by ivor_the_injun » Sun Nov 07, 2004 6:11 am
I've made this point several times, and I stand by it. If he was in a wheelchair, I'd play the Fowler of today ahead of Kewell, Pongolle and Mellor up front for LFC.
If you told him that he had a shot of being up front for LFC in January, you wouldn't see him anywhere other than the training ground or the gym between now and New Year. When you've had half of Liverpool chanting your name for over half a decade, how on earth could Man City even hope to make him feel like he should put extra weights on the bar at the gym, or run 2 extra miles first thing on a Monday morning?
Andy Johnson? Robert Earnshaw? James Beattie? Put them in front of an LFC crowd in the middle of January and they'll be playing in front of 30,000 muttering fans asking what Rafa was thinking. Put Fowler in that position, and the fans'll be worth a 12th man on the pitch.
Robbie Fowler + 1 year LFC contract = happy fans
Happy fans + Robbie Fowler = goals + a top atmosphere for the rest of the team