With Liverpool signing Jordan Henderson last night, I think it’s time someone said a few positive words about what a great signing he is .
Firstly, Henderson’s first experience at Liverpool will be under Kenny Dalglish, who has known nothing but success at the club, so there will be no under performing attitude that needs changing.
Henderson marks the beginning of the “New Broom Sweeping Clean” the dead wood & malingerers who have been allowed to under perform at our club since Roy Evans left.
At 20 years old Henderson is fantastically talented & is easily as good as the very similar Joe Cole at his very best and it is very likely that Henderson’s arrival will now signal Cole’s departure.
Tactical excellence doesn’t come cheap but you have to be a quick thinker, technically excellent and tactically razor sharp to play at Liverpool and you can double those demands in a Kenny Dalglish Liverpool side.
Even the most doubtful among you can not deny that Henderson is all of those things and I can only imagine how well he is going to flourish within the attacking tactics of Dalglish who primarily lets defenders defend while his attackers attack. Henderson, as the world will see in this summers U21 tournament is technically and physically as good as anything Europe has to offer at his age.
£20million is a lot of money to us men on the street but in the world of Football it is the equivalent of the price of a Mars Bar or a packet of Walkers Cheese And Onion .
Ramires, a complete disaster of Poulsen proportions at Chelsea last season cost £16million while the workmanlike Millner cost Man City £25million, at only £20 million we have got a bargain in the already Premier League experienced Henderson and a very clear signal from Kenny that he is going for the Leagues throat next season with “ATTACK !! ATTACK !! ATTACK !! ” in mind.
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Kennys rebuild is to build a spine for a team that will last many years, by buying young prospects that will go straight into a team. ie Man U in the 90’s with Giggs, Beckham etc. We would have had a spine of
Carroll
Henderson
Jones
If Fergie hadnt of got his way, anyways
Is Henderson worth it? Only hindsight will tell.
YNWA
I think we should not ignore Comolli’s role in this transfer window. Comolli has been there before and is not afraid to recommend big-money buys of talented players – Modric, Bale, Berbatov and others are rich testimony to both a daring and generally successful approach to transfers.
Dalglish is not one to fear big-money transfers either (Shearer), so we have a bold team backed by owners who have shown themselves so far to be a perfect fit to Liverpool’s traditions and ambitions.
I had been suggesting we pick up Javi Martinez a year or two ago, and Henderson looks to be a player of a similar mould, similar amount of experience and similar amount of potential. The price would’ve been very similar for Martinez also, so I think it is a pretty fair deal tbh.
I’ve only seen Henderson play a couple of times, but he does look proper quality from the little that I have seen (as a central midfielder though, as a winger I’d expect us to be pretty disappointed with him…)
He won’t be playing as a winger so we have no worries there!
We just need a left back now. I would also push Johnson up top with Carroll and Suarez and play Kelly at right back. Johnson can cross with both feet and possesses a good shot – it did it for Bale, give it a go with Johnson!
that a good business, he’s young and talented player, now we need to wait who’s gonna be the next player coming to anfield and have the same ambition likes JH to bring succes for Liverpool. Tick the box for Center Midfield Player, Next position we need to bring in is: Left & Center Back, Defensive Midfield, Right & Left Wingers, Striker.