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Mascherano is a central midfielder lad. End of story. Central midfielders need to be able to both attack, and defend. Ala Alonso and Gerrard, which is why when they've both played centre mid this season, we've looked a good side. Mascherano is a good option, he's not a better option than Alonso or Gerrard. End of story.
Agger and Skrytel wouldn't get into Man Utd or Chelsea's team. Neither would Carragher. End of.
Vidic overated? What because Bellamy had a good game and he had a poor one once? Shut up lad. Bellamy's a good player for a start and you'd expect a player of his quality to cause a player who's off form in a match problems. Thats the way football works.
I've read many times how highly you rated Makelele, to my memory his attacking consisted of nowhere beyond the half way line. Terry Mc was never that good at defending because it wasn't in his make up plus he had Cally/Case/R.Kennedy to do his donkey work. In the same breath Masch doesn't need to get forward to any great extent because he has Stevie and/or the forwards doing that. It wouldn't kill him to chip in with a few more or to help in attack a little bit more, but for me it's not his biggest fault and there's more important things that he needs to work on more i.e. his passing.
I'm not overrating but Jamie Carragher is probably the fourth best centre half I've seen in the Premiership behind Tony Adams, Steve Bruce and Gary Pallister (in that order). He loves defending and does it so well. He had a bad season (by his own high standards) last year but has refound his form this term and has been faultless in my eyes. He wouldn't get into many sides for the simple fact that he isn't a footballing centre half, but if you want a player to give his all and put his body on the line all the time, there's no better than our number 23 at the moment.
As for Dan Agger and Marty Skrtel, both them are great defenders in my opinion. Agger hasn't been the best of late, I've said as much recently, but still has the ability to sort that side of his game out. Skrtel, well he's like Carra, just loves defending and does it to a very high standard on a regular basis.
The bit about Vidic - well he's not overrated, he just is a good defending defender.