07 Mar 2016 18:05:14
I have been looking at out striker issues and it seems benteke might get one more chance under klopp. Origi does not seem completely ready, you might not get a full season from sturridge and ings did not kickstart.

Benteke has been around for a while and he has already 7 goals, he may well end up with 10 plus goals this year too.

I would certainly stick with him as he is good plan b and we always have more competitons to play every season.

To me, there are lot of under performing players who need attention the benteke. It must be the 32 mil, which is causing him all the hate. I believe he is only 10-15 goal striker not more than that, liverpool overpaid for him. He is not aguero, but he will get us goals and certainly not at the peak of his career.

1.) 07 Mar 2016
07 Mar 2016 18:56:50
A 32 million pound plan B? Sounds like a great plan, and I'm sure Benteke will be perfectly happy to spend most games on the bench too.

The lad has talent and would be an asset to a lot of clubs but at the moment it seems fairly obvious it isn't going to work out for him here and I believe it'd be in the best interested of BOTH parties to for him to move on.

If Benteke does leave then I wish him all the success because while his performances have been unconvincing and I question his effort on the pitch at times I appreciate him keeping his issues with playing time in house (as players should do) .

2.) 07 Mar 2016
07 Mar 2016 19:09:25
If you look at Benteke's history, this is absolutely par for the course. He regularly has brief purple patches which last 4-6 games and then goes missing for 10 games.
I don't think Klopp will tolerate that kind of inconsistency.
I'd hesitate to think THIS is the time he sustains his form I'm afraid.
I don't think we'll sell him for nothing, we'll need at least half our money back to be tempted so he may stay another season.
It's a shame because he could be a beast of a striker, but he's just dreadfully inconsistent.

3.) 07 Mar 2016
07 Mar 2016 19:18:56
Agree with Ron. He's a good back up or number one at a bottom or middle ranking club. Isn't good enough to be number 1 at Liverpool. God knows what Rodgers was thinking.

4.) 07 Mar 2016
07 Mar 2016 20:48:38
Ings did not kick start? I think that's exactly what he was beginning to do before his injury and I can't wait to see him under Klopp, they seem the perfect fit.
Personally I would give benteke another season, who knows what a good pre season under Klopp could do for someone I think most of us agree, possess all the physical attributes to be unstoppable.

5.) 07 Mar 2016
07 Mar 2016 20:52:00
When we signed him, I was not too enthused but - he did have a 50% goal to game conversion - so thought, let's see what happens. it could work! It hasn't unfortunately.

6.) 07 Mar 2016
07 Mar 2016 21:31:47
Benteke got us 13 points with his winning goals . so ya god knows what rongers was doing. Some people needs to get of his back because he's naver go to be like Suarez but he can score goals look at the run he's makes for the pen .

7.) 07 Mar 2016
07 Mar 2016 23:23:04
What are you chatting red? So you missed the complete absense of work rate and all the chances he missed against West Ham, Leicester etc? Fair play he won a penalty and scored it. Havent seen much else. Firmino has scored 7 in his last 8 games and he's not even a striker!

8.) 08 Mar 2016
08 Mar 2016 00:12:14
Red, using pointless stats to make your point makes no sense. If you add the stats you put up against all the games where he couldn't hit a barn door, could have finished off WH in the FA Cup on his own with a hatrick, showed a complete lack of effort countless times to the point that Can had to literally point to where he needed to be for a cross vs CP, the lot, you come up with a deficit that your stats can never compensate for. The guy was never a good fit for us and BR as usual like the Balotelli signing, never did his homework. Now this is another mess that he has left for Klopp to clean up.

9.) 08 Mar 2016
08 Mar 2016 00:39:21
Its no secret the club hierarchy want us to be a ball on the ground incisive passing/ high press game playing team. However the fact is we are not good enough at it yet to break down teams that just sit back as we'v seen many times over the last few seasons where we destroy teams that try to play us but are clueless when teams park the bus. For that reason I think we should keep Benteke for another season. Klopp IMO is one of the better trainers going and if he can train CB to press effectively and make runs like the one for the peno Sunday more often then we'll have one hell of a striker on our hands, plus an aerial threat which none of the other strikers possess. Seeing as if we sell we'll be lucky if we take a 10m hit surely it's worth another season to try? I remember Drogba being pretty useless for Chelsea to start with and look how he turned out. Maybe it's blind hope on my part but as long as he wears Liverpool red I'll keep hoping and get behind him, as should others who seem to only cry and moan about Liverpool players. I'll support all players in red, whether it's Christian Poulsen, Steven Gerrard, djimi traore, Coutinho, igor biscan, Bruno chevron or Christian Benteke doesn't matter.

10.) 08 Mar 2016
08 Mar 2016 06:48:04
There are far more poorer performers than Benteke this season.

11.) 08 Mar 2016
08 Mar 2016 08:40:55
Westwood to be fair they set up to drogbas strengths chelsea played a lot of defensive direct football and then drogba threw himself on the floor.

12.) 08 Mar 2016
08 Mar 2016 09:04:02
Why should anyone that shows no signs of improvement be afforded more time in our team - thereby limiting Origi's chances, who in my opinion is improving by the game? Also, with Ings coming back next year I do not think there will be room for Christian in our squad.

Additionally, if we adopt Benteke's preferred style of play as our plan B we'd need every player in our team to play in that way.
We do not have the players to put in early, accurate crosses and even if we did we'd have no one else to head them in but him. He'd be marked out of the game, which does not appear to be a difficult thing to do, and that would be the end of that.
Then we'd also have to accept that our more technically gifted players would in all likelihood look to move on.

In my opinion counterattacking with directness and maintaining possession while patiently building-up to score should be our plans A and B, irrespectively.

Lastly, supporting players simply for wearing our colors without taking their efforts and abilities into consideration guarantees that the club will not learn anything from their mistakes and will thus only repeat them. After all, when your child does wrong you don't encourage them for being your offspring but reprimand them so it won't be repeated.

13.) 08 Mar 2016
08 Mar 2016 09:48:31
☝🏻 in reply to a above post benteke is for a bottom or mid table team?
We are a mid table team that's a fact!

14.) 08 Mar 2016
08 Mar 2016 09:48:31
☝🏻 in reply to a above post benteke is for a bottom or mid table team?
We are a mid table team that's a fact!