bigmick wrote:Whenever I've been on the whisky and I log on, I always hope that Sabes has been on the Alonso thread, or the rotation one. Nobody defends them better, and though I rarely agree the points are football ones, none of this cocktail barman nonsense which you get from some of the "others". Slightly disappointingly, I totally agree with every word that Ivan says here. I've never bought into the "spanish waiter" or "clown" angle where the managers concerned, he's far from that. Yes he probably misjudged just how good Gerrard was/is when he first came, but England managers have done that despite seeing what he can do from game to game. He no doubt realises now that Gerrard is better than Arbeloa at right back, better than Kuyt at right midfield, his best central midfielder, and in all probability his best option as a strike partner for Torres as well. Being the realist that he is though, he no doubt realises that Gerrard can only play in on eposition at a time. The key is, how do we get the best out of the players we have available to us.
Broken record time here from me, but I think this. Now Alonso is back to his imperious best, he and Mashaerano are pretty much a match for anyone they are likely to come up against. Gerrard can then move to the right (despite the fact that he is our best central midfielder/right back/goalie quite possibly given a bit of practice/centre half almost certainly with about two weeks of practice) simply because it suite the team best. That way, we can play Keane and Torres up front, and we'll win the league. If they need me to explain it to Stevie (as I understand his mates call him), I'm quite prepared to put the dildo sales on hold for a couple of weeks and fly over to put him straight. The mere prospect of that eventuality should be more than enough to make him accept it without reservation and to go and win us the league from right midfield.
DISCLAIMER- this may mean that Kuyt doesn't regularly start, but he can come on as sub and stuff. It's OK.
Mascherano and Alonso don't compliment each other. Both occupy the same area's, both have deficiencies in the attacking sense of the game and both have comfort zones that will do the team no good.
If Alonso's on form we'll get zero creativety from this area of the pitch.
Defaintely not for me.
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