04 Jul 2017 09:45:32
Hi Ed1

Im a bit confused with liverpools current recuritment drive! Why are we looking at keita and VVD when we need a left back as priority?

Do we really need another midfielder and CB when we have gomez sitting in the wings?

I thought the priority would be fill the postitions we are weak in that have no real youth players to fill the gap, we are screaming for a LB so why are we looking to spend 140 mill on an average defender and a midfielder we could get cheaper in 12 months! it makes no sense, i thought klopp coming in might have sense to address the issues in the side then look for improvements if they were required, but we just seem to be going mad and looking to bid ridiculous prices to show were still a big club?

Lets get who we need in and concentrate on that first, the likes of everton, man utd are doing it just reminds me of rodgers with the suarez money buying players we don't require in positions we are fully loaded in?

{Ed001's Note - I have no idea mate, it makes little sense to me either. We should be getting the priority positions done first, worry about the rest later.}

1.) 04 Jul 2017
04 Jul 2017 10:08:10
I'm so chuft we signed salah but we didn't absolutely need him. I am also surprised we didn't sign what we needed first. God forbid we miss out and don't get a LB.

2.) 04 Jul 2017
04 Jul 2017 10:25:11
Beats me too, Ed.

3.) 04 Jul 2017
04 Jul 2017 10:28:35
Hi Eds, Question to mainly Ed01, I know you have reservations on Robertson, like a few others on here, and I don't confess to watching him much. My question is do you think he looked ordinary because who he had playing with him and the more pressure he was under, therefore do you think he could improve in our current side (more attacking options to choose) or has he not the basics? As he seems the most likely I would be glad to hear anybodys comments? Ta.

{Ed001's Note - he was under less pressure there than he would be at Liverpool, so it is certainly not that. His problem is not just that he tends to fluff his lines when the pressure is on, it is that he is very positionally suspect. While most full backs are these days, that is still an issue for me. If he was contributing more going forward, then you can put up with him being a little ropey defensively, but Robertson's crossing is very hit and miss. Sometimes his delivery is good, he will hit a succession of good crosses that are let down by the forwards. However, he will then make a complete hash of the next bunch of crosses he attempts. It is not even simple things that are wrong, it is not that he is running too fast and so slices a cross, which is something that can be easily worked on. It is that he gets distracted by anyone closing him down, or by looking up and not then returning his focus to the ball etc. That is why he goes to pieces under pressure as he loses his focus on what he is doing.

That seems to me to be something that would be very difficult to fix. Top class players need to be able to play the ball without focusing on it. They should be able to look up and still hit the ball cleanly to the player they have spotted. I am not sure he has the ability to do so.}

4.) 04 Jul 2017
04 Jul 2017 11:30:26
On his crossing Ed could be a confidence in players around you type of thing.

As you say he can pick good crosses that are let down by forwards that can play on the mind that maybe you need to do more with the next crosses leading to poorer ones.

Confidence in players around you is a big thing for me prime example being cbs and keeper a good keeper that the defence has confidence in makes a huge difference to how freely you can play. maybe I've stretched that a bit here for the lads crossing troubles although I haven't seen enough to overly comment.

5.) 04 Jul 2017
04 Jul 2017 11:55:39
Thanks, I think haha, Ed01.

{Ed001's Note - welcome.}