bigmick wrote:Emerald Red wrote:Didn't Carra play as a right-back for a season or two?
He did, and he's played there a few times this season with varying degrees of success. That was why I posted the original question in the thread starter. Why play Martin Skyrtel there, when Carragher CAN play there, albeit that's it's not his best position?
Once again, what did you think fo the the decision to play Skyrtel there as opposed to Carragher, inspiration or insanity?
As for the "better backing", well we have spent 200 million quid in five seasons. I suppose if we'd spent 600 million then we might reasonably expect to have even better players than we've got I'll concede that. It is quite a lot of money though is 200 million, and for that, I'd expect to have not just a decent right back (which we've got to be honest) but also one or two players who are in behind him.
Same as Riera, I'd expect to have a sensible alternative left midfielder. I know we can puish our best left full back forward to play there if needs be, or we can play a failed centre forward there if we're really desperate, or a little bloke who nobody knows his best spot (although we do know it ain't left midfield) there, as long as he hasn't scored a goal in the previous game obviously, but what about a reserve left midfielder?
Strikers, as we are now discovering to our cost, get injured sometimes. It helps if you've got more than one. We did have, but we sold him without bringing in a replacement
As you say, "taking the p!ss", "insane" is absolutely on the money. After five years and 200 million quid spent, we've only got one viable option as a striker.
You've said many times over the years "I don't fecking believe this place sometimes" and listening to how some people go on, I couldn't agree more.