15 Aug 2020 18:22:42
Having admittedly not watched enough of thiago to form an opinion, wanted to ask the group here if there is any similarities in the way Thiago plays to Alonso.

1.) 15 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 20:17:59
No Alonso was better.

2.) 15 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 21:01:56
Sorry Acered but Alonso was not better. He had great potential when he signed but had achieved very little at that stage. His best year of football with us was his last before leaving. Thiago is a serial winner and he imposes himself in games in a way alonso often failed to do!

3.) 15 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 21:06:02
You'd think so prav, the way people are going on about him. The few times I've watched bayern I've not thought "he stands out" I've watched him a hell of a lot more, but I think coutinio is the better player, easily.

For us who don't know much about thiago, if you had to out him next to a Liverpool player of the last? 25 years, who would it be?

4.) 15 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 21:16:02
Xabi Alonso, League winner 4 times, CL winner twice (how many does Thiago have? ), World cup winner, Twice European Championship winner and countless other trophies. Yeah you're right Alonso isn't a serial winner like Thiago.
Xabi only done it on the biggest of stages. Class player 😉.

5.) 15 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 22:03:18
Yet the waiter wanted to sell Alonso and replace him with Gareth Barry.

6.) 15 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 22:04:37
I'd sooner take Gareth Barry over the pair of them.

7.) 15 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 22:05:40
Thiago Alcantara is not as good Xabi Alonso. Stop kidding around.

8.) 15 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 22:24:56
@irishrover, I was comparing thiago to xabi alonso at the point in time he signed for liverpool. He won major honours at bayern and Madrid but had a far lesser medal haul at 29 than thiago. When he signed for us, alonso was little more than potential!

9.) 15 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 22:42:34
I don’t get the talk about alonso either. If I remember rightly he spent most of the 07/ 08 season on the bench which is why we tried to sign Barry to replace him.
Yes he was class in 08/ 09 but nothing to warrant to rave reviews he gets from some. The whole team stepped up in the second half of that season.
He went on to do great things after he left us yes but why do I care about that?
If Thiago arrives I’ll support him and hope he can eclipse anything Alonso did for us and I think he will.
Not bashing Alonso he was a good player but his best years by far were after he left us.

10.) 15 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 23:28:40
To be fair Becker his best years were after he left us because he joined better teams.

11.) 15 Aug 2020
15 Aug 2020 23:32:51
All raving about alonso like he was the business when he started with us he was dirt for ages lead legs go and watch his games he was brutal he grew into it and was great to see but calm down with the alonso noise.

12.) 16 Aug 2020
16 Aug 2020 04:42:32
Yeah, looks like the discussion sort of veered away from the original question.

My question was not about who was better, but rather about similarities in the style of play.

13.) 16 Aug 2020
16 Aug 2020 05:04:45
I don’t understand how a simple question asking if Thiago has any similarities with Alonso becomes an excuse to trash both players, it’s weird. Alonso was a very good player, Thiago is a very good player. Why do you feel the need to trash one player in order to build the other one up?

14.) 16 Aug 2020
16 Aug 2020 08:18:57
Thiago is a very good player and Klopp is a huge fan of his. Are they similar, I don't think so.