I know Lucas was here when Mash was but then he wasnt a great player and didnt look like he was going to be. But know IMO Lucas has filled Mash shoes. Of course those shoes our different Lucas is more classy DM who by trade was a playmaker. Which in future could get him the rank over Mash. Mash literally mashed people he was a cruncher.
As i have not directly stated above my three mids for next season would be Gerrard Lucas New
That new player needs to be someone class but for us to get someone like that they need to be old and willing to come to us because we are not going to sign some 26 year old World class cm. Hopefully that age would be between 28-31. Then that would leave us with a good three man midfield.
Mabye we already got that third midfielder the original replacement for Alonso. I like Aqua and i think he should be given a go but not a go if he doesnt want to be here. Often ys fans think its the club trying to move Aqua on its just really want to move no one knows yet.
If we take it that the core of the team was
Mascherano Alonso
Gerrard
Factor in Lucas as the rotating sub in amongst that.
We have lost Gerrard and Lucas for large portions of this campaign.
What we have after that is a large reason behind our inconsistency
during the league campaign.
Spearing(23)/Henderson(21) Adam(26)
Shelvey(20)
There's the respective core now.
Sub in Suarez for Gerrard in the hole if you wish.
Look at it another way:
Top goalscorers for Liverpool.
1) Luis Suarez (25)___11 goals___ 6 assists
2) Craig Bellamy (32)___6 goals___3 assists
3) Steven Gerrard (31)___5 goals___2 assists
4) Maxi RodrÃguez (31)___4 goals___1 assists
5) Andy Carroll (23)___4 goals___3 assists
It's quite obvious we don't score anywhere near enough goals.
At our pomp Torres and Gerrard were getting 20 goals a season each.
Hoilett is 21, a free transfer, and got 7 goals and 6 assists for Blackburn.
We badly need another winger and getting Hoilett in on a free would
surely be good business.
Belhanda is 22. 12 goals and 6 assists. Can't say I know a whole lot about
the player but we definitely need a quality attacking midfielder.
As for in the middle I would like to see some players heading more into their
prime. We seem to be forming a gap in the squad. From midfield to attack our
players are either in their 30's or early 20's.
Elm is 24 and got 10 league goals this year.
Much like Adam in that at the 8 million quoted he is not a massive gamble and
has much needed experience.
Born on Paddy's Day too apparently.
We could do with a good luck charm.
Wouldn't mind us going for Mario Gomez (25, Atletico Madrid)
A very good DM and again in the right age for us.
Throw in a striker too.
In that case I'd have no problem taking some players on loan from City
namely Tevez or Adebayor. Purely cause we need a few cu*ts in the team.