It's all opinions mate and you're as entitled to yours as I am mine. The future captain HAS lost that mantle in my eyes unfortunately. Although he appears to be the best equipped member of the squad to take on the role, he is seemingly incapable of sorting his own head out first and playing to his obvious potential.
It's a real shame with Dejan, and I don't think I can remember seeing a Liverpool player whose best game and worst game are so massively far apart. At his best he's obviously up there with the best around, at his worst I'm better myself. For that reason, I've got him down along with Klavan, the massively overrated (on here only) Matip and Gomez as "not overly good".
And I maintain, Johnny Evans would be in our team every week. IMHO obviously.
Fair enough Mick, I just think he's not good at all and the being an ex-Manc obviously has a huge bearing on my opinion of him. In terms of Dejan, I agree one day he can look really good, another he can be useless and it's frustrating because I actually think we've got a few players like that (Gini/Can/Klavan).
On Matip the massively overrated thing I think is just coming to play this season and part of his drop in form, imo, is that he's playing with a new RB who has looked shaky in defence and whenever you're getting tonked, as we were against City, then your confidence is going to be hit anyway. He's a top quality player imo who just needs players of similar quality around him and at LCB/Goalie, we struggle to get someone at his level and that will, unfortunately, be a point that is touched on over and over until we do.
Surprised to see you include Gomez in the "not overly good" I suppose your reply would be 'yet' because I see him being a top CB in time, as long as the injuries stay away for him now then he's got a lot of the things we need in a CB and I've very hopeful he can become a top player for us.
Overall though the CB position is without question the one that will bite us in the arse time and time again this season and I disagree with Jürgen's approach in just waiting for VvD. I respect his loyalty to the deal they obviously agreed in person and the fact he waited for him but I think the simple thing to do would just be get 2, upgrade on Klavan or Lovren, whichever you personally rate lower and just give us that depth in quality there. Losing Lucas, who I actually think was a better CB than was really given credit and not bringing in someone else back there was the mistake that countless numbers of us highlighted and Jürgen's just going to have to take that criticism on the chin because whether you think Johnny Evans or someone else (everyone name their favourite), there most definitely is going to be someone out there who's better than what we have who could have come in and helped us out.
My hope now is that we can get VvD in January, that our 'hands off' stance can change in a new window and we can make that transfer happen, because by then I think there will be a few who've lost their sh*t over the decision not to bring in a CB this summer.
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