I'm not buying that mate. We certainly have our average performers, but we also have some damn good players who are many levels above anything that Newcastle or Hull City have. Coutinho, Sterling, Studge, Sakho, Gerrard, and Balotelli are all top level players. Lovren, Lallana, and Lambert were all brilliant last season with Southampton. And I saw Can play for Leverkusen and Markovic for Benfica -- these two are damn good players!! BR just has us playing sh*te at the moment. His persistence with playing Balotelli in a formation and system that doesn't suit him is just ignorance!! He has us being too patient in possession, and it's almost as if he expects that if we keep the ball long enough that the other team will just give up. BR has no answer for teams who sit men behind the ball and play on the counter. We certainly have the players to beat these teams, but right now we lack a manager with the tactical nous (or perhaps its just an unwillingness to change) to do so....
That's my point; perhaps damn good players or top level players are not good enough for where we want to be
Balotelli, Sterling, Gerrard, Hendo, Studge, Coutinho, Lovren, Sakho? Gerrard is the only world class player there. Studge might be but it's a bit early to call him world class just yet.
Let's try world class players like Aguero, Hazard, Costa, Suarez, Fabregas, Di Maria, Da Silva, Sanchez, Courtois, Matic. That to me is top level
Sure we have players good enough to beat Newcastle Utd, but that means very little over 38 games.
Not having a pop, I am just saying perhaps we all need to be honest in what we consider world class and raise the bar for LFC
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