Ryan Babel

[KK07]

We paid £11m for him and he's an international for Holland, not some raw kid from the Liverpool Zingari League. There's no doubt he has 'something' but apart from the dummy and finish versus Derby he has shown nothing other than an ability to get the ball stuck under his feet, a lousy first touch, an unwilligness to go down the outside and most alarmingly as pablo pointed out an apparent lack of willingness to work his bollox off.

I don't expect him to come in and set the place on fire - but what I do expect are certain basics which at the moment he is simply unwilling/incapable of doing. If you think that's harsh on the lad then so be it, but for 11 big ones I expect an awful lot more than what he's showing at the moment.

It goes without saying that when he begins to show his worth I will come on and praise the lad but until that time he's got an awful lot to improve on.

Fair points.



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[Guest]

It goes without saying that when he begins to show his worth I will come on and praise the lord but until that time he's got an awful lot to improve on.

[JPK]

If Babel was English and we'd only paid £1m for him people would be saying he's ****ing ****e; none of this 'raw' bollocks.

I was hoping he'd have a good game at the weekend but he was cack. No excuses. At the moment he should not be getting in the first XI because he's contributing **** all. I have yet to see the lad break into a sweat. How he manages to play for Holland on that form god only knows.

Strange that the two players with the worst first touch in our team are both Dutch who are supposedly technically superior to us brits.

He is in because we have no other left winger in that position.Aurelio and Riise are full backs but will play there yet.

[Howard_lfc]

Fair points.



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He is in because we have no other left winger in that position.Aurelio and Riise are full backs but will play there yet.

I'd rather we played JAR with Arbeloa behind him and Finnan back at right back to be honest. Babel needs a stint in our reserves like in the good old days when they learned the Liverpool way of playing before they made the grade.