Stewart Downing - West Hahahaham player

[McDermotX]

I hope he stays.

.......and if he scores double figures and assists in as many, so do I. But it's not very likely in all fairness.
What is certain is that we're paying him an extraordinary amount of cash per week to do a job that any lad with a left foot in amateur football would be able to reproduce, never mind the fact that any chance of getting a few quid back diminishes the longer he sucks around.

I'm not even sure he'll do a job that Rodgers wants from a fast winger to offer outlets from midfield.....not enough quality, not enough real pace, not enough conviction. He's not a young player, this is his peak.
8m and someone can have him.

[danperkins]

I pray he is sold, don't care what price either he is just a drain on the wages & he is complete waster.

Out i say, out!!!

[Mattshark]

no none. if we get 10m for him so be it. I wouldn't be upset if he went far from it. But he's not as bad as so many seem to think. He had some decent games and its not all his fault the strikers couldn't finish some of the balls he put in. a player can be average in his first season at a big club and find his feet the second season. it's happened to hundreds of players. but no he is the reason we finished 8th and the reason the local sainsburys doesn't stock jeremiah weed root beer and so I have to go further afield to get my daily fix of the stuff.

Across his whole career? Because his chance creation rate has always been high, just no matter what no one scores from them so he has relatively few assists. Maybe the chances he creates are just ****.

[saj]

Across his whole career? Because his chance creation rate has always been high, just no matter what no one scores from them so he has relatively few assists. Maybe the chances he creates are just ****.

[RedReet]

The thing is, everyone thought we bought Downing to compliment Carroll and on paper it made sense. For some reason when Carroll played, Kenny would often play Downing on the right or have him on the bench.

Carroll also struggled for form earlier in the season, but looks a lot more confident now going into the new season. If Rodgers does show faith in both players and plays Downing on the left then I would expect him to have quite a good season.

I'd definitely give him to Christmas to save his LFC career.

[Muddled]

no none. if we get 10m for him so be it. I wouldn't be upset if he went far from it. But he's not as bad as so many seem to think. He had some decent games and its not all his fault the strikers couldn't finish some of the balls he put in. a player can be average in his first season at a big club and find his feet the second season. it's happened to hundreds of players. but no he is the reason we finished 8th and the reason the local sainsburys doesn't stock jeremiah weed root beer and so I have to go further afield to get my daily fix of the stuff.

+1.

- the Sainsbury's bit.

I think he was unlucky that he had an impotent strikeforce infront of him, but equally some of his performances (or lack of) boiled my piss. I'm very 'meh' about it all which I'm sure will change when my fickleness returns alongside the start of the new season.

[Phoenix07]

I'd be amazed if Rodgers gets rid of him. On paper, Downing fits more into a counter-attacking system rather than a team which dominates possession. His best form has always come for teams who absorb pressure and hit on the break. Rodgers however likes to push high up the pitch and use possession.

I'd be interested to see whether he can fit in, but I wouldn't want him to be our main winger.

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Srijandeep Das @jeremy_LFC
Liverpool actively looking for buyers for Stewart Downing.

Please be true,please someone take him

[cream]

£5m should do it.

[McDermotX]

£5m should do it.

You mean pay the other club 5m to take him ??

Sounds about fair TBH.

[kris90210]

Reckon we could get 8-9 million for Downing myself. He's had a dreadful season, but there are surely a few premiership managers who would take a punt on him. He can be an effective player for a mid table club.

[Kenneth]

Reckon we could get 8-9 million for Downing myself. He's had a dreadful season, but there are surely a few premiership managers who would take a punt on him. He can be an effective player for a mid table club.

Agree. Maybe 7m+

[BrooklynRed]

But he "did his job and got the crosses in. It wasn't his fault they didn't get converted.."

EDIT FOR DIRECT QUOTE:

"Statistics have taken over the game: he doesn't score this, he hasn't set up that. You can read into it as you like," he said. "I've constantly set up chances, season in and season out. I can't be criticised for not creating. I've just been unlucky that we've not finished the chances."


I sooooo dislike this player...

[Rowan]

I know loads of mackems that are desperate for O'Neill to take a punt on him

[Lee]

Just want him gone. Whatever the cost.