shut up,, maxi is a slo player, who adds nothing to the team, the only thing he did vs everton on sunday was have a shot at 20 yards, only was at the world cup because maradona is a stupid favoring manager, who knows nothing about football, maxi used 2 be good, but he is pants now and how dare you suggest maxi is the reason for our good home form last season? Have u ever been 2 anfield and seen a game mate? maxi is not the same guy that scored that wondergoal in the 2006 world cup.
yeah its because he’s being asked to play a defensive role alongside our back 10(including pepe)
Have to play him for him to perform. Mireless has been played on the right up until Sunday … so yes, DO blame the manager and his daft selections
The same reason why none of our players are performing. Why is Raul Mereiles superb for Portugal and no good for Liverpool? Two words: ROY HODGSON
He was hardly getting a match at Athletico, that’s why we got him.
To be honest, he hasn’t convinced me since he came here. He is not the player he used to be a few years ago. If he still was, he probably would have been played at Athletico and other teams would have tried to sign him too.
Another player who should be in the reserves to give him a boot up the arse along with quite a few others. I know the games changed but no player should be immune to be told their not performing well enough. We also need to encourage our fringe players to possible first team action at least they would show more effort during matches.
I couldn’t believe it when we signed this reject from Atletico, and then was in even greater disbelief when he just waltzed straight into the starting line-up in a manner that Babel, Benayoun & Riera could’ve only dreamed of!
That guy is as anonymous a winger as I have ever seen; the Lucas on wing play if you will…
btw, that heading is misleading- Maxi was typically crap at the world cup…
Agree, I remember him being particularly poor in the game Argentina got knocked out. Everything he tried failed, including simple passes. He was crying at the end, his team mates were consoling him. They were being generous.