Thanks, that's the player I was thinking about.
I lived in Sheffield in the early 90s and I remember Paul Warhurst. He was a centre back playing for Wednesday and was moved to centre forward when Mark Bright and David Hirst got injured. He scored a lot of goals and got a place in the England squad as a CF. Also there is Dion Dublin who played as a striker and defender.
I'm not suggesting that 0112358 is making a good suggestion, just pointing out some of the history. I don't think it's helpful to start aggressive personal attacks on people for expressing opinions.
At Liverpool's current level and Klopp's style of play a big CF, especially VVD or Konate being converted from CB is not going to to be a sensible option. But I think I noticed VVD staying up in the RM penalty box for the last 5 mins of the final.
There's countless examples of players changing positions, Gary Doherty was a centre half/centre forward for Spurs and Norwich, but it's as an emergency only. We're not in a position where we need an emergency centre forward from one of our centre halves. Even Caulker who's been mentioned was an emergency centre forward (for three sub appearances and a combined total of about 5 minutes) because Sturridge and Ings were out injured, Klopp never really fancied Benteke (another big burly centre forward) and we were getting beat late on.
The last five minutes of a European Cup final is time for that emergency as well when you're getting beat, so Van Dijk was probably told just stay up top. And I'm more old skool than most and would of been shouting for that switch 10 or 15 minutes earlier. Lob the big fella up top and go route one - but we don't play that style under Klopp.
He likes his front three to be fluid and interchangeable. He also likes the central player of the three to drop deep and link everything up. So the thought of Van Dijk, Konate, Matip or big Nat Phillips when he returns becoming our new number 9 is ludicrous.
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