Jürgen said in his presser today that if he basically pulls an attitude he will bench him, supposedly this is and has been all about a release clause...his agent want's one and LFC is not giving those out anymore...hence why negotiations have gone nowhere. He is not guaranteed a starting position and we will not give him a get out clause..just like we didn't with Coutinho.
Think his best days are in front of him but at the same time I do not see him as irreplaceable.
To be fair, I'd expect Klopp to take that approach with any player, but the thing is, Can is on record as saying "I let my agent sort all that stuff out, I just want to play and learn" or words to that effect.
No player should be guaranteed a starting position either, and all players should be working hard and trying to improve.
I have no problems at all with not giving him a release clause.
Of course he's not irreplaceable, and next summer we have Keita coming in.
I’d rather we kept him than Henderson but I don’t feel it’s a massive loss if he goes. Clearly isn’t all that committed to the club anyway if he’s f**king about over a release clause, clearly doesn’t see his long term future with us if he’s insisting on that.
To be honest, I wouldn’t be in the slightest bit bothered if we cleared out him, Hendo and Gini. Then replace them with players that match the standard we have arriving, Keita.
Our midfield has been shambolic for years now. To go from Gerrard, Alonso and Masch to Hendo, Gini, Can, Milner and generally whoever else is painful and pretty demoralising.
No, not a massive loss, but a loss nonetheless in that he's a good player who has the potential to be a great player.
Maybe not "world class" but certainly in the next bracket down.
It's up to him, and he has everything he needs to do it, it just depends on what goes on between the ears.
Aye, the so called brilliant midfield, where Alonso was pretty average for 3.5 out of 5 seasons, where Masch kept giving away dodgy free kicks and getting himself sent off, and Gerrard playing the #10 role behind Torres.
I'm not saying they were bad, I'm just saying that looking back with misty eyes and longing often overlooks the faults in that midfield 2.
If they were as good as the misty eyed people actually think they were, we'd have pissed the league.
We didn't, and apart from one time, never really looked like we would.
That was then, this is now.
Move on.