29 Jul 2015 05:12:08
Mng Eds.

If Ed01 is around, this is regarding a player and would like to hear from you.

Where do you think the career of Henderson moving towards?

Your wish list for the new season included a top class CM to be bought in, Does that mean Henderson best position is an ACM just like Gerrard back in 2008/09 ?

Thanks for your insight mate.

{Ed001's Note - Hendo is a box to box old fashioned midfielder. I wanted a partner alongside him, not to change his position. Someone who provides a different option. He is well suited to providing energy and workrate, now he needs to add more goals to his game and work on the defensive side too. He harries and hustles well, but needs to do more when getting back. Going forward he gets into good positions but does not finish off the moves often enough, when he has the ability to do so. To me, I think he panics a bit, because his technique is there to put it on target every time, but he doesn't seem to have the cool calm relaxed persona when he gets there. He is still all hurry scurry, when he needs to slow down in the box, take a deep breath and concentrate on just getting it on target. But he does need to be in central midfield. He would be wasting his energy anywhere else.}

1.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 05:39:29
Ed01, Thanks mate, much appreciated. A partner to partner him along with a DM makes a 3 men midfield?
A Lampard in the making?

{Ed001's Note - he is not like Lampard, he has much better passing than Lampard ever did.}

2.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 05:51:43
Thanks mate.

{Ed001's Note - sorry meant to say and but he does not score goals like Lampard. Lampard was more of a goalscorer who played in midfield than a box to box mid.}

3.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 06:39:12
Lampard was a rare breed IMO, he was never blessed nor gifted, all he achieved through his hard work. I wanted to see Henderson taking that role as the third men in the midfield who is a regular goal scorer.
Someone in between an ACM and a B2B player.

4.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 06:42:59
Just wanted to ask you something outside Liverpool.
Y do you think Gerrard-Lampard never worked for the national team?

{Ed001's Note - because England managers since Bobby Robson have been hopeless.}

5.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 09:06:32
El Tel did ok, we should have won Euro 96 though

6.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 09:21:49
Venables and Hoddle were decent.

7.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 09:26:07
Agreed on El Tel. That was before Stevie and Fat Frank really emerged TBF.

8.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 11:31:27
i think the ed is looking for a xabi alonso type player

9.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 08:52:21
Ed1 A bit arrogant mate to assume you know better than all the England managers since Bobby Robinson

{Ed001's Note - hardly when they were a bunch of failures, I could hardly do worse. Bobby Robson was the last decent one England had, though McClaren might have been ok given time and space to do what he wanted. Other than that, they are clueless failures, such as Hodgson or past it dinosaurs like Hodgson and Capello.}

10.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 13:04:42
What's your view on Hoddle, Ed001?

I thought he seemed to be fairly forward thinking and progressive. Obviously, he did have a great bunch of players to pick from at the time.

{Ed001's Note - to be fair I forgot about Hoddle! He is an excellent coach, forget his comments and beliefs, the man knows how to get players to play good football and improve their technical level.}

11.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 13:28:19
Hoddle was the last coach we had that made me feel that we could challenge in major tournaments. I think he had a great bunch of players to pick from, but it would have been great to see him work with some of the others that followed after he'd been replaced. I've no doubts he could have been the England manager for many, many years.

I'm of the belief that a national team should always be managed by a coach of the same nationality. I was not happy when Sven was appointed and even less so when Capello was.

12.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 13:30:42
Ed, I think due to Hendo`s work ethic, mentality and willingness to learn, all the things you mentioned will come with time and more experience, IMO. As for the England managers, El Tel was the last decent one who played good football and allowed the better players like Gazza, Macca and Sheringham to shine. That Euro 96 team was the last great England team and till today, i can still watch them play because they were awesome BUT what we now have are a bunch of shadows running around with a manager that plays football from the stone age.

{Ed001's Note - I forgot all about El Tel as well, old age really is catching up to me!}

13.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 14:32:41
Ironic that most of the decent England coaches were only around s couple of years whilst we kept hold of rubbish like capello and Sven for bloody ages! Terrible football under both too!

14.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 16:34:13
Going up a bit, but I believe lamps would score into his 40s, just has that inate gift of knowing where to be in and around the box

15.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 16:54:30
Always my argument. With players down the years such as England have had we should've come close at least once!
Managers have all been gash

16.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 17:41:23
I think if El Tel or Hoddle had stayed we could have won in 2002 or 2004. Criminal we didn't even come close with the players we had then.