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akumaface wrote:

maguskwt wrote:

bigmick wrote:

woof woof ! wrote:Christ sake     , I hope not, for twenty million I would hope that we've bought a player who can force himself into the starting lineup no matter how well Lucas plays.

So would I Woof, but in fairness we paid 8 million quid two years ago for Lucas as well. I'm not saying he's better than Aquilani far from it (and indeed like you I hope not) but he's obviously a better player now that when we first bought him (Lucas that is) so we either got severely ripped off when we first bought him, or his value has gone up from 8 million quid to a new value which could be anything.

He's got a huge advantage over Aquilani in that he's been here two years, and also if he plays in the first few matches he will be able to find his feet from a fitness point of view because the opposition will be finding theirs as well. Aquilani on the other hand when he comes back will be trying to almiatise, find his feet and get used to whole thing while playing against fully fit and wound up opponents.

If Lucas can't at the very least give the Italian a good run for his money given the advantages he's got, either Aquilani is a Worldbeater or Lucas is not very good. Or both is a possibility too I suppose

wow really mick? I haven't seen any significant improvement myself... Lucas remains one of our weakest players for me, together with dossenna, Babel, Ngog, Degen. Babel, Lucas and Ngog couldn't even break down Singapore's defence FFS...

Wow, who is the other Babel?    I didn't know we have two as I think one is enough....

As for Lucas, he is simply not good enough. All these potential theory is really bull. He can't tackle, he commit foul after foul, he can't shoot, can't pass, can't dribble and slow. His skill is really limited and we just can't wait for him to improve wasting playing time and valuable points for him to grow. Carra and Gerrard is not getting younger. We must play our best team rather than playing the so called potentially good team. The best scenerio is to send him on loan to other EPL team (probably no takers...) to move away from the pressure but I read somewhere that he said he will go back to Brazil if his future is not clarified.

kalos wrote:Re Lucas ..sorry to be repetitive but on the few posts I make Lucas and his ineptitude is mentioned a lot. I maintained from very early  on that Lucas is not Liverpool standard and barely EPL standard (in terms of type of player he is)

If it looks cr-p, tackles like cr-p  shoots like cr-p
then guess what it is ...

Ola Mr Benitez wrote:How  old is lucas now? I agree with most that he hasn't yet proved his worth, but to say he is totally without talent is garbage. Last season I thought you could see a big improvement. He had a few really good games only to make a rash tackle and get booked or worse give away a penalty. With a bit more luck I still think he may come good, just not to the standard of Gerrard, Alonso and Mascha.... so is that good enough?

If he turns out as good as kuyt then he's good enough...

LiverpoolMadman wrote:Aquilani out for start of season

LiverpoolMadman wrote:Aquilani out for start of season

bavlondon wrote:

LiverpoolMadman wrote:Aquilani out for start of season

Why are papers reporting this as a seperate article? Aquilani stunner!!!! Cretins. I thought we knew all along he wouldn't be playing till September.

Didn't you know? It was a complete surprise to everyone that he had got injured in March and had an operation. Rafa had no idea! Roma were clueless and even Aquilani hadn't noticed it.

Thank heavens we have the press to reveal their exclusives. What would we do without them?