25 Feb 2018 14:31:12
Finally Liverpool to replace Alonso!
Jorginho is excellent. Get him Klopp! His passings are the best in Europe!

1.) 25 Feb 2018
25 Feb 2018 15:11:44
I hope we get him, he's bloody brilliant, let's wait and see, when I hear these kind of rumours I just want to see if it happens or not, roll on the summer.

2.) 25 Feb 2018
25 Feb 2018 21:56:10
Let's hope he is as good as we all assume from TV/ YouTube. Often players come over from the Italian leagues and can't adapt.

3.) 26 Feb 2018
25 Feb 2018 22:51:08
Yeah Brommers, like that Salah fella has been terrible hasn’t he.

4.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 00:50:22
Got good vision for when teams sit deep against us.
Good spot Jürgen 👍.

5.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 00:54:19
Frankly, for every Salah there are 5 Aquilani’s mate.

6.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 03:50:36
Last i heard Ed002 was saying that ManU were after Jorginho (I think it fell through on last day of recent transfer period) . So Im not holding my breath on this one.

7.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 09:42:51
Great player Harry, but we do not want him sat in front of the defence. He gets over run way too easily. Watch some of Napoli's Champions league game with him involved. Particularly the 2-4 defeat against Man City where he played as a lone DM in a 3 man midfield. City ripped him to shreds and he was embarrassing.

Jorginho needs a solid DM alongside him because he roams forward a lot and if you took that freedom away from him, you'd be wasting his best attributes; passing, dribbling and creativity.

He's nothing like Alonso though, other than the fact he can hit a pretty raking diagonal pass.

8.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 10:02:07
Unfortunately JK won’t be signing a DM. And unless you consider Henderson to be one (I don’t) then we won’t be laying with one next season.

It’s not how JK sets up his teams.

We’ve already signed Navy K. If we’re looking at Jorginho too then it shows JK doesn’t want a DM.

9.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 12:01:39
Agree Keith. Jorginho is the archetypal Deep Lying Playmaker. He is never a Defensive Midfielder though. He is too offensively minded and not selfless enough to sacrifice his natural game like Henderson does. I do really like Jorginho though and i would not be against signing him. If Klopp is a world class manager, he will find a way to fit Jorginho, Keita and Henderson into the same team.

Whenever Napoli face a team who attack with numbers though, they sacrifice Jorginho for Diawara which says it all to me. Jorginho can't protect his defence against top opposition, and Napoli have a much better defence than we do!

However, give Jorginho freedom like PSG sometimes do with Veratti in a deeper role, and he can dismantle teams with his sublime vision and technical ability. We tried a deep lying playmaker who couldn't defend with Gerrard and it cost us a league title in the end as we conceded 50 goals and he fell over 🤦🏻 it doesn't work in the Premier League. For a midfielder to contribute defensively they need tenacity or defensive awareness and physicality or energy. Either a Kante type with the awareness and energy, or a Fernandinho type with the tenacity and physicality. Jorginho has energy but utilises it more to influence the game offensively. He's not going to help out defensively in the Premier league in my opinion. In fact he'd protect the defence far less than even Henderson or Can do. Hendo has the energy and awareness, and Can has the tenacity and physicality.

There was a big discussion about this not long ago but i can't remember where. It was either an Italian football expert or an ex-pro i think, and they explained the logic behind why Pirlo plays deeper even though he can't defend. Basically, the DM area of the pitch is where a midfield player has the most time and space. So it became common in Italian football to put your best passer there where they would have more time to pick out a runner and find them with a long range pass, without being pressurised or constantly fouled. That is why Jorginho plays deep; because he is the best passer at Napoli by far. Not because he can even remotely protect the defence. He might as well have not been there when Man City had the ball. They were strolling straight through him.

However, I'd rather have Jorginho than any of Milner, Wijnaldum or Lallana in one of the more offensive midfield roles in our system. I think he'd be able to completely control the play there without having to worry about covering the centre backs. He can also unlock a deep defence because the weight on his through balls is just inch perfect. Great player but I'd fear for us if he played in front of our shoddy backline.