20 Mar 2017 22:43:35
Any views on Liverpool being interested in Luke shaw and Michael Keane?

{Ed002's Note - Nope.}

1.) 21 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017 13:45:58
A Manchester United player, and an ex-Manchester United youth player? Both of whom are currently average!

Shaw cannot get a game ahead of Rojo, Blind or Darmian which says everything I need to know. Maybe he is a future solution, but I am skeptical. I have never subscribed to his hype. He was a good young player with potential, now he is a guy in his 20's clinging on to a reputation after injuries and lack of development. He is a left footed Flanagan. Robbed of their potential careers, and now risks we cannot afford to put in our first team.

Keane is just not good enough though. Burnley pack their own box with 8 players in two disciplined banks of 4. At a top team where they will want to win more games, he will need to play in a far less rigid and far more expansive system which would see him brutally exposed in my opinion. Dyche is just a very good manager and a very good tactician. When you can get players like Keane, Mee, Barton, Hendrick and Vokes playing well in a top flight league, you are doing something right.

Some players at lower teams are good in spite of their surroundings (Gibson, Robertson etc) . Some look good because of their surroundings (Keane, Shawcross etc) .

2.) 22 Mar 2017
22 Mar 2017 13:23:36
It's easier to play CB when you are set up defensively with 3 other defensive players in front of you. We saw how that worked out with Lovren who was great as Saints due to Koeman's defensive protection of his CB's and then when he came here where you are not as protected, he was poor and it has taken Klopp's management and coaching acumen to improve him. Players like Keane aren't good enough individually to play in our system cos our CB's are often exposed due to the way we play and if you can't defend one on one then, you are toast. Hence, CB's like Keane are a NO for me. Now Ben Gibson of Boro is a different issue. He would be perfect for us. Left footed CB, has pace, positional sense and can pass out of the back.