by 115-1073096938 » Sun May 30, 2004 10:53 pm
Saying players "can play" in a position is ******.
You buy a centre mid to play centre mid. Not on the right. Not upfront and not at the back.
The only reason a player should ever play in a "second position" is down to injury or suspension.
Hargreaves is a defensive midfielder. He works hard and gets all over the pitch. However with him and Gerrard in central midfield where is the creativety and guile gonna come from??
While people will sit here and say how good Gerrard is going forward (which he is) he doesn't have world class vision, technique, creative ability and technical ability. We need someone with those as there main strengths to partner Gerrard.
Not another player with the same qualities. Gerrard does the ball winning and protecting of the back 4 in his natural game. We need someone else in there who has good feet, technique, brains and vision to compliment and get the right mix.
You all seem to want attacking football but you constantly suggest players with average attacking abilitys to partner Gerrard.
Gerrard is defensively world class and attacking wise quality but no where near world class. We need someone who is better going forward than Gerrard and someone with more game intelligence, technique and vision than him.
Murphy has better vision and is the TYPE of player we need, only we do need better quality. Gerrard doesn't spot the early through ball as much as someone like Scholes or Murphy or even Cole would, doesn't make late runs into the box which lead to goals and he doesn't have that kind of technical ability either. We need someone who can compliment Gerrards "weaknesses" or we will never move forward.
