only me » Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:55
Ibe and Lallana are better players it's simple as that. Marko had lots of opportunity last year and he stunk was very lightweight and looked mentally very weak and confused.
I disagree mate, I don't think Ibe and Lallana are better players than him.
Those opportunities you speak of have been mostly at wing back and let's face it as good as Coutinho is if his Liverpool career hinged on how well he played wing back he'd be going out on loan too. Markovic is an AM not a WB and it's unfair to judge him on anything but his preferred position.
I really don't understand what the club are doing, we buy one of Europe's top young talents for £20m but play him out of position and expect him to be the finished article at 20? Look at the work Ferguson had to put in with Ronaldo, Markovic won't even be 22 until the end of not this season but the one after that, that's how young he is, but we are as good as writing him off already.
This doesn't reflect well on Rodgers at all for me, he is given a top young talent to develop and he has obviously failed, he talks a good game about developing young players but what he is essentially doing is just giving them a chance, giving them a chance is not the same as developing them, me or you could sit in the managers chair and pick 7 or 8 of our U21 side to play in the first team but that is not developing them.
Developing players is what Ferguson did with Ronaldo, he took a show boater with erratic decision making who couldn't hit a cows @rse with a banjo and turned him into a prolific goalscorer and one of the best players in the world.
I'm starting to think Rodgers is a bluff merchant who talks a good game.