We can sit here and discuss who we prefer in the middle of the park out of can, milner, hendo, gini and Ox all we like but the fact is none of them are good enough for Liverpool.
They all have some positives or strengths to their game but each of them have big weaknesses too. The main one being consistency. They're all inconsistent regardless who is your favourite.
They all perform at a 6/10 each week. At best a 7. And then occasionally (but rarely) we will see an 8 or a 9 from some of them.
We badly need a couple of centre mids. Keita is a start. I've seen quite a bit of Keita and I'm convinced he will be a huge success here. He will be delivering 8/9 out of 10 performances each week. So that's one.
We need another centre mid to come in alongside Keita. A proper defensive midfielder who will give us some bite. Lallana can fill the 10 role, Keita the 8 and then we need a nasty little b***ard playing the 6 for us.
Can will be off I think. I also think it's time Milner called it a day here and he moves on to play more regular football.
That leaves the Ox, hendo and gini. I'd keep all three but I think we should be going into next season with all of them as squad players.
If we go into next season with those three in our starting 11 then we will continue to fall short. They're just not good enough. They're not top standard. All 3 can play a role within the squad but they shouldn't be starting 11.
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